[extropy-chat] sri lanka tsunami

[Alfio Puglisi]

Not only governments, but private citizens too. Here in Italy the phone
companies realized long ago that the general population is
cellphone-addicted, and came out with this scheme: dial a certain number
on your cell phone, and 1 Euro ($1.3) will be added to your phone bill and
sent as humanitarian aid.

Result: 9,200,000 Euros (!) as of today, and counting. Many people proudly
asserting that they "called the number 5 times" or that thay are "calling
all the time".

Alfio

On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Mike Lorrey wrote:

>Isn't it nice to see countries and peoples competing over who is doing
>the most good in the world, for a change, though?
>
>--- Alfio Puglisi <puglisi at arcetri.astro.it> wrote:
>
>>
>> For those who didn't like the pissing contest about who gives more
>> money,
>> on Wikipedia there's a good overview of the amount of aid given (or
>> promised) by each nation:
>>
>>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanitarian_response_to_the_2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake
>>
>> Alfio
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