Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 11:55:23 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: Randall Hamilton <nitedog@silly.pikachu.org>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fish ? Who mentioned Fish ? Message-ID: <3E15EAAB.4E11539D@mindspring.com> References: <20030103171943.GA1380@papagena.rockefeller.edu>
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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
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