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Johnnyessence:
I stocked 3rd week of December last year and up till now they av become big oooooooooooo .3 weeks ago I weighed one out of it was 0.5kg but d difference is clear now they av now big than d previous one.still need ur explanation on d period of harvest .pls to d consultant in d house is it good to leave it in 6 months old niiii.

you can weigh to get the average weight of each fish before you sell. that would even give you idea of your profit ahead
like how many bags of 15kg feed have they eatrn so far.

excelsiorfarm:
d truth is your water mgt is bad, creates diseases & such outbreak, also inhibit fishes from feeding right, worst of it is it can stop growth or make u have stunted fishes. Work on having good water mgt & when next u have such challenges, sell as melange or smoke them to minimise lose.

tnks so much for your response. as per water management... i run my water almost everyday because we have a steady borehole in the farm. but i jus discovered is that it seems while i run the water to keep the pond refreshed the bottom part dont get clean enough so i started flusing out the water completely before filling again like every 3days.

as per the feeding, if 250naira should take a fingerling/juvenile to tablesize meaning 250thousand for a thousand fish. is it right to say that approximately 50bags of feed is what they will consume to tablesize.

Johnnyessence:
try and post d pics of d tanks to us and which kind of feeds are u using hmmmmm not only that pls try and get weighing balance to be weighing d big one when it's time to be sorted u are most welcome to this thread .d consultant in d house will answer u oooooooo try and get their phone numbers for direct charting about d development of ur fish oooooo .happy farming brother.

KK i will try and upload pix.as for the sorting. i have already sorted them into 2tanks according to the sizes i gave above.

for feeding i feed them first one and half month with zeigler taking 3bags of zeigler and now vital feed.

And pls i want to ask that Ablx about the way he feeds. is it by body weight you feed? like say at 20gm body weight then feed 6%body weight.

I give 3 hearty cheers to all the ogas on this thread.
Pls i need your advice as i am at a crossroad now and am finishing service next month.
last year August i started this catfish biz because i dont want to go back home idle after service. a friend who has a big farm allowed me to use two concrete tanks free. but after 4months of rearing i sold at loss. i started wit 500fishes due mortality from sickness i was only able to get 300+ and they didnt even grow big averagely about 4 makes 1kg infact some are so small that about 126pieces only weighed 20kg. it was blamed on the fish specie by my other guy who uses the farm on rentage. he said they are hollandis that they dont grow.

Nov 15 i bought 1000 post fingerlings/juvenile @30naira from this guy. a month afta there was disease outbreak whereby there tail peels till the bones is showing i lost about 400fishes but put it under control by mixing Fish Cure with their feed right now about 275 weighs around 150-250gm nd 320 weighin around 75-150gm. so far they are on the 5 and half bags. that is approximately 2 and half months now.

my question is considering the number of months, is the growth proportionate to the bags eaten. secondly is the bags eaten enough for the number so far because the guy said to get fish 1kg and above for 1000fish, one must feed 60bags in about 4months.

tank size is 6 by 15ft(500/tank), water pH is ranging from 4.5-5.5.

if all these are to be the true situation of things up there in the Northeast... then i salute the great courage and gallantry of every member of the armed forces there. Even corruption found its way into our armed forces. tooooo bad

gratiaeo:
You are a foool for making this comment

the unspoken words in my mind

BE811APP:
In as much as I admire seeing the a powerbike.. I wunt want to advise anyone o ride one.. I know of two guys that. Have died from crashes with powerbike..

Yes I know that people die in cars too.. But airbags and other things protect d passangers and reduce d injuries..

All I can say to u.. When u buy ur bike.. Pls and pls don't act crazy on d road..

Stay Safe and Alive!!!
Cheers...

Thanks for the advice bro ... will definitely stick to that.

Shagati:
First things first: get proper superbike training.
Chaps are charging between 40-80k for 4 lessons after which you should be proficient enough to get out on the road.
After or during lessons you can then decide on the type of bike that suits your aspirations (road, sport, cruiser etc)
I wouldn't recommend a 100k bike. Up your budget to say 250 and you should get something reasonable.
Also plan to get proper gear like helmets, jacket, boots and gloves.
Your riding school will answer all questions asked here and more.
Be safe
Cheers

Thanks for the advice bro ... will definitely stick to that.
Shagati i wanna say a big thank you for the input

Oga Seun needs to sack somebody... who be the mod on duty who doesnt know that this is a thread in the interest of NL and should be on the fp.
i think i need take up someone's postion when i add this to my signature. lolz

mhen NL all the way. any day any time

Hello, pls i started this thread for Shagati and all other old members of the bikers' clique to enlighten me and all others who like me are newbies to the clique. thanks.

I am planning to get a power bike sometimes early nxt year after completing my service year by Feb/Mar. Being a newbie to the bikers' clique and cos of my limited budget for now (200-250k) i wanna try out with a used bike first.

After searching on OLX i found prices as low as 100k. my questions now are:
1. Is my budget reasonable to get a good power bike.
2. Can those bikes i saw on OLX for as low as 100, 110, 150k be really true or even good ones??

Thanks in anticipation for reasonable contributions.
PS:am already learning to ride with a regular bike.

Serendipity:
Get the logic guy. I don't mean that you can never use that knowledge. The question is this ' how often will you get to use it. I might get to use that knowledge of shorthand once in 10 years. That's bad investment guy as I could have used the time and dough expended on that for other stuffs that will be easily handy and relates more to my profession.

Now i see... you are only trying to see how well you are good enough to stand and defend a case since you said you are a lawyer. after all in law cases it is only the arguements and sound logic that win case not the exact incident. you know what is true and untrue.

well base on what i believe you are testing, if i am a jury i will say you have not presented enough sound and logical arguement to back your arguement. try harder bro

Now how do you reconcile the example of Pitman Shorthand that I cited with your rejoinder?

have you thought of being in an association or organisation and being made the General secretary? even though you dont necessarily need the pitman shorthand knowledge to perform your functions, could it not be an added advantage to make your work easier.

Now as regard the opportunity cost idea in knowledge acquisition, you are right after all that is why we go to the university to study a course in particular. however you will realise even with that we are exposed to knowledge from different fields too.

Finally the context in which the saying "no knowledge is wasted" is very different from the context which you presented your arguement. the context is simply whenever you have the opportunity to acquire a form of knowledge when there seems to be nothing else you are doing, then grab the opportunity rather than sitting idle. after all idleness doesnt had anything to you but the little knowledge could add something valuable when you dont even expect.

As some of you must have read about the shooting and killing that occured in local govt in Rivers state. I happen to be a corps member serving in that particular LGA and precisely in the area of the LGA where the incident occured.

Yesterday as i was leaving my PPA as directed by our LI to the LGA HQ for the meanwhile. A fellow corper and myself took a bike from our PPA going to Omoku the LGA HQ. Somewhere along the way we were stopped by some mobile policemen who had already stopped some other bikes.

To cut the story short on asking the bikeman for his particulars and he couldnt produce it, the leader of the police squad asked his men to put the bike in there van. the bikeman got close to the poloceman begging him and the next thing this police did was to remove the AK-47 hung around his neck from safety and cocked it saying "you want to get a bullet? don't get close to me when i have a gun".

Since we are corps members he allowed his men to carry us in their van to Omoku. But i began to wonder, why he would remove his gun from safety and cocked it when it is not that he his about to engage an armed gang.

He never returned the rifle back to safety as we left the place while he rode on another bike that could not be contained in the van. Imagine this aggresive policeman engaged in arguement with another person, forgetting he had already cocked the gun and in the course of trying to threaten would fire the rifle at this unlucky person.

I was just thinking about how dangerous his act was till they dropped us on the way and resolve never to engage in arguement with any policeman afterward and i decided to share the experience with us so that we can be careful with policemen.

personally i hate the feeling that i am forcing myself on a girl or that i am trying to make the girl love me at all cost hence i hate the playing hard to get thing. However depending on circumstances i may play along with you enduring the psychological torture you give me in the course of you playing hard to get but once you have finally given in and i see you are really into me then i give you a taste of your own bitter pill too

please let do the little we can in the war against terrorism by motivating our armed forces in whatever way we can. be it on twitter,facebook and even Nairaland.

It bleeds my heart when i read comments like "is Nigeria worth dying for" "unfortunately Nigeria is not worth dying for" or " s/he just died for a useless country" when people reply on threads about our men of the armed forces dying daily fighting bokoharam sect.

I want us to realise that it is not d C in C nor the Green White Green flag that is actually Nigeria but you and i are what make Nigeria Nigeria.

The question now is you as an individual, are you worth dying for? Are your children worth dying for? Is that your lovely younger sister or brother worth dying for? What about your cute little nephew or niece? The list is so long but the point is all these people are what makes Nigeria Nigeria and if they are worth dying for Nigeria is worth dying for.

I wonder a responsible father or even mother who will not pick up arms ( if available) to defend is house against an aggressor seaking to devour his/her lovely family. It is this same responsibility that men of the armed forces has stood up to and i think we should appreciate them for this.

I am worth dying for and so Nigeria is worth dying for! I don't know about you.

God bless Nigeria my Fatherland

The Army authorities, yesterday, in Lagos, said the Lance
Corporal who was knocked down and killed by a BRT bus
along Ikorodu Road last Friday, was not riding motorbike on
the BRT lane as widely reported.
Rather, the deceased, according to the Army, was crushed to
death on the normal lane plied by other motorists, maintaining
also that soldiers were not responsible for the damage done to
BRT buses but hoodlums who hijacked the situation.
This is just as the Nigerian Army has taken a swipe at Nobel
laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, over a statement credited to him
describing the Army as ‘mad,’ while reacting to the incident at
a public function last week.
Army blasts Soyinka
The army in a statement made available to newsmen and
signed by the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations,
Lieutenant Colonel Omale Ochagwuba, said: “In a situation
where a respected elder statesman will stand up in a public
function and based on hear-say call a respected professional
organisation like the Nigerian Army which is one of the major
pillars of democracy and fighting to keep the country together
as mad, is unfortunate and unbecoming.
“In less than a week, he has made two careless offensive
statements. At times, he seems to speak before weighing the
consequences of his statement.
“The Nigerian Army is a professional force which is law-abiding
like any other citizen. The military is a highly disciplined
organisation which also takes necessary steps to see that its
erring members are brought to book at any time the need
arises to enforce discipline.”
How the soldier was killed
To set the records straight, Ochagwuba explained that: “On
July 4, a Lance Corporal of Nigerian Army, who was on his way
to the office on Ikorodu Road around Obanikoro area between
6:30 and 6:45am, was knocked down and killed by a BRT bus
with number plate KSF 995 XJ.
“It is pertinent to state here that the late soldier was riding
a power bike approved by the state government and he was
neither riding inside a BRT lane nor was the BRT bus that
killed him driving inside the BRT lane.
“The innocent law-abiding soldier was killed on the normal lane
being plied by everybody as against what is being alleged by
some sections of the media. The soldier was hit from the rear
and killed instantly.
“As stated earlier in our release, the mayhem visited on the
BRT buses was the handiwork of hoodlums who seized the
opportunity of the tragic situation to vent their anger on the
buses for reasons best known to them.
“We know the peculiar nature of Lagos where miscreants
always take advantage of situations like this to cause havoc.
“In a situation like this, people are bound to wrongfully accuse
soldiers because they were seen around the offending bus
which was not even attacked. With careful analysis of the
incident, one will observe that the BRT buses vandalised were
far removed from the scene of the accident.
Soldiers wrongly accused
“It is pertinent to once more remind the good people of Lagos
that the BRT bus in question that killed the soldier and
triggered the tragic consequences was neither vandalised nor
burnt.
“It was same soldiers who are being wrongfully accused of
burning buses and causing mayhem, which is not true, that
secured the BRT bus and protected it from hoodlums before it
was later towed into the barracks for safety and also
prevented the hoodlums from causing further mayhem on the
road and cleared the route for traffic to flow.
“We have pictures of the bus at the scene of the accident and
while it was being towed away to safety. The bus in question
has since been released to the BRT management.
“The question begging for answer now is: why is the bus itself
that killed the soldier which was already in soldiers hands not
vandalised or burnt? Is it not logical that, it should have been
the first target of their anger as alleged?
“These are hard times for Nigerians and all hands should be on
the deck to bring peace to the country rather than inflame
passion. The Lagos State Government, which is supposed to be
the most aggrieved party, did not jump into conclusions. The
Lagos State Government said they are investigating. That is a
matured way of handling situation rather than reacting on
public opinion.”

ledafaze: Some people just like wahala.... dem wan use their hand bring boko haramists for dem country...

Hmmm.... God bless NIgeria

Lolz, i think you.re right but they however thought by doing that they'll be able to avoid Islamist militant from surfacing in their country

Angola Becomes First Country to Ban Islam,
Shuts Down All Mosques
Several newspapers report that the African
country of Angola has become the first country
in the world to ban Islam and Muslims.
The Angolan Minister of Culture, Rosa Cruz e Silva
was quoted by news agencies and Angola
newspapers as saying,
"The process of legalisation of Islam has not been
approved by the Ministry of Justice and Human
rights, their mosques would be closed until
further notice."
As part of the ban, the Angolan government
ordered the demolition of the mosques in the
country.
According to the official, such a decision became
the latest in a series of attempts to ban "illegal"
sects in the country.
This statement by Silva was made during her
appearance last week at the 6th Commission of
the National Assembly.
The minister says that the move became
necessary in order to fight the emergence of
congregations whose worshipping is
contradictory to the customs of Angola culture.
The measure concerns not only Islam - many
other not legalized faiths will face closure of their
houses of worship.
The list of the banned sects published by the
Ministry of Justice and Human Rights in the
Angolan newspaper 'Jornal de Angola' contains all
the sects, which are not allowed to conduct
worship.
"In addition, we also have a long list of more than
a thousand legalization applications," the official
stated.
Commenting on the issue, Angolan President
Jose Eduardo dos Santos said,
"This is the final end of Islamic influence in our
country."
Angola's population of 16 million is predominantly
Christian, with only 80,000-90,000 Muslims, the
majority of whom are migrants from West Africa
and families of Lebanese origin, according to the
US State Department.
The crackdown on Islam comes as Christians in
the Middle East are being forced from Muslim
countries.
Former Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael
Oren noted in 2012 that the Christian population in
the Middle East dropped from 20% a century ago
to 5% currently amid ongoing persecution of
Christians by Muslims.
Oren noted in Egypt 200,000 Coptic Christians
fled their homes in 2011 amid anti-Christian
violence during the "Arab spring" uprising that
toppled dictator Hosni Mubarak.
In 2012 Saudi Arabia's top Muslim leader, Grand
Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Shaikh, issued a
fatwa (religious decree) to demolish all churches
on the Arabian peninsula.
Particularly in Africa, analysts have commented
that Islamist forces have been killing and expelling
Christians largely with negligible international
criticism.
Aside from Islam, other religions that have not
been legalized will face similar measures in
Angola. The non-legalized religions on the list
"published by the Ministry of Justice and Human
Rights in the Angolan newspaper 'Jornal de
Angola' are prohibited to conduct worship, so
they should keep their doors closed," said Silva.
The Minister of Culture added that there is a
legalization process through which over a
thousand religious sects are currently applying.
www.nigerianeye.com/2013/11/angola-becomes-first-country-to-ban.html?m=1

1025: ihejirika is talking as a politician that he is and not as the military he pretends to be. he has been initiated into the stealing cabal and as such can only talk from their voices.
such statement can be applicable to any other country EXCEPT nigeria. we need serious minded and well disciplined military men(not political soldiers like ihejirika) to come in and sanitize this jungle like Jerry Rawlings did in ghana. when a real military man speaks, it comes with fire and not romantic words of military civilians like the speaker here.

Ihejerika's statement could be liken to calling the cow a brother because we want to eat it.

chimex38: In debate, he with d stronger point wins but.....









In practice as my fellow nairalander said..
Worst civilian governt is better dan best military rule...do u d value of freedom? Dat cant b bought with money.

So you really believe you.ve freedom here. Get on AIT and start a 20min programme weekly pointing and discriminating vehemently and exposing all the wrongs and dirty secrets from the presidency to the guber level and see if you truly have freedom of speech.
Just as 1025 had posted and as i.ve made clear in the opening of my first post. Democracy is the best form of government no doubt however for an average African country and Nigeria in particular we need iron hand to get most people to do the right thing and i'll suggest military for that.

danot1030: pls we dont need dis type of debate cos we will still prefer d worst civilian government 2 d best of military government anytime.

Is that so? You.ve forgotten it not about uniform or no uniform but the personality.

God pls help my dear Colonel.. Served in very tough situation both in internal and external ops. Once led 800men to Sudan and came back with not a single man missing or dead.

First of all, let me say what brought about this topic. My younger sister in Jss3 during the last mid-term break they had told me she's been chosen to support the topic that "military rule is better than civilian rule."

She however said she would have loved to oppose the topic, her simple reason is because soldiers are too strict and in her own word wicked(she attends a military school).
I decided to give her reasons first to convince her to support the topic and second to present as her points during the debate. Here they are.

Supporting arguments
It is true that democracy is the best form of government however, for a third world country like Nigeria military rule is a better option simply because in most third world country basic resources and amenities are grossly insufficient thereby creating a state of "every man for himself God for us all". This leads to people breaking rules and laws at the expense of others in other to get their share of survival.
This desperate attitude would better be tackled not by a civilian government where optimum leniency is expected being government of the people and by the people but rather a stiff yet sane military system. This is simply because the military naturally commands respect and fear that is enough to make everyone do what is right while the nation develops without people marginalizing one another in an impatient bid to get maximum share of survival.

During some past military regime strong measures were taken again indiscipline which may not have really been effective in a civilian system since the people themselves will criticise their own elected as being too harsh and for the fear of not being reelected the right things won't be done.

It may be argued that the military does not give room for checks and balances but the question is of what difference then is the civilian where although checks and balances are in place but never effective. Take for instance, many public office holders have been tried many times for corruption, misuse of power and other offences. Thanks to the civilian checks and balances but majority of such cases ended up being covered, totally rendering the so called checks and balances system useless.

It may be defended that majority of developments in Nigeria are carried out by the military simply because they stayed so long in government but the question again is was it not political struggles/advantages the civilians are busy running after during their own stay in office.

Lastly it is said that democracy is the government of the people, for the people and by the people but do we really have democracy or illegal military rule? When people cannot even vote their desired candidates willingly again but by the fear of guns, cutlasses and machetes from political thugs and hooligans, when snatching of ballot boxes at gun point is the order of the day. I call that illegal military rule, so why not just allow the legal military rule by the men in Khaki.

My sister told me after giving these points of course as best as her head could carry them she won the debate however, i want us here on Nairaland to see things together and judge if i'm wrong with my opinions.

birdman: There is no such thing. A lot of those "underground" servers eg Tor exit points are being run by FBI and other countries law enforcement arms, primarily to entrap big fish.If you are getting away with stuff, its because you aren't big enough to be worth the attention yet. See as silk road and anonymous take chop sand. Don't forget that the internet's backbone routers probably already have some type of hardware assisted snooping. If you shout loud enough, uncle sam will come get you.

I want to believe if its possible for FBI and co to run those underground servers anonymously as you.ve said then anybody who knows the know how can also run such anonymously. Have you not heard that number is the language of nature, especially computer related stuffs and the more you understand the language(knowledge of mathematics and not arithmetics) the more you can confuse others.

AK Money: Sorry i can't read it all, but i guess it's an online "action game" right?

Sorry bro not online action game but real as in reality

Seriously you will not believe it that there is an assassination website where users donate bitcoin for the assassination of a suggested political leaders.
Any assassin who succeeds in taking down the political leader and has proof to this gets the total bounty already contributed for the political leader's head. The site creator is code named Sanjuro(from a samurai movie) and everything about the website makes users use it anonymously through CRYPTOGRAGHY(from Mathematics->Algebra->Groups and Rings. don't bother your head if you didn't study Mathematics science in the Uni).
the site is 4 months old and currently bounties have been collected ranging from ten bitcoins for the murder of NSA director Keith Alexander and 40 bitcoins for the assassination of President Barack Obama to 124.14 bitcoins–the largest current bounty on the site–targeting Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve and public enemy number one for many of Bitcoin’s anti-banking-system users. At Bitcoin’s current rapidly rising exchanges rate, that’s nearly $75,000 for Bernanke’s would-be killer.

read directly from forbes http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/11/18/meet-the-assassination-market-creator-whos-crowdfunding-murder-with-bitcoins/


As Bitcoin becomes an increasingly popular form of digital cash, the cryptocurrency is being accepted in exchange for everything from socks to sushi to heroin. If one anarchist has his way, it’ll soon be used to buy murder, too.

Last month I received an encrypted email from someone calling himself by the pseudonym Kuwabatake Sanjuro, who pointed me towards his recent creation: The website Assassination Market, a crowdfunding service that lets anyone anonymously contribute bitcoins towards a bounty on the head of any government official–a kind of Kickstarter for political assassinations. According to Assassination Market’s rules, if someone on its hit list is killed–and yes, Sanjuro hopes that many targets will be–any hitman who can prove he or she was responsible receives the collected funds.

For now, the site’s rewards are small but not insignificant. In the four months that Assassination Market has been online, six targets have been submitted by users, and bounties have been collected ranging from ten bitcoins for the murder of NSA director Keith Alexander and 40 bitcoins for the assassination of President Barack Obama to 124.14 bitcoins–the largest current bounty on the site–targeting Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve and public enemy number one for many of Bitcoin’s anti-banking-system users. At Bitcoin’s current rapidly rising exchanges rate, that’s nearly $75,000 for Bernanke’s would-be killer.
Sanitizing Bitcoin: This Company Wants To Track 'Clean' Bitcoin Accounts Kashmir Hill Kashmir Hill Forbes Staff
End Of The Silk Road: FBI Says It's Busted The Web's Biggest Anonymous Drug Black Market Andy Greenberg Andy Greenberg Forbes Staff
An Interview With A Digital Drug Lord: The Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts (Q&A) Andy Greenberg Andy Greenberg Forbes Staff

Sanjuro’s grisly ambitions go beyond raising the funds to bankroll a few political killings. He believes that if Assassination Market can persist and gain enough users, it will eventually enable the assassinations of enough politicians that no one would dare to hold office. He says he intends Assassination Market to destroy “all governments, everywhere.”

“I believe it will change the world for the better,” writes Sanjuro, who shares his handle with the nameless samurai protagonist in the Akira Kurosawa film “Yojimbo.” (He tells me he chose it in homage to creator of the online black market Silk Road, who called himself the Dread Pirate Roberts, as well Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakamoto.) ”Thanks to this system, a world without wars, dragnet panopticon-style surveillance, nuclear weapons, armies, repression, money manipulation, and limits to trade is firmly within our grasp for but a few bitcoins per person. I also believe that as soon as a few politicians gets offed and they realize they’ve lost the war on privacy, the killings can stop and we can transition to a phase of peace, privacy and laissez-faire.”

I contacted the Secret Service and the FBI to ask if they’re investigating Assassination Market, and both declined to comment.

Like other so-called “dark web” sites, Assassination Market runs on the anonymity network Tor, which is designed to prevent anyone from identifying the site’s users or Sanjuro himself. Sanjuro’s decision to accept only Bitcoins is also intended to protect users, Sanjuro, and any potential assassins from being identified through their financial transactions. Bitcoins, after all, can be sent and received without necessarily tying them to any real-world identity. In the site’s instructions to users, Sanjuro suggests they run their funds through a “laundry” service to make sure the coins are anonymized before contributing them to anyone’s murder fund.

As for technically proving that an assassin is responsible for a target’s death, Assassination Market asks its killers to create a text file with the date of the death ahead of time, and to use a cryptographic function known as a hash to convert it to a unique string of characters. Before the murder, the killer then embeds that data in a donation of one bitcoin or more to the victim’s bounty. When a target is successfully murdered, he or she can send Sanjuro the text file, which Sanjuro hashes to check that the results match the data sent before the target’s death. If the text file is legitimate and successfully predicted the date of the killing, the sender must have been responsible for the murder, according to Sanjuro’s logic. Sanjuro says he’ll keep one percent of the payout himself as a commission for his services.

Just reading about that coldly calculative system of lethal violence likely inspires queasy feelings or outrage. But Sanjuro says that the public’s abhorrence won’t prevent the system from working. And as a matter of ethics, he notes that he’ll accept only user-suggested targets “who have initiated force against other humans. More specifically, only people who are outside the reach of the law because it has been subverted and corrupted, and whose victims have no other way to take revenge than to do so anonymously.”

Even setting aside the immorality of killing, doesn’t the notion of enabling small minorities of angry Bitcoin donors to assassinate elected officials sound like an attempt to cripple democracy? “Of course, limiting democracy is why we even have a constitution,” Sanjuro responds. “Majority support does not make a leader legitimate any more than it made slavery legitimate. With this market the great equalising forces of capitalism have the opportunity to work in politics too. One bitcoin paid is one vote closer to a veto of whatever legislation you dislike.”

Sanjuro didn’t actually invent the concept of an anonymous crowdfunded assassination market. The idea dates back to the cypherpunk movement of the mid-1990s, whose adherents dreamt of using encryption tools to weaken the government and empower individuals. Former Intel INTC +0.65% engineer and Cypherpunk Mailing List founder Tim May argued that uncrackable secret messages and untraceable digital currency would lead to assassination markets in his “Cryptoanarchist’s Manifesto” written in 1992.

A few years later, another former Intel engineer named Jim Bell proposed a system of funding assassinations through encrypted, anonymous donations in an essay he called “ Assassination Politics.” The system he described closely matches Sanjuro’s scheme, though anonymity tools like Tor and Bitcoin were mostly theoretical at the time. As Bell wrote then:

If only 0.1% of the population, or one person in a thousand, was willing to pay $1 to see some government slimeball dead, that would be, in effect, a $250,000 bounty on his head. Further, imagine that anyone considering collecting that bounty could do so with the mathematical certainty that he could not be identified, and could collect the reward without meeting, or even talking to, anybody who could later identify him. Perfect anonymity, perfect secrecy, and perfect security. And that, combined with the ease and security with which these contributions could be collected, would make being an abusive government employee an extremely risky proposition. Chances are good that nobody above the level of county commissioner would even risk staying in office.

Bell would later serve years in prison for tax evasion and stalking a federal agent, and was only released in March of 2012. When I contacted him by email, he denied any involvement in Sanjuro’s Assassination Market and declined to comment on it.

Sanjuro tells me he’s long been aware of Bell’s idea. But he only decided to enact it after the past summer’s revelations of mass surveillance by the NSA exposed in a series of leaks by agency contractor Edward Snowden. “Being forced to alter my every happy memory during internet activity, every intimate moment over the phone with my loved ones, to also include some of the people I hate the most listening in, analysing the conversation, was the inspiration I needed to embark on this task,” he writes. “After about a week of muttering ‘they must all die’ under my breath every time I opened a newspaper or turned on the television, I decided something had to be done. This is my contribution to the cause.”

Assassination Market isn’t the first website to suggest funding murder with bitcoins. Others Tor-hidden websites with names like Quick Kill, Contract Killer and C’thulhu have all claimed to offer murders in exchange for bitcoin payments. But none of them responded to my attempts to contact their administrators, and all required advanced payments for their services, so they may be scams.

And how do Assassination Market’s users know that it’s not a similar fraud scheme designed to steal users’ bitcoins? “You don’t,” Sanjuro admits. But he argues that if it were a scam, it would be a very complex and risky one, given that even threatening to harm the president of the United States is a felony.
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Kuwabatake Sanjuro, the ronin samurai in the film “Yojimbo” whose pseudonym the Assassination Market’s founder has adopted.

Other than that, “I can but appeal personally,” Sanjuro writes. “I live a comfortable, albeit somewhat spartan life, and the only thing that really pains me is the increasing attacks on the liberties I enjoy in my daily life, mainly my personal privacy. I cannot buy that with money, so I have no need of it. There is nothing I want more than to see this project succeed, and for that I need dead politicians.”

If the system does prove to work, the launch of Assassination Market may be ill-timed for Sanjuro, given law enforcement’s recent crackdown on the dark web. In August, the FBI used an exploit in Tor to take down the web hosting firm Freedom Hosting and arrest its founder Eric Eoin Marques, who is accused of offering his services to child pornography sites. And just last month, the FBI also seized the popular Bitcoin- and Tor-based black market for drugs known as Silk Road and arrested its alleged creator, Ross Ulbricht.

Sanjuro counters that in addition to Tor, Bitcoin, and the usual encryption tools, he has “measures in place to prevent the effectiveness of such an arrest. Naturally these will have to be kept secret.”

He adds that, like an earlier generation of cypherpunks, he puts his faith in the mathematical promise of cryptography to trump the government’s power to stop him. “With cryptography, the state, or any protection firm, is largely obsolete…all activity that can be reduced to information transfer will be completely out of the government’s, or anyone’s, hands, other than the parties involved,” he says.

“I am a crypto-anarchist,” Sanjuro concludes. “We have a bright future ahead of us.”

Hello, please i really do not know what is happening to this system. every time i switch it on without pressing any key it enters into the BIOS setup itself and will start beeping continuously without stopping until after pressing escape key continuously till it now show "exit discarding changes" once strike the enter key it now proceed to the normal windows startup. does anyone have an idea of solving this problem to please help me out. thanks

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2475535/NSA-monitored-calls-35-world-leaders-government-official-handed-agency-rolodexes-numbers-claims-latest-Snowden-leak.html
What do you think of this guys.there's now tension amongst even their allies as they claim breach of trust for having to monitor their calls secretly

rabzy01: I am tired of hearing Nigeria police this Nigeria police that. Why not disband this senseless black uniformed corrupt force and come up with a new civilized federal police. Nigeria has enough number of graduates who can be trained in modern day policing. Those who are technology compliant like nairaland's "Policewoman".
Oga Punch photojournalist, nothing will be done to these senseles people by the authorities. They are one and same.

I once told a man who also happened to be a security personnel the same thing you said about disbanding the police force. You know what he told me? He said "that means you want trained robbers to be released to the society"
I'm sure you know what he meant by that.

Kay 17: Self sacrifice very stu.pid!

Society bent Michael's mind to the extent that he lost whatever value he had for his life and his future, and made him believe self sacrifice for OTHERS is the ultimate goal. That other people are more valuable than him. Whereas its not. Society poisoned him.

He is dead, and most likely to be forgotten.

i would've said you're big fool

Great one there from an intelligent and visionary leader. Mr Ehis Ebuya.
This is to whoever is holding any public office in the Nigerian government "Industrialize Nigeria and jobs will be more than enough while true development will fly in with the speed of light."