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yeah I don't see how banning something w/o offering an alternative makes much sense..

Gbawe: oga 'were' how far? How is Ghadaffi? Saddam Nko? how about the new rap tune you are working on with Tupac? Any release date? My regards to Michael Jackson.

lol

I dunno. I liked the smell of Nigeria for the most part. Minus the body odor of course...

Btw are air pollution levels in Lagos really higher than in say Los Angeles?

I very much doubt that...

[quote author=Ileke-IdI]Before I go to sleep, because some of us have to work tomorrow, I have one important question for you;

Where in Nigeria is the air breathable?[/quote]The air is pretty pleasant in the non-urban parts of Nigeria, in my opinion. Abuja as well.

davidylan: this is common place in asia, latin america... even areas here in the USA.
Why do we have such inferiority complex?

Black man's burden.

One day, one day, we will learn to love ourselves..

I'm talking purely about the chicken...the goat and stuff I cannot defend.

ogugua88....a very finnicky so-called "African"

Na wa for you o

Probably too good for Safeway too, probably only go to gourmet..

ogugua88: This is what I'm talking about:

https://i37.tinypic.com/312yasy.jpg

Eh...that looks thoroughly unappetizing, agreed. But how do we know that the chicken in question was similarly handled?

That is the ultimate question, no? As disgusting as this picture is, it doesn't necessarily have any connection to that of the OPs..

Do you have any further questions, my befuddled crop scientist? I would be quite happy to clear any of them up for you, hehehe

I understand that this type of stuff might be way over your head. But as you can see from reading the above...their major contribution wasn't a bunch of experiments, like a crop production scientist (you) would do.

Their major contribution was mathematical analysis. The simulations they did only demonstrate their theory agrees with reality.

For all I know, the STOC version of the above has some table/plot that is exactly the same as the JACM version.

But who cares...certainly they aren't plagiarists for doing this. Any more than I am..

omongbatic: Then: ''I used same data for two published papers''-Dapo Bear
Now: ''I used data from a conference proceedings to write a published paper'' - ekt_bear.

Remember also you claimed to be helping illegal immigrants.

You are a fraud and a fraudulent liar.

Hold a sec. Let's leave the illegal immigrants one alone (for now) and settle this first.

So the two sentences you quoted...where is the contradiction? The conference paper was published too...both technically count as separate publications, though one is a superset of the other.

This is pretty common in certain fields. E.g., this famous paper: http://www-math.mit.edu/~goemans/PAPERS/maxcut-jacm.pdf

Notice that they conferenced it first (at STOC) before journalizing it (JACM)..

ogugua88: I'm assuming the pig was killed and cooked immediately, rather than killed and then left under a blazing sun, allowing it to spoil and breed bacteria.

How do you know that the chicken in the OP's post was spoiled?

dayokanu: Next

https://westernskycommunications.com/images/event-photography-barbecue.jpg

Man. I wonder about these people o.

His question is like, "is the sky blue too in America?"

What do you say to someone who asks that?

4th of July = craploads of roasted meat. Not sold openly though, usually given out for free

Nchara. What I do is basically something related to applied math.

The 'data' for us is some simulation that we run that shows that our theoretical result in fact coincides with real life.

When I wrote the conference paper, I had a certain result. Ran some simulations to show that my theory matches reality.

By the time I wrote the journal version (which expanded and cleaned up the conference results), there was no reason to regenerate the same plots. That I obtained a sharper mathematical result doesn't mean I need to re-run the simulations again.

Heh.

I understand that this is difficult for you to comprehend. After all, you have a crop production brain, not a brain like mine

Relax Jason, this is entertainment for me. It is fun smacking him down. Plus then when he brings up academic stuff, I get to remind him that he got his first degree in crop production

wtf?

I wrote a conference paper. Then wrote a journal paper which was an expanded version of the same thing. The journal is in fact published, and references the conference paper.

Since the journal was a superset of the contents of the conference, of course they'll contain the same plots. Would make no sense to regenerate the simulations...

I am not an experimental scientist like you (you are a crop production dude, iirc) where running a biology experiment is the main contribution of the paper...

Simulations demonstrate the empirical performance of what you developed, and aren't the key aspect.

Anyways..

Nairalanders note: Do not ever invite Beaf to a barbecue at your house without first ensuring that a health inspector and the surgeon general are on site

One summer I lived far away from home with some engineers at the company I was working at. We had a house party... bought a big pig, dug a pit in the ground (in his back yard) and roasted the pig in the earth, Cuban-style.

It was delicious and good. Nobody got sick...nobody died.

Nothing wrong with roasting meat.

Hell, humans did this for literally thousands of years before modern conveniences like kitchens and ovens came about..

No, the post was addressed to you. Not jason or myself...we both realize that he is a fraud.

I am not saying, "you are not permitted to say that up is up in this thread."

I am saying, "if you believe that up is in fact down (as Nchara does), let's discuss that in another thread."

Anyways..

What do you mean "like this one?"

Should I go to a hot dog stand, have the guy cook me a hot dog and then eat it?

lol

They roasted the chicken and are selling it.

Kini big deal?

omongbatic: To whom did Emeagwali misrepresent himself? In a court of law? Before the scientific community or before gullible Nigerians?
If he committed a fraud why was he not charged? We are talking of the USA not Nigeria, remember?

I bought a piece of furniture for 800 dollars and I told my friends it sold for 2000. That is what Emeagwali did. Morally wrong? Yes. A fraud? No.

There is no point turning this into an Emeagwali thread. The particular fraudulent goose I'd like to see cooked in this thread is SLS.

If you like, open up a new thread on Emeagwali and we can do it there.

I doubt he does. Though he has claimed one in the past (or at a minimum, let someone claim it for him without correcting them).

See this thread: https://www.nairaland.com/710377/lamido-sanusis-performance-brilliant-over-hyped/

Especially page 15 or so.

Then again, this is not the first time he has done this.

Didn't Sanusi misrepresent himself as a master's degree holder in economics before?

I remember Jarus vociferously defending him..

Honestly...this thread makes no sense.

There is nothing in principle wrong with selling meat just cooked. Hell, it happens all the time, even in the US. Or none of you have been to a hot dog stand before? Or been to a BBQ?

No real difference.

Now if you claim you want inspectors for the meat, etc, etc, fine.

But there is nothing wrong with cooking and selling meat..

Emeagwali is a larger fraud than Sanusi (assuming that this report is true.)

Or which is worse, plagiarism (Sanusi) or misrepresenting yourself as a PhD holder, lying about the importance of your research, etc (Emeagwali)?

Interesting. Actually legit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_University_(California)

Heh.

Jarus, any comments?

Btw...wth is the "National University of Sacramento?" Never heard of this place before in my life...

Eh..isn't everything sold openly in Nigeria?

Suya is cooked openly too...

what is the big deal

Where then will people get water from with no borehole?

Eh...mostly lack of electricity, poor roads, infrastructure.

Why these things suck in Africa is another question..I don't really know the answer.

Very interesting thread.