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by Untitled 15y ago
Yes! It is not free to offer a university education. Either you pay (through taking out a loan), your parents pay or the taxpayer pay. Seeing as how many people waste time and money at university, I think it is good that they either waste t
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by Untitled 15y ago
> In the links in my original post 'Lt. Gen. Marshall Carter, the director of the NSA, Blah blah blah. An investigation of the US government concluded that the attack was an accident. Israel also had no motive to attack the USA and it h
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by Untitled 15y ago
> The sale of the Phalcon radar to China is recent. You mentioned the USS Liberty and then I mentioned that it happened long ago. Then you mention something completely different and unrelated. Don’t change the topic and just answer me t
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by Untitled 15y ago
> I do not believe would normally get reported in the US media. Why? Because you believe in a conspiracy of US news companies? This is laughable. If you cannot read these stories then go to Huffington Post or similar circle jerk sites.
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by Untitled 15y ago
> Rhodes was known as "The Empire Builder" Maybe you misunderstood me. You say that he was a selfless Empire Builder - i.e. he had some zeal to build the English Empire for the good of the queen and England. Yet his true aim was making
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by Untitled 15y ago
> He was an empire builder Rhodes was not an Empire Builder. He was a company builder. His company was the British South African Company ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_South_Africa_Company ). > but his prime motivation was t
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by Untitled 15y ago
> it was always about worshiping those who succeeded, regardless of how bad they had been, as long as they did some good at some point. This is extremely true! Probably the best example of this is Cecil John Roads ( http://en.wikipedia.
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by Untitled 15y ago
Personally I found the movie "Children of the secret state" http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b50_1188117332 extremely moving. It is video shot inside N. Korea illegally and exported to China. Be warned though, it is extremely horrific and s
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by Untitled 16y ago
Hmmmm... The software industry in South Africa faces several problems. Probably the first problem is that computer science teaching and research sucks. This is not my opinion but based on research ( http://web.up.ac.za/sitefiles/file/EBIT-I
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by Untitled 16y ago
> Nor do I propose immigrants have automatic citizens' votes, Whether you propose it or not, they will fight it. And they will get citizenship through other means (such as ancor babies and chain weddings). > Nor that such welfare is
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by Untitled 16y ago
> My position is that states shouldn't be empowered to allow or deny immigration, because freedom of movement is a human right. Any government is a sovereign nation. The laws are decided by a democratically elected legislature. Are you
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by Untitled 16y ago
The problem with immigration is that it can never be undone. There is no Ctrl-Z with immigration. Germany would for instance never get rid of the non-assimilating Turkish population. That is why immigration policy needs to be conservative -
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by Untitled 16y ago
Look, you can be a smartass and try to criticize other's beliefs. But at least know what the beliefs of others are. Criticizing a group of people based on your own naivety of their beliefs is both ignorant and arrogant. Read this: http://w
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by Untitled 16y ago
> Zimbabwe and consequently it's the only place in Africa you can see a full wilderbeest migration. The biggest problem is space (for wildebeest migration for example). You need large places - in many countries it is not possible. Some
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by Untitled 16y ago
> The real story is that local villagers are not allowed to kill elephants and are fined if they do so. The real back-story is that Zimbabwe used to have a fairly urbanized population. Many young people worked in cities and larger towns
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by Untitled 16y ago
> PS: I spent my childhood and early 20's in South Africa and we hate this great-white-hunter tourist shit, but it sure pays the bills if you're the driver guide or booking agent. Uhm... no. Do you know how much money hunters bring into
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by Untitled 16y ago
> Humans are not an endangered specie –they are often a plague (due to limited natural predators, long life expectancy and the availability of water). Tragically enough, in Africa humans have natural predators. http://en.wikipedia.org/
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by Untitled 16y ago
Here is an article by Ron Thompson: http://www.shakariconnection.com/culling-elephants-in-KNP.ht...
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by Untitled 16y ago
Then search the internet for sources - there are many. I cannot search properly (because it turns out the a country full of elephants has a lousy (and expensive) internet connection). Elephant culling has been widely debated in most countri
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by Untitled 16y ago
> As someone who has worked with ecologists in the field on a number of wildlife projects in rural Africa, I find this to be truly repugnant. Really? You know that the majority of ecologists support Elephant Culling (killing elephant fa
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by Untitled 16y ago
> It strikes me as kind of strange that some newspapers have absolutely no problem citing tweets as sources of information That disease struck CNN extremely hard. It is not a news organization anymore - it just aggregates second and thi
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by Untitled 16y ago
How do you identify yourself if there are no IDs? How do you identify illegal immigrants? I have a national identity document, and I fail to see the problem with it.
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by Untitled 16y ago
> Or the 500,000 people who have donated to Wikipedia? How many of those that donated thought that the advertisements would disappear after they gave money?
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by Untitled 16y ago
Maybe, but there are other factors. Firstly, the question is the size. Were all the advertisements the same size? (i.e. were they all images or were some text - like google adwords?). Then there is the question of how non-donors feel. The a
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by Untitled 16y ago
> Why are people so consistently negative about Wikipedia? I am not negative about Wikipedia, but about its management. The add campaign was distasteful and I suspect just an ego trip for Jimmy Wales. The real Wikipedia is the thousands
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by Untitled 16y ago
> Where are the women talking about how incredibly sexist everyday society was, or the black people talking about open, shameless racism? Really? How about today's white self-hatred? I lived in Japan for quite a time, and it is a breath
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by Untitled 16y ago
> - Most part of the world are still fairly not developed to support the data requirements of smartphones, especially in Africa and Asia. You would be surprised. Where you can find a cellphone network, you will find a data network. Data
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by Untitled 16y ago
> That's very interesting! What country are you in? I lived in rural South Africa (not anymore though). > I mean, that's the same problem as someone trying to steal a motor scooter or whatever, right? What is funny for me is that mo
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by Untitled 16y ago
> 3. Solar panels break down less than hand-turned generators. I live in an African country and solar panels have one huge disadvantage. Solar panels are often used now to power boreholes (usually fully submersible pumps which have beco
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by Untitled 16y ago
> which not just the number of publications is counted, but also their impact (citations/yr). But that is completely flawed! Some research areas (which is inconsequential but easy to do) produces a lot of citations. And what also happen

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