Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
> On 16/12/2014 16:35, Nekar Xenos wrote:
> > Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
>
> >>>
> >> That sounds more like badness than for profit, stealing.
> >
> > They sell the copper to scrapyards for drug money.
> >
>
> I was going to say that there can't be much copper in telephone wire.
> When I remembered that my father was called to a public toilet where
> lots of smoke was coming out. (He was a fireman.) The attendant was
> burning off the insulation from domestic power cable.
>
> >> No wonder Gail
> >> Shaw carried a katana in her car.
> >>
> >
> > My son also has a katana ;)
> >
He's very into Samurai and Shinobi :)

>
> Maybe I don't want to visit SA. Nigeria was bad enough.
>
>

One of my fellow designers is a Nigerian. He feels a lot safer here than in
Nigeria.

-Nekar Xenos-

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"Nekar Xenos" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> My harddrive crashed in 2007, I did the paint macro after that :)

And I trust you have been keeping faithful backups ever since.  (And to a
different device, too.  One POVer faithfully backed up his files to a different
folder on the /same device/, and you can guess what happened next.)

"There are only two types of hard drives, the ones that have failed and the ones
that have not failed yet." --Steve Rider

"I've never met anyone who regretted making a backup." --Steve Rider

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Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
> Maybe I don't want to visit SA. Nigeria was bad enough.

There is no Boko Haram in South Africa.  Go visit the place already!

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"Cousin Ricky" <rickysttATyahooDOTcom> wrote:
> Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
> > Maybe I don't want to visit SA. Nigeria was bad enough.
>
> There is no Boko Haram in South Africa.  Go visit the place already!

Also, the weather is a lot milder than Nigeria. A really hot day would be a
little over 30 deg Celsius here.

I have now been informed that it wasn't cable theft, it was a road works mishap.
Hopefully I should have adsl again by Sunday.

-Nekar Xenos-

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On 17/12/2014 04:32, Nekar Xenos wrote:
>>> > >My son also has a katana;)
>>> > >
> He's very into Samurai and Shinobi:)
>

I was very into Judo in my youth.

>> >
>> >Maybe I don't want to visit SA. Nigeria was bad enough.
>> >
>> >
> One of my fellow designers is a Nigerian. He feels a lot safer here than in
> Nigeria.

Sorry, that was rude of me. I did not mean it that way.

Your ex-pat countrymen paint a picture that is not attractive of the SA 
way of life.

Talking about painting. I agree with both Thomas and Michael. The 
triptychs are better but changing the musicians positions. Would be more 
artistic.

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Regards
     Stephen

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On 17/12/2014 17:42, Cousin Ricky wrote:
> Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
>> Maybe I don't want to visit SA. Nigeria was bad enough.
>
> There is no Boko Haram in South Africa.  Go visit the place already!
>
>
In all my years, no one has ever said anything as strange as that to me.

I am not an American.
I am not scared of my own shadow nor am I unaware of what is going on in 
the world.

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     Stephen

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On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:17:15 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> Your ex-pat countrymen paint a picture that is not attractive of the SA
> way of life.

It's not just ex-pats.  I've a friend who lives in Jo'berg, and she's had 
her office broken into numerous times (and all of the equipment stolen).  
There clearly are places that are not safe in SA, and you can't count on 
the police to deal with such crimes effectively.  I'm sure there are 
places where that's not the case, but I would also hesitate to travel 
there right now.

Jim
-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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On 17/12/2014 18:15, Nekar Xenos wrote:
> Also, the weather is a lot milder than Nigeria. A really hot day would be a
> little over 30 deg Celsius here.
>

I was there from January to March, just before the Harmattan, I did not 
find Port Harcourt overly hot.

> I have now been informed that it wasn't cable theft, it was a road works mishap.
> Hopefully I should have adsl again by Sunday.

Good, it did not make sense to me other than vandalism. I am pleased 
that you will be connected again. Soon?

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     Stephen

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> "Nekar Xenos" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>> My harddrive crashed in 2007, I did the paint macro after that :)
>
> And I trust you have been keeping faithful backups ever since.  (And to a
> different device, too.  One POVer faithfully backed up his files to a different
> folder on the /same device/, and you can guess what happened next.)
>
> "There are only two types of hard drives, the ones that have failed and the ones
> that have not failed yet." --Steve Rider
>
> "I've never met anyone who regretted making a backup." --Steve Rider
>
>

"If it's on only one device, it's not backed up"

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On 17/12/2014 20:31, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:17:15 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>
>> Your ex-pat countrymen paint a picture that is not attractive of the SA
>> way of life.
>
> It's not just ex-pats.  I've a friend who lives in Jo'berg, and she's had
> her office broken into numerous times (and all of the equipment stolen).
> There clearly are places that are not safe in SA, and you can't count on
> the police to deal with such crimes effectively.  I'm sure there are
> places where that's not the case, but I would also hesitate to travel
> there right now.


I would not mind, in fact I would like to visit SA. From what I have 
heard it is a beautiful place in most parts. I suppose that most of the 
South Africans I have met need to justify leaving their country and 
emphasise the darker* aspects of life there.
I am not saying that security is not a problem especially if you are 
well off. I have lived and worked in some dodgy places but if you use a 
bit of common sense and respect. You would need to be unlucky to run 
into trouble. A case in point is when I was stopped at a roadblock in 
Kingston Jamaica, by a machete wielding group of locals. Who politely 
asked for a donation to repair the road. “No problems, how much do you 
want?” I paid up and went on my way. Coming back I was stopped again. I 
blurted out that I had already paid on the way out of town (instantly 
regretting it btw). The reply was. “Sorry man, didn’t recognise you.” 
Right! How many dandelion headed white men did he see in a day? But 
there was respect on both sides. So everything was fine. I even left 
them laughing over trying to get money out of a Scotsman.
I could go on. But will just finish with the last time I was nervous 
about my personal safety was in America. NM next to the Texas border. A 
discussion in a bar about incomers turned heated between two locals. 
Remembering the gun laws, I made my excuses and left. No offence 
intended but I felt out of my depth and thought it the better part of 
valour, to be somewhere else :-)


* Don't read anything into that.

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Regards
     Stephen

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