According to news reports, Barak Obama is black. Not half black or half white. Apparently the blackness obliterates all traces of whiteness in an inter-racial birth. Look at Tiger Woods. He's not half Asian, half Black. No sir, he's just Black. It just brings to mind the fact that the people who do the most racial stirring are located in the Black community. The same people who scream that we have to ignore the color of a person's skin and see what's inside are also the first people to cry racism the moment a person's character is called into question.
I'm so sick of people bringing up a person's skin color. There is literally no difference between myself and a darker skinned person other than the pigmentation of our skin. We both have the same emotions and we both bleed red. We all have the chance to hear the Gospel. We all have the chance to be saved. And most importantly, we all have the chance to meet again in Heaven. So who really cares about all of this foolishness that is continually perpetrated upon us by the media and extremist organizations? We shouldn't.

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Go here and vote for Xiahphan. He has the best video. The Leoj guy is a jerk who got all of his friends and family, along with people he knows off of myspace to vote for him. He used to be associated with us but we have nothing to do with him anymore because of reasons I prefer not to get into on here. The winning prize is a 300 dollar video card. Xiah was in a big lead before Leoj admitted that he started recruiting votes just so he could win and deny Xiah the rightful win.

How many of you are tired of not being able to understand Customer Service Reps when you call big companies. It frustrates me so badly that sometimes I'll refuse to deal with a company because they don't care about me enough to offer customer service that I can understand. Don't get me started about the "press one for English or two for Spanish". Get a life and learn the language. You live in the USA now. I don't want my anthem sung in Spanish either. I'm fed up with feeling like I'm the bad guy as a legal citizen of this country. If I got even half of the tax breaks that immigrants do, I'd be doing well.

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A trend I've noticed lately is that technology has been slowing down somewhat over the past year. I remember over the years how AMD, Intel, ATI and nVidia have influenced the innovation and deployment of new technology in both hardware and software arenas. These companies were so competitive that it was rarely longer than a few months before something innovative was released suddenly (and to the chagrin of competitors) on the market, forcing a ramp-up of development and implementation.

Recently it seems that these same companies, who for years now have set a pace of benchmarked progressions, now suddenly are plagued with inconsistent release dates, insufficient supply and a growing trend of releasing technology that doesn't merit the excitement of yesteryear in regards to advances in their respective fields.

Whatever happened to solid innovation and high performance combined with marketable pricing that attracted the buyer and forced competitors to push the envelop in the R & D departments?
I suspect it boils down to a slowing market. Prices have fluctuated for raw materials and the market hasn't been overly kind to some of the manufacturers, forcing them to make cutbacks.

These companies need to respond by leaving that comfort zone of having "safe" products to release and simply pull out the stoppers and show us what they're made of. Until then, I'll upgrade only when prices have dropped significantly for several generations of technology that barely outperforms the gear I have now.