A 1995 Census Bureau survey asked indigenous Americans and found that 49% preferred the term "Indian", 37% "Native American", and 3.6% "some other name." About 5 percent expressed no preference.
Care to share with us a link to that 1995 census survey?
Most of the "Indians" in the Americas (North and South) are proud of the land of their ancestors and they are proud to be known as the "people of the first nations".
I have never seen a +5 that was so far off the mark.
I too, had the same "Welcome To Facebook" moment after reading the reply.
No, I didn't reply because I know, if I had replied, I might lost all sanity and include all sorts of cuss-words in my reply.
It's not to say that the parents of the little girl are faultless, but then, placing the blames squarely at the parents is... man, I'm at a loss of finding the right word to properly describe my disgust at this point.
It's our society, it's the way we are treating each others, it's everything connected to we, the human entity --- the little girl's suicide is yet another example of how we've failed ourselves.
A national child anti-exploitation group, cybertip.ca, says it received a tip almost a year ago about Todd.
A concerned citizen contacted the organization last November to report that images of Todd were being circulated online, said spokeswoman Signy Arnason.
"We did receive one report, and that was passed along to law enforcement as well as child welfare," Arnason said Monday. "It was not a report from her, but it was a report from a concerned citizen."
So... the girl was tormented by an adult who posted her topless images on seedy sites and that so-called "national child anti-exploitation group" got a tip and what they did?
The spoke-woman claimed that they have passed that tip to the "law enforcement" as well as "child welfare".
That was when that little girl was still being tormented by that sick adult, and what happened?
Nothing !
Neither the police nor the child welfare nor that "national child anti-exploitation group" did anything to protect the girl.
She was so tormented, so helpless that she chose to end her life.
Whose fault was it?
The society !
All of us have turned into zombies.
When someone got tormented, we just did what we do - passing the buck.
Like what that "national child anti-exploitation group" did.
All they did was passing the buck to the police and then... nothing.
What's the use of having a "national child anti-exploitation group" when they don't do nothing??
I'm not in any shape or form related to the anonymous but I do applaud what they have done in this case.
They have done what the police, the child welfare system and the national child anti-exploitation group have all failed to do - to flush that sick motherfucker out in the open.
... his goal is to put one research telescope in every country, starting with African and Southern Hemisphere nations because there is now an amazing opportunity for small telescopes to discover and characterize new planetary systems, as well as measure the structure of the Milky Way...
Before human successfully put telescope into space, we did rely on telescope at the bottom of this gravity well to map out the stars in the heaven.
Now that we have telescopes, are sending more and more more advance telescopes orbiting out there I hope someone can put some sense on that guy that we should instead encourage the future generations to design much more advance telescopes that we can put outside the Earth atmosphere so to explore more of the heavenly scenes.
... Itâ(TM)s also no secret that Microsoft have failed to gain any semblance of âoecoolâ...
Actually the market don't buy "coolness" per se.
"Coolness" is an added value which the market appreciates, but what matters the most to the market is the practicality of the product - and in Microsoft's case, I'm sorry to say there is a lack of practical value for most of its products today.
It used to be that Microsoft provides practical value back in the 20th century - it provided the DOS for the original PC (well, DOS was not an original creation of M$ but that's beside the point), and it duplicated the functions of Wordstar and Lotus-123 into the products it offered on DOS, and later Windows
And with the maturing of the Windows operating system (and with competing operating systems offering windowing environment) we do not see any added practical value from Microsoft on its own Windows OS.
That is what making Microsoft weaker and weaker, and the biggest problem Microsoft has today is Ballmer - the guy does not seem to be able to lead Microsoft to a greater height.
Too much emphasis has been put into basic research.
I am not pooh-pooh the basic research, but we outta understand that basic research is just one of the many kinds of research out there.
Japan leapfrogged Europe and USA back in the 1970's to 1980's by NOT focussing on basic research. They just took what the West had researched and applied the knowledges to the things they made.
And now China and India are doing what Japan did 30 years ago.
I have a deep suspicion that the United States government is actually encouraging the act of stealing by maintaining the patent system.
By filing a patent on a technique somebody had invented some 186 years ago Microsoft (and the United States Government) is essentially telling people to steal as much as they can, before someone else steals it from you.
... and I've been in the field for decades, my choice is neither.
If I have to choose from the existing pool of American politicians - except for tweedledee and tweedledum - I'll choose John Paul as the presidential candidate and Romney's running mate Paul Ryan as the vice-presidential candidate.
Neither you nor gp could have learned that in high schools.
I am from the same era as you guys. I did not learn any computer stuffs when I was in my high school.
The richer kids got themselves "electronic calculators" but the rest of us were using slide rules.
I went into the "computer" thing by myself. It became my top passion at that time.
I lost count on how many time I burned my fingers while assembling the chips on breadboards on the many DIY "PC" kits I purchased (mail-order style) from ads that I got from "Popular Mechanics".
We were actually doing machine language at that point.
There were no compiler. No high level language. Not even assembly language.
There was no PDP-11, or any other DEC machine, in my high school.
Since Julian Assange has been officially designated "enemy of the United States", it is only fair that the country of Sweden be designated as "lapd***"... urrr... "the best friend of the United States".
So... if you have anything to tell Romney, just say it the way you like it.
But if Romney is a Democrat, you sure ain't gonna use colorful descriptions such as "batshit crazy" or "fucking moron", or you will be chastised as "hateful" and whatever you say will be deemed as "hatespeech".
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A 1995 Census Bureau survey asked indigenous Americans and found that 49% preferred the term "Indian", 37% "Native American", and 3.6% "some other name." About 5 percent expressed no preference.
Care to share with us a link to that 1995 census survey?
Most of the "Indians" in the Americas (North and South) are proud of the land of their ancestors and they are proud to be known as the "people of the first nations".
What. The. Fuck?
I have never seen a +5 that was so far off the mark.
I too, had the same "Welcome To Facebook" moment after reading the reply.
No, I didn't reply because I know, if I had replied, I might lost all sanity and include all sorts of cuss-words in my reply.
It's not to say that the parents of the little girl are faultless, but then, placing the blames squarely at the parents is ... man, I'm at a loss of finding the right word to properly describe my disgust at this point.
It's our society, it's the way we are treating each others, it's everything connected to we, the human entity --- the little girl's suicide is yet another example of how we've failed ourselves.
From TFA:
A national child anti-exploitation group, cybertip.ca, says it received a tip almost a year ago about Todd.
A concerned citizen contacted the organization last November to report that images of Todd were being circulated online, said spokeswoman Signy Arnason.
"We did receive one report, and that was passed along to law enforcement as well as child welfare," Arnason said Monday. "It was not a report from her, but it was a report from a concerned citizen."
So ... the girl was tormented by an adult who posted her topless images on seedy sites and that so-called "national child anti-exploitation group" got a tip and what they did?
The spoke-woman claimed that they have passed that tip to the "law enforcement" as well as "child welfare".
That was when that little girl was still being tormented by that sick adult, and what happened?
Nothing !
Neither the police nor the child welfare nor that "national child anti-exploitation group" did anything to protect the girl.
She was so tormented, so helpless that she chose to end her life.
Whose fault was it?
The society !
All of us have turned into zombies.
When someone got tormented, we just did what we do - passing the buck.
Like what that "national child anti-exploitation group" did.
All they did was passing the buck to the police and then ... nothing.
What's the use of having a "national child anti-exploitation group" when they don't do nothing??
I'm not in any shape or form related to the anonymous but I do applaud what they have done in this case.
They have done what the police, the child welfare system and the national child anti-exploitation group have all failed to do - to flush that sick motherfucker out in the open.
The Golden Rule: One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself.
The First Diamond Rule according to Uncle Sam: Always Blame Others.
The Second Diamond Rule according to Uncle Sam: See Rule #1
... his goal is to put one research telescope in every country, starting with African and Southern Hemisphere nations because there is now an amazing opportunity for small telescopes to discover and characterize new planetary systems, as well as measure the structure of the Milky Way...
Before human successfully put telescope into space, we did rely on telescope at the bottom of this gravity well to map out the stars in the heaven.
Now that we have telescopes, are sending more and more more advance telescopes orbiting out there I hope someone can put some sense on that guy that we should instead encourage the future generations to design much more advance telescopes that we can put outside the Earth atmosphere so to explore more of the heavenly scenes.
From TFA:
Actually the market don't buy "coolness" per se.
"Coolness" is an added value which the market appreciates, but what matters the most to the market is the practicality of the product - and in Microsoft's case, I'm sorry to say there is a lack of practical value for most of its products today.
It used to be that Microsoft provides practical value back in the 20th century - it provided the DOS for the original PC (well, DOS was not an original creation of M$ but that's beside the point), and it duplicated the functions of Wordstar and Lotus-123 into the products it offered on DOS, and later Windows
And with the maturing of the Windows operating system (and with competing operating systems offering windowing environment) we do not see any added practical value from Microsoft on its own Windows OS.
That is what making Microsoft weaker and weaker, and the biggest problem Microsoft has today is Ballmer - the guy does not seem to be able to lead Microsoft to a greater height.
Too much emphasis has been put into basic research.
I am not pooh-pooh the basic research, but we outta understand that basic research is just one of the many kinds of research out there.
Japan leapfrogged Europe and USA back in the 1970's to 1980's by NOT focussing on basic research. They just took what the West had researched and applied the knowledges to the things they made.
And now China and India are doing what Japan did 30 years ago.
The word "Cloud" has become such an in word that all kinds of predictions, even those which makes no sense altogether, are dime a dozen these days.
Does the human brain need "cloud" to expand its capabilities?
Didn't we have pencil / paper all the past centuries?
How about books and diaries and post-it notes?
it has solar cells that face toward the horizon, to capture the small amount of energy that comes over the side
May I know what's the mass of the rover?
Is the "small amount of energy" captured by the solar cell enough to power the movement of the rover?
They are not patenting, so much as stealing.
I have a deep suspicion that the United States government is actually encouraging the act of stealing by maintaining the patent system.
By filing a patent on a technique somebody had invented some 186 years ago Microsoft (and the United States Government) is essentially telling people to steal as much as they can, before someone else steals it from you.
BTW, has anyone patented the compass yet?
They didn't make a special announcement, because there is nothing special about the product
But apparently Slashdot thinks otherwise
Slashdot will pick up anything from Apple, including "quiet release"
... and I've been in the field for decades, my choice is neither.
If I have to choose from the existing pool of American politicians - except for tweedledee and tweedledum - I'll choose John Paul as the presidential candidate and Romney's running mate Paul Ryan as the vice-presidential candidate.
But then, I ain't a power-broker in D.C.
My vote doesn't count.
I can't mod since I've posted
If you have mod point please mod parent up
Thanks !
Why is the Obama administration trying so hard to stop the Supreme Court from hearing this case?
Can someone fill me in, please?
Sick, but that would be civil case.
For those who don't know why the joke is sick, below link will provide you some background ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-19867915
Is that "oh dear" enough to land a person to jail?
What is the Great Britain trying to prove?
That one can't make no joke no more?
I know - and almost everybody else know - that Great Britain is famous for its "stiff upper lip", but isn't this going way overboard ??
what is a "lamar smith"?
It's kinda like a cross between a "Llama" and a "Smith & Weston"
That's the best I can describe, without resorting to cuss words
the hated Obamacare was basically her baby
If "Obamacare" was Hillary's baby then it should not be called "Obamacare" anymore.
Rather, it should be known as "Hillary-care" or "Hillary Rotten Care".
Neither you nor gp could have learned that in high schools.
I am from the same era as you guys. I did not learn any computer stuffs when I was in my high school.
The richer kids got themselves "electronic calculators" but the rest of us were using slide rules.
I went into the "computer" thing by myself. It became my top passion at that time.
I lost count on how many time I burned my fingers while assembling the chips on breadboards on the many DIY "PC" kits I purchased (mail-order style) from ads that I got from "Popular Mechanics".
We were actually doing machine language at that point.
There were no compiler. No high level language. Not even assembly language.
There was no PDP-11, or any other DEC machine, in my high school.
The first big iron was when I went to college.
Chinese robot (if the article is correct): $175/month.
Excuse moi.
Does the robot have to be "Chinese"?
Is the robot allowed to migrate to US of A and perhaps, get a "Green Card"?
I thought they were giant potatoes.
I dunno about you, but I have yet to see any potato with hair
With this short name top domain - http://f.uk/ would come handy
Since Julian Assange has been officially designated "enemy of the United States", it is only fair that the country of Sweden be designated as "lapd***" ... urrr... "the best friend of the United States".
Why do they have to physically slice up Einstein brain?
We have PET scan, we have MRI, we have the technology to do virtual 3D slicing.
Why can't they give us the MRI or PET scan image of Einstein's brain instead?
So ... if you have anything to tell Romney, just say it the way you like it.
But if Romney is a Democrat, you sure ain't gonna use colorful descriptions such as "batshit crazy" or "fucking moron", or you will be chastised as "hateful" and whatever you say will be deemed as "hatespeech".