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Oh really? D: Where do you live?

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Originally Posted by The_Amaster

*sigh* Lame
My dad took me up to the Apple Store today to pick out my new laptop as a graduation present. (Please, no grief about 'haha, apple sucks". I'm looking at you Bel)
We get it back home, it's all good, I'm setting it up, than ten minutes in, my entire screen fades to gray, with pinstripes. Like...glitchy gray pinstripes.
After time with tech support, they figure it's a problem with the graphics card.
All I gotta do is trade it in.

I just wish I didn't live an hour from the nearest store. Fun trip tomorrow.

I mean,I'm not really frustrated with Apple. As soon as it became clear it was a hardware issue, they immediately said I should just trade it in at no charge. I just wish I lived closer.


And for the record, the reason I'm getting a Mac?
a.) I can install XP in parallel, run my PC programs when I need to, and b.) my dad, being a professional graphic artist, can outfit me with Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, etc, etc, a bunch of top notch stuff.

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The Apple store where I bought my Mac was a 2 hour drive, and that's the closest one :\ So I feel for you.

Also:
http://iu.outerhaven.org/uploads/010...3587c764ad.png

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Originally Posted by Russell

I feel for you Amaster. I'm about 45 minutes away from the nearest mall.

So on my history test on World War II, one of the questions is "Japanese-Americans on the west coast were relocated in 1942 to _______ camps." Further down on the page, a question says "Why were Japanese-Americans on the west coast put in internment camps, and what is your opinion on whether this was right or wrong." I was laughing pretty hard at it. :D

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"internment" camps huh? That's what they are calling them? My history teacher just called them what they were, concentration camps. He even said that the US put out all kinds of propaganda about how Germany was doing this, but didn't mention that they were themselves. From what I recall, the US wasn't gassing them, but many did die in them.

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Originally Posted by Shazza Dani

Monroeville PA. Near the Monroeville Mall, where they filmed Dawn of the Dead. http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a40.../imnerdplz.gif

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Did you get to be a zombie for the movie?

lol No. The movie is a bit older than I am. O:

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Originally Posted by jerome

"internment" camps huh? That's what they are calling them? My history teacher just called them what they were, concentration camps. He even said that the US put out all kinds of propaganda about how Germany was doing this, but didn't mention that they were themselves. From what I recall, the US wasn't gassing them, but many did die in them.

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Kind of funny, my book had a whole section on them being called concentration camps. I can tell you, although it was wrong that they were put in internment camps, they were certainly not concentration camps.

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Originally Posted by Russell

although it was wrong that they were put in internment camps, they were certainly not concentration camps.

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What is the difference?

Internment camps: Camps where Japanese were relocated so they would be away from the coast, because a Japanese sub surfaced off the coast of Oregon, and everybody thought that a Japanese invasion was coming.

Concentration camps: Camps where Hitler unleashed his hatred against the Jews by systematically murdering them, then burning the bodies.

Surely you can see the difference. I'm not saying I agree with the decision for the internment camps, but they were certainly not concentration camps.

Incorrect. Not all German concentration camps were death camps. Many were work camps, and/or just internment camps.

Correct definition:

Internment Camp: A military controlled enclosure where a powerful state entity imprisons individuals it fears or loathes.

Concentration Camp: A military controlled enclosure where a powerful state entity imprisons individuals it fears or loathes.

Some concentration camps were death camps. Some were not. All were internment camps.

I am not arguing for a moral equivalency between death camps and Japanese internment camps. However, there is, in reality, no difference between a concentration camp and an internment camp. They are synonyms.

A concentration camp where genocide took place is a subset of internment camps, not a separate entity. The USA did not commit genocide against the Japanese prisoners. However, it is an undeniable fact that the USA imprisoned its citizens on racial/nationalist grounds.

Well, with that definition, I guess they were concentration camps. However, when most people think of concentration camps, they think of Nazi death camps. So labeling the camps Japanese-Americans were sent to as concentration camps can be very, very misleading.

Well, the problem of concentration camps being confused with death camps is more a problem of lack of knowledge rather than a problem of linguistic clarity, if you ask me. It's like how many people confuse the term "scientific theory" with the layman's definition of a theory. You don't revise the language because people are ignorant.