This is kind of weird, but I want to write about it for a bit...

[vibrant_aiua]

I just read an article about Charles Babbage, an early father of computing, and how a former curator at a museum recently built Babbage's greatest design; one that he himself never saw come to fruition due to lack of funding, and the shear "craziness" of his ideas at the time (Victorian England). They used only materials available to him, and

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[megfourfun]

interesting you wrote this. Just this morning, on the radio, they were talking about this issue....where a lady called in to complain about the amount of money some neighbor spent on lights whereas it could have gone towards helping feed some sick kid.

Anyway, I kinda agree.

[megfourfun]

thanks for posting the article! very interesting read.

[milui]

Let's spend zero dollars on non-essentials and put 80% of the world's workforce out of business! Whee!

No really though, the thing that bugs me the most is that this guy is probably a self-righteous asshole who made that post from his iPhone.

[okusan]

OR you could just tell those that we are supposed to be giving this money to to GET A JOB!

this may be a little rambl-y

[vibrant_aiua]

only a little confusing. but i think that that is indicative of how complex and morally gray this situation can seem to be to lots of people