Geel_jire

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  1. A French property tycoon enraged at his government's plans to ban women from wearing the full veil in public has promised a fund of €1m (£830,000) to help any Muslim who is fined for wearing the niqab in the street. Rachid Nekkaz, a businessman of Algerian origin who launched a short-lived campaign in the 2007 presidential elections, has already put €200,000 into a bank account aimed at bailing out women who find themselves on the wrong side of the new law. He insists that the ban, which was approved by the lower house of parliament on Tuesday and is set to be ratified by the senate in September, is "anti-constitutional" and a move that could put France on a slippery slope towards greater intolerance. While he has no problem – like most of the French population – with an idea initially mooted by MPs of banning the full veil in state areas such as town halls and post offices, he is vehemently against a law that applies to women simply walking down the street. "I am very, very sensitive to when people start playing around with institutions and the constitution. I was not shocked by the idea of a ban in public services; I am a [French] republican. But when I saw the president – the guarantor of the constitution – announcing a ban in the street I said to myself, 'this is serious'". Nekkaz, who says his fund received €36,000 in donations in the 24 hours following its announcement and hopes it will reach €1m by September, is selling properties in the Parisian suburbs to keep the money coming in. Under the planned law, any woman found wearing a face-covering veil anywhere in public faces a possible fine of €150 as well, potentially, as a course in "citizenship". However, if she has been fined for wearing the garment in the street, she will be able to pay the charge from Nekkaz's fund. The law, he hopes, will be made "inapplicable". "I think this would never happen in the United States or the United Kingdom … France is a country which is not scared to compromise its principles," he said. Nekkaz, a Muslim, is not the only one to have raised concerns about the viability of the law, due to come into full effect by spring next year. France's constitutional watchdog has twice warned that it could be found to infringe personal freedoms. May allah reward him tenfold !
  2. ^ call it Revenge or countet-attack .. whatever makes you feel better it is all semantics. but tell me why you think they have the right to shell our civilians with impunity or consequences ? is it because you think ugandese blood is worth more than somali blood ?
  3. ^ The mujaahidin are as tough as nails .. and they have prove that time and again. those of you u barooranaya these ugandese ... ma u baroorateen the men,woman and children that the ugandese mercanaries have killed indiscrimanately in muqadisho. why should they have peace when they are terrorizing our people in their homes and shelling them indiscrimantely, do you think they have a monopoly on creating orphans and widows ? 64 is infatestimal ! the ugandan mercanareis are directly responsible for more than an order of magnitude more than a mere 64. I'm still not convinced it was Al-shabaab .. but if it was, it is completely understable .. a different target would have acheived better results such as the ugandese military or government .. but noone is perfect.
  4. I dont see the corellation warya. dont try to pass off your observation as a corellation and as A&T said it does not imply causation. in grad school in the Math, Physics & engineering departments the religous outnumbered the atheists ... atheists had huge majority in the liberal arts departments. this was my observation anyway.
  5. This Musical Chairs game must get boring when you control less than 2 square kilometers of the capital city
  6. Maalin wanaagsan reer Troll. by Qadar I have become the manager of a guy who was my manager ~2 years ago in another company.. now if only he was a !@#$ to me back then .. waan ka aarsan lahaa .. lakin the fool just had to be a great manager thereby depriving me of the chance to exact retribution today .. maybe that is justification enough :mad:
  7. dadow this is getting out of hand. beenta aad nagu afuufaysaan maad naga kala yareesaan. Al-shabaab baa dad cunay iyo qof bay hilibkiisa go'goyeen .. iyo sheeko ciyaaleed ... Al-shabaab bay deg dheer moodeen when you make up these absurd stories .. you cannot expect people to take you seriously.
  8. somalidu waa cajiib basaas maxaa loo dilay miyaad ku calaacalaysaan .. oo ma la marti galin lahaa marka ? Al-shabab are not perfect but they are the best available option we have .. lets be realistic look at the alternative .. we have a weak hypocritical .. former-wadaad isku sheeg .. that cowers behind his mercenaries and before him the amxaar stooge. badhkiin C/laahi amxaar baad amaantaan badhkiina kalena sharif (bakhti) hotel .. indho-adaygiinan ragii xabashida wadanka ka saaray maalin cad baad wax ka sheegaysaan. they have sacrificed a great deal to rid our country of the filth of amxaar and their minions (c/laahi amxaar) .. the least they deserve is your respect and eternal gratitude. afku yuusan idin qaloocan ee mujaahidiinta afkiina ka dhowra
  9. if he was a spy what is the problem ? war ileyn Al-shabaab hadii la yidhaa janadii bay idin hayaan .. waxaad ka sheegtaan waayi maysaan.
  10. I don't know about the banking system but the telecom infrastructure is very advanced relative to everything else. They benefit greatly from non-regulation by any national telcom agency .. otherwise they would have to pay 10s of millions of dollars to license even small portions of the available spectrum. but they are backward in pretty fundamental area .. there is no interoperability between different telcom networks i.e if you have a hormud phone you can only call those on the hormud network same goes for nation, telesom etc. at least that is the way it was since I was there last and I doubt much has changed. another thing going for them is the relatively small customer base .. < 1M per major city.
  11. imagine what happens when this is mass produced. most people are not proficient at negotiating 2 dimensional traffic .. imagine collisions in the 3rd dimension.
  12. Congrats reer SL impressive stuff. if you are able to pull off something this complex and handover peacefully from rayaale to silaanyo wax sahlan mahan. I think I might change my mind about the idea of Somaliland .. why should they be held hostage for the corrupt admin in mugadhisho. they have proven they can govern themselves peacefully ... duco ha loogu daro and lets call it a day. re-unification should only become an issue when there is a similar admin like somaliland and puntland in the south .. then lets re-unit by all means .. but in the meantime Somaliland and puntland are doing fine.
  13. In China, white people can be rented. For a day, a weekend, a week, up to even a month or two, Chinese companies are willing to pay high prices for fair-faced foreigners to join them as fake employees or business partners. Some call it "White Guy Window Dressing." To others, it's known as the "White Guy in a Tie" events, "The Token White Guy Gig," or, simply, a "Face Job." And it is, essentially, all about the age-old Chinese concept of face. To have a few foreigners hanging around means a company has prestige, money and the increasingly crucial connections -- real or not -- to businesses abroad. "Face, we say in China, is more important than life itself," said Zhang Haihua, author of "Think Like Chinese." "Because Western countries are so developed, people think they are more well off, so people think that if a company can hire foreigners, it must have a lot of money and have very important connections overseas. So when they really want to impress someone, they may roll out a foreigner." Or rent one. Last year, Jonathan Zatkin, an American actor who lives in Beijing, posed as the vice president of an Italian jewelry company that had, allegedly, been in a partnership with a Chinese jewelry chain for a decade. When is being foreign a career advantage? Zatkin was paid 2,000 yuan (about $300) to fly, along with a couple of Russian models, to a small city in the central province of Henan where he delivered a speech for the grand opening ceremony of a jewelry store there. They have not told me what my name is today. I think it is Lawrence or something --Beijing actor pretending to be a New York architect RELATED TOPICS * China "I was up on stage with the mayor of the town, and I made a speech about how wonderful it was to work with the company for 10 years and how we were so proud of all of the work they had done for us in China," Zatkin said. "They put up a big bandstand and the whole town was there and some other local muckety-mucks." The requirements for these jobs are simple. 1. Be white. 2. Do not speak any Chinese, or really speak at all, unless asked. 3. Pretend like you just got off of an airplane yesterday. Those who go for such gigs tend to be unemployed actors or models, part-time English teachers or other expats looking to earn a few extra bucks. Often they are jobs at a second- or third-tier city, where the presence of pale-faced foreigners is needed to impress local officials, secure a contract or simply to fulfill a claim of being international. "Occasionally companies want a foreign face to go to meetings and conferences or to go to dinners and lunches and smile at the clients and shake people's hands," read an ad posted by a company called Rent A Laowai (Chinese for "foreigner") on the online classified site thebeijinger.com. It continued: "There are job opportunities for girls who are pretty and for men who can look good in a suit." Click here for in-depth news on China People like Brad Smith. When Smith -- the nom de plume of the Beijing-based American actor -- answered CNN's phone call on a recent morning, he was standing outside a meeting room at a Ramada Inn in Hangzhou, a city about 100 miles outside of Shanghai. Today's job: Pretend to be an architect from New York and give design plans for a new museum to local officials. "They have not told me what my name is today. I think it is Lawrence or something," said Smith -- unlike some jobs, no fake business cards were given to hand out. Earlier that morning he went over his script with his Chinese "business partners" at a Kentucky Fried Chicken. "It says, 'Good morning distinguished leaders. It is my privilege to participate in this program'," said Smith, who asked that his real name not be used for fear it could jeopardize future jobs. If Smith is asked a question, he is told to pretend to answer as his "translator" pretends to understand. Occasionally, these jobs can go awry. Smith said 18 months ago Beijing police showed up at his apartment after a financial company he worked at for a couple of months in Xi'an, a city in western China, allegedly swindled millions of yuan out of clients. "That company said I was the guy in charge," he said. "I didn't even remember the company's name. After that, I decided I was never going to use my passport again with these fake companies. The small gigs are much less dangerous." Sometimes companies will hire Caucasians simply to sit in the office a few hours a day near the window where clients and customers can see them. White women are also a hot commodity, sometimes to pose as phony foreign girlfriends, or, in the case of Vicky Mohieddeen, to pretend to be an oil tycoon. Mohieddeen, who is Scottish, took a job in 2008 to attend what she describes as some sort of "oil drilling conference" in Shandong province for 300 yuan ($44). Several busloads of foreigners, with nationalities ranging from Pakistani to Nigerian, were trucked to the event, she said. They were greeted by brass bands and feted with a sumptuous dinner. "I was like, 'Yeah, we have a lot of oil in Scotland.' I didn't know what to say. It was a bit nerve-racking. We were guests of honor of the vice mayor. We were put in a nice hotel. It was quite fancy." For Mohieddeen, who had just arrived in Beijing at the time, the experience, albeit bizarre, was an introduction to a side of China most foreigners will never see. "It is part of what China is all about, you know," Mohieddeen said. "There is quite an elaborate fantasy world going on here where if everyone buys into it, it does not matter if it is the truth. Those kinds of experiences give me a fuller understanding of the way the culture works."
  14. Two Guatemalan brothers who allegedly helped a prominent lawyer organise his own murder, and then blame the president of Guatemala for the crime, have turned themselves in. Francisco and Jose Valdes Paiz were said to have hired a contract killer to murder Rodrigo Rosenberg. An international commission found in January that Mr Rosenberg had organised his own killing. He is said to have wanted to highlight unsolved murders in Guatemala. Before he was shot dead in May 2009, Mr Rosenberg had warned in a video that he would be murdered on the orders of President Alvaro Colom. Mr Colom was later exonerated. Police had been searching for the two brothers since December, when they first linked them to the murder of Mr Rosenberg. 'Blackmail ruse' A United Nations investigation found that Mr Rosenberg had told the Valdes Paiz brothers, who were his cousins, he was being blackmailed and needed their help to hire a contract killer to murder the blackmailer. The pair allegedly hired the killer and, following Mr Rosenberg's instructions, told the killer where and when he could ambush the blackmailer. But it was Mr Rosenberg who then appeared at the time and place given to the contract killer, and had himself shot, the commission found. Speaking in January, Director of the UN commission Carlos Castresana said he believed Mr Rosenberg had been depressed and had wanted to highlight the thousands of murders which go unsolved and unpunished in Guatemala every year. BBC Mundo's Julie Lopez in Guatemala says the allegations Mr Rosenberg made in his video against President Colom threw the government into a deep political crisis. Our correspondent says that even though President Colom was cleared of any involvement in Mr Rosenberg's murder, the allegations have left a deep rift in Guatemalan society. She says many people believe the brothers Valdes Paiz have been falsely accused. The UN commission said the brothers had handed themselves in voluntarily. A hearing has been scheduled for 5 July. This must be one of the craziest things I have read in a while .. this guy arranges his own murder just to make a point about unsolved murders .. if he were alive he would be happy to know at least his murder is no longer in that category
  15. I agree with Haneefah the only place in AB that can justifiably be called a dump is Ft. Mac .. everywhere else is beautiful I have been as far south as the AB/Montana border and north as far as AB/N.W.T border
  16. Reports of call and data signal strength problems in the new iPhone 4 have a basis in fact, a hardware expert said Thursday. Later in the day, Apple acknowledged that holding the iPhone 4 may result in a diminished signal that could make it difficult to make and maintain calls or retain a data connection. "Gripping any phone will result in some attenuation of its antenna performance with certain places being worse than others depending on the placement of the antennas. This is a fact of life for every wireless phone, " Apple said in a statement issued to several media outlets, including PC Magazine, which had run tests earlier Thursday. "If you ever experience this on your Phone 4, avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band, or simply use one of many available cases." basically this is a design defect .. where the metal strips on the outside of the phone are part of the antenna system .. and when you grip the phone with moist hands you short the antenna thereby changing its electrical properties (wavelength) and significantly degrading its performance. how they did not catch this in testing is crazy ... but that is what you get when you put form over function.
  17. lack of concentration ??? what kind of Qat are they chewing, I used become so concentrated on and obsessively focused on what im studying/working on to the exclusion of almost everything else.
  18. The Nobel peace laureate keeps coming up with new innovative ways to sully the peace prize. testing new weapons systems on occupied people. basically this thing works like a microwave it radiates the person at extremely high energies at extremely low wavelengths that makes you feel like you are literally burning.
  19. A controversial nonlethal weapon that uses microwave energy to create intense pain is being considered for use in Afghanistan, AOL News has learned. An Air Force military officer and a civilian employee at the Air Force Research Laboratory told AOL News at an industry conference here that the Active Denial System, which heats the top layer of skin via millimeter waves, was in Afghanistan for testing. The sources were not able to offer details on how or whether the weapon was being used in combat. The weapon is designed to shoot an invisible beam of energy at people, creating an intense burning sensation that forces them to flee. The Air Force has called it the "goodbye effect." It has not been used before in military operations. The Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate Active Denial System (ADS) is a counter-personnel, non-lethal, directed energy weapon. U.S. Air Force The Active Denial System, a nonlethal weapon being considered for use in Afghanistan, shoots at its target energy that causes a burning sensation on the skin. The heat quickly becomes intolerable and forces the target to move. Defense Department representatives confirmed the weapon was being considered for use and did not deny it was in Afghanistan, but indicated it had not yet been used operationally. "Consideration is under way for the appropriate employment of an Active Denial System," Kelley Hughes, a representative for the Joint Nonlethal Weapons Directorate, wrote in an e-mail to AOL News. In 2008, the Pentagon considered deploying the Active Denial System in Iraq, but the effort was stymied over policy concerns. Whether it will become part of the U.S. arsenal is Afghanistan remains unclear. "It is my understanding that there are discussions under way about deploying an ADS but no decision/approval yet," Marine Corps Col. Dave Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman, wrote in an e-mail to AOL News when asked whether the Pentagon's civilian leadership had approved the weapon's use in Afghanistan. Lapan was unable to respond by deadline to requests for further clarification. The technology used in the Active Denial System, which was developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., has been adapted to several different configurations. Lab officials told AOL News that the weapon sent to Afghanistan is a Block 2, a more advanced version that is mounted on a military vehicle. The lab is also looking at a mounting it on an aircraft. Michael Kleiman, a spokesman for the Air Force Research Laboratory, declined comment and referred calls to the Joint Nonlethal Weapons Directorate. The directorate's Hughes did not respond to additional e-mails or calls seeking confirmation of whether ADS is in Afghanistan. An automated reply to an e-mail sent to Col. Tracy J. Tafolla, head of the Joint Nonlethal Weapons Directorate, indicated he was out of the office until June 28. The military's history of disclosing details about the controversial weapon has been mixed. After years of secret work, the Pentagon disclosed the weapon's existence in 2001, shortly before a news article was about to be published describing the device. Though the Air Force says years of testing have proved its safety, in 2007 an airman acting as a test subject was severely burned. The Air Force later that year released a heavily redacted report describing the accident, which required the airman to be airlifted to a burn center. A copy of the full report later provided to Wired.com revealed that the lack of proper operator training and missing safety equipment contributed to the accident. The Air Force has since said the technical problems were related to the earlier Block 1 system, and the training problems have been resolved. In a phone interview, John Alexander, former head of the nonlethal weapons program at Los Alamos National Laboratory, told AOL News that he was not aware of the weapon's deployment, but that he thought it would be useful in Afghanistan for point defense, such as protecting a base. The barriers to deploying the weapon have been policy concerns, not technical problems, said Alexander, who has been a longtime supporter of the Active Denial System. "Mostly the issues are the concern about publicity," he said.
  20. MONROE, Ohio - The famous King of Kings statue at the Solid Rock Church in Monroe is no longer after a fire destroyed the popular landmark Monday night. The 62-foot tall statue of Jesus constructed out of styrofoam, wood and fiberglass resin caught on fire after the right hand of the statue was struck by lightning during the severe thunderstorms around 11:15 p.m. The only thing left of the 16,000 pound statue is the metal frame. Monroe Fire Chief Mark Neu said the statue was fully involved in fire when crews arrived. Crews were able to use water from the pond in front of the statue, however, the fire burned very quickly, according to police. The statue was grounded, but for some reason it did not absorb the lightning strike. "I never thought this would be vulnerable, it was a real tragedy," Chief Neu said. Fire spread to the Lawrence Bishop Music Theateran, an amphitheater adjacent to the statue. Chief Neu tells 9 News the fire also destroyed sound equipment stored in the amphitheater. "There was quite a bit of audio equipment in the amphitheater they were using to prepare for their Fourth of July celebration," said Monroe Fire Chief Mark Neu. "They lost all that equipment." A Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper worked to prevent people from stopping along I-75. The trooper said he asked more than 30 people to move from the side of the highway. Many tried to take photos of the remains of the statue. One passerby captured video of the statue on fire and posted it on YouTube just after 1:30 a.m. You can watch that video below. No injuries were reported. The damage done to the statue and church is estimated at $700,000. The church has received calls from all over the world expressing sympathy for the loss of the statue. The King of Kings statue is believed to be the largest sculpture of Jesus Christ in the United States, according to the church. King of Kings was constructed in 2004 at a cost of $250,000. It was designed by a Knoxville, Tennessee, artist, built in Jacksonville, Florida, and transported to Monroe for assembly. Leaders of the 4,000 member congregation said they saw the statute as a way to give people hope, not just impress them. Church officials say the statue will be rebuilt and they will go forward with their July 4 celebration in a makeshift manner.
  21. abtiyawo ma taqaanaa ninka ka sheekeeya arimaha u qarsoon iyo waxa isaga iyo haweenaydiisa dhex mara waxa la yidhaa. dayuus baa la yidhaa, nabiga ayaa nacladay ! very entertaining but dayuusnimo nonethless.
  22. Originally posted by xiinfaniin: cunug yaroo la dayacay buu u egyahay. Allaha na wada hanuuniyo. I couldnt agree more. war cunugu jaahilsanaa sons of god kuyeh.
  23. during the final year of my undergrad .. I regularly slept for 3~4 hours every night for a stretch .. and I went without sleep for 72 hours once without sleeping .. I started halllucinating and breaking off in the middle of a conversation into completely random jibberish.