Actually its not if you RTFA that i posted you'll see that it was only available to 36% of internet users.
You said that 36% of people had broadband, which is irrelevant, then posted a link to a PDF which presumably supported that statement. Why would I bother looking at PDF that you had already advertised as being irrelevant?
In all reality, it's very likely that greenhouse gasses ARE warming our atmosphere and the surface of the planet. What's not at all likely is that this is strictly a bad thing, for everyone, everywhere. Landmasses will definately change -- to the detriment of some, but to the benefit of others. That's how the world works. Certain parts of the world increase in value, while others decrease, for whatever reason -- pollution, crime, accessibility, distance from other locations, etc., etc. Just because part of todays coastline is underwater tomorrow doesn't mean there's no more coastal property. Just because OUR heartland turns into a desert doesn't mean other places won't become outstanding farmland. Change in and of itself is neither good nor bad. . . Only failure to keep up with changes.
Yeah, that's what I said when I wanted to set off thermonuclear bombs in all the major cities, but nobody would listen to me, those damn change-averse cowards. Where were you in my hour of need?
Personally, I am an agnostic on the Global Warming question because I know that the science is so screwed up I can't believe ANY of it.
Thank you for finally speaking the truth. People are so blind today. They get so snowed by all the big words and fancy college degrees that they don't take a step back to see what a bunch of crap science really is.
In addition to global warming, due to how screwed up science is, I also don't believe in microbes, magnetism,
or the biggest communist conspiracy of them all: gravity.
I sent a nasty e-mail to Best Buy Friday after I visited a store. They completely ignored me for the half hour I spent walking around the audio department
Sounds like I'm going to have to send an equal-but-opposite email to them. I love being ignored at stores. Nothing annoys me more than having some pimply moron come up all "can I help you?" and proceed to try to feed me idiotic misinformation while I'm trying to read the details on the product boxes and make an informed decision.
If I want idiotic misinformation, I'll ask for it (hence here I am at Slashdot).
Easy, dont shop in the US, in the EU we have RIGHTS
If you live in Europe, I bet you have no idea what the returns culture in the USA is like. It's completely insane and I 100% support shops that are trying to rein it in.
I know plenty of people who return more than half of what they buy from clothes and electronics stores, for the stupidest reasons. Clothes because they decided later that they didn't like the color after all; electronics because they didn't do even the most basic research and had no idea what they were buying.
It's wasteful, abusive, and drives up costs for ordinary consumers.
I also googled for this (exact same link as the one provided in the article - http://images.google.com/images?q=abu+ghraib&hl=en &lr=&safe=off&output=search) and got : Results 1 - 20 of about 137 for abu ghraib. (0.14 seconds)
Yeah, that's what happens in the USA too. Now try an image search for Lynndie England.
When I see torture depicted in movies and television, it makes me ill. Sorry if this is shrill, but listen up: TORTURE IS NOT FUCKING ENTERTAINMENT. To use it as such demeans the experiences of victims everywhere. These people need your support, compassion and understanding a whole hell of a lot more than the film industry needs your $9 to watch this crap.
A lot of dramatic things are quite disturbing for the people who experience them. That's why they are powerful on the screen. You are hung up on depictions of torture; someone else may be hung up on depictions of gun violence or forced sex or school bullying or meat consumption. If we give their concerns equal weight to yours, all we end up with is The Happy Little Elves in every cinema. So it's either that (a viscera-free world of pap), or you tell all those other people why torture is worse than they things that hit each of them where it counts. Good luck.
If you don't want a search engine to decide what you have access to, you have all the freedom on the Internet to conduct your search elsewhere. Just because Google is one of the most popular search engines doesn't mean you have to use it, and it doesn't mean Google has to provide free access to information.
No shit. But the point of this whole discussion, if it proves to be true (and not just an artifact of some equal-opportunity problem at Google) is to give people a heads-up that Google is not the place to conduct a politically-unfiltered search. That's pretty big news, and enough to stop me from using them.
I just did two searches: One on images.google.com.my, using a Malaysian IP address, and one on images.google.com, using an American IP address. I searched for "lynndie england" (no quotes). In both cases I got zero results. The same search on Yahoo's image search engine gives me 239 matches.
Just curious: What do you get when you search from Canada?
The majority of vehicles in the UK have manual gear boxes (stickshift), and any reasonable driver will take it out of gear while waiting at the red light.
I used to live in London (and I was a pedestrian). 75% of drivers start moving on the yellow light.
So your statement is still correct, but "any reasonable driver" doesn't necessary describe a lot of people.
I hope that it does not take the U.S. too long to catch up to China. The Metro Card in NY is pretty close to the Debit card for public transit in China
Nope, in Shanghai it's a prox card - you can just wave to pay, and it works in taxis. Can't even use the MetroCard on MetroNorth or LIRR for some stupid reason.
China isn't the first to bypass land line phones for cell phones. Countries in Africa have been doing it for years. If you don't have trenches dug all over your country for telephone wires, a nationwide cellular system makes a lot of sense. On the other hand if you dug your trenches in the 50's why not use them? You are not going to implement broadband Internet, cable TV , especially movies on-demand over a cellular phone system. China, African countries, and others when they have such services will dig holes and run wires, probably fiber-optic ones at which point wired phones in the home (probably VOIP-like) will make perfect sense.
512/128K DSL in China costs US$10/month and they are rolling out one million (yes, ONE MILLION) installs every month.
Of course flat-rate GPRS (cell phone data) is only $20/month.
Ah how good it is to live here. Proud to be an american where our cell coverage doesn't go coast to coast, but I can drive 20 miles from the city and be out in the middle of empty forests or fields where no one is around.
You can do that in China too. It's not like there are hundreds of people living under every tree.
* North America - 32 people/mi2
* South America - 73 people/mi2
* Europe - 134 people/mi2
* Asia - 203 people/mi2
* Africa - 65 people/mi2
* Australia and Oceania - 9 people/mi2
Which just goes to show how useless statistics can be sometimes.
Australia is one of the most urbanized countries on earth. The mean population density across the entire continent is very low because nobody lives in the desert. Your reference should be reporting the mean density within a fixed radius of each head of population.
I've known of one traffic death from a yellow before green in Europe way back. Giving someone a accurate way of determining when they can be moving the microsecond the light turns green is bad given that people have incoporated not just the delayed green but the delayed start after green in their calculations of how late they can run a red light.
I'd go so far as to say that every official in Britain (and the handful of other countries stupid enough to do yellow-before-green) who has any responsibility for this system or allowing it to continue is a murderer, plain and simple.
You've also got about 3,000,000 people in London vs 590,000 in Boston to spread the cost of upgrading to.
Your population figures are apples and oranges. The City of London has a population of what, 12? But everyone knows that's not London. If you count Boston, count the suburbs to the same degree of de-urbanization.
How much of the UK's infrastructre was rebuilt after the bombings 1940's?
How many of Boston's phone exchanges were in service in 1944?
Thailand also uses this technology in many parts of Downtown Bangkok. The first time that I waited for a crosswalk signal watching the countdown timer, I was impressed.
They've had 'em in Washington DC for years. Just the crosswalk timers, though, not the wheeled-vehicle ones like you see all over Asia.
I don't know about Canada, but in most of USA the a$$hole cyclists will speed by a pedestrians shoulder either with no warning or a shout of 'on your left' at the same instant he makes his startling appearance. Good thing they wait till the last moment too. Because fully 20+% of them don't know which side is left!
I don't give a warning, because I find that no matter what I say and how far in advance I say it (or ring my bell) there is a 50% chance that the pedestrian will react at the last minute by jumping into my path, thereby dramatically increasing the chance of an accident.
I have commuted by bicycle in large and small cities in north America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, pretty much daily for the past 30 years, and I've never hit a pedestrian yet. But I have a whole lot fewer close calls when I sneak up on them. So I'm going to keep doing it, for their own safety. Better surprised than smacked into the pavement.
parking data? "lot full" is pretty damn clear and on busy days the competing lots generally have a guy screaming, "park here".
Yes, but the signs in Europe and Asia tell you, before you enter a neighborhood, which lots are full and how many spots are left in the others. This saves driving around looking at all those "lot full" signs.
That's sort of scary if you think about it, as the rest of the world matures, they will be poised to take over due to the sheer quantity of 'young adults' in their prime condition to fight a war.
What's scary is the prospect that my tax dollars might have paid for the school that was supposed to teach you basic math.
Think about 18% one more time, and how much that is. Consider how old people generally live to be.
A histogram of China's age structure looks quite similar to those of western countries.
With the dictators in Beijing bent on preventing access to independent (western) news
They're not all that bent on it, apparently. I was last in China a few weeks ago and really not very many sites at all were blocked. A couple blogging servers, and I couldn't get to Geocities, but maybe that's just because Geocities sucks. One day I couldn't read the BBC site but the rest of the time I could. On top of that, the block was trivially easy to bypass.
In China you would not be understood. The police at Tiananmen Square are particularly obnoxious, and it was with great pleasure (and a smile on my face, of course) that I asked one of them to "go back to fucking stray dogs and leave those poor women alone" when they decided that some old ladies walking slightly too slowly needed to be prodded roughly along with batons.
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You said that 36% of people had broadband, which is irrelevant, then posted a link to a PDF which presumably supported that statement. Why would I bother looking at PDF that you had already advertised as being irrelevant?
Last time I checked brown carpeting was not available everywhere...
In fact the last figures I saw for 2003 said that only about 36% of homes and custom van conversions had brown carpeting.
(Not to take issue with your conclusion, but your supporting statement is irrelevant)
Yeah, that's what I said when I wanted to set off thermonuclear bombs in all the major cities, but nobody would listen to me, those damn change-averse cowards. Where were you in my hour of need?
Thank you for finally speaking the truth. People are so blind today. They get so snowed by all the big words and fancy college degrees that they don't take a step back to see what a bunch of crap science really is.
In addition to global warming, due to how screwed up science is, I also don't believe in microbes, magnetism, or the biggest communist conspiracy of them all: gravity.
Sounds like I'm going to have to send an equal-but-opposite email to them. I love being ignored at stores. Nothing annoys me more than having some pimply moron come up all "can I help you?" and proceed to try to feed me idiotic misinformation while I'm trying to read the details on the product boxes and make an informed decision.
If I want idiotic misinformation, I'll ask for it (hence here I am at Slashdot).
If you live in Europe, I bet you have no idea what the returns culture in the USA is like. It's completely insane and I 100% support shops that are trying to rein it in.
I know plenty of people who return more than half of what they buy from clothes and electronics stores, for the stupidest reasons. Clothes because they decided later that they didn't like the color after all; electronics because they didn't do even the most basic research and had no idea what they were buying.
It's wasteful, abusive, and drives up costs for ordinary consumers.
Yeah, that's what happens in the USA too. Now try an image search for Lynndie England.
A lot of dramatic things are quite disturbing for the people who experience them. That's why they are powerful on the screen. You are hung up on depictions of torture; someone else may be hung up on depictions of gun violence or forced sex or school bullying or meat consumption. If we give their concerns equal weight to yours, all we end up with is The Happy Little Elves in every cinema. So it's either that (a viscera-free world of pap), or you tell all those other people why torture is worse than they things that hit each of them where it counts. Good luck.
No shit. But the point of this whole discussion, if it proves to be true (and not just an artifact of some equal-opportunity problem at Google) is to give people a heads-up that Google is not the place to conduct a politically-unfiltered search. That's pretty big news, and enough to stop me from using them.
I just did two searches: One on images.google.com.my, using a Malaysian IP address, and one on images.google.com, using an American IP address. I searched for "lynndie england" (no quotes). In both cases I got zero results. The same search on Yahoo's image search engine gives me 239 matches.
Just curious: What do you get when you search from Canada?
I used to live in London (and I was a pedestrian). 75% of drivers start moving on the yellow light.
So your statement is still correct, but "any reasonable driver" doesn't necessary describe a lot of people.
Nope, in Shanghai it's a prox card - you can just wave to pay, and it works in taxis. Can't even use the MetroCard on MetroNorth or LIRR for some stupid reason.
512/128K DSL in China costs US$10/month and they are rolling out one million (yes, ONE MILLION) installs every month.
Of course flat-rate GPRS (cell phone data) is only $20/month.
You can do that in China too. It's not like there are hundreds of people living under every tree.
They built a maglev train to Shanghai airport. Nuff said.
Which just goes to show how useless statistics can be sometimes.
Australia is one of the most urbanized countries on earth. The mean population density across the entire continent is very low because nobody lives in the desert. Your reference should be reporting the mean density within a fixed radius of each head of population.
I'd go so far as to say that every official in Britain (and the handful of other countries stupid enough to do yellow-before-green) who has any responsibility for this system or allowing it to continue is a murderer, plain and simple.
Your population figures are apples and oranges. The City of London has a population of what, 12? But everyone knows that's not London. If you count Boston, count the suburbs to the same degree of de-urbanization.
How many of Boston's phone exchanges were in service in 1944?
They've had 'em in Washington DC for years. Just the crosswalk timers, though, not the wheeled-vehicle ones like you see all over Asia.
I don't give a warning, because I find that no matter what I say and how far in advance I say it (or ring my bell) there is a 50% chance that the pedestrian will react at the last minute by jumping into my path, thereby dramatically increasing the chance of an accident.
I have commuted by bicycle in large and small cities in north America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, pretty much daily for the past 30 years, and I've never hit a pedestrian yet. But I have a whole lot fewer close calls when I sneak up on them. So I'm going to keep doing it, for their own safety. Better surprised than smacked into the pavement.
Yes, but the signs in Europe and Asia tell you, before you enter a neighborhood, which lots are full and how many spots are left in the others. This saves driving around looking at all those "lot full" signs.
1) Is it really that cold in Ann Arbor already? Yow. See, what's what stops me from being too nostalgic.
2) Are those pictures really taken one per day, or are you working through a back catalog? If the former, you sure do get around.
You mean, just before and just after but not during when I wrote:
China is becoming top-heavy too. A little thing called the one-child policy.
What's scary is the prospect that my tax dollars might have paid for the school that was supposed to teach you basic math.
Think about 18% one more time, and how much that is. Consider how old people generally live to be.
A histogram of China's age structure looks quite similar to those of western countries.
They're not all that bent on it, apparently. I was last in China a few weeks ago and really not very many sites at all were blocked. A couple blogging servers, and I couldn't get to Geocities, but maybe that's just because Geocities sucks. One day I couldn't read the BBC site but the rest of the time I could. On top of that, the block was trivially easy to bypass.
In China you would not be understood. The police at Tiananmen Square are particularly obnoxious, and it was with great pleasure (and a smile on my face, of course) that I asked one of them to "go back to fucking stray dogs and leave those poor women alone" when they decided that some old ladies walking slightly too slowly needed to be prodded roughly along with batons.