From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 3 11:56:52 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ACB937B401 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 11:56:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net (bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E1D043ED4 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 11:56:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0308.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.53] helo=mindspring.com) by bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18UXvy-0000YC-00; Fri, 03 Jan 2003 11:56:47 -0800 Message-ID: <3E15EAAB.4E11539D@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 11:55:23 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Randall Hamilton , chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fish ? Who mentioned Fish ? References: <20030103171943.GA1380@papagena.rockefeller.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4e6cce274c6abf5aa56c62f65c6ed23b2350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > (I'm living in the US at present, in one of the more progressive and > cosmopolitan cities). Boseman, Montanna? 8-) 8-). > Population of European Union in 2000 (15 member countries, which are > comparable in area to US states): 377 million > > Population of US (50 states) in 2002: around 280 million > > Even the population of tiny Netherlands (17 million) is much more than > the avg population per state of the US. These figures are not representative of averages. More than 50% of the world's population lives within 50 miles of a coast. If you average the US states, then you are going to be adding Utah and Idaho and California together, and getting California / 3. It's more accurate to compare coastal states with coastal counties (the exception being Alaska, which is probably more comparable with Greenland). > I saw an article in a mainstream US newspaper not long ago, which > argued, apparently seriously, that Europeans are more worried about > global warming than the US because if water levels rise, there's > plenty of room inland for coastal Americans to move in, but there's no > more room inland in Europe. That's a stupid article. 8-). Seriously, I can find stupid articles in European papers too; what someone says in an OpEd piece is really irrelevent. While I was on vacation last month, I was in a place where I was unable to avoid a Television with Jay Leno on it; he did this segment called "Jay Walking", which is basically a "man on the street interview", but incredibly biased towards the inclusion of clips wherein stupid people are unable to answer simple questions. This is *not* representative of people in the U.S., any more than attempts to increase educational funding by special interests, by showing students who don't know where Moscow is located, is representative. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message