OT: Apple's New xServe - 1U Rackmount Server/off topic

[Robert Brandtjen]

On Thursday 16 May 2002 09:50 am, Eric D. wrote:
> To also throw the rest of the developed world in... 20% consume over 80=
% of
> the world's resources (& have 90+% of the wealth). Do we really want th=
e
> "developing world" to become developed?

Of course we do, there are no shortages of these "resources" - if you stu=
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economic histories, you would know that these same ideas were put forth=20
during the great Potato famines of Ireland - then to justify NOT stepping=
 to=20
help the Irish - the idea was then, as you are indicating, that world sim=
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didn't have the resources to feed that "many" people. It was hogwash then=
 and=20
it is now. My God, the US government pays farmers billions NOT to plant f=
ood.

If these countries become "developed" they will stop doing things like ha=
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everyone who is wealthier then they are, they will, for instance, stop=20
cutting down the rain forests to provide more poorly managed farm land, a=
nd,=20
heaven help us, stop using the trees for fuel for their fledgling steel=20
mills. Trees are very poor fuel source as the west learned long ago. They=
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will also stop having 10 to 15 children each, as happened in the West, wh=
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their infant fatality rate drops from having proper nourishment. AND - as=
 in=20
the West when the rise of a "middle class" produced a body of the populac=
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which was no longer willing to submit to hereditary rulers (despots) and=20
could AFFORD to demand changes, they will most likely demand their indivi=
dual=20
freedoms and refuse to be governed by petty dictators - look at the effec=
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NAFTA is having on the growth of the Mexican bourgeois, it is proof that =
it=20
works, even though they have a long way to go.
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 Robert Brandtjen
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