ZenecheruB :: dele’s mind on net . . .

When I was coming over to Turkey, I definitely wasn’t sure what to expect and right off the bat, even before leaving Boston, it indicating it might be interesting.

Routing
Boston,US - Frankfurt,DE
The plane ride was fun - One thing I can say: flying Business Class long-haul; on Lufthansa - you can’t ask for anything better.
I happen to be in Germany for like some 5 hours, actually, it wasn’t supposed to be but I meet this Kazakhstani chic whom I was hanging out with for a little while hence, missed my connection, not bad, I had some good time in her company. I leant one lesson though, Europe is DAMN FREAKING expensive (or was it because I was in an high-end area?).
Frankfurt,DE - Istanbul,TR
After some two hours, I’m in my final destination - Istanbul, Turkey. Ataturk Airport was straight forward, the signs where in English and Turkish, clearing immigration wasn’t hectic and finding my way around was bad either - or - wait! I was almost ripped off 40 TRY ($34.03). One way to avoid being ripped off over here, as I found out is:
1. Don’t look too touristic!
2. Know where you are going or at least have some contact you can call to give certain directions.
The later solution worked for me. The hostel I was going to be residing is located in Taksim which would cost 10 TRY but most of the shuttles around the Airport were trying to charge me between 50 - 80 TRY.
I called the hotel, they told me to ignore those offers (they would brand it door-to-door) and take the bus that reads Avas[h]. I did that and was on my way.

Welcome to Istanbul
This is an intro, I’m yet to see anything or take interesting. Upon my arrival though, I meet this Malaysian guy with whom we went on some walk around the city and tried out some Turkish food (yum-yum) - really good stuff! Taksim, especially the street I was on, is a very, very busy place, especially at night - this, I guess would make for some action.

Interesting notes
It might interest you to know that some websites are blocked in this country, those I have noticed so far is:
1. YouTube : www.youtube.com
2. My Site: www.zenecherub.com

Oh! You may wonder, then how was I able to make this post - Luckily, there is an easy way around those restriction - www.vtunnel.com - and you are home free.

I’m black and in some way is has some good and bad. Howbeit, the goods seem to outweigh the bad. The very interesting thing I noticed is that, I seem to almost be the only black person that walks the street so far!
With this, it seems that I get quite some attention. It even got to its peek when some random girl suddenly came over and touched my face (Gosh!) - I don’t mind that…hey, she was cute! My Malaysian friend quickly advised me get get used to it or if I like, play along and get some groove on.

The word “nigger” has now being agreed to be the most offensive word in English languge. Or wait… Who exactly is agreeing to this, as far as I do now, I’m still sure some “niggers” who fondly call themselves so and even some “whites” who might do anything to bear this “nigger” title.
Well, for the sanes and those who have being wondering - isn’t a nigger a black person (disparaging)? For this mind, I create this post. There is the Nigger and then there is the Black man and yes, they are completely different breeds.
A nigger is the one you see and say to yourself: “thank God I’m not that-such a craze” and a black man is that you admire and enviously desire his success.
A nigger is that who doesn’t know the difference between correctness and correct-yes, very ignorant and a black is that whose has a desire to learn and overcome challenges.
A nigger brags about his rims, his chics, his “flowz” and being tough and for the black man-he needs no bragging because his actions are louder than thousand of words.
A nigger knows the shortcut to everything and anything, no matter how crude, stupid and insane, he’s still ballin’. The black man knows the reward of hard work, he even recognizes more the fact that thousands of miles walk down a wrong road never make it right.
A black man knows, admits and corrects his mistakes, faces the challenges and move on- Niggers believe they are in constant prejudice.
You know their uniforms: over sized shirts and dropping pants, colorful shoes and huge “dog-ties” - that’s a nigger rolling; even if it means robbing you to acquire all this, a nigger gatta “bling.”
A black knows he isn’t supposed to do drugs, he knows he is supposed to obey the law, knows his duty to the society,  his duty to his family and does so accordingly. A nigger feels surprised if he doesn’t do drugs, go to jail or get shot ‘cuz, that should be a nigger’s life!
Success to a nigger is big rims, swags and blings. So, even if a nigger can’t afford a day’s meal - gotta big shiny rims, all’s cool. Black men knows that all that shine isn’t gold and most often empty barrels make the loudest noise.
Some situations is just out of a black man’s control and he knows there are better ways to solve the problem than blame, get violent and get victimized. First of, every niggers problem, he claims, are from white people and violence and some ballistic action can solve some issues, just plain ignorant Niggers!
Niggers breed niggers, a “nigger baby mama” has tons of kids, doesn’t know their dad, on welfare and wouldn’t stop having even some more sex - a black has a dad, one mom and a loving family-that’s the real black man.
Why get a real serious job when as a nigger you can “sling” and make decent living? A black man has an answer: as stated earlier, no shortcuts and zero jail time policy for a black man. A black man works hard, holds a job maybe two and leads an accomplished life.
A nigger thinks: being polite, honest, gentle, thrifty, intelligent or [legally] accomplished is “acting white.” A black has no idea what “acting white” means but he does know that skin color does not predict decency or, even if stereotyped as the inferior classes, that doesn’t stop us for achieving and beating the odds.
Yes! I’m a black man and has a zero-tolerance for niggers. We shouldn’t decide to be one, or live by the standards expected of “blacks” because even we ourselves know -disregarding the odds, we are a great people and purely against the stereotype.

Yes!, when I came into the USA years ago as an immigrant from West Africa (Nigeria), the ways of the whites felt strange to me.
I’m African, cultured and nurtured - then - I’ve grown into whites, reds, greens, whatever the color.
For a country like the United States of America, a country that liberated me and many others. Giving us opportunity we could have only dreamed of; and today, from the mind of this immigrant I say: “Happy Birthday!”
Oh, say can you see,
By the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed
At the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars,
Through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched
Were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare,
The bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night
That our flag was still there.
O, say, does that
Star-Spangled Banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free
And the home of the brave?

As with my ongoing proposals on the concept of girls and guys, relationship and their dynamics, according to the world of economics, I continue to the finally episode of The Economics of Love.

Here, I intend to sum up, conceptualize and defend all my insane ideas of:

1. Solving relationship issues; e.g. what’s the fate of the perfectly healthy man who lacks a mate.

2. As a result of (1) AIDS becomes rampant and how do I respond? Read my previous post [insert link to previous post here].

3. I disagree that there is enough market, if Air can be marketed, restrooms can be marketed, or even walking around is now marketed, I conclude that - let’s make an industry off sex…oh, I don’t refer to erotic services – mean real capitalistic sex services.

Like I’ve once comically mentioned, I’m a Modern Man-digital and well commercialized. It has been agreed that in this modern age, one of man’s greatest inventions has been the internet and of all ages, man’s sole confide - Sex. I would say: let’s bring together this invention and his confide and together we would not only solve the mystery of Love Economics as stated in Part I, we can as well cure AIDS as stated in Part II.

When I first made the proposal that having more Sex might in fact cure world of HIV/AIDS (see Part II), the major argument that has being made against it has been that: while HIV/AIDS seems to be the main STD making the news headlines, it does not underestimate the deadliness of other.

The argument continues, while I could easily push that people should have more sex, what are the chances that this folks who are about to follow my doctrine aren’t infected with other diseases such as gonorrhea, syphilis or the likes.

Or, as another quizzed, what is the chance of this two successfully coming together or at least achieving any of my proposed plans. And then, before any dismissal, I have again gone radical - I have suggested that let’s harness the power of the internet, that of modern internet technology and of economics and create Cyber-Sex networks.

Here’s the proposal:

A system (such as facebook, myspace or even Medicare; who says sex isn’t a need?) will be created; it would work in such a way as every entrant will be pre-screened and surety will be made that this person is definitely safe according to the tests of certified health centers. Here, participants who would love to curb AIDS/HIV would register and look for dates (NSA or whichever).

But wait! Before we push this any further, how about the fact that at the time of the actual contact, this person would still be as healthy as when registration was initially made. Then to this I would reply: This system would work on a ranking system where, apart from the subscription fee one has to pay, a constant certification and statement of health would be required.

And as we would let this system run itself, it would be adjusted in such a way that you have the option of submitting you current health status quarterly, yearly or bi-annually which affects your ranking accordingly from a ranking of “extremely risky” to “very safe” based on gathered records and other factor.

Now, for the economics portion, we can always guarantee that sex would be subsidized, probably certain and safe for members of this system.

As already mentioned, this system doesn’t necessarily have to be a website, it could work as a community sex plan, or maybe as a national sex reform act - depending on how radical one decides to get. For the sake of abstractness, I kept the idea simple.

The thought is radical - Yes! Impossible - Maybe. But if we decide to weigh the cost of preaching abstinence or condom use against overshadowing the “minute” STD infected people and a chance of fear-free pleasure - I’m sure, some would agree that even more sex is safer sex.

Various statistics has shown that AIDS is now an epidemic especially in most developing countries especially in African countries*

As scary as AIDS or this statistics seem, in a countries like USA or some other countries, there is still a low percentage of people infected with AIDS comparable to healthy people (all things equal) and upon this fact, I will draw a solution on combating the spreading of this deadly virus.

On discussing with some friends I mentioned: “Don’t you think encouraging people to have more sex can actually curb the spread of the Virus?” No matter how I try to prove my logic, almost everyone I have proposed this solution to finds it very ridiculous. A disease that is primary spread through sex: “how is having more sex going to curb its spread? You must be such an insane joker to even think of such a thing.”

Let dive straight into this argument:

Once again, let’s take the hypothetical market of reLove where all things are equal and (comparably similar to the real world where the figures of those living with the virus is significantly lower§) we have 96% perfectly healthy people and 4% infected with the HIV/AIDS Virus - we will be working with this data for working on my economic cure for this disease.

Let suppose, we have a guy in reLove named Jim who has tested positive for the virus and another guy Jack a perfectly health male. With the situation of things now, while the marginal cost of Jim having more HIV is almost zero, this alone can serve as an incentive for Jim to have more sex.

In what sense will Jim’s HIV incent him to have more sex? For Jack, he has the fear of contracting the virus hence he chooses the safest escape - abstinence from having sex, this simultaneously increase the chances of Jim having sex with more partners and spreading the virus to uniformed partners.

The Jacks in reLove (perfectly healthy) each on their own would not know they are disrupting the market and indirectly promoting the transmission of this virus for just the fear that another perfectly healthy female, let’s call her Jill would supposedly have a virus then transmit it to him and this false hopes drives a rather healthy female who would have otherwise had sex with Jack to have sex with Jim thereby getting the virus and so forth.

Since this may read confusing, let me just put it this way: For every less sex that the 95% of the Jacks and Jills don’t have, they almost double the chances of the Jims and Janes (HIV/AIDS infected) of spreading the disease - the 80/20 rule works here too.

Since the obvious solution might be to encourage the Jacks and Janes to have more sex (though this has obvious flaws which I would highlight in the next article), maybe even go even more wild with this idea and offer to pay every healthy person for every additional sex had with another healthy person. Yes, this sounds absolutely ridiculous as my friends have often pointed out but then, I have decided to think outside of the conventional box.

As fun as the idea of encouraging more sex to cure HIV, I have even being faced with greater bugs (as computer programmers would prefer to call it) in my logic of thought which I intend to tackle in the next part of this post. If you’re enjoying this radical thought so far, stay tuned for more coming.

* http://www.avert.org/worlstatinfo.htm

§ http://www.globalhealthreporting.org/diseaseinfo.asp?id=23

Girls and supply, guys and demand, for all in this market - let’s call it market “ReLove” (I coiled this from relationship and love), the power of scarcity, the equilibrum price in ReLove, a price at which a guy will love a girl and the girl in turn agrees to be loved and love back. There happens to be a trade which makes [hopefully] both parties better off - in reLove where Relationship is often traded, sometimes, sex is traded, and maybe sometime there’s a disruption in sex sector when factors like STDs come in.

Recently, I have been trying to understand the concept of relationships from a different perspective unlike I have discussed in [h]previous post [hyperlink], I decided to liken relationship to markets and economics concept which I found quite similar and strickingly interesting in so regard. For this, I would build on the analogy I already illustrated in our reLove market. So, for does who think economics can help them fall in love, let’s get into the fun:

Pretty Girls, Demand and Scarcity
Economics, is the study of scarcity. In essence as most would agree, anyone with the power to influence scarcity over a certain market, has the power to rule that market.

This might simplistically explains why pretty girls attract more potential partners than girls with lesser potential. So, like suppliers in any market - girls would try to increase their competitiveness with things like make-ups and the like. Now what happens to our reLove market is that competition increase and guys then to have more choices which in effect will reduce the value of girls.

And here again, my subsequent point explains why guys are less willing to commit than girls are. Oh, many might argue, then why are guys the one doing the chasing just like real markets that producers and suppliers chase consumers and rarely is it vice versa?

Letting aside the cultural effect that limit the amount of girls (which I think of here as suppliers) chasing guys (which I regard as consumers), a more economic answer will be the fact that in some way, as already explained girls have scarcity power that makes them rule the world of guys where guys don’t really have choices (except in absurd cases where a man might decide to date a monkey or some other animal).

So I might actually suggest that make-ups for girls should be subsidized to encouraging its use which would limit the amount of scacity power that pretty girls would have. Or, how about offer free make-ups to unengaged girls (for which I would assume no otherwise engaged girl would claim being engaged).

Hoooked Girls and Cost-push inflation
It might be insane if I suggest that girls should be paid not to get engaged too soon to a partner. Then the question would arise: how old is too old or what about the issue of chaeting where girls claim they are not engaged when they are.

I might not address all this question in this aricle (I would still live a perfect solution for some other time).
Let’s say hypothetically, we have seven girls and ten guys in reLove, naturally, the cost of obtaining any of this girls will be already high as there is an imbalance in the market already. Then, let’s suppose a girl, Jill gets engaged to Jim another single guy in this market, that leaves 9 girls to 6 girls which will even toughen competition because if things continue at this rate, their will be a consumer (the guys) deficit of 3.
So, how does this relate to the real world and our real case? For every girl that gets engaged sooner makes it a chance less unlikely for another guy of getting a girl someplace somewhere. Which effect would make other girls who knows that their are fewer of them from high number of guys to choose from would demand high cost on having them - what a costly price to pay for a date.

Ok, I know, some might find my ideas completely non-feasible but wouldn’t hurt anyone to hypotezise. When the Wright brothers proposed “flying-iron,” everyone thought it impossible back then - hopefully no one would doubt that today.

For my all time favorite which has actaully never being in writing, I propose an economic way to cure our hypothetical market (reLove) of AIDS and other STDs in the next part.

Fanny J. Crosby
( Key: Ab {A-flat})

m     r    d        l” s”      d
Pass me not , O gentle Savior
r        r    d    - r    m
Hear my hum-ble cry
m       r   d-t”       d      l”   s  - d
While on o-thers thou art ca-lling
r     d    m     r    d
Do not pass me by

s-f-m   r-d-l  s”     d    m    -d    r
Savior, Savior, Hear my hum-ble cry
m      r    d-t”      l”      s”      d
While on o-thers thou art calling
r      d   m     r    d
Do not pass me by

Anyone can guess my stand by now - Obama for President!

Most have dropped their thoughts on the U.S. presidential race, especially the democratic nomination race. So I’d just sum it up my own thoughts - you be the judge.

After supporting the notion of the popular fraud from Nigeria a.k.a. Yahoozee, I refuse to shift the blame to those doing this crime (considering other factors) like the Nigerian government have decide to do (which I assume by them setting-up the Economic Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC])

As an economics would think, there is a solution to every problem as long as there is the right incentive. Obviously, in most third world countries, there leaders have no incentive to want to think about the good of the populace.

Even more, most of these corrupt leaders keep some part of the economy functional and to paraphrase Tim Harford in The Undercover Economist, “so they can support their own self interest.” In a country like Nigeria where there tends to be bad roads, inadequate/non-functional social amenities, poor education, low security and may more ills. For this case, an agile teen (and maybe creative) would devise a means of his own to survival, as if to follow Darwin’s survival of fittest theory - everyone tends after themselves.

No doubt in the long run, a system that is supported by fraud will crumble so, even though I might see this advantageous in the short run as a solution to Nigerian youths sufferings, I know intend to attack the grassroots of the situation.

I have proposed some oversimplified solutions to both Yahoozee and the Nigerian economy.

1. The Nigerian Constitution and its Woes

In as much as there is the constitution that we have that has ruined the nation to this stage, and we adamantly still stick it. And for the men in constitution who are only there for their own self-interest, if at least they can only seek to review the Nigerian constitution and its may loopholes to fix the current economic lags that’s deep within the elite and should stop chasing the helpless masses who are after their daily bread.

2. Kill the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)

No, this is not a metaphor or irony; I mean that this commission should be literally killed.

Whatever policy this firm was institutionalized to combat the crime of “Yahoozee,” I would say that say that it has being grossly counter-productive. Looking at it this way (economically, I suppose):

Prior to the advent of computers and internet, this folks had no means of supporting themselves hence they had to probably resort to theft and some other crime (which is often out of frustration). At this time, those who where little incented to commit crime had to work extremely hard (often to no avail), then came the internet - these Yahoo guys worked there ways around it and where incented (by the government because of bad policies) to defraud.

As the laws of perfect competition commands, lots of youths entered the “Yahoo” market then entered the government introducing EFCC to curb these yahoos who arrests this folks thereby forcing the previously employed back to the market without the government providing alternative.

Guess what happens, sure the crime drops but then the amount of criminals increase significantly - and who are they coming after – you!

3. Grossly subsidize Companies in infected areas

I seek not to attack Nigerian government policies or encourage yahoozeeing but as argued previously, attacking the problem on the surface (with EFCC) leaves the core problem rotten. One proposal I love would be to have the government largely subsidize investment in area where Yahooing is most prevalent which obviously would create employment for those who would have otherwise being unemployed after the EFCC force.

I would suggest even local government wooing large organization to maximize the advantage of cheap labor that Nigeria might provide and maybe just like China establish sweats shops. I know most westerners hate to listen to the argument of sweats shop.

Whatever you think, this boosts trade and as usual better than the alternative of thefts and crimes.

While this can be seen as “just some thought,” I strongly believe it is time for a lot of re-orientation in the African way of thinking, implementing and planning.

As simple as it seems, establishing a firm such as the EFCC is like cutting of the stem of an unwanted tree, then fixing the underlying economy is liken to uprooting this tree.

4. Some Silent Assassins

Though it’s often a joke but I supposed if someone if going to be willing to implement this rather crude suggestion, it will not only help the country a long way but also instantly re-orient our thinking.

It is - some iron hearted assassin taking out all those in the elite, ruling the country who, not only keep putting the nation in wreck, have also sworn to continue to propagate ways to recruit followers (their kids) at the mercy of suffering citizens. Then, our will this help? After the death of some culprits, the news will certainly spread, those in their evil status might guess they’ll be next hence decide to either quit or go underground.

On this account, their will be new generation of leaders who have being kept in silence for too long, there will be an implementation of fresh ideas and the country would finally be the hands of those who have the interest of the nation at heart.

Then at some point, Nigeria can be referred to as the next superpower, after the order of countries like China or Brazil.

Meanwhile, I rest my case.