WC 1M Post Challenge - You Ready?!

[N_LaRUE]

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It must be Monday. Come in to find more android talk and USA bashing.

Not really bashing, just speaking from an outsider perspective.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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The powerpoint and video would be good. Not sure I can find it on this thread!

I have some ideas as to why things are the way they are in the US. In some ways I get it, in some ways I find it thoroughly sad. A lot of that has to do with my upbringing. In a very real way I am glad I wasn't born in the USA. I was born close enough to appreciate what I had.

I'll send out the stuff for you to look at in a little while, once the food is cooking.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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It must be Monday. Come in to find more android talk and USA bashing.

Every civilization with Western European roots since the Greeks have been bashed, so what we're doing is par the course. You should take it as a compliment...

 

[stmav]

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Not really bashing, just speaking from an outsider perspective.

It's ok, I'm from the south, I'm used to it. :wink:

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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Murica, **** yea!

Lol. It is a shame that America's most endearing quality and fatal flaw is the same thing - the ideas that the country is founded on have different meanings and fit differently for everyone. That's why the views of here are so diverse, which can be good and bad because all views are present.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Every civilization with Western European roots since the Greeks have been bashed, so what we're doing is par the course. You should take it as a compliment...

Being critical of ones own place is usually a good way to bring about change. To think things are perfect and wonderful is a way to ruin. I'm not saying people internally don't criticize the US, however, some do it for their own purposes rather than the good of the country and people who reside in it.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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Did the same however took the back one off by mistake thinking it was a normal screen protector.

I saw that a ton in the reviews, so I knew not to fall for that one...

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Lol. It is a shame that America's most endearing quality and fatal flaw is the same thing - the ideas that the country is founded on have different meanings and fit differently for everyone. That's why the views of here are so diverse, which can be good and bad because all views are present.

I didn't get the reference... ?

 

[MSFTisMIA]

Being critical of ones own place is usually a good way to bring about change. To think things are perfect and wonderful is a way to ruin. I'm not saying people internally don't criticize the US, however, some do it for their own purposes rather than the good of the country and people who reside in it.

Some do so because it is valid in some of their points...for example, if people still don't think that US policy isn't still guided at least in sprit by the Monroe Doctrine and Manifest Destiny, then I have the Sydney Opera House to sell you...

 

[BIGPADDY]

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I have 64% battery left finishing work that great that Snapdragon 800 SoC is very power efficient.

 

[BIGPADDY]

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More windows phone with snapdragon 800 SoC are needed.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

I didn't get the reference... ?

Simple. This country was founded on liberty, freedom and equality. But when the country was founded, slaves were considered to be 3/5s of a person - and had no vote, women had no rights either, and the Native Americans were getting killed off, so they had no rights either. So their experience of "America" is different.

So what the "American Dream" means to a minority, a woman, a LBGTQ, a Native American/First Nation and a white male of European descent are very different, based on what parts of their identity that they choose to self identify with. That has its historical roots into how the country was founded and still shapes much of life in many areas of the US today.

That's the short version of the reference.

 

[MSFTisMIA]

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Well, I'm gonna go finish cooking. When things are further along, I will,return. Sorry if I got political, but there are still too many people who live in the US who really have no clue of the country's full history (I'm not saying I know it all, I just have a good start point) and that lack of understanding is what allows the real,movers and shakers - Govt and the rich elite - to get away with alot of things, including taking advantage of the poor, immigrants and minorities to this day. That's all (drops MIC).

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Simple. This country was founded on liberty, freedom and equality. But when the country was founded, slaves were considered to be 3/5s of a person - and had no vote, women had no rights either, and the Native Americans were getting killed off, so they had no rights either. So their experience of "America" is different.

So what the "American Dream" means to a minority, a woman, a LBGTQ, a Native American/First Nation and a white male of European descent are very different, based on what parts of their identity that they choose to self identify with. That has its historical roots into how the country was founded and still shapes much of life in many areas of the US today.

That's the short version of the reference.

That's good to know. However I was referring to the initial reference that greedypenguin made.

I know the fallacy of the American dream. In Australia they had the 'Australian Dream', which is just as much as a joke as the American one. You would be surprised how much the American mentality is reflected in Australia. I think it must come from extended periods of prosperity or should I say, perceived periods of prosperity.

 

[N_LaRUE]

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Well, I'm gonna go finish cooking. When things are further along, I will,return. Sorry if I got political, but there are still too many people who live in the US who really have no clue of the country's full history (I'm not saying I know it all, I just have a good start point) and that lack of understanding is what allows the real,movers and shakers - Govt and the rich elite - to get away with alot of things, including taking advantage of the poor, immigrants and minorities to this day. That's all (drops MIC).

You need a 'speakers corner' like we have here in Hyde Park London.

 

[Chregu]

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I had a busy day today, I have no idea what is going on in this thread.

Well, I'll just finish some notes in my lab-book, then I'm off towards dinner.

 

[BIGPADDY]

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@):-

 

[sahib lopez]

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In those days we used to call them 'sell outs' but today, most people would see it as a smart business decision. They realised they would never make enough money being a punk band so changed their musical genre to more commercial.

Funny how we thought of things back then. Thing is, I am quite disappointed by most music these days. There are some new groups here and there that buck the commercialisation trend, not many though. That's the reason why I was never into pop music when I was a teen. I just couldn't get behind the same sounding music all the time. I've learned to relax that attitude some but I still find 'new' pop music rather boring. It's the reason why I have difficulty with country and rap. It all starts to sound the same to me.

you need to listin to illy :3 and a tribe called quest and hilltop hoods :3

 

[sahib lopez]

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I agree with you. I do not listen to any commercial FM radio, since it is all so bland and repetitive.

* cough* JB * cough*

 

[sahib lopez]

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It a Monday!!!

its milk day! hurray for milk day