I don't necessarily think it's important to preserve birthright citizenship for its own sake; forgive me if I'm hesitant to cooperate politically with a group of people who constantly say racist shit about Mexicans' cars and animals spawning out in the Arizona wilderness, in order to take rights away from Hispanic people.
If, however, you're demonizing brown people because you want to open the border and allow free movement of people, goods and money, liberalize our system of legal immigration and simplify the process of getting temporary permission to work here, and in return you're offering this as a compromise, then we can talk.
Well, for starters, non-citizens who give birth don't run 20 feet across the border and shit out a baby in the dirt; they tend to be living here, and they go to the hospital or midwife, just like everybody else.
The drafters of the Constitution protected the right of a white man to own a black man, so I'm not going to ask them what they think. The 14th amendment gives citizenship to anyone born in the US because Southern states used all kinds of nit-picky tests to deny black people citizenship.
And how many children do you think are born to non-citizens in the US? Does it have a significant effect on immigration, illegal or otherwise?
Making broad, derisive comments about the culture, vehicle preferences, &c of Hispanic people is plain old racist; it doesn't matter if you also point to "one of the good ones."
That sounds an awful lot like something a giant racist would say.
Getting back to the point at hand, language is complicated; public policy is complicated; I used to be able to speak Spanish pretty well, but I wouldn't have felt comfortable figuring out how to fill out a ballot or use a voting machine if there weren't instructions in English. Unless we stop immigration altogether, we're going to have people in this country who can't read/speak English as well as their native languages. We can either make it easier to participate in public life, or harder. You seem to think we should make it harder.
"Anchor baby" is a ridiculously loaded term, and one that shows ignorance of how immigration works in the US. A child born in the US to non-citizen parents must be 21 years old before he or she can act as a sponsor for the naturalization of the parents.
If people are doing what your use of the term suggests, it is an incredibly inefficient way to get legal residency.
Wow, that will be great for those impoverished countries on the Arctic rim. The US, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Russia have been shit on for too long. It's time for the low-lying countries to take their lumps too. Polynesian islands, Bangladesh, southeast Asia, the Caribbean, coastal Africa, it's your turn.
Thanks to global warming for upending the existing economic order.
I think three years is a long time for a computer that is constantly carried around, moved in between continents several times, and biked around England for two years. I don't usually go easy on my laptops. I had a couple 386s and working AT until a couple years ago. I know computers can last a long time, but this laptop has only been turned off for a total of about a week.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I don't give a shit about what you want.
I've been thinking about a new laptop for about a year and a half (since the extended warranty on my MacBook expired), looking for one that was light, had a near-full-size keyboard, a dual-core processor, at least 6 hours of battery life, and would run something other than Windows. I was tempted by a couple EEE PC models with 8-10 hours of battery and 11 inch screens, but I heard bad things about Linux compatibility.
I also have had great luck with my Mac laptops in the past. My iBook G4 lasted 3 years, and my MacBook was purchased in July of 2009 and still runs just as well as when I unboxed it (and replaced the stock hard drive and added more RAM, because that shit's expensive). I know that a 1.86 GHz Core Duo with 2 GB ram runs fast enough for me. I also know that Apple laptops have the best trackpads I have ever used as far as accuracy and functionality and size.
That's why I want one. Buy whatever piece of shit you want. This computer meets my needs, and I can afford it. I know a ton of Mac users, and I guarantee not a single one of them cares what computer you buy, so shut the fuck up about how we all want you to get one. You're probably ugly and lonely anyway.
How does it promote the progress of science and useful arts to grant a monopoly on using a processor to encode video? Now Microsoft is the only one who can sell a product that uses a GPU to encode video, a situation that doesn't give me a great deal of hope for the progress of anything.
The US Copyright Office periodically publishes an exclusive list of permitted exceptions to the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions. Unlocking a phone is on the list. Unlocking a video game console for this purpose isn't.
I think you should be able to do it. The DMCA is a pile of shit. There's no good reason why uses of hardware that don't involve copyright infringement or unauthorized network access should be prohibited,
I think what Apple does is good, generally. Not for me, since I love to be able to fuck around with my gadgets, but for less technically-oriented people, it's easy to use, it provides a few options, and they push back against the media companies as much as any commercial enterprise can. iTunes media sharing is a good example: they made it really easy to actually copy songs to another computer within the application interface. They also moved to DRM-free music sales (the jury is still out on video).
Apple basically drives the state of the art in consumer computer/multimedia integration. They also leave a ton of room for more open projects to innovate around them. They provide a target, and another company can provide a basically work-alike product that has the added advantage of being open.
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I don't necessarily think it's important to preserve birthright citizenship for its own sake; forgive me if I'm hesitant to cooperate politically with a group of people who constantly say racist shit about Mexicans' cars and animals spawning out in the Arizona wilderness, in order to take rights away from Hispanic people.
If, however, you're demonizing brown people because you want to open the border and allow free movement of people, goods and money, liberalize our system of legal immigration and simplify the process of getting temporary permission to work here, and in return you're offering this as a compromise, then we can talk.
Well, for starters, non-citizens who give birth don't run 20 feet across the border and shit out a baby in the dirt; they tend to be living here, and they go to the hospital or midwife, just like everybody else.
The drafters of the Constitution protected the right of a white man to own a black man, so I'm not going to ask them what they think. The 14th amendment gives citizenship to anyone born in the US because Southern states used all kinds of nit-picky tests to deny black people citizenship.
And how many children do you think are born to non-citizens in the US? Does it have a significant effect on immigration, illegal or otherwise?
Making broad, derisive comments about the culture, vehicle preferences, &c of Hispanic people is plain old racist; it doesn't matter if you also point to "one of the good ones."
They bought up fancy trucks and Cadillacs
That sounds an awful lot like something a giant racist would say.
Getting back to the point at hand, language is complicated; public policy is complicated; I used to be able to speak Spanish pretty well, but I wouldn't have felt comfortable figuring out how to fill out a ballot or use a voting machine if there weren't instructions in English. Unless we stop immigration altogether, we're going to have people in this country who can't read/speak English as well as their native languages. We can either make it easier to participate in public life, or harder. You seem to think we should make it harder.
You're talking about local elections, though. Why not let everyone who lives in your town help choose the city council members?
"Drop a kid" "home base" "lands on your soil"
This is dehumanizing language.
The standards for being a citizen at birth are set in the Constitution, so good luck changing that law or challenging it.
"Anchor baby" is a ridiculously loaded term, and one that shows ignorance of how immigration works in the US. A child born in the US to non-citizen parents must be 21 years old before he or she can act as a sponsor for the naturalization of the parents.
If people are doing what your use of the term suggests, it is an incredibly inefficient way to get legal residency.
What's wrong with that?
Wow, that will be great for those impoverished countries on the Arctic rim. The US, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Russia have been shit on for too long. It's time for the low-lying countries to take their lumps too. Polynesian islands, Bangladesh, southeast Asia, the Caribbean, coastal Africa, it's your turn.
Thanks to global warming for upending the existing economic order.
You want to take a stab at explaining it, or were you just stopping by to flash your dick at everybody?
I think three years is a long time for a computer that is constantly carried around, moved in between continents several times, and biked around England for two years. I don't usually go easy on my laptops. I had a couple 386s and working AT until a couple years ago. I know computers can last a long time, but this laptop has only been turned off for a total of about a week.
I would definitely ditch an OS that fucked up a file copy because I used the computer for something else while I was waiting.
REAL Unix
You mean like OS X? Linux and BSD are not real UNIX according to the controllers of the trademark.
http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/xy.htm
I can't speak for anyone else, but I don't give a shit about what you want.
I've been thinking about a new laptop for about a year and a half (since the extended warranty on my MacBook expired), looking for one that was light, had a near-full-size keyboard, a dual-core processor, at least 6 hours of battery life, and would run something other than Windows. I was tempted by a couple EEE PC models with 8-10 hours of battery and 11 inch screens, but I heard bad things about Linux compatibility.
I also have had great luck with my Mac laptops in the past. My iBook G4 lasted 3 years, and my MacBook was purchased in July of 2009 and still runs just as well as when I unboxed it (and replaced the stock hard drive and added more RAM, because that shit's expensive). I know that a 1.86 GHz Core Duo with 2 GB ram runs fast enough for me. I also know that Apple laptops have the best trackpads I have ever used as far as accuracy and functionality and size.
That's why I want one. Buy whatever piece of shit you want. This computer meets my needs, and I can afford it. I know a ton of Mac users, and I guarantee not a single one of them cares what computer you buy, so shut the fuck up about how we all want you to get one. You're probably ugly and lonely anyway.
Yeah, but it's a government agency, so profit doesn't mean anything.
Irrigation water is massively subsidized in Israel; they wouldn't be growing cotton in the desert if it weren't.
*makes wanking motion with hand*
Thus home 3D glasses are bigger and clunkier than movie 3D glasses. You can't compare the two.
You just did!
Some of us have to wear clunky glasses all the time, you insensitive clod!
How does it promote the progress of science and useful arts to grant a monopoly on using a processor to encode video? Now Microsoft is the only one who can sell a product that uses a GPU to encode video, a situation that doesn't give me a great deal of hope for the progress of anything.
*makes wanking sign with hand*
That's a good point. If X is illegal, then punish people for X; don't make it illegal to make a computer do X.
The US Copyright Office periodically publishes an exclusive list of permitted exceptions to the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions. Unlocking a phone is on the list. Unlocking a video game console for this purpose isn't.
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/
I think you should be able to do it. The DMCA is a pile of shit. There's no good reason why uses of hardware that don't involve copyright infringement or unauthorized network access should be prohibited,
The difference is that one is an explicit exception to the DMCA and one isn't.
I think what Apple does is good, generally. Not for me, since I love to be able to fuck around with my gadgets, but for less technically-oriented people, it's easy to use, it provides a few options, and they push back against the media companies as much as any commercial enterprise can. iTunes media sharing is a good example: they made it really easy to actually copy songs to another computer within the application interface. They also moved to DRM-free music sales (the jury is still out on video).
Apple basically drives the state of the art in consumer computer/multimedia integration. They also leave a ton of room for more open projects to innovate around them. They provide a target, and another company can provide a basically work-alike product that has the added advantage of being open.