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Life As An African Web Developer
There's an interesting look at the realities of high-tech in Africa running on NewsForge -- specifically, one writer's account of starting a web development company in Ghana, dealing with obstacles including power problems worse than the norm in deepest California.
This was probably not posted by someone from the U.S., but by someone just trying to get everyone riled up. People seem to think it's fun to criticize the U.S. these days. No matter what the article is about, the posts degrade into criticism of the U.S. This is a linux site, remember? If it was posted by someone in the U.S., it certainly doesn't represent everyone's opinion here. If you take garbage like that as representative of American values, you obviously have never been here. Yeah, there may be people like that here, but aren't there people like that where you live, too? People that speak without thinking, hate others out of fear of the unknown, etc. live everywhere, not just in the U.S. Do I assume you are an idiot just because your neighbor is? Regarding the post,I find it troubling that someone could so blatantly dismiss the problems of others and other nations. The post is so over the top that I can't believe that someone really felt that way. It's an obvious attempt to stir up anti-American sentiment in a forum where it doesn't belong.
I walked into a NAACP meeting and they kicked me out. They told me they don't like powder on their chocolate doughnuts. I told them I just wanted a danish, but they wouldn't listen and threw me on the streets.
I'm just a doughnut delivery guy that sells doughnut-hole web servers on my night job. Where can I get any respect? Their isn't a National Association Advancment White People (NAAWP) or Jewish People (NAAJP) around, so where do I go to sell my technology? And don't tell me about dead-fly servers...I already had a customer sue me for a dead fly in his soup server.
they have computers?
That would be the softPORN capital of the world then :)
"The proposed addendum to the Patriot Act, which the Justice Department has insisted is only a draft of ideas, would enlarge many of the controversial provisions in the first Patriot Act. It would give the government authority to wiretap an individual and collect a person's DNA without court orders, detain people in secret and revoke citizenship, among other powers."
I think gasoline prices are rising more due to the fact of something called LIMITED SUPPLY.
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Go read it sometime, it's pretty interesting, and was how I first became aware of this subject. Dunno if I'll ever move to africa... but hey, it's just one more idea to kick around for the remainder of your 70-some years on the planet.
not sure how you rank this first post?
But Mali is a great place.