That's an anonymous sperm donor and regarding a clinical procedure..
If you "donate" your sperm the old fashioned way, good luck with that defense. There have been (at least in one case) men who have been sexually assaulted, and required to provide for the offspring of the unwanted union.
See... Even white boys got to shout...
True Dat.... Anaconda and all.
I'm not sure why one would buy the models you suggest, when you can get a 4870 or 4890 at less cost and fairly comparable performance. the highest of the high end ATI's are cheaper and you're not going to complain... any about performance.
I've got a 4870, and with the price point they are at these days I'd assume they're doing pretty damned well..
You're right. It is class warfare, not racism, but racism plays a part in all of this and how it got so damned bad.
I still own a home in Cleveland Ohio on the east side, in one of those depressed areas. Still have many of the same neighbors and I spend a lot of my weekends there. I grew up in Cleveland in the 70's and 80's, and every week I go home I find something new to either appreciate or decry.
I was one of the first kids who was subject to forced busing when Frank Batisti ordered it, which only increased the rate of white flight out of the city save for the not so fortunate poor whites who quickly became a minority.
The reasons for doing it were legitimate. Cleveland (like Boston at the time) was a sub-surface segregated city, especially after the Hough riots, but forced busing was one of the accelerants.
There wasn't the over-publicized, exaggerated 24 hour news you get today; as a young kid, my neighborhood was pretty damned good. Next door neighbor was a cop, two houses down my neighbor worked on the election board. One of the worst thing I remember happening as a young kid was a neighbor kid dying in an accidental self shooting. My parents didn't want me bused, but they weren't going to move (If you don't think that Cleveland's suburbs for a long time had an insidious policy of making any blacks unwelcome in that area, you're greatly mistaken.I spent tree years post college living in Parma in the 90's which was 90% white at the time. I was pulled over 22 times. Yes, I kept count.).
At the same time, you can't help but wonder what the hell did you do wrong save but be born different.
Where I grew up, the only time I saw anyone that wasn't of my race or Vietnamese was at school, at my dad's/other relatives on the weekend or while out shopping.
Think about that. And then think about it some more as to how fucked up that is.
Once my teen years kicked in it was a whole different world: crack epidemic, infrastructure really crumbling, city exiting default, tax abatements sabotaging the school system (brilliant idea, Mr. Voinovich).
In the early 90's it was home building (more tax abatements) in the empowerment zone corridors, as if that was going to attract back the tax base. Didn't work out so well.
Somehow most of the kids I went to school with turned out to be pretty intelligent productive members of society. And some of the suburban kids I spent summer advanced placement camp time with ended up being clerks who check me out at Target.
There's a constant refrain here, and the causes aren't simple, nor are the solutions. I sat here reading this thread just anticipating when the arguments for class warfare were gonna pop up. Everybody has a simple solution. It's always easy to anyone who only had the option of looking from the outside in.
I live in Columbus now, because that is where work took me. I make a very, VERY good living. My kids spent the first few years here in Columbus public schools which if you listen to the local town criers are hell holes. I had no problem with it because the world isn't a utopia. You have to understand why things are the way they are, and then determine how to do your part to change it.
They don't attend CPS these days. Once again, work and my desire to get from behind the wheel and bike into work took over (Columbus unlike Cleveland has a shit infrastructure for public transport. No train, no all night service...none of that).
But I still have that house up in Cleveland. I still pay taxes there. I still vote absentee there. My family's there, and I don't feel like I'm going to get blasted in a hail of gunfire from my front porch. The city has massive problems no doubt, but just driving by it and just saying how fucked up it is while ascribing to a simplistic solution isn't going to help.
PS: As a side I do appreciate the parent poster's willingness to not post anonymously. When you have something to say and believe it you should be willing to put your name on it. WHile we may disagree I can say I do indeed respect you in that difference. Kudos.
I thought that was culturally Irish?
There is no substitute for physical, in-person, flesh and bone companionship.
I'm a gamer and there have been times that I've set aside what I consider an extensive number of hours to play. One such time that comes to mind is the release of Rome: Total War in 2003/04 or so. I remember playing late nights for two weeks straight including, sleeping about an hour and then heading into work. After the kid was asleep at 8:30, I'd be back at it again.
When I was younger and had fewer responsibilities (pre-children), devoting that much or more time to a game would not have been as big of a deal.
However there is a limit. Yes, it may be no different than devoting hours to a hobby and just as tangible. Yes, using an online game as a fulcrum for social interaction for those that it does not come easy to (and for those of us whom it does as well) can be rewarding, same as a hobby would.
Yet it still can't beat having a beer or a glass of wine with your friends, or a good vacation, or that certain girl/guy with a twinkle in their eye. It can't beat watching your kid run the wrong way on the soccer field.
I'm not sure the phenomenon qualifies as an addiction; we are way too eager to classify anything we can as such. By this definition texting could be an addiction. Twitter, Myspace, Facebook, on and on. But it might be a harbinger something the parent alludes to, which is our willingness to substitute physical interaction and learning how to deal with people for virtual interaction and further stratifying ourselves.
No. Once you go white, you go blind.
(My apologies to Family Guy...)
A new contestant for the World Series of Dice!
Obligatory nod to the fictional Captain Trips. Welcome to the real world. In other news, I'll be relocating to Boulder shortly...
Mod you up too.
I think (and I shouldn't assume but hey) the parent is saying exactly that: These labels we throw around do not mean what we think they mean. It's the latter part of the post that is critical:
Now, if you want to find an open minded area, you need to find someplace centrist. Given the way that both political parties have been fucking around with districts and going around trying to polarize debate whenever possible, those are becoming harder and harder to find.
But I'm guessing - based on your phrasing above - that what you really are looking is for someplace that will blindly reinforce your own groupthink, rather than challenging you to actually examine your own beliefs and ideas with, say, an open mind.
Mod parent up. And I rarely say that.
I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.