The white man's burden?

[n***@gmail.com]

When there was an out-break of cholera, Prez Zuma's people refused to
understand the cause as being the river water: "since the cows drink the
water and they aren't sick, that proves that the water is OK".
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I have a very concrete NOW example of the difference between
Displays-which-look-cool and "can it do the vital job":-

In the 90's when the governing authority was handed to the ANC in S.Africa,
understandably the municipal electricity accounts ran-into-chaos.
Because I stupidly didn't realise that the judicial system would also be
overwhelmed by incompetence and chaos, I provoked litigation, in order to
expose in Court, how I was being falsely charged for electricity, for my
rental property, where I had the municipality disconnect the supply.

My rental property was confiscated, and I started accumulation much legal
documentation: obviously using our superior ETHO system.
At that time we used NativeOberon, and I had a separate partition for the
<property confiscated> project. BTW ETHO's coloring facility is useful there.

Since the 90's, the municipal billing chaos has become public knowledge;
with press reports about: riots, arson, murder and several constitutional
cases relating to the billing incompetence/chaos.

So now that it has become obvious that my matter was not about valid account
payment refusal, as it was contrived to be, [Pre-ANC days, such chaos was
unimaginable] I need to dig out my accumulated documentation and research work.

But now we are no longer using NativeOberon, because LEO is better.
Fortunately the old N-O files are conveniently accessible on the same LEO
installation: via LNO.
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It's complex. Displays are problematic. They initiate many USEnet queries.
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[Steve Hayes]

Post by n***@gmail.com
I have a very concrete NOW example of the difference between
Displays-which-look-cool and "can it do the vital job":-

Here you go:

http://ondermynende.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/the-illegibility-of-wordpress/#comment-6123

[m***@gmail.com]

Post by n***@gmail.com
When there was an out-break of cholera, Prez Zuma's people refused to
understand the cause as being the river water: "since the cows drink the
water and they aren't sick, that proves that the water is OK".

The fallacy with this sort of racist criticism is that it assumes that the white man has always been supremely endowed with all knowledge. Wrong. The idea that disease can be spread via water is fairly new, and most of us only "know" that it can be so because it was drummed into our heads.