[geeks] Google Images Facial Recognition!

Phil Stracchino phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
Fri Jun 1 08:42:20 CDT 2007


Brian Dunbar wrote:
> Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
>> On Jun 1, 2007, at 6:59 AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>>
>>> Most of all they accept the existance of the United States of America 
>>> and
>>> don't wish to destroy it and "drive you into the sea".
>> Google for "Aztlan", "MECHa", "La Raza", "MALDEF", "Republica del 
>> Norte".
>>
>> And reflect on the fact that in spite of the treaty between the US and 
>> Mexico, Mexican schools teach that California, Texas, Arizona etc. were 
>> "stolen from Mexico" by the USA 
> 
> This is not an unusual thing for people to be taught when your country
> has been beaten soundly in a war.  The American southwest represented
> (I'm going by memory) 2/5 of Mexico's pre-1848 territory - it was a
> great chunk of land to lose.

I understand many Japanese schools now teach that the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor in 1941 was retaliation for the unprovoked atomic bombing
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.


Words fail me.



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