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[quote author=okada_man link=topic=746679.msg9033873#msg9033873 date=1314623654]I've not seen ekt_bear like this before. [/quote]My bad man. Shoulda just stuck to my previous policy of ignoring.

I don't have any disdain for you. For anyone, really. You are successful in your chosen career path, and I in mine.

I didn't really want to make this personal, I'd rather have stuck to the issues. However, you seem to prefer personalizing things ("Thanks God I am an illiterate", etc, etc.)

premechaz:
I agree with you. I am wrong. You are right. So let it go. Its no big deal. I am stupidd and I am a nobody. I am distraught though  that I am no longer your friend here. I come here posting day and night, trying to act intelligent, wanting to win politics poster of the year, trying to act all smooth, muscular and good looking and here I am losing you, the one and most important person in my life. I am heart-broken and in shock.

Anyway, we meet to part. I will be fine though. And GL winning poster of the year again, I will be voting for you nevertheless.

God bless Ekt_Bear. The greatest Yoruba man in history!

LMAO

So is this the heart of the matter? You think for me NL is something to show off? An ego massage? Rather than just entertainment for me? Something I do in between other stuff? 

That isn't the case, whether you believe it or not. And if so, easy way to fix it is just to ignore me. If you don't like my style of posting or anything about what I do here. . . just ignore. Simple as that.

premechaz:
WRT coming up with something original, NEVER. That is beyond me. So beyond me. Things only people like you can do. Who am I? I am no American. I am Nigerian, with some securities issue and seex starved and crazy and un-original.

Again, You are tha bestestestesteste Mr. Ekt_Bear.


You rock, I suck balls!

Hehe. Sarcasm to cover up errors and mistakes in reasoning?

Will you kindly explain to us how those open positions at the company require a space program before they can be filled?

Or will you dance past this indefinitely?

Let me just emphasize again that this is why I don't rate what most Nigerians say about Nigeria very much. Most of them, despite having lived in the country for all their lives barely know anything more about it than I do. It would be listening to some random American redneck to gain deep understanding of American society.

@hercules07, at the very least is legitimately an engineer, works in his industry, and has visited this head office in Abuja. So his contribution at least has some value.

Fstranger on the other hand. . . just another blustering idi0t. No engineering background, has never worked in the industry before, didn't even realize that there is more to building a satellite than aerospace engineers. Posts some irrelevant nonsense as evidence of his point.

I can dig up engineering undergrads from the Mech and EE department from University of frikking Maryland and have them fill some critical positions at this company. Yet according to Fstranger, in all of Nigeria, we cannot find anyone. Because of the lack of a space program!  

Jesu Kristi.

Selective quoting again. Do you come up with anything original? Can you come up with anything original? Even rather than arguing your points, you quote and highlight articles to argue on your behalf. Notice how even the articles you linked to don't contradict the main point.

You stupidly thought that contracting out the satellite job implies that no Nigerian labor was used.

You for some insane reason thought a space program is required to contribute anything to the satellite.

Hehe.

Seriously, time for me to keep it moving. At least @hercules07 offers up something interesting. I'd rather limit my interactions on this thread to him.

Hehe.

Look how this f00l brings up anything but the points being made. Shout out to KoboJunkie. Shout out to "Mr Yoruba."

No commentary on his stupid notion that a space program is required to contribute to launching a satellite, though?

Go fvck yourself, seriously. It isn't by force you interact with me on this site. Go play with someone else, heh.

premechaz:
ROFLMAO


I was the first to get here, yet it is me who is following you.

You quoted me first, not the other way round.

Bolded is false. Regarding the former. . . should I really dig up posts even just from this weekend? Anyone who doubts me can check Fstranger's posting history.

If you cant beat them, ATTACK their person. Now I am your enemy. You now treat me the way you treat Kobo. There is a pattern here obvious to the rest of us, except you, Mr. I know it all. I know, it is not your fault. It is my fault just as it is Kobo's fault. The world against you. I and Kobo need  to see a shrink, but you are perfectly sane and alright.

Anyway, thanks for playing!

Next. lol

You aren't worth it. Honestly, you really aren't. Which is why I don't pay you any attention, unless you decide to draw my attention to yourself.

Anyway, wonderful how you quoted this rather than responding to your stvpid and moronic points about an aerospace program being a necessary ingredient for contributing to that particular project.

^-- None of the above was directed at you, BTW. But instead to this c0cksucking fagg0t Fstranger.

Even look at the jobs posted on their site: http://www.sstl.co.uk/careers/current-vacancies

Does a single one of them require your nation to have an aerospace program to do? I've clicked a few of them, but not all of them.

Anyway you may be right, maybe really the Nigerians did absolutely nothing. But given the data we have available to us at this point, there is really no evidence for it.

hercules07:
ekt

If those Nigerians were trained in Nigerian universities, there is no way in hell they participated, have you gone through the curriculum of our schools? The space guys in Nigeria are poiticians, they do not take the job seriously jare.

My brother, I have met some students trained directly from Nigerian universities in engineering. I met a middle belter two weeks ago who went to ABU for undergraduate, and is doing his MS not too far from where I live. If I remember correctly, he did his internship this past summer at an excellent, fairly famous tech company.

If you are claiming that none of them are qualified for any of those positions posted on that site, I will simply say that you are mistaken. You are flat out wrong, or interacting with the wrong Nigerian graduates.

I even see why Nigeria doesn't progress as a country.

Bad belle folk like you who seem to simultaneously hate the Western world, but also hate Nigeria.

In all of these things, I think what you really hate is yourself. Deep personal insecurity and loathing. Get a shrink if you need to, they'll sort out your mental problems. Or better yet, go get some fvcking pvssy (rather than following my balls around everywhere on NL.)

Let us even examine their own motherfucking job site:

http://www.sstl.co.uk/careers/current-vacancies

Let's look at  job 352. What background required? Mechanical or Aerospace.

Let's look at job 386. What background required? Mechanical.

job 392. Electrical.

job 392. Electrical.

Now, I am supposed to believe you, that no Nigerian labor went into it? And your m0ronic argument is that Nigeria doesn't have a space program?

This is why you are annoying as hell, man. Always sniping or talking dumb@ss sh1t, then when people call you out on it you run away.

Do you see why I don't regard the opinion of people like you who say, "Oh, you don't understand Nigeria?" Because in some ways, your own biases about Nigeria make you less equipped to perceive things than me.

premechaz:
We don't even have a space program in any of our universities and the Nigerians sent there all schooled in Nigeria

Lmao. So when someone graduates from college and goes to work for Boeing, Lockheed, Viasat, etc, they studied. . . "space program" in college? I guess you mean just aerospace engineering.

No, you can study other things (mechanical, electrical, computer) and still get work.

Why don't you even just go to a jobs website and see what type of academic backgrounds they look for before pulling sh1t out of your @ss, man?

I've never worked at a satellite company before. But I have friends who have. Even at the undergraduate level.

There is work even for college sophomores and juniors at such companies. Not to talk of college graduate engineers.

So your belief is that even the smallest tasks there, the Nigerians did not do?

This same program that has the Turks now launching their own indigenous satellite, when the Nigerians went through the same they were just twiddling their thumbs?

So they were all flown to UK, but did absolutely nothing is your claim?

This picture is a fraud, just a photo op, no doubt?

Like I said, pessimism is fine (I'm pessimistic myself), but personally I think it unlikely that they flew engineers to the UK just to watch and do nothing.

Then again, none of us were physically there on site. So we don't know who did exactly what. Maybe you are right, that they did nothing.

This is not Fstranger's claim though. He seems to m0ronically think that "build under contract" == no Nigerian labor.

I wonder how he thinks Singapore, China and other Eastern Asian countries got their start manufacturing. Hehe.

Even Samsung today, the reason they are able to build a reasonable challenger to the iPhone is because they've done some understudying themselves. . .

It says in the BBC article that Nigerian engineers were on site in this facility in the UK to build the satellite.

In other words, Nigeria didn't just buy the tech alone, but sent its engineers to help build it.

Do you dispute this claim made by the BBC article? So you are claiming that contrary to what it says and contrary to what that picture implies, there was in fact no Nigerian labor used in building the satellites?

Let me see what exactly you disagree with, lest you backtrack or hide after I begin.

Err. Pessimism is fine, I'm a pessimist too.

But did you guys miss this?

Nigerian engineers built NigeriaSat-X with the help of their British counterparts
The resolution in this picture is 22m per pixel. Vegetation is picked out in red.

Both NigeriaSat-X and NigeriaSat-2 were designed and built by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) in Guildford, UK.

What is interesting about NigeriaSat-X is that the work was undertaken by Nigerian engineers themselves. The skills they have learnt will now be taken home so that they can build future spacecraft in their own country.

It is a model previously followed by Turkey. Its engineers received their education at SSTL as well, and the same rocket that launched the Nigerian platforms also launched Rasat.

This remote sensing satellite (7.5m resolution) is the first to have been developed and manufactured in Turkey by Turkish engineers.

SSTL Executive Chairman, Sir Martin Sweeting, commented: "NigeriaSat-X is the product of Nigeria's training and development programme here at Surrey.

"It is a great credit to NASRDA (National Space Research and Development Agency) and their engineers that this satellite is performing well and its operations are progressing so quickly.

"These highly skilled engineers will not only help Nigeria to manage its resources, but also bootstrap its fledgling high-tech economy alongside a growing nucleus of highly trained people."

I don't think it is fair to say they just bought the technology. Of course, who knows how much "help" the Nigerian engineers received. But in order to walk, first you gotta crawl.

Interesting.

These posts too are related:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1034458/why-arent-video-games-written-in-java
http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/3789/famous-games-written-in-java

I'm watching a data structures video. Linked lists are a bit easier to implement in Java, hehe. No need to clean up after yourself. . . the garbage collector will do it for you. Kind of convenient, I think.

Heh. Skeptical I guess. Fair enough

Gbawe:
Indeed. Just don't let your boss catch you doing it .

Lol, my current boss is even weirder than me. I don't think anyone cares

^-- err. Personally, I have a muscular, large build (think nfl or weight lifter), but that doesn't mean I'm fat. Just won't look good in skinny jeans.

And i'm definitely not bald. . . blessed with good DNA on that front

Hehe

Well done, OP

The conspiracy theorists annoy the hell out of me too.

It is hard for me to feel much sympathy for a military dictator and coupist.

And isn't this strategy of railing against the west to mask your own inadequacies as a leader tired out?

I don't give two sh1ts about Gaddafi really. "Brother leader", indeed.

nolongTing:
I studied with Iranians for years – they are nothing special, just normal beings;  But of course sanctions can slow a nations economic growth no doubt.

I study with Iranians now. Both those directly from Iran and those who grew up in the Western world. I am not claiming they are super aliens or something. But their top end talent (e.g., their Sharif University of Technology students/graduates) can compete with anybody in the world.

^-- You don't want factories build in your homeland? Just because it is Chinese building them?

Seems like cutting off your nose to spite your face.

How do you create jobs without factories and industry?

I would have put everything in one post, but I didn't fully think through the implications at the time I made my first response.

Anyway, nothing wrong with talking to oneself.

Why would anyone be a Gaddafi supporter? Who is he to you?

I think they look lame. But even if I liked 'em, it wouldn't work for me. Just not the right physique for skinny jeans.

More than solid, to be honest. Textiles I think is something we can be competitive in today in Ogun State, no? And I mean competitive internationally.

I'm a bit surprised that I've not seen any naija newspaper coverage of this event.

Going to try to marry a woman roughly as smart as myself so I don't have any dull children  

But if I do have a dumb child, I'll push him to excel at sports or music, or to learn a trade (carpentry, welding, car mechanics, etc.) Even if you bribe for the child to pass exams, will you also bribe for him to be given a job? Will you bribe to not have him fired for incompetence too? Etc, etc.