Why isn't Europe enough for the white race?

[orcenio]

@Chief_Pedant

Releative sophistication of locally-developed transportation systems.

Here’s a picture of a friggin bus. I have no idea what the hell you’re expecting with this.

[Gyrate]

I think people are missing the key words in iiandyiiii’s post, which were

no genetic evidence

. Chief Pedant has no actual relevant data to back up his various wild assertions, just implications and assertions and pointless tangents.

Patent applications tell us nothing about genetics. Weapon development tells us nothing about genetics. Crime rates, education levels, economic growth, fashion trends - nothing about genetics. You know what tells us about genetics? Genetics.

[Doughbag]

@Chief_Pedant

Plus, of course, any traits developed or lost subsequent to leaving africa.

(Although, based on various posts around this board, it would appear Creationism is the dominant accepted explanation for human genetic egalitarianism. Evolution and the history of human migrations are apparently not widely accepted.)

What? Creationism is only taught in the USA and other fundamentalists religious nut job countries, everywhere else in the civilise world its classified as: pseudo-science

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

Reported.

[Smeghead]

Well, you’re a charmer!

[Marley23]

Cleanup on aisle four!

[Human_Action]

@logic

what the hell are you talking about? white people are NOT Aryan quit stealing our hindu culture idiot!you white trash will never be Aryan.

Take it up with these people:

Contemporary usage

• Among Hindu nationalists, the Hindu/Indian people

• within the ideology of white supremacy, the “White race”, who are native Indo-Europeans of the Western or European branch of the Indo-European peoples, as opposed to the Eastern or Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European peoples. The term Aryan is prominently used in the names of such organizations.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

Let anyone be confused, this lapsed Hindu doesn’t want any of you dead* or to send you back anywhere.

*well, not a significant number of you, and it’s not a race thing.

[Human_Action]

I promise to stop stealing Hindu culture. Wish you guys would secure it better, it’s so tempting out in the open like that.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

We’re thinking of installing a buffet shield arrangement.

[Gyrate]

By the way, since certain board members above were comparing relative intelligence of ethnic groups I thought this story might sit very nicely here:

Illiterate Ethiopian kids hack Motorola Zoom tablets in five months with no instruction

Just to give you a sense of what these villages in Ethiopia are like, the kids (and most of the adults) there have never seen a word. No books, no newspapers, no street signs, no labels on packaged foods or goods. Nothing. And these villages aren’t unique in that respect; there are many of them in Africa where the literacy rate is close to zero. So you might think that if you’re going to give out fancy tablet computers, it would be helpful to have someone along to show these people how to use them, right?

But that’s not what OLPC did. They just left the boxes there, sealed up, containing one tablet for every kid in each of the villages (nearly a thousand tablets in total), pre-loaded with a custom English-language operating system and SD cards with tracking software on them to record how the tablets were used. Here’s how it went down, as related by OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte at MIT Technology Review’s EmTech conference last week:

“We left the boxes in the village. Closed. Taped shut. No instruction, no human being. I thought, the kids will play with the boxes! Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, but found the on/off switch. He’d never seen an on/off switch. He powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs [in English] in the village. And within five months, they had hacked Android. Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera! And they figured out it had a camera, and they hacked Android.”

Intellectually inferior, my ass.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

I’m calling bullshit. How would they know what a camera was?

[Gyrate]

I suspect some license in the description - “hack” also seems to mean “working around an OEM attempt to limit the settings” in this context rather than anything more hardcore. Perhaps they enabled the cameras first and then worked out what they were. Also - the computers were teaching them English. “Camera” may have been included in that.

I don’t know, but I’ve yet to see anything seriously alleging that the whole story was fabricated.

[Belowjob2.0]

@Really_Not_All_That_Bright

I’m calling bullshit. How would they know what a camera was?

Given the ubiquity of cell phones in Africa, and film based photography before that, chances are they’ve all seen a camera.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

Supposedly they’ve “never seen a word”. Presumably if they’ve seen cellphones they’ve seen words.

[Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus]

@John_Mace

England is for the Celts. Or the Picts. The Angles and the Saxons should go back to the continent, to that little Angle of a land and Saxony (or wherever the Saxons came from).

I like to imagine a scene from the early fifth century like this: In what will later become Northern Germany, a committee of Angles, Saxons, and Jutes get together in a long hall or wherever they do hold meetings.

First Anglo-Saxon: The weather here sucks.

Second Anglo-Saxon: I agree! It never gets warmer than 55 degrees F. It’s always damp and overcast.

First AS: Summer in this place is worse than winter in San Francisco, which we’ve never heard of anyway, but I digress.

Second AS: I move, we find another place to live. A place with a better climate. Warm days and low humidity would be nice.

First AS: Seconded! And a warm water beach would be great, too.

Third AS: Mr President, may I have the floor? [Third AS has the floor] So where should we move to?

[A pregnant pause, while everybody looks around at everybody else.]

All together: BRITAIN!

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

No love for the Frisians?

[Gyrate]

@Really_Not_All_That_Bright

No love for the Frisians?

Not since that farmer caught me at it, no.

Oh wait - those were Friesians. Never mind.

[An_Gadai]

I only wish **Chief Pedant **had a reply

[Gyrate]

Why?