Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Indeed! Well he is a fantastic athlete and deserves his every success this games... just kinda loud ;-) And would you rather watch Michael Phelps or Stephanie Rice racing? Incidentally, this from the Los Angeles Times "Australia leads in medals per capita August 12, 2008 Everybody says the great medal-count derby of Beijing 2008 will boil down to China versus the United States, but as usual, everybody's wrong. Neither China nor the United States has any chance at the top honor. Oh, they'll have their little scuffle in the Medals Table, all right. They just won't even sniff contention in the humble Medals Per Capita Table, which divides national population by total medals -- mindful of the inarguable fact that China, with 1.33 billion people, or the United States, with 303.8 million, should get more raw medals than, say, Australia, with 20.6 million. As Monday evening in Beijing brought a fresh "official" medal table, the MPC Table looked as follows: 1. Australia (5 medals) -- 4,120,171 2. Croatia (1 medal) -- 4,491,543 3. Georgia (1 medal) -- 4,630,841 4. Czech Republic (2 medals) -- 5,110,456 5. The Netherlands (3 medals) -- 5,548,438 Side note: The laggard United States had 12 medals, for 25,318,721, and the Lilliputian Chinese gamely had clawed for 14 medals but still looked stuck with 95,003,186. Chuck Culpepper" Adjusted for right now that would be Australia 1 medal per 2.06 million USA 1 medal per 13.8 million people, Aren't statistics wonderful ;-) ;-) Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ -----Original Message----- Subject: Re: [Leica] Fakes On Aug 12, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote: > I'm surprised to read that people feel so strongly about this. The > opening > ceremony is simply entertainment or theatre, like a super Hollywood > blockbuster movie. Seems like they put on a pretty spectacular show > to me. > Now Michael Phelps you could consider to be a REAL annoyance ;-) ;-) especially if you are an Aussie swimmer... :-) Steve > > > Cheers > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ > > -----Original Message----- > Subject: RE: [Leica] Fakes > > Tina Manley <images@comporium.net> wrote: > >> It wasn't only the fireworks that were faked: >> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7556058.stm >> >> Nothing is real anymore! > > I feel completely at a loss for words to describe how I feel about > how we > are manipulated with fakery, how the producers of such propaganda take > pride in their work, and how one of the participants in the fakery, > the > actual singer, was convinced (or told) to be happy to have been > tossed a > crumb. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com