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- thtjebus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+46http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf
it isn't a pie chart but its better. It shows the number of deaths by causes in real time... - kingkilr, on 10/10/2007, -2/+33Pie charts please.
- 10goto10, on 10/10/2007, -1/+26TV told me terrorism kills everyone who doesn't die in a plane crash
- ganjadude4391, on 10/10/2007, -8/+31the simple fact is people die,
we are born
we do stuff to occupy the time we are alive, try and make it comfortable
than we die
thats it - sjbdallas, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13According to TV,we're also obsessed with rich spoiled brats.
- blumph, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10that would be a nihilism in a nutshell [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism]. tell that to the person who finds out they have a terminal disease with little or no time left
- ciaran036, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8exactly. How many times do we have to hear about that one little ***** British girl Maddie which is probably a scam anyway. The front headline of the Daily Mirror yesterday was "We've told the twins" and is about Madeline's mother telling the twins that Madeline is missing! wtf! Dozens of people go missing every single day in Britain alone and because of this one ***** missing girl that I don't care about in the slightest, I'm bombarded with leaflets and posters in every airport, shop and newspaper in the entire ***** country. Get over it for *****'s sake I think we've got the message now to look after our children.
To be honest, I think the newspapers deliberately choose this story so as to hide us from the real issues like bomb blasts in Iraq, the people who are profiteering from the wars and how the British government are responsible for literally thousands of innocent deaths in over there. America and UK (in particular) are just as bad as any other country, no matter what the propaganda says. It's WORSE than Hitler's regime because at least during WW2, you knew your country was trying to take over the world. - Blah_Blah_Blah, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8aren't we obsessed WITH plane crashes?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6A general guide you can use is that the more rare the method of death is the more you will hear about it. If the news was about people dying in car accidents then that is all they would do every day. But if someone gets hacked to bits in a public park it may make worldwide news.
Basically we're terrified, in general, of things that are about as likely as hitting the lottery. - ganjadude4391, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6hmm, i learned something today, thank you
- gameforge, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Strawman? I don't know anybody who wants to read about each and every death. The problem comes from the media, politicians, and generally anybody with an ulterior motive of some kind using numbers of deaths to sensationalize a particular news story or other political topic, when the actual numbers involved are essentially insignificant.
Plane crashes have always been a scapegoat for psychological heuristics gone wrong; the idea that you're far more likely to die in your car vs. in the air is lost on many people because of the way we sensationalize plane crashes. We've all seen the headlines in the newspaper (usually well past the front page) about some people who were killed recently in a car accident somewhere in our local vicinity. Then perhaps you see a headline about a plane crashing in some other state or even country.
Imagine if your local newspaper published a headline every time there was a fatal car crash, anywhere in the world. You'd be left far more scared of cars than of airplanes. Of course nobody actually WANTS the media to publish a story about every death - but many people would like them to stop sensationalizing stories which are, relatively speaking, not as severe as politicians, corporations and media organizations would like you to believe. - Scynet, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Lol, as if we could measure such things with 100% accuracy anyway, captain :P
- kuzotz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4I agree. Whenever I left the US for a study abroad. My god my health improved so much it was crazy.
The healthy stuff was affordable and easier to come by. While the fast foods was very expensive, and not worth my time.
Also the pop taste completely different(we call it pop in Oklahoma). Anyway yea. After a lot of walking around(just to get to places) I liked walking. Of course when I got back to the states I was dismayed to see my relatives laziness to walk 1 M away from a building.
But yea within two weeks I saw vast health improvements.
And I ate healthy in the US.
It is just that everything is so processed, and High Fructose Corn Syrup gets ya. - Error601, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Wow...an article that's only been written a few hundred thousands times by high school students. Yes, news is about drama. Duh.
- blumph, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4that's kind of a depressing outlook. but i'm more moved by the 19 billion cumulative hours spent on waiting for downloads (http://www.worldometers.info/). hey future, get off your ass, come over here and give me my proper internet and fuel-less jetpack!
- tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Yeah, but then you have to find suitable landing places, while gliding fairly quickly toward the earth. Ground that looks flat and easy to land on from 30,000 feet often isn't.
- Albionshores, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Animals like being eaten, it is why they are tasty.
- Ninjab3ar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4than we die?
- bungula, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Don't forget the biggest killer of them all: aging
http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html - alciadanet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Clearly terrorism (not plane crashes) is the #1 killer world-wide.
- BarneyF, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4The real problem is that plane crashes make good pictures. They belong to the same general class of meaningless crap as Paris Hilton's adventures. IT's just lazy journalism focused on ratings.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Amen.
but I only fear of crashing over an ocean.
if turbines and power were to go out on a plane you could glide down i suppose it doesn't just drop.
But Without hydraulics im not sure if this is possible - dattaway, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4I believe we die from eating processed food.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3agreed. i want charts. you know what we're obsessed with? stats, that's what.
- kohno214, on 10/10/2007, -1/+499.9% of all animals die miserable deaths usually by either starving, by disease or being eaten alive. Some intelligent design.
- tep200377, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3How many are natural deaths ?
- ogmak, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3If 199 people died in a freak car accident, I think it would be in the news too. Or 200 people in any freak accident for that matter.
- fritzinator, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3What!!! I thought handguns were running around killing everyone?
- oneblackcitizen, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3some of those people were going to die anyway.
- Kulas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2From the moment we are born "Are we living or dying very slowly?"
- frontporsche, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Current per capita death rate here in New England: 1
- kuzotz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2In this world very few.
My aunt was the lucky one who died at 103 from natural causes. Then my grandmother followed behind at 101. - Kyrgizion, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4"Death"
- MavRevMatt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Haven't you people seen the Lion King and the whole circle of life thing?
- gridiron, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Its not so much the concept of death that people are afraid of, but its the sudden shocking things that no one expects over which we have no control. Death is a natural part of life, but when it comes in an unatural, sudden way (ie. Plane crash, murder, disease at an extreme young age, etc) is when people realize their own mortality and are affected by it,
Planes also hit very close because so many people fly on them, and i believe heights are the number 2 or 3 phobia, behind, i believe public speaking, and death... - Murdats, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2no, the media was obsessed with terrorism well before 9/11
- Murdats, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2gah, i mean plane crashes, not terrorism.
- Murdats, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2they dont put spaces after the link so the ), gets included
- emperortomato, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I think you must have just learned that expression and wanted to try it out. I didn't see any particularly "fancy" words in this article... Unfortunately she doesn't write like she's in grade school -- maybe that would have been more to your taste?
- blumph, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2innovative comments there
- x00x, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Absolutely, positively true. Individual deaths, while the result of the same phenomena, say automobile accidents or disease, with a death rate thousands of times higher simply don't capture the same fascination human beings seem to be mesmerized by. It's just human nature.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yes, soon they will break it down further to:
vaporized, splattered like a bug, dismembered, burned beyond recognition and the big crowd pleaser, decapitated. - apothekari, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"Can't you people stop rutting for five seconds till we figure out this food air deal?!"--Bill Hicks
- proliance, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Some?
- onClipEvent, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Trapped miners in Utah = 6
Trapped miners in China = 180+
which one do we hear more of? the news organization needs to have some perspective. - diggThomas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1More amazing is the 4702 American children killed, on average, everyday (48 million killed since 1978) due to the Democrat’s pro choice movement. American Democrats are the biggest mass murders of all historical time.
- Rosamilia, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I'm not obsessed with Plane crashes or miner stories.
the news channels running low on stories, however - joot2112, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I think it's simply more horrifying to imagine a death by plane crash versus car wreck. In a plane crash you have perhaps a 10 minute fall, knowing there is no way you're gonna live, and there's nothing you can do - it's totally out of your control. In a car wreck it happens with barely a moment to brace, with possibility of surviving impact and hope for airbag, and you can do your best to steer to avoid the idiots and *****. If I must die, I DON'T want it to be by plane crash. That's why I worry about it more.
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