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by w00pla 17y ago
> Landowners would never be the "neighbors" of a peasant in Czarist Russia. Why then the persecution of Kulaks? > More precisely, it would be a war waged beneath the underclass (in Russia, the serfs and such) and the ruling class. K
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> As did Nelson Mandela. Yes, and he was imprisoned for it. But what made Mandela great is that he changed and became a reconciliation figure. The young MK starter and ANCYL member did not deserve a Nobel Peace Prize. But the Mandela in
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In Africa a lighter skin is preferred. You can say it is racist and whatnot, but then again, people in the west prefer a darker (tanned) skin.
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I doubt that. There are enough agitators in the open source world that turns it into an "us versus them" issue – thereby alienating almost all of the potential OSS users. I would personally see a lot more level headed and rational programme
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Because they realised that Richard Stallman isn't just eccentric, he is crazy. The easier and more rational option would be to just institutionalize Stallman. Unfortunately some people are opposed to that because of sentimental reasons.
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Or you could use Athlon Duron processors. In that case, the solar winds would need extra circuitry to protect it from the heat of the processor.
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> entire global warming case rests on the results of a single research group. To me it looks a lot more like the CDO thing with banking. They compare their data with other people's results and throw out what doesn't look correct without
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> The entire village system across the congo, through kenya, to sierra leone You went from the west coast to the east while skipping Angola, Namibia, South Africa and Mozambique. > There is very few instances of a hereditary "presid
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> with an entirely different language group and All African languages stem from the same group (the Bantu language group). > an entirely different people. Again, this is doubtful. I have given you examples of the whole Southern Afri
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> The cited article (thanks for the citation to that year 2000 article, which I wouldn't call "recent" on this subject) The two books you’ve cited are older than this. An article with such a high citation count is usually an old seminal
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> When you say "Africa", I assume you are not speaking of "South Africa". My experience is admittedly limited to Southern African countries (SADEC countries including Zambia and Angola). I chose the South African examples since they are
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> claims to have a proof for an upper limit in how much "general intelligence" (that would be IQ) can change in the case of individuals or in the case of populations. In fact, the existing OBSERVED degree of IQ increases all around the
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by w00pla 17y ago
> Damn if I could study or learn shit if I'm a starving refugee. You know that most (90%+) Africans are not starving? Africa isn't filled by starving refugees as CNN would like you to believe. I think the most common comparison with Afr
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> countries which didn't completely recover from colonialism You have edited your post now. The reason I take issue with your post is because of the “African Renaissance” idea. This idea/ideology (which was mostly promoted by Thabo Mbek
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> Most African societies do not have a single strong king - I think you are confusing Africa with Europe. Europe and Asia are the societies that have always had a system of very powerful leadership at the top, and a large peasant class.
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> countries which didn't completely recover from colonialism I’ve heard this statement and it is completely false (I did not take issue with the rest of your post). Colonialism actually introduced a lot of technology into Africa (things
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> As long as the difference between individuals in a single population is greater than the mean difference between populations themselves, I don't see much relevance. This part is the Lewontin's fallacy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le
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by w00pla 17y ago
Yes, he is an annoying self-anointed expert. This ruins what could be an interesting debate (on any topic). It is ironic that a bad employee somehow becomes an expert in hiring people. I wouldn’t mind if people stop posting drivel from
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You should also check if the person is reliable (i.e. competent, responsible, hard worker and isn’t an obnoxious diva). In a lot of situations you get people who seem fairly smart, yet make an effort to bring their personal problems to the
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The author of this piece sounds like he has sand in his vagina (to quote South Park).
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One reason why holocaust revisionism is so popular is because of laws. With laws in Germany and Canada that forbade even questioning the number of people that was killed, one begins to wonder if that debate ever happened. The question comes
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And some guys... http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1octb/reddit_cof...