Collective ideas; tapping the 2 billion worldwide internet population

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   gjfalconeposted 12 years ago

   WORLD INTERNET USAGE AND POPULATION STATISTICS
   March 31, 2011
   http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

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      f_hruzposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Yes, you can see yourself behind these numbers -- your role is not limited to being the one who looks in the mirror and asks ... "Is that me?"

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         gjfalconeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         please explain

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            f_hruzposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            It's from a quote in your profile ... only it's not quite correct ...

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      richfsrposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Interesting facts. Now I really feel insignificent.

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   Pcunixposted 12 years ago

   Yeah, but only a few hundred of us matter.  The rest are just "visitors".

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      gjfalconeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      please explain

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         Michele Travisposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         I was surpized, I thought the U.S. would have more users then Asia

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            f_hruzposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            ahahaha - time to wake up - no seriously, what other ideas do you have about the US which are based on myths or propaganda?

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      f_hruzposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Naaa - I can feel the intellectual power of this extra ordinary medium being used by a number of people around the world now, many asking the same question: "How much longer before mind pollution becomes so socially undesirable, it will bring down the Vatican as one of the main sources of BS?"

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         Pcunixposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         And the answer surely is
         
         "You aren't being respectful of our beliefs!"

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            Michele Travisposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            Such a Sharia law?

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               Pcunixposted 12 years agoin reply to this

               What's the difference between Sharia law and the culturally based laws we observe?
               
               Americans have all sorts of restrictions on behavior.  You can see that rather pointedly be googling for "banned TV commercials" - these are things that can't be broadcast in prudish America. 
               
               American women can't even breast feed their children without causing controversy.  Radio and TV shows can't use certain words - it's all cultural.
               
               Some Muslim countries cover women's faces, we cover breasts.  The reason is the same in both cases and neither can be rationally defended.

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                  Michele Travisposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                  What is the differenced between Sharia law and the culturally laws we observe?    How long have you had your head in the sand?  Under Sharia law if a woman is raped, she can be put to death.  Nothing will happen to the man.  Sharia law is alreading starting to be put in place in the U.S.
                  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blo … _blog.html

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                     Michele Travisposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                     Can you rationally defend that?  If so tell me the reason.  If a woman is raped why should she be put to death, while nothing can happen to the man.  Tell me why that is ok,  please tell me now.

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                        Michele Travisposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                        Prison and or death  please read this page
                        http://freethoughtnation.com/contributi … islam.html

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                        Pcunixposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                        Tell me why it's ok that people can be imprisoned for growing medicinal herbs?
                        
                        Of course their culture is wrong by our standards.  I'm not going to defend theirs or ours:  we are all disgustingly irrational.

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                           Michele Travisposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                           Please tell me what is worse  being in prison/ or killed sometimes even by your family for being raped, or going to jail for a short time even just put on probation and going to AA meeting ( my husband runs a treatment center, he goes to the judge to help the people who grow or use the herbs.)
                           Sometimes a woman is even mutilated by her family, but gets no pain killers.  So, which is more horrible?

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                              Pcunixposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                              It's obvious which is more horrible to us.
                              
                              It's not "horrible" to those who have a culture that thinks this is appropriate.
                              
                              It never fails to astound me how blind people can be to their own cultural prejudice.
                              
                              I understand that it angers you.  It angers me also.  But it IS their culture. You can call it ignorant, cruel, stone-age or whatever but the same things can be said about things our culture prohibits.
                              
                              So, fine, they are savages.  We agree.  But our house also has plenty of glass to throw stones at.

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                              richfsrposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                              Looks to me like everyone has gotten off the original subject.

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                        richfsrposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                        Personally, I think the guy should be hung up on a telephone pole by his "you know whats"

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   knolyourselfposted 12 years ago

   Almost everything accepted by the masses.

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