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mecussey: All planes has a propella

Incorrect.

Reference: Thought it will contain useful information about the last moments of the flight that could help establish the cause but like typical Nigerian reportage, short on substance, long on tales. Rubbish.

BoboYekini: this 'eyewitness' report does nothing for us. Instead of trying to write prose, the guy might have calmed down, dug into his memory and given us hard facts. This is nothing.

Even without being an aviation expert, If you watch enough of the documentary series on airplane accidents on National Geographic called "Air Crash Investigation", you can figure what the likely cause of the crash was.

He clearly stated that the airplane "hovered side to side, up and down" which I take to indicate the airplane had become unmaneuverable. This may be consistent with hydraulic failure (which many people have already suggested and which was even stated to have been a recurrent problem with this same airplane!) For instance if it was the wing, the dive would be consistent.

Why is it hard to figure the attraction of vultures or hyenas to carrion? It is in the nature of scavengers.

cj1080: Did you know that this is the second crash in that area in the past 16 years. you all remember the Military crash the herculus plane that went down there in the 90‘s during Abacha‘s time.

Is this Nigeria‘s Bermuda.

Bermuda Triangle ko, Bahama Trapezoid ni. Is Ejigbo the same as Iju? Let's even say they are close (which they are not), where do you think most plane crashes are likely to occur? (*hint* MMA is pretty near by.)

Was this not the same fool who was tacitly in support of BH calling it "very sensitive matter" or something like that? Lightweights will always sway in the direction of the blowing wind.

And how many of these females being stalked have either been murdered or had their lives negatively affected by the "stalking" incident? Are the females even complaining to you? Let's not even go into the fact that most stalkers (of the malicious kind) are actually female. The word "stalking" is used too often these days by females with delusions of grandeur. If they know what real stalking is about, they wouldn't even talk about it; rather go underground to hide.

Asiri olofo ti tu. Ogbeni come defend yourself o. No send your errand boys. Why has he not been arrested for contempt yet sef?

Oh really? I suppose Abacha is not one of those "God should punish". The same Abacha that is innocent of corruption charges if we are to believe oga Buhari.

As usual.

So he pulled over and immediately said "hey, I'm 34 years old...how old are you?". Or how quickly did you start talking about age?

futuspec: Seyi or whoever can say watever they want to say about Sign Fireman.but one thing I know he gave me a CAR barely one into the church.Apart from that he is a true man of God.

LMAO

ogugua88: If you read the whole thread, then you would've known that I later realized that the piece was a spoof. I don't frequent Wazobia. Nowhere in OP's post is satire mentioned. Nowhere on the homepage is satire mentioned next to the link for this page. I didn't check the source. My bad. I don't think fuel price or your security was affected by my error though.

I commend you for identifying your error. But I beg to differ; inability to identify a piece of satire (spoof for those less literally inclined) can be dangerous. Indeed I have learnt to know your audience well before trying to entertain them with concepts way over their heads.

And FYI, satires are generally identified by the content without being explicitly labeled as one. A sharp mind will identify one without even reading the whole article. It's like saying you need to have a poem attached with the word "poem" before you can tell what it is. If you are sharp and have a good sense of humor, you can smell a satire from a mile away.

publisher: So majority of people here dont know the meaning of 'Satire'?

You are asking for a whole lot of trouble if you try to engage or entertain dullards with such food for intellectuals as satire. Some have described such an endeavor as " pearls before swine". Believe you me; I know first hand.

ogugua88: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt" -Abraham Lincoln.

Considering that this piece of "news" is from a well know spoof website, how does this quote apply to you?

This is simply an indictment on NDLEA. Maybe indeed he ingested drugs but then NDLEA agents were bribed to sort him out. Who do you blame? Is it still not NDLEA?

Jarus: Just hope these guys are saving and investing. Amokachi comes to mind here.

The funny thing is people still refer to the Amokachi story. Do you honestly believe he could afford a private jet at the time? I think people are still holding on to stories from the Dark Ages of Nigeria when people were less enlightened and information was hard to get. We need to let go.

Duh. You use it in HAZARDOUS situations where you present a HAZARD to other road users.

Is that RZA in the back?

Damoche10: I am disappointed ...Man with kids? Men don finish for dis country?

Why didn't you volunteer to marry her?

LUDALOOLO: Because barca lost to chelsea the rules have to change. Its not funny any more. Coaches have been crying all this while they need Goal line tech, you never said anything, this time you want to introduce a new LAW to decide winner after 200 min or what.

Don't blame me if I think you are an id!ot. Did Barca lose in a penalty shoot-out? Everything has to be a conspiracy linked to Barca. Mor0n.

Lmao. Guys charter private jet; dem come tweet something wey no pass wishful thinking (wish list), dem don buy private jet. People wey dey live for Banana Island never buy private jet, na the guys wey dey live for Omole Estate?

lordZOUGA: Maybe, someday, some random guy will give my style a name then you guys will argue about it on some random thread.

Good luck to you on that. But I will tell you a little secret - those who come up with inventions/ideas/concepts do by studying other inventions and either building on them, or simply by understanding them in detail allowing their horizon to expand. You will NOT see anybody invent anything without a proper understanding of related ideas/concepts.

lordZOUGA: I actually thought that the thread that will have the most discussions is the summer of code thread instead you people are here talking B.S about tests.

Surely, you don't expect that we all by default should be interested in the "summer of code" thing. I have more than enough projects on my hands right now and I can only come on here to discuss on occasion (and not just any random thread but only those that pique my interest). I am not obliged to partake in anything more than discussions.

lordZOUGA: seriously guys.. Tests? Tests is something you must write for every program. every programmer must have written tests in someway or the other, knowingly or unknowingly. That it is given some fancy name doesn't make it any special than it is. It's jus a way to verify that your code won't crash given a set of data. Tell me which programmer that doesn't do that?

Those fancy names determine whether or not you are doing things the right way. For instance if I talk about logging, it might sound like another fancy term to an ignorant programmer. But after further explaining, his eyes may light up and he might say he does logging using the standard "System.out.println" calls. Well-trained Java programmers know that's not the proper way to do logging.

candylips: TDD is a waste of time and terribly difficult to do right in d purist form.

If your application is well designed, you will find that the Unit Tests are no more than calls to the actual business logic (the engine so to say). Since you are a Java person, I know you can understand when I say the Unit Test component simply replaces the Web-layer calls (say in your Struts2 Actions) but with extra code for assertions.

With this in mind, you should see the value of Unit Tests which already provide a use-case check versus requirements even before the Web-layer is complete. It's like having a test framework for your Jet engine in a lab before you've completed the airplane fuselage (which is actually how engineers test engines). You don't wait till the airplane is complete to test the engine; and as a matter of fact, the test of the engine comes first since it's the most important component after all.

Given any application, you have a finite set of use-cases/requirements. You should then be concerned about coverage and completeness. You don't just want to develop an application (non-trivial that is) without having exhaustively tested ALL the use-cases; as a stable application does not come about by simply keeping your fingers crossed. So how do you do this? TDD is just one of the ways you do this. You could also employ a team of human testers to exhaustively test; but with the associated drawback of human error and oversight.

TDD effectively tests your understanding of the requirements, and the completeness of your implementation.

Seun: Unit Testing creates more code that must be debugged and updated.

Dude, you debug Unit Tests? What is there to debug in a set of methods consisting of 1 to less than 10 lines of code that merely call target (test) methods and do assertions etc?

Seun: I also feel Unit Testing probably doesn't catch bugs that span across units.

Dude, ever heard of Integration Testing (which could actually be a suite of Unit Tests)?

Seun: I find that writing code carefully eliminates most errors, and for a web application, you can catch the remaining bugs by simply watching the error log.

LOL. So you are going to sit down and watch the error log. The error log does not even give you confidence that your application is bug free; as by some design, a situation that throws up an exception may never occur as you sit there watching (until of course when it goes live: the worst possible moment - check Finagle's Law).

Seun: Writing code carefully involves using straightforward algorithms and writing them elegantly.

I suspect you have never really been involved in the development of complex applications.

Seun: It means understanding exactly what your code is doing instead of randomly changing things until it seems to work.

Is that what you think the purpose of a Unit Test is - to randomly change code till it works? Read up on a Black-box Test.

Seun: However, a lot of smart people swear by Unit Testing so there's must be some value to it.

And why do you think they do?

In related news, we hear GEJ has ordered all men to fvck their wives 3 times daily. You know nothing gets done in Nigeria without a presidential order.

1025: it is another way of confirming that boko haram is not a thing of the northerners...

Please, when did NASARAWA state become a Southern state?