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i don't use windows, so .net isn't of much relevance to me

How can anyone brag about import duties.

If you stop importing, won't someone else do it and then pay the import duties?

So of what relevance is that.

It is the market that creates the demand for the goods that is important, not the middleman transporting it

Yep. This is true.

GDB is actually something I don't know much about, or how it works.

also helpful: http://gamesfromwithin.com/exploring-the-c-unit-testing-framework-jungle

This looks promising, for testing: http://code.google.com/p/googletest/wiki/Primer

i tried kdevelop and couldn't figure out how to compile a single file. Looks like i'd have to make a makefile even for just a tiny project 

I tried Code::Blocks and like it better, one-click compile, no makefiles.

What about testing? What setup do you use for testing your code?

i don't like hausa much personally. but that is just me

IDE?
Debugger?
Make file tool?
Tool for writing tests?

kalokalo:
If the US government owned 60% of BP, do you think they will be able to do that? Considering that they would have to cover 60% of the cleanup costs and compensation. This is a classic case of conflict of interest! That is why the FG will have to divest from the JVs to be able to effectively regulate the IOCs properly.

Yep

How many businesses do you know who have electricity just wasting away?

The amount they have in reserve is probably kept in reserve for a good reason, not just Scrooge McDuckiness or something.

Why isn't the government offering to buy the electricity from Chevron, to distribute to the oil communities?

I don't think anyone here is angry at the delta oil communities, any more than someone can be angry at a child who has been abandoned by its mother.

By all means, the responsibilities to them should be satisfied.

The question is, is it the Nigerian government or the oil companies who are responsible for providing electricity to these communities?

The Nigerian government places constraints on who can even generate or distribute electricity in this country. As I said, it has arrogated to itself this right. So how on earth is it not its responsibility to do what it says it its responsibility?

The Nigerian government condemns itself with its own mouth.

It annoys the hell out of me that the Nigerian government is able to get out of its obligations and spin the oil companies as the bad guy in every situation. And then i later find out that the FG is actually the majority partner in ANY joint venture between it and the IOCs!

So legally if there is compensation for say oil spills, then the FG should be on the hook for at least 50% of that compensation.

You cannot have your cake and eat it. There must be accountability.

Rather than giving orders. . . deregulate the industry and things will take care of themselves.

Igbo threads are some of the most entertaining on NL.

Sitting here eating breakfast and also laughing my muthafucking asz off 

I like una well well

Now imagine if those northerners had produced these "cards to emancipation", ~50+ years ago, like Awolowo did.

Instead they are still enslaved.

Quality, insightful leadership makes a difference.  . . while clearly bad leadership can be disastrous.

tiarabubu:
This was the card to emancipation. Up Awolowo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  (PS I am a northerner - whatever that means)

Wow.

So there was an actual card?

Does anyone else have one from their parents?

"Card to emancipation", indeed.

There is no better word or expression than what you just used.

Up Awolowo.

Well done, Iran.

I respect your go-getter spirit, unlike the lazy, pathetic nature of the Nigerian gov't.

Better than asking oil companies to supply you with electricity.

deols:
Ppl blaming d problem on Islam are simply put, ignorant.

What is your argument for this? Why is Islam (at least as practiced by many H-F) completely unrelated to the problem?

I like 13volts and this Zainab person because they are at least introspective and try to ask questions about why the North is in its current state. They genuinely love their land and want it to improve.

Contrast this with a guy like ndu_chucks, who wants to play politics and games while his homeland is figuratively burning.

The former two actually care about the fate of their people. The latter guy. . . well who knows what motivates him other than political power?

The newbreeds like Nuhu Ribadu and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi who are viewed with suspicion or seem more interested in embroiling themselves in political controversy provide virtually little solace.

Hehe. I take it is she is just as unimpressed with Sanusi as I am.

Many are quick to blame Islam or the mixture of religion and politics, but a comparison of predominantly Muslim societies who are doing relatively well-off such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Malaysia and Indonesia for instance shows Islam is not the problem, rather a crude cocktail of ignorance, and the perversion of religious teachings and cultural prescriptions. While in Iran, women outnumber men in Universities as many are highly educated and articulate, female literacy in Northern Nigeria by contrast remains abysmally low, one of the lowest in the world and ditto women empowerment though attitudes are positively changing at snail pace. The problem appears as a friend once stated that we haven’t found the right interface between culture and religion in the North.


Why is she making analogies with UAE, an oil-rich country? Or Malaysia, which has a huge, economically vibrant Chinese ethnic minority? Or Iran, which is very different from most other Muslim countries?

Why not comparisons with Niger Republic, your neighbor? Or Sudan?

She is not addressing this Islam question honestly, in my opinion. . . . she is hiding from the truth.

Part of the problem is Islam, at least as Hausa practice it.

"This paradoxical superiority complex has pitched us against other “minority” groups in the north who used to be our brothers but now regard us with contempt and derision and has been played upon by mischievous people to ferment ethno-religious tensions. "

hehe

OP, nice post!

Still reading through it.

However:

"Though a cursory look at history deflates this impression since the proceeds from agricultural produce of the North virtually sustained the nation before the discovery of oil."

This is a lie.

tttt

Those are all probably admirable goals. Mine is much less ambitious. . . I just want to basically produce a high-quality version of Johnson's book, one comparable to say this.
But instead make this version freely available online for download, reading, etc.

So the name of the game is:

1. Compare page X (X=1, 2, etc) of this PDF above to corresponding page of the book scanned PDF
2. Note any errors/typos from the OCR process
3. Fix errors

his book was published in the 1910s or 1920s, so it is now in the PD

femmy2010:
Maybe this would help you.

http://twinkiesfan3.hubpages.com/hub/TheTop10NBABasketballPlayersofAllTime

That list is whack.

Hakeem > Malone and Kobe

How is Duncan not even top 15? What about Bird

Now way in hell Stockton is #13. . . he is maybe 50 or something

Sweet. I'm using latex for the typesetting, since it allows rendering of diacritic marks easily (and also produces much sexier looking books than any other solution.)

When I find a good way to collaboratively edit the tex, I'll set things up, post here again and then get in touch with you.

Will probably be a couple weeks or so though. . . not much free time these days ;/

page 216 of the book jason mentioned deals with the topic.

Read it yourself (http://books.google.com/books?id=Oi0aVR4YkmUC) and see that he was telling the truth.

Anyways, sanusi is a devilish creature

Regarding my comment about making this "History of the Yorubas" book publicly available, here is what I have so far:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40560748/hty.pdf

(2 megabyte PDF)

Going to require a lot effort to fix the OCR errors, though. Hopefully i can figure out a way to distribute this work among many people, wikipedia style. . .

If I do figure out such a way, then perhaps some of you would be interesting in helping.

denitro:
Why can't the government buy the remaining 50MW and feed it to the national grid and then supply it to the
communities,
[size=28pt]THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS I LEFT NIGERIA LONG AGO.
HOPELESS[/size]

I do not blame you. How can one have faith any more in a ~50 year old country that cannot do the basics?

There are countries which gained independence after Nigeria which have zoomed past have it, aren't there?

Obiagu1:
When I said I hate Nigeria, some people were on my neck.
Nigeria is poo, filled will fools with reasoning deficiency.

Whoever was on your neck should be slapped.

Bolded is 100% correct.

I'm still angry at this nonsense.

choosing friday as a work-free day would be a bit stupid, since it puts you at a competitive disadvantage (the rest of the world works on friday). . .