Racial strife in the UK is nowhere near as bad as the US either. A large chunk of violent crime in the US ae committed by minorities - is that the case in the UK as well?
Then Apple should not be so secretive about their releases beforehand. If they weren't, people wouldn;t keep speculating huge increses, only to be disappointed after the fact.
You see, affirmative action is just that, it is a deliberate action taken to correct a discrepancy.
Fighting racism with racism. Whatta concept!
First, realize that poor and uneducated parents are more likely to have poor and uneducated kids (there are prominent exceptions). They can't afford to live near the good schools. They can't afford to send their kids to college. The kids are likely to have to work after school instead of studying. The parents aren't able to help their kids with their homework. The parents might not be able to "parent" much at all, since they are working long hours at low-paying jobs. All that makes it harder for the kids to get a good education, harder to get a good job, and they end up poor and uneducated such that the cycle continues.
Y'know - nobody forced them to bear children. If they did not want their kids to grow up in such an unfair situation, they should not have had them in the first place. Don't make people who deserve a job have to lose out because someone else selfishly chose to have children in a situation where they could not succeed without applying racism. (And it is also awfully condescending to say that Blacks can't succeed without the helping hand of Whitey).
Now, the people in power (for America, the whites) have historically done a lot to keep the competition poor and uneducated. Slavery, segregation and racist practices all made it very hard for a black man to get a good education and a good job and a good home.
Agreed - but those days are over. Applying racism against Whites only harbors resentment against Blacks, even those that truly deserve to succeed.
So, affirmative action does two things. One, it fights quiet racism by not allowing universities and business owners to just decide that all the best candidates happen to be their selected race. It also does give a leg up to less-qualified candidates, who might be less-qualified only because they weren't afforded the same opportunities that people from the right side of town were.
Only because they were Black, you mean. Otherwise, a poor White kid should have the same "leg up" as a Black kid. But Affirmative Action doesn't work that way, does it?
The system is also only supposed to be temporary, to be removed when everyone is pretty much equal to start with, but I'd hate to be the congressman who suggests that it is time to do so.
Heh - even you admit that it's political suicide to propose ending Affirmative Action. Bush got a load of crap for suggesting it. The problem is that there will ALWAYS be the "haves" and "have nots", no matter how much legislation is applied to artifically rectify the situation. So basically Affirmative Action will never end if that's the barometer.
I used to live In Canarsie, the last stop on that line. It goes through many not-so-nice areas (the elevated section hovers over the burned-down ruins of East New york - there are literally whole blocks with nothing in them, after the buildings were burned down in the 70's. If you are completely comfortable with being the only white dude in a train car, then the L train is for you. I know people who've been attacked on that line several times. Once the East New York residents moved to Canarsie in the 90's, I moved out. I hope there won't be an increase in attacks with one less official on it.
Maybe YOU'RE the racist for assuming the poster who made the joke was White? If Dave Chappelle or Chris Rock told that joke, they'd get a round of applause. Racist jokes about Black people (and white people!) are ok only as long as it's told by a Black, right?
Er, I think he knows that. Way to flame someone just for the hell of it. But If Saddam DID die tomorrow, I don't think you'll find maky people praising him publicly. Except maybe Sean Penn....
I would like to know myself. I have a friend who wants me to help him pick out his first Mac (either a mini or iMac) next week, but I want to tell him to hold off until 10.4 comes out. I wish I knew for sure when that is. If it does come out April 15th as rumored, then he definitely should wait.
How are they getting the machine to boot at the BIOS level? They usually do not recognize FireWire devices for purposes of rebooting, though I wish they would finally add that functionality!
I did try YD on my Powerbook. Then I discovered that AE doesn't work, not to mention the laptop was hot as hell because proper fan control wasn't implemented. I put OSX back on it the next day.
I wonder when Apple might switch to supplying X.org instead of XFree. I know Xdarwin is now based on it, but it isn't as well integrated as Apple's version. I'd really like to be able to use the transparencies in X that Aqua can on the same system.
I hope to God you're being facetious to show the error in the parent's logic.
While I think those involved the the Abu Ghraib hazing should be disciplined, their actions were nothing compared to the atrocities that Iraqi soldiers have inflicted.
Do you happen to live in the NYC area? If so, that's becuase Cingular technically didn't exist there. They had a sharing agreement where NY Cingular customers used T-Mobile's towers while T-Mobil used Cingular's towers in California. After the merger obviously you could use AT&T's towers as well. For the record I consistently get a better signal using AT&T towers over T-Mobil's
Granted, it was incredibly stupid of Cingular to try to claim to be a national cell provider when they could not service the largest metropolitan area in the country, but now thanks to AT&T they don't have to worry about it.
I know - Ive used it myself. But as far as I know it only made entire windows transparent, not sections like just the console area. I thought the app has to have explicit support to be that specific.
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Moron. If Child Porn is viewable over Satellite/Cable/TV, there's an asslod of other problems going on....
Racial strife in the UK is nowhere near as bad as the US either.
A large chunk of violent crime in the US ae committed by minorities - is that the case in the UK as well?
I realize they mean well, but that only causes movements like Neo-Nazism to drive more underground and probably more violent.
At least in the US the KKK is free to roam, and are able to be publicly ridiculed and challenged as a result.
Gingrich!!!!!!
Wait....wtf are you talking about?
Then Apple should not be so secretive about their releases beforehand. If they weren't, people wouldn;t keep speculating huge increses, only to be disappointed after the fact.
Fighting racism with racism. Whatta concept!
First, realize that poor and uneducated parents are more likely to have poor and uneducated kids (there are prominent exceptions). They can't afford to live near the good schools. They can't afford to send their kids to college. The kids are likely to have to work after school instead of studying. The parents aren't able to help their kids with their homework. The parents might not be able to "parent" much at all, since they are working long hours at low-paying jobs. All that makes it harder for the kids to get a good education, harder to get a good job, and they end up poor and uneducated such that the cycle continues.
Y'know - nobody forced them to bear children. If they did not want their kids to grow up in such an unfair situation, they should not have had them in the first place. Don't make people who deserve a job have to lose out because someone else selfishly chose to have children in a situation where they could not succeed without applying racism. (And it is also awfully condescending to say that Blacks can't succeed without the helping hand of Whitey).
Now, the people in power (for America, the whites) have historically done a lot to keep the competition poor and uneducated. Slavery, segregation and racist practices all made it very hard for a black man to get a good education and a good job and a good home.
Agreed - but those days are over. Applying racism against Whites only harbors resentment against Blacks, even those that truly deserve to succeed.
So, affirmative action does two things. One, it fights quiet racism by not allowing universities and business owners to just decide that all the best candidates happen to be their selected race. It also does give a leg up to less-qualified candidates, who might be less-qualified only because they weren't afforded the same opportunities that people from the right side of town were.
Only because they were Black, you mean. Otherwise, a poor White kid should have the same "leg up" as a Black kid. But Affirmative Action doesn't work that way, does it?
The system is also only supposed to be temporary, to be removed when everyone is pretty much equal to start with, but I'd hate to be the congressman who suggests that it is time to do so.
Heh - even you admit that it's political suicide to propose ending Affirmative Action. Bush got a load of crap for suggesting it. The problem is that there will ALWAYS be the "haves" and "have nots", no matter how much legislation is applied to artifically rectify the situation. So basically Affirmative Action will never end if that's the barometer.
I'll have to admit, If I hadn't gotten an iPod in 2002, I may never have gotten my Powerbook in 2003.
I used to live In Canarsie, the last stop on that line. It goes through many not-so-nice areas (the elevated section hovers over the burned-down ruins of East New york - there are literally whole blocks with nothing in them, after the buildings were burned down in the 70's. If you are completely comfortable with being the only white dude in a train car, then the L train is for you. I know people who've been attacked on that line several times. Once the East New York residents moved to Canarsie in the 90's, I moved out. I hope there won't be an increase in attacks with one less official on it.
Maybe YOU'RE the racist for assuming the poster who made the joke was White?
If Dave Chappelle or Chris Rock told that joke, they'd get a round of applause. Racist jokes about Black people (and white people!) are ok only as long as it's told by a Black, right?
Geez - read the first sentence of your own link!
"Dell moved product support for business accounts from India back to the U.S."
Your mom still isn't considered worthy enough to receive tech support from a native English speaker.
Er, I think he knows that. Way to flame someone just for the hell of it.
But If Saddam DID die tomorrow, I don't think you'll find maky people praising him publicly. Except maybe Sean Penn....
...so where's the announcement???
I would like to know myself. I have a friend who wants me to help him pick out his first Mac (either a mini or iMac) next week, but I want to tell him to hold off until 10.4 comes out. I wish I knew for sure when that is. If it does come out April 15th as rumored, then he definitely should wait.
How are they getting the machine to boot at the BIOS level? They usually do not recognize FireWire devices for purposes of rebooting, though I wish they would finally add that functionality!
I never bought any Apple stock, but I did buy $2000 worth of CSCO stock for $74/share one month before the bubble burst. Double sigh.
And that was my brief foray into the stock market....
I hate to reply to my own post, but I forgot to add this:
Closing the clamshell did not put the laptop into sleep mode, further making Linux on my Powerbook totally useless.
Um, AE doesn't work under Yellow Dog either.
I did try YD on my Powerbook. Then I discovered that AE doesn't work, not to mention the laptop was hot as hell because proper fan control wasn't implemented. I put OSX back on it the next day.
I wonder when Apple might switch to supplying X.org instead of XFree. I know Xdarwin is now based on it, but it isn't as well integrated as Apple's version. I'd really like to be able to use the transparencies in X that Aqua can on the same system.
Only Firewire booting works, so this is a futile effort anyway.
From what I can see in that link, the supposed murder was unrelated to the hazing photos.
Perhaps the soldiers in question did get off easy - but still I can't get myself to call the Iraqi soldiers "victims".
I hope to God you're being facetious to show the error in the parent's logic.
While I think those involved the the Abu Ghraib hazing should be disciplined, their actions were nothing compared to the atrocities that Iraqi soldiers have inflicted.
Do you happen to live in the NYC area? If so, that's becuase Cingular technically didn't exist there. They had a sharing agreement where NY Cingular customers used T-Mobile's towers while T-Mobil used Cingular's towers in California. After the merger obviously you could use AT&T's towers as well. For the record I consistently get a better signal using AT&T towers over T-Mobil's
Granted, it was incredibly stupid of Cingular to try to claim to be a national cell provider when they could not service the largest metropolitan area in the country, but now thanks to AT&T they don't have to worry about it.
Maybe for Windows then, but that still doesn't cover Linux...
Cool - so then pay phones still have a use after all!
I know - Ive used it myself. But as far as I know it only made entire windows transparent, not sections like just the console area. I thought the app has to have explicit support to be that specific.