I agree with you. InfoWorld has composed a barrage [infoworld.com] of Anti-Google articles for years now mostly because of Microsoft's hands being in their back pocket.
I won't dispute that InfoWorld has composed various anti-Google articles. Several of those on your list were written by me, including TFA. But if Microsoft's hand is in my back pocket, I wish they would leave some money there instead of just stealing my wallet. Your overall assertion that the trade press is funded by vendors is patently false, and always has been. Unfortunately there's no way to prove it to you without disclosing information to which not even I have access.
OK, well those MAM-A figures are a special case. When they talk about "archival gold CD-Rs," they really mean gold... they use a 24 karat gold substrate and patented dyes to achieve higher durability than other media on the market. But of course, it's never been proven, because no single piece of this media has been around for 300 years. Most of their claims seem to be based on the improved lightfastness of their patented dye, but there are various factors that affect media durability (temperature, humidity, etc.)
They've tested the new media for exposure to light, temperature, and humidity, and they claim it suffered no degradation (while all others did). That's significant, but if you scratch it, it's still destroyed. In that sense, it still seems more fragile than high-quality magnetic tape -- but I suppose if the goal is long-term storage, they could put an actual anti-scratch coating on the media and charge you more for it.
I think your estimates of the life of burned CDs and DVDs are way overblown, BTW. Ten years is reasonable, but I've had media fail sooner than that, and I view any media much older than that with suspicion. Unless of course it was stored in perfect, atmosphere-controlled conditions -- but if that's the case, I think DVD-R is the wrong medium. Too small and still too fragile.
This doesn't sound a whole lot different than CDs or DVDs burned in factories. Those don't use a dye layer either, but pits etched into an (aluminum?) substrate. It sounds like this company has found a way to produce similar results at home -- but that doesn't mean the resulting discs will be any more durable or have longer life than your store-bought CDs/DVDs.
It's a matter of degree. People have complaints about JavaScript, but I don't see how they apply when all you're trying to do is script a word processor. You're stuck using JavaScript for the Web anyway, so why not use the same language for your applications? The alternative being a language that I won't ever use for anything except some random Microsoft odd jobs.
All true, and has been so for some time. But for a guy who seemed to think "fixing" the Norwegian political system was important enough to murder 76+ kids, you'd think he might want to reach Norwegians first. I mean... even if he succeeded at his "fix," how important is Norwegian politics to you?
What would it have hurt to reboot it again? Did it occur to you that they may have reset the line when they called?
I know. If I had reset it again the wires might have welded themselves back together, but I was too impatient to let it happen. It's a bad character trait, I guess -- that, and assuming that when my DSL modem shows no lights except power, the problem isn't with my modem.
Since when does capitalism include legal tender, heavily regulated media, medicine, food, healthcare, communications, taxes, housing, and [insert industry here]?
I'll bite. Since when does it not? Capitalism is not synonymous with "unregulated markets."
If I were to sit on a few million bucks, I would wait it out. Most people are like me.
Most people who have no money think like you, maybe. People who do have money know better than to "sit on it" until inflation wastes it away to nothing. And how do you want a multimillionaire to "sit on" his money, anyway? Stick it under the mattress? Even if you just put it in a no-interest checking account, the bank still invests your money -- you just don't see any of the proceeds. Why let someone else take their cut when you get nothing? If you have real money, you have pretty much no option but to invest it in something. The trick is diversification -- investing it in enough different things that the threat of losing value in one investment doesn't impact your overall portfolio in a significant way.
True story: One day, my DSL went out. It didn't bother me until it was still out a few hours later. I called my DSL provider. They ran some test and said, "Yes sir, we are seeing some problem on the line. We will fix it and get back to you." An hour or so later they called back:
"Your DSL is fixed now, thanks for your business!" "No it isn't." "Yes it is." "No it isn't. None of the lights on my DSL modem are on." "Have you tried rebooting it?" "Yes, I already... oh for fuck's sake. Hold on." (bullshitting while I pretend to reboot it again) "Gosh, still nothing. What can it be?" "I don't know sir. That's a real shame. Would you like to hear about any of our other Internet options that might serve you better?" "What?" "Would you like to hear about any of our other offerings? I see we have a satellite Internet offering in your area." "What the f...satellite? What does that cost?" "I'm seeing that as $175/month, sir." "That's a little more than what I'm paying now, isn't it?" "Um, yes it is." "And why would I pay that much if you can't even provide me service on the simple DSL line I have now?" "Er..." "You're really telling me you won't send anybody to fix this thing? You're willing to let me cancel my contract rather than repair my service?" "That's your choice, sir." "My choice?" "Yes, and I see that you've been a subscriber for... let's see... 31 months, and there's no early cancellation fee as long as you've been a subscriber for 12 months." "Oh, fuck you."
I hung up. A little while later I called back, and this time I didn't say anything as simple as "my Internet doesn't work." Instead I made it sound complicated enough that the first-line support person escalated my call to a tech. The tech immediately recognized that I knew what I was talking about. He said, "I have an idea if you're game to try it. Do you have any alligator clips?" I said that I did, and in fact I had some on the ends of an RJ45 cord. He suggested I go out to the phone box in the side yard and hook up my DSL modem there. If I found the right pins and the modem looped up, then it was definitely a problem in my interior wiring somewhere. It sounded plausible to me, so that's what I did.
The modem did loop up, but the problem was even easier to diagnose than I expected. The wires in the box had been cut. Snip, snip. Clean cut, with the other ends still on the posts in the phone box.
That's when I remembered: I had a new neighbor move in upstairs about a week earlier. New neighbor will want to order phone service. New neighbor might want to have a new line installed. New line might mean someone from [the West Coast incumbent phone company that has since been renamed to AT&T] might have to come to the premises to tie some wires in the phone box. Said representative would then see the bright, shiny tag from my DSL provider -- which was a CLEC, not the incumbent phone company. Inquiry with some friends revealed incumbent phone company is unionized, while CLEC is not. Hence: Snip, snip.
Just hearsay, mind you, but why else would anyone cut my DSL line (but not my phone line)?
The weird URLs are hidden in with the regular URLs. I never tried to click on any of the URLs, so I never even noticed it before it was mentioned here. There are spots in the manifesto where he will have a "references" section, with a list of URLs, numbered 1-26 or whatever. Only there's two #13's -- the first one is the real reference 13, and the second one is one of these weird URLs (which technically aren't URLs at all, because they don't seem to use any known addressing scheme). So they are not only obscured or obfuscated in some way, but they are also deliberately hidden in the document, presumably to be discovered by somebody at some time.
Good theory, so I just checked in Word. It will automatically hyperlink a DNS-looking URL, but it will not automatically hyperlink a numeric address. Also, although you don't need to type the http:/// Word just applies the correct hyperlink as a style; it does not add the http:/// to the text you typed.
Dude, you're arguing with the most trollingest troll ever. This guy is a dyed in the wool moron who will respond to your ever post with an incoherent mixture of words and meaningless punctuation. Sorry man but YHBT.
I know it, and I'm pretty much stopping now, but you know... there's just certain things that I don't feel you should let slide. I'm not trying to convince this guy of anything. I'm trying to let him make a fool of himself. Whether he's a troll or not, his bullshit stays on/. forever. I'd rather his legacy be looking like a clown than helping make/. the kind of place where racists can come to get their rocks off. There are plenty of sites for that.
(And troll-dude, FWIW, I've posted a couple GNAA trolls myself in my time -- funny ones, too -- but this kind of racist horseshit crosses a line. It's not funny, it's just dumb.)
You're being misleading here. The question is whether blacks buy more rap music per capita than whites do.
I disagree. For one thing, the whole line of argument (which I didn't initiate) is drawing a specious parallel between music listening habits and "cultural values," where "culture" means "race." I'm willing to bet that a greater number of white people per capita buy classical music than black people do, but that does not mean white people are inherently more intelligent than black people.
For another thing, if many, many more white people than black people buy rap music, then the largest customer segment of the rap music industry is white people, period. You do not tailor your product to sell it to the fewest number of people; so aim for the largest number of people. Therefore, the mainstream rap industry caters primarily to whites; Q.E.D. Whites give the industry its money, therefore whites are the market.
Even if rap music consumption reflected imprisonment rates perfectly (contradicting your point), you'd still be able to make the above argument, because whites are still a majority in jail, too.
Ah. So there are more white criminals than there are black criminals, and yet blacks are somehow still the problem? This seems a weird way to argue a point.
Again, misleading. The question is not whether the incidence of single-parent families is high or low among whites - the question is whether it is higher or lower than among blacks.
I'll bite. Is it? Let's just assume that blacks are more likely to have single-parent households, though (they probably are). Is that entirely because of choice? Someone living in a poor, high-crime area might: A.) Be incarcerated; B.) Join the military as a way out; C.) Be murdered; D.) Have no job and thus offer nothing to a family but another mouth to feed... there are countless reasons why it's harder for poor people to sustain families than for rich people. None of this proves any credible correlation between single-parent families and "black culture."
Hey, guess what I heard? The President of the United States is actually a "black" person. So, tell me, what opportunities are blacks being denied in 2011 America? I don't think the excuses of the left hold up anymore.
You're right! Black folks, listen up: Put down that rap record and go to Harvard. There's a job in the Oval Office waiting for you.
Calling me racist too? I am a POLISH person, I have been called "polack" all my life, so don't go trying your "pot calling the kettle black" b.s. on me, ok?? I know better. Had it done to me, first of all.
You might be a racist if... you think your ethnic background is proof that it's impossible for you to be racist. How does what you were when you were born cancel out with what you are right now? How does having it done to you make it acceptable for you to do it to others now? It sounds like you had an abusive childhood and that's a real shame. It's worth considering that many people who are abused as a child grow up to be abusers themselves.
Now, to tear you up, point by point: NOBODY HAS TO LIVE LIKE ANYTHING & CONTROL THEIR OWN WORLDS IF THEY WORK HARD ENOUGH @ IT!
You call that "point by point"? This hardly refutes my argument that blacks in many cities have been systematically disenfranchised by the political system. "Working hard" has nothing to do with the fact that a gerrymandered district has inadequate representation in local government. If your representatives aren't representing you, you don't get equal access to city services. You think the people in poor neighborhoods should pull themselves up by their bootstraps, go out and pave their own roads, repair their own streetlights, police their own streets, put out fires in abandoned buildings by themselves? Have some common sense.
I live in a home & pay them myself, do you? That's just MORE BULLSHIT passing the buck b.s. from you!
Use logic (if you can). Property taxes are based on a percentage of the value of the property. If you are poor, you live where property values are affordable to you. That means the properties aren't worth very much. If the properties aren't worth very much, they don't bring in much in the way of property taxes. That means those neighborhoods don't get the same access to infrastructure projects as rich neighborhoods do. They certainly don't get equivalent schools. They could get these things, but it would mean spending property taxes brought in by richer neighborhoods -- but not only are those people more likely to vote against such projects (because they see poor neighborhoods and think "those people brought it on themselves") but they also have a stronger political voice overall, because their districts have been gerrymandered in such a way as to support the incumbents, who then serve the needs of their own voters foremost.
Unbelievable - There is ALWAYS A WAY OUT: Go to the military if you have to, instead of dealing drugs or robbing for example!
The military is one option, but it's not a favorable one for many people, and not everyone has equal access to that option. For one thing, the U.S. military will not accept anyone who does not complete a high school education. There are also physical requirements, and many women simply would not find a military lifestyle appealing.
Get good grades & get scholarship or be a good athelete (I was both in my day) & get aid to go to school!
How do you do either if you live in a poor neighborhood with lousy schools? Do you have any idea what an inner city classroom looks like?
You have no excuse for running away from a site that I didn't name, I was only pointed to it by others... I don't own or run it either, or even post there mind you.
But you have no problem with using a site called "Niggermania" as a primary source, which proves you're a racist. And if you read it as much as you seem to, why don't you post there? Is that sort of like how the Ku Klux Klan wore hoods? They loved to talk big but they didn't want anyone to know who they were. At least/. lets you post AC.
Funny, like I said: An actual AFRICAN BLACK MAN I was classmates with for my CSC schooling, M
Actually, VBA is back in Office 2011. Just in time to be deprecated, I guess.
Oh yeah?? Well, thanks for the FYI. A few Web searches reveals it's apparently still not 1:1 with the Windows version, though. I think ever since Mac Office 4.2 (the first version to by "synchronized" with the Windows release) rubbed so many Mac users the wrong way, Microsoft has put this artificial division between the two product groups and one doesn't even seem to talk to the other. It must drive IT guys nutty if they have to maintain both.
It's one thing to point out the inherent discrimination in the system, and another thing entirely to excuse criminal behavior as a result
Who's excusing it? Sounds like the GP is the one who is excusing it, because he writes it off as a result of the perpetrators being black. It's not gangs that are behind crimes, it's black gangs. It's not that criminals are in the wrong side of right and wrong it's that blacks consistently choose the wrong side. "They" are all criminals because it's part of "their" culture. It's the same age-old apology for racism that's been floated since this country existed.
You don't need to be a middle class white kid to know that assaulting someone is wrong, and when you get arrested for doing so you can't blame the fact that your skin is a different color.
No, but if a vastly higher percentage of black males are incarcerated than any other group, and most of those arrests are not for assaults, you can't claim they're all in jail for "cultural" (or, god forbid, "genetic") reasons. Nobody sells drugs because they are a depraved criminal who loves to see people's lives spiral into addiction. They sell drugs because they need money. You do need to be a middle class white kid to not understand what it's like to be really poor.
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I agree with you. InfoWorld has composed a barrage [infoworld.com] of Anti-Google articles for years now mostly because of Microsoft's hands being in their back pocket.
I won't dispute that InfoWorld has composed various anti-Google articles. Several of those on your list were written by me, including TFA. But if Microsoft's hand is in my back pocket, I wish they would leave some money there instead of just stealing my wallet. Your overall assertion that the trade press is funded by vendors is patently false, and always has been. Unfortunately there's no way to prove it to you without disclosing information to which not even I have access.
OK, well those MAM-A figures are a special case. When they talk about "archival gold CD-Rs," they really mean gold... they use a 24 karat gold substrate and patented dyes to achieve higher durability than other media on the market. But of course, it's never been proven, because no single piece of this media has been around for 300 years. Most of their claims seem to be based on the improved lightfastness of their patented dye, but there are various factors that affect media durability (temperature, humidity, etc.)
They've tested the new media for exposure to light, temperature, and humidity, and they claim it suffered no degradation (while all others did). That's significant, but if you scratch it, it's still destroyed. In that sense, it still seems more fragile than high-quality magnetic tape -- but I suppose if the goal is long-term storage, they could put an actual anti-scratch coating on the media and charge you more for it.
I think your estimates of the life of burned CDs and DVDs are way overblown, BTW. Ten years is reasonable, but I've had media fail sooner than that, and I view any media much older than that with suspicion. Unless of course it was stored in perfect, atmosphere-controlled conditions -- but if that's the case, I think DVD-R is the wrong medium. Too small and still too fragile.
Go over your Moh's hardness scale again - Mica is TOO SOFT to be usable as ANY layer. It's very brittle as well and not quite transparent.
Really? So it's too soft to be sandwiched between two pieces of hard, transparent plastic?
This doesn't sound a whole lot different than CDs or DVDs burned in factories. Those don't use a dye layer either, but pits etched into an (aluminum?) substrate. It sounds like this company has found a way to produce similar results at home -- but that doesn't mean the resulting discs will be any more durable or have longer life than your store-bought CDs/DVDs.
Mica is a very soft mineral and not very suitable for this sort of application.
They didn't say the whole disc is made out of (whatever it is). They say it's made up of "multiple layers of material."
Sounds like Splice. In fact, the whole film sounds a little bit like Splice, with less icky moral implications and more ape-smashing action.
Everything else was revisionist crap to sell more tickets on an increasingly absurd franchise.
Nah, the second one was OK. Solved the problem of too many sequels, too... so everything after that was revisionist crap.
It's a matter of degree. People have complaints about JavaScript, but I don't see how they apply when all you're trying to do is script a word processor. You're stuck using JavaScript for the Web anyway, so why not use the same language for your applications? The alternative being a language that I won't ever use for anything except some random Microsoft odd jobs.
All true, and has been so for some time. But for a guy who seemed to think "fixing" the Norwegian political system was important enough to murder 76+ kids, you'd think he might want to reach Norwegians first. I mean ... even if he succeeded at his "fix," how important is Norwegian politics to you?
What would it have hurt to reboot it again? Did it occur to you that they may have reset the line when they called?
I know. If I had reset it again the wires might have welded themselves back together, but I was too impatient to let it happen. It's a bad character trait, I guess -- that, and assuming that when my DSL modem shows no lights except power, the problem isn't with my modem.
Since when does capitalism include legal tender, heavily regulated media, medicine, food, healthcare, communications, taxes, housing, and [insert industry here]?
I'll bite. Since when does it not? Capitalism is not synonymous with "unregulated markets."
If I were to sit on a few million bucks, I would wait it out. Most people are like me.
Most people who have no money think like you, maybe. People who do have money know better than to "sit on it" until inflation wastes it away to nothing. And how do you want a multimillionaire to "sit on" his money, anyway? Stick it under the mattress? Even if you just put it in a no-interest checking account, the bank still invests your money -- you just don't see any of the proceeds. Why let someone else take their cut when you get nothing? If you have real money, you have pretty much no option but to invest it in something. The trick is diversification -- investing it in enough different things that the threat of losing value in one investment doesn't impact your overall portfolio in a significant way.
Iraq has some pretty sweet super robust nationwide 4G networks now.
But this entire thread is about land-line networks, not wireless. Verizon says its wireless division is likely to be unaffected by the strike.
What about if you then file->save as plain text? I'm just curious.
Strips the hyperlink. You just get the text you typed. And of course, we all know what happens when you save a Word document as HTML.
Breivik's manifesto was originally a .docx file, though, complete with styles, tables, bullet points, embedded images, etc.
True story: One day, my DSL went out. It didn't bother me until it was still out a few hours later. I called my DSL provider. They ran some test and said, "Yes sir, we are seeing some problem on the line. We will fix it and get back to you." An hour or so later they called back:
"Your DSL is fixed now, thanks for your business!"
"No it isn't."
"Yes it is."
"No it isn't. None of the lights on my DSL modem are on."
"Have you tried rebooting it?"
"Yes, I already... oh for fuck's sake. Hold on." (bullshitting while I pretend to reboot it again) "Gosh, still nothing. What can it be?"
"I don't know sir. That's a real shame. Would you like to hear about any of our other Internet options that might serve you better?"
"What?"
"Would you like to hear about any of our other offerings? I see we have a satellite Internet offering in your area."
"What the f...satellite? What does that cost?"
"I'm seeing that as $175/month, sir."
"That's a little more than what I'm paying now, isn't it?"
"Um, yes it is."
"And why would I pay that much if you can't even provide me service on the simple DSL line I have now?"
"Er..."
"You're really telling me you won't send anybody to fix this thing? You're willing to let me cancel my contract rather than repair my service?"
"That's your choice, sir."
"My choice?"
"Yes, and I see that you've been a subscriber for... let's see... 31 months, and there's no early cancellation fee as long as you've been a subscriber for 12 months."
"Oh, fuck you."
I hung up. A little while later I called back, and this time I didn't say anything as simple as "my Internet doesn't work." Instead I made it sound complicated enough that the first-line support person escalated my call to a tech. The tech immediately recognized that I knew what I was talking about. He said, "I have an idea if you're game to try it. Do you have any alligator clips?" I said that I did, and in fact I had some on the ends of an RJ45 cord. He suggested I go out to the phone box in the side yard and hook up my DSL modem there. If I found the right pins and the modem looped up, then it was definitely a problem in my interior wiring somewhere. It sounded plausible to me, so that's what I did.
The modem did loop up, but the problem was even easier to diagnose than I expected. The wires in the box had been cut. Snip, snip. Clean cut, with the other ends still on the posts in the phone box.
That's when I remembered: I had a new neighbor move in upstairs about a week earlier. New neighbor will want to order phone service. New neighbor might want to have a new line installed. New line might mean someone from [the West Coast incumbent phone company that has since been renamed to AT&T] might have to come to the premises to tie some wires in the phone box. Said representative would then see the bright, shiny tag from my DSL provider -- which was a CLEC, not the incumbent phone company. Inquiry with some friends revealed incumbent phone company is unionized, while CLEC is not. Hence: Snip, snip.
Just hearsay, mind you, but why else would anyone cut my DSL line (but not my phone line)?
Ah, but the manifest[o] was entirely in English. (Interestingly enough, I thought.)
The weird URLs are hidden in with the regular URLs. I never tried to click on any of the URLs, so I never even noticed it before it was mentioned here. There are spots in the manifesto where he will have a "references" section, with a list of URLs, numbered 1-26 or whatever. Only there's two #13's -- the first one is the real reference 13, and the second one is one of these weird URLs (which technically aren't URLs at all, because they don't seem to use any known addressing scheme). So they are not only obscured or obfuscated in some way, but they are also deliberately hidden in the document, presumably to be discovered by somebody at some time.
Good theory, so I just checked in Word. It will automatically hyperlink a DNS-looking URL, but it will not automatically hyperlink a numeric address. Also, although you don't need to type the http:/// Word just applies the correct hyperlink as a style; it does not add the http:/// to the text you typed.
Dude, you're arguing with the most trollingest troll ever. This guy is a dyed in the wool moron who will respond to your ever post with an incoherent mixture of words and meaningless punctuation. Sorry man but YHBT.
I know it, and I'm pretty much stopping now, but you know... there's just certain things that I don't feel you should let slide. I'm not trying to convince this guy of anything. I'm trying to let him make a fool of himself. Whether he's a troll or not, his bullshit stays on /. forever. I'd rather his legacy be looking like a clown than helping make /. the kind of place where racists can come to get their rocks off. There are plenty of sites for that.
(And troll-dude, FWIW, I've posted a couple GNAA trolls myself in my time -- funny ones, too -- but this kind of racist horseshit crosses a line. It's not funny, it's just dumb.)
You're being misleading here. The question is whether blacks buy more rap music per capita than whites do.
I disagree. For one thing, the whole line of argument (which I didn't initiate) is drawing a specious parallel between music listening habits and "cultural values," where "culture" means "race." I'm willing to bet that a greater number of white people per capita buy classical music than black people do, but that does not mean white people are inherently more intelligent than black people.
For another thing, if many, many more white people than black people buy rap music, then the largest customer segment of the rap music industry is white people, period. You do not tailor your product to sell it to the fewest number of people; so aim for the largest number of people. Therefore, the mainstream rap industry caters primarily to whites; Q.E.D. Whites give the industry its money, therefore whites are the market.
Even if rap music consumption reflected imprisonment rates perfectly (contradicting your point), you'd still be able to make the above argument, because whites are still a majority in jail, too.
Ah. So there are more white criminals than there are black criminals, and yet blacks are somehow still the problem? This seems a weird way to argue a point.
Again, misleading. The question is not whether the incidence of single-parent families is high or low among whites - the question is whether it is higher or lower than among blacks.
I'll bite. Is it? Let's just assume that blacks are more likely to have single-parent households, though (they probably are). Is that entirely because of choice? Someone living in a poor, high-crime area might: A.) Be incarcerated; B.) Join the military as a way out; C.) Be murdered; D.) Have no job and thus offer nothing to a family but another mouth to feed... there are countless reasons why it's harder for poor people to sustain families than for rich people. None of this proves any credible correlation between single-parent families and "black culture."
Hey, guess what I heard? The President of the United States is actually a "black" person. So, tell me, what opportunities are blacks being denied in 2011 America? I don't think the excuses of the left hold up anymore.
You're right! Black folks, listen up: Put down that rap record and go to Harvard. There's a job in the Oval Office waiting for you.
Calling me racist too? I am a POLISH person, I have been called "polack" all my life, so don't go trying your "pot calling the kettle black" b.s. on me, ok?? I know better. Had it done to me, first of all.
You might be a racist if ... you think your ethnic background is proof that it's impossible for you to be racist. How does what you were when you were born cancel out with what you are right now? How does having it done to you make it acceptable for you to do it to others now? It sounds like you had an abusive childhood and that's a real shame. It's worth considering that many people who are abused as a child grow up to be abusers themselves.
Now, to tear you up, point by point: NOBODY HAS TO LIVE LIKE ANYTHING & CONTROL THEIR OWN WORLDS IF THEY WORK HARD ENOUGH @ IT!
You call that "point by point"? This hardly refutes my argument that blacks in many cities have been systematically disenfranchised by the political system. "Working hard" has nothing to do with the fact that a gerrymandered district has inadequate representation in local government. If your representatives aren't representing you, you don't get equal access to city services. You think the people in poor neighborhoods should pull themselves up by their bootstraps, go out and pave their own roads, repair their own streetlights, police their own streets, put out fires in abandoned buildings by themselves? Have some common sense.
I live in a home & pay them myself, do you? That's just MORE BULLSHIT passing the buck b.s. from you!
Use logic (if you can). Property taxes are based on a percentage of the value of the property. If you are poor, you live where property values are affordable to you. That means the properties aren't worth very much. If the properties aren't worth very much, they don't bring in much in the way of property taxes. That means those neighborhoods don't get the same access to infrastructure projects as rich neighborhoods do. They certainly don't get equivalent schools. They could get these things, but it would mean spending property taxes brought in by richer neighborhoods -- but not only are those people more likely to vote against such projects (because they see poor neighborhoods and think "those people brought it on themselves") but they also have a stronger political voice overall, because their districts have been gerrymandered in such a way as to support the incumbents, who then serve the needs of their own voters foremost.
Unbelievable - There is ALWAYS A WAY OUT: Go to the military if you have to, instead of dealing drugs or robbing for example!
The military is one option, but it's not a favorable one for many people, and not everyone has equal access to that option. For one thing, the U.S. military will not accept anyone who does not complete a high school education. There are also physical requirements, and many women simply would not find a military lifestyle appealing.
Get good grades & get scholarship or be a good athelete (I was both in my day) & get aid to go to school!
How do you do either if you live in a poor neighborhood with lousy schools? Do you have any idea what an inner city classroom looks like?
You have no excuse for running away from a site that I didn't name, I was only pointed to it by others... I don't own or run it either, or even post there mind you.
But you have no problem with using a site called "Niggermania" as a primary source, which proves you're a racist. And if you read it as much as you seem to, why don't you post there? Is that sort of like how the Ku Klux Klan wore hoods? They loved to talk big but they didn't want anyone to know who they were. At least /. lets you post AC.
Funny, like I said: An actual AFRICAN BLACK MAN I was classmates with for my CSC schooling, M
Actually, VBA is back in Office 2011. Just in time to be deprecated, I guess.
Oh yeah?? Well, thanks for the FYI. A few Web searches reveals it's apparently still not 1:1 with the Windows version, though. I think ever since Mac Office 4.2 (the first version to by "synchronized" with the Windows release) rubbed so many Mac users the wrong way, Microsoft has put this artificial division between the two product groups and one doesn't even seem to talk to the other. It must drive IT guys nutty if they have to maintain both.
It's one thing to point out the inherent discrimination in the system, and another thing entirely to excuse criminal behavior as a result
Who's excusing it? Sounds like the GP is the one who is excusing it, because he writes it off as a result of the perpetrators being black. It's not gangs that are behind crimes, it's black gangs. It's not that criminals are in the wrong side of right and wrong it's that blacks consistently choose the wrong side. "They" are all criminals because it's part of "their" culture. It's the same age-old apology for racism that's been floated since this country existed.
You don't need to be a middle class white kid to know that assaulting someone is wrong, and when you get arrested for doing so you can't blame the fact that your skin is a different color.
No, but if a vastly higher percentage of black males are incarcerated than any other group, and most of those arrests are not for assaults, you can't claim they're all in jail for "cultural" (or, god forbid, "genetic") reasons. Nobody sells drugs because they are a depraved criminal who loves to see people's lives spiral into addiction. They sell drugs because they need money. You do need to be a middle class white kid to not understand what it's like to be really poor.