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Sunday, August 25, 2002 |
Generation IM
Teens & Instant Messaging:
In a landmark study in late 2000, the Pew Internet and American Life project explored online teen lifestyles by interviewing 754 young people between the ages of 12 and 17. The IM generation can be characterized as supreme multi-taskmasters — simultaneously listening to music, watching television, sending emails, talking on the telephone and IM-ing with several friends at once. The study reports that:
• 17 million U.S. teenagers were regular Internet users and nearly 13 million reported using IM.
• 74 percent of the teens reported using IM, compared with only 44 percent of adults who use the technology.
• The majority of those who utilize IM do so more often than email.
This is not news to anyone with a teenager. And it seems to me to have happened very fast in the last couple years. [SciTech Daily]
9:12:09 PM Permalink
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This is damning
1 of Every 32 Adults Now in Prison or On Supervision. A new report from the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics was released this afternoon. Probation and Parole in the... [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]
"The overall figures suggest that we've come to rely on the criminal justice system as a way of responding to social problems in a way that's unprecedented," said Marc Mauer, assistant director of the Sentencing Project, an advocacy and research group that favors alternatives to incarceration. "We're setting a new record every day."
8:56:50 PM Permalink
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Stupidity and fear is dangerous
Does this seem nuts?
Half the countries facing famine in southern Africa are stalling food aid from the US fearing that genetically modified maize may cause health problems and harm their exports, but the United Nations is warning they are putting the hungry at greater risk.
Yeah, I'd say that starving to death is probably a big health problem.
11:03:39 AM Permalink
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Jaguar
Apple realy has a winner here, though I had some problems with m upgrade. First, even though I reformatted the drive and so was doing a pure install of 10.2, for some reason it was unale to find my DHCP server. I had to put my network settings in my hand. Not a big deal: it wasn't too long ago that you always had to put in network settings by hand. And even though I had copied my OS 9 System Folder to a network volume, when I copied it back, 10.2 doesn't see it, so I can't run Classic apps. I seem to have lost my install disk for OS9, so I'm kind of Classic screwed until I can get a new CD. Not a problem though one I do want to get fixed; I have a lot of HyperCard stacks I still want access to. One other problem is that iTunes doesn't recognize my old USB Sony Spressa as a CD burner. I can read CDs, but not burn them. A nuisance, I've seen that some others have the same problem.
The Mail app is really nice, though since I will still be living mostly on my Windows laptop, it won't do me that much good. Mail's junk mail filter is really cool, and I had a minimum of false hits (either way) out of the box. But using two machines for email, and two separate clients, is a real pain, so I'll probably just leave it to Eudora on the laptop.
Jaguar is very responsive, even on my aging iMac 233. I'll be using the iMac more in the future than I have in the past because of it.
10:57:19 AM Permalink
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Drowning Freedom in Oil
Drowning Freedom in Oil. Nothing will restrict America's ability to tell the truth in the Middle East and promote democracy there more than our continued dependence on oil. By Thomas L. Friedman. [New York Times: Opinion]
Yet, since Sept. 11, the Bush-Cheney team has not lifted a finger to make us, or the Arab-Islamic world, less dependent on oil. Too bad. Because politics in countries dependent on oil becomes totally focused on who controls the oil revenues — rather than on how to improve the skills and education of both their men and women, how to build a rule of law and a legitimate state in which people feel some ownership, and how to build an honest economy that is open and attractive to investors.
In short, countries with oil can flourish under repression — as long as they just drill a hole in the right place. Think of Saudi Arabia, Libya or Iraq. Countries without oil can flourish only if they drill their own people's minds and unlock their energies with the keys of freedom. Think of Japan, Taiwan or India.
This is the answer to the question I asked below: why aren't the Saudi's in the Axis of evil?
10:08:49 AM Permalink
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Why aren't they in the axis of evil?
Report in Drudge based on court papers specifying the ties between the Sauidi government and Bin Laden.
Senior members of the Saudi royal family paid "protection money" totaling at least $300 million to Osama bin-Laden and the Taliban to prevent them from attacking targets in Saudi Arabia, the London Sunday Times reported today.
9:32:12 AM Permalink
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Voyager's Legacy in Photos
Now in space for 25 years, and theoretically approaching the helipause, the two Voyager spacecraft are remarkable machines, testaments to the people who built them. Space.com has a nice retrospective of the remarkable photos these two little robots sent back to earth.
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© Copyright 2004 Steve Michel.
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