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Heard on CBC radio from Toronto/Ottawa and also just posted to BBC --
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38324045
A special archiving event is being held in collaboration with Archive's End of Term project. Since 2008 this has saved US government websites at risk during government transitions.
Canadian "guerrilla" archivists will be assisting a rushed effort to preserve US government climate data.
Environmentalists, climate scientists and academics are collaborating to protect what they view as fragile digital federal records and research.
They want the data saved before Donald Trump takes office.
The CBC report interviewed a Canadian scientist who described some of the scientific data that was lost during the Harper government.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @06:03PM
Generally, I find myself getting more stupid by visiting here. Criticism and debate, what little of it there was, has been replaced by grandstanding and specious claims with little to no supporting evidence or reasoning.
In many respects, it reflects the media at large. Congratulations, SN has joined the big leagues, where hyperbolic editorializing has replaced any semblance of intellectual honesty or rigour.
When conservatives [washingtonpost.com] are offering more pointed criticisms of Trump than the left could possibly muster (and certainly of a higher caliber than anything found here), you know it's time to pack it in.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 16 2016, @10:28PM
A couple of problems: on SN you probably won't find too many politically focused people who follow every political news item. This means most are limited to the article at hand and whatever thoughts they've gathered overall. Next you have Trump who isn't even president yet so all we can do is speculate for the most part. Complaining about hyperbole? I think its better to waste some hot air on hyperbole in the chance it keeps people alerted to a full fascist take over.
For hard evidence you'll be waiting for Trump to screw things up, come back when that happens. Or better yet, leave! I can tell from
the left could possibly muster that you have your own axe to grind.
On this particular article I've seen a lot of good points and decent discussion, so I don't know what your problem is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 17 2016, @01:31AM
And yet...and yet...here you are again to give us your received wisdom!
I think it bears mentioning here that you have yet to make your own contribution of evidence, reason, intellectual honesty, or rigour. Why is that?
Note that your grand staircase flounce would have been much more impactful if you had actually included your name, rather than posting as AC. That being said, don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out! You were just leaving, right?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 17 2016, @07:01PM
Generally, I find myself getting more stupid by visiting here.
I find that hard to believe...