<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Digimer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lists@alteeve.ca" target="_blank">lists@alteeve.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 04/23/2013 10:42 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:<br>
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Does anyone care to help me change the negative connotation that the<br>
outside world has of this term, one step at a time? The CBC just used<br>
the term with a negative frame on the Tuesday, 23 April 2013 30-minute<br>
radio news at about the half-way point. Everyone ought to go to this<br>
link and suggest that they should quit abusing the term.<br>
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<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/w6/contact/" target="_blank">http://www.cbc.ca/w6/contact/</a><br>
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to listen to her abuse of the term, go to the link with "contact"<br>
removed / deleted - before Wednesday, 25 April at UTC 01:00 (PDT 18:00,<br>
in case I did the math wrong).<br>
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Of course, the media are infamous for abusing scientific terms, such as<br>
calling the Higgs boson the god particle - a term scientists loathe - so<br>
I out not lose too much sleep over it.<br>
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regards,<br>
Richard<br>
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I've been interviewed a couple of times by CBC and other media. Each time I explain what "hackers" means, and it doesn't really go anywhere. The way I see it, we just need more positive "hacker" and maker stories than there are bad ones. In the mean time, don't let it get to you. Just go do good stuff.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Digimer<br>
Papers and Projects: <a href="https://alteeve.ca/w/" target="_blank">https://alteeve.ca/w/</a><br>
What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education?<br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>Arg! The "good stuff" never makes news; it's not sensational enough.</div></div>