"Ghetto" now (also) means "jury-rigged"?

[Wilson Gray]

That's cold, Joel.

-Wilson

On 1/9/06, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> Rather, "stolen" (theft from the property, intellectual or real, of
> sellers of hand-scanners), from how those in the ghettoes are
> presumed to operate habitually?  Associated with "ghetto blaster,"
> also presumed to have been stolen (ghetto blacks are poor; they can't
> afford blasters, or shouldn't be wasting their money on them;
> therefore stolen)?
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> Joel
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> At 1/9/2006 03:15 PM, you wrote:
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> >Poster:       Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> >Subject:      "Ghetto" now (also) means "jury-rigged"?
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> > From today's SlashDot:
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> >"[The computer-science student thereby] made [his mouse] into a
> >_ghetto_ B&W handscanner."
> >
> >-Wilson Gray
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