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I still don't want to live anywhere else, but things are getting worse. Soweto marched today to show government that they don't want to pay for electricity (Mandela apparently promised that 20 years ago). I also saw that now that we are getting used to Load Shedding they are starting too think about Food Shedding (agricultural land reform) and Water Shedding (over use of resources and pollution). In this rainbow nation there is no treasure at the end of the rainbow.
Cornelius Henning wrote: According to your President
According to our president corruption is a western concept, hence we don't have any problems with billions of rands going into elected officials pockets every year.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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Quote: According to our president corruption is a western concept
I don't quite know how to respond to this! I always thought corruption is corruption in any culture. It shows you how little I know! 
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In african tribalism the chief deserves the biggest, best and most of everything.
This leads to almost every person in power (in government or governmental departments) feeling entitled to taking anything they can get their hands on, as long as they have more than the people under them. This includes multi-million rand monthly KFC bills (no jokes).
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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Cornelius Henning wrote: I am not religious
I don't see how that's relevant...
I also don't care if she was a nun, an engineer, a police woman or any profession you can come up with and if she was 18, 86 or anything in between.
Raping and killing is despicable, no matter who the victim is.
Although these two savages may be swept off the face of the earth for all I care.
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Quote: I don't see how that's relevant...
I wanted to make it clear that I did not post the item just because I am a Catholic, that's all!
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About 6 years ago, two men broke into a house in the city where I live, raped and murdered a woman in her mid 50s that was severely mentally handicapped. Winners...
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There is not a Hell hot enough for this kind of monster! 
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Also keep in mind, bail for rape is R1000, while bail for murder is only R500. It's cheaper to kill the victim instead of just raping her, if you do get caught. Don't forget that the same happens to 6 week old babies. It's just so common these days that it's no longer noteworthy.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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R1000 is about US$ 90?! 90 Dollars bail for rape? Including the rape of a baby?! Half that for murder? Unbelievable!
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You're not supposed to be able to understand it.
If you could then that would make you at least partially as dangerous.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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This is really a question for developers, but how do you prefer to keep up to date with what's going on in the world of software? Magazines? Websites? Books?
It seems like there's so many sources of information out there one could spend all day every day just reading about new technologies and ideologies and never actually do any work.
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Who the heck reads magazines any more?
"Hello" readers excepted...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: "Sheep digest Weekly" readers excepted...
FTFY as I can only assume there is not WIFI out in them there hills. 
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Simon_Whale wrote: "Sheep digest Weekly"
Is that about the sheep digestion system or about people digesting sheep[^]? 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Who the heck reads magazines any more?
I still find paper/print media easier to read than off screens..
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But...it's so bulky, and heavy, and you can't take it all with you! So half the time when you need it, or you have a chance to read it you haven't got it there.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yeah! And try to find something you read a few months ago without a Search button!
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Me personally I read a few tech blogs also I look at the insider news here on Code Project as that a bit more wide spread that the tech / software that I currently use both inside and outside of work
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Have you got any recommendations for blogs you read?
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Jammo sorry for taking so long to reply.
These are the blogs that I regularly read.
c# blogs
eric lippert[^] - this one makes you think more than show off some new techniques.
sacha barber[^] - he shows off some good demo's and also does a good write up
Angular
dave kerr[^] - lots of good angular demos and write ups
ng newsletter[^] - collection of many blogs and how tos
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Colleagues usually, and when i encounter a problem during programming i often get side tracked to new frameworks and such .
So i guess internet is my major source.
Life's like a nose, you've got to get out of it whats in it!
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Why, I use CP - ask and Bob shall provide.
veni bibi saltavi
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The Internet, I would say. This[^] is one of the first things I read in the morning. 
I ain't got no signature.
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I let Kent Sharkey do it for me here on CodeProject ... actually I do subscribe to a few e-mail newsletters in addition to CodeProject newsletters, including: The Register, ReadWrite Web, Robert X Cringely, ExtremeTech, Scott Hanselman, JetBrains, How-To-Geek, and some of the Stack Exchange newsletters, like the Programmers' Weekly.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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I read the CodeProject newsletter each morning... Well, read is a big word, scan is more like it 
And I read blogs and articles I come across on CP and Twitter.
Don't try to keep 'too up' with technology though, because, as you say, it's a day job!
I keep up with what I need to know, and even there I'm lagging behind sometimes.
And I check out some new stuff from time to time. For example, Node.js is pretty popular so I'm checking that out for fun even if I don't need it.
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