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Yes! It is not free to offer a university education. Either you pay (through taking out a loan), your parents pay or the taxpayer pay. Seeing as how many people waste time and mone…

> In the links in my original post 'Lt. Gen. Marshall Carter, the director of the NSA, Blah blah blah. An investigation of the US government concluded that the attack was an accide…

> The sale of the Phalcon radar to China is recent. You mentioned the USS Liberty and then I mentioned that it happened long ago. Then you mention something completely different an…

> I do not believe would normally get reported in the US media. Why? Because you believe in a conspiracy of US news companies? This is laughable. If you cannot read these stories t…

> Rhodes was known as "The Empire Builder" Maybe you misunderstood me. You say that he was a selfless Empire Builder - i.e. he had some zeal to build the English Empire for the goo…

> He was an empire builder Rhodes was not an Empire Builder. He was a company builder. His company was the British South African Company ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Sout…

> it was always about worshiping those who succeeded, regardless of how bad they had been, as long as they did some good at some point. This is extremely true! Probably the best ex…

Personally I found the movie "Children of the secret state" http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b50_1188117332 extremely moving. It is video shot inside N. Korea illegally and exported …

Hmmmm... The software industry in South Africa faces several problems. Probably the first problem is that computer science teaching and research sucks. This is not my opinion but b…

> Nor do I propose immigrants have automatic citizens' votes, Whether you propose it or not, they will fight it. And they will get citizenship through other means (such as ancor ba…

> My position is that states shouldn't be empowered to allow or deny immigration, because freedom of movement is a human right. Any government is a sovereign nation. The laws are d…

The problem with immigration is that it can never be undone. There is no Ctrl-Z with immigration. Germany would for instance never get rid of the non-assimilating Turkish populatio…

Look, you can be a smartass and try to criticize other's beliefs. But at least know what the beliefs of others are. Criticizing a group of people based on your own naivety of their…

> Zimbabwe and consequently it's the only place in Africa you can see a full wilderbeest migration. The biggest problem is space (for wildebeest migration for example). You need la…

> The real story is that local villagers are not allowed to kill elephants and are fined if they do so. The real back-story is that Zimbabwe used to have a fairly urbanized populat…

> PS: I spent my childhood and early 20's in South Africa and we hate this great-white-hunter tourist shit, but it sure pays the bills if you're the driver guide or booking agent. …

> Humans are not an endangered specie –they are often a plague (due to limited natural predators, long life expectancy and the availability of water). Tragically enough, in Africa …

Here is an article by Ron Thompson: http://www.shakariconnection.com/culling-elephants-in-KNP.ht...

Then search the internet for sources - there are many. I cannot search properly (because it turns out the a country full of elephants has a lousy (and expensive) internet connectio…

> As someone who has worked with ecologists in the field on a number of wildlife projects in rural Africa, I find this to be truly repugnant. Really? You know that the majority of …

> It strikes me as kind of strange that some newspapers have absolutely no problem citing tweets as sources of information That disease struck CNN extremely hard. It is not a news …

How do you identify yourself if there are no IDs? How do you identify illegal immigrants? I have a national identity document, and I fail to see the problem with it.

> Or the 500,000 people who have donated to Wikipedia? How many of those that donated thought that the advertisements would disappear after they gave money?

Maybe, but there are other factors. Firstly, the question is the size. Were all the advertisements the same size? (i.e. were they all images or were some text - like google adwords…

> Why are people so consistently negative about Wikipedia? I am not negative about Wikipedia, but about its management. The add campaign was distasteful and I suspect just an ego t…