^ Maalin wanaagsan Lily @ nuune marka la yidhaado kan dhakada wayn-low dib baad u soo fiirin lahayd .. thinking they were talking to you .. and the BAM ! you are hooked.

Maalin wanaagsan trollers reer hargisa know how to sell the stuff. waxaan aad u xasuustaa: "kan dhakada weyn-low !... ma kun baad wayday ! ....... hadaad waydayna ma kaartaad wayday" that is what i call marketing .. lacagta jaadka hadaad waydo wax soo xad

^ The 29.99 must have some ceiling .. like 29.99 for xGB/month ... anything above that you pay through the nose. most houses/offices/university/public malls/libraries have free wifi networks ... you could easily go 10X above what AT&T is offering you for 0$. The only technical difference (from a purely internet connection point of view) is that wifi is for short-range high bandwidth communication .. i.e you have to be within ~100 meters of the antenna but you get rates of 11Mbps/24Mbps/54Mbps (downstream) you only pay what you were already paying for the ISP connection and if it is not your house it is most likely 0$. whereas 3G is for long-range low bandwidth .. anywhere you get a cell signal you get 3G which has rates of upto 7.22 Mbps (varies based on signal quality) ... and it costs $$$ to use. marka anyway you slice it sxb .. wifi on cellphones is a great feature.

^ I would have traded it in beri hore .. if not for the browser and the wifi support i doubt there is any other phone that has that. other phones are manufactred by the big players in the TELCOM world and have no incentive to include wifi support .. it is an amazing feat that apple was able to force it down their throats. the way it works is that if you are in the range of a wireless network and you attempt to browse the web .. the device tries to connect to the wifi (free) network first and failing that it tells you that it is connecting to the 3G ($$$) network .. these days with wireless networks becoming freely available everywher it saves a boat-load of money. which is the complete opposite design philosophy of traditional phone providers .... who charge people exhorbitant rates for text messages even though it doesnt cost them anything (0$) to provide that service .. but that is another issue. my only problem is its lack of modularity makes it prone to common-mode failure i.e one example is the battery and the device cannot be separated so if you had a battery related problem (which is not uncommon) .. your phone is F'ed .. whereas in other phones you would just replace the battery. and the touch-screen keypad lacks the tactile feedback of normal keypads which i am accustomed to.. and make it difficult for me to type on.

I have had mine since august and have not installed a single application on it. i don't even use the ones that come with it other than the alarm, weather and the browser.

7 years is a long time .. look at it this way val .. caruurta dhashay maalinta aad SOL ku soo biirtay waa grade 2 by now and wayba ilka daadsadeen already ... just to put it into perspective for you. no prob you are welcome

@ stunt .... dee run uun baan sheegay abaayo .. there is not enough of us to go around marka gabdhaha walaalhaa la tali they need to learn how to share KK ... walee inaa caqliley tahay... horta nin gabadh la siisto waan ahay. looool horta faanka af-somliaga ku qurxanyahay ma is tidhi ? imagine saying the above in English.

@ Dhakh .. it means sucker as in gullible fool. dakh waabad sheegtay JB aaway naahuur iyo naakhoy iyo gabarey (not as in girl but as in badow same writing diff pronunciation) iyo cige iyo dhuke (not to be confused with dhukey as in ear-wax )... reer hargiesa have an amusing way of twisting normal words to make them sound like insults. @ iyadii ... uma haysan inay common tahay ,, nin ban aqaan naanaystiisu tahay 'iyadii' .. malaga yabaa isku nin inaan hadal hayno.

Originally posted by Nur: Geel Jire brother Second expalnation is more suitable in the situation at hand, there is another tilt to it, Politicians are promoted to the highest level of failure. the peter principle does apply to politicians The peter principle: "In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence." While formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in their 1968 book The Peter Principle, a humorous treatise which also introduced the "salutary science of Hierarchiology", "inadvertently founded" by Peter, the principle has real validity. It holds that in a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their "level of incompetence"), and there they remain. Peter's Corollary states that "in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out his duties" and adds that "work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence". I think the dilbert principle applies in this specific case. The Dilbert principle: A 1990s satirical observation by Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams stating that companies tend to systematically promote their least-competent employees to management (generally middle management), in order to limit the amount of damage they're capable of doing. In the Dilbert strip of February 5, 1995 Dogbert says that "leadership is nature's way of removing morons from the productive flow".

Originally posted by Kool_Kat: quote: Originally posted by Geel_jire: ^ because we are in high demand looooool...Does that mean you're off the market? qarxis intaas le'eg maxay tahay kk ? uhmm ..... no... but ... but this is what they call a false positive paradox

Originally posted by Ayatollah Mulugetta: NG The old man might have run because he couldnot stomach the embarrassment. Talking of rape, we all know this was not 'rape' as such but waxay leedahay wuu iqalday. That happens on a daily basis. Most of us would be guilty hadii la isa sii baadh baadho. daba-gurka raga ku dheereeya baad ahayd ilayn abtiyow ?

^ waad iga soo hormartay sxb. wan aqanaa nin la yidhaa roobow aan ahayn mujaahidkan la hadal hayo. qofkii yaqaan qabiilada somalida macagyada ay isticmaalaan si fudud ayuu ku garan karaa calasow,yalaxow etc. macayadaas cidaha la baxa and i assure you oroma mahan sxb.

Originally posted by Khayr: Hey Barack supporters, Where you at now? Where you at now? Where are his cheerleaders? You know, that Texan ******* made a comment today about this fighting that just pissedddd on all muslims. :mad: this whole "one president at a time" BS is funny to me ... maybe someone should have reminded him during the recent Russian vs Georgian conflict that he was not even the candidate let alone president elect. BO is a tool & i doubt has the stomach to take on jewish lobby .... but it will be interesting to see when he cant hide behind these timid little one liners .... people are really in for a shock then .. just how well he tows the line

I believe sh. sharif can only be one of two things: 1- A warlord of the same brand we been seeing for the last two decades motivated by the greenback and 'cheap thrills' like staying at expensive hotels .. addicted to the media limelight, running after the ever-elusive title of 'moderate Muslim leader' 2- the more charitable view would be along the lines of: Never attribute to malice .. that which can be explained away by incompetence A naive and incompetent leader who is in way over his head in this. either way sh. sharif is not fit to be president and i sincerely hope that after suffering through the miserable yey the masses do not have to put up with him. -------------------------------------------------- a few other points raised in this thread: - sh. sharif can take NO credit for the Ethiopian withdrawal ... not since he traded his fatigues in for ill-fitted suits and abandoned his brothers in the battlefield ... the brave young wariors oo magaceena iyo sharafteenaba ciida kor ugu hayay deserve all the respect and admiration for their sacrifice not some two-bit hustler Abu raises a very good point ... if yey was evil for inviting Ethiopian armies into Somalia to massacre civilians .. shouldn't the same scale be applied to sh. sharif who is willing to deal with them even after what they have subjected the people to ?

^ because we are in high demand

^ interesting read ibti. it reminds me of my physics prof. for every new topic she would tell us how and when it originated in the Muslim world before it was known in the west. read about 'Dead white European males'

Originally posted by Cadaan: What's wrong with the oyster card? It allows the authorities to track your commute and they keep the logs for years.

THE Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant. The move, which follows a decision by the European Union’s council of ministers in Brussels, has angered civil liberties groups and opposition MPs. They described it as a sinister extension of the surveillance state which drives “a coach and horses” through privacy laws. The hacking is known as “remote searching”. It allows police or MI5 officers who may be hundreds of miles away to examine covertly the hard drive of someone’s PC at his home, office or hotel room. Material gathered in this way includes the content of all e-mails, web-browsing habits and instant messaging. The strategy will allow French, German and other EU forces to ask British officers to hack into someone’s UK computer and pass over any material gleaned. A remote search can be granted if a senior officer says he “believes” that it is “proportionate” and necessary to prevent or detect serious crime — defined as any offence attracting a jail sentence of more than three years. He said the authorities could break into a suspect’s home or office and insert a “key-logging” device into an individual’s computer. This would collect and, if necessary, transmit details of all the suspect’s keystrokes. “It’s just like putting a secret camera in someone’s living room,” he said. Police might also send an e-mail to a suspect’s computer. The message would include an attachment that contained a virus or “malware”. If the attachment was opened, the remote search facility would be covertly activated. Alternatively, police could park outside a suspect’s home and hack into his or her hard drive using the wireless network. story I thought the Americans had it bad with their warrantless wiretaps, now it just seems like childsplay. One of the more interesting things about this story is they dont even pretend to be concerned with oversight .. hech even no lip service to individual privacy. I was told that in case you do encrypt your hard drive.... refusing to turn over your encryption keys could net you 2~5 years in prison based on what they think you 'might' be hiding. as if constantly being on camera (CCTV) and the oyster card wasn't bad enough ... now this.

^ I dont think it is in vain sxb. there is a hadeth (meaning) that if you witness something which is wrong .. change it with your hands if you can .. if not change it with your voice ... if not hate it in your heart .. that is the lowest level of eman. we are not at the first stage yet .. but we sure as hell are at stage 2 ... demonstrations are to express our hatred for what is going on & is better than keeping silent. I just came back myself .. we were ~ 1000 .. including atleast 100 non-mulims.

it is depressing walaahi. yesterday was supposed to be a big demonstration here ... but they moved it to today because of the 'cold' yesterday. The sad thing is our brothers and sisters are being massacred and we cant bother to put on an extra abu cumar.

My first visit to xamar ... was a few years ago. I can only speak about what buildings are still standing .. and areas not yet completely destroyed. the southern part of xamar looked very nice .. not too affected by the fighting .. madina & buulo xuubay. shangani looked completely destroyed ... the government building, the central bank, the cathedral all in ruins. Liido beach is still beatiful and so is jazeera. the port in shangaani near masjid c/casis is now called dekada duqda and is no longer in use. tarabuunka was rebuilt under c/qasim ... isbartiibo is holding together nicely. of course this was before the tigre ... so probably alot of changes. it is like a before/after pic .... except i would prefer to be on the other side. ps: not everyone can possibly be from xamar .. so my fellow geeljires/geeljirad please raise your hands .. reer magaalka ha isku dhex qarinanina ! serously though meesha yaan la igu cidlayn dee asxaabta ... imisaa wadanka ka soo tagay oo xamar iskaba dhaaf magaalo aan arag sidee u egtahay

"Local hospitals overflowed with American survivors of the Israeli air strikes. This time, though, the victims asked not “why do they hate us?” but “why do we love them?” " priceless

Originally posted by J.a.c.a.y.l.b.a.r.o: @Ngonge ,,, I didn't know you were that dumb to argue with a woman niyow ,,,, Tips for Men: - Whenever such question is asked don't say a word, just close the door, grab her to bed and do the right thing once, twice and trice then see if she asks the same question again for a year or two .... - Or else, get closer to her and start kissing her like nobody's business for about 15 continuous minutes then see what happens,,,,, she'll sleep at your lap while you continue watching your favorate documentary. - Or pretend something bites you, jump up and down screaming. You can shout SNAKE SNAKE until she is scared and runs away from the room. She will forget what she was asking once you sattle. The issue is that if you simply answer the damn question and say YES she will continue to say HOW MUCH then ,,,,,, go back and read the above story ,,, is that how it is supposed to be handled ? hmm might come in handy .. *taking notes*

has no one come across the people that say ... waxaan ahay 20 jir makra laga reebo 17 sano dagaalada socdeen

Originally posted by Peace Action: Why not. Dubya campaigned for McSame, so what. To be in politics means you are in office or running for one. That is unfair to G.W ... he is as incompetent and ineffectual a leader as dubya was ... but say what you will about dubyah but at least he is a patriot who loves his country and 99% percent of his stup!d decision where made on that bases. something very lacking in yey