Maktab

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by Maktab 17y ago
And yet wars continue to grow fewer in number and decrease in severity as the years go by.[1] Something, obviously, has been changing our world for the better. [1] http://www.humansecurityreport.info/
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by Maktab 17y ago
My experience mirrors this. I get through a lot more work and admin in a given day if I work from 7am-4pm, especially if there's a lot of drudgery involved. In contrast, if I work from 9am-6pm or later I'm more likely to procrastinate but I
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by Maktab 17y ago
Or Native Client apps.
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by Maktab 17y ago
What an absurdly awful headline. The Soviet (not Russian) spacecraft crashed, not landed into the moon one day after the American pair of Armstrong and Aldrin had landed on the moon. Did the headline writer even read the article?
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by Maktab 17y ago
But what is capitalism if not the freedom of people to freely trade the goods that they acquire or create for other goods that they value more? There's nothing that says that it has to explicitly be money that is traded; it could be somethi
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by Maktab 17y ago
Do you have any evidence to back up this hunch, or is this just the usual sort of unreasoned paranoia that sees third-party involvement behind any action against a disliked government? The protests are real; the photos and video that have e
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by Maktab 17y ago
Nor is this unique to China; the same is true in South Africa where you choose your major before applying to university and then apply specifically to that degree program, which has its own unique requirements, instead of applying to the un
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by Maktab 17y ago
Not really. It was the original (joke) question that SO deleted, presumably on the basis that it went against their guidelines, but the submission here is not that question. It's an interesting response from some guy who chose to treat the
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by Maktab 17y ago
Since both trojans are distributed through pirated software, it seems they're one and the same in this case.
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by Maktab 18y ago
They've also added copy & paste, landscape view in Mail and other key apps, CalDAV support and MMS so far. Looks like they've made an effort to address most of the criticisms of the phone while laying the foundation for a huge amount of
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by Maktab 18y ago
20/20, native speaker.
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by Maktab 18y ago
I don't have any insider knowledge of the Bush admin's controversy, but I have seen and heard of cases in the corporate world where similarly draconian admin policies that forced users to jump through hoops in the name of security often had
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by Maktab 18y ago
It was intended a constructive addition to the debate; whether it's constructive or destructive to this particular article's premise is neither here nor there. And I disagree with your interpretation of my post as a monologue, obviously. A
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by Maktab 18y ago
White Phosphorus is not a banned substance, nor is there anything obviously illegal about Israel's use of it in this conflict. It's certainly not a chemical weapon or any other sort of WMD, despite what some of the more breathless reporting
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by Maktab 18y ago
Nonsense. The economic situation came about as a result of the wholesale destruction of the Zimbabwean economy, driven first by massive and unsustainable government spending coupled with the violent nationalisation of farms and leading to c
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by Maktab 18y ago
So is your local police force, in that it's an organisation with the capacity and authority to commit violent acts on behalf of the state. But neither the military nor the police have violence as their sole objective; it's merely a tool to
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by Maktab 18y ago
It seems to me his comment was a tongue-in-cheek nod especially meant for people like you, who evidently can't see the military as being anything other than a 'violent organisation' whose enlistees must be violence-seekers themselves. I'm n
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by Maktab 18y ago
My day job is as a Java developer at a retail chain-focused software firm in Johannesburg, South Africa. I'm 23, this is my first programming job. Before that I was a political analyst for a time, but quit that profession after I realised i
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by Maktab 18y ago
I agree, he is. The tone of the article is unsuited to its message, probably because he judged that a more sensationalist piece would attract more readers than a more insipid essay on the peaceful resolution of domestic disputes. So I'm not
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by Maktab 18y ago
I disagree with some of the suggestions in the essay, but I think your assumption here is a little unfair. You're right that serious domestic disputes never actually have a 'winner', in that their very existence is an indication of a breakd
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by Maktab 18y ago
And what of the dozens of other countries with exceptionally low living standards but restrictive trade policies which remain poor? Cheap labour gave these countries an initial competitive advantage in certain forms of manufacturing, but it
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by Maktab 18y ago
Free trade does not automatically equal good governance - that sort of thing requires cultural and political changes over and above the changes made to accommodate freer trade. But the rapid economic rise of Taiwan, China and a host of othe
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by Maktab 18y ago
Privatisation without proper deregulation is little better than maintaining a state-owned monopoly. When privatising, only one approach makes sense: Selling off all shares and ownership stakes held by the government in the incumbent operato
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by Maktab 18y ago
Not genetic, but cultural. The latter is fluid, though not as quick to change as you believe. Nevertheless, I think that African ideas, attitudes and cultures are changing for the better and I do have some optimism for the continent's futur
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by Maktab 18y ago
I think you're defining culture too narrowly. It's not just about wearing jeans or visiting nightclubs, it's about a shared perspective around religion, community interaction, concepts like freedom and responsibility and traditions. That ki
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by Maktab 18y ago
I disagree. While its true that poverty and desperation drives people to contemplate things they may not have otherwise, I don't believe it as simple as saying that poverty automatically means more people will turn to corruption. There's a
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by Maktab 18y ago
That's what the WaPo assumed as well, but they were wrong: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1147
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by Maktab 18y ago
Interesting comparison, but it's not really the same situation. In the case of the US and Canada there were large border regions that were essentially frontier societies with little protection offered by the state, but the major population
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by Maktab 18y ago
Alleged confusion, judging by the latest reports. It looks like the story's source doesn't actually exist and has pulled similar hoaxes in the past. Not that I like Palin, but then again I'm a fan of disliking politicians based on the merit
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by Maktab 18y ago
At the same time, this also sheds some more light on Africa's problems. One of which is logistics. The continent's security is hampered by its sheer size and the massive borders of many of its countries. What this means it that few countrie

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