Maktab

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by Maktab 18y ago
It may not grant you automatic support, but it provides a level of common ground on which you can begin building support. And the stats I've seen are indeed 'frighteningly low'. As for Wright, I think if we go by the rest of his sermons (wh
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by Maktab 18y ago
I was speaking from the perspective of a president's staff. As a voter, sure. Let them communicate with us directly so we can see who they truly are. Mbeki was recalled before his term was done, in part in response to his perceived arroganc
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by Maktab 18y ago
That's not really correct. There's still no word on whether he'll be allowed to send and receive emails directly during his term(s) as president. The chances are that the risks will be considered too high to permit it. If that happens, he'l
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by Maktab 18y ago
Fair enough, I had not seen Nate Silver's analysis yet before you alerted me to it. But even if the black vote was not pivotal in this case, Silver's analysis still validates the chief point I was trying to make, which is that support for g
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by Maktab 18y ago
Regardless of the merits (or lack thereof) of the parent's argument, your comparison is facile. So-called 'separate but equal' legislation never provided for anything close to legal equality. Civil unions, on the other hand, could provide t
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by Maktab 18y ago
Doesn't it disturb you that political discourse has sunk so low that out of context quotes are enough evidence on which to judge candidates? The Obama app at least had a fair amount of utility. What utility does this app have?
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by Maktab 18y ago
Technically, it's the founders (Page and Brin) who bought the jet, not Google. The company itself has no financial links to Page & Brin's aircraft fleet. Which makes it even less interesting as a story, of course. If two billionaires wa
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by Maktab 18y ago
Making a pretty and usable phone is a lot more difficult than it looks. There's a reason the iPod still has arguably the easiest and least complicated interface for a media player even after its rivals spent millions on design and UI resear
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by Maktab 18y ago
Yet this isn't really the same, because it's not necessarily about who outsells whom. That's just added icing on the cake in terms of this article. The real significance though is how the iPhone has so swiftly become both a major success an