The problem is that it has been a bubble for most of its public trading existence. It was highly overvalued 10 years ago, the stock price has never made sense, so who knows when it will finally correct.
How about "pasta" then? That way it's explicitly Italian instead. Or casserole? That actually kind of works, it's a bunch of parts you mix together and bake to get something cool at the end.
The term wasn't about Japanese drivers, it was about Japanese cars. They were called "rice burners" as in they were fueled by rice, not gasoline. I guess that was someone's joke that became wide spread.
You're right that it was sort of derogatory to refer to cars that had all their customization on things like giant exhausts, huge wheels, neon lights, rather than performance improvements.
I've never heard the term used to refer to the ethnicity of the driver, just the ethnicity of the car, so I don't think it's racist, shrug.
That's the best part of using Linux, you get actual error messages that can be figured out. Windows tends to just say "an error occurred" or "something went wrong." I dual boot for a couple games and Windows drives me crazy. It keeps trying to install updates, something doesn't work, and it then uninstalls the update next reboot. No idea what the problem is.
This post is a great example of what OP is talking about. OP gave no political opinion on anything and you are calling them out for not being a real leftist?
I imagine they think it makes the hand written contact look more official.
Is it hand written to be like calligraphy? Or do they just not have a printer. Actually I think every physical writing I've seen from sovcits has been hand written. Is that another of their things?
In college, quake 3 arena came out about a month into school. My roommate and I stayed up all night playing together. That was when we moved from roommates to friends.
Yes, I've run into a few websites that have a mobile interface all the time and look ridiculous on a full screen.