randomafrican

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by randomafrican 13y ago
You guys are outliers and you know it (some of you are even proud of it). So the GP is right. African governements in general do not have the means to spy on your electronic life.
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by randomafrican 13y ago
Hometown hasnt chnaged at all
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by randomafrican 13y ago
>Sure, in Africa they get online with mobile phones, but that's only because it's not profitable _yet_ to run landlines. I'm not sure it will be ever be profitable to run landlines. The big issue being that there wont neve
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by randomafrican 13y ago
Incentives. For many locals, just shooting the elephants would be the solution. Outsiders care about the elephants and the humans (most of the times, in that order).
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by randomafrican 13y ago
That's not the only problem. In many places the elephant population is overgrowing the reserve sonthey get out. And few people would be verynpleased with an elephant going through their crops.
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by randomafrican 14y ago
I dont get it
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by randomafrican 14y ago
Isnt also illegal to sell at a loss in The EU ? If Apple sets its wholesale price high enough, price won't get too low.
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by randomafrican 14y ago
England and France ? Lol
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by randomafrican 14y ago
You know what's worse than field specific jargon ? Company specific jargon.
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by randomafrican 14y ago
DRC and Nigeria also have government... I guess the lack of it is important.
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by randomafrican 14y ago
Ah. Saw the title. Understood.
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by randomafrican 14y ago
French ? And the other one is Government ? C'mon there are many funnier and truer word i can think of
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by randomafrican 14y ago
"in the Soviet Union" And quite a few has been written on the enthusiasm of part of the Russian jews for USSR because they were so oppressed under the Tsarist regime.
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by randomafrican 14y ago
I'm sort of surprised COst is not mentionned. Can every company afford to hire only the best and the brightest ?
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by randomafrican 14y ago
This is more about organization theory than politics
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by randomafrican 14y ago
Actually when one thinks about it, there's little proof that communist/socialist nations tend towards dynasties. Cuba and North Korea are outliers.
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by randomafrican 14y ago
Cellphones and cellular network are consumption, really. Though 90% may be high (or they're couting phones per habitants without considering that many of us have multiple phones) the cellphone penetration rate is indeed high. And when you t
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by randomafrican 14y ago
>I don't want to sound cynical, but a repressive system is what capitalism has always preferred, right? So based on that alone you should see investors rushing for the gold already. They do. In extractive industries and anything that in
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by randomafrican 14y ago
It's still pretty hard to start a business in Africa, period. Lack of acess to capital, quite represive legal and tax environment, lack of cheap and skilled labour (that translates into expensive skilled labour), infrastructure that is very
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by randomafrican 14y ago
Sophos tell me that this site is blocked because of Troj/Unif-B. Did it happen to anyone else ?
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by randomafrican 14y ago
I agree
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by randomafrican 14y ago
Do scientists want to be elected ?
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by randomafrican 14y ago
Actually, the Chancellor is elected by the bundestag and not directly by voters. And yes, it is required that more than half of the bundestag votes for the candidate.
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by randomafrican 14y ago
>France and Germany are not so two-party. In the 53 years of France's current government, they have elected presidents from four parties. It's really two and a half. De Gaulle - Pompidou - Chirac -Sarkozy were part of the same party tha
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by randomafrican 14y ago
Furthermore, the lack of discipline of US parties has to be taken into consideration. They're basically coalitions in which factions compete for power and influence through primaries and financing while in France everyone knows the minor ce
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by randomafrican 15y ago
Apple goes further than simply buying more air freight. I work for an APPLE/DELL/otherstuff reseller. The decision to use sea or air freight is based on a calculation based on the size of the product and its value (and therefore the amount
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by randomafrican 15y ago
that statement is a bit insulting. furthermore, the issue is being resolved. What remains of the LRA has been hidding in the deep jungle for a few years now.
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by randomafrican 15y ago
"credibility" The idea of for a country to appear credible by using a golden straightjacket. It's usually used by countries coming out of hyperinflation phases. And that policy has badly failed before in Argentina.
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by randomafrican 15y ago
"While online media is exploding and Blu-ray sales are anemic, native support of Blu-ray burning and playback in OS X needs to happen." yes, that's soooo obvious !
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by randomafrican 15y ago
Ruckus claims its products are cheaper. http://www.ruckuswireless.com/press/releases/20090803-real-c...

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