Thursday 23 April 2009

A new idea of democracy

I recently discovered that the concept of democracy is rapidly evolving... I was under the impression that democracy consists in discussing various ideas, voting, and deciding according to the results of the vote. But now I discover that today democracy seems to be something like "If I cannot win, I refuse to discuss and to vote".
To me, this looks like a modern reimplementation of the old "I don't play unless I am sure I will win" idea.

Tuesday 21 April 2009

Internet traffic

According to some reliable data (that I obviously forget to reference in details),
  • 70% of the internet traffic is due to video downloading/streaming/something;
  • 60% of the internet traffic is P2P
  • 30% of the internet traffic is due to spam
  • 20% of the internet traffic is generated by people trying to understand how many cups of tea they can boil with a google query
  • 15% of the internet traffic is generated by people boiling a cup of tea
  • 30% of the internet traffic is generated by people trying to brew some coffee... But for some reason google only works with tea (the ICFM - Internet Coffee Freedom Movement - is working on this)
  • 5% of the internet traffic is generated by people who wanted to microwave some food by pressed the wrong button
  • 3% of the internet traffic does not have an opinion (do not know if this is relevant here, but "does not have an opinion" always sounds good in all kinds of statistics)
Well, I hope there will be at least a small percentage of the internet traffic which is generated by people actually doing some interesting work... Anyway, I guess a good 2% of the internet traffic is generated by people guessing why the sum of the percentages mentioned above is not 100.

Sunday 12 April 2009

Happy Easter!

Rejoice: Christ is risen.
Have a happy Easter!