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manny4life: When the clueless is in power, the people suffer...

If the man withdrew ALL large notes, N200 and up

That doesn't seem advisable. N200 is only a bit more than a $1.

N5000 ~ $30.

Is that really too large a bill?

Btw, is it really true that larger bills causes inflation? It is a symptom of inflation but not the cause, yes?

AjanleKoko: Hehehe. Robin Hood philosophy.
Though you can't blame the people. Truth be told, you cannot misgovern people for so long, and turn around to tell them, oh you guys are so badly behaved, or: now I'll provide the service but you must now pay a premium for it.

The best way to fix thing isn't to start taxing the people across board. Tax the well-off in Nigeria, make them pay for infrastructure. Supply the infrastructure to the less-privileged, subsidize their living.

Well, they will ultimately be the ones to suffer for it.

Btw, what is the argument for something like electricity to be subsidized through taxation? What is wrong with people paying market rates for it?

If the rich should pay for electricity, shouldn't they also pay for bread, meat, rice, etc?

I guess for many Nigerians, theft is OK, so long as the criminal is a poor man.

Even if the end result of that theft is likely poor power supply and limited investor interest in Nigerian electricity.

Right. How can unforseen circumstances happen two years in a row? How can you be hyping the event several days beforehand, only to cancel it shortly thereafter?

That is fraud, imo.

Anyway, they have only hurt themselves....they've lost an opportunity to build up a new market in a foreign land.

They are 419ers. I am just lucky I paid via Paypal and was able to recover my money that way.

I was even thinking of inviting my yankee friends to come check the event out. I am glad their money wasn't compromised, otherwise I'd have a lot of "splainin" to do (or worse, eat the loss myself).

Fvck EME. And fvck Wizkid, Skales and BankyW if they participated in this fraud.

Quite a provocative article.

If there is one thing that anti-choice activists do that makes me see red, it is when they parade out their poster children: men, women and children who were "targeted for abortion". They tell us "these people would not be alive today if abortion had been legal or if their mothers had made a different choice".

In the last couple of months, I have read two of these abortion deliverance stories that have been particularly offensive. The first story is one propagated by Rebecca Kiessling, the poster child for the no exceptions in cases of rape or incest. On her website Kiessling says that every time we say abortion should be allowed, at least in the case of rape or incest, we are saying to her: "If I had my way, you'd be dead right now." She goes on to say, "I absolutely would have been aborted if it had been legal in Michigan when I was an unborn child, and I can tell you that it hurts [when people say that abortion should be legal]."

Read the rest here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/15/i-wish-my-mother-aborted-me

Very, very unfortunate.

err. think a bit harder about why that particular example is not relevant to what you quoted

I think that in general, people should live their lives, and let others live their own

Nah, I know very little about statistics/probability in physics. But a lot of people use stat/probability to model things these days.

Yes.

MCMC is used when you want to draw a sample from some distribution, but the distribution is (computationally) hard to specify. I guess Gibbs sampling is one of the more popular MCMC techniques. Statisticians use it a lot. Computer scientists also use it for some applications.

what should you do if your brother impregnated your wife?

damn, that is a sticky situation

na wa o

can we have some youtube links so that we can judge

Wallie: Have you ever asked yourself how people became enslaved? Did oyinbo man walk off his boat into an unknown territory and start capturing people? Wasn't it your "granddaddy and his friends [that sold their Nigerian enemies like] the same way Aboki's sell meat at the abattoir"? Why are you not questioning your forefathers that did the selling? Why identify with Nigeria if we sold our own? Hisssss..

To be clear, for some of us, our ancestors were illiterate farmers deep in the Ekiti bush So we played no role in the slave trade.

Makes no sense, unless it presents some sort of health/safety hazard.

Just because you don't find it fashionable doesn't mean it should be banned

Honestly, if Nigeria had more "swag" as a country, threads like this wouldn't be started

I actually think that the naija national anthem is pretty catchy.

"Arise o compatriots" is a nifty way to start.


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

I don't think it is objectively *worse* than the US anthem, is it?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAYPN-1Yjt0

I dunno, just my opinion.

Yeah, MCMC techniques supposedly are used a lot in physics. I wouldn't know the specifics though of where exactly they use it.

But if I get hit by cosmic rays I'll get super powers.

jerseyboy: Nigeria is The Fig Tree. Cursed


Mark 11:12-14


Jesus Curses a Fig Tree

12 The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. 13 Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. 14 Then he said to the tree, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.”

Rereading it again for the first time in many years, this parable makes absolutely no sense to me.

lol

The man should be sacked

Speak for yourself only, GEJ.

Nneson: DONT GIVE UP ON HER...NOT NOW.

It is time to forget about this particular woman and look to the future.

On to the next one, as they say.

Fish and chicken are nearly as good as beef.

Goat meat is definitely just as good.

An alternative is to simply import cattle.

It isn't like beef is a scarce resource on this planet, or one that is not easily substituted..

How much time daily is required to moderate?

Can we get a summary for those of us who are feeling lazy need to go to sleep soon

Looks interesting though.