It isn't land that concerned Native Americans; they did not even have a concept of land ownership. What concerns them most is that they retain ownership of sacred burial sites and objects of historical and cultural significance. Under NAGPRA, it is a criminal offense to find such items and not report them to the government for repatriation.

In US History in grammar school, we learned about the Trail of Tears in explicitly negative terms. Do young Turks learn about Armenian genocide the same way? Everyone has skeletons. The difference is whether we keep them in the closet or not.

To be fair, the land rights of Native Americans today are a form of recompense for acknowledged past wrongs, along with special privileges such as gambling rights that trump state law and provide income to Native American communities. The US admits and owns its mistakes. Turkey is trying to bury its past with the dead.

The Dalai Lama wanted to start a movie review newsletter, but it met a lot of resistance. Too many ohms.

Ah, here it is. Even better that it was accidental.

Wasn't the first practitioner a computer store in Pakistan? Your computer would just display a message saying, "to fix this message, $$$ to this computer store in Pakistan" or something to that effect. Even had their name in it and everything.

More and more of Slashdot is just astroturf white noise: AC's for whom Slashdot is not nerd discussion site, but a platform for paid anti-American histrionics. It was amusing at first; now it's tiresome.

That's not how the encryption export laws work.

Won't someone please think of the poor Chinese nuclear weapons program?

The article makes an interesting conjecture from an observed correlation. It's not the finger of God writing on the wall. You may stop burning the heretics anytime you wish.

Has the employee been watching Office Space on repeat? He's about to leave.

As Miriam Ferguson, first female governor of Texas, said, "If the King's English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for the children of Texas!"

One of the beauties of English is its elasticity. Without a single authority governing its rules, English is truly a democratic, utilitarian language, and it becomes what it needs to be to fit the situation. It's a kludgey, ad hoc mess, yes, and its inconsistencies are truly maddening. And yet when another language needs to borrow a word for a new use, English is ready to provide it. We loot and barter vocabulary easily, stealing words from France and trading them over to China because we don't give two shits about the cultural sanctity of language. We are the Swiss army knife of linguistics.

To take that away; to smooth out the inconsistencies and impose a logical order on it would be to rob English of its greatest use to other languages; to be the unstable alpha branch, readily accepting commits from whoever ares to contribute, and letting the best features rise to the top for adoption by other, more stable branches.

According to Apple, iOS users are more virile, and have love-making stamina for hours.
According the Microsoft, Windows Phone users are endowed with the power of invisibility, which is why they are so elusive.

The "outdated business model" I speak of is having gaming as a gated resource. You had to be at the mall or the movie theater, you had to have quarters on hand for every round, and you had to share your machines. God help you if you wanted to play the popular games; the line was a mile long. Home gaming was inevitable; that it so thoroughly wrecked arcade gaming is a testament to the fact that the arcade model for gaming was survived on consumer captivity alone; as soon as consumers had an economical home option, they took it.