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gReenmAn:
There's no naivety here.

Someone being South or Central American does not automatically infer they must be coup plotters.
That is a wildly unreasonable generalization, racial profiling if you like!

No. That's poor deductive reasoning on your part.
Central America has been infamous for armed revolution, insurgency and counter insurgency in the past. Most of these actions have had career army officer in the starring role. Now since a large amount of these officers have been trained in Fort Benning, the odds are you'll find Fort Benning graduates implicated in many of these human rights violation cases.

gReenmAn:
I just googled "School Of Assassins" and came up with some astonishing results.

Number 1: The school actually exists!

Here's a cryptic analyses of the school and its alumni:

2. The School of the Americas (SOA) is a military training school for Latin American soldiers. SOA is an official program of the U.S. government, funded by the government and run by the U.S. Armed Forces since 1946. SOA graduates have long been implicated in terrorism, human rights violations, coercion, and atrocities committed against civilian populations across Latin America.

3. What do Col. Byron Lima Estrada of Guatemala, Lt. Josê Espinoza Guerra and General Juan Orlando Zepeda, both of El Salvador, and General Juan López Ortiz of Mexico have in common?

And what do Panama's Manuel Noriega, Argentina's Leopoldo Galtiere, Peru's Juan Velasco Alvarado, Ecuador's Guillermo Rodriguez, and Bolivia's Hugo Banzer have in common? They have all been dictators in their countries, and they were all trained at the School of the Americas. Because of them, and others, many people call the U.S. Army's School of the Americas the "School of Coups." They are all murderers. They were all trained at the School of the Americas. Because of them, and because of thousands of others like them, many people call U.S. Army's School of the Americas the "School of Assassins."

Don't be naive. What are the odds that thousands of career army officers from South and Central American countries would be trained in a school and many of them would not turn out to be coup plotters/tyrants?

Now, this is truly amusing.
Someone spins a tale in which he alleges that people are being trained to 'fight lions barehanded and battle with crocodiles' and you people are here wondering if the guy is credible.

There are hundreds of books written by ex SAS and US Navy SEAL commandos. all of them provide an expose on the tough physical training they receive. And NONE of them spend any time battling crocodiles or lions. Yet all these men retain their physique long into retirement. One look at the portly Abacha, and you get the feeling that this man is just pulling out this info from his ass.

As to a journalist blackmailing a millitary head of state, i leave you to judge the plausibility of that tale.

It has a hard disk inside, and it definitely has to have a mass storage mode for its multimedia features. Once the piracy breakthrough begins, it will be no more secure than the existing models.
The sole reason for this is a last desperate attempt by Sony to challenge the supremacy of the Nintendo DS handheld, compete for the lucrative multimedia market and try and combat the strong challenge from Apple's Ipod Touch and iPhone handhelds, which have strongly come into their own in t he past couple of months.

ElRazur:
It would be hard to hack this one. Games for it would be via downloadable content. Meaning, even if hacked it would be patched again with a new update - New games wont play without the update.

This has been Sony's strategy since 2005. it hasn't worked one bit.

ElRazur:
No one is asking you to buy one. Dont forget that prices will probably vary in different regions.

sony is asking me and every other consumer to buy this handheld. As long as i have the means and i fit in the demographic Sony is after, my patronage (and that of millions of others worldwide) are being sought. And like many others who have seen this, i'm underwhelmed.

ElRazur:
As for you claiming it is an epic fail. Do you even know what that means? How can it be a fail when it isnt on sale yet? Gosh. As for the aesthetic, remember that one man's ugliness is another man's thing of beauty.

It's called gauging the market. The vast majority of people responding to this have been underwhelmed, especially with respect to the price. When Engadget, CNET, Gizmodo et al react so negatively to the price, you've got the idea.
There's a HUGE used games market in the US and Europe. It's worth billions of dollars yearly. I've you've been to Europe or the US in recent times you'd see the growing number of used games shops and the expanding sections for used games. To cut things short, you cannot buy second hand PSP Go games, you cannot trade in used PSP Go games and you cannot sell off your used PSP Go games. For millions of consumers, that's a downer.

ElRazur:
. You may have to pay for it, if not, stick to your psp3000. How hard is that? No one is forcing you.

I'll go out on a limb and say you've never been involved in marketing before. it's a funny thing that i've only ever heard this 'no-one is forcing you' phrase from Nigerians, a people that are perhaps the least informed about consumer rights in the world .

I sincerely doubt any Sony rep would make this kind of statement.

I will pay N1000000 to anyone who kills the original poster, enziga.
There are too many fools in the world. I'll gladly pay the sum to rid nigeria of this retard.

lol
Only a brain dead manatee would believe that the PS3 Cell can come close to matching a Core i7 processor.
Funniest thing i've heard all year.

@ElRazur
no matter how much you try to polish a lump of shit, it's still shit.
For more money than the normal PSP ($249) you get a smaller screen and an uglier design, incompatibility with all physical media released on UMD so far and no 2nd analog stick.
On this PSP, there's no way to resell old games or trade or exchange games. That is an Epic FAIL right there, my friend.

Obalende:
from the first time i saw it, i didnt really like it. it was heavy on graphics but poor in perfromance. many things that were intuitive to perform in xp now require one or two additional steps. the operating system is unstable and heavy on system resources. the MS office that comes with it is also crap. why didnt Microsoft think before releasing this product. and its forced down people's throats through coming pre-installed in most systems. AVOID VISTA, EMBRACE XP OR LINUX! this is microsoft innovation gone mad.

What most people don't know is that the vast majority of Vista users are happy with the switch. The system requirements for Vista are higher than that of XP (naturally), but as soon as you can meet or exceed the recommended specs, all should be well. From rigorous benchmarks, Vista SP1 gives a performance similar to XP. There's also the added layer of security and stability built into Vista.

Vista is a prime example of an OS that has failed to shake off a bad name that was unfairly attributed to it early on. That's all. It's by no means a bad OS.

PS: It's really silly to call Office 2007 'crap' compared to 2003. It's significantly enhanced in every way. I mean, i myself dislike the new 'ribbon' interface, but the suite itself is solid.

biina:
The exam body said that they simply corrected the online representation of the scores.
Nigerian newspapers should not cry wolf unnecessarily.

So why were all the 'corrections' all increases? and why irregular increases?

No matter. The easy way will be to take some scripts at random and manually mark them to ensure accuracy.

It's ugly as hell. 90% of commenters on Engadget and Gizmodo agree with me. The screen's smaller, and they missed out on a golden chance to add dual analog sticks.

Meh.

Chuckdee:
Yessir! I am not using the HDD capacity as a point of reference rather I was referring to the particular type of console, U most be aware there r diff versions of these consoles and the Elite for example is the TOP of the version for the 360 with most features inclusive out of the box! Moreover since they are also not all about just games rather Multimedia devices, I should think the higher the HDD the better or what do you say?

Yes, everyone knows the Xbox isnt region free so this is an NTSC.
One luv

Not really. Everything is on a price-to-performance ratio, so a higher HDD size you'll likely not fill up will cost extra money you can spend elsewhere.
I have a 60GB PS3 with less than 30GB in use. The PS3 doesn't upscale movie files, so it isn't of much use as a DivX player if you have alternatives.

This is a terrible bill indeed. Why should students' progress be tied to mastery of a non-national language, considering the fact that all entrances to higher institution is done based on common criteria of Maths, English and several other subjects relevant to the person's choice of specialization?
Does this mean that non-igbos studying in such schools are in effect forced to master the language or be drummed out?

Any bill that seeks to impose a financial levy as punishment to young school kids who fail exams must be opposed. unless, of course, the Anambra house is the one taking care of the child's school fees.

Chuckdee:
Sure thing bro, Just give me a call soon as you are ready. We are concerned with satisfying only the very serious gamers in 9ja!

Cheers!

Since when did HDD size become the yardstick by which a gamer's seriousness is measured?

Is the 360 NTSC or PAL? It ain't region free, ya know.

Tornadoz:
OK Pete the threat is from Chinese farms. Happy now?
So buying land is akin to building military bases eh?  We should allow America to build bases around us because Chinaman decides to farm. You so slavishly follow America that your intellect is under siege and you can do better than leaving a link that directly advocated Western govts go take what rightfully belongs to them (in this case Africa). For someone who continuously denies he's pro American, your post is irredeemably one sided. You're not pro US and yet you go by the moniker Texazzpete, (a statement of affiliation).  Abeg carry your America go jare.

Ah. My old adversary Tornadoz makes an appearance on cue. Sadly it seems your long absence has not improved your intellect one bit.
US bases are strictly on invitation, and they have no foothold once the host nation decides they are unwelcome. Selling lands or leasing lands for 99 years to the Chinese is a permanent loss of resources. Permanent vs Temporary is a concept even a retarded dolt like yourself should understand.

As i've said one million times on this forum, i see no reason why you would judge someone based on his/her username and not opinions. Perhaps - as i strongly suspect - you know deep down you cannot counter logic with your particular brand of foolish babble?
No matter. Texazzpete was derived from Texaspete, the baddie in the SuperTed series. When i stated this before, were you blind?
I've always considered you to be a foolish, long winded bore. Thanks for showing me you're irredeemable.

Yep!
The online buzz is VERY favourable towards Windows 7 and Microsoft these days. It's perhaps the most stable beta i've ever tested.
Best of all, Win 7 runs perfectly on Netbooks!!

Funny that we treat our millitary with so much disdain. I hope when we do fight our next war, all you intelligent people volunteer to go fight the battles for us.

As a somewhat patriotic Nigeria, given the choice of our millitary and the thieving dogs called millitants, It's clear who gets my backing.

No2Atheism:
Those that know about atrocities of China should go ahead and post it rather than sit down in front of the chair acting holier than thou and pointing accusing fingers of incompetence.

What do we focus on, what's actually on ground or mere conjecture?
Read this
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23517837-details/How+China's+taking+over+Africa,+and+why+the+West+should+be+VERY+worried/article.do

No2Atheism:
2. I bet most people do not even realise that there were Black Indigenous people in the American continent long time before the start of slavery. Hence not all black people in America are africans or slave descendants (despite that the Eurocentric media would want you to believe that)

What has this got to do with colonisation? The 'mound builders' - if they ever really existed - had long since died out before Columbus set foot in America

No2Atheism:
3. To the person who says Africom does not have enough soldiers, please have you ever heard of something called the Trojan horse and trickling water drops making a mighty ocean. Africom does not need to deploy all soldiers needed, all they need to do is initially get a foothold in Africa, once they do that, then it becomes easy to gradually increase the number of troops.
- Do you sincerely think America would withdraw its forces from Africa if they have something to benefit militarily and financally
- Do you think US was in Kuwait, Iraq and Afganistan because of morals or right wrong.
US policies are dictated by money and greed simple and straight forward.

Africom would not deploy in one day, they would gradually deploy and spread out to areas with natural resources.

Have you asked yourself why US never interfered in Liberia, Rwanda during their wars (simple, it was because they felt that they had nothing to gain there financially).

It would be a good idea to visit dictionary.com and check for the difference between facts and conjecture. The US army is already severely stretched by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why would it be possible to declare war on even more countries?
Here's an example of a fact: Even with the incessant piracy off the coast of Somalia, and despite some suggestions to move some troops ashore to combat the pirates, the US administration has shied off that plan. Does that fit into the mould you're trying to suggest?

No2Atheism:
- Do you sincerely think America would withdraw its forces from Africa if they have something to benefit militarily and financally

As long as they are welcomed by the host nation and have something to gain, why should they? Why should any country, for that matter?

No2Atheism:
Have you asked yourself why US never interfered in Liberia, Rwanda during their wars (simple, it was because they felt that they had nothing to gain there financially).

Hah. what did the US have to gain from their participation in Somalia in the '90s? How much money and oil did they gain from the NATO war with Milosevic, in which the US was the chief sponsor and participant?
And you really don't know that The US donated a significant amount of materiel to the ECOMOG forces during the Liberian conflict?

No2Atheism:
5. Africom is not in Africa's interest, hence it should never be allowed in Africa.
No European would ever allow any foreign country to dominate and control their country and their resources on their behalf, hence why must Africa allow the same.

So why are we letting China buy up our land and oil prospects?

No2Atheism:
6. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nucleared bombed despite that Japan had already surrendered, hence please all those of you insulting Horus because what he is saying sounds like conspiracy should please sit down study history and current events before going ahead to insult him for at least speaking the truth on this occassion.

Now i know the level of intelligence and literacy of the person i'm discussing with. If you truly believe the text in bold, then you need to do a whole lot more reading and research. Sorry to be so brutally blunt, but that statement is inexcusable.[quote][/quote]

While people like Horus are desperately searching for boogeymen from the West, China is buying up thousands of acres of African land to convert to farms for the sole purpose of feeding the Chinese. That's Arable african soil gone forever. Add to that the insatiable grab for oil prospects and you can easily see where the real threat is coming from.

tboy1:
^^ how much r u looking to pay?

What's your price? Any contact number i can reach you on?

@Infoseye/Coolnaira
You disappoint me greatly. All i did was to ask you if you were using a 3g iPhone now, since the speeds you're quoting are not technically possible for EDGE/GPRS. Just in case you need further confirmation, Wikipedia says

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPRS
The maximum speed of a GPRS connection offered in 2003 was similar to a modem connection in an analog wire telephone network, about 32-40 kbit/s, depending on the phone used. Latency is very high; round-trip time (RTT) is typically about 600-700 ms and often reaches 1 s. GPRS is typically prioritized lower than speech, and thus the quality of connection varies greatly.
and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDGE
EDGE can carry data speeds up to 236.8 kbit/s (with end-to-end latency of less than 150 ms) for 4 timeslots (theoretical maximum is 473.6 kbit/s for 8 timeslots) in packet mode

No one here has accused you of lying, instead we all assumed you may have been mistaken. Why the histronics, then? I find your comments about knowledge sharing for cash very puzzling. As far as i know, unlike the larger Phone section, none of the foremost iPhone exponents (myself, logica, Ex, lungwun, cabali etc) are hungry students or people who are so desperate for dough that we extort hapless individuals for a pittance.

Perhaps you'd appreciate why i find your 'waste of time' comment rather ironic. I just spent 30 mins this morning plus one of my precious Verbatim Dual Layer DVDs (which i bought from piccadily circus strictly for copying Xbox 360 games after scouring innumerable internet forums) to burn all my ipa apps for you. And i've never met you before.

What's done is done. Send me your details via SMS today and i'll send the disc to you, then i can draw curtains on this chapter. In the future, however, you may want to read carefully and understand before replying.
As i said before, you disappoint me greatly.

LOl. These dumbos don't realize that ALMOST EVERYTHING In Nigeria is heavily dependent on oil sales. Even our electricity generation is largely from gas turbines. Once the harsh realities set in, all these childish comments will be replaced by sorrow, regret and despair.

@Jakumo
When you think 'creeks', stop visualizing the twisted jungles of Vietnam. There are lots of open spaces the Navy can easily exploit, plus they have unchalleged air superiority.
The Millitants rely on surprise attacks and ambushes in numbers with speedboats. Once their camps are destroyed and the millitants dispersed, their ability as a credible fighting force will take a serious beating.
All the Navy has to do is starve them. Cut off their crude oil buyers, stop the state Governments from giving them 'peace' money and then make sure they kill as many of the millitants as possible to reduce their ranks. That'll do the trick.

Going through the forum, i'm shocked how people exhibit this much lack of patriotism. If a critical eye is cast on MEND, what have they to show for their struggle except to further retard development, create far more insecurity in the Delta and - HORROR OF HORRORS - to open the Pandora's box in Nigeria called Kidnapping.

To put this is perspective, even a brain dead manatee should know that Kidnapping for ransom will NEVER end again in Nigeria.

MEND killed several JTF personnel in cold blood. These people signed up to protect the country, and despite all flaws are our first line of defense - love 'em or hate 'em. These people have wives, kids, parents, families. They were breadwinners and fathers to many families. And all you lot can do is to demonise them, broadly apply a stereotype of them being thieves (even when the level of corruption in the army is merely a reflection of the Nigerian mindset) and sickeningly refer to them as 'dirty stinking Hausas/fulanis' (tell me, when was the last time any of you clowns carried out an assesment of the ethnic composition analysis of the JTF before concluding that all of them come from the north?). Is North = Evil?

Like it or not, the JTF is our army, and we need to avoid this knee-jerk criticism of everything they do. While i strongly criticise the indiscriminate use of force and i despair of the lack of precision shown by an exuberant army corps, they really must react to this provocation by tackling these MEND parasites head on. That is how it is.

[quote author=Tha_dude link=topic=276771.msg3943480#msg3943480 date=1243565719]Mend requires a joker to win the war, they require surface to air launchers these are just like RPG the difference is that once lunched they sense for the heat of the jets before exploding which makes them 100% accurate. That was what the Afghans used in defeating the russians and bring them to their kneels. If the militants are able to secure that weapon in 3days Niger-delta will declare independence from Nigeria. Any tribe thinking of breaking away from the fraud called Nigeria should first think about how to get surface to air missles. Its a highly classified U.S weapon tho! All they need is another charlie wilson in the U.S senate, just as charlie made the Afghan-russian war his personal war. Without the help of charlie to secure the Surface to air lunchers the Afghans would have bleed.[/quote]1. I think most people already know what a Surface-To-Air missile is
2. Heat Seeking SAMs have been in existence since the 50s, and they are made and sold by over 30 countries worldwide - Not solely the US. Highly classified my ass.
3. While modern SAMs have a higher accuracy, the Afgham war era Sparrow missiles and the SAM 7s aren't nearly 100% accurate. To the fair, they are pretty lethal against helicopters without countermeasures. I really doubt the Naijan helos pack flares. . .

I asked that for two reasons

1. You placed an iphone 2G 8Gb for sale here recently
2. The speeds you're quoting are way above what EDGE/GPRS can deliver,

Afaukwu:
Those tribes you mentioned should speak for themselves, just like I speak for mine.  I have heard enough of how Igbos are the bad guys of Nigeria to warrant a sustained vociferous defense of mine. If you do not like my approach, take a plunge.

So your idea of a defense is to head down the same tribalistic route you condemn others for, abi?

Wastepipe.

The Halliburton scam involved $180 billion. Is that what you're referring to as a scam that 'rendered Nigeria comatose'?

Remember the Andy Uba saga?!

Infoseye:
@Cabali and Texazzpete I use my Iphone as a modem to browse the net via Edge on Mtn yet to try it on Etisalat and Zain, Have you guys tried this before? My speed is 2Mb plus at times 3mb/kbs but on Wi-FI is 5mb/kbs sharp! It was cool browsing using the iPhone as a modem, I wish Etisalat starts their data plan like Mtn and Zain it will be much more faster than Mtn and Zain.
To get this software google Imodem, it connects and configure itself on the iPhone and Pc for wifi,edge and GPRS depending on your choice and guess what it's a free software. I tried other softwares  they gave me trouble at configuring but the imodem is the bomb!
I decided to share this with you guys Texazzpete and Cabali because of the help you guys gave me from the scratch thanks to you guys I have become an iphone genius to an extent sha lol! Am tired, been on online since 7pm yesterday takecare guys.
IPHONE ROCKS!!!

So you finally got an iPhone 3g, huh?

Will try and burn my ipa apps on a DVD and send over to you. Probably this weekend.

Afghan and Pakistai civilians are killed daily by US missile strikes. They should clean oiut their house before getting in our business!

freed:
I dont support militancy but your country soldiers(hausa, yoruba) attacked civilains not militants if you dont know.
the militants are in the creeks, mangrove, swamp whatever dem dey call am. they know where those militants are, just go into the creeks and meet hundreds of them. the militants have home advantage and their environment is also an advantage just like vietnam war. when the hausa soldiers decide to go into the creeks and fight them, they die like ants. your nigerian soldiers should man up and go into the creeks and stop killing innocent civilians.

So where do you think Camp 5, the strongest millitant base in Delta, is located? Or the Iroko forest base? The JTF have been attacking the millitant bases.

MEanwhile, where exactly have you been getting your casualty report from? How sure are you that those numbers are just propaganda?

Iranoladun:
The issue of Niger Delta cannot be silenced by a million JTF in a thousand year unless the source of a malaise is address/cure FG & her JTF will keep treating the symptoms which may give a deceptful albeit temporary peace! Reasonable compensation & ensuring the state/LG and the oil companies develop the ND & respect international treaties on oil exploration and safety/preservation of the environment. Anyone on this forum who has not lived or visited the Niger Delta region in the last ten years cannot really appreciate the level of deprivations & damages.

And how the hell do you ensure the state and local governments develop the state? Yar Adua has no power to remove an elected Governor. Only the people can, through the ballot box. And it's only when they recognise the need to heap the blame on their State and LG leaders that they can start making moves to force their leaders to do the right thing.
Instead all we have are 'elders' meeting to dole blame on others. Look at MEND threatening Northerners instead of the elected local government chairmen and governors who fail to build schools, repair roads and help create jobs.

I repeat, the bayelsa state Govt was paying millitants N200 million monthly for 'peace'. It's an open secret that the Delta state govt pays out huge sums to these miscreants too. How will the state get developed when such huge amounts are paid out to hoodlums instead of being used for development?