Comment Typically american (Score 1) 433
Well, this is a definitely typical american approach. "Let's seperate from the rest of the world, because there is no rest of the world, other than what needs conquering or destroying". Time and time again, I read that the people from the US have absolutely no clue that there are other countries in the world than the gold old US, those bastards Canada, and those illegals Mexico. Oh, and the commies in Cuba and the rest of the world.
But I won't continue on the above subject, and just answer your questions:
- How often do you email people in other countries? Daily. My best friend emigrated, and another friend lives in Au. My in-laws live on a seperate continent, and my wife's best friend in China. Segregation would SUCK!!!
- How often do you use foreign sites? Considering you probably mean non-us-sites, daily. Just in case (god forbid) you mean sites foreign to me, daily. This includes sites in English, Japanese, dutch, german, french, swedish, norwegian, tagalog, russian, etc. If it has content I can decipher and find relevant, I read it.
- What would you lose by not being able to access US sites? Not considerably much, just slashdot, gucomics, google, userfriendly, various news sites, digg, etc. Oh....those are my most used sites....well, considerable apparently.
- What other processes? Well, how about those mmorpg's? If segregation was done, Blizzard would be destroyed. No more WOW, except for US, which would mean about a approximate drop of 4 million users. Many MANY games would be unable to be sold, because they rely on US servers for checking of licenses. Those games that do get sold are extremely expensive, because the sellers have to place servers in EVERY country.
- foreing news? Duh, I don't trust single access to news. Too easy to get biased views. Better to see the news from several unrelated sites, to get the whole picture, as far as that's possible.
- would journalists be hindered? Absolutely. They wouldn't be able to send their reports to their bosses, because there would be no internet connection to the US. Also, they would find themselves easier censored by the countries they are in, or report to.
So, to get back to how much would you lose......I think, if you read the things above, you'd get quite a good picture about how much you'd lose. Basically, you'd lose the internet, and everyone would be back to the 80's. No news, no webshops, no online games, high cost of games (higher than now), massive amounts of untracable piracy, rampant virusses (slowly spreading, but unable to remove due to lack of virusupdates), buggy operating systems (no updates).
Would you like it?
But I won't continue on the above subject, and just answer your questions:
- How often do you email people in other countries? Daily. My best friend emigrated, and another friend lives in Au. My in-laws live on a seperate continent, and my wife's best friend in China. Segregation would SUCK!!!
- How often do you use foreign sites? Considering you probably mean non-us-sites, daily. Just in case (god forbid) you mean sites foreign to me, daily. This includes sites in English, Japanese, dutch, german, french, swedish, norwegian, tagalog, russian, etc. If it has content I can decipher and find relevant, I read it.
- What would you lose by not being able to access US sites? Not considerably much, just slashdot, gucomics, google, userfriendly, various news sites, digg, etc. Oh....those are my most used sites....well, considerable apparently.
- What other processes? Well, how about those mmorpg's? If segregation was done, Blizzard would be destroyed. No more WOW, except for US, which would mean about a approximate drop of 4 million users. Many MANY games would be unable to be sold, because they rely on US servers for checking of licenses. Those games that do get sold are extremely expensive, because the sellers have to place servers in EVERY country.
- foreing news? Duh, I don't trust single access to news. Too easy to get biased views. Better to see the news from several unrelated sites, to get the whole picture, as far as that's possible.
- would journalists be hindered? Absolutely. They wouldn't be able to send their reports to their bosses, because there would be no internet connection to the US. Also, they would find themselves easier censored by the countries they are in, or report to.
So, to get back to how much would you lose......I think, if you read the things above, you'd get quite a good picture about how much you'd lose. Basically, you'd lose the internet, and everyone would be back to the 80's. No news, no webshops, no online games, high cost of games (higher than now), massive amounts of untracable piracy, rampant virusses (slowly spreading, but unable to remove due to lack of virusupdates), buggy operating systems (no updates).
Would you like it?
