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Not all homosexuals were 'born that way,' I have read books about how some kids picked up this orientation after some form of molestation during childhood. I believe that homosexuality, biologically, is a deviation from the norm and whether we should make laws to legalize relationships of such kinds is very relative and should depend on societal values in my opinion. Even at the time interracial marriages became legal in some Western countries, marriage was still defined as something between a man and a woman so making it illegal between interracial couples made absolutely no sense. As far as I am concerned, homosexuality is an undesirable human behaviour. Like alcoholism and aggression for example it has some genetic component to it. Does that make it okay to legalize same-sex marriages? Should we only just focus on the so-called economic gain?? How much of an economic gain is it? How exactly does a society like Nigeria's become better off because of the legalization of same sex-marriages? Should governments actually dabble into issues that deal with things like these? These are questions I haven't yet been convinced or may never be convinced about? I also don't think the role that genetics play in homosexuality is deterministic. People's intimate interest has been proven in some cases to evolve over time (of course there are exceptions to this); some prison in mates practice homosexual behaviours and get back to the status quo when they get out of prisons. I think same-sex relationships should neither be banned nor legalized. They should be free to make whatever choices they want or choose whichever partners they like, but then asking for laws to make it equal to heterosexual marriages is like asking for too much in my opinion. If two consenting adults engage themselves in such ways then so be it... but then talking about bringing kids into the equation maka why na? And don't give me that 'according to this study kids do better... bull crap.' We all know there's a lot of bias as a good number of such researchers are gays and tend to compare outcomes with that of single parent kids rather than that of kids from a conventional family setting. |
bigfrancis21: From your last paragraph, you sound very deluded even though you raised some fine points above. As far as I am concerned having a child with two partners of THE SAME SEX makes even less sense than with one sex whose a biological relative of the child. You make it sound as if gay marriages are all perfect; as in there's so much love between the partners and the child or children involved... In fact I no get time ![]() |
@VanSnickers I believe that gays should be able to do whatever they want with THEMSELVES without the support of any law. People who attack/threaten them should face criminal charges just as is the case when any human being is discriminated against. However: 1) I see no reason why it makes sense for two men for example, to marry and then adopt kids- it sounds so darn selfish to me. People should be able to live with the repercussions of whatever lifestyle they choose to lead. 2) I don't believe heterosexual marriages and gay marriages are equal at all. These are two completely different things in my opinion and I could go on and on explaining why they are very different and should be treated as such. 3) The ideal situation for any child is to have both a father and a mum (as it has always been from time immemorial) to train/take care/guide them as they negotiate their paths through this complex world. I think it is very unfair to any child who is born of course to heterosexual parents to end up in the homes of homosexuals because the law made it possible. Such kids should be able to make such choices by themselves at least after they must have reached a certain age. 4) I do not agree with all western values. As far as I am concerned, there's absolutely nothing wrong with most of our African values which permits and interprets marriage solely as relationship between a Man and a Woman. Anything outside of that is foreign and could only be tolerated at most but not supported by law. ANd just as someone rightly pointed out- Westerners frown at polygamy but embrace homosexuality right? Doesn't polygamy also come with the consents of the adults involved too? I would advice you to think more deeply about these things you know. I have tried my best to understand same-sex marriage, but somethings just don't add up. |
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Thanks Guys... I am trying to make modifications to the google-voice-speech to text source code here: http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html I want a situation whereby I can have voice transcriptions written to a local file while it is being displayed online. After searching online, I successfully found a way to directly download any voice transcription made after a speaker has finished talking. My project partner however is not satisfied with this because what we want is to be able to write to files directly while the speaker is still talking. From what I got here: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/filesystem/, it seems like it's possible to directly write to local files from chrome browser using this demo as an example: function onInitFs(fs) { fs.root.getFile('log.txt', {create: true}, function(fileEntry) { // Create a FileWriter object for our FileEntry (log.txt). fileEntry.createWriter(function(fileWriter) { fileWriter.onwriteend = function(e) { console.log('Write completed.'); }; fileWriter.onerror = function(e) { console.log('Write failed: ' + e.toString()); }; // Create a new Blob and write it to log.txt. var blob = new Blob(['Lorem Ipsum'], {type: 'text/plain'}); fileWriter.write(blob); }, errorHandler); }, errorHandler); } window.requestFileSystem(window.TEMPORARY, 1024*1024, onInitFs, errorHandler); [i][/i] I haven't been able to make this work and would be glad to get help from anyone with more web programming experience. I have only worked on projects not involving the web so far and this is my first time delving into it. |
please say something if you can help... |
Hi, I read through the HTML5 filesystem API, copied and tried to run the code I saw for creating and writing to files from browsers, but it still wouldn't work. I have checked different questions on stackoverflow.com and tried out the different suggestions they had... no results. (The codes for the project I am working on will be run on from users local servers so I am using only Javascript). Please is there someone here who successfully wrote into local files from a browser using javascript?? I have pasted my very short code in the link below and was wondering if someone could look at it and help me out... or better still you can just tell me exactly what you did to generate and write to files on your local computer. links:view-source:file:///C:/Users/LLPadmin/jetty9/webapps/projects/correctWriter.html I have completed almost everything on this project and this is the only part remaning. Thanks for you help! ps: I am new to web programming so please ignore some of the mistakes I may have made up there... |
Monimatic: ACN Condemns and Reject President Jonathan Declaration of State of Emergency The statements in red made my blood boil May God punish Lai for making those statements. How has dialogue helped the situation over the past years?? All these old cargoes do is ![]() |
abifoluwa: is she a pisces? born in febuary? those girls cheat a lot Bullshit! |
21 makes no sense at all... people should be free to post in whatever way/language/or tense they want. In fact reading through some posts written in pidin-English here cracks me up big time! And for rule 17... Oga Seun Osewa biko "Don't post anything that could be considered offensive to I agree that people shouldn't post offensive stuffs. However You shouldn't forget that part of the reason why this site is so much fun is the freedom of speech that users have... 3 Likes |
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phtemie: For those saying those that got low marks didn't read enough and that when u wrote yours u performed better...i can bet it that if it were to be this year's jamb..none of you would have gotten closer to what u are saying u all got... phtemie: For those saying those that got low marks didn't read enough and that when u wrote yours u performed better...i can bet it that if it were to be this year's jamb..none of you would have gotten closer to what u are saying u all got... That is very untrue. You have no proof to back up your claims at all.Give me a reputable source that said 'jamb made use of negative marking' in 2013. It's always been a rumour even before the time I took it. Standard exams will state whether marks will be deducted for wrong answers or not if that's ever the case. I scored above 340 in most of the past questions I worked on (using harsh grading like minus .25 for every wrong answer), but didn't get above 300 on the main Jamb itself. Once again, there's nothing special about this year's Jamb. |
when I took this exam back then I tackled ALL THE Questions from 1978-2009 for Math, Physics, Chemistry and English more than once! I knew my onion as far as these subjects were concerned but also understood that the secret to doing well on Jamb was to put myself under the exam situation as many times as possible long before the exam itself. Besides studying the textbooks I had with me, I spent blocks of 3:30 minutes almost everyday and months before the exam tackling the past years' questions. IT PAID OFF BIG TIME . I was very disappointed with my score back then (297) because I expected a 350 at the very least - after having made estimates from my performances on the practice exams. some people here didn't even try practicing well enough but expected to score 300. Others studied textbooks only but expected to have perfect scores. I know people have different approaches to exams but please stop all these useless arguments about the graders of this JAMB. Here was the break down of what I got:Math - 75, expected that I would score > 90 Physics 81, expected that I would score> 90 too Chemistry 68, expected that I would score> 85 English 73, expected that I would score > 85 too. And yeah, the exam that year 'felt' far easier than some of the past questions that I had smashed before then. What's my point? STOP WHINING. Jamb is a standard exam and for the questions? There's more than meets the eye. I am pretty sure I put in far more effort than most of you here and expected something far higher than what I actually scored (which wasn't too bad either). I know it's frustrating but just go home and study more. Stop the blame game. shikena FYI: There were mass exam malpractices at my exam center too. |
mathefaro: After going through the 10 pages of this thread, I've seen how hypocritical people can be. Although it's quite obvious that the rate at which students now study is nowhere near what it used to be but I'm very sure most of you who claim you spent all day studying without any distraction such as the social media would do more than what these guys are doing cos you probably might not get up to 150. Apparently, this year's utme wasn't based on student's performances at all but criteria best known to jamb alone. My students all studied which I can testify to, but . we're still given unjustified marks. So please stop saying the mass failure was due to laziness, unseriousness or addiction to social networks. I pray God console those of you that fall victim of this mysterious nd wicked act. I don't mean to be rude sir, but I am pretty sure you you will acknowledge the fact that more students have become less hardworking in their studies because most Nigerian teachers aid them in different external exams malpractices. This of course doesn't mean there are no hardworking students out there.This is the point I am trying to make: Long term exam malpractices => lower overall student study-drive => poor performance on exams. Please don't try to blame the GRADERs of an exam as the reason for students' poor performances! As far as I am concerned, if one uses the right approach to prepare for Jamb, it becomes as simple as A B C. Daz all. |
Umartins1: My heart keeps being offended as I read more and more of 'they were not serious. Most of them were after expo and always pinging'. Dude, think before you type please. You want to tell me that most Nigerian Students who took Jamb this year actually studied very well for it? Are you blind to all the malpractices you see around you everyday (both in Jamb, WASSCE and NECO)- special centers et cetera. Of course you studied for Jamb but how on earth can you say they assigned scores randomly How does that make any sense to you? The grading system is pretty standardized and has remained so for donkey years now. Everything is multiple choice hence your answer can either be right or wrong!I still maintain that the mass failure in Jamb is mostly due to student's ill preparation. Whether you agree with me or not is your own cup of tea. 1 Like |
chai see nairalanders dey react like say tomorrow no dey The girl na una sista? abi na wetin sef? Abeg make she continue to dey sleep around jorr,who cares ![]() And for Peter abi na paul sef... dem don fall my hand bad bad; that's why I like tubaba, na original chairladies na im he dey organize. |
The answer is staring at you in the face: Laziness/poor teachers. Most Nigerian Kids don't even prepare well for this exam at all. They just enroll in some shabby pre-jamb lesson, do very little practice and expect some 'mana' to rain on them during the exam. Most depend solely on malpractice sef. How you go pass? When u fit even know the answer to most of the questions pass some of the people wey dey solve and send to you sef ![]() I didn't have good teachers too but I solved all the Jamb past questions from 1978-2008 for the four subjects I took. I was more than well prepared when I took mine and yeah it paid off big time. These students should just stop being lazy. |
People should think well before casting aspersions at the Lagos government naw ahn ahn. This is a great idea, but they need the go-ahead of the state government before they can build such structure(s) at Makoko or elsewhere... I understand that the poor in Lagos have suffered a lot in the Hands of Fashola, but being poor is no excuse for occupying spaces illegally. The homeless in the streets of New York for example can't just establish structures any where they see space... The only issue I see here is that Occupants of the water town had their buildings destroyed within a very short period from the first time they were notified about the demolition plans by the government. Everything should be done in the right way u know; I don't see why any structure should be built in a state without an approval from the state's government in the first place. |
The silly guy in the car had the guts to say God will forgive them because the innocent people who lost their lives were killed by mistake. He should be killed by mistake too. WTF3 Likes |
spikes C: Gosh, i just saw this I mean... I have been using Java, C, Matlab and Python for about a year now... I am actually heading somewhere ![]() Thanks for helping me with that documentation spikes. I will look through it and post questions here. |
Hey Programmers, I am currently working on a project in which I will need to modify google's free voice-to-speech source code to make it spit out voice inputs to text in a text file on my computer in addition to having it display the output on the web (which it currently does). Here's the application: http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html And Here's the source code: view-source:http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html I haven't done any web programming before (I have done other non-web related stuffs though) and just ended up having this as my final project for a research I have been working on all semester. Is there any one here who can help me with info on where to start from? I don't know HTML5 yet or JavaScript, which is the language in which the code is written and really don't have much time left for me to try to start learning those now. I have studied the source code but don't really understand which part actually does spit out the text for users to see and what to modify ... It would be very helpful if any of you can look at the source code and help me with info on where to focus on and what to change. Also, does anyone think it's possible for me to download the source code and try to run it successfully from my desktop? I have tried it severally but it just doesn't work... Thanks in advance! |
educate yourself about Pan-Africanism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Africanism And check out this documentary by BBC if you have time; you will at least understand why there seems to be 'solidarity' between dark-skinned people of all shades... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efI6T8lovqY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdBDRbjx9jo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCJHJWaNL-g |
http://www.nairaland.com/1275760/somalis----are-not-great I read the above thread which you started earlier. wow you are so ignorant and completely lost in your bubble. Somali's are different from the rest of the world.. so? what next? How has that benefited you or your nation entirely? who cares whether you are part of Africa or the Arab world?- especially as the nation itself hasn't been of any significant economic importance to both worlds. Go out, travel, meet people and educate yourself. I saw the post where you said West Africans want to call somalis 'black to cover up for their ugly appearance'- I am not sure if you mean this, but it is one of the most shallow and ill-thought out comment I have read lately. You completely painted yourself as one of those mad people who have bought into Europeans' obsolete/racist/controversial and completely illogical classification of some people,especially those with non-white skin color as sub-human. Basic biology teaches us that all humans have no significant difference in their genetic makeup- except of course in the five genes (out of about 25,000) that determine skin color. I have also seen that you have started another post attacking the bible- please spend some time and re-evaluate what you seek to achieve with all these things you keep posting. You have painted yourself as very self-centered and ignorant so far. Slavery was a terrible incidence that be-fell West/Southern Africa and NOBODY whether somali or not should make fun of it. Just calm down and take things easy... |
50calibre: When a man marries a woman, she becomes his property. He owns her completely and gets to decides what happens in the marriage. what the hell is wrong with this poster? he becomes her property too! There is no biblical basis for Inequality between a man and a woman! People should stop showing-off their ignorance on this site abeg.what's even more painful is that you said 'Go and read the bible'! ![]() They both need to sort themselves out... if not Christianity supports divorce if a Husband/wife commits adultery. |
Amb.charles: Dude were you a witness? Blind haterz... continue hating. Okorocha more power to your elbow. All these shameless You have always been a good man. |
Buhari: Ze chicken croz ze road bicause ze are tired op maltritiment by ze gonment on ze other side. Ze realized it was hightime ze took zat important decision about ze piuture of their chicks. As the general kwawmanda in charge op this side of ze road, I tink ze moob oba becos ze want to see real action and not chip talk as ze hab exfirienced on ze oda side. ![]() 2 Likes |
obi123: classic! ![]() |
1. What’s your Nigerian name? - Ekwah 2. Were you Born in Nigeria? - Yep in Kano. 3. Favourite Nigerian movie? - Araromire 4. Favourite Nigerian song? Keep on pushing by 2face. 5. Favourite Nigerian food? - Pounded Yam and Egusi soup ![]() 6. When was the last time you were in Nigeria? August 2011 7. What tribe are you? Igala 8. Say something in your tribal language? ojo u chugbede we ( I thank you Lord) 9. What do you like most about Nigeria? The people-funny,energetic and Enterpreneurial 10. What do you hate most about Nigeria? Corruption 11. Do you have any Nigerian Nicknames? Yep, ManPhilo 12. What makes you different from other Nigerians? The way I talk...(at least that's what almost every other Nigerian I have met first says about me) 13. Do you speak your language? wella 14. Do you speak pidgin English? I sabi am like say tomoro no dey! 15. What around your house represents your culture? My traditional outfits. 16. What is a ridiculous question you were asked about your culture? Is it true that Igala people use juju/witchcraft all the time? ![]() 2 Likes |
Make mods do something about this thread na. This is very misleading! ![]() I wouldn't expect to see such blatant lies on the front page... except if the Mods are daft- as in dem no know who the real Naomi Campbell be? |
our boys need to cooperate more up front... ![]() |
mehn see dem boyz making me proud ![]() 2 Likes |
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