As things are, Caucasian people clearly have greater access to resources and greater social privilege, in the States and elsewhere. I dont buy that its the opposite. I think that you have the idea that is the opposite because, due to ideas of political correctness, it is more acceptable to disparage Caucasians in public discourse. But, that really cannot hide the fact that really Caucasian people are still comparatively privileged, in all respects. Not that i don't think that it is important to promote appropriate language, after all it is through the medium of language that ours and our children's concepts of others are formed.
The idea that invaders are sneaking into your house is completely ridiculous rhetoric. I presume you mean move into your area, state, or whatever. So, it's okay for a white family to move in next door, even if they are fresh off the boat from Holland or wherever? What about if they are second generation Mexican? And how could you necessarily know off the bat? Frankly, i find it hard to believe that you are married to a Native American, or are even old enough to marry. The idea that we have more in common because you are of Eng/Scott extraction is ludicrous, if you really were married to a Native American i would think you might feel more affinity with Mexicans (as they are more than less Native Americans) than some random bloke on the internet, whom you know nothing about. My family is of Dutch and Mexican decent.
And yes, we are all in this together, you, me, and your Mexican neighbours, so pop round for a cerveza and start building bridges, your children will be mingling with them and your family lines will eventually converge. Mexican-Americans represent a huge demographic in California, and sitting on your porch, being a self-entitled racist and staring down your new neighbours is not going to do you any good.
As far as i am concerned, they can try and go wherever they want, currently it is up to local governments to discern their own immigration policies. I was just trying to highlight certain historical and political injustices, as i see them. I believe that if you think it's right that your (actually our) ancestors could just rock up and set up as they saw fit, that those whose ancestors were there first have some claim in returning. It is a complicated issue, and we clearly have different ideas of social justice. However, if, as you claim, you have Native American family, you must, on some level, sympathise with an usurped people seeking a better life on land that was taken from them.
Once again, i am sorry that i was rude, you were right i was angry.
You are lucky to live in Cali, my family live there, and i love the place, i had the misfortune of being born in the UK. But, i'm dual national, so one day maybe i will come and invade the place too.
Oh jesus your difficult.
I was a bit heated to begin with, i apologise.
But, to be honest it can make me angry, that Mexicans are treated as invaders, which is true if you also consider the US as invading, but they themselves where invaded to begin with, and then treated as if they dont belong, echoes of Israel/Palestine. It is true that Mexico did the same to Native North Americans.
Your argument that "California is still there" is a wind-up right, if not i think you might be taking my statement a little bit literally, i dont mean taken as in moved, but you know that, you are winding me up.
Let me clarify: I do not think that U.S. has no right to Cali (though it is arguable), simply that...
Oh wait, i think i get it, the US took it so Mexicans are no longer welcome, because they have been usurped. Is that what you are saying.
I think we are arguing past each other.
So, lets just call it quits.
And, last i checked Spanish is the first language of Mexico. And, yes California was first part of Mexico, until it was taken by the U.S.
I am quite aware of where the Spanish language comes from.
Mexicans are descendants of Spanish and native Americans, hence "native heritage". Have you ever seen a Spaniard? Clue, they don't tend to look Mexican.
So, you get an A+ for completely missing the point.
And, why do you think i will respond with a racist rant. From what is evidenced here, it is more likely that would be you.
If your wife doesn’t think Mexicans belong there, then she is rather inconsistent in her beliefs to some how think you do. Please note, i am not saying that you don't belong, i am just saying that, logically, Mexicans have as much right to be there, if not more.
That the population is heavily unbalanced in terms of sex is true, but one thing i dont think the Chinese will have a problem with any time soon is growing their population. It is the one child policy that has driven this imbalance. So, they could simply ease up on that policy to move towards rebalancing the sex ratios.
Besides, if it provides a useful service for the population, and helps increase productivity in transportation of goods and people (knock on economic effects), provides jobs, whilst getting cars of the road. Thus, it is not necessarily a waste of money.
Rail has been instrumental in many economies, increasing their speed is only a natural advancement. Anyways, what time frames are you talking about, providing the lines stay in place, they have a long time to turn a profit, and, in the mean time, they provide a useful service for the people.
Funny California sounds like a Spanish word. I wonder if this indicates which invasive colonial land grabbers first staked a claim to it.
As you may need to it spelling out: Mexicans!
And, does not the fact that many of the "invaders" have plenty of native heritage indicate that they have more/as much right to be there as you?
"You can spot the winner by whose culture is spreading"
You pretty much said it yourself, China have not, much, yet expressed an interest in exporting cultural hegemony. And, besides (as the theory goes) America is at the tail end of its dominance, the cultural capital you currently enjoy is due to the century passed, and does not, as such, determine your future cultural trajectory, nor that of the world.
So, why dont you fuck of to the beach, California man.
Be honest, how many of your plugins did the upgrade actually break? I have 31 plugins and only one was broken.
If they are going to stick with the accelerated release cycle, they should build the functionality of Add-on Compatibility Reporter into the browser, or revise the version compatibility numbering, as declared by the add-ons, and everything will be fine.
Not that i am, particularly, a fan of the new release numbering. I liked the old slow build up to a monumental release, and the not having to worry about add-on compatibility for years at a time. But, lets just assume Mozilla have hashed it all out and come up with a good *long term* solution. Hey, if it all pans out, perhaps, in time, we wont have to worry about plugin compatibility ever again. Or, at very least, there will not be a transitional period, as when moving between major releases under the old system, where most of your plugins really did break. In fact this is already the case.
I suppose not. Just updated to 5 and now i cant get the damned thing to go away. That is, it is shown by default when opening Firefox from cold, still toggles with the above mentioned command.
Anyone else?
I could be wrong, but wasnt (one of) the reason(s) they used stylus due to the need for a focussed pressure from the input device, in order to make contact between the two layers of the screen, generating coordinates of the input? This was a technical limitation, necessitated by the functional capabilities of resistive touch screens.
An interesting, related, aside: apparently stylus driven input is pegged to make a comeback, particularly driven by the need to input Asian characters in much of the expensive phone buying world. Which might itself (and this is me thinking out loud) boost research interest in hand writing recognition more generally, feeding back into the "western" market. Hey if worked well, it would be better than those little untactile on screen keyboards, right?
Sorry to lower the tone and speak of the devil, and of course, this is a double pass between to languages very different from each other, however, resist i could not.
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Way to make up your own mind.
Apparently. Lets hope its transitional.
For those who are not already aware, you can install the Addonn Compatibility reporter, to force all addons to work, no matter their version numbers.
Alright mate. Fair enough.
Enjoy 'dem beers.
Peace.
As things are, Caucasian people clearly have greater access to resources and greater social privilege, in the States and elsewhere. I dont buy that its the opposite. I think that you have the idea that is the opposite because, due to ideas of political correctness, it is more acceptable to disparage Caucasians in public discourse. But, that really cannot hide the fact that really Caucasian people are still comparatively privileged, in all respects. Not that i don't think that it is important to promote appropriate language, after all it is through the medium of language that ours and our children's concepts of others are formed.
The idea that invaders are sneaking into your house is completely ridiculous rhetoric. I presume you mean move into your area, state, or whatever. So, it's okay for a white family to move in next door, even if they are fresh off the boat from Holland or wherever? What about if they are second generation Mexican? And how could you necessarily know off the bat? Frankly, i find it hard to believe that you are married to a Native American, or are even old enough to marry. The idea that we have more in common because you are of Eng/Scott extraction is ludicrous, if you really were married to a Native American i would think you might feel more affinity with Mexicans (as they are more than less Native Americans) than some random bloke on the internet, whom you know nothing about. My family is of Dutch and Mexican decent. And yes, we are all in this together, you, me, and your Mexican neighbours, so pop round for a cerveza and start building bridges, your children will be mingling with them and your family lines will eventually converge. Mexican-Americans represent a huge demographic in California, and sitting on your porch, being a self-entitled racist and staring down your new neighbours is not going to do you any good.
Really? How astute you are.
As far as i am concerned, they can try and go wherever they want, currently it is up to local governments to discern their own immigration policies. I was just trying to highlight certain historical and political injustices, as i see them. I believe that if you think it's right that your (actually our) ancestors could just rock up and set up as they saw fit, that those whose ancestors were there first have some claim in returning. It is a complicated issue, and we clearly have different ideas of social justice. However, if, as you claim, you have Native American family, you must, on some level, sympathise with an usurped people seeking a better life on land that was taken from them.
Once again, i am sorry that i was rude, you were right i was angry.
You are lucky to live in Cali, my family live there, and i love the place, i had the misfortune of being born in the UK. But, i'm dual national, so one day maybe i will come and invade the place too.
Cheers.
Yes, you won. Your arguments are so clear and make so much sense.
I am just bowled over by your grasp of logic and argumentative prowess.
Here's a gold star
Oh jesus your difficult. I was a bit heated to begin with, i apologise. But, to be honest it can make me angry, that Mexicans are treated as invaders, which is true if you also consider the US as invading, but they themselves where invaded to begin with, and then treated as if they dont belong, echoes of Israel/Palestine. It is true that Mexico did the same to Native North Americans.
...
Oh wait, i think i get it, the US took it so Mexicans are no longer welcome, because they have been usurped. Is that what you are saying.
I think we are arguing past each other.
So, lets just call it quits.
Your argument that "California is still there" is a wind-up right, if not i think you might be taking my statement a little bit literally, i dont mean taken as in moved, but you know that, you are winding me up. Let me clarify: I do not think that U.S. has no right to Cali (though it is arguable), simply that
And, last i checked Spanish is the first language of Mexico. And, yes California was first part of Mexico, until it was taken by the U.S.
I am quite aware of where the Spanish language comes from.
Mexicans are descendants of Spanish and native Americans, hence "native heritage". Have you ever seen a Spaniard? Clue, they don't tend to look Mexican.
So, you get an A+ for completely missing the point.
And, why do you think i will respond with a racist rant. From what is evidenced here, it is more likely that would be you.
If your wife doesn’t think Mexicans belong there, then she is rather inconsistent in her beliefs to some how think you do. Please note, i am not saying that you don't belong, i am just saying that, logically, Mexicans have as much right to be there, if not more.
That the population is heavily unbalanced in terms of sex is true, but one thing i dont think the Chinese will have a problem with any time soon is growing their population. It is the one child policy that has driven this imbalance. So, they could simply ease up on that policy to move towards rebalancing the sex ratios.
Besides, if it provides a useful service for the population, and helps increase productivity in transportation of goods and people (knock on economic effects), provides jobs, whilst getting cars of the road. Thus, it is not necessarily a waste of money.
Rail has been instrumental in many economies, increasing their speed is only a natural advancement. Anyways, what time frames are you talking about, providing the lines stay in place, they have a long time to turn a profit, and, in the mean time, they provide a useful service for the people.
"Spanish speaking invaders"
Funny California sounds like a Spanish word. I wonder if this indicates which invasive colonial land grabbers first staked a claim to it.
As you may need to it spelling out: Mexicans!
And, does not the fact that many of the "invaders" have plenty of native heritage indicate that they have more/as much right to be there as you?
"You can spot the winner by whose culture is spreading"
You pretty much said it yourself, China have not, much, yet expressed an interest in exporting cultural hegemony. And, besides (as the theory goes) America is at the tail end of its dominance, the cultural capital you currently enjoy is due to the century passed, and does not, as such, determine your future cultural trajectory, nor that of the world.
So, why dont you fuck of to the beach, California man.
No, we care about locks. Which is, partly, why we appreciate open source.
Trickle down effect.
Note, "trickle".
Leave, troll.
Ha ha ha. I thought that was pretty funny, and then the next guy validates it.
People must be fruit cakes to run windows.
So crap.
"populair _extensions_ (those are not plugins !)"
True. Mein schlecht.
Haha, nice. I felt mean as soon as i posted that, seems i missed the irony. Jokes on me.
Be honest, how many of your plugins did the upgrade actually break? I have 31 plugins and only one was broken.
If they are going to stick with the accelerated release cycle, they should build the functionality of Add-on Compatibility Reporter into the browser, or revise the version compatibility numbering, as declared by the add-ons, and everything will be fine.
Not that i am, particularly, a fan of the new release numbering. I liked the old slow build up to a monumental release, and the not having to worry about add-on compatibility for years at a time. But, lets just assume Mozilla have hashed it all out and come up with a good *long term* solution. Hey, if it all pans out, perhaps, in time, we wont have to worry about plugin compatibility ever again. Or, at very least, there will not be a transitional period, as when moving between major releases under the old system, where most of your plugins really did break. In fact this is already the case.
I suppose not. Just updated to 5 and now i cant get the damned thing to go away. That is, it is shown by default when opening Firefox from cold, still toggles with the above mentioned command.
Anyone else?
I could be wrong, but wasnt (one of) the reason(s) they used stylus due to the need for a focussed pressure from the input device, in order to make contact between the two layers of the screen, generating coordinates of the input? This was a technical limitation, necessitated by the functional capabilities of resistive touch screens.
An interesting, related, aside: apparently stylus driven input is pegged to make a comeback, particularly driven by the need to input Asian characters in much of the expensive phone buying world. Which might itself (and this is me thinking out loud) boost research interest in hand writing recognition more generally, feeding back into the "western" market. Hey if worked well, it would be better than those little untactile on screen keyboards, right?
Jezz doesnt care
"the two translation processes actually have a reasonable chance of getting back to the original"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_zv7ZkyVUI
Sorry to lower the tone and speak of the devil, and of course, this is a double pass between to languages very different from each other, however, resist i could not.
Are you saying that the status bar has been completely removed in 5? No ctrl + / to show/hide?
That's terrible.
Interestingly and plausibly reasoned.