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ode remo:
@Beaf,
As an advice ,y dont u send that to the fed. Govt.'?

PointB:
^^^^
This man, quit spamming us with this nonsense that nobody is reading.

Buhari will NEVER, EVER, rule Nigeria.

In fact, Nigerians will vote for a[b] moderate Ghanaian[/b] before they consider Buhari.

koruji:
Who asked him

[size=14pt]Sarkozy election campaign was funded by Libya – Gaddafi son

Saif al-Islam threatens to publish details of bank transfers to punish French PM for backing Libyan rebels[/size]

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Saif al-Islam Gaddafi: 'Give us back our money.' Photograph: Sabri Elmhedwi/EPA

Muammar Gaddafi's son has claimed that Libya helped finance Nicolas Sarkozy's successful election campaign in 2007, and demanded that the French president return the money to "the Libyan people".

In an interview with the Euronews TV channel, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi said Libya had details of bank transfers and was ready to make them public in a move designed to punish Sarkozy for throwing his weight behind opposition forces.

Last week, the Libyan government threatened to reveal a "grave secret" that would bring down Sarkozy, with Saif al-Islam calling him "a clown".

The regime is furious at Sarkozy's efforts to galvanise international action to impose a "no-fly zone" that would prevent Gaddafi from using air power against rebels based in Benghazi.

Asked what he felt about the French president's so far unsuccessful efforts to muster support for military intervention, Saif said: "Sarkozy must first give back the money he took from Libya to finance his electoral campaign. We funded it. We have all the details and are ready to reveal everything. The first thing we want this clown to do is to give the money back to the Libyan people. He was given the assistance so he could help them, but he has disappointed us. Give us back our money."

Libya has yet to release any incriminating evidence but officials hinted last night that they were preparing to do so.

A spokeswoman for the Elysée Palace told the Guardian she had no information or comment about the claim. But Le Monde later quoted a spokesman as saying: "We deny it, quite evidently."

Libyan sources have separately told the Guardian substantial funds were paid into accounts to support Sarkozy's presidential campaign in 2007.

Well-placed sources in Tripoli made clear that the leak of this information was in retaliation for France's leading role in the campaign to impose a no-fly zone and for its unique recognition of the rebel Libyan National Council. "Sarkozy is playing dirty, so we are playing dirty, too," said a senior Libyan source.

The Guardian has been unable to confirm the Libyan claims independently.

French law places strict limits on party donations to candidates. Last year, Sarkozy was hit by a political scandal involving alleged illegal donations to his party funds by France's richest woman, Liliane Bettencourt.

Eyebrows were raised when Gaddafi visited Paris in late 2007 and was permitted to pitch his trademark bedouin tent in the gardens of the Hotel Marigny, the 19th-century mansion close to the Elysée Palace, which hosts visiting VIPs. That triggered a storm of adverse comment about the warmth of his reception by Sarkozy on international human rights day.

cap28:
[s]Your blissful ignorance is terrifying - how do you function on a daily basis?  

you have just posted SOMEONE's OPINION and you are now trying to pass it off as fact and logic - are you sane at all?

how many times do you want me to point out to you that Charles Taylor was a creation of the CIA and not Muammar Qadaffi?

why have you closed your eyes to the role that the US govt played in creating this monster?

why have you completely exonerated them from any blame but have chosen instead to home in on Qadaffi?

Why cant you explain to me how it was that Charles Taylor was able to escape from a maximum security prison in the US and surface a few years later in Liberia with millions of dollars in cash and arms?

You obviously have zero knowledge or understanding of history or you wouldnt make such breathtakingly dumb statements - it appears you know absolutely nothing about the role that the  europeans and americans have played in the genocide of black people - every single war that has been fought in africa has been incited and funded by americans and europeans and still in your fog of ignorance you accuse me of being paranoid about white racism - did  you know that the ongoing war in the Congo has claimed the lives of over 6 milion congolese people since 1996  and guess who incited it?  can you also guess who is selling arms to both sides in the conflict?

Did you know that the US govts official policy on world population control is set out in a US state dept document entitled NSSM 200 -  published in 1974 - the document sets out ways in which africa can be depopulated in order for america to have easy access to the natural resources of the various african nations.

did you know that some of the recommended mechanisms for the depopulation of african nations were: war, famine , use of biological warfare and economic control through debt enslavement?

i dont even know where to start educating you because your ignorance and s.tupidity is so vast.

You must be one of those dim witted nigerians that just sleep walk their way through life until reality smacks them in the face.

Being aware of racism does not equate to low self esteem or paranoia it equates to self empowerment through knowledge of the truth.

Perhaps all those black people that were beheaded and massacred by your NATO backed al qaeda friends in libya were suffering from low self esteem and paranoia - may be thats why they ended up being slaughtered by those NATO backed lynch mobs.

im done with you - you are too far gone in your ignorance, i am more likely to get more sense out of a brick wall.[/s]

cap28:
your slave mentality doesnt allow you to think straight - Libya under Qadaffi had the highest standard of living on the african continent, look around you can you see any other african country with anything near that standard of living?

you are so subservient to western ideology that you even make excuses for them when they committ the most heinous crimes - here is how your argument goes: "when europeans and americans committ atrocities its because they want to remain dominant on the world stage but when a pan african arab challenges western hegemony its because he is a mad man" - do you see how flawed your argument is? do you see how inferior you feel to the white man?

according to you the white man can kill and destroy as many african nations as he likes because he is only doing it to remain dominant but any non white person who dares to challenge the position of the white man is mad and unhinged - you are so pathetic.

the evidence is staring you in the face that charles taylor was helped by the CIA to escape from a maximum security prison, he was also sent to spy on Qadaffi and he was allowed to massacre thousands of his own people all as a result of the help from his godfathers in washington - you better wake up and smell the coffee because the americans can very easily create a nigerian charles taylor, they have succeeded in replacing a legitimate govt in libya with a gang of racist al qaeda criminals - do you think nigeria is immune from such treachery?

to date nigeria has managed to escape any attack from the west because it is run by traitors who have sold nigeria's resources off to the western multinationals - in your dim mind you actually think that nigeria is a sovereign nation - sorry to burst your bubble but nigeria is being run and controlled by shell, exxon mobil and the international banking cartels - your nigerian politicians have no say on any important issues they simply follow orders from washington and london - they are totally beholden to their western handlers - you better wake up and start living in the real world chump.

[size=14pt]Indict Muammar Gaddafi now for War Crimes in Sierra Leone[/size]
- Wednesday 4 May 2011.
By Aroun Rashid Deen, New York City.

With international pressure already mounting on Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and with the International Criminal Court now in the process of gathering information on civilian deaths in Libya, the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the International Criminal Court have a profound opportunity to indict Gaddafi for war crimes and crimes against humanity he has committed in Sierra Leone. The United Nations has already sanctioned Gaddafi’s government, and now it’s time his prior crimes in West Africa are brought to justice, too.

Muammar Gaddafi was the mastermind and key financier of the brutal war that left hundreds of thousands dead in Sierra Leone in West Africa in the 1990s. The war would not have happened in the first place had it not been for the desire of the Libyan leader to punish the government of Sierra Leone for what he regarded as its siding with the West in the 1980’s when Gaddafi was at loggerhead with particularly the United States and Britain. It was also part of Gaddafi’s broader agenda including his geopolitical ambition to destabilize much of West Africa and establish satellite states in the region to be headed by puppet regimes that will be doing his biddings. The decade-long war ripped Sierra Leone apart. Thousands of its victims, whose arms and limbs were chopped off by rebels, were reduced to paupers, roaming the streets as beggars in Freetown and other cities. Children as young as a day old were also among those whose arms and limbs were hacked off by Gaddafi’s rebels. Pregnant women, too, were disemboweled with delight in their display of ghastly brutality.

As part of his criminal plans to set West Africa on the warpath, Gaddafi instituted a program of guerilla warfare in Libya for a group of disgruntled West Africans, including a group of Sierra Leoneans he had invited to Tripoli to undergo training. The men who led the war on Sierra Leone — former Liberian leader and warlord, Charles Taylor and Sierra Leone’s rebel leader, Foday Sankoh, and The Gambian Fugitive, Kukoi Samba Sanyang — were among those who trained in Libya.

The ring leaders of the Revolutionary United Front rebel group, which was fighting to overthrow the government of Sierra Leone, also received massive financial support from Libya through Gaddafi’s People’s Revolutionary Council. Long before the government of Sierra Leone and the United Nations jointly set up the Special Court for Sierra Leone to prosecute key suspects of the war for war crimes and crimes against humanity, calls have been made for Gaddafi to face international justice for his role in Sierra Leone — like Charles Taylor now in The Hague. An opposition leader in Sierra Leone, Charles Margai, who was one of the strong advocates for Gaddafi’s indictment, was incensed when Gaddafi visited the country in 2007. In a BBC interview, he called on Sierra Leoneans to boycott the reception that was hosted for him at the national stadium.

David Crane, the first Chief Prosecutor at the Special Court, considered indicting the Libyan dictator. The former prosecutor, who now teaches law at Syracuse University, says that the direct participation of the Libyan leader in the wars in both Sierra Leone and Liberia caused the “murder, violation, maiming, and mutilation of over a million human beings…” But calls for justice were not heeded because it appears principle Western nations developed a fondness for Mr. Gaddafi following his so-called positive gestures, such as his abandoning of WMD programs.

In January 2004, former French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin was quick to express hope that French firms would participate fully in business activities in Libya. This followed Libya’s signing of a deal to pay $170 million to relatives of French victims of a UTA French airliner bombing in 1989, which was blamed on Libya. Current French President Nicolas Sarkozy also went to Tripoli in July 2007.

The greatest irony of it all is that Sierra Leone and Liberia never got compensations from Libya for the untold suffering, infrastructural damage and needless loss of lives even though evidence suggests that he was the master-mind of the carnage.

Then British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, met Gaddafi in Tripoli in 2004. The meeting was christened with the signing of a deal by oil giant, Shell, estimated at hundreds of millions of British pound sterling for gas exploration rights off the Libyan coast.

In August 2008, Italy’s Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi visited Libya and signed a $5 billion dollars investment deal with Gaddafi. Condoleezza Rice, the former US Secretary of State has also been to Libya where she met with the controversial Gaddafi.

The Libyan leader’s promise to, at the least, pay compensations to relatives of his brutal crimes as well as his giving up of his WMDs were welcome news in a world — particularly in Europe — that confronts many terrorists activities. Oil supplies from Libya mean much to the West. But appeasing the West should not stand in the way for justice for Sierra Leone, just so because it is not an affluent country endowed with oil deposits.

Up till now, Gaddafi’s relations with the West were getting cozier by the day. His brutal treatment of peaceful protesters — who seek nothing more than just a political change that guarantees freedom and better living standards — shows clearly that Gaddafi is too grown to learn new tricks. He is fundamental in his choice to resorting to brutality as a means of addressing challenges.

Muammar Gaddafi bears the greatest responsibility for the brutality in Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up at the end of the war found out that Libya contributed in a significant way to the chaos and mayhem that engulfed the country. Mr. Gaddafi’s role in the training in Libya and financing of the rebels justify his direct involvement in the mayhem. Such key roles deserve more than mere naming and shaming.

The desire for a share of Libyan oil or business prospect should not rub leading international policy makers of their moral responsibility to let Mr. Gaddafi account for his brutal misdeeds.

Gaddafi’s hatred for Sierra Leone goes back to the early 1980s when then President of Sierra Leone, Siaka Stevens, in November 1982, boycotted an Organization of African Unity conference Libya was scheduled to host. The 1982 conference lacked a quorum due to the absence of many heads of state as a result of controversies surrounding Gaddafi’s role in the rebellions that were going on in Africa at the time.

Gaddafi must not go unpunished. What was good for the British and French must be good for Sierra Leoneans too.

Casio Pays Microsoft for Using Linux

Microsoft has signed a patent licensing agreement with Casio over the use of Linux.

Microsoft with its patent program is trying to persuade companies that ship devices with Linux to pay avoiding possible litigation by Microsoft. Casio joins the long of list of Linux customers such as Fuji Xerox, Samsung and Melco/Buffalo, etc. who pay Linux patent royalties for Microsoft.

Although both of the companies did not declare the financial aspects of the agreement, Casio has acknowledged that it is paying Microsoft for using Linux, Microsoft, on the other hand, said that Casio uses Microsoft software for some of its products too.

“We’re pleased to reach an agreement and to see continued recognition of the value of our patent portfolio, particularly as it relates to operating systems,” said Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of Intellectual Property Group at Microsoft.

Mark Raby on TGDaily stated that "Although Microsoft does not own Linux, it has argued that Linux products are in violation of its patents. As such, anyone looking to incorporate Linux into their company is essentially forced to sign licensing arrangements with the software giant."

"It looks like Microsoft is about to rake in a lot of money from [companies using Linux]" he added.

Yet another Android vendor pays Microsoft patent royalties

By Mary Jo Foley | June 29, 2011, 7:10am PDT

Summary: Just days after announcing that General Dynamics was paying Microsoft undisclosed patent royalties to cover Android-based devices, Microsoft announced a similar deal with custom-PC vendor Velocity Micro Inc.

Microsoft announced its second Android patent-protection deal this week on June 29.

Just days after announcing that General Dynamics was paying Microsoft undisclosed patent royalties to cover Android-based ruggedized devices it was selling, Microsoft announced a similar deal with Velocity Micro Inc.

Microsoft and Velocity “have signed a patent agreement that provides broad coverage under Microsoft’s patent portfolio for Velocity Micro Inc. Android-based devices, including Velocity Micro, Inc.’s Cruz Tablet,” according to Microsoft’s press release. As in the case with General Dynamics, terms are not being made public, other than the fact that Microsoft will received some undisclosed royalties.

Velocity Micro, based in Richmond, Virg., is an OEM that provides companies with custom-designed and -built gaming system, PCs, notebooks, workstations, servers and small-business systems. While its Cruz tablet runs Android, its notebooks run Windows 7.

Microsoft has been targeting vendors running Google’s Linux-based Android operating system and is working to convince them to pay royalties to Microsoft to cover alleged patent-infringement issues involving Android. HTC signed a patent-protection deal with Microsoft for an undisclosed amount last year that focused on Android.

Not all Android vendors are signing on the IP (intellectual property) dotted line, however. Barnes & Noble is in a legal fight with Microsoft over Microsoft’s claim from earlier this year that the Android-based Nook e-reader violates Microsoft patents.

maclatunji:
What are we talking about here? GEJ has 4 years to 'transform' this country and all Beaf and Co. can think of is Buhari running in 2015. Is this the issue that affects the man on the street at the moment?

kodewrita:
Apologies for all deleted comments. This thread is now being maintained as a VB.NET wiki of sorts. All non-topic comments will no longer be allowed on this thread except requests for help or replies to help requests.

My apologies to Beaf, odiaero, Femi and the others.

blacksta:
Anyway Nigerians are foools excepts its corrupt leadership.

I remember When farida was commissioned " she stated then that she was taking EFCC To MARS or another level" another idioot has come to take EFCC to the next level. One day sha EFCC will hit roof     Until Nigerians rid themselves of the passive useless mindset  - the rot continues.  The Idoitt also forgets that he is an interm leader.

oxford: Yah, the man is spineless and yet he made a mice meal of Atiku, wiped IBB silly, turned Buhari to a cry baby and ran Ibori out of town!
Yah, the man is incompetent and yet we had the most credible election under his watch, yet Nigeria is now generating 4,242.7MW of electricity which is the highest this nation has ever generated, our economy grew by 7.72% in the second quarter,
Yah, the man is clueless and yet power sector like the telecom will soon be run by competent private companies competing for our patronage, ND is peaceful now, kidnapping is now for folktales in the east and hundreds of BH foot soldiers, linkmen and sponsors are cooling their heels behind bars. The man could be called names but he is still THE MAN

[size=14pt]Should I abandon VB.Net?[/size]
by Christiaan Baes (chrissie1) on Feb 28, 2011 in categories Professional Development

Should I abandon VB.Net? This is a question that crosses my mind from time to time, but lately it is getting stronger. At least it would make my life simpler. Copy paste coding gets even better when you are a C# programmer since there are so much more examples out there. The community is bigger and better for C#. Even Microsoft discourages the use of VB.Net. If you ever go to something like techdays you will find that VB.Net is nowhere to be found. In that community you will be mocked and ridiculed if you tell them you are a VB.Net programmer. You are looked down upon, even by the spaghetti programmers. But then the .Net community seems to be rude and unfriendly whatever you do. I noticed that when I did my little powershell series over the weekend.

So the question crosses my mind if I was wrong to choose VB.Net and to choose Winforms. I guess the same questions are asked by the VB6 community. And the Delphi community. Apparently even the WPF community is already feeling the love draining away. Did you notice these are all Microsoft communities. Microsoft seems to be in the habit of creating things and then abandoning them for the next big thing without even trying to make it easy for people to convert their old code.

Do you know how hard it is to even find VB.Net developer on the web that have great blogs? I guess most of them decided to blog in C# instead and get more out of the experience or else they are just not there.

I have been trying to convince Scott Hanselman to incorporate a few lines of VB.Net in his keynote for the 2011 Belgian Techdays. It feels like an uphill battle. Considering the result of this poll I think he will be even less inclined now.

I don't blame them, they are in the business of making money and they should do what they think they have to do.

Do I think I should change because of all of the reasons above? Nope, not any time soon. I will keep using VB.Net and winforms for as long as I can and that will be awhile. Rewriting an application just because of a new technology is not a good move, it looses you money in the short and long term. You are better of adding features to your existing application.

The first thing to think about when things like this arise, is if they add value to your situation. Don't change things for the sake of change, change things for the better. Let's not forget that even the best and brightest get it wrong.

I guess being philosophical from time to time comes with old age.

koruji:
Unlike you, I am not going to pretend I know the location of these settlements. Do you know there locations?

The only place where Shasha and Mokere have been linked is in the caption to a stock picture in a newspaper. How is that for finding reference to convince yourself that two settlements mentioned exclusive of each other in two different articles do not refer to the same location because some newspaper guy wanted convenience in captioning his picture.

Abeg to siddon. [size=14pt]Are you not the same Beaf of "there is no rail line in Osogbo fame".[/size]

Yeye Beaf.

koruji:
I was calling you a bufoonish virus for fun, but now you are proving to be one in the true sense of the word. The fact that the newspaper used Mokore-Shasha doesn't mean they are talking about the same location - perhaps in proximity to each other, but not the same location - each with its own defined boundaries. Like Osun-Ogun States doesn't make them the same state. It could even be a mere logical connection in reference to the fact that they are both farm settlements.

Get it now - oh who am I kidding, you will return here with another brain-fart way to attack Aregbesola. Poor you, your heart burns everytime Aregbesola advances on his focused agenda for Osun. It is like you and your sponsors are scared of his success.

Since you know how to fish out information, have you heard about this programme - Omo-Oluwa-Shasha Forest Elephant Initiative. Are those three places even in the same local government? Do you see any Mokore in there?

Jobless fellow wasting away megre oil resources - and to think this is the kind of people GEJ wants to remove subsidy in other to support.

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sheyguy:
They r simply inplementing laws for effective land usage, forest shld remain forest and farmland shld remain as well. I think it is a right step in the right direction.