My point, my dear rustled jimmies, is in the very sentence you quote from my previous comment:

There is no point of a "democracy" if it's a farce; at least a military dictator is straight forward in admitting they don't give a shit.

We don't HAVE democracy, even if it looks like it; ballot stuffing and poll rigging does not make a govt democratic.

That does not mean *actual* democracy (where "elected" officials can face consequences for their actions, and a re actually answerable to their electorate) is bad, I have no idea where you took that from.

For five years, our govt has been busy:

- making sure their irregularly elected officials are not ousted (irregularities include fake degrees, dual nationalities, corruption case, other criminal acts etc)

- making sure their crooked president is NOT convicted by Switzerland (He isn't called Mr 10% for nothing)

- maintain the unconstitutional National Reconciliation Ordinance, which give Carte Blanche to all previous crimes

In addition to the usual corruption and bribery etc etc

What they *aren't* doing is sustaining and improving a fuel structure, which is what a democratic govt should care about. So we have massive fuel shortages, and factories are closing down and moving to such countries as Kenya and Bangladesh (not exactly top-of-the chart, but at least they give a shit).

Heck they promoted the man responsible for our electrical crises, and made him prime minister!

So my point, my dear friend, is that if infrastructure is better in Egypt than in Pakistan...and where our govt more concerned about saving crooks than factories...then what we have is NOT democracy.

Sigh, mr confirmation bias, let me spell it out for you:

Military aid: services rendered, keeping generals happy

Economic aid: bribes to keep bought politicians bought

Happy now? I thought it was clear.

And sorry, but I am not an ungrateful shit, coz I haven't got a cent of US aid to be grateful for ;p

You give aid to buy off politicians, and keep them bought.

Btw, found this in your link:

Seriously though, I absolutely agree with you, cut off the damn aid. Let's not fund corrupt politicians. No one will accuse your govt being a murderer for not giving aid, you are not our nanny (well, there *is* the drone thing...guess why you were paying the heavy bribes ;p)

You hate the aid, I hate it, but what can one do when our governments love it?

EVERY where you go, you will find tons of objectionable behaviour, norms and social mores. You will often be saying "we didn't do it like this back home" or "it wasn't like this back home". It's called cultural shock for a reason.

But's that's price you pay. No one is saying you must accept that...merely that if you can't accept it, it would be suitable for you to stay home.

The Person in the article could accept it, hence Malaysia.

True that, it's just...well I won't lie to you, but you would naturally presume things would be worse in a country undergoing a revolution than one without....His comment just brought things into perspective for me just *how* bad things are here.

We need to have stable governments so we can build some infrastructure.

From the VERY FIRST LINE of your own link:

Also, further on in the same first paragraph of your link:

-Why you pay us:

-Why you keep paying

TL;DR:

- Your government pays our government mostly for services rendered, not gratis.

- Your government KNOWS the money is going to crooks, but you still keep giving; i.e. your government is complicit.

Thank you for sharing the link and making it easy for me, parent! ;p

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I wasn't asking for sympathy anyway, I was just sharing the realisation that things in Egypt are *still* better than Pakistan, despite the revolutionary chaos there. I know things are shitty here, but his comment just brought into perspective just *how* shitty they are.

So you get electricity 47 hours out of 48? That too in a country that is chaotic and just underwent a revolution?

Then I in Pakistan can only envy you, we have load-shedding of 6 hrs minimum daily, often more for random reasons. And this is in spring, with no fans or other cooling equipment running... In summer it easily becomes ~14 hrs or more daily.

We just had our first democratically (for a certain value of democracy) elected govt to actually complete their term. So much for democracy...

One name I have heard for this strategy is a "shadow ban"

But certainly the least *fussiest* for me has been Feedly. Install extension, sign-in with google, bam, done.

(tip: do full article view and it's as close to gr as you can.)

All the others, oldreader, newsblur, netvibes have been bitching one way or another.

You can also visit their website for some interesting examples:

http://www.threefeloniesaday.com/Youtoo/tabid/86/Default.aspx

I didn't say it was *nice* or that I *want* it to happen, it's just a prediction of what I think people will put the Glass to use.

Admit it, we want to tag people (things too, but mostly people).

So we see someone whom we perceive to be a douchebag, we can tag him as #AbsoluteDouche and every body will know, when they view that person, that he has been tagged as such, and be prepared to deal him pre-emptively.

Relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/796/

Also, relevant, if you have seen the anime Eden of the East, it revolves around a cellphone app with a similar tagging feature.

Just a pedantic note, but you can either be *hit* for a six, or bowled *out*, not both.