It’s important to keep in mind that Texas, in all of it’s death penalty glory, executed 18 people in 2008. China executed 1,718.
Population of Texas: 24,326,974
Population of the PRC, excluding Taiwan: 1,345,751,000
(Texas/China population = 0.018076876034273799536466998724132)*1,718= 31
China executes ~1.72 prisoners for every one Texas executes when weighted for population.
“What does your tattoo mean?” is such a stupid question.
In my opinione it’s the tattoos that “have meaning” that are the ones that are usually terrible. See: 99.9% of memorial tattoos, all baby tattoos, asian character tattoos…
* Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did at Crucifixion in art, you will be blocked from editing. –Tryptofish (talk) 01:54, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
* The addition of anime to a LOT of pages, whether through “In Popular Culture” additions or other spurious ways, is a key reason [...]
iiNet “won’t introduce compulsory filtering unless required to do so by law” but are seemingly already prepared to fold to the welcomed, structured and disciplined approach to enhanced cyber safety…and bullshit everyone in the process.
Or…
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/329895/iinet_welcomes_conroy_isp_filtering_plans
iiNet has welcomed the Federal Government’s new cyber security plans – which include the introduction of mandatory ISP-level filtering — calling [...]
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/15/2772467.htm
Quote:
“The Federal Government will introduce compulsory internet filtering to block overseas sites which contain criminal content, including child sex abuse and sexual violence.
“Our pilot, and the experience of ISPs in many western democracies, shows that ISP level-filtering of a defined list of URLs can be delivered with 100 per cent accuracy,” he said.
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“I sat in the big hall and put my packet of Polos on the desk. And my spare pencil and my support gonk. And my chewing gum and my extra pen. And my extra Polos and my lucky gonk. And my pencil sharpener shaped like a cream cracker. And three more gonks with a packet [...]
The Sunrise Anti-Bullying Petition:
Complete info here:
http://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/b/sunrise/35884/face-up-to-bullyingsign-the-petition/
With many children now being bullied via sites such as Facebook, we believe the Government needs to take stronger action with a formal system for dealing with complaints. Regular offenders should be flagged and ultimately banned from sites. At the moment, the websites are allowed to [...]
