I'm guessing mostly people who wake at night and need something to do other
than waking the wife (or husband)

In Brasil, there are remote areas, where SW is needed to pick up broadcasts. A
few stations have a SW to reach those listeners

For the USA, Many people who came here from other countries or are here
temporarily like to hear news from home

--
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I doubt, therefore I might be

dxAce wrote:

Always LMFAO at the stupid 'tard boy.


I see you've found yet ANOTHER activity for your nether regions. Pervert.





mike

"uncle arnie" &mex. wrote in message
...
I'm guessing mostly people who wake at night and need something to do
other
than waking the wife (or husband).

I enjoy listening to stations from around the world and if I ever get
proficient enough, it will help me with foreign languages.

--
~~Bluesea~~
Spam is great in musubi but not in email.
Please take out the trash before sending a direct reply.

"m II" wrote in message
news:foYld.99137$VA5.35649@clgrps13...

Sadly, you may be very wrong.

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When more than 300 young Americans in the survey were shown a blank
world map and asked to indicate the location of the United States,
only 89 percent could do so.
Other findings from the survey:

* 34 percent of the young Americans knew that the island used on
last season's "Survivor" show was located in the South Pacific, but
only 30 percent could locate the state of New Jersey on a map. The
"Survivor" show's location was the Marquesas Islands in the eastern
South Pacific.
* When asked to find 10 specific states on a map of the United
States, only California and Texas could be located by a large majority
of those surveyed. Both states were correctly located by 89 percent of
the participants. Only 51 percent could find New York, the third most
populous state.

This reminds me of Summer Y2K when I was in Honolulu trying to talk to a man
in WA. I got his wife and left a message which included a request that he
call me after 11 a.m. his time since I was 3 hours behind and wanted to be
awake and functioning when we talked.

So, he calls me the next morning at 5 a.m. HST/8 a.m. PDT because he figured
that his wife surely got the message wrong since nobody's west of WA
g-r-o-a-n.

--
~~Bluesea~~
Spam is great in musubi but not in email.
Please take out the trash before sending a direct reply.

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 21:01:36 -0600, uncle arnie wrote:

I'm guessing mostly people who wake at night and need something to do
other than waking the wife (or husband).


Wrong. Personally I like listening to news and programming from other
countries. Other viewpoints on world events other than what the U.S. media
wants to feed us.

Oh, I'm not married. I'm not that stupid.

Brian Hill wrote:

CRI had a Chinese learning program. I heard it not too long ago. Years ago I
learned some Finn on YLE. I'm part Finn and wanted to surprise my Grandpa.
Boy was that a hard language.

It's supposedly related to Hungarian somewhere in the dark misty past.
The beauty of those languages is that it's a phonetic alphabet. Once
you know what the letters are, you can pretty well say any word you
can read. Understanding them is the harder work.

With all those carets (sp?) or umlauts above most vowels, you may get
a total of over thirty letters. It's a small price to pay not to have
to have all those stupid 'laws' in English grammar, most of which
aren't rules at all.


Here's mike's law:


I before E except after C but NOT usually!





leisurely neighbour mike

Watch it? Hell, I help create it. I'm in the TV biz.

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:42:53 -0500, dxAce wrote:



David wrote:

An ignorant populace is essential for the fascists to be able to stay
in power. That's why we have the hideous fake news on TV.

Do you watch it, 'tard boy? If so, why? If not, then how would you know it is fake,
'tard boy?

Always LMFAO at the stupid 'tard boy.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

David wrote:

Watch it? Hell, I help create it. I'm in the TV biz.

Care to elaborate on that?



On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:42:53 -0500, dxAce wrote:



David wrote:

An ignorant populace is essential for the fascists to be able to stay
in power. That's why we have the hideous fake news on TV.

Do you watch it, 'tard boy? If so, why? If not, then how would you know it is fake,
'tard boy?

Always LMFAO at the stupid 'tard boy.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Dan wrote:
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 06:54:03 GMT, m II
wrote:


When more than 300 young Americans in the survey were shown a blank
world map and asked to indicate the location of the United States,
only 89 percent could do so.


"Only" 89 percent?!? That's not bad, considering that *everyone* in
that age group absolutely hates Geography!


Other findings from the survey:

* 34 percent of the young Americans knew that the island used on
last season's "Survivor" show was located in the South Pacific, but
only 30 percent could locate the state of New Jersey on a map. The
"Survivor" show's location was the Marquesas Islands in the eastern
South Pacific.


That's statistically equal. Interesting how it's phrased as "34
percent", but "only" 30 percent!


* When asked to find 10 specific states on a map of the United
States, only California and Texas could be located by a large majority
of those surveyed. Both states were correctly located by 89 percent of
the participants. Only 51 percent could find New York, the third most
populous state.


Where were these mythical "young Americans" from? If they had been
from somewhere other than California, they would have done better.
Most people can find their state and a few neighboring states.


* On a world map, Americans could find on average only seven of
16 countries in the quiz. Swedes could find an average of 13 of the 16
countries.


Where were these countries located? Europe?


* Only 71 percent of the surveyed Americans could locate the
Pacific Ocean, the world's largest body of water. Worldwide, three in
10 of those surveyed could not correctly locate the Pacific Ocean.


Interesting phrasing here, also. 71 percent who *could* find it is
exactly the same as "3 in 10", or 30 percent who could *not* find it!


* Although 81 percent of the surveyed Americans knew that the
Middle East is the Earth's largest oil exporter, only 24 percent could
find Saudi Arabia on the map.


All this proves is that "young Americans" (how old, from where?) are
bad at Geography. This does not mean that they know nothing of other
peoples - they just don't know where these people are. Big
difference!

Dan


Reminds me of Mark Twain and his love of statistics. You may well be
right, but these people seem to think differently.


=====================================
Meanwhile, the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) education bill has had
unintended consequences. The bill requires schools to make adequate
yearly progress in reading and math but says nothing about history,
geography, or social studies. As a result, principals and school
administrators are spending more time on the testable subjects and
less time on history, geography, and social studies.

http://www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto...e_ss_wrong.htm

http://snipurl.com/aoip

=====================================


The attempted 'Ebonics' program was an admission of failure in the
education system, but there's help for the rest of us. We can now
conform to THEIR language instead of teaching them OURS. Neat!

Please type in a common phrase. You WILL be enlightened..

http://www.joel.net/EBONICS/translator.asp




mike