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Due to Eric Schmidt’s recent friendship with North Korea, his karmic balance is skewed way towards the bad. His solution? Give 15,000 cute little Raspberry Pis to the poor under-teched schoolchildren of Britain. Oh, and of course, have the obligatory semi-creepy photo of him posing with an ethnically representative sample of kiddies. That’ll make it all better, Eric.
Of course, not even my deeply jaded inner cynic can paint this as anything but a wonderful move on Google’s part. They’ve put down funding for 15,000 Raspberry Pis Model Bs to be distributed to ‘worthy’ schoolkids around the UK. Raspberry and a bunch of educational charities will do the actual giving, which Google hopes will help computer science education in the UK, as well as bringing happy smiles to the faces of liddle children everywhere. Good on ya, Google. [Raspberry Pi]
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I DON’T ALWAYS GO ON THE INTERNET, BUT WHEN I DO EYEBROWS!!
Poor kid… Still I wish I had this opportunity when I chose my GCSE’s
Google is in the shitter so some good PR is being rolled out here in the UK.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/27/google-legal-action-secret-iphone-tracking
iSheeps “Only Apple can track us! Not Google”
Seriously, I just don’t get them..
Both cannot be trusted.
Don’t trust anybody and that’s the bottomline, because Stone Cold said so!
Eric is happy to deprive uk schools of hundreds of millions by tax avoidance, and happy to publically denouncing the state of uk schooling. that makes me sad, so to see eric getting cheap publicity with uk scool kids looing like a good guy makes me very sad. (15000*£20)
Tax avoidence is no joke we you have the renenue and market share of google (tax that may be paid by uk companies if google didnt exist)
Shall we talk about being eveil?
Paying the amount of tax you are legally obliged to isn’t evil, the evil people are those in government who have known about these loopholes for years and yet have done nothing about it until recently and even then it was publicly shaming a few individuals and a few high profile companies, yet those who are shaming these companies are those who for years have abused a system to pay less at the public’s expense themselves.
No joke? Try telling that to Jimmy Carr..
If they paid the tax they would be breaking US law, companies are required to act in the best interest of there shareholders, this includes saving money, they had no obligation to pay the tax therefor they cannot pay it.
Throw in a couple of Asian kids into the mix to make the school look more diverse!
I always felt so freshie and so special you know.
Haha, I can relate to it as well. I’m mixed race (half-Asian) and was always sort of put into pictures for coverage in order to show the diversity of the school.
Piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/119283