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wtf? a new se charger costs R250? any1 know where i can get one @ lower prices?
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Posted: 2006-08-29 16:11:13
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@brad: Why don't you just buy the generic one, at the authorised dealer they will set you back just under R100 and at the even cheaper side-street stores you can pay something like R50 for a new charger.
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Posted: 2006-08-29 16:22:32
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Good warning about the charger...means I have to stop jumping on mine...Anyone have any idea how much a w900i headset would cost, just for interrest sake...?
Oh yeah, wanted to go into the Mxit thing earlier...forgot. My brother is a teacher, Computer Science. In his school Cell phones are banned, but the kids have them around, and there is absolutely no way you can prevent this. During class if you dare tell them to stop or try to take their phones you get aggression, and this in a school where the kids are from our neighbouring area which is almost like the ghettos, so they would almost just about kill you.
Another interresting thing, my brother mentioned one of the kids parents told one of the teachers to spank his kid, the teacher refused, using the whole against the law thing as an excuse. The parent told the teacher to go to the court and police station, and find out about this...Aparently teachers are allowed to spank kids with parental concent, and only on their butts...Reason I bring this up is because we got spanked, and to an extend it seems to be the only thing that works...
Okay, now on a deeper note, go read this article about Congo...It broke my heart...Warning, it is long, and harsh....
www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=863
Tell me what you guys think. This is reality, and it gets ignored. I feel so powerless when I read stuff like this...
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Posted: 2006-08-29 16:39:11
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@francois: Damn, that article is fookin depressing. Some months back I spoke to barman at one my local haunts- he happens to be from Congo-Brazzaville and said the war in DRC was not fuelled by ideology but simply greed to control mineral resources.
Africa is a cruel place and the DRC delivers tales that are so depressing one could almost stop believing in the human spirit of ubuntu. They might stop fighting tommorow but war will rage in the place for years to come.
I would suggest anyone who hasn't seen it to watch
Lord of War which a brilliant satire about the arms trade and how Africa's mineral wealth fuel wars on the continent...also read the
The Wonga Coup a brilliant book about the failed coup bid in Equatorial Guinnea by mostly South African mercenaries.
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Posted: 2006-08-29 17:22:09
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Damn, that article really IS depressing, and you're right about feeling powerless, Francois... About the spanking thing, eish, ek weet nie so mooi nie, boet... I mean, from a legal point of view, as a teacher i'm in loco parentis when the child's in my care, and if the parent has given consent to certain aspects of the child's development/training it's all good, but i'm really doubtful about corporal punishment.
Having a bit of a legal background i've warned my head-idiot on a few occasions not to permit parents to whack their kids in his presence, when the parents are called to school to discuss the child's behaviour, or lack thereof. It infers that he is complicit in the beating, purely because he has permitted it...
What's more, there was an incident fairly recently where a parent had told a math teacher something similar, about having permission to discipline her daughter. The teacher was subsequently arrested, charged and convicted after the girl laid a charge of assault with the police... all because he took one of those clear standard plastic rulers and hit her twice over the palm with it... I mostly solve the problem in my classes by making them do physical work after classes, i.e. cleaning the playing areas, weeding, etc but even this doesn't deter some of them... And yebo, with some kids it's wise not to push one's luck too much- you're asking for a knifing, shots fired in your direction or your car stoned... These are interesting times in which we live, folks
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Posted: 2006-08-29 17:43:00
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What a disturbing article.
Imagine what other atrocities could be written about so many other troublesome African spots, like Somalia, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Rwanda, Zim...
But with the west clandestinely fueling many of these conflicts as a greed-driven means to an end, as the point was made at the end of that article, who indeed are the greater savages...?
Did you guys see Michael Moore's satirical yet incredible 'Bowling for Columbine' and 'Fahrenheit 9/11'?
I'll never forget that song by controversial Yank rap-rockers Rage Against The Machine music video, Sleep Now in the Fire, when the band and Michael Moore had an impromptu venue for the song's music video.... outside Wall Street Stock Exchange, (and included satirical renditions of Who Wants to be a Millionaire) which led to the stock exchange dramatically closing early and the band and Mr. Moore being whisked away by the police...
http://www.michaelmoore.com/w[....]dex.php?messageDate=2000-08-26
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_Now_in_the_Fire
Yeah, and Tom Morello remains one of the world's greatest guitarists!!!
(Now plays for Audioslave with the former Soundgarden frontman after RATM's frontman Zach de la Rocha went his separate way.)
[ This Message was edited by: amawanqa on 2006-08-29 17:11 ]
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Posted: 2006-08-29 18:06:26
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I must say, rage has been a favourite back in the days...remember driving through margate with a pal playing fcuk the police loudly...such a funny track! The police, our best friends yet our worst enemy sometimes...
Thank you guys for reading that article. Have this myspace friend who complains about such petty nonsense, and when you read articles like this you want to shake people like that, and let them know how well they have it, how well we have it. I just wish there was a way i could make people more aware of this. I have a friend who is a refugee from there. It is a good life for him here, but i have an idea what hell it must be to have family back home, living in a country like that. He is such an excellent chap...
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Posted: 2006-08-30 01:40:29
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Carphone Warehouse in the UK have again dropped the price of the D600, now only £109.95 (approx R1400) when bought with £10 airtime.
Not too shabby...
http://www.carphonewarehouse.[....]OFFER&tabname=PREPAYTAB&slot=8
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Posted: 2006-08-30 12:41:25
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@da wanqsta: Seriously, who's going to buy a D600...it's an overall crap phone although it's video capabilities are way ahead of similiar nodels from
Where it does ultimately suck is at taking pictures...2megapixel my ass, at times it's camera looks worse then a 1.3megapixel.
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Posted: 2006-08-30 13:06:43
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@ brixster,
Would it not be fair to say that there are many out there who would happily pay R1400 for a D600, who do not know what you and I know as regards the handset's limitations, and probably some just don't care. An example, two D600's were sent home with family on Sunday for some past-pupils of mine who have been after D600's for some time. (They had paid in Rands the equivalent prior to me purchasing them).
No amount of SE-cheerleading from my part seemed to work (bordering on sounding geekish to hopefully override their narrow-focussed approach)...it was a 'sought-after' Samsung that they were after...a kinda blind devotion that perhaps the D500 helped establish amongst many SA consumers.
In short, some consumers quite frankly couldn't be arsed if the phone has a more inferior cam or whatever; it seems that consumers like these are more concerned about what's 'en vogue' amongst their circles of friends...
In examples like these, it's a case of 'sad but true.'
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Posted: 2006-08-30 14:01:28
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