If that musmax moron thinks he's an African, then I think we can nominate the resurrected Cecil Rhodes for leadership of the African Union next.
I used to have a lot of sympathy for the plight of the Boorish, but *every* time I read or hear from them directly, all that goes just straight out the window.
While many British have actually tried to improve the lot of the people in their adapted homelands, the Boors never had anything else to offer but racism and disgust for their host nations.

Time to get rid of them and deport 'em all back to the Low Countries.

Mr. you sound like a white boorish motherfucking a*hole and are about as African as Heinrich Himmler was.
To you I sing a "one settler, one bullet" any time of the day or night for free !

Take this from damn *real* African, who can trace his family tree back at least as far as you do and can show African freedom fighters in each and every generation of the same.
And I come from a country that had the nick name "white man's grave" during the colonial era - and I just love that one :-)

My Grandfather, Father, Uncles were/are *all* Engineers, Doctors and Academics of international acclaim.
I myself have managed 1000 server landscapes for international fortune 500 companies on 3 different continents.

You think your freaking white skin color makes you my better? I'll eat you up for breakfast and spit you out for lunch!

From what I know about Hungaria, I wouldn't be to worried about it.
Now if they were from Bulgaria or Romania, that would be a different story.
In that case you could just as well flush your dollars down the toilet.

It pains me to see how little, next to nothin, you understand about Africa and its problems.

What "African windup clock radio" are you talking about?!
And where, by the way, are the Dutch, German or American "windup clock radios"??
Have you ever been to a back country town in Africa?
Don't bother to reply to that one, I already know the answer.

So you got no clue about the American West either. Figures.
The COLT "pacified the West", and the railway helped conquer it.

The Telegraph had about as much to do with it as the electric light bulb had with literacy.
It helped, but it was not the root cause of it.

Africa depends on Chinese goods, just like any country in Europe, the Americas, Australia or Asia does.
I just hope Africa will never have to again depend on as unqualified an advise as the one you're giving here.

I think Africa and the Africans will be just fine w/o your help or that of "the great and not so missed Sam Kinnison".
Last time I checked the age where white people were allowed to tell Africans where (not) to settle within their very own continent is thankfully over with.

Why don't you go to Las Vegas and tell the folks there to demolish their own town and move to where the water is?

It is indeed interesting how many people feel compelled to give advise to Africans (advice being the worst vice of them all), w/o realizing that Africa ain't no country, but that is is the 2nd largest CONTINENT on planet earth.
And about as diverse as piece of real estate as it gets in our solar system.

Well I somewhat disagree here.
In an idealized world you can have a-political facts.
But fact is that we live in a human world, and as Akira Kurosawa already made clear in his famous movie Rashomon, the truth is in the eye of the beholder.

In a world of 10 commandments you had absolute truth.
In the world of a trillion factoids, everybody can support his/her own version of reality.

The question I always wanted to ask a member of the "drill baby, drill" crowd and never had a chance to do so:
Which part of "fossil fuels are a finite source of energy" don't you either understand or reject?

Hope I finally get an answer to that one, as it is "drilling a hole inside of me".

And then of course I just love that part:
>But lets not do it in a such a way that gives more power to the government to control our lives.

Now what's up with that "cloaking every nonsense claim in an anti-government statement" and that in turn is supposed to give it credibility?!

Please let's not forget that it was those supposedly anti-government folks who brought us the Department of Homeland Security, Warrantless Wiretaps and used a blatant lie to justify invading a country that had never attacked American soil.

Talk about excessive abuse of government powers!

Pro global-warming climate scientists have been hiding away in the closet for decades.
Fighing battles in court for years on end to keep their research data secret from prying, undeserving eyes.
Acting like the all knowing high priests of a cult of earth salvation, where the ignorant masses are required to put their blind faith into the words of that cult, which at times seems more geared towards the occult, than to the laws of reason.

I for one accept the notion that the earth's climate is warming up and that man has a role to play in that.

But the abysmal arrogance of many in the climate community is at times bewildering to me.
They are being paid with taxpayer money for their research, yet they file lawsuits to keep their data hidden aways a "private intellectual property"?

They gather away at closed door international meetings, with politicians and leaders of industry, where they elect non-scientific spokespeople and political appointees to make deals that affect us all - and those deals are then presented to the general public in a "take it or leave it" kind of way.

Researches who "fudge" their data, and claim they have a right to do so, because they think they are entitled to "correct nature" when it fails to confirm their predictions.

More than once I thought that its the climate researches who are the heirs of the tobacco industry in this fight.

quote: The third - and this is where I put on my tinfoil hat - is that the US maintains stores of weapons grade anthrax in contradiction to our biological warfare treaty obligations that someone, probably Ivins, pilfered.
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Spot on! I think that is exactly what could have happened, as all else just doesn't make any sense.
Silly conspiracy theories like "Dick Cheney" did it, overlook the lynching party that would have happened on Capitol Hill, would that have ever come out.
Its not like those lawmakers would have appreciated attempts to kill them in one of the most gruesome manners imaginable.

But the US secretly hidding that stuff and then someone getting his hands on it for abusive purposes, would explain why they would be covering it up - and even why Obama also would not announce the truth about it now.
If it would have been only "evil Bush" people that did it, it would give the Dems the ammo they'd need to get rid of Rep competition for decades to come.

But imagine the scandal of US presidents since Jimmy Carter & Ronald Reagan secretly hidding tons of that stuff underground. The US could never, ever again credibly demand that rogue regimes do not engage in Biological warfare research.

This way even the most liberal regime in DC would have to hide such truths, or they'd loose all credibility on WMD issues.

My favorite part of the day - kill the user sessions when preparing for a system reboot.
I love technology, but I hate my systems @ work with a vengeance.
They're all messed up, or if I just got them set the right way, it'll only take a few weeks and the users messed everything up again :-(

quote:The agile crowd claims that having all the developers together increases productivity because you might overhear a conversation and be able to contribute something of use. I tried that once and it only got me into trouble. People do not(!) appreciate it if you just "chip into" their conversation w/o being invited. Specially if you are either dead on right (makes someone else look bad) or dead on wrong (makes you look even worse) with your comment.

Hey man, I just *love* your reply. Managers are so intentionally, utterly clueless about how to treat their people that often I think its part of their job description. Like in the old British Army were officers were told not to mingle to much with "the common soldier". Why the heck does he put this question on slashdot in the first place? Doesn't he trust his people or what? Does he have nothing but children working for him? Those developers should be groWn adults, SO JUST GO AND ASK THEM WHAT THEY WANT!