Yeah yeah yeah. I know all about that. I'm talking about Americans.
Things are different in other countries. WAY different. Scott -- R. Scott Granneman [email protected] ~ www.granneman.com Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications My new book: Google Apps Deciphered @ http://www.granneman.com/books "The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." ---Thomas Jefferson On May 1, 2009, at 10:53 AM, Theresa Kehoe wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 10:38 -0500, Scott Granneman wrote: >> In those limited cases, sure. >> >> But c'mon, that's the way the world is headed. Sure, it's slower in >> some places than others. But digital distribution over the Net is the >> eventual goal for everything that can be digitally distributed over >> the Net. >> >> If you don't believe me, ask someone who works at a newspaper or >> magazine. > > That may be the way the world is headed, but it is far from being > there. > Look at it this way: > > EARTH STATUS REPORT - 2006 > > If the population of the Earth was reduced to that of a small town > with > 100 people, it would look something like this: > > 57% Asians > 21% Europeans > 14% Americans (Northern AND Southern) > 8% Africans > > 52% women > 48% men > > 70% colored-skins > 30% Caucasians > > 89% heterosexuals > 11% homosexuals > > 6 people would own 59% of the whole world wealth and all of them > will be > from the USA. > > 80% would have bad living conditions. > > 70% would be uneducated. > > 50% would be underfed. > > 1 would die ... 2 would be born. > > 1 would have a computer. > > 1 (only one) will have higher education. > > If there is food in your refrigerator, you have shoes and clothes, you > have a bed and a roof, then you are richer than 75% of the people in > the > world. > > If you have a bank account, money in your wallet and some coins in the > money-box, you belong to the 8% of the people in the world who are > well-to-do. > > So ......... for 99 out of 100 people worldwide, "digital > distribution" > is when you use all your fingers to hand something out. > > Theresa > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
