[Sca-cooks] odd

[Saint Phlip]

Gah, what a lot of effort to express differences that make no
difference, unless there is a need to be exposed to excess or make
maximum usage of minimal sunlight, or to retain or release heat, or to
live on high mountains or close to sea level, or whatever our
purported racial differences have adapted us to.

Last summer, while working for the census, I basicly wrote down
whatever the people responded to the questions. For those who took
exception to the racial and ethnicity questions, I helped thewm answer
it as I had answered it for myself- "Other" and :"Human".

What a waste of time these distinctions are...

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:21 PM, David Friedman
<ddfr at daviddfriedman.com> wrote:
>> And by the way, Hindu Indians are also Caucasians, even though some have
>> darker skin than Africans.
>>
>> Huette
>
> That's a little tricky. The very dark skinned Indians are mostly Dravidian,
> from southern India, dark skin being apparently an adaptation to high levels
> of sunlight. Whether they classify as Caucasion or, more generally, what
> their genetic origin is, seems to be still a matter of some dispute.
>
> ---
> The genetic views on race differ in their classification of Dravidians.
> According to population geneticist L.L. Cavalli-Sforza of Stanford, based on
> work done in the 1980s, Indians are genetically Caucasian, but Lewontin
> rejects the label Caucasian. Cavalli-Sforza found that Indians are about
> three times closer to West Europeans than to East Asians.[9] Dr. Eduardas
> Valaitis, in 2006, found that India is genetically closest to East and
> Southeast Asians with about 15% more genetic similarity than to Europeans;
> he also found that India could be considered very distinct from other
> regions.[10] Genetic anthropologist Stanley Marion Garn considered in the
> 1960s that the entirety of the Indian Subcontinent to be a "race"
> genetically distinct from other populations.[9][11] Others, such as Lynn B.
> Jorde and Stephen P. Wooding, claim South Indians are genetic intermediaries
> between Europeans and East Asians.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_peoples
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Saint Phlip

So, you think your data is safe?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/01/23/schneier.google.hacking/index.html?hpt=T2

Heat it up
Hit it hard
Repent as necessary.

Priorities:

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