Just about everything has to be transported under armed guard in South Africa, otherwise it will get hijacked or robbed. – DR
Several South African passports have been stolen after a courier van transporting applications for UK visas was hijacked …
New computer could cost as little as $9
The development of powerful, ultra-low cost computing will accelerate the development of the Internet of Everything and the risks associated with it.
A kickstarter campaign to launch a computer costing just USD9 is another important milestone on the road to …
VW overtakes Toyota as world’s biggest carmaker
Volkswagen is really becoming quite a phenomenon. The average annual salary in Wolfsburg is over a 100 000 euros, not bad for people fiddling with cars! – DR
Volkswagen overtook Toyota as the world’s largest carmaker by sales in the …
How the Nordic far-right has stolen the left’s ground on welfare
“The basis of the home is commonality and mutuality. A good home is not aware of any privileged or slighted, no darlings and no stepchildren. You see no one despise the other, no one who tries to gain advantage of …
Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking urge banning of military robots
More than 1,000 of the leading researchers in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics have today signed and published an open letter calling for a ban on offensive autonomous weapons, also known colloquially as “killer robots”.
The letter has also been
Majority of white South Africans disagree ‘black poverty due to apartheid’ | praag.org
Buried in a recent report from the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, is an indication that the media and educational inisitutions have largely failed in brainwashing white South Africans about the country’s past. A majority of whites (54,3%) disagree with …
US Appeals Court Rejects Apartheid Cases Against Ford, IBM
Victims of apartheid in South Africa cannot sue IBM Corp. and Ford Motor Co. in New York because they cannot show that the companies’ alleged offending behavior occurred in the United States, a federal appeals court said Monday.
The 2nd …
New ‘Daily Show’ Host Trevor Noah Tries Out New Jokes On Racism, Ebola
The Trevor Noah countdown has begun. The South African stand-up comedian will begin as host of Comedy Central’s Daily Show on Sept. 28. And what better way to get ready than … by doing comedy.
Noah was in D.C. this …
South Africa’s water crisis comes next, after ’20 years of neglect’
First, South Africa’s ANC-SACP “government” destroyed half the country’s electricity capacity through corruption and incompetence, and now the same is happening to the water system. Thanks to everyone who imposed this marvellous set of autocratic, communist rulers on us! They …
Europe – French farmers block roads from Spain, Germany
French farmers have blocked roads from Spain and Germany to stop foreign products entering the country, in the latest protest against a fall in food prices that has brought them to the brink of bankruptcy.
Farmers in the northeastern Alsace …