flaunt (flônt) v. flaunted, flaunting, flaunts v. tr.
To exhibit ostentatiously or shamelessly: flaunts his knowledge.
Usage Note: Flaunt as a transitive verb means "to exhibit ostentatiously": She flaunted her wealth. To flout is "to show contempt for": She flouted the proprieties. For some time now flaunt has been used in the sense "to show contempt for," even by educated users of English. This usage is still widely seen as erroneous and is best avoided.
It's not the cities at issue; it's the backgrounds of the 2 kids in question. If you've seen any of the non-stop coverage of Elizabeth Smart's disappearance, you've seen a dozen aerial shots of her family's ridiculously overblown house and neighborhood. If you've seen any coverage of Alexis Patterson, you must live in Milwaukee.
Either that, or you were watching the Today show when Matt Lauer mentioned the case (the first time I heard of Alexis Patterson) and asked the guest "Why do you think THE MEDIA isn't covering Alexis Patterson?" as if he wasn't himself part of this nebulous Media we keep hearing about. The verdict, arrived at by ML and his guest: It's a freakin' mystery, but NO WAY is it racism.
Completely aside from whether or not anyone needs XP more than a hole in his head, the CNN article was utterly miserable.
In the first paragraph, such as it is, they call XP an "operation system" -- a mistake I frequently hear secretaries and PHBs make, but inexcusable for an alleged journalist in the Sci/Tech section of CNN.
The very next sentence is "The system promises fewer computer crashes and will allow users to delete data from their hard drive." Delete data from my hard drive! I've been waiting DECADES for that functionality!
The following 2 or 3 pages read like a Microsoft press release, including such gems as "The printer links are improved, there is instant messaging, voice technology and the multimedia applications are ranked by experts as impressive, especially for digital photography."
After piles of this kind of cheerleading, only briefly do they mention any criticism of XP... but it is whitewashed as "controversy" and doesn't really address the new issues raised by the various sneaky new "features" and integrated copies of competitors' products... even though they quote Gates in the first few graphs saying
"'It's a value for consumers. Why are there headlights in cars? Why don't they make you go and buy those things separately?
'If you look at the value of the stuff that's in Windows XP, compared to the stand-alone packages you'd have to buy for the equivalent, that's many hundreds of dollars,' Gates said. "
...which would seem to be a defense-in-advance against criticism of exactly that integration. Context? Who needs it?
Maybe I'm missing something here, but if your device offers 4000 colors after you claimed it would display 65,000... that seems like a total breakdown in quality control, if not blatant false advertising. Rather than a "glitch", which is what HP and the referenced article are calling it.
It seems to me that the guy is saying that in order for a war to be moral enough people on your side have to be killed.
I think the point was not that more on our side should have been killed. We waged a "war" on the principle that all people are equal and should be treated as such... but then we weren't willing to risk the lives of our people to further this principle. Which would seem to indicate that we think Our People are better than Their People. Which we clearly do, all lame protestations to the contrary.
Even worse, when Their People are brown-skinned, they're not even worth the expense of our magical, hands-off destructive technology. See for example Rwanda, Liberia, Sierra Leone, East Timor, etc. etc.
"we" and "our" refers to the U.S. military -- I am not immune to this thinking either.
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flaunt (flônt)
v. flaunted, flaunting, flaunts
v. tr.
To exhibit ostentatiously or shamelessly: flaunts his knowledge.
Usage Note: Flaunt as a transitive verb means "to exhibit ostentatiously": She flaunted her wealth. To flout is "to show contempt for": She flouted the proprieties. For some time now flaunt has been used in the sense "to show contempt for," even by educated users of English. This usage is still widely seen as erroneous and is best avoided.
It's not the cities at issue; it's the backgrounds of the 2 kids in question. If you've seen any of the non-stop coverage of Elizabeth Smart's disappearance, you've seen a dozen aerial shots of her family's ridiculously overblown house and neighborhood. If you've seen any coverage of Alexis Patterson, you must live in Milwaukee.
Either that, or you were watching the Today show when Matt Lauer mentioned the case (the first time I heard of Alexis Patterson) and asked the guest "Why do you think THE MEDIA isn't covering Alexis Patterson?" as if he wasn't himself part of this nebulous Media we keep hearing about. The verdict, arrived at by ML and his guest: It's a freakin' mystery, but NO WAY is it racism.
Completely aside from whether or not anyone needs XP more than a hole in his head, the CNN article was utterly miserable.
In the first paragraph, such as it is, they call XP an "operation system" -- a mistake I frequently hear secretaries and PHBs make, but inexcusable for an alleged journalist in the Sci/Tech section of CNN.
The very next sentence is "The system promises fewer computer crashes and will allow users to delete data from their hard drive." Delete data from my hard drive! I've been waiting DECADES for that functionality!
The following 2 or 3 pages read like a Microsoft press release, including such gems as "The printer links are improved, there is instant messaging, voice technology and the multimedia applications are ranked by experts as impressive, especially for digital photography."
After piles of this kind of cheerleading, only briefly do they mention any criticism of XP... but it is whitewashed as "controversy" and doesn't really address the new issues raised by the various sneaky new "features" and integrated copies of competitors' products... even though they quote Gates in the first few graphs saying
"'It's a value for consumers. Why are there headlights in cars? Why don't they make you go and buy those things separately?
'If you look at the value of the stuff that's in Windows XP, compared to the stand-alone packages you'd have to buy for the equivalent, that's many hundreds of dollars,' Gates said. "
...which would seem to be a defense-in-advance against criticism of exactly that integration. Context? Who needs it?
Sheesh.
It just sounds crazy because the rest of the world is out of its freakin mind.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but if your device offers 4000 colors after you claimed it would display 65,000... that seems like a total breakdown in quality control, if not blatant false advertising. Rather than a "glitch", which is what HP and the referenced article are calling it.
I think the point was not that more on our side should have been killed. We waged a "war" on the principle that all people are equal and should be treated as such... but then we weren't willing to risk the lives of our people to further this principle. Which would seem to indicate that we think Our People are better than Their People. Which we clearly do, all lame protestations to the contrary.
Even worse, when Their People are brown-skinned, they're not even worth the expense of our magical, hands-off destructive technology. See for example Rwanda, Liberia, Sierra Leone, East Timor, etc. etc.
"we" and "our" refers to the U.S. military -- I am not immune to this thinking either.