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Apple's share of the Global Smart Phone Market isn't growing.

It's just capitalizing on it's existing user base and expecting them to pay big $$$ for new phone upgrades.

Especially with it's proven planned obsolescence by design scheme of getting Apple Users to fork over ever larger piles of $$ into it's devices / eco system.
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Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN'T - Johnny Depp 'Once Upon A Time in Mexico'

http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-market-share-for-iphone-x-and-android-2018-2
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Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN'T - Johnny Depp 'Once Upon A Time in Mexico'

::gives you a big hug::
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He should be forced to be in a different class then her due to their relationship.

Other than that, I see no problem.

Remove her being his teacher, then there can be no conflicts of interest & potential grade favoritism / tampering / cheating.
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Zikten posted...

Bio1590 posted...

Lol I have family from Scotland and Germany more recently than the 1700s and I'm not gonna run around and proclaim I'm Scottish/German. Especially because I took all the French and Native genes from the other parts.

I have german ancestors that were in germany as recent as the early 1900's

thats fine if you don't care about your ancestry. not everyone is like you

to clear it up

I AM NOT SAYING AM A SCOTTISH NATIONAL. I AM SAYING I HAVE SCOTTISH BLOOD. NATIONALITY/ETHNICITY

So you're American of Scottish/German/??? Ancestory?
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Zikten posted...

my family has lived in America since the 1700's. so no

=:::(
I love the Scottish English accent.
It's so great to listen to.

I love it when Fitz speaks on Agents of Shield.
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Lost_All_Senses posted...

You don't get to decide that

So it's one sided love?
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Zikten posted...

except I AM scottish, and you aren't

But do you have the accent?
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MarqueeSeries posted...

What Falkand Islands are you talkin' about?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland_Islands

The entire group, 2 main Islands + 776 little islands surrounding it.

it would be a wonderful place to setup a small / medium sized city.
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orangefire25 posted...

Occasionally, taco bell and pizza. But those have just as much sodium so...

If you're gonna eat junk food; at least have variety of junk food.

Not just buying from the same vendor.
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YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

Kajagogo posted...

KamenRiderBlade posted...

If you're going to eat Chinese food, try eating it at authentic Chinese Restaurant / Take Out areas.

Not Americanized Chinese Food like "Panda Express"

There is more variety, and it should be a 'Little Bit' healthier.

Panda Express' founder was born and raised in China, and the menu items are family recipes.

i don't see how any of that means it's not an americanized chinese food menu

Trust me, it's VERY Americanized. That's why it is as successful as it is.

It's basically the McDonald's of Chinese Fast Food and every other "___Wok" or Chinese Fast Food small joint is just a cheap clone.
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Kajagogo posted...

Panda Express' founder was born and raised in China, and the menu items are family recipes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panda_Express
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cherng

Cherng was born in April 1948 in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, Republic of China on the northern bank of Chinas Yangtze River.[4] His father was Ming-Tsai Cherng, a chef.

He and his family then moved to Taiwan after the Kuomintang was defeated in the Chinese Civil War,[2] and in 1963, his family moved to Yokohama, Japan, where his father had taken a job as a chef.[5]

In 1966, at age 18, he immigrated to the United States to study at an American university. He earned a B.S. degree in Mathematics in 1970 from Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas, and an M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Missouri in 1972.[4] At Baker University he had met his future wife, Peggy Tsiang, born in Burma and raised in Hong Kong,[6] who went on to earn a B.S. degree in Mathematics from Oregon State University in 1971 and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri.[5]

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orangefire25 posted...

Yeah high sodium apparently gives you high blood pressure, I could confirm if I wasn't lazy and had a device to measure mine... Considering I've eaten McDonald's almost 5 times a week for 4 years... I feel okay tho and have lost weight since I started there.

Really, only McDonald's?

No other fast food from other big popular franchises?
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kingdrake2 posted...

the recipes are different in china plus they use plenty more vegetables and fish.

And a lot less sugar / salt in their preparation of food.
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Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN'T - Johnny Depp 'Once Upon A Time in Mexico'

If you're going to eat Chinese food, try eating it at authentic Chinese Restaurant / Take Out areas.

Not Americanized Chinese Food like "Panda Express"

There is more variety, and it should be a 'Little Bit' healthier.
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Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN'T - Johnny Depp 'Once Upon A Time in Mexico'

How are you @Sayoria?

::Gives you a big hug::

Who's Rose?
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Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN'T - Johnny Depp 'Once Upon A Time in Mexico'

What are your favorite foods?
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DarthWendy posted...

No. This is France right, we have rather quality food so it's hard to implement many fast food chains, aside of the few historical big ones, since our eating habits don't really make room for a ton of them.

IC
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DarthWendy posted...

Nope. In terms of Murican chains, we only have McDonald's, Burger King and KFC. And a few Five Guys.

Wow, no Hardee's / Carl's Jr. ?
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DarthWendy posted...

I don't know what a "baconator" is unfortunately. For large fries you could go to a McDonald's, or even better, made some hand made fries and fry them yourself. Much better than fast food crap.

Do you have the "Wendy's" fast food chain where you live?
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DarthWendy posted...

Finance and a bit of Risk (more exactly internal audit on risk and regulatory compliance thingies).

What type of Finance specifically?
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Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN'T - Johnny Depp 'Once Upon A Time in Mexico'

What do you do at work?
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Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN'T - Johnny Depp 'Once Upon A Time in Mexico'

YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

Model minority myth is proof enough that certain peoples wanted us to succeed more than other minorities.

That's your basis of proof? Because a few chuckle heads decided to make a term popular, ergo you associate a large group of people as using that term or seeing others in that light?

2% of the population is pretty small

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045217
We Asians as a whole are 5.7% of the US population, 3rd largest Non-White demographic and the fastest growing.
By 2050, we're projected to be the largest Non-White demographic within the US.

East Asian cultures, especially those with strong Confucian philosophy entrenched in their society, have very strong intergenerational ties. You think Americans would find it normal if two generations worth of families were living under the same roof? That doesn't happen as often here, as a cultural phenomenon, and also because there was a concerted effort to prevent that from happening.

And many of us from East Asia live in InterGenerational homes because "WE WERE POOR" for many years. Most of us were VERY poor back then and couldn't afford another house. That's why we mostly lived in InterGenerational homes. To save & scrounge up money, and to help with finances by helping each other out.

Once their fortunes got better, everybody started buying houses and moving away and splitting off their family units into individual homes.

It had less to do with "Strong Confucian Philosophy" and more with practical financial reality.
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OEIO999 posted...

What is with Japan's blatant need to be some pet country to the west, its like saying dogs are a mans best friend, okay, but its still a dog.

If I want the west, I'll go to the West, not some knock-off with inferiority crisis, that has been trying to
claim the West's identity to try and fit in the 'kool kid klub'.

At least places like Singapore, Hong Kong (China), Malaysia e.t.c aren't trying to be a West knock-off and its people don't have extreme cases of inferiority complex.

Japan doesn't want to be a Pet Country.

They are their own unique thing.
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YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

KamenRiderBlade posted...

bunch of assumptions of OTHER PEOPLE

nothing i said here:

YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

a) them wanting us to succeed
b) having a better starting point than others
c) being here in such small numbers that data is always skewed (~30 percent of Asians live in Cali)
d) stronger intergenerational ties (something some ethnicities don't have in the US)

is assumption, beyond the general idea that this obviously doesn't apply to 100% of Asians who come here.

a) You ASSUMED that "They" wanted "US Asians" to succeed and not everybody to succeed.
b) You ASSUMED that all us "East Asians" have a better starting point than others
c) We're not that small in numbers, and being bunched up in Cali is by CHOICE of the Asian folk who want to live there.
d) You assume that us "East Asians" have Stronger InterGenerational ties and that isn't a Universal thing.

You ASSUME ALOT about things and try to present it as fact when in reality it is all Assumption and Supposition to begin with.
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YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

What you're doing now is appealing to emotion and anecdotal evidence

And what you're doing is making a bunch of assumptions of OTHER PEOPLE and making just as large of assumptions for why people succeed.
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foreveraIone posted...

and you think the past doesn't effect the present? lolk

After a significant amount of time, you need to stop blaming the past & others and work on your own future.

It's always easy to blame somebody else for your problems than using proper introspection.
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YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

do you need flashcards to interpret emotions @KamenRiderBlade

Unlike you, I don't see EVERYTHING through the lens of emotions.
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YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

I can
I interpreted it in the non-racist way
That model minority is a myth and our relative success compared to others on paper is a combination of

a) them wanting us to succeed
b) having a better starting point than others
c) being here in such small numbers that data is always skewed (~30 percent of Asians live in Cali)
d) stronger intergenerational ties (something some ethnicities don't have in the US)

and you see a clear divide between South/Southeast Asian and East Asians in economic achievement

You realize that numbers can't tell the whole story, right? I assume you just saw numbers.
You didn't actually read any of the explanatory material, did you? Or the actual analyses of the data written in the thing you linked to me.

a) Who are you to assume "They only wanted US to succeed" and not everybody?
b) Lots of people have different starting points in life, good and bad amongst all ethnicities.
c) http://www.asiamattersforamerica.org/asia/data/population/states
We are still spreading to all the states, little by little; with the exception of minnesota.
Apparently us Asians are leaving that state like crazy.
d) BS, I've seen Strong Inter-generational ties for all ethnicities in the US.
Asian's aren't special because of it.

Yeah, South/SE Asians do have an Economic divide with us "East Asians"
That will change OVER TIME.

I've read it, and the Asian mass migration only started in the 1960's in significant numbers.

Not enough time has passed for big change in performance.

Usually that kind of generational uplifting takes far longer than the short amount of time that we've been in the US.
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foreveraIone posted...

stop.

segregation literally happened in living people's lifetimes.

just stop.

I know, and it's OVER now.

They literally wrote laws revoking it.

Supreme Court ruled on it.

It's IN THE PAST.
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YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

KamenRiderBlade posted...

Stop drinking so much of the Leftist Kool-Aid.

You're the one so deep in the certain establishment's system that you looked evidence that model minority is a myth right in the eye and didn't even acknowledge it.

You literally can't interpret the data properly can you?
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YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

rofl if you sincerely think that people currently aren't still directly affected by the results of slavery, Jim Crow, and that discrimination isn't still rampant

but keep being proud of your asian excellence man
you're really helping racial, cultural harmony in america

rofl

There is still discrimination in the US, I can see that plain as day. As far as Jim Crow, that's in the past.

It's gone now.

As far as being "Still Affected By Slavery"? How long are you going to keep complaining about something that was abolished back in the 1850's?

Every country in the world has had Slavery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_abolition_of_slavery_and_serfdom

There are plenty of other countries that abolished Slavery after the US did it and plenty before it.

The US isn't the only country Guilty of Slavery in it's past.

You're the one dividing America with your attitude and behavior.
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YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

reminder: if you're proud of model minority you're proud of being the pawn of the certain establishment and a racist idea

Stop drinking so much of the Leftist Kool-Aid.

Not everything you dislike or disagree with is "Racist".
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YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

Not that us Asians are very good at being inclusive and not-racist in general either, especially when people are Gen-1 or Gen-1.5s

Speak for yourself

Also consider that the US and the rest of the West has supported and invested heavily into the industry/economy of the East in the post-war era (and Germany too)

That's good business, look at modern Japan, South Korea, Europe.

Guess who in the United States never got that

So you want to just give away money to modern folk who weren't direct victims of the old Slavery system?

So you're one of THOSE asian guys.
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YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

Why are you bringing up WW2 stuff
I don't know that all that stuff is honestly comparable to 300 years of oppression and slavery, conquest, disease, etc

If you don't know that certain people want you to succeed in order to sow discord in minority relations, you're deep in their system. Congrats.

As far as the disease aspect, most people didn't have much understanding of modern epidemiology and how diseases spread.

You blame them, but the reality is that most people back then are ignorant and easily spread disease to each other because of the lack of modern health education.

And modern folk aren't slaves anymore.

There isn't a Single living black American who is a slave today or has been since their birth. That's long gone.

As far as "Wage Slavery" that's a whole other issue.

As far as wanting to succeed? I want EVERYBODY to work hard and succeed, there is no exception to that desire.

If you don't want to work hard, you just want to lounge around and do nothing and expect handouts; then you get what you deserve.
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YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

It's a myth, perpetuated by the US government and its interests to keep minorities comparing each other and tearing at each other's throats. It's backed by numbers completely skewed because Asians number so small in the United States, and again were not fucked with heavily.
Also skewed by US definitions of "Asian," and separating Middle Easterners, Indians, and SE Asians when studying/researching these things.

If all Asians really were in line with the Model Minority Myth, then why aren't Hmong populations, Viet, Malay, Cambodians, etc also up there with East Asians?

pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/09/08/key-facts-about-asian-americans/
Those Sub-Asian groups like the Hmong populations, Viet, Malay, Cambodians have their own issues.
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YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

Maybe if you follow the certain peoples definition of "Asian" and conjure up only East Asian people

Most people define "Asian" in the US as from East Asia.

That's the way popular culture has defined it.

YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

Our relative overall affluence and stability has less to do with race or culture
and more to do with the fact that certain people never really fucked with us enough to impact things that greatly.

My Grand Parents were occupied by the Japanese during WW2.
When my parents were growing up, they were under the rule of the KMT and lived under a Authoritarian regime. They were lucky that Cheng Kai Shek's son was a good person and turned Taiwan into a Democracy.

Many Chinese folks from the mainland has had to deal with the crappy CCP (Chinese Communist Party) and all the BS that comes with it. That's why they want to come over to the US and leave China.

Just because the West hasn't messed with them directly doesn't mean other forces at play haven't been causing trouble.

People learn to adapt and survive.
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YOUHAVENOHOPE posted...

because the US government had a vested interest in seeking the approval of Asians in Asia and America so as to fuel the schism between minorities in the United States

By promoting Asian excellence as an idea and perpetuating the model minority myth, they were able to pit other minorities against Asians in a coordinated societal influence campaign. A house divided, etc.

This is real btw.

Also this topic proves Japan-worship in America exists and is pervasive.

Most Asian's really are model citizens, I've looked at the stats; I live in the community; I'm part of that community.

So knock it off with this "myth" BS.

It's FACT!
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r4X0r posted...

I think it's the fact that Japanese people run Japanese society for Japanese people, and they don't give a flying fuck if you don't like it. They're a strong culture. Look at America, where we bend over backwards for illegal aliens. If you go to Japan and bitch about the way things work, you're most likely deported.

That's the way EVERY COUNTRY SHOULD BE.
UK for UK natural born citizens.

Canada for Canadians

etc.

That's Common Sense.

No Country should bend over for any other country, person, or outsiders.

If you want to live in said other country, apply through the countries legal immigration system.

If they still don't want you, tough luck!
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Is it me, or are those some major bags under her eyes.

Like serious lack of sleep or something?
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Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN'T - Johnny Depp 'Once Upon A Time in Mexico'

::gives you a hug::

Who's Rose?
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Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN'T - Johnny Depp 'Once Upon A Time in Mexico'

I remember when LUE was a thing.
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Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN'T - Johnny Depp 'Once Upon A Time in Mexico'

Don't support UBER, they're a Horrible Company.
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Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN'T - Johnny Depp 'Once Upon A Time in Mexico'

Start searching for replacements.
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El Mexicano Texano posted...

darkjedilink posted...

Kaname_Madoka posted...

https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/400-current-events/76004987/890623744

Wow

That's fucked up

@Sayoria
Can you explain that comment that you posted about dating MtF trans person that you made?
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Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN'T - Johnny Depp 'Once Upon A Time in Mexico'

Most people want authentic original biological natural women.

That's just the way people are wired / desire these things.

Post Operative or Not; you can't change / force people to want something that is a substitute for what they naturally want.

Lying to further your own interests won't help your cause.

The only thing is being honest about your situation and hoping the other person will accept you for who you are.

That's the best you can hope for.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

KamenRiderBlade posted...

Chrome + Firefox should merge

They essentially have, as of FF57.

I mean US Anti-Trust should get on Google's arse for being Anti-Competitive.

Chrome should really be splintered off and the team merged into FireFox as one big Browser.
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Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN'T - Johnny Depp 'Once Upon A Time in Mexico'

Chrome + Firefox should merge
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Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN'T - Johnny Depp 'Once Upon A Time in Mexico'

Scotty_Rogers posted...

your assuming anime characters cant have fairly realistic HUMAN faces

Fixed that for you.
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Are you a MexiCAN or a MexiCAN'T - Johnny Depp 'Once Upon A Time in Mexico'

She's doing you a favor by telling you to use a Condom.

Who know's what she has contracted given her day job.
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