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Canadian Government Trucking Generations of Scientific Data To the Dump
sandbagger writes "Canada's science documents are literally being taken to the dump. The northern nation's scientific community has been up in arms over the holidays as local scientific libraries and records offices were closed and their shelves — some of which contained century old data — emptied into dumpsters. Stephen Harper's Tory government is claiming that the documents have been digitized. The scientists say, 'The people who use this research don’t have any say in what is being saved or tossed aside.'"
what does this mean, "Trucking Generations of Scientific Data To the Dump" ? Is trucking something to somewhere meant to be a pejorative because trucking useful goods is an vital part of our economy. This shouldn't be made fun of or disparaged just because it's what many people consider 'manual labor'... Who decided that on that language? It's very troublesome.
Really now.
If you want to save the data, go ahead. Nobody's going to stop you.