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So are you saying that Chinese students who drink green tea for medicinal benefits can't be engineers and neither can Catholics? How do you know he isn't an engineer already? You are unfamiliar with off-reserve native populations too aren't you? I think you are 'techie' enough to do your own Google searches now.

Now you are just dense.

The best part of television news is that it is passive and choices are relatively limited. You flip on a news style that you prefer and let it run. Television news - and to a degree radio as well - is much more social. The Internet is good, but relatively limitless, requires more far more interaction, especially if for varied news interests - and is far less social. Now when they come up with an affordable television-like device that 'knows' our news preferences and can present them passively with a higher degree of sociability, then are talking. Even better, if the government installed such a television like device in every home or residence, decided our news preferences for us, and then scheduled us to pay attention when the news speakers did come on. That would be ideal!

THIS Dennis Markuze?

I am? Well now that is a twist isn't it? But it seems that is the sort of logic you apply - all twisty and slippery. You make some absurd assertion based on speculative data from a social science and then whine about "impossible standard of evidence." There, there. Here is an article: PHYTOLITH EVIDENCE FOR TWENTIETH-CENTURY B.P. MAIZE IN NORTHERN IROQUOIAthat has a possible "standard of evidence" from data obtained by social scientists.

It isn't "financial life-support" they are simply treaty payments, benefits and services. The fact is, life IS improving for Aboriginal people post-residential schools. You have no idea about the off-reserve population of Aboriginal people do you? Your simplistic idea of "balance" hinges on the word "integration." We can't blame the Indians for being a titch wary about that right, after the "integration" that was tried with the residential school program? (And yes, there is a reason I have to keep repeating this to you.) The points Saipan and Wild Bill have come from a position of ignorance. Do yourself a favour and take a little bit of time to do even some cursory research. I suggest you start at the defintition of "treaty."

http://aboriginalaerospace.com/index.html http://aboriginaleng.com/ http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/July2010/22/c5884.html http://camosun.ca/ccr/news/2010/july/ancestor-project.html http://www.neeganburnside.com/index.aspx I don't have the actual numbers which I am sure are located in some report somewhere, but I think the above links are sufficient proof that you realy don't know what your talking about. Also B-C's link too, which saved me the hassle.

And of course when all the news stories came out about right-wingers hanging their wangs out in airport washrooms waiting for willing passers-by, the liberals did not condemn them. They merely chuckled. Those degenerate liberals! Huge list of Republican/Right Wing sex scandals Be warned the link contains graphic language like gay, lesbian, blowjob, yiffing...

They just want to insult you.

So what you are admitting to is providing yet another nice large range with no discernable evidence of what the actual population densities were and thus not being able to provide any sort of comparative outside of sheer speculation?

Yes, but I was hoping to get you waxing on some meta-reason as to why people want news. Is it an inherent social or psychological response? What is the provenance of wanting to know the news about one thing or another? Well, the web ain't free so there has to be a critical number to be worthwhile for the upkeep of such sites. I often wonder..., well not really "often... but will the Internet Archive be littered with millions of lonely, abandoned blogs in 10 years? Or is Twitter the future of news?

Oh, sure you did. Let me quote from your source:

This is a very interesting comment. Is there a presupposition that an emotive response to something is automatically disinclined toward fact or that emotional weight cannot contain, or arrive at, fact? This sort of sentiment reminds me of 'Voltaire's Bastards : The Dictatorship of Reason in the West'

Naked news! However, does the more interesting personality make the news more interesting? I am not so sure. And yet we are seeing more and more news programs. Arguably, we can even hook in "reality" television as the bastard child of a news oriented society. I mean, why do people want the news in the first place? To a degree. But by and large, the government sets the agenda and access to the news people are most interested in. Contrast the news reporting from Vietnam in the late 60's to the "embedded media" in the last Gulf War. I think there is also the aspect of passive and active interaction with the news too. With television and radio (and I listen to 680 AM in Toronto often), mostly passive; flip on CablePulse and let Lindsay tell you what you need to know. With reddit or Digg, newspapers much more active active. You want the news, you have to go and get it and read it. Some news, the very specialty stuff you might have to hunt it down. An interesting and well known thought, but are people more suited to the web and willing to be active enough to bother? Especially with news sources that are a little more prone to drop out of sight after a few years. Besides, most television news can also be found on the web and any long term investment to bring the news to the web is going to cost money and bring us advertising.

Well DUH. Nice clue Sherlock. What? Now you can't produce the comparative population densities you were drumming about a little while ago? Right, more True Metis "evidence." I take it you've never heard of the Aztecs? Stereotypes?? Are you asking me or do you simply not get it? LOFL!!

Not all of them do and so what if some of them have DAY jobs DURING the season? The NLL is the "major" league for indoor lacrosse which makes Peter Gross a moron. Gawd, no wonder Toronto is considered such a loser town, they wouldn't even recognize a winner if they saw one. But at least the have Maple Leaf haiku.

So did CFL players back in the day and I think quite a few of them do in the off-season nowadays. They didn't call the CFL "minor."

Low end of the scale? So your "evidence" now has a scale which is enough wiggle room to speculate and still be "right." But it isn't speculation. Really? You have "evidence" of comparative population densities now? Or do you just have a speculative scale you employ based on some numbers parroted off of Wiki? Oh, puh-lease do tell... Did I now: No kidding. You didn't get my reference about the Chinese being bureacratic because many of them speak Mandarin either. Seems to be a pattern forming...

Nope. And more importantly, they are not all First Nations.

Whoa! The Eskimos are in a rebuilding year.(s) All they need is Colt Brennan and Grey Cups will be a-fflowin...

Hardly. The NLL is the "major" league for professional indoor lacrosse. The Rock have been in the playoffs and winning championships over the past 10 years often selling out Maple Leaf Gardens and the ACC. He is a moron. Accept that.

That's all you got as "evidence?" Between 10,000 and 80,400, well there is quite a wide discrepency now isn't there? No speculation required when your scholarly estimates have a 70,000 victim discrepency. Of course we know that "old" Aztecs couldn't count and 4,000 dead is a pittance in the face of some other conflicts. <---- another Wiki link for you And finally, what does Aztec sacrifice have to do with "First Nations?" Or do we want to say that Europeans murdered 6 million Jews a mere 70 years ago? Because of that, we have ample evidence that isn't really debated by scholars is it?

Your speculation is as good as mine.

Is that what the article says happened there?