Thread: EWB International Conference 2009

Making out with her? What is this the 50's? Jesus TOGS you are such a little pussy and I will keep calling you such until you stick your penis into that Panamanian/Columbian/whatever.

Originally Posted by sycld

Oh and my question is:

What great new ways are engineers looking to save the thrid world? By marketing $100 laptops for regions of the world where there is no electricity or not enough food, water, and healthcare to keep these people alive, let alone wifi or people to repair the notebooks when they break down? Or by inventing purifying water straws, which even at a few dollars per straw are still unaffordable by a majority of the world's poor?

There is no new way when the engineer himself of herself is adapting everything to the community abroad. The goal of EWB is to provide sustainable and logical engineering solutions to communities around the world. A clear majority of these projects fall under water and sanitation. That is, tapping springs across valleys to bring water to community that cannot access it, building wells, etc. Projects such as these are based mostly in Africa but I was at a session talking about Southeast Asia etc. Other projects include construction which is where our project falls under. These projects are pretty much universal. There is a lot you can do for a community and we don't enter a village/town/community and just do this for them. There is a lot of cohesion. 2/3 of a project (Exlporatory and Assessment) is finding out from the community what the biggest problem they see is. It may be completely different than what you think (and it tends to be). This is not a us and them. It's us with them and we grow better for it,

Originally Posted by Syme

TOGS, what the Third World really needs from you engineers is more cluster bombs and landmines. Get on it.

Boeing was a company that came as a sponsor of the conference and I have to say there was just a hint of hypocrisy in what he spoke about. How they were interested in partnering with EWB and I was all like "lol u guise mayk da baumas that deestroi da ereyting we mayk"

Originally Posted by coqauvin

togs when are you going to reveal to the third world that the living standards we enjoy in the first require the oppression of the third, and that the globe literally cannot support a 'first' world environment in every country?

These changes do not come overnight. And actually, specialization in economics/trade can support these things.

Originally Posted by sycld

Making out with her? What is this the 50's? Jesus TOGS you are such a little pussy and I will keep calling you such until you stick your penis into that Panamanian/Columbian/whatever.

Yes, well, she wasn't the girl I was pining after and when that girl found us it got reallllllllllllyyyyyyyy awkward.