Sista:

I'm not going to talk about it because my theory can not be backed up by the bible uless you go beyond the bible and it's origins. Not willing to get into a religious human creation arguement. I am just not willing to do that.

Ok

Sista:

Have I ever been pushy and mean towards you? Don't tell me about what you seen me go through with other people because you don't know the roots of problems I have had with other people. I want to hear from you, when have I ever been mean and pushy towards you? Mochafella his self.

You do have a profile along with your previous posts and your "combatants" have the same. We have had this argument about tones of address before. Its not something I intend to get into though it obviously interests you.

Sista:

I do not share the European white descending from African Albino theory, I have another theory on that I will not go into.

Sista:

African= coming from African parents, having deep African roots, descending from Africans who were also descendants from Africa.

Now I'm actually curious to find out what your theory is, principally because the second quote can be expanded to include every living human if you accede to the current theories of 1)Evolution out of Africa and 2)African Albinos.
What is your theory?

Sista:

You don't have to be so mean and pushy.

Some could say the same about you, you know.

Sista:

This in my opinion is why Africans black people as a whole are suffering at the hands of European white people, the people who do not look that different from our African Albino children as far as color is concerned.

The lesson we are supposed to learn from white people is, if we do not love and respect each other, no matter the differences, no one else will love us and respect us and they will show hate towards us along with a lack or respect for us as humans.

I didn't ask about your thoughts on African suffering, I just want to know who you consider as African. I'd rather we do cloud the question with tangents.

Sista:

As far as melanin being a determinant. The higher the melanin the higher the roots. We all come from the blackest of the blackest people, even a lighter skin or an Albino original CA. My point for bringing up melanin is because in order to thrive in Africa, you must have melanin because it is very hot. The Albinos they are a result of to much melanin therefore they have no pigment. They are the opposite. But, they come directly from two original African parents, so by default, weather their skin is black, brown or not, they too are African.

Am I right in saying you consider melanin as the "preferable" determinant of Africaness? but that even if you do not have melanin i.e. Albinos you are still African if you are from the original African parents?

kazey:

Not literally it is publicly owned currently alright, but the initial investors have the major control, say, hence literally own it and going public does not change their power or position. And who has the most control? VCs?

http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/pressrelease1.html

That comment doesn't make any sense, remember you did say Goog was privately held. Are you saying a company can be privately and publicly held? That would be a first.

Besides that press release is from 1999(7 years old). Goog had an IPO in 2004 in case you forgot and makes regular SEC "forced" filings which are more up-to-date. Further discussion on this is really unnecessary.

Sista:

African people are the original people, Gods first. African people are distinct from everyone because of blood types giving birth to all blood types and the high Melanin they posses, making them sun people. The sun loves African people. White people can assimilate into the ways of a certain African group, but that does not mean they are descendants from Africa or African and definately not sun people. They can by law be a citizen of Africa if they were born there or are there by choice but still, they are not African. It just means that they are long time visitors to the land of Africa and they have been very much welcomed by African people.

(Example) If you take an African violet out of African soil and place it in China soil will that African violet become a China violet and will it's children become China violets?

Roots is what makes you an African.

um everyone does have roots in Africa according to the Albino == White theory. Is melanin level the determinant of who you consider to be an African?

kazey:

Google is privately held and venture funded by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital. Other investors include Stanford University; Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems and current Vice President at Cisco Systems; and Ram Shriram, former President of Junglee and current Vice President of Business Development at Amazon.com.

Erm, how does a publicly listed company remain privately held? The fact that some stockholders may retain large percentages as a result of their previous association with a firm does not make it privately held. I'm sure you heard about Google's IPO in 04. If so much as 1 share is publicly traded the company ceases to be privately held. And why would Google suddenly start making SEC filings if they were not publicly listed?

Google's Major Holders
Forbes on Private and Public companies.

Life's busy, not much sleep.


How's NY? Getting chilly?

Being around, hanging around on the edges of NL.


Did you save room?

Its all good as long as you save room


How have you being?

Uju4eva:

I am patiently waiting

What r u waiting for?
Haven't you caused enough trouble with your thread?
Mind yaself before I report you to "papa Uju".

I think the answers on the "romance" board will have been more light-hearted though.

kazey:

Most VCs funded organisations are in, for a quick flip, and Google is a VC funded organization, and their business model is clearly visible for the world to see.

Last I heard Goog was a public listed company. Don't think that counts as VC any more.

Vieira:

He needs to accept that he cannot control everything in the world and that accidents will happen.
Tell him to learn to be a diplomat like the honourable Wenger.
Sir Wenger is a pinnacle of management that Jose would do well to emulate.

Erm, I could make that comment in bold about Wenger. He did call some people "joy riders" last week, probably because of the injuries to Eboue, Yunbu Yunbu and Baptista. Yes Mourinho is a whiner but Wenger is no mute either.

Jackal:

Put Ruud anywhere on God's green earth and he will triple his worth.

Ruud == JayZ
, ridiculous

@Loyika

loyika:

So Mocha, T Henry's goals are more and have contributed to more end product for his national team.

Are we really going to start an argument over team honours/titles when we are discussing individuals. It's almost as bad as referring to the subjective awards. I'm sure you've noticed I never once alluded to the teams either of them played for. Yes I know it influences the player but then it becomes even more difficult to compare the players.

Either way my issue was to get you to acknowledge that Ruud has better ratios in Europe and at Senior National team level. Particularly since you made such an effort to disclose Thierry's marginally better premeirship ratio and conveniently relegated the European and National team ratios to the backwaters.

As for your assertion that Thierry is a better player and goal scorer, its your opinion but I beg to differ. Better player yes, better goalscorer no.

yemmydavid:

the ahmadu bello way frm oduduwa busstop to NTA.

Ah yes, quite a few memories.
Whatever happened to the undeveloped land between the police barracks and Oniru palace?

@Loyika

Martin Tyler is silent about National Team and European exploits. You can obviously see that. You should be "game" enough to recognise that Ruud has a better goal-ratio than Thierry at both levels.

@ Havila

Havila:

@Mochafella,
What you just did is ludicrous, it is called quoting out of context. What you should have done was to simply ask me "if I can clarify some of my statement" or rather pose a specific question. Rather, you gave your interpretation to my post and asked the writer if it 'is clearer now'; really very funny.

I would expect you to withdraw your claim that my comment was ludicrous at the end of my explanation.
1) You made a comment about nuclear weapons and tech.
2) I made a comment about that and asked what exactly you were advocating.
3) You replied and asked for a clarification, specifically that I point out where you "stated the advantages"
4) I replied, pointing out where you stated those advantages and asked "I hope it is clearer now". i.e. I hope my initial comment asking what you were advocating is clearer now. I wasn't clarifying your comment. You asked for clarification about my question and I provided it.
I'll ask again, I hope it is clearer now?

Havila:

nuclear technology is going to be very prominent in near future in achieving economic development because it is a bargaining tool in global trade and politics.

It is all well and good to describe N Korea as a "special case" even though that is arguable. However the quote above was not made in reference to NK.

And yes I do know the influence of nuclear power generation on economic development, and its diluted, domino effect on global politics. However I also know that "Nuclear" and "Global politics" in the same statement usually refers to Nuclear weapons especially since nuclear energy is not the only source of power through which an economy can be driven.

*Im_Bossy*:

Nilla put it lemi see jo, lol.

I second that motion . Oops too late.

OMOGE #1

Plenty offense , please use commas (,) and period/full stop (.) when writing for better clarity.

Many thanks.

@Havila

right here.

Havila:

nuclear technology is going to be very prominent in near future in achieving economic development because it is a bargaining tool in global trade and politics.

Havila:

same a North Korea, they will keep some secret nuclear bombs and use nuclear power to develop their technology sector, and use it to bargain for restriction of sanctions, more aid etc.

Nuclear Technology as a political tool is useful primarily because Nuclear weapons can follow. On its own Nuclear technology used for power generation and domestic uses carries little weight on the global scene and even less weight in bargaining for aid and sanctions. So if you are stating global politics as a reason for Nuclear tech. then its Nuclear weapons you are indirectly asking for.

Hope its clearer now?

@ Havila

You state the "difference" between Nuclear technology and Nuclear weapons. You profess that the technology is what Nigeria should aspire to and then proceed to state the advantages of Nuclear weapons as the reason for that aspiration. What are you actually advocating?


And lets not all forget that India and Pakistan never signed the "piece of paper" known as the NPT. Iran and N. Korea did which is the reason why the US/UN can "justifiably" raise hell. Nigeria also did and backing out is tantamount to joining Bush's Axis of evil. Personally I think we have other priorities, at this point we already have a strong though declining bargaining chip in Oil. By all means go for Nuclear technology if you can maintain and handle the waste properly even though we are yet to maximise other sources of electricity.

@ Loyika

loyika:

National wise, what accolades does Ruud have with his national team compared to Henry, How many goals has Ruud scored for Holland , where has he gone to with the Orange boys.

I think you should take a look at Ruud's goal-scoring ratio at National team level compared to Thierry's. It's a little one-sided to lay out the stats where Henry has a marginal advantage and leave out the stats in the two "competitions" where Ruud surpasses Thierry. This topic has been argued out and I think most people agree that Thierry is the more complete player and Ruud is the better goal-scorer. And probably the truest measure, goals ratio bears this out. Individual awards are subjective as you know. Or how do you explain Etoo beating out JJ to the African player of the year award some seasons ago.

Still it is obvious to me as I'm sure with most people that Thierry is better technically and contributes in multiple categories however if I need a player to put the ball in the net, no fuss, no mess. I would pick Ruud ahead of Thierry. I beleive Henry is more useful drifting in from a wide position than as the arrowhead of the attack.

chinani:

What's 'weird' about it? Isn't that your own reflection?

I wouldn't know, seems like you have some experience in that regard.

Brown-Eyes:

Have you read the 'The Isis Papers'?

She probably has them in soft and hard cover, on CD, framed and hanging all over her home.

Brown-Eyes:

Like i said the darker the berry,

u sure? . Isn't it a little weird to only see white teeth smiling back on a pitchblack night?

Brown-Eyes:

I am strongly attracted to African men, the darker the berry the sweeter the juice.

Hmmmm, oh really . How dark?

Sista:

You are just as nuts as the rest of them and from your profile, I know you are white person. Either that or you are a brainwashed black person.

Sista:

I know for sure Somegirl is white but I can only speculate from Radiants profile and the things she says, she is also white or a brainwashed black.

erm Sista, can u stop increasing the population of the enemy with your mouth. On this thread alone you have already done.

Blacky - 2
Whitey + 2

Mind yaself ooo . By the time you are done there will be nobody left to unify.

Looks like Google is buying up Youtube


Google snaps up Youtube

I wonder if the copyright lawsuits will follow now that "Youtube" has deep pockets or if Goog will eventually kill it off and promote Google video instead.

Hotstepper:

nice resume, what did u study?

erm, how did u decide his resume was nice if you didn't read it?

*moonwalking across thread*


Drama, and black women wonder why we marry whites.