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Stop being an idiot. I'm an Xer too. There's a difference between a proper name (White as a surname) and a general and inaccurate term for an ethnic group (white or black). Show me any decent example of people capitalizing those; you won't find any. This has nothing to do with texting; no one except maybe stupid Southern racists ever capitalized white or black for ethnic groups in my lifetime that I can recall.

Here are some samples found by a simple search:

However, according to APA, racial and ethnic groups are designated by proper nouns and are capitalized: Black and White.APA Publication Manual, 6th edition, 3.14, p. 75. (quoted in an answer on Stack Exchange

Note: The capitalization of Black does raise problems for the treatment of the term ‘white.’ Orthographic evenhandedness would seem to require the use of uppercase ‘White,’ but this form might be taken to imply that whites constitute a single ethnic group, which is certainly debatable. Uppercase ‘White’ is also sometimes associated with the writings of white supremacist groups, which is a good enough reason for many to dismiss it. On the other hand, the use of lowercase ‘white’ in the same context as uppercase ‘Black’ would obviously raise questions as to how and why the writer has distinguished between the two groups. There is no entirely satisfactory solution to this problem and the uncertainty as whether to capitalize or not capitalize ‘white’ has discouraged many publications from adopting the capitalized form ‘Black.’ Word Wizard

Probably St. Peter.
Here you go :)

Both of these companies were not just major users of H-1b and outsourcing -- they were the leaders of this trend.

Again, Microsoft isn't just another H-1b user -- its a mainline corporate junkie of the H-1b fix that's proven only to put stockholders in a fix.

This isn't ironic or puzzling -- it is entirely predictable and it was predicted by people who are now going to take the information industry back from the brainiacs who thought they were being very clever and cosmo and, above-all, fashionable, by throwing open the doors of the US to the world.

Ever since Scott McNealy said:

I am fighting with our government to allow H1B visas cap to be raised. I was in at the White House talking to the chief of staff to get the H1B visa cap raised. We already half way through the fiscal year, capped out on the number of really bright Israelis and Indians.

First Sun.

Then HP.

Now Microsoft.

Guess what, suckers?

You lose.

Was it Patton or Macarthur who said

Interesting question. Apprently neither. The origins of the phrase are much older than I would have previously thought.

We can also broach making "affect" and "effect" the same; we've already wrecked the differences between unsecure (as in a computer) vs. insecure (people are insecure; computers don't like to be anthopomorphized :).

Oh, "coke" is an abbreviation because its made with extracts of the coca plant. As in cocaine, as in coke. See also common terms of the pre-60s for types of coal called "coke" which put the word in people's mouths at the time.

Ketchup/Catsup? without working much, I find: this which suggests, among other things, that "Ketchup" might be a brand name. But 30 seconds of google isn't enough research for me to stand too strongly by that. Oh for my OED (the book or the subscription service).

Now, this is too off topic to be continued (yet oddly informative!).

You must be smoking some good shit

I thought the misassociation of a famous confidence trickster's words to PT Barnum was common knowledge... I mean this was stated in the A&E biography by numerous historians, as well as in the History Channel recanning of the same interviews.

However, just because PT didn't say it, doesn't mean it wasn't true. But really, we're the suckers in the end... Since we've all got to pay higher rates now.

"All I found were pages agreeing with me...

I know you found at least one page disagreeing with you, because you shared its link with us.

"Rainforests are vegetation types dominated by broad-leaved trees that form a dense upper canopy (layer of foliage). And the CANOPY is the key to calling it a 'rainforest.' Because of this canopy, very little sunlight will actually reach the forest floor and only ferns and other plants requiring very little sunlight can survive there...

Jungles, on the other hand, occur where... a large amount of sunlight reaches the ground and the vegetation and undergrowth is extremely dense..."

All I found were pages agreeing with me, or pages where people used the terms interchangeably.

I'm aware of the technical difference, but that's not how people use the terms.

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