w00pla2

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by w00pla2 16y ago
> he's just regurgitating conspiracy theories that float around in right-wing circles as Firstly, I am not "right wing". I am libertarian and socially liberal. > as a way to explain their often public embarrassments. This is exactly
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by w00pla2 16y ago
> Everyone I know is fully aware of how some groups are treated in SA. Nope. Most people will simply not get the nuances. I sincerely doubt (no offense) that you know anything about the situation (economic, cultural, etc...) of several
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by w00pla2 16y ago
I am no fan of Roodt, but the Daily Show did its best to misrepresent his nuanced view. Here is a really bad translation on his website (praag.co.za): http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&h...
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by w00pla2 16y ago
> I think it's pretty clear they are a comedic satire show when they do their interviews. Nope. They often have interviews under false pretenses (the interviewee doesn't know he is from the daily show). The questions and the persons fac
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by w00pla2 16y ago
> Journalism does exist, but you have to go to the locals to find it. By narrowing their focus, they're able to limit the costs. There are many facets of journalism (including regional papers). Regional papers are surviving. But the fa
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by w00pla2 16y ago
> Journalism is doing fine. You're just looking in the wrong places. Nope. Journalism isn’t doing fine. The majority of papers that do good investigative journalism have serious financial problems. > Can you cite something? Here is
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by w00pla2 16y ago
I guess I will be heavily downmodded today. > According to the article, there is a 1.8 million viewer base per night. It gets viewed more often than that (through video streaming). It also appears on CNN International at different times
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by w00pla2 16y ago
> I'm a 20 something and know quite a few of them. Quite a few of my friends view this as a "serious" news show. If you do not believe this, look at any large social site such as Reddit (where the Daily Show is taken as a serious news s
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by w00pla2 16y ago
John Stewart’s show is probably the worst show that someone could create. He does not even attempt to be objective. A large part of 20 somethings use this as their main news source. It is sad when people are not willing to watch news for ne
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by w00pla2 16y ago
> The value of the entire Greek church is in the billions of euros, and nothing is taxed. You know that NGOs are also not taxed? I personally find a lot of people who are against religion who wants churches taxed. The only reason is tha
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by w00pla2 16y ago
> Large numbers of poor/mediocre teachers and small class sizes are not necessarily better than good teachers with larger class sizes. I suspect that this probably referred to class sizes of 15 (small) and 30 (large). In South Africa, a
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by w00pla2 16y ago
> They have similar technology for farming, too. This is called "Precision agriculture". Tractors and equipment enabled with this can throw the precise amount of fertilizer/seeds at specific points. Probably quite a hot topic in farming
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by w00pla2 16y ago
> The conventional wisdom on class sizes is being challenged currently. This is a statement without any meaning. Yeah, large class sizes with 800 students is OK in college. But it is a huge as difference between primary schools and seco
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by w00pla2 16y ago
> There was a lot amount of duplication between racially segregated institutions, and cutting administration costs is a good idea. Yeah, closing them down isn’t such a good idea. You know that most universities which merged basically cl
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by w00pla2 16y ago
> but the rest of the world coming together and imposing sanctions. Maybe. It is just ironic that they are standing in line to do business with countries such as Equatorial Guinea ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teodoro_Obiang_Nguema_Mba
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by w00pla2 16y ago
Look here, I am not in support of Apartheid (or the current system for that matter). The fact is that Apartheid could not work (for a multitude of reasons, including economic reasons). But a lot of attacks on Apartheid ignore the basic fac