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[SomaliPhilosopher]

I am more of a DMX- where the hood where the hood where the hood at- guy myself

[SomaliPhilosopher]

DAMMIT!!! I torrented Uzak and it has no subtitles!!!!!!! I can't let 2GB of internet go to waste, in such case I must learn Turkish!!!

[Safferz]

SomaliPhilosopher;981164 wrote:

DAMMIT!!! I torrented Uzak and it has no subtitles!!!!!!! I can't let 2GB of internet go to waste, in such case I must learn Turkish!!!

We all know who to blame for that.

[Safferz]

Someone tell me to GTFO and go work out! I thought getting changed would get me out the door but I've been lying on the couch for two hours now

[Alpha Blondy]

SomaliPhilosopher;981164 wrote:

DAMMIT!!! I torrented Uzak and it has no subtitles!!!!!!! I can't let 2GB of internet go to waste, in such case I must learn Turkish!!!

:D

 

this film is excellent walahi. one of the greatest films. i reviewed it in Maximus' Power's Film Thread.

 

balse, this was an attempt to lure me in, somaha? i didn't reply back your PM requesting access to my dropbox of treats, ma garatay. it's quite obvious you know me outside of SOL and i couldn't risk any further qarxis, abti. no offensive.

 

download the subs on here.....http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/3333950/uzak-en

 

let me know what you think baal, abti.

[SomaliPhilosopher]

Thanks that actually worked. There is so little dialogue that I went almost 7 minutes into the movie without noticing it had subs!! Aiiiiiight time to get watching, I'll let ya know..

[Alpha Blondy]

 

interesting.......

[Alpha Blondy]

How Much Does It Cost You in Wages if You “Sound Black?”

 

Fascinating new research by my University of Chicago colleague, Jeffrey Grogger, compares the wages of people who “sound black” when they talk to those who do not.

 

His main finding: blacks who “sound black” earn salaries that are 10 percent lower than blacks who do not “sound black,” even after controlling for measures of intelligence, experience in the work force, and other factors that influence how much people earn. (For what it is worth, whites who “sound black” earn 6 percent lower than other whites.)

 

How does Grogger know who “sounds black?” As part of a large longitudinal study called the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, follow-up validation interviews were conducted over the phone and recorded.

 

Grogger was able to take these phone interviews, purge them of any identifying information, and then ask people to try to identify the voices as to whether the speaker was black or white. The listeners were pretty good at distinguishing race through voices: 98 percent of the time they got the gender of the speaker right, 84 percent of white speakers were correctly identified as white, and 77 percent of black speakers were correctly identified as black.

 

Grogger asked multiple listeners to rate each voice and assigned the voice either to a distinctly white or black category (if the listeners all tended to agree on the race), or an indistinct category if there was disagreement.

 

Then he put this measure of whether a voice sounded black into a regression (the standard statistical tool that economists use for estimating things), and came up with the finding that blacks who “sound black” earn almost 10 percent less, even after taking into account other factors that could influence earnings. One piece of interesting good news is that blacks who do not “sound black” earn essentially the same as whites.

(It turns out you don’t want to sound southern, either. Although pretty imprecisely estimated, it is almost as bad for your wages to sound southern as it is to sound black, even controlling for whether you live in the south.)

So what does this all mean?

 

The first question to ask is whether the impact of speech on wages is a causal one. It is possible that there are many other characteristics that differ between blacks who do or do not “sound black” that Grogger cannot control for in his regressions. It does seem likely that the biases at work would make his estimate an upper bound. (Although it should also be noted that his estimates are for young people, and the importance of speech may become important with age, in which case his results might underestimate the long-run effects.)

If one believes Grogger’s effects are causal, then investing in the ability to not “sound black” looks to have a huge return — roughly of the same magnitude as getting one more year of schooling.

 

Of course, there is the issue of one’s identity. There may be personal costs associated with being black and not sounding black. But these costs would have to be pretty large. (When I have Asian Ph.D. students go on the job market in the United States, I tell them that I think there is rampant discrimination against non-English speakers and encourage them to adopt Americanized first names for the job market. Very few of my students choose to do so — either a testimony to the identity cost of pretending to be someone you aren’t, or possibly their lack of faith in my assessment of the amount of discrimination.)

 

I was talking with one of my colleagues about this study. He thinks it will be a very important and influential one.

 

My response, “Tru dat.”

 

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interesting read. would be interesting to get Wadani's valued opinion.

 

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http://freakonomics.com/2008/07/07/how-much-does-it-cost-you-in-wages-if-you-sound-black/

[Safferz]

Safferz;981166 wrote:

Someone tell me to GTFO and go work out! I thought getting changed would get me out the door but I've been lying on the couch for two hours now

Didn't need any of you :mad:

 

[Alpha Blondy]

^ you've got more hair on your arms than on Haglatosiye's head....:D

[Safferz]

Alpha Blondy;981185 wrote:

^ you've got more hair on your arms than on Haglatosiye's head....

:D

:D

 

 

[Alpha Blondy]

friday's are a time to relax.......unperturbed by the shocks that come with the harsh realities of life here, i usually indulge in a bit of high culture. i've been a cultural critic for the best part of 7 years, now. in those 7 years, i've seen almost 400+ foreign films (i'm talking about authentic and non-mainstream stuff from Chile or Bangladesh).....my knowledge of music, particularly the ''world music'' genre, is excellent. i've read almost 300+ post-colonial classics novels (70% of the African writers series) and for added value all these books are all written by authentic folks, whose prose is written without the ethno-chauvinisms of those catapulted to success by the establishment, like a certain little sand dweller girl called Nadifa Mohamed (she annoys me so much. :mad:!).

 

being a cultural critic is not as easy as some of y'all might think. it requires certain sacrifices, you know...... and you could say it takes a certain sort of person to become one. it's an acquired taste. you're constantly having to keep one step ahead of the competition but that was before. chances are that.......i've probably seen, heard and read everything y'all have seen, heard and read collectively, if not more. here in the abyss, i've found myself keeping my critiques to myself and on a little known forum. you can hardly juxtapose two competing thoughts because ideas are frowned upon here but also because they don't have a clue.... it's futile discussing anything of substances with these folks. even my qurbo friends are incredibly retarded. there's an intellectual famine here. mediocrity is celebrated here and all aspire to it. i haven't even been invited to chair a single discussion anywhere, can y'all believe? why hasn't' SLNTV responded to my proposal for a late night English language show based on the format of Newsnight Review. why aren't they making use of my special skill? why are they so focused on their internal squabbles when there's a world out there? :D

[Safferz]

Who said you're a cultural critic Alpha? Where do you write besides SOL?

[SomaliPhilosopher]

Alpha, Uzak was a very beautiful film with great candid shots. It was very raw and human. The most brilliant scene to me was when he was dreaming and was awoken by the falling of the floor lamp in his living room. I had a roommate once who would habitually find himself falling in his dream causing him to abruptly wake up. Apparently from him I learned this is a common sensation among people. With Mahmut, I found his distant and inanimate nature has led this common sensation of of one awaking from falling in his sleep to manifest in a lamp,something external, something inanimate and spiritless, falling in his place. With this, it makes sense that he is a photographer huh? It was most certainly a wonderful film..

[Alpha Blondy]

 

BIG up my boy Khadar. Congrats and hambalyo. apologies for not making your coronation. don't let the family down, fam, ma garatay?