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nenergy: @Seun Please why can't i upload pictures? they are all below 100kb na

Pipsland78: What about the opt out option? Why didnt you address it? Since you've decided to follow facebook, facebook allows people to opt out so why is NL not allowing people to de-register?

okeyxyz: you have and... Did you reject them or you are in the process of implementing them?

Uyi Iredia: Any chance of it being implemented.

Uyi Iredia: Very good suggestions. Seun, please consider them.

ogugua88: [size=13pt]@barefootbandit, when Seun wrote rule 11, it was intended for people who type with giant 32pt or so font or in ALL CAPS, making their posts long and a strain on the eyes. I use Garamond 13pt and Sexkillz uses an 11pt font. Are those considered giant? We've been using them for a long time. This is the first time I'm hearing anyone call 11pt and 13pt fonts giant. If I felt my font violated rule 11, then what makes you think I would keep using it? In all my time using this font, this is the first time I'm seeing someone complain about it being too big.[/size]

Tassembly: Last year,i went to my gtb branch oba akran to make this inquiry ,all they were saying is 1million for startup, this year again in april,i went to 2 gtbanks,at ikeja and secetariat,they told me the same thing,pls throw more light about how you get gtb to buy half a million for you.

Not so very long ago, lightning was considered a sign of God's wrath. If you were hit, you were a sinner. Lightning and thunder were the most palpable manifestations of the angry God of the Old Testament, violent and vengeful. The "God-fearing" community thought there was intent behind lightning, they ascribed a conscious purpose to a random process. And lightning is scary as hell, so that was constant reinforcement.

So, when Franklin invented the lightning rod, he immediately came up hard against the religious community. They hated this idea, and they said it was bullshit, that if you were a sinner, God was going to strike you whether you put a metal stick on your house or not. This was a huge controversy, with tremendous argumentation back and forth.

But, well, lightning rods work. Buildings with rods didn't get struck; buildings without, did. And the conflict was finally settled, once and for all, when a church somewhere in Spain was struck by lightning, setting off explosives that were stored underneath, leveling the town and killing most of the people in it. Churches had been thought to be the safest place to store dangerous things, because God would protect them there, and well, a lot of people paid with their lives for that decision -- while whorehouses, sporting the fashionable new lightning rods, never got hit.

It was the first really large conflict between science and religion, where religion made one prediction, and science made a different one.

Science -- and the prostitutes who believed in it -- won.