Obviously I was not clear enough with my whining. So: If Leopard aggravates me I will not buy a new MacPro but I will instead build a white box and install FreeBSD on it. Pirating Leopard is pretty much pointless. Either A: I like it and I get the family license when I buy my MacPro (The difference between a single and family license being about 1% of the cost of the hardware) or B: I use FreeBSD and so eventually migrate the rest of my computers. Either way it's not like I'm going to use something I don't like or spend a lot of time weaseling out of an inexpensive license. So my main whine was more along the lines of not buying a 5,000 Euro MacPro.
I do like the "precious time" jab though... as if anyone posting on Slashdot has that!
I am being serious. I do think that Apple is changing the priorities of their software as evidenced by the AppleTV, iPod Touch, the iPhone and by various applications like iTunes and DVD app. Given Apple's recent pricing strategies I think it's a better bet to wait and see how whatever comes out fares for a few months.
I'm frustrated enough with the subtle restrictions in iTunes & iPod that I'm paying attention to Songbird's development with interest and it looks very, very promising. After one too many inappropriate trailers on DVD's that my family was unable to skip, DVD app is no longer in use. AppleTV essentially won't play content unless it's from the iTunes store (like fan-subbed anime) without hacking it.
There are some very interesting new features in Leopard that I am willing to pay to use, but I am not willing to put up with that loss of control spreading to other parts of the operating system. Nor am I going out and buying a new Mac Pro and an iMac just to see a substantial price drop a month or two after the release.
I've renewed the Mac OS family license for years and this year I'm irritated enough that I don't think I'm going to.
I was planning on doing something a little different. I already have a quad G5 PowerMac. And I'm downloading Leopard when it hits the various torrent sites I frequent. After using it for a bit if it is not a complete cluster fuck and it does not try to control the way I use my computer (as the iPhone, iPod touch, and Apple TV do) then I'll upgrade. If it does, they can go fuck themselves and I'm moving to a BSD of some flavor.
What's so wrong with CANbus? I've used it for a while... after we moved from RS-485.
You are right about the physical connectors for 10bt, though at first I thought you talking BNC. However I don't think any of those connecters are up to saltwater. I wonder what they use in boats and military applications. I'll bet something scrounged from military surplus would be better.
I've got a quad G5 PowerMac and can say the same thing except I get the choppy sound with the headset pressed up against the bluetooth antenna on the back of the machine (under my desk). It did not always act like this... previously it would quickly crash the whole system and require a reboot. I use skype *a lot* and I've had so much trouble with using the Mac port I wound up putting skype on an old laptop running windows xp.
I was hoping when I moved to a MacPro this would not be an issue.:(
Actually I do know what I am talking about. I have seen mines in Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Australia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Canada and in the US: West Virgina, Montana, Colorado, Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. I have spoken with local medical services & environmental agencies about the challenges they face and their activities ameliorating the damage from mine effluent has come up from time to time... Last summer I was in Namibia where mine effluent has sickened the majority of the residents of the 3 closest villages. This summer I was in a village in Peru where the life expectancy was around 32... due in no small part to the mining operation most worked in.
It's great that you work for a mining operation which has a responsible closure, rehabilitation and reclamation process. I am not surprised you have a dedicated rehabilitation officer as the position is common in the first world. However a real rehabilitation and reclamation process begins when the mining begins and as the mining industry resisted any & all efforts to require them to do any kind of waste management or rehabilitation, and to some extent still do, the majority of mining sites currently in operation in the world were started with little waste management and no rehabilitation plans.
So it's not that I lack *any* kind of understanding. Nor do I "bash without thought".
I am not in the mining business, I am in the Health Care business. I wouldn't know much about mining at all, if it was as clean as you say. But it's not clean and millions of people suffer for it all over the world and because of that I know about it. It doesn't take much asking to find out just how averse to regulation mining operations are. Nor is this an exclusively third world problem as the W.R. Grace vermiculite mine & processing operation in Libby Montana demonstrates.
Now, you demanding that I turn off my computer and live in a cave is just silly and isn't part of a constructive grownup's conversation.
Our consumption of coal has far more consequences than most people have considered:
The mining techniques we use are reprehensible, and the long term environmental damage incalculable
The number truly ancient burning power generation plants is astounding and their output criminal
The reticence to adopt "clean coal" technologies is remarkable
The subsidies and tax breaks for the coal industries are substantial
If you are basing your comments on the price being high I would guess that your personal bill is probably much lower (my friend in Atlanta pays 8 cents). Naturally you are benefiting from the facts I outlined above. It isn't a question of solar costs.17 cents per kWh and coal only costs 8 cents... coal has a substantial hidden cost. I would call refusal to give that up; culpability, in some small way, to a number of ills that we face as a society. But then again you may have a cutesy acronym for people like me.
Soemwhere I saw the M.A.F.I.A.A.'s own lawyers say if you had rights to play a given song, you had rights to use it as a ringtone. This is just a case of crazy over the top greed. So it's business as usual.
Earthsea is good. I think it's meant for kids but it is still good. Then she wrote a few other books in the Earthsea world, these are not as good but they are wonderfully sad.
Song of Ice and Fire is also good and I also found it better than Narnia but I don't think one can compare it to Earthsea as they are completely different things. Come to think of it perhaps we should compare it Narnia either...
I'm not comfortable at all saying things like "Tolkien > Martin > Le Guin> Jordan > C.S. Lewis" or "The worlds of Earthsea > Middle Earth > Song of Ice and Fire > Wheel of Time > Narnia". I don't know why I don't like that sort of thing... perhaps because it's suggestive that it's only possible to read one series when in fact it's possible to read all of them.
I am disappointed that Robert Jordan has died and I'm conflicted about the Wheel of Time... I gave up on it in the face of multiple frustrations and of the multiple thousands of books I own I can only say that about of handful of books. I'm sure I'll finish these series on some rainy day... so I hope who ever completes it does it justice.
I think you have completely missed the points of people who make comparisons between the fascists of the 1930's and today's western governments. It isn't about the actions of the fascists of the 1940's... summary executions, rape as a weapon of the state, state sponsored genocide being perpetrated now, today but rather people fear that the signs we see today will metastasize as they did in the 1940's.
One can see in the news and on the internet these changes in Character of the United States:
* Nationalism in the United States has turned to nasty xenophobic bigotry with splash of jingoism with a patriotic veneer.
* Human Rights so important to the founders of this country have been reduced or abandoned.
* Many right of center Americans have identified Muslims as enemies of the state and immigrants as the cause of financial hardships and increased violent crime in their community.
* The US spends more money, today on its military than the rest of the world *combined*.
* The US media has changed in recent years, the is one outlet which is a blatant propaganda arm of the current administration and the others are controlled by select few very, very wealthy men.... today the news reported in the US is markedly different than the news reported in other nations (and the assessment of freedom of the press has plummeted in the last 15 years).
* The national obsession with security is also remarkable... many experts decry the stupidity and ineffectiveness of this yet nearly monthly there are reports of egregious and or silly interference of security officers.
* Religion has become a remarkably scary thing in the US. Politicians are expected to profess belief in Christianity, yet politicians of other faiths are viewed with suspicion and men who profess no beliefs are reviled. A sizable minority of Christians today believe that the United States should not be a secular national but rather a Christian nation and there are Christian Reconstructionist groups in government today furthering this goal.... it's a plank in ideology of the NeoConservative group the Project for a new American century whose members have been in power in the US for the last 7 years.
* Corporations are held above citizens in todays America. The interests of corporations are promoted within the government by a byzantine system of lobbyists and special interest groups who wield far more power than any citizen's group.
* Cronyism within the administration of George W. Bush has been significant and harmful. Do I really need to list all the incompetent people in positions of power, or can I just say "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job".
* The elections today have significant irregularities and those people in government irresponsible for them have done little to ensure and accurate and fair count.
Now it's true that to date there are a few examples in the above list that equate to violence seen in 1940's Europe. As it is also true that United States of America does not demonstrate all the qualities of Fascist States.
However it's also true than everything on that list is worse than it was 10 to 15 years ago. So I my opinion it's time to stop objecting to the comparison.
I did not say Stalinists and I absolutely did not mean Stalinists. I said Socialists and I meant Socialists. Socialists exist in every parliament in Europe and I believe they play an important counter part to the capitalists.
Please do not confuse the political concept of socialism with authoritarian mass murders. Also please note that the majority of candidates, of either party, for the 2008 United States presidential election are more authoritarian than libertarian.
In a way I have to agree with you. I don't think is view fairly by most Americans. He inherited much of what he is reviled for and had that helicopter mission worked he'd be a hero despite the fact the only thing he had to do with it was say "OK" and sign a paper. I still disagree with some of his policies, like Nuclear fuel rod reprocessing (however every president since could have revised this). And I wish he had dealt with the economic issues he was handed more skillfully.
I am not a Christian and I deplore much of the ideologies espoused by Christians in the US today. However, Jimmy Carter has been and remains an example against this. I agree that he is a great former president and I don't find that an insult... both Bill Clinton and Al Gore have spoken compellingly about differences between being in office and being formerly in-office. Perhaps Gerald Ford did too (but I doubt it). Reagan was well into senility so he couldn't. So I am also amazed by all of the good things he has done for the world after his presidency. What other president got off his ass and did this much good work?
As far as "sold out to the Saudis to spew anti-Israeli propaganda in his dotage" I reject this entirely. Israeli is not without blame in difficulties in the Middle East and much of Jimmy Carter's criticism are valid. They may be uncomfortable. They may be unpopular. The Arabs may have a larger role in exacerbating the conflict. This does not make his comments false.
All of this has me concluding that the Hitler/Stalin ticket would win the 2008 US presidential election on a promise of 2 dollar a gallon gasoline and 50 cent Big Macs. And thinking whoever really does win this race will also be reviled as the consequences of the irresponsible policies of the current administration become evident during the next.
No reality of my "emotional diatribe" is: "Calling two German speaking dark coloured women of Cambodian decent "wetbacks" shows the stupidity of racism." My post and my family have nothing to do with illegal immigrants however racists like yourself obsess over illegal immigrants to the point where they will hassle anyone who does not look or sound like them. In my case my family was on holiday in the US and not illegally working there. Also in my case no one in my family is from anywhere near South America or speaks Spanish. So, regardless of how inapplicable it is, racists like yourself just apply the target of their obsession to whoever looks or sounds different.
I have this love hate thing going with Atlanta. On one hand it has an international airport and a few colleges so they ameliorate the raging jingoist hate that the people in the region tend towards. On the other hand it seems that you can't gather that many people in one place and not have them become larger assholes than they would have been in a smaller town, say Chattanooga just for example.
Haven't been to Vortex in a long, long time... Actually I haven't been to little 5 points in a long, long time. I wonder if they are still making a living freaking out the rest of the state.
I have lived my entire life as an immigrant, a family of defectors running from the Czech communists.
My whole life I've had jingoist assholes hate me because I was not born where they were born. I've had redneck racist assholes stutter with confusion when they discover that just because I am white doesn't mean I am 'from around here' and share their racism.
I've spent my whole life trying to learn languages of where I am living and I've got to tell you languages aren't my thing I'm no good at any of the ones I speak. I've then had racists hate me because I spoke English with accent different from their accent... and they can barely speak ONE language.
Both my girlfriend and my daughter have had racists hassle them based on skin colour and accent in the US and not in Europe.
You have a whole branch of your family gone? That doesn't does make you special, that makes you average... well over half of members of my family who were living in the 30's were killed either during WWII or shortly after and you don't hear me using as an excuse to hate.
You say "the gov't wants me to let go of my culture and my country to a bunch of pricks that can't even follow the simplest of laws to get into the country!" This is the height of racist BS. No immigrant wants you let go your 'culture' (such that it is) they want to rid you of your hate. The US government does not want people to abandon culture or country affiliation, they have simply forbad you commit crimes motivated by the hate you have. People like you make me glad I took my family and my money to Europe.
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Obviously I was not clear enough with my whining. So: If Leopard aggravates me I will not buy a new MacPro but I will instead build a white box and install FreeBSD on it. Pirating Leopard is pretty much pointless. Either A: I like it and I get the family license when I buy my MacPro (The difference between a single and family license being about 1% of the cost of the hardware) or B: I use FreeBSD and so eventually migrate the rest of my computers. Either way it's not like I'm going to use something I don't like or spend a lot of time weaseling out of an inexpensive license. So my main whine was more along the lines of not buying a 5,000 Euro MacPro.
I do like the "precious time" jab though... as if anyone posting on Slashdot has that!
I am being serious. I do think that Apple is changing the priorities of their software as evidenced by the AppleTV, iPod Touch, the iPhone and by various applications like iTunes and DVD app. Given Apple's recent pricing strategies I think it's a better bet to wait and see how whatever comes out fares for a few months.
I'm frustrated enough with the subtle restrictions in iTunes & iPod that I'm paying attention to Songbird's development with interest and it looks very, very promising.
After one too many inappropriate trailers on DVD's that my family was unable to skip, DVD app is no longer in use.
AppleTV essentially won't play content unless it's from the iTunes store (like fan-subbed anime) without hacking it.
There are some very interesting new features in Leopard that I am willing to pay to use, but I am not willing to put up with that loss of control spreading to other parts of the operating system. Nor am I going out and buying a new Mac Pro and an iMac just to see a substantial price drop a month or two after the release.
I've renewed the Mac OS family license for years and this year I'm irritated enough that I don't think I'm going to.
I was planning on doing something a little different.
I already have a quad G5 PowerMac. And I'm downloading Leopard when it hits the various torrent sites I frequent. After using it for a bit if it is not a complete cluster fuck and it does not try to control the way I use my computer (as the iPhone, iPod touch, and Apple TV do) then I'll upgrade. If it does, they can go fuck themselves and I'm moving to a BSD of some flavor.
Has anyone tried Open Solaris with a board with an X38 chipset?
I'm looking for a board that supports at least a 6 SATA drive RAID.
Just curious but where's the line between unwanted advertisement and here's a new gadget you may be interested in.
I do embedded stuff and I was interested for a few seconds...
The easiest way is just stop accepting packets from the internet.
What's so wrong with CANbus? I've used it for a while... after we moved from RS-485.
You are right about the physical connectors for 10bt, though at first I thought you talking BNC. However I don't think any of those connecters are up to saltwater. I wonder what they use in boats and military applications. I'll bet something scrounged from military surplus would be better.
How about the 523,218,000 people that use the internet and do not live in the United States or Canada?
I've got a quad G5 PowerMac and can say the same thing except I get the choppy sound with the headset pressed up against the bluetooth antenna on the back of the machine (under my desk). It did not always act like this... previously it would quickly crash the whole system and require a reboot. I use skype *a lot* and I've had so much trouble with using the Mac port I wound up putting skype on an old laptop running windows xp.
:(
I was hoping when I moved to a MacPro this would not be an issue.
I swear Scientific American had an article on this a few years ago. At least it's been over a year since I let my subscription lapse.
Actually I do know what I am talking about. I have seen mines in Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Australia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Canada and in the US: West Virgina, Montana, Colorado, Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. I have spoken with local medical services & environmental agencies about the challenges they face and their activities ameliorating the damage from mine effluent has come up from time to time... Last summer I was in Namibia where mine effluent has sickened the majority of the residents of the 3 closest villages. This summer I was in a village in Peru where the life expectancy was around 32... due in no small part to the mining operation most worked in.
It's great that you work for a mining operation which has a responsible closure, rehabilitation and reclamation process. I am not surprised you have a dedicated rehabilitation officer as the position is common in the first world. However a real rehabilitation and reclamation process begins when the mining begins and as the mining industry resisted any & all efforts to require them to do any kind of waste management or rehabilitation, and to some extent still do, the majority of mining sites currently in operation in the world were started with little waste management and no rehabilitation plans.
So it's not that I lack *any* kind of understanding. Nor do I "bash without thought".
I am not in the mining business, I am in the Health Care business. I wouldn't know much about mining at all, if it was as clean as you say. But it's not clean and millions of people suffer for it all over the world and because of that I know about it. It doesn't take much asking to find out just how averse to regulation mining operations are. Nor is this an exclusively third world problem as the W.R. Grace vermiculite mine & processing operation in Libby Montana demonstrates.
Now, you demanding that I turn off my computer and live in a cave is just silly and isn't part of a constructive grownup's conversation.
Our consumption of coal has far more consequences than most people have considered:
.17 cents per kWh and coal only costs 8 cents... coal has a substantial hidden cost. I would call refusal to give that up; culpability, in some small way, to a number of ills that we face as a society. But then again you may have a cutesy acronym for people like me.
The mining techniques we use are reprehensible, and the long term environmental damage incalculable
The number truly ancient burning power generation plants is astounding and their output criminal
The reticence to adopt "clean coal" technologies is remarkable
The subsidies and tax breaks for the coal industries are substantial
If you are basing your comments on the price being high I would guess that your personal bill is probably much lower (my friend in Atlanta pays 8 cents).
Naturally you are benefiting from the facts I outlined above. It isn't a question of solar costs
Soemwhere I saw the M.A.F.I.A.A.'s own lawyers say if you had rights to play a given song, you had rights to use it as a ringtone. This is just a case of crazy over the top greed. So it's business as usual.
Earthsea is good. I think it's meant for kids but it is still good. Then she wrote a few other books in the Earthsea world, these are not as good but they are wonderfully sad.
Song of Ice and Fire is also good and I also found it better than Narnia but I don't think one can compare it to Earthsea as they are completely different things. Come to think of it perhaps we should compare it Narnia either...
I'm not comfortable at all saying things like "Tolkien > Martin > Le Guin> Jordan > C.S. Lewis" or "The worlds of Earthsea > Middle Earth > Song of Ice and Fire > Wheel of Time > Narnia". I don't know why I don't like that sort of thing... perhaps because it's suggestive that it's only possible to read one series when in fact it's possible to read all of them.
I am disappointed that Robert Jordan has died and I'm conflicted about the Wheel of Time... I gave up on it in the face of multiple frustrations and of the multiple thousands of books I own I can only say that about of handful of books. I'm sure I'll finish these series on some rainy day... so I hope who ever completes it does it justice.
I think you have completely missed the points of people who make comparisons between the fascists of the 1930's and today's western governments. It isn't about the actions of the fascists of the 1940's... summary executions, rape as a weapon of the state, state sponsored genocide being perpetrated now, today but rather people fear that the signs we see today will metastasize as they did in the 1940's.
One can see in the news and on the internet these changes in Character of the United States:
* Nationalism in the United States has turned to nasty xenophobic bigotry with splash of jingoism with a patriotic veneer.
* Human Rights so important to the founders of this country have been reduced or abandoned.
* Many right of center Americans have identified Muslims as enemies of the state and immigrants as the cause of financial hardships and increased violent crime in their community.
* The US spends more money, today on its military than the rest of the world *combined*.
* The US media has changed in recent years, the is one outlet which is a blatant propaganda arm of the current administration and the others are controlled by select few very, very wealthy men.... today the news reported in the US is markedly different than the news reported in other nations (and the assessment of freedom of the press has plummeted in the last 15 years).
* The national obsession with security is also remarkable... many experts decry the stupidity and ineffectiveness of this yet nearly monthly there are reports of egregious and or silly interference of security officers.
* Religion has become a remarkably scary thing in the US. Politicians are expected to profess belief in Christianity, yet politicians of other faiths are viewed with suspicion and men who profess no beliefs are reviled. A sizable minority of Christians today believe that the United States should not be a secular national but rather a Christian nation and there are Christian Reconstructionist groups in government today furthering this goal.... it's a plank in ideology of the NeoConservative group the Project for a new American century whose members have been in power in the US for the last 7 years.
* Corporations are held above citizens in todays America. The interests of corporations are promoted within the government by a byzantine system of lobbyists and special interest groups who wield far more power than any citizen's group.
* Cronyism within the administration of George W. Bush has been significant and harmful. Do I really need to list all the incompetent people in positions of power, or can I just say "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job".
* The elections today have significant irregularities and those people in government irresponsible for them have done little to ensure and accurate and fair count.
Now it's true that to date there are a few examples in the above list that equate to violence seen in 1940's Europe. As it is also true that United States of America does not demonstrate all the qualities of Fascist States.
However it's also true than everything on that list is worse than it was 10 to 15 years ago. So I my opinion it's time to stop objecting to the comparison.
You've just hit on my current hell.
Only this hell is a Labview Excel hell when it should be a Labview => Matlab => Database hell.
These men that created this files are my friends. I've worked with them for over 15 years. I probably was in the room smoking the same crack.
I still don't know why in the fuck we decided to do what we did and I now hate everyone involved.
That doesn't make feel much better... but I like it and you are correct!
I did not say Stalinists and I absolutely did not mean Stalinists. I said Socialists and I meant Socialists. Socialists exist in every parliament in Europe and I believe they play an important counter part to the capitalists.
Please do not confuse the political concept of socialism with authoritarian mass murders. Also please note that the majority of candidates, of either party, for the 2008 United States presidential election are more authoritarian than libertarian.
wait. Embassies are considered to be sovereign through the idea of Extraterritoriality.
Wikipedia goodness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterritoriality
In a way I have to agree with you. I don't think is view fairly by most Americans. He inherited much of what he is reviled for and had that helicopter mission worked he'd be a hero despite the fact the only thing he had to do with it was say "OK" and sign a paper. I still disagree with some of his policies, like Nuclear fuel rod reprocessing (however every president since could have revised this). And I wish he had dealt with the economic issues he was handed more skillfully.
I am not a Christian and I deplore much of the ideologies espoused by Christians in the US today. However, Jimmy Carter has been and remains an example against this. I agree that he is a great former president and I don't find that an insult... both Bill Clinton and Al Gore have spoken compellingly about differences between being in office and being formerly in-office. Perhaps Gerald Ford did too (but I doubt it). Reagan was well into senility so he couldn't. So I am also amazed by all of the good things he has done for the world after his presidency. What other president got off his ass and did this much good work?
As far as "sold out to the Saudis to spew anti-Israeli propaganda in his dotage" I reject this entirely. Israeli is not without blame in difficulties in the Middle East and much of Jimmy Carter's criticism are valid. They may be uncomfortable. They may be unpopular. The Arabs may have a larger role in exacerbating the conflict. This does not make his comments false.
All of this has me concluding that the Hitler/Stalin ticket would win the 2008 US presidential election on a promise of 2 dollar a gallon gasoline and 50 cent Big Macs. And thinking whoever really does win this race will also be reviled as the consequences of the irresponsible policies of the current administration become evident during the next.
Doesn't the UK have something similar? Anyway sounds way to much like "Democratic People's Republic of Korea" or "Deutsche Demokratische Republik"
To me if you don't call your group an accurate name you know you're up to no good.
Fuck. Not only am I amazed by beauty of this contorted logic but I am also in awe of the skillful use of "The American" (and as language no less).
I'm glad someone can find humor in this!
No reality of my "emotional diatribe" is: "Calling two German speaking dark coloured women of Cambodian decent "wetbacks" shows the stupidity of racism." My post and my family have nothing to do with illegal immigrants however racists like yourself obsess over illegal immigrants to the point where they will hassle anyone who does not look or sound like them. In my case my family was on holiday in the US and not illegally working there. Also in my case no one in my family is from anywhere near South America or speaks Spanish. So, regardless of how inapplicable it is, racists like yourself just apply the target of their obsession to whoever looks or sounds different.
I have this love hate thing going with Atlanta. On one hand it has an international airport and a few colleges so they ameliorate the raging jingoist hate that the people in the region tend towards. On the other hand it seems that you can't gather that many people in one place and not have them become larger assholes than they would have been in a smaller town, say Chattanooga just for example.
Haven't been to Vortex in a long, long time... Actually I haven't been to little 5 points in a long, long time. I wonder if they are still making a living freaking out the rest of the state.
I have lived my entire life as an immigrant, a family of defectors running from the Czech communists.
My whole life I've had jingoist assholes hate me because I was not born where they were born. I've had redneck racist assholes stutter with confusion when they discover that just because I am white doesn't mean I am 'from around here' and share their racism.
I've spent my whole life trying to learn languages of where I am living and I've got to tell you languages aren't my thing I'm no good at any of the ones I speak. I've then had racists hate me because I spoke English with accent different from their accent... and they can barely speak ONE language.
Both my girlfriend and my daughter have had racists hassle them based on skin colour and accent in the US and not in Europe.
You have a whole branch of your family gone? That doesn't does make you special, that makes you average... well over half of members of my family who were living in the 30's were killed either during WWII or shortly after and you don't hear me using as an excuse to hate.
You say "the gov't wants me to let go of my culture and my country to a bunch of pricks that can't even follow the simplest of laws to get into the country!" This is the height of racist BS. No immigrant wants you let go your 'culture' (such that it is) they want to rid you of your hate. The US government does not want people to abandon culture or country affiliation, they have simply forbad you commit crimes motivated by the hate you have. People like you make me glad I took my family and my money to Europe.