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30. November 2013 @ 12:14 |
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Check this out! LOL! Sam... I'm jealous! I'll be waiting quite a time :( Perhaps next year, will be the rewarding year, I've desperately been waiting for.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cer8I4cX-vs
Unbelievable. Even if I sold my ride, I wouldn't have half of the funds :(
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30. November 2013 @ 12:26 |
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Lol, not sure if I'd fool for that in life. I'd like to think not because the way TVs emit light obviously differs greatly from it being an actual window, but still - entertaining :)
As for the Dell display, not cheap, but after the enterprise discount (they're a fair bit more to the end user) it works out about 10-15% more than the new retail price would have been for the first 30" 2560x1600 monitors, factored for inflation. Of course, if the display upgrade necessitates new graphics cards, that will make the operation considerably more expensive, as the only thing I have that's from the HD7 series or newer at this point is an HD7770. I should hopefully not need to worry about component/composite stuff any more as that's now all plugged into the Pioneer receiver with an HDMI out.
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30. November 2013 @ 12:33 |
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Yeah, not sure I'd fall for it myself. Certainly an amusing prank though LOL!
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30. November 2013 @ 13:10 |
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Haha that brightened up my day. Good find and relevant too :)
I wish you the best of luck Sam. You've been mentioning a new monitor for years now :)
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30. November 2013 @ 13:28 |
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You sound surprised :p
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30. November 2013 @ 15:04 |
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Yeah, my brother sent me that video the other day. I figured it relevant, to the topic at hand LOL!
I realize such a display is very costly, when figuring for High FPS at that resolution. Frankly, I don't mind that :p Well, I kind of do LOL! Bleeding edge always costs :( Somehow... I will find a way to get that display. I must have it!
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1. December 2013 @ 06:00 |
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I'm under no impression I'll be playing games at high detail at its native resolution, but that doesn't stop me playing them either at lower detail or simply at the resolution I play them at now. Realistically, a lot of the games I play regularly are 'undemanding' enough that I imagine they'll play fine at 4K anyway, and the biggest benefit to having 4K is really the desktop space, not the multimedia/games usage. Generally though, because the R9 290 series cards are "a bit naff" I'd ideally like to avoid having to buy them and wait for the next variants which will hopefully be designed a bit better.
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1. December 2013 @ 11:26 |
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We've discussed the possibility of gaming at that resolution many times. I can see a fair few titles being playable. Source games, Grid, CoD.
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1. December 2013 @ 20:14 |
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1. December 2013 @ 22:35 |
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Grid is memory hungry in certain situations, but just about anything in the past 5 or so years can run it from a pure performance standpoint. My 512MB 9600GT and a Phenom I-based Kuma dual core at 3.2GHz could lock it at 60 at 1920 x 1200 w/ 8xAA... I'd imagine a pair of 6970s and a 4GHz i5 can manage it in some capacity at 4k... Grid 2 is a different story.
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2. December 2013 @ 02:53 |
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Yeah I was running GRiD on my HD3870 at 2560x1600, but 512MB VRAM was barely passible there. That means from a performance standpoint anything HD6870 upwards could handle 4K performance-wise but you'd probably need 1.5GB video memory to have AA on.
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2. December 2013 @ 10:03 |
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Order with Dell has now been placed for the UP3214Q. Should be delivered within the next 10 days or so, subject to when the batch arrives. I'd initially said I wouldn't buy one unless they were less than £2000, turns out I've still stuck to that (just!). Commercial price gave me a 30.5% discount off the retail, which is pretty nice for an order that expensive (Works out pre-tax being the equivalent of about $2700 instead of $3900, including the 5 year warranty and delivery - UK prices are slightly higher than the US).
Now of course, this leaves me in no position to buy new graphics cards to run it should I need them. If the HD6970s aren't capable of driving it at 3840, I think I'll leave the 3008WFP alongside for the first month, and run the HD7770 in the LAN PC to it for the time being, since as discussed I'll most value the desktop real-estate. If necessary I can swap the DP cable easier than DVI, and just use the HD6970s at 2560x1600 still. As far as I'm aware that's still supported (which apparently is not the case on the Asus units, news to me)
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2. December 2013 @ 12:53 |
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Wow, quite a purchase! I luckily usually don't have a need for screen real estate. Dual monitors handles the majority of it well. My main focus is still, after all, gaming. The 2407 keeps everything affordable at still very nice quality. I'd like to leave my savings account in place :)
If I had to pick a monitor now it would probably be a 27" at 2560 x 1600. Along with a 990 board and a second 4GB GTX760. An expensive upgrade :(
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2. December 2013 @ 13:18 |
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2560x1440, alas the 27s are 16:9
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2. December 2013 @ 13:37 |
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I look forward to your review Sam :)
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2. December 2013 @ 18:31 |
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As do I look forward to reviewing it. Going to make an unpleasant month while I pay the first chunk of it off though, heavily discounted though it may be, it's still more than I paid for my 3007WFP and 3008WFP combined, though admittedly it is retail new item with a 5 year warranty rather than second hand and refurbished 12-month respectively as before.
If it does come to upgrading the GPUs, that will clearly have to wait a month or so while I recoup some of the expense of the display. On the one hand I hope some non-reference R9 290 cards come out by then, but on the other hand, I've expressed my disdain for non-reference cards several times over. Nonetheless, the XFX HD4830 and MSI HD7770 have both turned out well so far, but in crossfire, I'm not sure. The GTX780Ti is still pretty horrendously expensive for what it is, and they're not as good at handling tiling still by the looks of things.
I found a few promising graphs on this though, I could be tempted to just get the one 290 to start with.
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4. December 2013 @ 04:11 |
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Wow, Sam, that monitor will be something else. I quite agree in general, on waiting for the next die shrink for family 8000 (or 9000?) but your graphs show a 290 doing pretty well on those two titles.
That's amazing that you sprung so soon - you were first talking mid next year, then you backed off, and here it's still 2013. Awesome.
Kevin, that link with the joke about the meteor - that was great! I think I would have been faked out. You go in there focusing on the interview, and you just peripherally accept that you're looking out the window. I assume this was done in a high-rise building, like in Sao Paolo perhaps. Coming to the interview, riding up all those floors, you have already waved disbelief, because the screen is not what you're there for. So anything that occurs - you automatically think it's happening in real life. That was an outstanding trick.
By the way, on that page, I accidentally hit the top video link, which I thought was the same, but I got a different prank - they had a very interesting situation with a lady getting mad in a New York coffee house when a guy bumped her, causing her to spill coffee on her laptop, and she angrily gestured him away, whereupon he was telekinetically slammed back against the the wall and pushed halfway up toward the ceiling.
Everybody in the coffee house is gasping and transfixed - some take to the exit. In disbelief, she drops her arms and the guy falls to the floor, and then, in increasing anxiety and rage, she waves her hands and all the close-by empty tables jumped out of her way, at which point people began to panic.
It was so brilliant - the patrons were totally aghast - there were hidden cameras everywhere capturing all the shocked reactions. They had rigged the place with pulleys and other gimmicks as a come-on for the remake of that classic movie, Carrie. Take a look. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlOxlSOr3_M&list=RDCer8I4cX-vs
This past month or so, I have been busy playing lots of stuff, including Ghosts and BF4. There are very few people on the BF4 servers - but I did have a chance to encounter some smaller versions of the big maps - like the small Golmud Railroad map - it's the version that includes just the little town, with no vehicles.
But in the last few days, I haven't found anybody on the small map servers. And BF4 loves to mix very dark shadows with black uniforms. Talk about camouflage.
In logging into Origin, I noticed Medal of Honor which I bought a year ago, and so, getting tired of not being able to tell black from black, I re-visited that recently, and played enough to level up from corporal to full sergeant, unlocking a bunch of good stuff.
I got much better assault rifles, and most interestingly, a repeating sniper rifle that stays scoped in and allows you to fire as fast as you can pull the trigger. It reminds me of the Persian sniper rifle in the BF2 demo that I still play occasionally.
I have never been a sniper guy, but I began dominating with that new unlocked weapon. For example, 11 kills, 4 deaths in my last outing. And with that rifle, you get a pistol that sprays full auto like a P90, so you can run around safely until you find a good sniping spot. The auto pistol is solely a close-in weapon of course, but with about 30 rounds it will take down anybody except a demolition guy in full body armor.
The repeating sniper rifle is definitely not a one-shot kill unless it's a head shot, but it packs the power of an AK round, with minimal recoil - you really don't have to set up the available tripod. It will fire as fast as you can hit the button, so you can take out one of those demolition heavies with 8-10 shots in a little over a second.
Hey Jeff, what's going on with Arma 3? Anything new? Have you tried any new shooters, besides holding off the zombie hordes? (I have been reading that book, World War Z, every time I visit the animator who did Left 4 Dead - I'm about 80% through the book. It was written by Mel Brook's son, and it's quite a good read.)
Speaking about Arma, I recently let Steam finish a new Arma 3 update the other day, and I have been thinking about going back to it - I have done only the single-player infantry trial in that small campaign about rescuing the trapped soldiers in the little town. But I think I'll go back for the other trials. Having enjoyed the Ghost underwater combat (not to mention the awesome space walk combat) I think I'd like to see how Arma 3 handles scuba.
And finally, ddp - do you concede defeat? Not only have we run in and out of Canada anytime we were in the mood, too many times to count, but now, in modern times, we are currently considering giving you guys a huge break and rigging a pipeline down to our gulf refineries, so you can get rid of some of that sand-filled crap you try to pass off as oil. I guess you have to unload it on somebody, and we continue feeling guilty about all those historic invasions and rapes and pillaging - back in the good old 1800's. :P
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4. December 2013 @ 04:58 |
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The timing is all down to price. I conceded that post-release it'd be a fair while before the price of the UP3214Q dropped by any substantial amount, so it became a question of when I could 'afford it'. It's still not something I can truly afford but getting an £850 discount (a similar amount in fact to what my 3008WFP cost me) made it somewhat bearable. I just have to have a frugal couple of months :D
The inevitable graphics upgrade that follows will be the painful bit, as any further hardware outlays during the 'paying off' period will be difficult to achieve. At this stage I'm contemplating use of a single R9 290, but really don't want to waste what is left in the HD6970s.
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4. December 2013 @ 12:29 |
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Ha ha, excellent video Rich!
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5. December 2013 @ 01:24 |
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I totally agree with you Sam - the graphics are the big question. You have a good track record of being able to sell your used bits, so maybe one 290 makes sense for now. How long do you foresee until AMD reduces die size on a new family that might handle your gorgeous new monitor?
Anyway, congratulations again - once more you have taken the lead, showing your true tech spirit of adventure - which the painful experience of dual 4870x2's couldn't quite "burn" out of you, lol.
Kevin, I'm glad you enjoyed that video - it was sooo cool - so well edited.
On the gaming front, I have taken the plunge on another sequel to a game you recommended, Jeff, Assassins Creed III - the sequel being Assassins Creed IV - Black Flag, about a pirate.
ASSASSINS CREED IV - BLACK FLAG
The city of Havana is interesting and colorful - but I am wondering when the fun sea battles begin. When they introduce your character, you actually have to catch up to one of the Assassins whose uniform you steal. Then you meet a guy with a boat.
This Englishman merchant on the left was being held by the local soldiers until you rescued him - he was accused of piracy - the very thought!
They showed just a bit of sailing and shooting at the start - but the weapon mechanics have changed - and the cannons don't fire as loudly. But maybe that will improve later. They also don't ask you to let out sails, etc. When you want to slow down, just hit S, and you can see the sails change position, and your steering becomes more responsive.
You had to negotiate out of a tricky bay - lots of tight turns. Kind of fun.
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As in Assassins Creed III, blacks are represented in the game, both as inhabitants of Havana, and as fellow pirates. I am glad to see this trend continue from Ubisoft.
Assassins Creed III, located where I went to grad school for a couple of years, showed me a side of early Boston that I did not know about, in the number of blacks that composed its citizenry.
From Assassins Creed III, one of the homestead couples.
Apparently, if Assassins 3 is correct, there were many freed slaves in Boston. I had known from early schooling that the Boston massacre did include the death of Crispus Attucks, a black, a freed slave.
Crispus Attucks died in the Boston Massacre - a rallying event that stirred up colonial passions.
Regarding race relations, this is a subject of particular importance to me. My relations with blacks have been iffy. I currently have a workout fanatic, heavily muscled, physically intimidating black roommate who has been renting from us for 6 years. Daryl is a former plumber, now a truck driver, and we mostly get along okay.
But there is definitely a racial gap. For example, I couldn't get him to stop parking in front of the neighbor's house across the street, although my brother and I decided to give him the reserved spot in front of our house because we didn't want problems - renting out a room isn't really allowed in the zoning.
Daryl had mentioned - "They probably have never seen a black guy before" referring to himself when he took a temporary trucking job in North Dakota last year. But I have never talked race with him. Finally I decided to bring it up earlier this year, arguing that the white homeowner across the street, whom he had dinner with, might have found it difficult to do more than just hint about preferring that nobody park there, because of the racial divide. Daryl didn't like that, "Oh, now you've pulled the race card - now I'm upset."
There is a dense and lively street crowd in Havana. You can use the group of 4 dancing ladies to accompany you, and to distract some of the guards. The one with her back turned to us is black.
A few weeks later he came in where I was working on a big computer project, and he wanted to discuss the parking again, saying my attitude had seemed kind of mean. The discussion was not balanced, I couldn't get a word in edge-wise. He beat around the bush, blah blah blah, monopolizing the talk, until he said he had to leave, concluding with "Well, I think I'm going to start parking there again."
I was frustrated by the lopsided conversation, and when he said that I got mad (I have been reading The Power of Now which has helped me control my temper, but I lost it) and I pulled rank. "Fine, park where-ever you want, but we will ask you to move out if you can't follow our parking rules."
He parked in his spot after that, but he didn't talk with me for at least 6 months. So my relationship with him is a test case for me, of improving race relations. He and I see the world quite differently - each perspective is completely valid - there is no right or wrong. My job is to stay calm, no matter what. But that might mean that he has to move some day - rules are rules - my military training taught me that.
This intro relates to race depiction in the game, Assassins Creed IV.
Here's a better picture of the black girl whose back was turned to us above. She's doing some kind of dance. These girls will follow you, or distract people for you. And they allow you to hide if you're being chased, if you can hire them quickly enough before the guards see you.
I realize that - along with many white Americans - I have a racist core. You can't help it - you get it from school as a kid. That's what happened to me. In school. But no matter how much you tell yourself that racism is wrong and not intellectually supportable - just a bad bad thing - it sticks to you and takes years of work to dissipate.
We here in the States live in arguably the most racist country in the world. We fought a war that killed 700,000 of us - more than the casualties of World War II - because of race.
What other country can you point to that enslaved millions of people in the 1850s? Black slave labor built the White House. I just had a Russian guy at a Thanksgiving party, a US soldier whom I bonded with (he told one guy who walked by - "we are the military guys here") a Republican big supporter of John McCain, a man I greatly admire and respect - this Russian guy told me, "A black man shouldn't be in the white house."
I said, "Well, Mikheil, you never had slavery in Russia. You don't have that in your culture. Yes, you DID have your social classes, upper and lower - I remember in my COD2 video game the corporal said 'Boris, get the explosives and blow up that Panzer. Probably with your dumb peasant luck you will not get killed as you cross the alley.'" Mikheil laughed at my COD2 Russian accent.
I told him, "Mikheil, you never had slavery. Not like us. We have a lot of guilt over that in this country. In fact, your hero, John McCain, who lost in 2008, expressed some of that in one of the best speeches I have ever heard, his concession speech about what a historic election it was."
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The graphics of the game are lush and lovely in many places. The vegetation, and some of the wild life are quite colorful.
Every time you reach a view point to add detail to your map, you displace the hawk that was there. This is one of the most beautiful birds of any video game.
So that was my Thanksgiving discussion with a fellow vet, whose politics put him on the other side of the political aisle from me. But we bonded anyway - he's a guy who served several years in Afghanistan and Iraq as a platoon leader, who had one of his guys, a 17 year old marine, die in his arms from a sniper round to the head. The mother had asked Mikheil to bring her son back safely. The kid had seconds to live and said "I don't want to die."
So Mikheil listened as I explained about the American burden of slavery, and he drowned out his combat memories with beer after beer. No slavery in Russia. Slavery until relatively recently in America. On-going racism that persists to today, but we are trying to work it out. That civil rights struggle continues today. Look at Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman. My sister texted "Did you hear about the verdict?" I said "Yes, acquitted, Good." She texted back, "What did you say - you mean BAD - right?" I told her I watched the whole thing, and the kid tragically went ballistic - lost his temper and tried to beat up a guy who had a hidden gun. Total self-defense - he was crying out for help for crissake. In MMA when the guy concedes, you stop fighting. The kid said, "You are going to die tonight" and apparently he meant it. He was violent, and immature, and he bit off more than he could chew. I didn't come down on the "liberal" side on that one.
My take on race, is that we are an interesting country trying to work out our racist background, and slowly improving all the time. Look around, in addition to video games, there are many more blacks in advertising than ever before, which is great to see. Look at the walls in the Target stores - look at television advertising. Finally blacks and other minorities are represented - it's not just the old "everybody white as snow" of former years.
I am proud of the strides we are making. From both parties. Even the various 3 Bush administrations - my brother hated them - they had Collin Powell, they had Condi Rice as Secretary of State - remarkable minority and women inclusion, which was very historic and paved the way for the election of Obama.
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They had a really cool segment where you are in the present day - Desmond died protecting the earth from sun flares - and they want you to dream up some good pirate experiences.
I thought they said they made video games - it's the modern day Asbergo Industries.
This presidency will be written about for hundreds of years, even if Obamacare falls flat, if for nothing else the proof of the advancement in racial understanding and opportunity. You can be black and yes, you can be in the White House. It is truly historic, whether you agree with the politics, or whether like John McCain, you don't agree with the politics completely, but you still are proud of the country for the dramatic steps forward - for the proof of how far we have progressed from our divisive Civil War heritage.
We can run around being bitter and resentful, hating Obama-care for example, about which I know nothing and don't care to know anything - (I don't have a doctor and I never did - if I have to pay a fine I'll pay it) or we can look around at what is good. For me, what is good is the improvement in race relations, of which Obama is an immediate symbol.
The language and signs are in Spanish, and you hear bits and pieces. Like after I bought ammo, a guy said "Y que la suerte le guia" which means: "May good luck guide you."
There are people like my brother who say that all the blow-back against Obama is racist. I'm not sure about that. There certainly is a lot of hate talk. Including even milder remarks like what Mikheil said to me. That was a racist remark if I ever heard it, and not acceptable, but it resonates with a part of me that I am not proud about. And it came from a man for whom I have great respect, and whom I consider a friend from our Thanksgiving conversation, a man who has served his adopted country very well. And in return, now he's getting government help to finish law school. I'm happy for him. He is dealing with some tragic memories - and I don't hold that racist remark against him - I know that I have my own racist core to deal with. Mikheil is just repeating what he's heard on the street. He doesn't appreciate, being from Russia (actually from Georgia where Stalin was born) what a burden of racial hatred we have had to overcome here in the US.
DDP, correct me if I am wrong, but even Canada had a huge amount of slaves helping them grow their cotton, right? On second thought, does cotton grow in the snow?
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5. December 2013 @ 19:34 |
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does cotton grow in new york, maine, pennsylvania, washington & minnesota? why did your slaves come to canada?
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If my disliking Obama makes me racist, okay then, I'M A RACIST. NOW, let's discuss his policies. Voting for Obama based entirely on his race, holding him to a lower standard of behavior because of his race, and being afraid to oppose him because of his race is RACISM. Yes, this country has a problem with racism, except it's been flip-flopped around since the "old days." I don't see groups of white kids randomly assaulting and killing people on the street, including Congressional Medal of Honor recipients who fought for their freedom, as a game. I didn't see groups of white people threatening riots if Zimmerman lost his case. I don't see groups of white people using "niggah" in their every day vocabulary then screaming about the "others" keeping them down. AND NO, THE PROBLEM IS NOT BLACK PEOPLE. It is the black culture IN AMERICA. I certainly didn't see Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton speaking out when a black gang member shot a white baby in the head in front of its mother. They certainly aren't speaking out against "polar bear hunting" or the fact that the majority of the murders in the United States are black on black gang violence. Maybe it was a gang of white kids who beat up a younger child on the school bus and broke his arm after he reported that they tried to sell him drugs, right? Nope, it was blacks. I didn't see Sharpton or Jackson speaking out against that. They are nothing but racist race-baiters themselves. They only speak out when the poisoned black community is behind them and they can turn a profit. When it comes time to hold themselves responsible for their own actions, suddenly we're just a nation of racists trying to hold them down.
Oh yeah, what about Oprah saying that all the white old people should die(you know, the people who made her rich and successful), then our Dictator in Chief awarding her a Presidential Medal of Freedom? I guess racism is okay when it's not directed towards blacks, right?
Because, you see, WHITE is a skin color too. And WHITE people are BY FAR the most prominent victims of racism in this modern era. Even stating an opposing opinion instantly makes me "a racist redneck hillbilly who shoots children and hates blacks".
http://angrywhitedude.com/2013/07/essay...ck-high-school/
Also, NO, the Civil War was NOT fought over slavery. At all. It was fought over individual states' rights and in the interest of unifying our nation. The abolition of slavery was a footnote. Yes, slavery was an overtone of the war, but it was not the point, cause, or motivation behind it. Period. A little historical instruction is needed on this subject. Truly free blacks and whites fought on both sides of the war, and some of the Union states were slave states as well. To say it was fought over slavery is an insult to the soldiers who died on both sides, white and black.
What needs to happen is that the blacks need to let go of their crutch and start being held accountable for their BS. And the whites need to stop feeling guilty about something they did not do. I HAVE NEVER KEPT SLAVES NOR MET A BLACK PERSON WHO WAS ONE. THE SLAVERY ARGUMENT IS NOT AN EXCUSE FOR BEING A MONSTER. The culture is poisoned. Martin Luther King Jr. would be sickened and ashamed to see the direction his people went in. People are now judged solely by the color of their skin, not by the content of their character. But, if we were judging solely by content of character, their character seems just as rotten as any white racist.
Also, Rich, your roommate/housemate is just a douchenozzle. It has nothing to do with his race. A parking space should not bring up a discussion on racism. He should respect your rules for living in YOUR building, not expect special treatment because of his race. Not speaking to you for six months because you told him to follow YOUR rules on YOUR property? It seems the only racist present in that situation is the man acting like a stereotypical self-entitled whine-baby American black person and making everyone uncomfortable with his actions. The color of his skin is not making people uncomfortable, it's his CONTENT OF CHARACTER.
Barack Hussein Obama has done more to widen the racial gap and stir up racial tensions than any other president in our history. He is the most divisive and corrupt president in our nation's existence. His policies and blunders have made us the laughing stock of the world. Oh gee, better get another round of golf and another $100,000,000 vacation in while our economy continues to worsen by the day. Oh, here's an idea, let's force a mandatory tax on the already financially destitute American public, then PUNISH THEM FOR BEING UNABLE TO AFFORD IT. What's even worse? The healthcare is significantly more expensive than than the pre-existing plans that millions of Americans lost, and the deductibles are so high that it's effectively useless as insurance. Wasn't the point to insure the uninsured? Instead, they've uninsured the insured, while forcing every single person in the nation to buy into it, or face an Unconstitutional fine. If the ACA is so great, why is it being forced? There's nothing affordable about it, and I have EVERY RIGHT to not be insured. MY MONEY BELONGS TO ME. I WILL NOT SUPPORT THOSE WHO ARE TOO LAZY TO EARN THEIR OWN.
But I'm not pointing out any facts or anything... nope... I'm just racist...
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