KB Posted August 5, 2007 Report Share Posted August 5, 2007 http://www.chippynews.com/worldclock.htm Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratchpot Posted August 5, 2007 Report Share Posted August 5, 2007 Interesting, but I hope people don't assume those figures are accurate (apart from the clock and date, that is!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornerstone Posted August 5, 2007 Report Share Posted August 5, 2007 Pretty cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryyannon Posted August 5, 2007 Report Share Posted August 5, 2007 Interesting, but I hope people don't assume those figures are accurate (apart from the clock and date, that is!) I would have a tendancy to believe that some of them are worse than what we see, while praying that in reality, they are much better.... Out of curiosity - and other than being a specialist in a given field - how would you go about verifying the 'accuracy' of those stats? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corgi Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 B S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gioarmani Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 It's a rep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victoria Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 http://www.chippynews.com/worldclock.htm Ken Well the rep watch jokes have been done, so I'll just go with: Cool, but a little on the paranoid side for me. There are some kinds of people in this world that take a morbid pleasure in always pointing out the worst stats in the world. Climatology, divorce, infant mortality, traffic accidents, which wife took a meat cleaver to her husband, et cetera. There is never a "happy news" world clock, like out of the top of my head, the amount of college graduates around the world, how many species were saved from extinction in one year, the amount of books bought, or 50th wedding anniversaries celebrated. Oh, no. It's always Doomsday for certain folk. If it bleeds, it leads. Blech. Don't trip on my soapbox on your way out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryyannon Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 Les gens heureux n'ont pas d'histoire.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornerstone Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 @J: Your Arabic is improving, but your helicopters are still disappointing. And your horse seems to be jet propelled. 4/10 I like the happy clock idea - but if you saw a clock of how much happiness and great things there were every single second and you weren't getting any of it, wouldn't that be a bit depressing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryyannon Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 @J: Your Arabic is improving, but your helicopters are still disappointing. And your horse seems to be jet propelled. 4/10 I like the happy clock idea - but if you saw a clock of how much happiness and great things there were every single second and you weren't getting any of it, wouldn't that be a bit depressing? Quite agree with you on every point, my friend. But put yourself in my place: summer holiday, and I find myself in this hole! Thousands of kilometres from the beach, they've burnt down my hotel and my Arabic teacher is hanging from a branch. Outdoor art classes have been cancelled, there's nothing to eat and I barely have any crayons to sketch the local color. Don't seem to be getting much joy here. I think it's time to either wind up the old happiness clock or change travel agents. Perhaps both. In the meantime, I'll work on getting those horses better. What do you think of those camel-mounted 106mm Recoilless rifles though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornerstone Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 What?! You mean the chardonnay isn't chilled and the grapes aren't fresh too?! Sheesh...they don't make hell hole war zones like the good old days. Look at World War I - Paul Nash, Wilfred Owen. Four years painting and writing poetry Well, almost four years for Wilfred, he got blown to smithereens. But there was a lot of poetry in there up until that point. Now...who's feeling cheered up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornerstone Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 Oh, and before you ask, getting blown to smithereens isn't nearly as much fun as it sounds!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryyannon Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 Now...who's feeling cheered up? But I always did have a strange sense of humor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pugwash Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 I would have a tendancy to believe that some of them are worse than what we see, while praying that in reality, they are much better.... Out of curiosity - and other than being a specialist in a given field - how would you go about verifying the 'accuracy' of those stats? The problem here is the cherry-picking of things to report on. The number of abortions and mothers dying from abortions is a political statistic, for instance. If it had US deaths by firearms, it'd be political as well, but in a different way. As for verifying, check the WHO, the OECD, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gran Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 Looking at that I can see why Birthcontrol is soo important Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryyannon Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 Looking at that I can see why Birthcontrol is soo important Coming right up, Gunnar! You want a glass of water with that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornerstone Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 Looking at that I can see why Birthcontrol is soo important Screw that - the real issue is how we get all those bicycles to stop shagging.... Pugwash's point was salient - as soon as you start selection which statistics to show, you're already making some kind of point. But I quite like those population counts and so on - kind of nice to remind yourself what's happening in the world beyond what makes the news headlines; like looking at the world as if in a goldfish bowl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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