They should have also broken it down by the income level.
> They should do this kind of graph for health care coverage.
Some topics are not appropriate for public discourse as far as large media corporations are concerned. We are not supposed to discuss the number of bankruptcies / year due to health care costs, or how health insurance is linked to employment and since there is a high un-employment, there is probably a large number of un-insured individuals as well. And how on the first accident any one of those uninsured will probably blow through their life savings, credit card accounts and eventually declare bankruptcy.
Yes, but I would propose breaking it down by their level of median annual income over the last 5-10 years. This would give a number, for any given individual, would tend to change gradually over a lifetime and would not be significantly affected by a year or two of unemployment.
This would show how much of the unemployment was affecting only those who were already losing in the employment game.
However can you even imagine a "too many bikes" problem in the USA? My town has many bike lanes but bikes have disappeared from even the college campus at an alarming rate as students come in as freshmen with daddy's SUV instead.
There are lots of bikes but streets are narrow and bike lanes are nowhere to be found (I was amazed when I visited Amsterdam)
Most people ride on the sidewalk; some ride on the street but on the wrong side (contrary to the traffic!).
Most drivers don't seem to be aware of bikes. For instance, you have to take a lot of care of drivers coming from the opposite direction and turning (on their) right in front of you.
Also, most Japanese university students don't own cars and would probably envy you Americans. :-)
Where do you live though? In many parts of the country the weather is not conducive to biking regularly. If you visit colleges on the west coast you'll notice an infestation of bicycles but they have very nice weather year round so it's practical to rely on bikes to get around.
In cold places during winter, bike lanes double as extra room to pile snow. The trade-off is that in the spring the bike lanes are unusable until the city sweeps the streets because all sorts of debris accumulates in them. Tire-unfriendly stuff like glass and screws.
Could be a function of your town. I see tons of cyclists in Chicago even when it's -10 outside. Seems like there are more and more people out everyday, and that we need a lot more bike parking downtown.
So given this acknowledgment, when will there be a formal protest by governments to Japan to stop their dolphin slaughters? Shouldn't killing dolphins be an international crime?
The same argument could be made for cows. They're not as smart as dolphins, but they're smart enough to feel pain, have emotions, and have social relationships.
I have always admired my government (NZ) for its anti whaling and dolphin hunting stance but I suspect it gets all the government support due to our tourism interests. I see this problem being solved, among others, with PETA's (artificial) meat in a vat idea.
I'm sorry, this is very wrong to do. If you think it's a pest, kill it without making it suffer but don't make any living thing your plaything while you kill it. This is the sign of a sick society, or at least a sick mind.
They're already dropping the ball, especially when it comes to search quality. There is a marked decrease in quality of results in the last couple of months.
Adding premium content means more ads for it and upselling which will make visiting the site less and less pleasant for "free" content.
But they will never have competitors as they are the only one that owns the rights to display virtually all of their content online, so they pretty much can do whatever they want, it's a monopoly.
You have to enlighten me how it could be a different physical server and yet be the same hard drive ?
Unless you are suggesting they use ATA-over-ethernet or something like that to share the same drive.
Or maybe you meant to be worried that they might use virtual machines where one is running the .gov site and the other would be mail server or something like that ?
At the volumes of web traffic they receive there it would surprise me if they only had one server to do just whitehouse.gov, especially if they're using drupal.
The graph shows that the recession IS affecting everyone in all the groups equally.
They are all a few percentage higher than last September, but the ratio is the same as last September.
Instead of doing this by age, gender, race and education they should have shown this by TYPE of job.
Then it would be very uneven.
They should do this kind of graph for health care coverage.