w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r

I read the posts in that thread so many times over and over. Unless you're the victim, you will probably don't know what racism is like. It could be psychological. I didn't even know I could be offended until I read the comments.

I agree.

I'm just glad you finally came out and admitted your problem was with Hispanics as a whole and not just those who are out of status.

Capital has mobility but labor does not. Who loses? Labor does.

Obama hates seagulls.

** It is indeed.
Thread locked for TOS violation.

Creating a new thread to discuss a locked thread is also against TOS.

Creating a new thread to discuss a locked thread is also against TOS.

I seriously doubt that. Racial animous has become hidden in the US, much as it has been in Europe for some time.
YOU need to open your eyes and see the truth instead of trying to justify an untenable and not so covertly biased position that is based on half-truths and lies.

I'm not exempt. Neither is Paul and Vanessa.
This thread needs to be taken down. I'm deeply offended by such outcasting of a group of people. Many posts here are already TOS violation.

Here we go, the personal attacks will be moderated but the 'just pointing out statistical facts' malarky will stand. Yay for VJ!

** Thread closed for review (for now).
Everyone should keep in mind that VJ is a multi-national, multi-cultural site when posting remarks (or facts).

This is supposed to be a secret?
Not among Asians (both east and south asians), it's not.
It starts in middle school, when the homeys start regular beatdowns on meek looking Asian boys. It turns into Flip and Viet kids dressing and talking 'urban' as if that'll help (it doesn't).
And when we're all grown up, it manifests as underprivileged (*guffaw* - they deserve it!) black yoot jumping us when we get off our commuter trains from the City, going home with our nice fat paychecks while they steal our iPods. Guess what bitсhes, there's more of where that came from!

Mighty judgmental, indeed.

Scum, trash and vermin? And we are supposed to believe that you are taking a rational and objective view on this issue?

nm.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/29/tiger-woods-had-sex-with_n_556948.html
Tiger Woods has confessed to having sex with 120 women, the National Enquirer reports. According to the publication, Woods came clean about his serial affairs during sex addiction therapy, but he allegedly left one person off the list.
SportsByBrooks writes that the mystery woman is young Raychel Coudriet, the daughter of Tiger's own neighbor in Florida. Woods allegedly slept with her when she was 21 years old.
The paper also reports that Tiger's wife, Elin Nordegren, has officially decided to sign divorce papers. She allegedly went forward with the process after learning of the 121st woman to sleep with Woods. Numerous reports have indicated that a divorce is looming, and Nordegren may be seeking a $500 million settlement.
The Enquirer was the first outlet to report on Woods' affairs, naming Rachel Uchitel as a mistress just days before Woods crashed his car on Thanksgiving night.
Since then, a slew of women have been named, including multiple porn stars and an allegedly self-described "cougar." But nowhere near ten dozen mistresses have come forward or been outed.

In his January 2006 State of the Union address, President George Bush presented a laundry list of things his administration would do to help America kick its oil habit.
"We'll also fund additional research in cutting-edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn but from wood chips and stalks and switchgrass," the president promised.
Many Americans had never heard of switchgrass back then.
Now a lot of switchgrass has been through the mill, so to speak. There has been little evidence that growing grass could actually make a dent in the demand for oil. But now there's new research showing that this prairie plant might actually be a good source of ethanol.
That could be good news. Right now, Americans get their ethanol fuel from corn — so much of it that corn prices have been bouncing up near historic levels. A lot of economists say if the country wants more ethanol, it should not come from food.
Thus, switchgrass. It's a kind of prairie grass, but you don't have to go to a prairie to find it. For example, it grows on the banks of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, where Ken Staver has been tending a plot for years. It can reach 6 feet high, is yellowish and is as stiff as a pencil.
"You can see it's done very well here," says Staver, a scientist with the University of Maryland, "with very little care other than when we planted it 10 years ago when we used some herbicide during the establishment phase. But literally the only thing we do out here every year is harvest it."
Switchgrass contains cellulose, the starting material that, with enough heat and the right enzymes and chemicals, can be made into ethanol fuel.
Easy to Grow and Harvest
Staver says one of the good things about this grass is that it pretty much grows by itself.
"It's considered a perennial plant," he says, "so it does reseed some, but mostly these are the original plants. It's not growing back from seedlings every year, it's growing back from the same rootstock."
So you don't have to plant it every year or even fertilize it much. And it's easy to harvest.
These things are essential to make fuel from plants — so-called biofuels. The more energy used to make them — for example, gas for tractors, or electricity to convert them into a liquid fuel — the lower your "net energy yield." In short, if it takes close to a gallon of gasoline to make a gallon of biofuel, why bother?
In a new study, plant scientist Ken Vogel found switchgrass is worth the bother. He's with the federal government's Agricultural Research Service in Nebraska.
Vogel spent five years with farmers growing switchgrass in the Midwest. It was one of the biggest experiments with actual crops. He calculated with what might seem like mind-numbing thoroughness everything that went into each plot.
"This includes the energy used for fuel," he says, "the energy used to make the tractors, the energy used to make the seed to plant the field, the energy used to produce the herbicide, the energy used to produce the fertilizer, the energy used in the harvesting process."
More Efficient than Corn
For every unit of energy used to grow the switchgrass, Vogel says he could get almost 5 1/2 units worth of ethanol. That's a lot more efficient than making ethanol from corn, he says. He's bullish on switchgrass' future.
"The bottom line is perennial energy crops are very net energy-efficient. It is going to be economically feasible, the basic conversion technology has been developed, and it is going to be a viable process."
Vogel has focused on the growing part of the process. He hasn't demonstrated that commercial distilleries can actually achieve the same level of efficiency.
One issue is how to power the distillery. If you use electricity made from coal, you lose some of the advantage of biofuels. Vogel argues that a distillery could regain that advantage by burning leftover parts of the switchgrass to generate energy.
Vogel's research appears in the latest issue of the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Have they thought his through? Little yanks running amok.
Actually that s a good experiment on genetics. In 30 years time Townsville will have formed ghettos, with litter everywhere, and be run down. Though, they will also have pockets of nice gated housing communities. They will claim their town is the best in Australia - just because. They will naturally hate their government and accuse of it being evil.

Correction: Unless they use a certain cough cough demographics genes, the above may not come to fruition. Might actually end up a great place.

You can really be a stupid ####### sometimes

Never mind that. Less Mexicans = The law works

Seam level rise.... BEFORE the SUV? OMGWTFBBQ

Tech Sector Slashed Jobs in 2009
Companies specializing in manufacturing technology products shed the most jobs last year, followed by engineering services and communications
By Cliff Edwards
Technology
For the first time in half a decade, the U.S. tech industry in 2009 slashed large numbers of skilled workers from its payrolls. The findings, disclosed in a technology trade group's annual analysis of employment and wage trends in the industry, could slow an overall improvement in the U.S. economy, the group concluded.
Technology companies eliminated 245,600 jobs in 2009, or 4% of the industry's 5.9 million U.S. workers, according to the latest Cyberstates report released Apr. 28 by TechAmerica, a industry group representing 1,500 companies in electronics, software, and telecommunications. It was the first time the technology industry eliminated jobs since 2004.
Technology manufacturing companies shed the most jobs—112,600—in 2009. Engineering and tech services and the communications field each shed a net 59,000 jobs. Software services firms eliminated 20,700 jobs.
Though the contraction was milder than overall job losses in the private sector, the layoffs are notable because the tech industry had weathered the global economic crisis better than other industries.In 2008, tech companies added 99,700 net jobs, TechAmerica said.The U.S.unemployment rate topped 10% last year as the entire private sector shed more than 800,000 jobs. "The [tech] industry as a whole was last one in for job cuts, and there are signs it could be the first out of the recession," says TechAmerica lead researcher Josh James.
Difficult Aftermath
Nearly 3 out of 5 Silicon Valley CEOs said they plan to hire this year, up from 1 out of 5 last year, according to a recent survey of 153 chief executives by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group.
Yet the report found that the loss of so many highly paid technology industry workers from the nation's payrolls in 2009 could hurt communities across the nation. The tech industry pays wages that are 86% higher than the average private-sector wage of $45,400, according to TechAmerica. Average tech-sector wages in 2008, the most recent period available, fell 2% to $84,400, from $86,000 in 2007.
The 13th annual Cyberstates analysis of figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics should serve as a call to action for greater government emphasis on preventing high-paying jobs from migrating overseas, TechAmerica Chairman Philip J. Bond said in a statement. Tech-industry employment peaked in 2000, when 6.6 million people worked for tech giants including Intel (INTC), Microsoft (MSFT), Dell (DELL), and Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), plus thousands of startups, the group said.
Last year, TechAmerica predicted that as much as $100 billion in federal stimulus funding could flow to technology companies for projects involving energy efficiency, broadband Internet access, electronic health records, and education technology. Much of that money has been held up by red tape, the group now says.
Job Creation
For state-by-state trends in technology employment, the TechAmerica analysis relied on data from 2008, the most recent year from which specific figures were available. California, home of Intel, Apple (AAPL), HP, and Oracle (ORCL), led states in job creation by adding 15,800 net new jobs in 2008. Second was Texas, home of Dell and Texas Instruments (TXN), added 14,600 jobs.
TechAmerica did not review state-by-state data for 2009, when even large technology companies began trimming jobs and freezing wages. California's unemployment rate in April reached a record high of 12.6%. Texas' unemployment rate was 8.2%.
In a note accompanying the report, TechAmerica's Bond said the tech industry "could benefit from a comprehensive agenda that encourages competitive tax policy, broadband deployment, and the creation of well-paying tech jobs across the country to help put America's brightest minds to work."

He just faked it to get you to stop talking about that damn birth certificate
All the doctors were in on it too!
a majority don't need to get it. the more inoculated people, the slower the virus can propagate. like all viruses, it has a lifespan and if it can't move from one host to another within it, it dies.