G'day George,
On 9/24/06, Guettarda guettarda@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/23/06, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
Just for reference, we're looking at a worst case roughly 124,000 school stubs ( http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d04/tables/dt04_085.asp ) for the US.
Yes, and the US accounts for ~5% of the world population. Assuming that there are 2x as many schools per capita as in the US, that means over a million stubs.
We have others floating suggestions of putting a stub in for every city, town, village, and perhaps hamlet everywhere in the world. Those are being taken positively and seriously. I hesitate to guess how many million stubs that will end up being.
Yes, we do. Suppose stubs on towns are more useful than stubs on schools?
(I don't intend to offer that argument seriously. But you could at least consider it before deciding that towns === schools.)
I am not going to extend the schools argument to the whole rest of the world. I would assume that other english-speaking nations would want equal inclusion, (UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, etc). That's going to less than double the potential number of school stubs.
There are countries out there that don't speak English. They're just as interesting as the rest of us (in the case of NZ[0], far more so). Why aren't you going to consider them? Why are they beyond your scope?
[0] Any Kiwi readers here? Oh, shit.