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@Rossike
Why must you persist in your stupidity? You posted a link where someone claimed that a meltdown could lead to a nuclear fission explosion like the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs. Even the worst case Chernobyl disaster did not lead to a nuclear explosion, and the possibility of a Chernobyl style disaster is seen as extremely unlikely by all experts.

You then went on a rant about how we are being 'brainwashed by the CNN'. That shows you didn't even read the article! The article i linked to just went to highlight why Japan has 50 nuclear plants running. What is in that article that isnt public knowledge?

Your hatred for white people clouds what little brainpower you have. Instead of intelligent contribution to any discussion, all you do is accuse anyone who disagrees with you of 'inferiority complex' and 'slave mentality'. You're just a marginally intelligent racist troll.

Read
Why does japan rely on Nuclear power?
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/14/japan.nuclear.history.qa/index.html?hpt=T2

ROSSIKE:
The folly of building nuclear plants on tectonic fault lines has been noted and vociferously opposed by the Japanese people:

''There has always been concern here about about the wisdom of building nuclear power stations, on which Japan relies hugely for its energy needs, in a country which is so prone to earthquakes.''

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12724953


''Despite several accidents and mounting [domestic] public opposition to nuclear power, [Japan] plans to increase capacity to 40% by the end of the decade.''

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/145603.html


Here's a fantastic critique of the whole nuclear power industry

http://chrismaser./2011/03/13/the-long-term-folly-of-nuclear-energy/

Oh, on the news, a third nuclear plant has just exploded.

Lovely.

Is it just me or is @ROSSIKE deriving ghoullish pleasure from the travails of the Japanese people?

PS: I stopped reading your wordpress link when the brainless twit said a meltdown would lead to an atomic explosion. Of all the people to quote, why pick an uninformed and ignorant scaremonger who doesn't know anything?

Birds of the same feather, i guess.

LagosShia:
"HATE COMES TO ORANAGE COUNTY"

WATCH:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NutFkykjmbM&feature=player_embedded#at=245


ANAHEIM, CA, 3/2/11) -- The Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) today released a video of a rally organized by anti-Muslim bigots to protest a February fundraising event held by an American Muslim relief group for relief work and charity in the U.S.

A few hundred protesters showed up to the rally, which was sponsored by groups such as: "We Surround Them OC 912" (a local Tea Party group), Rabbi David Eliezrie of Chabad - Yorba Linda, North Orange County Conservative Coalition, ACT! for America, and Pamela Geller (whose group "Stop the Islamization of America" has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center).

Elected officials Congressmen Ed Royce and Gary Miller, and Villa Park Councilwoman Deborah Pauly also attended and spoke at the protest rally.

The event -- held at Yorba Linda Community Center, a facility that has been frequented by Muslim families and businesses over the years -- first became a target of anti-Muslim bigots over two of the fundraiser's speakers, who were to speak on the importance of charity in Islam. Initial attempts of some groups to have the Yorba Linda Community Center and the Yorba Linda City Council cancel the fundraising event failed, followed by the protest.


In a statement, CAIR-LA said:

"We support the First Amendment right of protest\eors anywhere in America to voice their concerns, dissent, and even hatred. However, when our nation's foundational values of inclusiveness, pluralism and equality are attacked by some in favor of calls for advocating hate and violence, then all Americans have a responsibility to challenge and expose such bigotry and those who enable it.

"As the video shows, the rhetoric of the protesters became increasingly venomous toward the families and children who came to attend the ICNA Relief fundraising dinner. Protesters shouted invective statements such as "Go home terrorist," "Muhammad is a pervert, Muhammad is a child molester," "Go home and beat your wife, she needs a good beating" at the event-goers.

"Even more disturbing was the participation and encouragement of elected officials in promoting the hateful protest rally. Villa Park Councilwoman, Deborah Pauly, while addressing the crowd at the rally, appeared to threaten Muslim event-goers. Congressman Ed Royce (R-40), in a troubling trend of disparaging Islam and its followers, added fuel to the fire by encouraging protesters to continue on with their hate-mongering. The attendance of Congressman Gary Miller (R-42) was a clear surprise, since he previously has engaged with all constituents, including Muslims, toward a better America.

"We strongly urge all elected officials in attendance to distance themselves from such an exhibition of hate and bigotry. We further ask residents and elected officials of Yorba Linda, Orange County and other parts of our nation to speak out against such hateful rhetoric and the continued Islamophobia that plagues our nation."

When you write a piece condemning the firebombing of churches in Iraq and Pakistan and the oppression of Christians in Iraq, we'll take you seriously.

How many Christian organizations are allowed to hold much publicized fund raisers in Saudi Arabia? What would be the likely response from the Taliban if this were a Christian charity raising money in Afghanistan or Pakistan?

I'm not saying what those Tea Party eediots did was right or even decent. People should be free to exercise their fundamental rights. I just feel you should be aware of the hypocrisy involved in you opening this topic.

Kobojunkie:
WOW . . . .  Building BWR nuclear reactors near water source is WRONG[size=17pt] ROFLMAO[/size]

Don't you just marvel at the foolishness of some people here on Nairaland? I tire for these clowns o!

pleep:
It's interesting how people can miss the point.  The fact is that fallout from a violent nuclear meltdown can cover large areas of land. Fallout from chrnobyll went as far as England. Such projects set a dangerous precident for neighboring contries. Imagine if the u.s tried to despose of nuclear materials in space? That would be unnaceptable becuae of the risk involved in the event of a crash. japan had evey legal right to build nuclear facilities. And there were some safeguards in place to prevent such an occurance and quite a bit of luck as well. But this is an issue of internaional ethics and not as clear cut as some ppl seem to think it is. If they can't make hem 100% safe is it worth the risk to neighboring countries?

By your brainless Logic, if they can't make air transportation 100% safe, is it worth the risk to the people on the ground?
I cannot understand why you're babbling about 'ethics'. And FYI, most of the neighbouring countries (The two Koreas, China, India) all run Nuclear reactors for energy.

The OP is just a clueless dolt!
The Nuclear reactors were tested to resist earthquakes up to 8.0 magnitude. The fact that 40 year old technology has held up so well to a much larger earthquake than ever anticipated in that region is a testament to the skill of the Japanese designers.
Building the plant relatively close to the coast has its advantages in the ready access to seawater for emergency cooling. This is no chronically unsafe Chernobyl.

Rossike has never been known for his intelligence, so i'm not surprised at this idiotic entry.

mitube? mxtube?

Yourtube is a far better solution, integrates nicely into the stock Youtube app. Plus you can import your downloads into the iPod app via Gremlin.

It's a paid app, but you can snag it for free from the xsellize repo or the sinfuliphone repo.

tumababa:
ipad2 has been jailbroken!!!!!!!!!!. to be released soon. (dat was fassst)

lol. So all we need is just an iPad 2

Running Ubuntu on a 3.5 inch screen is funny


Hey 4llerbuntu, i got a Barnes and Noble Nook Color for sale, already rooted with FroYo running off the SD card. You can also throw on a Honeycomb port on it. Plus it'll run Ubuntu just fine.
Interested?

Still Available

rockafela:
At some point u think N900 is outdated look at other countries today that u re pointing to, they s
till use motorola blade but here find out who still hold dat phne.

Speak English. It isn't that hard.

4llerbuntu:
well, i can port other os to the fone so may not entirely be a bad idea. better than buying N97 for 65k, wtf!

Anyone still buying that crappy N97 should be slapped silly.

flagship:
guddy,

don't be deceived the HTC HD2 is not an android phone.it has the outdated Windows 6.5. very silly phone. I wanted it first! you want a good deal, go for the HTC desire. daz the one am using now. brand-new is now 63k and UK used is now 43k at affordables! I bought mine UK used last year Nov at 60k but you won't believe its not brand new if you see it now
their number is
08023458077

HTC HD2 is primarily a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone, but it is not - and has never been - a silly phone. The phone was a beauty when it came out, and to this date it's a template used by HTC in many of their Android phones.

That said, perhaps the Desire is a better buy as it comes with Android direct, no fuss involved. But a simple trip to XDA developers will enable you install a practically perfect FroYo or Gingerbread installation on the HD2. You can even dual boot it with Windows Phone 7. There are ports of Ubuntu Linux and even Meego!

Desire is a better buy for no-stress Android experience. HD2 may resonate well with tinkerers. But WinMo roots aside, the HD2 is a legendary phone.

wales:
This has generated a heated debate from the public, with manufacturers and dealers of new vehicles vehemently condemning the policy as being retrogressive and capable of frustrating current plans to make more Nigerians drive new cars.



The Nigerian Automotive Manufacturers Association, which decried the policy, noted that its negative impact outweighed the short term benefits and, therefore, called for stricter control of the inflow of used vehicles.

May God punish these criminals. Importing a $19,000 toyota and selling it for 6 million Naira. Their greed is the main thing preventing Nigerians from buying new cars.

Goldieluks:
wow,can't wait to see this movie.wooooow

This marketing stunt has succeeded in catching one person, i see.

N900 is already outdated. Why are people still buying this?

I can understand people owning one since last year, but why would anyone spring for one now with all the awesome Android phones out there?

I hope Ohakim collects his money back from these pathetic agents he paid. This has to be the most amateurish smear campaign i've ever seen, even worse than when some people tried to pin the Abuja bombings on Dokpesi.

Andrewnwa/ezecharles/arinzeeze, the game is up. Get out of here you stupid slaves. You're no different from the people paid to kill other aspirants. Nonsense.

4llerbuntu:
@ tex, like i said earlier, google seem to have bought a nmanual from bill, and bent on executing it as well as they can

What bill? Steve, you mean.

Abeg even the most virulent Linux fanboys now recognise how Bill has moved on to another level of goodness. Leave the man jo! Besides, it's much easier to poke fun at sweaty Ballmer.

Still available

4llerbuntu:
what basically happened is that MS decided to release an update that prepares the phones for the first update dont ask me, ask M$ it also makes no sense to me.

Perhaps you could ask Google/Motorola the same question. Xoom Android Honeycomb users are being pushed an update to prepare for the upcoming update that will add Flash 10.2.

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@4llerbuntu
Nice job baiting me. But you'll concede that i expressed

1. Disappointment - meaning i had a higher opinion of your intelligence with respect to what you were posting
2. I accused you of trolling - Deliberately saying inflammatory stuff

So you didn't catch me as well as you thought you did.

Or is this some kind of bait-within-a-bait thingy? Are you getting all Inception on me? You linux barstich!!!


Jokes aside, let's get on to the meat of this discussion

You make the consistent assumption that WP7 is 'playing catch up and will always be behind'. That isn't true. Most of what WP7 plans to implement is the basics that they skipped out in the haste to get the OS out. Things like copy and paste, multitasking and a few other things. As it stands, WP7 already is on par with many of the prime features of both Android and iOS.
At the moment Microsoft is working to fix the basic, without neccessarily neglecting the advanced stuff.

Finally, i showed you that OTA firmware update failures are not a rare occurrence. it's happened to Sony (PS3), Apple (iPhone), Android (EVO 4G) and now with a small fraction of WP7 devices.
I'm still waiting for your post where you inform the world that Google and Android cannot be trusted after their Gmail data loss disaster last week

4llerbuntu:
read your post the bot swallowed. amused.

one thing, stephen elop is not the dalai lama. i fail to see why i would take him at face value, simply cos he say this or that. that is a man who would do or say anything to save his "burning platform" as he put it himself.
and please, how is adding the ovi store and maps indepth tinkering? does that also mean that other competing oems will then have to carry nokia mods? seeing that they cannot even add UI customisations? and nokia is now the big uncle of the platform?
also not ignoring the fact that the marketplace is ms and ovi store will technically be a competitor AND a way to get apps into the device which is officially prohibited?

dude, believe what you will, im not choppng the tori

You know, I echo moonraker's comment about being disapointed in your powers of analysis.
Like it or not, Stephen Elop is the CEO of Nokia. He's penned a deal with Microsoft and has been open to the press and shareholders about the terms of the deal. Why will he not do anything to save his 'burning platform'? He is the CEO, after all.
You've clearly made NO ATTEMPT to research this issue between posts. Nokia has said that the Ovi store will be integrated in the Windows Phone 7 marketplace, their maps will go into WP7 (part of the deal made with Microsoft). They've been given carte blanche to make more tweaks and customizations to the core WP7 than other manufacturers. That has been confirmed by statements from Microsoft and Nokia. So what are you talking about?

4llerbuntu:
and as for meeting up with android etc, oga everybody has been playing catchup to a fast developing platform, by the time wp7 is at first official iteration, do u have any idea how far ahead iOS and android will be? look at the differences in every build and marvel.

I don't understand what you mean by 'first official iteration'. WP7 is not in beta, sorry.
The difference between FroYo and Gingerbread is not massive by any means. I don't know what you're trying to highlight here. SImilarly, iOS 4.2 doesn't add much more value to the iPhone than version 4.1.

4llerbuntu:
as for aesthetics, tex im SHOCKED! coming from ios user? u think a couple of plain blue tiles is much to look at? do u have any idea how crippled that os is? who polished it? with what?

Note to 4llerbuntu: 'UI' does not mean 'homescreen'. Why are you making this elementary mistake?!
Even if you were targeting the WP7 homescreen, the flat tiles are dynamic and aren't 'plain' by any stretch of the imagination. The minimalist 'metro' design has been hailed as a brilliant alternative to iOS and Android's grid of icons. If you cannot get a WP7 device to use first hand, download and install the free emulator and try it out instead of making comments ignorantly.

4llerbuntu:
haba tex, unless u work at ms and have seen what this magical end of the year state will be, put a sock in it. even symbian v3 looks better.

besides all we have is promises of what will/may come. for other platforms, the future is now! at least get this much vaunted copy n paste out first,

Now i have to conclude that you're trolling. Where were you when Microsoft showed off the upcoming features slated for a fall 2011 update, complete with a massively improved browser, Multitasking, significant OS tweaks for speed, wifi hotspots and others?

Saying symbian v3 looks better is definitely a trollish statement.

alex101:
At the sight of this noble flag, the enemies of Ndigbo tremble and fall before us. They are even dying of internal combustion one by one!

Unfortunate for you guys that they didn't 'tremble and fall' during the civil war, eh?

Why did Jonathan want the debate questions sent to him in advance? Na wa for PhD holders of nowadays o!

[quote author=Lord_Reed link=topic=617160.msg7855111#msg7855111 date=1299404012]My soul sheds tears for nokia in this their support of the wp7. I also think its a disaster waiting to happen and it will cost nokia very dearly.

IMO nokia should have gone the android route or at the very least brought symbian up to speed.

I use a win mobile phone and the only thing I gbadun is Opera mobile 10 touchscreen version. I know wp7 is miles ahead but if experience is anything to go by its that ms hardly get things right the first time except for maybe xbox I can't remember ms winning anything on first go around.

I really pray nokia reverses course before they hit the rocks.[/quote]Going with Android would have been the most stupid thing Nokia would have done.
One the low end, they'd have been slaughtered in Asia and the middle east by the wave of cheap Android phones from the likes of Huawei.

At the high end, Nokia would have been buried under the avalanche of new Android phones. Samsung released the Nexus S to much fanfare late last year. Barely 2 months later it has been consigned to the rubbish heap of history by Android fans salivating for the wave of dual core phones, including the Motorola Atrix, LG Optimus Black and even Samsung's own Galaxy S II. More powerful phones are incoming from Asus, Acer, Dell, etc. Nokia would have struggled to move the significant volumes they had been used to moving if they had joined the fray.
They certainly would have struggled to penetrate the US market with a high end Android device. Not when the Android spec wars are so crazy these days.

They can differentiate with Windows Phone 7 and that's why they went down that route. We'll see how it plays out but sticking with Symbian would have been a path to perdition.

I blame the former Nokia CEO and board. They should have bought Palm for cheap last year, taken WebOS as their own and run with it. Instead they let it fall into HP's clutches. Smh.

4llerbuntu:
say what u will, for me nokia backed the wrong horse, ms is not going to be at the levels of apple and android anytime soon. they should have stuck with maemo and opened it u; further and made it even more attractive to devs to undercut others. ms is perfectly capable of messing up all at one blow.

In terms of uniqueness and aesthetics, WP7 arguably crushes Android and iOS as is.
Copy and Paste and many other OS and UI enhancements are coming early march.
The 'Mango' update by end 2011 will add multitasking (handled more elegantly than iOS, i might add), significant speed ups, a significantly browser with GPU acceleration, free turn-by-turn navigation powered by Nokia's Ovi maps, Kinect integration and much more. At that time, there will be little difference between the three main OS.

Maemo and meego were going nowhere. Your beloved N900 ended up as a hobbyist device. There's not much more to be done to make your app store more attractive to devs than what the likes of apple (and now Microsoft and Google) are already doing with the 70/30 split. Ask RIM how they've fared with their big drive for devs in recent weeks.

4llerbuntu:
its just one thing u gotta respect apple for, they dont do fails

And as i've shown earlier, even iOS updates have been known to brick phones. iPhone 3G owners who updated to 4.0 had to suffer through excruciating slowdowns for a while until Apple released an update.

4llerbuntu:
am just thinking, if Nokia should by any means get any OS issues on any of their new phones running wp7, mahn that be really bad for business, besides, unlike samsung Htc, etc, they have chosen only one route, other OEMS have alternatives. for nokia its win or bust

which leads to my question when we were discussing the nokiasoft alliance befor, is MS going to allow nokia full acess to handle the OS as like? cos the only way to guarantee that quality is by nannying MS. they simply cannot afford OS debacles.

and from what im seeing, the first updates to wp7 are gonna be a big issue with OEM quirks.

they want to be like apple, control the ecosystem and os fully, but apple makes its own hardware, not just anybody from china or taiwan.

Nokia has had OS issues on most of their smartphones in recent years. The N96 was pathetic at launch, the N97 launch firmware was utterly abysmal. They fixed them with software updates. How come it's so different when Microsoft is involved?

There is no 'big issue with OEM quirks' here. That's just you blowing things out of proportion. Microsoft is doing something very admirable here; attempting to push out updates to all Wp7 devices in one go. No more begging carriers and manufacturers for updates (Android, i'm looking at you!). When the new update goes live this week, it'll be pushed out to all WP7 devices, including the affected Samsung Focus line.

People give microsoft a lot of flak for not being ambitious enough. Now they are, and i still see the complaints. Na wa.

For someone who claims to be abreast of tech, it's surprising that you didn't hear when Nokia and Microsoft re-iterated for the one millionth time that Nokia would be allowed to tweak and customize Win Phone 7 to a great extent. While i'm sure Nokia will add lots of value to the platform, i'm surprised you expect them to 'nanny' microsoft. Wasn't it the same Nokia that struggled with turning Symbian into a modern OS?

Without Nokia's help, Microsoft showed off several updates to WP7 expected this year that will bring it up to feature parity with iOS and Android in practically ALL respects. If you can't give them credit for it, they you haven't escaped your MS hatin' roots

So much FUD in your article, it's hilarious.

4llerbuntu:
what basically happened is that MS decided to release an update that prepares the phones for the first update dont ask me, ask M$ it also makes no sense to me.

the first time they tried it, a number of phones were bricked, some merely required reset, or factory wipes

second time, its simply not updating on some phones. thus far there have been attempts to tactically shift the blame to OEMs, particularly samsung, as most of the affected phones are samsung wp7 phone.

None of the phones were bricked.
I see nothing wrong with Microsoft's model. it's far preferrable to Android's at the moment, which leaves you at the mercy of the carrier or manufacturer. The issue affected only a few users of the Samsung Focus handset. ALL (not most) of the affected phones are from samsung.

4llerbuntu:
But Samsung isn't shipping this update. Microsoft is. If Microsoft is shipping an update that doesn't work, that's Microsoft's responsibility--even if the underlying issue is Samsung's. Before shipping an update for Samsung phones, Microsoft should make sure the update works on Samsung phones.And even if the underlying issue is Samsung's, compatibility with the update mechanism is something that should have been tested before a single device shipped, and it should be a license condition.

Sorry, the update works on all other models apart from some Samsung phones. Microsoft's taken responsibility and is clearly working towards a fix. This has no issue with 'compatibility with the update mechanism' as you erroneously claim. And even with serious testing, firmware updates in the wild can brick phones.

An OTA android update for the EVO 4G led to some bricks last year. (http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/customer-service/70320.html) Ditto for some motorola CLIQ users. PS3 gamers have had issues with bricks on some firmware updates.
iOS updates have led to errors aplenty in the past. Heck, a short while ago Apple had to yank an iOS 4.2 master for retooling after it disabled WiFi on iPads. Are you saying there was no testing done?

4llerbuntu:
A tighter, fully MS controlled ecosystem is one of the promises that brought people to WP7. We were supposed to get the hardware variety of Android, but with Microsoft forcing such strict guidelines on the underlying components and fully controlling the hardware, we were supposed to get the update experience of iOS. If you’re going to blame the OEM’s, then WP7 really has nothing on Andorid.

Microsoft doesn't fully control the hardware. They have strict minimum requirements, but that's it.
It's worth noting that Microsoft is the one taking all the steps to fix this issue, they aren't trying to sit it out and pass the buck onto Samsung.

Lol!

And at the same time, Youth Corps members are struggling to survive on a meagre stipend!
I thought the Amnesty program was meant to rehabilitate these fellows, not reward them. These people committed crimes against the state and were pardoned, must we now turn over all our money to them just because they were ex-millitants? Where is the Amnesty program for Boko Haram?