> What kind of nonsense. Not so much ... I wonder: are you fishing perhaps? This is Tempo Online translated in English. There quite likely can be a *salad* ... quantitatively speaking. (Reading the article is also--agreed--not always clear to understand what is peculiar to Indonesia vs. what is general; moreover, Indonesia is going to introduce a *great firewall* next year ...)
But qualitatively, they may not be that wrong. I ignore how the business goes, but I remember to have read in Singapore of astronomical *NETTO* sums made a month by pimps [in Singapore]. 4.2 million sites make less than 1 USD a second per site. I don't know how many hits *successful* sites have and how the *administration* goes in the *branch*. There are to pay: hosting, ==HEAVY== *commissions* on the left and on the right for sure [Indonesia is the country with the largest Muslim population in the world: you could drink Whiskey and Vodka and be *entertained* even in Aceh too--paying of course]: protection from the police, politicians, malavitosi, *insurances*, indemnifications for the ISPs etc. And so on ... Internet-expenses-in-general inclusive [in Indonesia there are generalized power outages daily since months ... up to 7-8-9-10 hours of blackout 7/24]. I guess that the *material* shown will be specialized ... meaning that it will be *Asian* [and made in Asia, not in the Netherlands, U.S. or Switzerland], not Russian nor Nordic. That will have a price too. They will then need some certificates, or cellular phone infrastructure, for doing *business*--I would include the latter too, the business extra [there are enough *bapak* in Indonesia, a country of perhaps 230+ million, with MUCH more money to spend than you have: Singapore's #1 foreign flat owners are Indonesian, I believe, ethnic Chinese ones inclusive of course] in the balance. I would add the *amortization* of the hardware--desktops, notebooks, whatever--and of the time wasted by the "consumers." 3000, 300 ... even 30 USD/s [or who knows, 3 million a day] would still be significant. > 1 s 3.075.000 $ > 60 s 184.500.000 $ > 1 h 11.070.000.000 $ (11 mrd $ per hour!!!) > 24 h 265.680.000.000 $ ( 265 mrd $ per day) > 1 month 7,9704 x 10^12 $ Could it be world-, or continent wide? ... but it makes even limited difference, eventually; you are missing the point: to be, say, "drown, hanged and quartered" [I am quoting a movie based a popular book] makes little difference after stage one of the series has been carried out. > If that country were so rich I would live there for 15 years now. My wife is > indonesian and I know how poor that country is. They NEVER were able to spend > just a small part of that money. Another fact is that education there is > incredibly bad and lots of people are stupid in a way noone can imagine. I > think this is the reason why such nonsense finds it way into indo newspapers. And *uncertainty [Heisenberg] principle* verified ... *interesting* in a sense! For a couple of correct observations you have made you have written some compensatory idiocies on a country which you clearly do not know. /Roy Lanek -- SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS tak bisa menari dikatakan lantai yang SSSSS . s l a c k w a r e SSSSSS berjungkit--cannot dance but blame the SSSSS +------------ linux SSSSSS floor as uneven [blaming the wrong reason] SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
