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Review: ‘The Sellout,’ Paul Beatty’s Biting Satire on Race in America - NYTimes.com   Just finished reading the review from the New York Times books on Mr Beatty's new novel, and I must say, I NEED to read this...  Just searched Amazon and there's no Kindle version of this book. Bummer! Not that it is not worthwhile getting the hardcover, it's just that now I need to go and find a local book store to buy it from. Face the over inflated, over taxed pricing on that book. Since Americans brought 'democracy' to South Africa, the right of the masses to bleat and loaf about is far more important that delivering value and productivity to the community/economy.  So, simply ordering the book from Amazon and having it delivered to my door via out postal service, is no longer an option, since their right to strike outweighs my right to expect the service that they exist to provide. I'm now only getting my mail from last year, from the last time they went on strike.  Can...

Unprecedented, but then again, reality. I live in South Africa, where you pay for everything and double up to triple, when you work for your own money, so they can give away the same service to those that don't work for anything and just sit around and demand. They will never realize the world doesn't owe them anything. They need to get off their asses and work for it. BBC News - 5G researchers manage record connection speed : 'via Blog this'

It is such time again. Checking the load shedding schedules. Rechecking and hoping the power utility keeps to the scheduled times. Working around their schedule while you have to provide 24x7 support for a 24x7x365 operation becomes a challenge at best. No longer can you dial in at any time since, unless you've spent a small fortune on generation capacity, you won't have any ADSL access to your place of employment during load shedding, which means quick fixes become snarling endurance races back into the office. 26 Feb 2015 Since writing this, we had experienced another Stage 2 load shedding event, that had the computer room in the dark. Explanation: yet undetermined.