Thank you, thank you, thank you for this post. This is basically what I've been screaming for a while now. Google is over as a company. Might take em 5-10 years to realize it, but it's true....
Note to the wise, if you're going to split with your wife try to make sure she has a job that makes nearly as much as you.
Or better yet, don't be a moron, grow a pair of balls, and don't be a stupid ass by marrying a stupid bitch who's going to take you to the cleaners.
I see this shit getting start every single day, at frat parties. I live in a college town and see all the dudes with ZERO game "somehow" "get lucky" and hook up with some decent looking chick who is going to college at a tech school for "business administration" and is clearly desperate as fuck to get out of this small town. Women have an extraordinary ability to rationalize themselves into this type of arrangement where they "think" they're happy....until they're not. It isn't until 3-4 years later that her mind and heart starts to wander, and by then she's probably got him cowering in a corner and bending to her every will.
The cure to this is to develop actual value and confidence in that value.....then after marrying a woman of equal or [i]lesser[/i] value, work to maintain your value instead of sitting on the couch getting fat and nasty, and guess what???? If you do your fucking homework and pick the right girl, you'll never have a problem with a stupid bitch taking you to the cleaners!
I also learned BASIC from keying in a couple example programs when I was 8...and I would say that if I'd had to start with Android programming, I'd have probably shot myself at 10.
I taught myself to program when I was about 8. Got a 286 clone with a huge GWBASIC manual. My father explained that I could use it to make the computer do things. I was sold.:-p (I wish I had cut my teeth on something less awful than BASIC, though.)
Um yeah, scary how much that resembles my story....except in my case I found a book on BASIC programming in the school library, and took it home cause I knew my dad had a computer. He set me up in Professional Write and showed me how to type in a program and run it in GWBasic.
I don't think I ever actually sat down and read the book (maybe, not sure), but I remember the biggest thing I got a benefit from was the example programs in the back of the book which I could key in, see how they worked, then make little changes to. I think that's the best way to show someone how to program.
In Afghanistan they have these bad ass four door Ford Rangers with short beds and 2.5L diesels. I think they're made in South Africa maybe? What I wouldn't give to have one.....
Maybe this is part of Microsoft's marketing strategy. You know, keeping the image fresh in people's mind, normalizing everyone to the concept of Metro.
Your comment history is replete with cart-before-the-horse-isms.
So you're the guy who--not content to stick to the argument at hand--looks into people's comment histories before replying to try and find some way to make a snarky comment.
And if you're going to quote, then don't put words into my mouth. If I'd intended to say "cure", I would have said "cure".
I wasn't "putting words in your mouth", or "quoting" you. There are more uses for quotation marks in the English language than making a literal "quotation" of what someone said. In this instance, the meaning of "cure" is equivalent to "outgrow", so your argument is moot. No need to be defensive. Your comment was definitely not flamebait (fucking mods....for about a week straight every single one of my posts got Troll.) I just (strongly) disagree with your premise that racism is an American thing.
I too have lived and worked in plenty of countries across the globe. I think it's a bit naive for you to interpret foreign people's interest in you as a sign of those people's inherent warmth and goodness. The sad truth is, every human on the planet tends to change their tone and behavior when in the presence of someone who they deem to be more powerful and higher class. This is subconscious, ingrained, and habitual. Just being an American citizen is a huge status symbol. Just being American is enough to get smiles, handshakes, waves, etc. Does that mean everyone is your buddy? Or does it mean that the U.S. is a powerful ass country that people respect and fear, and therefore you by extension?
Think of it this way: Do you think Brad Pitt is surprised when he walks into a random hick town somewhere, and people he doesn't even know are all friendly and happy to see him? Do you think he automatically interprets every smile and handshake to be completely genuine, straight from the heart, or does he know that behind some of those smiles are jealous hearts and hatred, and that some of these people smiling to his face will go straight to talking shit as soon as his back is turned?
Writing off an entire race as "artistic not scientific" and then using that as justification for avoiding their company? Racism.
Making a generalization about relative strengths of different races isn't "writing off an entire race."
Would I be "writing off" the Irish if I said they make really good musicians? Would I be "writing them off" if I said I did not prefer to live or visit places where every single person is Irish?
(I'm part-Irish. Does this fact change the answer to the above questions?)
A story about anti-black racism is an opportunity to call attention harmful, pervasive attitudes, which are relevant because power is... well, white. It's an important function. If you think giving equal time to anti-white racism is a step towards parity, then you've clearly failed to understand how incredibly far our society is from parity for blacks, and you're part of the God damned problem.
What you fail to understand is that your way of looking at things causes the same problems of its own.
You think anti-white racism is any less harmful?
What good is your "heavy emphasis on black suffering, de-emphasis on white rights" attitude to a skinny, nervous white kid sitting in an all-black bar alone at 2 AM on Friday night?
It required a World War complete with several tens of millions of dead people for Europe and Asia to outgrow that "we must not let our sacred pure blood be diluted by lesser races" horseshit.
You got your causes and effects backwards. What did WW2 "cure" us of, exactly? Humans are the same as we've always been. If anything world wars are a naturally occurring event that happens when racial and cultural hatreds across the globe built up to the breaking point. 70-80 years (3 generations) is about the right length of time.
I agree with all those statements....so, am I a racist? I would say I feel this way because I don't feel at home living amongst people who are UNlike me.
Although I think the author takes it a bit too far, he is only expressing in words the habits of most white people, who have acquired these habits not because we're all a bunch of fucking assholes, but for legitimate reasons.
He makes a point that while there are all kinds of black people, and all kinds of white people, black people tend to be a certain way and Europeans, Asians, etc another. When people are different enough they naturally conflict. It all boils down to genetics and how they impel us to behave.
I have noticed black people (in the southern u.s., in general) tend to (genetically) be more socially oriented and more artistic thinkers, less scientific. (Before someone starts fucking arguing: yes, large parts of culture are caused by genetics.) Well, this conflicts with me at the most basic of levels because at my core I am fiercely independent and more of a scientific, less artistic thinker. I do not feel comfortable around huge numbers of black people because we are so different. To me, being the only white man amongst a community of blacks would pretty much be hell.
I'm sure they think I'm a prick too because I think and act so differently. It's only natural for them to feel this way. Why am I an asshole for feeling it, just because my skin is white? Just as I prefer to hang with my own kind, I have noticed black people do too....and so do all other humans. Why does this have to be such a difficult and complicated concept to grasp? Why is this fact so hard to goddamn swallow?
Don't get me wrong...I think everyone has a duty to try to see things from the other man's point of view and try to co-exist with others as best we can. I'm not going to apologize however for wanting to be comfortably surrounded by people who think and act like me, when on my own turf.
You may be right that Ireland will be able to escape the rampant racism and ethnic conflicts that usually occur in situations like that when the economy goes south
My money says he's about as wrong as one could possibly be.....
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First off, Godwin's Law. I think it's pretty disrespectful to lump the FBI and Nazi Germany together.
You're right. He should have used the CIA as his example.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this post. This is basically what I've been screaming for a while now. Google is over as a company. Might take em 5-10 years to realize it, but it's true....
Following a chain of logic isn't really your forte, isn't it?
Note to the wise, if you're going to split with your wife try to make sure she has a job that makes nearly as much as you.
Or better yet, don't be a moron, grow a pair of balls, and don't be a stupid ass by marrying a stupid bitch who's going to take you to the cleaners.
I see this shit getting start every single day, at frat parties. I live in a college town and see all the dudes with ZERO game "somehow" "get lucky" and hook up with some decent looking chick who is going to college at a tech school for "business administration" and is clearly desperate as fuck to get out of this small town. Women have an extraordinary ability to rationalize themselves into this type of arrangement where they "think" they're happy....until they're not. It isn't until 3-4 years later that her mind and heart starts to wander, and by then she's probably got him cowering in a corner and bending to her every will.
The cure to this is to develop actual value and confidence in that value.....then after marrying a woman of equal or [i]lesser[/i] value, work to maintain your value instead of sitting on the couch getting fat and nasty, and guess what???? If you do your fucking homework and pick the right girl, you'll never have a problem with a stupid bitch taking you to the cleaners!
Android? LOL
I also learned BASIC from keying in a couple example programs when I was 8...and I would say that if I'd had to start with Android programming, I'd have probably shot myself at 10.
I taught myself to program when I was about 8. Got a 286 clone with a huge GWBASIC manual. My father explained that I could use it to make the computer do things. I was sold. :-p (I wish I had cut my teeth on something less awful than BASIC, though.)
Um yeah, scary how much that resembles my story....except in my case I found a book on BASIC programming in the school library, and took it home cause I knew my dad had a computer. He set me up in Professional Write and showed me how to type in a program and run it in GWBasic.
I don't think I ever actually sat down and read the book (maybe, not sure), but I remember the biggest thing I got a benefit from was the example programs in the back of the book which I could key in, see how they worked, then make little changes to. I think that's the best way to show someone how to program.
In Afghanistan they have these bad ass four door Ford Rangers with short beds and 2.5L diesels. I think they're made in South Africa maybe? What I wouldn't give to have one.....
This is actual practical, usable advice for the OP, unlike the other replies given
Maybe this is part of Microsoft's marketing strategy. You know, keeping the image fresh in people's mind, normalizing everyone to the concept of Metro.
Your comment history is replete with cart-before-the-horse-isms.
So you're the guy who--not content to stick to the argument at hand--looks into people's comment histories before replying to try and find some way to make a snarky comment.
And if you're going to quote, then don't put words into my mouth. If I'd intended to say "cure", I would have said "cure".
I wasn't "putting words in your mouth", or "quoting" you. There are more uses for quotation marks in the English language than making a literal "quotation" of what someone said. In this instance, the meaning of "cure" is equivalent to "outgrow", so your argument is moot. No need to be defensive. Your comment was definitely not flamebait (fucking mods....for about a week straight every single one of my posts got Troll.) I just (strongly) disagree with your premise that racism is an American thing.
I too have lived and worked in plenty of countries across the globe. I think it's a bit naive for you to interpret foreign people's interest in you as a sign of those people's inherent warmth and goodness. The sad truth is, every human on the planet tends to change their tone and behavior when in the presence of someone who they deem to be more powerful and higher class. This is subconscious, ingrained, and habitual. Just being an American citizen is a huge status symbol. Just being American is enough to get smiles, handshakes, waves, etc. Does that mean everyone is your buddy? Or does it mean that the U.S. is a powerful ass country that people respect and fear, and therefore you by extension?
Think of it this way: Do you think Brad Pitt is surprised when he walks into a random hick town somewhere, and people he doesn't even know are all friendly and happy to see him? Do you think he automatically interprets every smile and handshake to be completely genuine, straight from the heart, or does he know that behind some of those smiles are jealous hearts and hatred, and that some of these people smiling to his face will go straight to talking shit as soon as his back is turned?
I think you're mistaking "culturally" and "genetically"
Nope, I'm pretty sure I meant exactly what I said
If you think that white parents should instruct their children to avoid events that might attract a lot of black people and,
I never said or implied anything of the sort
Writing off an entire race as "artistic not scientific" and then using that as justification for avoiding their company? Racism.
Making a generalization about relative strengths of different races isn't "writing off an entire race."
Would I be "writing off" the Irish if I said they make really good musicians? Would I be "writing them off" if I said I did not prefer to live or visit places where every single person is Irish?
(I'm part-Irish. Does this fact change the answer to the above questions?)
You read into my comments what you wanted to see.
People get most defensive and angry when an unpalatable statement is close to the truth.
I think he did it on purpose to generate a reaction. Well it did alright!
So this totally explains why I, as a white person, feel much safer walking through a dirt poor white neighborhood than a black one.
Why, is it more important to censor controversial comments if they come from a more prominent publication?
And comments we disagree with are flamebait, apparently.
intolerance of intolerance is not the same thing as intolerance itself
Yes it is. It's the exact same thing.
This was the very message that Jesus brought to this Earth.....which has been long lost, I suppose.
While I'm glad he got his comeuppance,
You're glad he got fired for writing an article you disagree with?
Let's talk more about the decline of our human civilization and its overwhelming hatred of our fellow man.
A story about anti-black racism is an opportunity to call attention harmful, pervasive attitudes, which are relevant because power is... well, white. It's an important function. If you think giving equal time to anti-white racism is a step towards parity, then you've clearly failed to understand how incredibly far our society is from parity for blacks, and you're part of the God damned problem.
What you fail to understand is that your way of looking at things causes the same problems of its own.
You think anti-white racism is any less harmful?
What good is your "heavy emphasis on black suffering, de-emphasis on white rights" attitude to a skinny, nervous white kid sitting in an all-black bar alone at 2 AM on Friday night?
It required a World War complete with several tens of millions of dead people for Europe and Asia to outgrow that "we must not let our sacred pure blood be diluted by lesser races" horseshit.
You got your causes and effects backwards. What did WW2 "cure" us of, exactly? Humans are the same as we've always been. If anything world wars are a naturally occurring event that happens when racial and cultural hatreds across the globe built up to the breaking point. 70-80 years (3 generations) is about the right length of time.
So yeah, pretty much WW3 in 3 ... 2 ...
I agree with all those statements....so, am I a racist? I would say I feel this way because I don't feel at home living amongst people who are UNlike me.
Although I think the author takes it a bit too far, he is only expressing in words the habits of most white people, who have acquired these habits not because we're all a bunch of fucking assholes, but for legitimate reasons.
He makes a point that while there are all kinds of black people, and all kinds of white people, black people tend to be a certain way and Europeans, Asians, etc another. When people are different enough they naturally conflict. It all boils down to genetics and how they impel us to behave.
I have noticed black people (in the southern u.s., in general) tend to (genetically) be more socially oriented and more artistic thinkers, less scientific. (Before someone starts fucking arguing: yes, large parts of culture are caused by genetics.) Well, this conflicts with me at the most basic of levels because at my core I am fiercely independent and more of a scientific, less artistic thinker. I do not feel comfortable around huge numbers of black people because we are so different. To me, being the only white man amongst a community of blacks would pretty much be hell.
I'm sure they think I'm a prick too because I think and act so differently. It's only natural for them to feel this way. Why am I an asshole for feeling it, just because my skin is white? Just as I prefer to hang with my own kind, I have noticed black people do too....and so do all other humans. Why does this have to be such a difficult and complicated concept to grasp? Why is this fact so hard to goddamn swallow?
Don't get me wrong...I think everyone has a duty to try to see things from the other man's point of view and try to co-exist with others as best we can. I'm not going to apologize however for wanting to be comfortably surrounded by people who think and act like me, when on my own turf.
You may be right that Ireland will be able to escape the rampant racism and ethnic conflicts that usually occur in situations like that when the economy goes south
My money says he's about as wrong as one could possibly be.....
Backlash? None. Rise of right wing groups? None. Race riots such as have graced the streets of most European countries and the UK? Zero.
I'm Irish (genetically) and come from an area of the U.S. with a large percentage of Irish, so I know a bit about them. Having said that:
Just wait. You'll see. The tension is building as we speak.