Crabbing about Apples 4
I would suspect these folks already have computers, likely even laptops.
Is there any kind of justification for locking them into the walled orchard:
(snip)
City officials say it currently costs $710 to print each city council information packet and another $200 per council member to assemble and deliver the packets.
It’s happening here in the city and in the state:
State lawmakers first received laptops as part of a 1999 pilot program which was extended the following year to provide computers to all 140 members of the legislature. Since then, those computers have been replaced every 3-4 years.
It is possible that there are data security concerns that justify the government’s purchasing and setting up the computers, but let’s look at the math: They could get laptops for half the price of iPads and netbooks for a third the price.
They are letting themselves get sucked into the Apple vortex of hype.
November 10, 2010 at 3:03 pm
<i>They could get laptops for half the price of iPads and netbooks for a third the price.</i>
Since when is government concerned with cost effectiveness?
November 10, 2010 at 5:03 pm
I will simply point out that both the Virginia administrations (I don’t know about the Coloradan one) are heavily Republican.
November 15, 2010 at 2:05 pm
I just checked the council website. No sign of Repub or Dem. But there’s also no sign of stupid, either. That part’s invisible.
November 15, 2010 at 4:08 pm
The city council is officially non-partisan per the city charter. More to the point, this is a resort town. As a group, it is leans not so much left or right as it leans “developer.”
Kerry Dougherty I think nailed it in her column. Despite Duffy’s and my potshots at this, it’s not about politics. It’s about infatuation with gadgets and envy.