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Apple offers wireless iBook solution for UN

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The UN gave 376 children and young adults from 115 countries the opportunity to express their views to the UN General Assembly May 8 using 20 iBooks with the iBook Wireless Mobile Lab, according to an Apple feature highlighting the use of Macs and noting the rationale behind the choice: "I went to the websites of every major computer manufacturer....Apple was the only one that had a simple explanation. I thought �Well, that makes sense.� Going through other web sites, you just couldn�t get to the bottom line, like �Do you have something or not?"

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Have you seen the other websites? :Blah:

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I wonder if the UN demanded the hardware be donated free of charge. They squeeze the US for much of their funding (New York City lets their building occupy precious real estate free of charge) and have the nerve to bad mouth us and treat *us* like the scum of the earth.

Yip yip yip yahoo the UN got some iBooks.

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i bet you 100$

that you can make absolutely no sense of the freakin Dell website. it's impossible to figure out and their model numbering is lugubrious.

not to mention no straight and to the point info on their CPUs, prices... its horrible.

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UN squeezing the US...

Yeah, I'm sure the world would be a better place if the UN building were torn down and replaced by an investment bank or whatever. That "precious real estate" was the silliest thing I've heard in a while :)

As for the funding and squeezing, it's the other way around. For quite a while, the United States have not been paying their UN membership fee in full. The accumulated debt is somewhere around $1 billion, IIRC - for the UN, it's a significant amount of money and the lack of it has forced them to downscale many programs, but for the US, it fairly insignificant (compare to the billions put in defense each year). Essentially, the US doesn't keep its promises to an organization of which it was a founding member, and then uses the fulfillment of those promises as a means of extortion - "we'll maybe pay half of our debt if you sign on these declarations and terminate these programs which we don't like".

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yadda, yadda, yadda...

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Give me a break!

I am so sick of people spouting off about topics they obviously have been indoctrinated by the media on. The US doesn't pay its fair share? Excuse me? Let's see; they have an entire building in the US FOR FREE, anytime the UN has a 'peace keeping' mission who's usually the main player? and when the US has its soldiers dragged through the streets by the area we are serving, what organization do you think prohibits us from doing anything? What nation on this earth feeds a majority of the world? What country wins wars then rebuilds the countries we have beaten, then leave, and years later apologize too for doing the right thing? Which country is it that has to join in to STOP wars? And for this we are despised? My thoughts, if people dislike the US so much, move. And for other countries, if you hate us, have nothing to do with us. We'll see how long that lasts.

My .02

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UN sucks

why should we pay a fee for a silly organisation that uses us for land and as the majority of it's peace keeping force.

a typical UN meeting consist of handshaking for an hour followed by heated argument and an agreement to disagree about the issue.

the end

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RIGHT ON!

mgpalma just summed it up for me,

that's the truth right there, cant argue with that

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Re : Give me a break

that's exactly what I dislike about the US : this "Armageddon" / "Indepedence Day" spirit. The movies you feed the world with sum this up just right...

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Blame Canada

Actualy I think that you will find that Canada often has the lead on UN Peacekeeping duties. In fact, it was our Prime Minister, Lester Bowles Pearson, who suggested the concept of the UN Peacekeeper to address the troubles in Cyprus, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for it I believe.

Doing the right thing? What would that be? Keeping the world safe for captialism? Making repeated incursions on other country's sovereignty that you do not tolerate by any other country?

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Blame Canada

Actualy I think that you will find that Canada often has the lead on UN Peacekeeping duties. In fact, it was our Prime Minister, Lester Bowles Pearson, who suggested the concept of the UN Peacekeeper to address the troubles in Cyprus, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for it I believe.

Doing the right thing? What would that be? Keeping the world safe for captialism? Making repeated incursions on other country's sovereignty that you do not tolerate by any other country?

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Bomb the UN

Save the iBooks first, of course.

'Nuff said.

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Re: The UN Sucks

I totally agree. Why should WE pay the UN when WE do all the work. f*** the UN, everybody in the world should pay us instead. That way we could like come in and fix their problems. Everyone wants to be like us anyway. The best thing that ever happened to Japan was being bombed by us. Look at them today. We modernized them. Afghanistan is next. They�ll be turning out cheap sneakers by this time next year. Then maybe we can get Castro to stop giving away free medical care. Don't people realize he could ruin the party for everyone?

Come to think of it, why don't we just nuke Castro, then we can come in and help the Cuban economy and everybody there will love us. Unilateralism. It not just patriotic, it�s the American way.

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Re;Give me a break

if you don't like the US, then boycott us. don't buy our goods, don't ask for our help, and don't come whining to us when your life sucks. because no matter what we do, someone's going to be mad.

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Re:Re:Give me a break

I'm not saying I dislike the US, I just don't like this whole patriotic feeling you seem to have, you and many other Americans
I admit though that there are plenty of good things about the US, it's just that particular thing I can't stand

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then you'd have to live somewhere that's worth feeling that way to understand it. we're no angels, but as nations go, we're the closest thing to it on this planet. just the amount we give to the rest of the world can tell the story. or that, for all we've done, we're told we can't take pride in it. i love it here and you love wherever it is that you are. BUT, neither of us would be able to enjoy our lives if it wasn't for the US.

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Er...

It's true, the US hasn't paid its full fees to the UN for quite some time. It's something that all americans should be ashamed of - I know that I am - even more post-9/11. If we are going to show support for world peace, we should be paying our full dues.

As for land, we're not the only people who give land to the UN. Look at Switzerland. Look at Denmark, which gives UNICEF their main warehouse for international operations. It's a gigantic bit of land that they've given away.

Although the truth is that we do quite a bit to help other countries, I personally believe that we aren't doing enough.

Just my own little 2�..

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"Hall of Justice" vs.

"Legion of Doom". Yes we Americans tend to think of things in movie / television metaphors a lot. In this case the U. N. was formed post World War II to combat the Warsaw Pact countries (or was it the other way around?). As for the "Armageddon / Independence Day" reference, I think you watched the wrong movies. Try "Deep Impact" for a better reflection of American mentality.

In any case both sides are right, America does brunt a lot of the expense of U. N. peace keeping missions. But then again the U. S. has a big say in where and when those peace keeping forces are deployed. Notice that the U. N. does not get involved in every turf / religious war that occurs around the globe.

Also, I agree that if the United States commits to paying a "membership rate" then it should of course pay its bills. Then again, I don't imagine the United States has sent a single bill to the U. N. for the cost of deploying "peace keeping troops" to a troubled area.

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The UN

The UN is a terrorist organization. It's members actively fund and participate in terrorist activities all over the world. The UN human rights group is filled with nations that dont know the meaning of basic human rights, like Sudan. pathetic.

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Re: UN sucks

Dude, how about this: the UN also has a very nice building free of charge in Geneva and Switzerland wasn't even a member of the UN until some months ago. That never bothered us. Today's und tomorrow's problems are of a global scale and they must be dealt with on a global scale by a globally operating community. Like the UN.
And by the way: there are lots of peace-keeping-operations by the UN where the US doesn't play a big role at all (e.g. in East-Timor). Please get yourself informed before posting.

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