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Re Ferguson...my response...
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I just remembered - I was writing a post in response to the person who left and deleted her posts, when the thread was locked, and saved it - I'm going to post it now:
I don't know where you get the idea that I said that color isn't the basis for people being held down - of course it is - did you read my post just above yours? But certainly it is not the ONLY basis - so are a hick accent, ignorant grammar, poor teeth, other signs of poverty and lack of education and "class," and many others. But you seem to be deliberately missing my point, which was that from your posts in this thread, you seem to be taking most of the credit for getting yourself up from your background, while I submit that it is more a result of you having combination of genetic attributes - as well as the fortune to have internalized a message or two you received from others who encouraged you - to enable you to escape. You also seem to suggest that the reasons your "peers of origin" did not succeed has mostly to do with their laziness, unwillingness to work hard, to simply avoid drugs and other illegal behaviors, etc., like you did.
I disagree with this. For example, in addition to my intelligence, my own genetic make up more or less prevents me from becoming an alcoholic or drug addict - I barf when I get even moderately drunk, and I don't like feeling out of control, at all. It was not hard for me to "make the decision to not become an alcoholic or drug addict" - and I don't take most of the credit for "avoiding" the temptations of being exposed to that - which I was - any more than I take all the blame for becoming morbidly obese. And by the way, I only take SOME of the credit for getting my morbid obesity "fixed" - I didn't invent the surgery, and I didn't even really find it on my own - I was on OH for months before someone mentioned it to me, for example. I am a compilation of my intelligence and optimism, as well as my industriousness (or fear of failure). Being told I was very smart as a child (which I knew others were not) contributed greatly to all of this.
Having an optimistic outlook on life - one that presumes that things are good and can get better - is in significant part genetic. If you don't think there's much chance in you changing your fate, you've already almost guaranteed defeat. Some early successes (positive feedback) are probably also necessary - again, often a matter of luck. A little ODD probably helps - not accepting NO for an answer.
I don't know where you get the idea that I said that color isn't the basis for people being held down - of course it is - did you read my post just above yours? But certainly it is not the ONLY basis - so are a hick accent, ignorant grammar, poor teeth, other signs of poverty and lack of education and "class," and many others. But you seem to be deliberately missing my point, which was that from your posts in this thread, you seem to be taking most of the credit for getting yourself up from your background, while I submit that it is more a result of you having combination of genetic attributes - as well as the fortune to have internalized a message or two you received from others who encouraged you - to enable you to escape. You also seem to suggest that the reasons your "peers of origin" did not succeed has mostly to do with their laziness, unwillingness to work hard, to simply avoid drugs and other illegal behaviors, etc., like you did.
I disagree with this. For example, in addition to my intelligence, my own genetic make up more or less prevents me from becoming an alcoholic or drug addict - I barf when I get even moderately drunk, and I don't like feeling out of control, at all. It was not hard for me to "make the decision to not become an alcoholic or drug addict" - and I don't take most of the credit for "avoiding" the temptations of being exposed to that - which I was - any more than I take all the blame for becoming morbidly obese. And by the way, I only take SOME of the credit for getting my morbid obesity "fixed" - I didn't invent the surgery, and I didn't even really find it on my own - I was on OH for months before someone mentioned it to me, for example. I am a compilation of my intelligence and optimism, as well as my industriousness (or fear of failure). Being told I was very smart as a child (which I knew others were not) contributed greatly to all of this.
Having an optimistic outlook on life - one that presumes that things are good and can get better - is in significant part genetic. If you don't think there's much chance in you changing your fate, you've already almost guaranteed defeat. Some early successes (positive feedback) are probably also necessary - again, often a matter of luck. A little ODD probably helps - not accepting NO for an answer.
(inserting the jpg since SB doesn't seem to know how to do it ...)
Oh HELL no - those can't be words in ANY language!
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I think I know how...but it would involve an image hosting account, right? But I don't want something else to worry about.
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Yes...it was here, but locked for a while.oh, it's still here! was it here all along? I only looked in my "alerts".
This is what I understand: You only need image hosting when it is a pic that YOU took, and has to be uploaded from YOUR computer/device - they don't want this site to get clogged up as the primary residence of the pix themselves. However, if the pic is from the internet, it already is living somewhere else - when you use the image code (click on the little icon that looks like a photo of mountains in the bar above), and paste in the URL that ends is .jpg for the pic, voila! - it shows up in the thread to viewers, but the data is just being linked from the other site, so it isn't using up space on the BF servers. The .jpg file for the Scottish abomination of a Scrabble game already lives on the Blogspot server - so pasting it into the image code is all you need to do.
If you have a pic on your device that you want to post here, you need to upload it to Photobucket.com or someplace like that (even Facebook), so the photo itself is living somewhere on the internet other than here - and then you use the image code to get it to show up here.
Actually even pictures living elsewhere if not on an image hosting site is called "hotlinking".
Hotlinking
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hotlinking is a term used on the Internet that refers to the practice of displaying an image on a website by linking to the same image on another website, rather than saving a copy of it on the website on which the image will be shown. So, instead of loading picture.gif on to their own website, a website owner uses a link to the picture as http://example.com/picture.jpg. When the hotlinking website is loaded, the image is loaded from the other website, which uses its bandwidth, costing the hotlinked website's owners money. For this reason many website owners use .htaccess files to prevent hotlinking. In some cases website owners use the .htaccess file to replace any hotlinked images with an offensive image to deter any other website owners from hotlinking.
Hotlinking can also be used for file types other than images, including documents and videos.
I wasn't looking in the right place and didn't realize I could read, anyway.
Diana, I so agree with what you say and I wish 4K could see it. but if she was upset enough to leave, it wouldn't matter.
when people DO succeed despite poverty or whatever issues, it doesn't take away from them that - yes - racism, and other isms exist and the playing field is not level, never has been, not even close.
we would love to be able to say good for you, 4K, for working hard and not giving up - or whatever else you did to come out where you are. but you are wrong that everybody else could just do the same.
ARGGH! Does that mean that "hotlinking" (which is what I think I did for the blogspot-residing pic of the Scottish Scrabble board) is costing YOU money?
No, what it means is that it costs OTHER people money...and they could easily do the same thing to us which WOULD cost us money.
It also means be very careful...some people have been sued over hotlinking.
SOME people don't want to hotlink...and it's usually photos type thing.
Linking to a site, OTOH, as long as one or both of you are fairly high on the "ratings" chart IS good. Usually you are linking to the main page or an article, etc.
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Sneaky.....Mrs MOPP MI5.
Don't engage her just back away back away...
I know where her secret cupboard is anyway. She probably keeps solar powered dish cloths in there or nuclear fission sponges. I was lucky to escape with my life and my wet wipes.
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