"Isn't 99 cents too much to pay for music that appeals to just a few people?"
What sort of idiot came up with this line? Think about it. The only people payinng the 99 cents are those that are interested in having the particular tune. If i want some obscure tune for 99 cents, do I give a fuck what somebody else wants, or thinks the tune is worth? Fuck no. What a stupid queswtion.
I'm curious to hear what a cop in New Orleans thinks of reneging on an offer to help the City and the Police because of the presence of wireless Internet access.
I deal with many support companies and in my opinion, MS is at the very top
I've been on Apple gear since well before the Mac...okay, 5 ywars before. Apple is always placing high in customer satisfaction surveys, correct? Well, a couple years ago I reformatted a drive in my old Titanium Powerbook, and had forgotten to backup the pref file that had my Win 2000 Pro authorization number [in VirtualPC].
I reloaded VPC, and had the auth for it, but could not find the number for the Win2k. It was supposed to be on the shrink wrap or the 'box' for the installer. I had the installers, in their plastic boxes, but no serial anywhere.
I decided to call MS support. Dialed Redmond, and the phone gets answered, by a human, on the second ring. I was shocked. I told my honest, but stupid, story to the tech guy, and he said, "Hmm, let me talk to someone, i'll be right back." Ten seconds later he's back with, "Do you have a pen and paper?" Gave me a new number, said if i found the old one, "you'll have two serials, so use it on another installation, or whatever you want to do."
That gets an A+ in my book. Okay, it's one anecdote, but I remember it, every time I cruise into an Apple store and have to deal with some 'book-learned' punk who wouldn't know OS 6 if it crawled up his arse and bit him, meanwhile putting on airs like he was around 'way back'...yeah, right.
However, I still miss the built-in trackball of my Powerbook 150. Now _that_ was nice:)
Amen, brother. I had three of the PB 150s. One until I typed it to death [that nice concave keyboard effect], and then i picked up two more [one in an English OS, the other in french, working on some sgml bs in Montreal, at the time]...and the trackball...what can I say, it just slaughters these trackpads. I hate trackpads. I keep a Kensington TurboMouse Pro in the bag with the Aluminum, and it is always in use
Choose one of the other two options available, such as "uncorrected gamma". That will get you your gamma that you are used to seeing on windows.
Close...'uncorrected', you mean "native", and on the Mac, that would be a gamma of 1.91 [for the year old LCDs, maybe different for later models], versus the default Windows gamma of 2.2 [generalized, as "native', means 'native' to the monitor].
My electron22blue, when 'spanned' with the Powerbook, shows a "Native" gamma as being set for 2.2. At the same time, the "Native" gamma for the LCD remains at 1.91, which is slightly higher than the generalized spec of 1.8, the 'so-called' Mac gamma.
I'm pretty sure you would be limited to 1024x768 resolution on the second monitor anyway
maybe on the iBooks, wouldn't know, but my year-old Aluminum Powerbook 15" supports up to 2048 x 1536 at millions of colors. And my 667 Titanium also supports many other screen sizes in spanned desktop mode.
It's not clear, from your subject, if you're referring to a previous iBook comment, or the older, P-book topic in the subject line.
one interesting tidbit: when I run Linux on the powerbook, the internal LCD can be made to scroll vert/horiz to huge proportions, tweaking the file...what is it? the xorg.conf? maybe, been a while, but it's eerie, the first time to just move the cursor way "off" screen, to reach the 'actual' perimeters of the 'desktop'. A fluke, but kinda cool.
...and the rocket scientists at NASA, the bigtime research scientists at the pharmaceuticals [read: all chemistry labs], the JPL squad, and the military guys taking home notes from the modeling supercomputer at Virginia Tech, etc, etc, etc...
What's that leave the Windows people??? Oh yeah, secretaries, point of sale cash registers, and kids playing dungeons 'n dragons bullshit, riiigghhht, the 'business' computer... ha ha ha, fuck that, buy your shit at dell wal-mart and let the serious guys use serious gear. Next.
Plus you can turn the feature off in System Prefs or adjust the brightness yourself with the three buttons on the keyboard (which also act as F8, F9, F10)
And besides that one can also adjust the calibration, move the white point and gamma around, whatever, using the 'Color' tab in Displays preferences.
Windows default is a higher gamma, which usually looks like shitty definition [contrast] in darker, [i.e., shadowed] areas of a graphic. A lot of Mac graphics folks, doing web stuff, will purposely keep an alternate color profile, that's been butchered to approximate the "Windows experience", to get a 'happy' medium [pandering to the Lowest Common Denominator as far as gear and so-called 'standards' go].
I suppose it keeps the cost down, but if there is one area that really ought not be skimped on (especially for machines meant to be used by graphic designers), the LCD monitor is it, in my opinion.
You guys never give up eh? Let me explain something to you kid, no graphic designer uses a fucking LCD, period, not for anything that requires consistency across contrast or color. Nice try at sounding "clued-in" though. And on top of that, the problems with definition when you're off the X-Y axes is a show-stopper. Check your facts, or ask someone who has a clue.
CRTs rule for mission critical color, contrast, etc. Period
I'm not a troll, just a vegetarian. Same thing, really.
Thanks for saying that, Debeuk, I love it when a guy has the balls to stand up and say, "Hey world, I'm a fucking idiot!"...Don't tell me, you were the guy who, periodically, came runnnng in from school waving your report card..."Look Dad!!! Straight Fs!!!"
Nice going, dumbass. By the way, have fun with your colorectal cancer...think of me when you're shittin' in a plastic bag. har har har.
they missed the chemical boat: tryptophan was the basis for nearly all anti-depressants for at least a couple of decades. It's also no accident that most low dosage anti-depressants are taken shortly before what is supposedly a normal sleep time for the patient. Tryptophan occurs in some quantity in turkey, but how often do we eat turkey? If you want a nice steady diet of over the counter, low-side effect anti depressant, try a nice peanut butter sandwich before bed. Lots of trypto in PB. Yum.
i am not arguing that the RIAA is necessary. but if they weren't, why would bands go through them? think about your new up and coming bands. why do many heralded indie bands go major label?
Okay, I'll bite. Let's skip the advertising budgets, the access to high-level recording environments, and distribution...just to 'level' things a bit. After all, we can use software to replicate a lot of, what used to be, hardware-only signal processors, and word-of-mouth [locally] is what happens to almost all bands starting out, and the net is there for distribution. [assuming someone 'knows' the URL, or its importance]. Fine.
So, instead, think about this: Collecting on invoices.
We have a band, let's say, and we sell 50,000 records over an area from say, southern cali, to Jax, Florida, after a year or two of tours, and signing a one-off deal with a tiny indie label.. Now what happens? Well, we need to collect the cash for those sold records [er, CDs], right? Right. But guess what?
Joe Dealer owns a little record jobber in Nowhere, Texas, and he gets a 30-60-90 day invoice for the 25 CDs he sold for us, and he gets his SonyBMG invoice that has twenty-five titles, some of whom only sold ten items, and who do you think gets paid? Sony. Why? Because Joe Dealer needs to stay on the good side with the big label, and pay for the clinkers and whatnot, if he wants to have access to their next shipment. No pay, no order. The real indie labels are 'cool', no question, but they are small because they have no cash, and as a result they have no clout.
To be honest, er, realistic, that's why you'll see smaller labels [so-called "Indies"] with big-label [i.e., RIAA] distribution deals...Selling product is one thing...but actually getting paid for it is what it's really about.
I haven't seen an 'industry standard' recording contract in at least ten years. But, when the wholesale price of LPs and cassettes [huh?!??] was around $7, bands were lucky to see 65 cents from a sale of one item. And that only happened after little things like all expenses had been recouped by the label...It's a tough business.
you were in the server room? Oh, no server room oops...Maybe you were looking at Linux boxes running warfare management software that I helped re-encode in pure SGML, instead of fucked up windows 'binary' xml? No? Oh well. Try the Pentagon pal, or if you really want a shock to your Windows-centric world, have a little guided tour through CECOM [communications electronics command]...now go back to your games, it's windows rocks...oh yeah
Incidentally, as an aside: a breach like that would also force the military to review Microsoft's compliance with security standards where Windows is concerned, and when it's found that it's not really as secure as Microsoft claims, they'll switch to selinux or *BSD and help promote development of those platforms.
You're kidding right? Or is it 2002 where you are? The military has been aware of Windows insecurity for a while. You think they don't read the papers? They've been buying servers and boxes with Linux to be rebels? Or maybe they bought 200,000 iMacs a few years ago [look it up], because they wanted to be "stylish"? Come on...
I'm not an expert on the models, and for all I know, the A8 could be a technical mirror of the Phaeton. I had the A8 solely as a result of a friend loaning me his for a week, when he was off to Europe. My car was a Chrysler. heheh.
Great post. Apple is a monopolist. The double standard is transparent and pathetic. Microsoft bad. Apple good.
That's Apples and oranges, my friend. Microsoft's monopoly "problem" is related to market share and size, and the way they've leveraged that in counter-productive ways, to the detriment of a huge chunk of the industry. I agree that, given a reversal of market share, Apple [Jobs] would probably be more heinous than MS, but the fact is, Apple only locks in the buyers of it's hardware, who want to use OS X. An Apple box will run Linux, just fine. But, from what I gather, so will a no name x86 box, whether it dual boots Windows, or not.
But the nature, and employment, of their respective monopolies, differs, greatly...It isn't Microsoft=Bad, Apple=Good, it's more like MS=Bad, Apple=Minor Player *So Far.
Apple made great effrorts towards backwards compatibility, in the face of a sea change in terms of the OS, to the benefit of its 'legacy' customers. [A mistake, as far as I'm concerned], but MS had to be forced into accomodating its own user base, several times, by the court. Then again, the gargantuan size of the Windows installed base [across versions of the OS] gives developers an incentive to write apps that have that 98/Win2k/XP compatibility thing, which is a good thing. [But not an 'act' on the part of MS]. I'd say it's a wash, in terms of morals, but the nod in terms of [gulp] 'evil', goes to MS, due to size and behavior.
Agreed 100%. Also, why should folks who want to participate in the OS X 'experience', and shop for adequate gear, on a constrained budget, be prevented from doing so? Apple's support issues? Let Dell, [or whomever] support their own hardware, regardless of OS. [In the OS licensing agreement, a no-brainer], and in the meantime, Apple sells the OS and has fewer [in terms of percentage of Apple OS buyers] of its hardware fuckups, recalls, etc to deal with.
It starts to look like Apple is simply addicted to its 'locked-in' client base. Something they can get away with due to their trivial market share.
but you can put a Porsche engine in a VW Eurovan... same engine mounts... (well the late 80's vanagon anyway...)
Back in the late 60s I helped my buddy, Doug, drop a 911S engine into a garden variety VW Bug. it was tough on the vdub tranny, but the Porsche tranny, back in those days, could actually be made to fit the bug, also, I think... it was a while ago, but, I'm pretty sure we did a number on the tranny too.
And yeah, the end result was a fucking stoned gas.
Okay, so AC didn't flesh out the opinion given, but how in the World is the original post Off Topic? What would be on topic, if a person's reaction to the article isn't? I hope the meta-moderator straightens this one out.
Meanwhile, any recording company that uses this crap to harass people who actually bought the real CD [for fuck's sake], deserves all the bad press they get. I'm probably switching to a ThinkPad when Apple finally moves to Intel, just so I can use Linux on a decent machine,without the Apple/Broadcom fuckup with the Airport Extreme cards, after over two decades on Apple gear...so boycotting Sony is a piece of cake, consider it already in effect.
I find it somewhat amazing that a G-Man has more balls, when it comes to nailing the "whose-computer-is-it" bit, than the consumer electronics industry. I mean, Hollywood is what?, a $50 billion biz, and Consumer Electronics is around $500 billion. That's some sad shit, there.
"Wal-Mart need not worry. Its main target market is too stupid to have even heard of Google. When they need to find information online, they type, for example, "www.where can i get a good deal on cheap underwear.com" into the MSN SEARCH box on IE's default homepage."
Oh that's great, here's our resident arrogant spoiled whiteboy, slummin' it in mom's basement, passing judgement on strangers.
Listen up, 'smart' guy: Most of Wal-Mart's target clientele is lower working class poor and straight up 'poor' people. That's true. Wal-Mart creates poor folks overseas, employs working poor here, and sells to poor people and bargain hunters.
But stupid?
Try disadvantaged. Or maybe members of the lowest end of the two-tiered class structure of the Internet-connected. In other words, the disenfranchised. Individually, they may or not be very well educated. Chances are, they aren't in the 'class' of the educated, either. But that means they're ignorant. And guess what? There's a cure for that, it's called 'education'.
But the disease affecting you, the white kid equating disenfranchisement and poor education (and its attendant 'ignorance') with 'stupid', is actually "stupidity"...and there may, or may not, be a cure for that, since 'stupidity', unlike ignorance, can be eternal.
Who knows? I know this: You're a spoiled, arrogant, and yes, "stupid" individual, and probably racist, also. Or is it just poor people you think are 'stupid', regardless of color? At any rate, you, my friend, are a prime example of the real 'problem' afflicting this country: Stupid people, having wasted their freeloading upbringing and education, and espousing poorly thought out opinions of people and classes they know nothing about, and then, probably, to make mattters worse, voting for folks who seem to mirror your own racist, arrogant stupidity.
" I like the people who melted their hard drives down to liquid aluminum when done with them."
Yup. The Military Standard. Works, too. "...heat sufficient to melt steel." [by the way, not 'aluminum', although I got your point]. The MIL STD alternative to 'the melt', when time, or lack of sufficient heat source, doesn't permit...is also nice, "...a hastily dug foxhole, and sufficient explosives."
They don't fuck around with that DoD 'secure delete' bullshit.
A shovel and a few grenades...remember to add them to the IT Dep't's supplies requisition forms. Heheh...if you even think you need a couple grenades, you probably don't have time to run the Gutmann thing.
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What sort of idiot came up with this line? Think about it. The only people payinng the 99 cents are those that are interested in having the particular tune. If i want some obscure tune for 99 cents, do I give a fuck what somebody else wants, or thinks the tune is worth? Fuck no. What a stupid queswtion.
I'm curious to hear what a cop in New Orleans thinks of reneging on an offer to help the City and the Police because of the presence of wireless Internet access.
Now there's something to be proud of!!!
I've been on Apple gear since well before the Mac...okay, 5 ywars before. Apple is always placing high in customer satisfaction surveys, correct? Well, a couple years ago I reformatted a drive in my old Titanium Powerbook, and had forgotten to backup the pref file that had my Win 2000 Pro authorization number [in VirtualPC].
I reloaded VPC, and had the auth for it, but could not find the number for the Win2k. It was supposed to be on the shrink wrap or the 'box' for the installer. I had the installers, in their plastic boxes, but no serial anywhere.
I decided to call MS support. Dialed Redmond, and the phone gets answered, by a human, on the second ring. I was shocked. I told my honest, but stupid, story to the tech guy, and he said, "Hmm, let me talk to someone, i'll be right back." Ten seconds later he's back with, "Do you have a pen and paper?" Gave me a new number, said if i found the old one, "you'll have two serials, so use it on another installation, or whatever you want to do."
That gets an A+ in my book. Okay, it's one anecdote, but I remember it, every time I cruise into an Apple store and have to deal with some 'book-learned' punk who wouldn't know OS 6 if it crawled up his arse and bit him, meanwhile putting on airs like he was around 'way back'...yeah, right.
Amen, brother. I had three of the PB 150s. One until I typed it to death [that nice concave keyboard effect], and then i picked up two more [one in an English OS, the other in french, working on some sgml bs in Montreal, at the time]...and the trackball...what can I say, it just slaughters these trackpads. I hate trackpads. I keep a Kensington TurboMouse Pro in the bag with the Aluminum, and it is always in use
Close...'uncorrected', you mean "native", and on the Mac, that would be a gamma of 1.91 [for the year old LCDs, maybe different for later models], versus the default Windows gamma of 2.2 [generalized, as "native', means 'native' to the monitor].
My electron22blue, when 'spanned' with the Powerbook, shows a "Native" gamma as being set for 2.2. At the same time, the "Native" gamma for the LCD remains at 1.91, which is slightly higher than the generalized spec of 1.8, the 'so-called' Mac gamma.
maybe on the iBooks, wouldn't know, but my year-old Aluminum Powerbook 15" supports up to 2048 x 1536 at millions of colors. And my 667 Titanium also supports many other screen sizes in spanned desktop mode.
It's not clear, from your subject, if you're referring to a previous iBook comment, or the older, P-book topic in the subject line.
one interesting tidbit: when I run Linux on the powerbook, the internal LCD can be made to scroll vert/horiz to huge proportions, tweaking the file...what is it? the xorg.conf? maybe, been a while, but it's eerie, the first time to just move the cursor way "off" screen, to reach the 'actual' perimeters of the 'desktop'. A fluke, but kinda cool.
...and the rocket scientists at NASA, the bigtime research scientists at the pharmaceuticals [read: all chemistry labs], the JPL squad, and the military guys taking home notes from the modeling supercomputer at Virginia Tech, etc, etc, etc...
What's that leave the Windows people??? Oh yeah, secretaries, point of sale cash registers, and kids playing dungeons 'n dragons bullshit, riiigghhht, the 'business' computer... ha ha ha, fuck that, buy your shit at dell wal-mart and let the serious guys use serious gear. Next.
And besides that one can also adjust the calibration, move the white point and gamma around, whatever, using the 'Color' tab in Displays preferences.
Windows default is a higher gamma, which usually looks like shitty definition [contrast] in darker, [i.e., shadowed] areas of a graphic. A lot of Mac graphics folks, doing web stuff, will purposely keep an alternate color profile, that's been butchered to approximate the "Windows experience", to get a 'happy' medium [pandering to the Lowest Common Denominator as far as gear and so-called 'standards' go].
You guys never give up eh? Let me explain something to you kid, no graphic designer uses a fucking LCD, period, not for anything that requires consistency across contrast or color. Nice try at sounding "clued-in" though. And on top of that, the problems with definition when you're off the X-Y axes is a show-stopper. Check your facts, or ask someone who has a clue.
CRTs rule for mission critical color, contrast, etc. Period
Thanks for saying that, Debeuk, I love it when a guy has the balls to stand up and say, "Hey world, I'm a fucking idiot!"...Don't tell me, you were the guy who, periodically, came runnnng in from school waving your report card..."Look Dad!!! Straight Fs!!!"
Nice going, dumbass. By the way, have fun with your colorectal cancer...think of me when you're shittin' in a plastic bag. har har har.
they missed the chemical boat: tryptophan was the basis for nearly all anti-depressants for at least a couple of decades. It's also no accident that most low dosage anti-depressants are taken shortly before what is supposedly a normal sleep time for the patient. Tryptophan occurs in some quantity in turkey, but how often do we eat turkey? If you want a nice steady diet of over the counter, low-side effect anti depressant, try a nice peanut butter sandwich before bed. Lots of trypto in PB. Yum.
Okay, I'll bite. Let's skip the advertising budgets, the access to high-level recording environments, and distribution...just to 'level' things a bit. After all, we can use software to replicate a lot of, what used to be, hardware-only signal processors, and word-of-mouth [locally] is what happens to almost all bands starting out, and the net is there for distribution. [assuming someone 'knows' the URL, or its importance]. Fine.
So, instead, think about this: Collecting on invoices.
We have a band, let's say, and we sell 50,000 records over an area from say, southern cali, to Jax, Florida, after a year or two of tours, and signing a one-off deal with a tiny indie label.. Now what happens? Well, we need to collect the cash for those sold records [er, CDs], right? Right. But guess what?
Joe Dealer owns a little record jobber in Nowhere, Texas, and he gets a 30-60-90 day invoice for the 25 CDs he sold for us, and he gets his SonyBMG invoice that has twenty-five titles, some of whom only sold ten items, and who do you think gets paid? Sony. Why? Because Joe Dealer needs to stay on the good side with the big label, and pay for the clinkers and whatnot, if he wants to have access to their next shipment. No pay, no order. The real indie labels are 'cool', no question, but they are small because they have no cash, and as a result they have no clout.
To be honest, er, realistic, that's why you'll see smaller labels [so-called "Indies"] with big-label [i.e., RIAA] distribution deals...Selling product is one thing...but actually getting paid for it is what it's really about.
I haven't seen an 'industry standard' recording contract in at least ten years. But, when the wholesale price of LPs and cassettes [huh?!??] was around $7, bands were lucky to see 65 cents from a sale of one item. And that only happened after little things like all expenses had been recouped by the label...It's a tough business.
Good reading comprehension, except for the fact that you didn't 'get it' by about 100%: The 'oxymoron' in the sentence was "cheaper & better".
you were in the server room? Oh, no server room oops...Maybe you were looking at Linux boxes running warfare management software that I helped re-encode in pure SGML, instead of fucked up windows 'binary' xml? No? Oh well. Try the Pentagon pal, or if you really want a shock to your Windows-centric world, have a little guided tour through CECOM [communications electronics command]...now go back to your games, it's windows rocks...oh yeah
You're kidding right? Or is it 2002 where you are? The military has been aware of Windows insecurity for a while. You think they don't read the papers? They've been buying servers and boxes with Linux to be rebels? Or maybe they bought 200,000 iMacs a few years ago [look it up], because they wanted to be "stylish"? Come on...
I'm not an expert on the models, and for all I know, the A8 could be a technical mirror of the Phaeton. I had the A8 solely as a result of a friend loaning me his for a week, when he was off to Europe. My car was a Chrysler. heheh.
That's Apples and oranges, my friend. Microsoft's monopoly "problem" is related to market share and size, and the way they've leveraged that in counter-productive ways, to the detriment of a huge chunk of the industry. I agree that, given a reversal of market share, Apple [Jobs] would probably be more heinous than MS, but the fact is, Apple only locks in the buyers of it's hardware, who want to use OS X. An Apple box will run Linux, just fine. But, from what I gather, so will a no name x86 box, whether it dual boots Windows, or not.
But the nature, and employment, of their respective monopolies, differs, greatly...It isn't Microsoft=Bad, Apple=Good, it's more like MS=Bad, Apple=Minor Player *So Far.
Apple made great effrorts towards backwards compatibility, in the face of a sea change in terms of the OS, to the benefit of its 'legacy' customers. [A mistake, as far as I'm concerned], but MS had to be forced into accomodating its own user base, several times, by the court. Then again, the gargantuan size of the Windows installed base [across versions of the OS] gives developers an incentive to write apps that have that 98/Win2k/XP compatibility thing, which is a good thing. [But not an 'act' on the part of MS]. I'd say it's a wash, in terms of morals, but the nod in terms of [gulp] 'evil', goes to MS, due to size and behavior.
Agreed 100%. Also, why should folks who want to participate in the OS X 'experience', and shop for adequate gear, on a constrained budget, be prevented from doing so? Apple's support issues? Let Dell, [or whomever] support their own hardware, regardless of OS. [In the OS licensing agreement, a no-brainer], and in the meantime, Apple sells the OS and has fewer [in terms of percentage of Apple OS buyers] of its hardware fuckups, recalls, etc to deal with.
It starts to look like Apple is simply addicted to its 'locked-in' client base. Something they can get away with due to their trivial market share.
Back in the late 60s I helped my buddy, Doug, drop a 911S engine into a garden variety VW Bug. it was tough on the vdub tranny, but the Porsche tranny, back in those days, could actually be made to fit the bug, also, I think... it was a while ago, but, I'm pretty sure we did a number on the tranny too.
And yeah, the end result was a fucking stoned gas.
Ahhh, spoken exactly like somebody who never drove an A8
of course we don't dance, that means standing up, at least, right?
Okay, so AC didn't flesh out the opinion given, but how in the World is the original post Off Topic? What would be on topic, if a person's reaction to the article isn't? I hope the meta-moderator straightens this one out.
Meanwhile, any recording company that uses this crap to harass people who actually bought the real CD [for fuck's sake], deserves all the bad press they get. I'm probably switching to a ThinkPad when Apple finally moves to Intel, just so I can use Linux on a decent machine,without the Apple/Broadcom fuckup with the Airport Extreme cards, after over two decades on Apple gear...so boycotting Sony is a piece of cake, consider it already in effect.
I find it somewhat amazing that a G-Man has more balls, when it comes to nailing the "whose-computer-is-it" bit, than the consumer electronics industry. I mean, Hollywood is what?, a $50 billion biz, and Consumer Electronics is around $500 billion. That's some sad shit, there.
Oh that's great, here's our resident arrogant spoiled whiteboy, slummin' it in mom's basement, passing judgement on strangers.
Listen up, 'smart' guy: Most of Wal-Mart's target clientele is lower working class poor and straight up 'poor' people. That's true. Wal-Mart creates poor folks overseas, employs working poor here, and sells to poor people and bargain hunters.
But stupid?
Try disadvantaged. Or maybe members of the lowest end of the two-tiered class structure of the Internet-connected. In other words, the disenfranchised. Individually, they may or not be very well educated. Chances are, they aren't in the 'class' of the educated, either. But that means they're ignorant. And guess what? There's a cure for that, it's called 'education'.
But the disease affecting you, the white kid equating disenfranchisement and poor education (and its attendant 'ignorance') with 'stupid', is actually "stupidity"...and there may, or may not, be a cure for that, since 'stupidity', unlike ignorance, can be eternal.
Who knows? I know this: You're a spoiled, arrogant, and yes, "stupid" individual, and probably racist, also. Or is it just poor people you think are 'stupid', regardless of color? At any rate, you, my friend, are a prime example of the real 'problem' afflicting this country: Stupid people, having wasted their freeloading upbringing and education, and espousing poorly thought out opinions of people and classes they know nothing about, and then, probably, to make mattters worse, voting for folks who seem to mirror your own racist, arrogant stupidity.
Need I say...Fuck you?
Have a nice, hateful life, asshole
Yup. The Military Standard. Works, too. "...heat sufficient to melt steel." [by the way, not 'aluminum', although I got your point]. The MIL STD alternative to 'the melt', when time, or lack of sufficient heat source, doesn't permit...is also nice, "...a hastily dug foxhole, and sufficient explosives."
They don't fuck around with that DoD 'secure delete' bullshit.
A shovel and a few grenades...remember to add them to the IT Dep't's supplies requisition forms. Heheh...if you even think you need a couple grenades, you probably don't have time to run the Gutmann thing.