Save Africa!!!

[Bulk Beef]

Read this.

Not the least bit politically correct, if you happen to be sensitive about that sort of thing.

 

[So]

Creul but true. I tend to agree. There seems to be nothing that we can do. They have to save themselves. It is a truly sad situation.

 

[fredtam]

Originally posted by: sward666
Read this.

Not the least bit politically correct, if you happen to be sensitive about that sort of thing.

yep

 

[compfreak999]

anyone?

 

[So]

thread death.

RIP.

 

[compfreak999]

so no one is willing to help contribute to this project/mission?

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle
how is money getting from your high school to the country of africa?

you bringing it there yourself?

No, there's a nice Prince in Nigeria who has agreed to act as mediator. He seems very trustworthy even though his English is not so good. He has agreed to take all donations and make sure they are distributed to needy families.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: compfreak999
so no one is willing to help contribute to this project/mission?

Hmm... let's see, Smart Guy. With all the crap you've had flung back in your face, you honestly think people here are willing to contribute to your Bullsh|t mission?

Dumb as a door knob!

 

[So]

Originally posted by: compfreak999
so no one is willing to help contribute to this project/mission?

Probably not. The consnesus (which I agree with) is that helping africa has already been tried, and they just don't want help. Any aid just disspappears into the pockets of warlords. This is what our whole intervention in Somlaia was about. Good men died trying to help them, and we learned that they don't want any help.

 

[fredtam]

Originally posted by: compfreak999
so no one is willing to help contribute to this project/mission?

Sure I'll contribute. Here is my .02 (worry about these people first)

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: compfreak999
so no one is willing to help contribute to this project/mission?

In a word...No.

 

[compfreak999]

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt

Originally posted by: compfreak999
so no one is willing to help contribute to this project/mission?

Hmm... let's see, Smart Guy. With all the crap you've had flung back in your face, you honestly think people here are willing to contribute to your Bullsh|t mission?

Dumb as a door knob!

and 1/2 the crap was from who?

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: compfreak999

Originally posted by: FFMCobalt

Originally posted by: compfreak999
so no one is willing to help contribute to this project/mission?

Hmm... let's see, Smart Guy. With all the crap you've had flung back in your face, you honestly think people here are willing to contribute to your Bullsh|t mission?

Dumb as a door knob!

and 1/2 the crap was from who?

Whom. It's "from whom".

 

[0roo0roo]

not willing to drive the 5-20 miles to help those working poor living around you eh? too complicated, messy and dangerous for a quick way to feel good

 

[So]

Actually, I'm up to be a part of operation penny drop

 

[Dragnov]

Originally posted by: compfreak999
Though we cannot feed everyone thats hungry we can still feed as many to the best of our abilities.

Actually we can feed everyone thats hungry. We can produce more than enough food w/ current technology it's just that we inflate the prices along with excessive consumption. Now now people, I'm not arguing for or against anything so please don't lecture me people. I'm just stating a fact.

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: compfreak999
so no one is willing to help contribute to this project/mission?

I guess there's no fooling you!!

 

[beer]

buahahahah this thread is hilarious
I really don't think I've *ever* met a high school sophomore that has the intellgence of a rock like this guy does

 

[So]

Originally posted by: beer
buahahahah this thread is hilarious
I really don't think I've *ever* met a high school sophomore that has the intellgence of a rock like this guy does

Check out Xionide.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: beer
buahahahah this thread is hilarious
I really don't think I've *ever* met a high school sophomore that has the intellgence of a rock like this guy does

Check out Xionide.

OMFG ROFL

 

[AIWGuru]

I stopped reading the thread after a while since it's very negative which is very common for anandtech's forums.
Anyway, here's my input based on the OP:

The CONTINENT of Africa is plagued by molaria.
As Darwin would have it, another disease, sicle cell anemia is VERY common in african americans there. Think 90+%.
This is a disease which will kill you before 40.
Why does most everyone there have a genetic disease which should not normally be selected for?
Because sicle cell anemia causes blood cells to be shaped like a scicle. This reduces mobility of and prevents the uptake of molaria, making the SCA victim very resistant.
So evolution has selected for a disease which lets you live up to 40 (read: to reproduce) over a disease which will probably kill you before puberty.
Incidentally, blacks in America STILL are several dozen times more likely to have SCA than any other race although this likelyhood decreases with each generation outside of Africa.

Africa has more problems than HUNGER.

Also, right now, the average American uses 8.8 Global Hecares of land. The Average African? .33 hectares.
Trying to bring Africans' standard of living up to ours - even in terms of the food they consume is futile since the world cannot support it.
If everyone lived with North America's standard of living, we'd need about 4 Earths.

So...if you REALLY want to help people in Africa, you need to push for social reform and social/environmental education AT HOME and reduce your own ecological footprint.

 

[Ryan]

Sorry, I cannot help people who do not help themselves. Survival of the fittest, I say.

 

[compfreak999]

hum i say we go help by kicking out the corupt leader and "spread" democracy like what were doing to iraq.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: AIWGuru
I stopped reading the thread after a while since it's very negative which is very common for anandtech's forums.
Anyway, here's my input based on the OP:

The CONTINENT of Africa is plagued by molaria.
As Darwin would have it, another disease, sicle cell anemia is VERY common in african americans there. Think 90+%.
This is a disease which will kill you before 40.
Why does most everyone there have a genetic disease which should not normally be selected for?
Because sicle cell anemia causes blood cells to be shaped like a scicle. This reduces mobility of and prevents the uptake of molaria, making the SCA victim very resistant.
So evolution has selected for a disease which lets you live up to 40 (read: to reproduce) over a disease which will probably kill you before puberty.
Incidentally, blacks in America STILL are several dozen times more likely to have SCA than any other race although this likelyhood decreases with each generation outside of Africa.

Africa has more problems than HUNGER.

Also, right now, the average American uses 8.8 Global Hecares of land. The Average African? .33 hectares.
Trying to bring Africans' standard of living up to ours - even in terms of the food they consume is futile since the world cannot support it.
If everyone lived with North America's standard of living, we'd need about 4 Earths.

So...if you REALLY want to help people in Africa, you need to push for social reform and social/environmental education AT HOME and reduce your own ecological footprint.

That's an interesting figure, and the reason is because they do not have the access to oil and oil-related infrastructure that we do. What little they do have access to, is expensive.

Oil was single-handedly responsible for the agricultural revolution that allowed a single man to increase the plot of land he could tend by orders of magnitude.

 

[skace]

Originally posted by: compfreak999
hum i say we go help by kicking out the corupt leader and "spread" democracy like what were doing to iraq.

You've been reading the thread, but you still havn't learned anything.