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Child's Play 2007 Gets Underway 42
It is well worth mentioning that a post by Tycho over on the Penny Arcade site signals the kickoff for Child's Play 2007. This year they have over 30 hospitals spread across five countries, and (as always) every little bit helps. From Mr. Brahe's post: "At the last Child's Play dinner, a man whose son was currently staying at Seattle Children's Hospital - he'd left him temporarily, to attend - literally could not produce the words to thank me. The depth of his appreciation bordered on anguish. I hardly knew how to respond, other than attribute those comforts to their true authors. The opportunity to be excellent has arisen again. Just as in years past, visit the site proper, choose your favorite hospital, and select your toy. We promise to let you know how incredible you are at regular intervals."
Best God Damn charity in the world (Score:5, Insightful)
They keep nothing, the world volunteer, everything goes to the hospital.
Your charity will allow children in pain to laugh and forget.
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Still, help out.
Too poor? Next time you have a LAN party, tell everyone a buck goes into the childsplay bucket. There are some items as low as 6.99
Organize something at your local hobby store.
Sell some of the Gold from your WoW character.....love you Blizzard heh.
Hell, put up some of the signs around town.
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Good idea, I was unaware they had these [childsplaycharity.org].
Funding efficiency? (Score:2, Interesting)
I'd love to see Child's Play show up near the top of the list as having one of the lowest CEO salaries or administrative expenses -- "Gamers -- Violent Psychopaths, Generous Givers, or both?"
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Don't be an asshat! (Score:1)
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Besides, Martha Stewart never does anything like this.
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Kids (Score:2)
Tycho and Gabe (Score:5, Insightful)
Man, they suck at proving what horrible people they are.
I'm in (Score:2)
Post your social site support links here (Score:4, Informative)
I'm broke, but I spent what I could on the kids. (Score:2)
good job but... (Score:1)
This means you cut out the middle man of amazon so the hospitals effectively get more money and it also means the hospitals can use the money as they see fit. I agree games and toys are important, but sometimes new medical equipment is more important. Regardless I figure let the hospitals decide.
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You can argue that my line of thinking is wrong and indeed others did. They raised points I hadn't considered and gave information I didn't know about and I largely agree with them.
But seriously, what is the point of your post? You make no arguments, give no information, just loosely and arrogantly state that I am missing the point. Since doing this has no hope of convincing me of anything or conveying information, which is generally the point of discus
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>Or is it a site of people with emotional problems who feel the
>need to lash out at random people to make themselves feel big?
Boy, you must be *really* new around here. Pretty clearly the answer is "both".
The NAME of the charity is "Child's Play". How is that hard to understand? I'm glad the other posts helped you figure it out, but the /.er you object to merely called you out for being lazy.
The answer to your question is right here [childsplaycharity.org] and it
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Yes it is called child's play, I get it, it is about making the children in hospital play. My question was why not refocus the charity to achieve greater good. I am not totally convinced otherwise, but good points made that are not in the about page are:
- hospitals don't appropriately allocate funds to providing entertainment to the children
- there are already mechanisms in place for donations to the hospitals, thus if the charity focused on t
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I personally believe the world is in pretty bad shape. I think a complete restructuring is needed. I see charity as dealing in a small way with terrible symptoms rather than addressing the disease. I plan to write a book on all this and if I can start a non-profit organization to focus on looking at a global societal system that is vastly better. Deluded or not this is the way I see it and the best way I can be charitable. Not to boast, but to respond to your i
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Amazon discount (Score:1)
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Full Article? (Score:3, Insightful)
Quality control? (Score:1)
But... how is the new Casino Royale children's hospital material? http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/registry.html/?_&id=1YESGR3K97CSS [amazon.com]
And 5 of those?
I mean.. I can imagine one teen desperately needing a daily dose of Daniel Craig in his/hers life, but five of them?
Or could it be that someone thought that this would make a great (free) Christmas gift?
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And still... can't fit that movie with all the other gifts there. That is not a movie for sick kids.
Yeah, it is PG-13 through some creative fiddling around with the camera - but the main character still kills two people in first five minutes of the movie.
Not to mention all the other killings, torture and etc.
Notice what amazon offers you to buy along with it?
Better Together
Buy this DVD with The Departed (Widescreen Edition) DVD ~ Leonardo DiCaprio today!
Yeah... why not? Lets drop a headshot or two in the children's hospital's DVD library.
Anyway... whatever...
Found that hospital
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Secondly, a hospital is a hard environment to be in. The fact that children often don't understand what is happening to them makes for a devastating experience. It's weeks or months or longer being away from your normal environment with everyday people performing what seems to be crude experiments on you often involving
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