But what is society doing wrong that these guys can't seem to wrap their heads around wealth to begin with?

It isn't so much society in general, but the black community itself that seems to have a problem with what it takes to get out of the vicious cycle of poverty and crime.

I've known blacks, even back when I was growing up, that during HS were working hard to get an education, taking part in scholastic function, like president of student council, etc. They were often shunned or ridiculed by their peers for "acting white". I was shocked to hear this.

I think that is a large part of what the problem is. The culture, at least of the lower end of the class system, of blacks don't promote things like getting an education and working hard to be successful in today's society as something to strive for. However, thug life, gangsta rap type trappings, and professional athletes are the main heroes that are held up as something to emulate.

I think this is part of the problem, and it is not something that you can legislate away.

This general type of attitude is something that can ONLY be fixed from the inside of the community itself, and so far, this isn't being pushed. And sadly, you often see folks that DO escape from this cycle of poverty into successful jobs and neighborhoods, they also shun the lower end and often understandably so, as that they don't want their kids around that culture.

Is punter some kind of African slang for something/someone?

This is what we get for letting them get out of the kitchen in the first place...

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fly a gun inside

Throwing a flag, bullshit on the field. You see Billy there is a teeny tiny itty bitty problem with SSD that none of the companies will talk about...they shit themselves WITHOUT WARNING.

Now can a HDD shit itself without warning? Yes but frankly since the coming of SMART its pretty damned rare, instead you get what I had last week, with SMART screaming on boot and a sector scan showing sectors failing. Final result? I was able to get more than 95% of the user's data off the failing drive, with the only thing being lost that which was actually on the failed sectors themselves.

Let us compare that to an SSD failure, shall we? Oh look, all your shit is gone, NO WARNING and no chance in hell of saving anything...wow, sucks to be you huh? I'm sure you'll talk about "cloud backups" or some such bullshit, yeah with the data caps? Hope daddy gave you a trust fund because that shit isn't gonna work on your average residential line in the USA, and in a perfect world people would have backups...and I would have a billion dollars and be woken up every morning by my Alyson Hannigan sexbot who blows me while I eat steak in bed...ain't no perfect world Billy.

So until the SSD OEMs can create an SSD that gives you an "Oh shit I'm gonna die soon" warning all it takes is one person they know getting an SSD shit itself scenario before it turns off everybody they know. BTW if you can show me where I can get a 1Tb SSD for $60 I'd be grateful, as my customers (which are Joe and Jane average BTW) are going through data like crap through a goose, those little 64Gb and 128gb SSDs ain't gonna cut it. Have you SEEN the size of files the average camcorder puts out today? Camera? Hell we now have 41MP fricking smartphones dude, where all that data gonna go? Sure as hell ain't going to the cloud, not with TW/Comcrap merging, by the time the corp buyouts are done you'll be lucky if you get 50Gb a month and then ONLY to the shitty websites, gotta pay those dividends and bonuses ya know.

Seriously guys like you REALLY ought to have to work at a mom&pop shop at least one month every 5 years so that the corporate bullshit don't rot your brain. Sure when you have $100K+ storage budgets throwing several tens of thousands on fatty SSDs with RAID ain't no thing but that is about as fucking far from reality in the consumers space, which just FYI curbstomps corp when it comes to market size just FYI, than it is from here to Mars.

, I really LIKE being able to buy tomatoes and grapes in February.

Except said "fresh" tomato is bred now for travel rather than flavor, then picked way before it is ripe, gassed to turn it red and brought to your store, where you can then buy the flavorless lump of vegetation.

Ugh...first time a few years back, I found heirloom tomatoes, fresh during the summer. I bit into one, and immediately was taken back to childhood when tomatoes had flavor.

Trust me..you're better off in the winter, eating canned tomatoes than "fresh" ones coming from a million miles away.

It's almost like the school has a responsibility to provide a safe atmosphere for the students. They weren't told to remove their shirts because they had American flags on them. They were told to remove those shirts to prevent the inevitable violence that they would cause. If you can't see why that is a good thing for the school to do, then you probably shouldn't have kids. If you already have kids, please place them with a family member of yours that isn't incapable of grasping simple concepts. If you don't have kids, please don't have them.

Err....why weren't they throwing out the students that were threatening violence against the students wanting merely to wear shirts displaying the flag of the country everyone fucking has a foot in at the time??

They punished the wrong students.

Schmidt's solution to this displacement? Foster conditions â" e.g., better education, looser immigration laws, and deregulation in strictly-controlled areas like energy and telecommunications

Ok..how will loosening up immigration to allow foreign nationals to drive wages lower in pretty much all sectors help conditions?

I was with him up until that part.

Or maybe, just maybe, nobody there knew WTF they were doing? It was an online exchange for Magic:The Gathering trading ya know, dealing with cryptocurrency? Not exactly in the same ballpark as trading cards, not even the same sport.

The moral of the story? Just because a company gets huge does NOT mean they know WTF they are doing, or are even competent in the field, it just makes 'em big, that's all. I'm sure they were secure as hell when it came to Magic:The Gathering trading, why anybody thought that meant they were able to deal with cryptocurrency? fuck if I know.

To borrow a bit from that old redneck comedian...here's your sign../hands jane an idiot sign/

You DO NOT do dev work on a fricking laptop! Its like pulling a boat with a Pinto, CAN you do it? Sure, is it smart? NO!!! What you do is remote in to a badass desktop that has 6+ cores, a buttload of RAM, and plenty of fast drives including an SSD.

At the end of the day you simply can't beat thermodynamics and you are trying to pack all these uberhot parts into a teeny tiny box of plastic and metal...not smart. Doing real work on a mobile should frankly be a last resort and done as little as possible, mobile workspaces should be doing the light work while the heavy lifting should be done by systems DESIGNED for such jobs. Of course if you want to spend $3000+ for a system weaker than my $700 desktop? Fool and their money and all that.

WRONG, nice try but totally wrong, just try to download any bog standard X86 Linux distro and see how far you get.

In reality what Google has done is turn a laptop into a smartphone because just as the smartphone can ONLY run certain ROMs and certain versions, even if the hardware is the same, so too has Google used UEFI to take bog standard X86 parts and lock the fuck out of them. Can you run BSD? Windows? Haiku? Make a Hackentosh? NOPE, you can on a real laptop but NOT on a Chrome anything.

Sorry but that is total bullshit. BTW we'll see how long those "Linux" distros get supported, considering its being done strictly as a courtesy by a few devs? My bet is you would already be limited if you had a first gen Chromebook and in 2 years? Well it'll be harder than finding somebody that supports android 1.x, Turning X86 into a cellphone? You couldn't be more evil if you put Snidely Whiplash on the logo.

Frankly after the terms that Google put out with Android AND the story on how Google is taking more and more of Android proprietary by taking critical APIs behind the "GoogleWall" I honestly do not see how any sane person can't see that Google IS Microsoft of the 90s.

Seriously folks, how can anyone argue that they aren't the same company? Blocking competition? See TFA and about a dozen other articles on Google pulling products with threats of being kicked out of having access to the OHA and Google Apps. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish? Hell Android is practically a textbook case of that, while Android 1 and 2 and ASOP were practically identical now there is a good chunk of the android games and apps that will not run on ASOP without being recompiled and in many cases rewritten. Trying to lock in? For God's sake they take bog standard X86 laptops and when they are done with them they are more fucking locked down than a cellphone! Hell even the latest windows allows you to fricking dual boot but not ChromeOS!

I'm sorry but while Google USED to be this great "throw shit at the wall and see what cool shit we get" kind of company as with sadly too many companies greed and the desire to keep the stock price high has turned them nasty. Maybe its a universal law of business or something, you get to be #1 and you turn nasty and greedy as you fight to stay top dog.