MomsAVoxell

Still got my BeBox, boot it up every year just to make sure its still okay. I have wondered about that paint job over the years ..

I look forward to being able to plug my iPad into my non-touch MacBook, though, and using its touch screen as an external MacOS-touch enabled peripheral.

That’ll hold me over until the next generation of touchscreen MBP’s, or at least until touch is just a normal feature in the Apple world, whichever comes first ..

You issued nothing but falsehoods about the cause of the suffering of the children of Gaza, actually. Apropos errors of ones ways…

Just because you get “anti-American slop” doesn’t mean your “pro-American slop” is accurate, nor productive in the context of world affairs.

Americans are among the most propagandized because they are taught theirs is the greatest among all nations from birth, even though it really, really isn’t.

Cool. Now do extremist Likud party members and their frothy-mouthed children-hating warmonger allies in the US Congress.

Think they give a shit about civil rights?

Carefully side-stepping the responsibilities of the nation in the region with undeclared nukes, which was literally founded by active terrorist groups, does not help your argument...

The children of Gaza are being murdered by American bombs, dropped by Americas allies, with permission, in full view of the rest of the world. Because Americans and their allies have deemed those children inferior.

Claims of superiority on the issue of civil rights are, therefore, null and void.

Not to mention the criminal omission in their argument of the US' support for the willful, daily murder of children every single day for the past few years in Gaza.

Contemptible.

>Most terrorism in the last 60ish years is associated with some Arabs and also some Islamists, and with or in cooperation with, anarcho-Marxists like Bader-Meinhof, Brigate Rosse/Red Brigades, antifa, etc.

That is blatantly false and you are indeed manifesting the very example of the ideology I find utterly contemptible.

37 million refugees from America's heinously vile wars, this century alone, beg to differ. The two million dead Iraqi's - and the children born to their descendants, daily, with congenital birth defects as a result of the widespread distribution of depleted uranium, certainly have had their human rights utterly abrogated from a distance by America's overtly racist ruling class, also.

And then, there's Gaza.

I have no respect for a nation that justifies the constant, daily murder of children. A nation that has dropped one bomb, on average, every 15 minutes for the past 25 years - on mostly innocent people - deserves a lot less respect than you seem to imply. It is certainly no shining example of civil rights.

Your in-group is not my out-group, but it's not my in-group, either. I prefer to participate in cultures which protect human rights - at the level of children - above all else. America is not one of them.

If your state has to murder children - or supports states willfully murdering children - in "self defense", then it is a failed state.

Period.

As for Booker T Washington, that was over a century ago. His work nevertheless had to be continued via Martin Luther King and company.

Try to keep up to present time. The US is the worlds #1 funder and supporter of terrorism this century, bar none.

Yes, the frothy-mouthed ideation of the US cultural identity is just as frustrating to have to contend with as any other ideology. I've met great Iranian folks and great American folks, and great Russians too - and what they all have in common is the ability to reflect on the limits of their own cultures.

Give it some time - its good that we have such alternatives, because they'll still be there the day Sony decides not to support your particular OS incantation.

Yeah, its pretty much turtles all the way down to the "Trusted" Secure Enclave, too, isn't it .. I mean, does anyone really know what is running on that thing. (FreeRTOS, usually.)

See, I happen to think that racists get some kind of perverse self-actualization from manifesting degradation of cultures they consider inferior - that there is a real 'buzz' to be had from such fallacious elevation as required to justify bombing another culture into oblivion. The murder is its own reward in such circles.

The "terrorism" tranche of this hate culture is particularly jarring, since the ones claiming moral altitude over 'terrorists' are delivering far, far more terrorism than their supposed enemies. It's just been homogenized.