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InesQor: Crap.

Miss Ebonyi is the ONLY one with her REAL HAIR.

The others carry weave and wig for head dey form beauty pageant. Rat chop dem real hair?

[size=20pt]Miss Ebonyi gets my vote abeg.[/size]

you have a good point. based on this, i believe ms katsina is in fact the most beautiful AND authentic. until the rest can prove this is indeed their natural hair

Ctemi: Please how can a person without anybody in USA who is going on student visa secure accommodation? Secondly, is there anybody schooling in Waubonsee community college Illinois or concordia university wisconsin in the house. Or anybody with idea how the place is

if you dont find anyone who can help you with accomodations, try craigslist as last resort. In most places people will put up listings to sublet apartments. If its a college town, you will likely find other students looking for a roommate, and you wont have to provide references or credit check etc - just bring your monthly cash Waubonsee is not that far from chicago, so I'm going to imagine it not the boondocks. Plus there are bound to be Nigerians roaming such places so you will know people before long

ThroneofMercy: Rap music is never for everyone, there are just categories of music lovers; 1. The ones that dance, 2. The ones that listen to music. It takes a great deal of intelligence to comprehend a tight rap flow. Never forget, majority of music lovers are mediocre. Life is so fair, you hang with your type. For me, the likes of krs1 I won't trade for a million jarule. QED

lol. im sure jarule and krs one are besties


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acdtvO-yHqQ

Other than htown rockets, I have never really been a fan of any team. I follow players rather than teams. That said, if Lebron plays for Dan Gilbert again, he will lose my respect. My main reason for championing this dude was how he stood up to the billionaire, in a way Kobe or MJ never did. In other words, understanding the game outside the game,. If he goes back to the "owner" who has already made his racist views on Lebron known in the past, I will have been mistaken in thinking Lebron became a man by leaving the Cavs. We go see by the end of this week

Ill bet $100 Melo is staying with the knicks. Dude has satisfied his need to be wanted. No way he plays for Lakers and shares the ball with Kobe. And he would never get along with thibodeau even though chi town is his best chance for a ring

benue abeg step ur game up

Djicemob: And iceprince is not a copycat? Why didnt he wear agbada to the BET? Why does he keep shouting "nigga" nigga" in his songs? Why rush into collabos with these american stars? Why not use berom which is his own dialect to rap? Originality? Why didnt BET pick olamide or phyno to rep naija at the Awards? Dont be deceived bro,as long as rap is concerned,all em naija MCs are copy cats including Olamide and Phyno etc.Thanks.

All genres of music borrow from each other. Question: what does mode9 add to his rap that differentiates him from the 10000 other rappers in the US alone. If I walked into an nyc bar and saw mode9 rapping, I could be fooled into thinking he is fam from up the block. Thats how hard he worked on his flow. Unfortunately, there's a thousand others like that in the same area. Americans arent looking to Nigerians to show them what they already have. They want to see something different from you, otherwise they would just mind themselves and not bother.

With olamide etc, I can still see elements of rap, but they added their own unique twists to it. And you dont have to rap in Berom or Yoruba before its unique. Dbanj is not even really a musician, yet Kanye was interested, because of the uniqueness. Rake on olamide, phyno all you want. they are savvier than "real" rappers as you put it.

AjanleKoko: Got it from Business Insider. Been trying to dig up this link. Will post it here when I get it.

Aha, it's right here.

Interesting that the editors ofa publication of this caliber would let let this kind of "research" be published. Two pertinet comments from the article, reflective of many others. Good find... I added BI to my reading list sometime ago. Somehow I missed this.

This is the massive hole in the study: Europeans are *extremely traditional* in so many ways - it's utter nonsense to consider them 'non traditional' because they support things like suicide and abortion. In fact- those things are uncommon.

Swedes, Germans etc. have very strong set of behaviors that must be adhered to. Langauge, custom etc..

Walk into a German office: men in suits. There is a high degree of formality and social structure. Even their education system is structured. By Grade 10 - you go academic or working class. *Nobody from the working class* is allowed to innovate and found companies.

Walk into American office: you wear what you want. Anyone can do anything. People who were broke and living on the street can become millionaires. Highly traditional and conservative social culture in Europe does not allow that so much.

The study is typically academic and narrow minded.

This chart explains nothing. Young researchers, future academics, people interested in Worldwide cultures. This chart is:

-politically incorrect
-despotic
-wrongly conceptualized (secularism and rationalism IS a form of tradition)
-ignorant of approved international views of development
-ignorant of the micro-environments lived within countries
-ignorant on new trends of thought
-ignorant of quite a few countries depicted in the graph

DO NOT TAKE THIS CHART SERIOUSLY. This is only pop-internet-content-filling-easy-on-the-eyes-BS

"real" rap was never popular in Nigeria, talk less of it declining. Even when the Wu Tang were a force to be reckoned with, mostly "americanized" Nigerians with access to satellite TV cared.

As much as like like underground rap, I am not overly impressed with mode9 etc. I think they are as good as any other rappers out there, but something about a loss of originality bothers me. At best, Nigerian rappers are clones of the American versions. And something about not bieng completely original always diminishes you. Which is why even americans appreciate a dbanj or ice prince more. why do you think anybody is going to respect you for being a copycat?

where did you get the map btw.

It is possible to be traditional and rational unlike what the map would suggest. I think the placement of Nigeria and other African countries is to be expected in a western worldview. However, I am surprised to see Ghana, the democratic darling of the West being rated "lower" than Nigeria. I also dont see how Thailand or Malaysia can in any way be considered more secular than South Africa. I think esere is on to something, even if its in jest - I think this is more of a "ease of doing business" map than anything

yeah, the axes are not clear. i can already see Nigeria squished in one small corner, so yeah im going to have something to say about this

Well I hope the more educated posters (in my opinion at least), have changed their passwords and made sure whatever email used to register cant be compromised.

Normally, an alternate backup with the same host is plenty secure, assuming that host is savvy enough to archive that data to cold storage on multiple remote sites. I am shocked that they wouldn't. Hard lesson to learn. Obviously nairaland is now grown up enough to attract malicious hackers

@seun, have you tried programmatically scraping google's cache for the lost thread data? I havent touched anything that crawls the web in long time, but I would imagine there are sophisticated enough open source engines that could make this easier to do. just a thought...

I think Melo is ending up in chi town.That cast will get to ECF every year and likely whoop the Heat's current roster

wow! the whole season gone.

PAGAN 9JA:
christianity is not African.

It is mostly Middle Eastern thought that has been added onto and finished by Romans and the West.

yes it is. and there is verifiiable, scholarly proof, not just your opinion. but i wont derail this thread...im sure there will be other opportunities for such in the future

G.James:
My younger sis keeps telling me that i'm becoming fairer. The opposite effect of any other cocoa butter cream. Does this cream( queen elisabeth) secretly bleach its users?

queen elisabeth coacoa butter is also used to remove scars and for acne. very likely it has a mild acid to kill acne causing germs - this will definitely lighten your skin over time. I hope Yvonne does regular cancer screening - skin bleaching removes the natural protection melanin affords black skin. You dont want to be without it when you are right on the equator, where the sun shines the brightest

ifeness: I command you to eat grass in Jesus name lol

for where...back to sender. lol

thoth: But here we are again doing exactly what we shouldn't be doing, laying blames. It is good enough that we realized the existence of these problems ,I do believe that awareness will only call from intelligent people to come together and design a way to oppose this erosion of our values, because it is not just our resources that is being targeted but also our values and morals, those weapons which historic African civilizations over centuries have designed to safeguard our societies and nations and guard us in our relations with one another to sustain peace and mutual trust.
Sincerely many people would want to help, have resources to help, but just don't see any outline on how to carry things along, so if we can use this opportunity; lets put forward any practical ideas that we may have, no matter how little or insignificant it is to battle this menace , a step is all that is needed. How do we start ? If a new forum should be created let it be, if we should use this then lets begin. Hoping to hear from you guys.

I have kept my sig for a while longer , as a subliminal preaching tool. I know that its like a seed - it will grow, and have effect

As to Christianity being a culprit. The answer is yes, and no. The strongest lie is the one wrapped around truth. The reason weaponized Christianity is very effective at mind control is because the core of the lie is an actually valid experience. I'm not going to ask anyone to do any reading - simply observe some biblical themes: ratifying covenants by blood, sacrifice and substitute sacrifices, divination by the ephod etc are fundamentally African themes, and are for sure not caucasian in nature. To use a fundamentally African thought process against Africans, you simply have to change all the images (blond Jesus, God that looks like Zeus or Odin etc). Then add in a dose of fear by beating on eternal punishment. And here we are a few centuries down the line.

As an aside, I believe this is the reason Christianity is actually on the wane in western countries. Its not fundamentally their culture. It worked great when they were fighting tyrants, but with the unarguable prosperity they now have, they will likely be backsliding for a while ( I have no idea how long). On the other hand, Africans take to it (sometimes to a fault) because many of the themes (if you read the book without propaganda) actually reflect traditional African thought

To answer the OP directly, I think that looking at religion is tempting, but its not the way to go. I believe even if we went back to traditional religions, it wont change the messed up thinking we have on the continent. One attainable goal would be to elect one fearless, upright leader who can set processes in place long enough to raise a generation with a different mindset. I said fearless, because such a leader will have a target on his back constantly.

speaking of the nets


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy0m16kjXNQ

kobikwelu: Most importantly...A GUARANTEED JOB ...most legacy systems run by Airlines and banks..still use this....
You need to see how these folks are in demand....Highly paid

those jobs are few though. And they will go away eventually. COBOL and FORTRAN...I thank my God I will never have to touch some things again.

kliq: Another defeat....really tough times for the Lakers with a record of 14-22
I doubt we make it to the playoff as we are 7.5 games under .500,pretty sad the season looks so bleak already,guess we should concentrate on building our roster for the future



#LakerNation

you were actually thinking about playoffs? lol. i respect you optimism though

Donlittle: what was Memphis reason for firing their coach again? bad bad move, didn't think they traded any player actually. Not disappointed in Lakers, actually more disappointed in Timberwolves, with K.love in his prime, they should be in top 8 in the west.

They really didn't fire him. He left. The Rudy Gay trade pretty much undid years of team chemistry. The front office obviously didnt care for all the father figure psychology Hollins had taken time to build. Hollins said the right things in front of the camera, but supposedly let the front office have it behind the scenes. It was very obvious the Spurs series would have been more competitive with Gay in the mix. As soon as they lost, it was obvious Hollins was leaving.

The annoying part was the classless front office - as soon as they knew he was leaving, they tried to stop him from talking to other teams so they could fire him first. I know he will bounce back at some point. Man, I loved that team.

wheesin: someones husband fa....

Dont worry. Lola will deal with him personally.

Anyone that takes Bynum is an idiot. GM ought to be fired for that move. That dude is useless. As soon as he got his contract, the real Bynum showed up. Shaq feels stupid right now for ever comparing Bynum to DH

And yeah, Nets are the most dissappointing. But the east is so weak that even with a quarter season left, they could win enough games to make the playoffs

dueal: @birdman...my point was development language...so check ubuntu mobile, windows phone 8, android ndk, iphone...
e.t.c...

ahh...gotcha.

^sure bro. if its working for you, so be it

if anyone is using this forum to learn stuff, you should know that 80% of what he just posted is wrong. anyhow im not here to argue endlessly so im not going to pinpoint anything - I have other things to turn my attention to. btw, stackoverflow is also a very good resource for anyone who hasnt used it yet. you can, and should use it to verify anything you read on nairaland

dueal: C++ has been and still remains a beastly beauty.... u need to b mature at it to work with extension languages especially python....wen u near that bridge u can choose d Lua language.

wonder y all d mobile os's r slowly but surely heading to pure native with C++?

Most mobile os run C, not even C++ for the best performance. An example in Linux for Android. Then there are fast C++ libraries built on the C layer. Finally, there is Dalvik and a Java layer at the top. Application developers only need write Java apps, and can call into faster c++ libraries if they need to. I think Seun has alluded to this practice already. Bottomline, mobile os want you as an app developer to stay away from C++/C as much as possible. You want to concentrate on your prototype, not specific machine issues.

Olyboy16: i dont think this is really necesary. C++ has evryfin u cn nid to develop any software, except wen it comes to GUI when which u should simply download the open source QT4 or 5, read so ebooks on it, nd dats all. U'r ready to create powerful nd awesome c++ apps without havin to slow ur codes down scripting python in.
Oh nd bout the memory leaks and problems; you cant create memory efficient and short mighty apps in c++ if u think like a pythonist. Check this out.

--Python---
Variable = [x*(x*x) for x in range(0,9999)]
del Variable

---c++---
unsigned int* variable=time(NULL)*9999;
delete variable;

Now tell me how python is better at dis dan c++.

I can give you several:

1. Lets look at this c++ statement. What you wanted to write was:

unsigned int variable=time(NULL)*9999;

Notice there should be NO pointer operator here. You want an unsigned integer, not a pointer to one. The crazy part is, there is a good chance you will corrupt memory silently with careless use of pointers.

2. Lets assume you actually wrote that c++ statement correctly, and used unsigned int. In python, you did not care about the size and type of your Variable. x could be a really large number and you would still get the right result. If time() returns a 32 bit number, there is a good chance your c++ variable will overflow. It gets worse. By using unsigned int in c++, you have can have a 32 bit number on some machines, and a 64 bit number on others. So you could test forever and never see this overflow on your machine. Someone else runs it and it breaks for them.

3. You need that del in C++, otherwise you will have memory leaks. In python, you typically do not need del. Part of its purpose is to hint the garbage collector. Why is this important? In a real c++ program, there will be several lines of code before delete, so forgetting a delete is very possible. If you forget the delete in Python, worst case is a less than optimal garbage collector. In C++, this is a memory leak. Not only with your program crash, but it will do so long afterwards. Memory leaks are nightmares to debug - this issue does not exist with Python

You wrote a 2 line c++ program, and I just showed you one bug that can cause memory corruption, one that will cause an overflow on some machines. I also showed you how Python is better than c++ in preventing memory leakage. What is even worse is that these are all silent bugs. They kill your program without you knowing immediately. By the time the crash becomes obvious, the footprint of these bugs is gone already.

ROSSIKE: If it improves peoples' lives, it is ''worth the mention''.

No doubt it is a good thing. no issues with that. But obviously, this cannot be used as a basis for keeping Nigeria one, as you suggested.

Zikkyy: Glad to read you are not arguing this bit.





The verse quoted was not meant to show that angels cannot appear as men. with God everything is possible. The verse quoted was to show that Melchizedek cannot be Jesus.

which verse? you didnt quote any. Happy new year to all btw