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Each American Consumed 34 Gigabytes Per Day In '08
eldavojohn writes "Metrics can get really strange — especially on the scale of national consumption. Information consumption is one such area that has a lot of strange metrics to offer. A new report from the University of California, San Diego entitled 'How Much Information?' reveals that in 2008 your average American consumed 34 gigabytes per day. These values are entirely estimates of the flows of data delivered to consumers as bytes, words and hours of consumer information. From the executive summary: 'In 2008, Americans consumed information for about 1.3 trillion hours, an average of almost 12 hours per day. Consumption totaled 3.6 zettabytes and 10,845 trillion words, corresponding to 100,500 words and 34 gigabytes for an average person on an average day. A zettabyte is 10 to the 21st power bytes, a million million gigabytes. These estimates are from an analysis of more than 20 different sources of information, from very old (newspapers and books) to very new (portable computer games, satellite radio, and Internet video). Information at work is not included.' Has the flow and importance of information really become this prolific in our daily lives?"
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Now rm -rf * off my lawn!
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.
Right, because traditional news doesn't lie.
NYTIMES, Dan Rather, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, John Stewart ....
Everyone lies. Learn to adjust your filter better and you'll realize that. Or as you probably call these "lies" .... "honest errors".
If you want examples, I'll be happy to show you. Including the reports by traditional news sources about the DC protests that were equally fallacious. Or how about the "White, gun toting, racist protester" that just about every news organization showed, and commented on, except Fox? If you didn't watch FOX, you'd never know it was a black guy they were commenting on, carefully edited to adjust for the Bias the news organization wanted to show (White people carry guns and hate Obama).
Or how about another recent example of Charlie Gibson not knowing ANYTHING about ACORN scandal? Oh right, because that was FOX driven news.
Or how about Charlie Rangel being put in charge of the Tax System, even though he forgot about 4 apartments and his house in the Bahamas on his taxes. Or Geitner. Or "Lets teach the kids how to fist" Kevin Jennings as safe schools czar? or climategate or ...
Now, if you average the Traditional news with Fox News, somewhere in between you'll realize is the truth. News bias is as much as what IS covered as it is about what ISN'T covered. And if you don't get your news from a variety of sources, even if they are biased, you'd never know.
And if you think "Fox News" is the "what others are thinking" you'd be right, but it also shows how little respect you have for differing opinions, which is typical of elitists, and is shown for their absolute distain for "Flyover Country", as if everyone should think a believe like NY City, or Hollywood (Think gun control).
The point being is that our views are tainted by our "reality". Expand your reality and your views will probably change with it. What is that left wing bumper sticker saying .... "Minds are like Parachutes, they only work when they are open", or is it "Keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out" ;)
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