I just wrote a super-long and excellent post on James Taranto's "Roe effect", and then @#$%(&#@!(& Internet Explorer crashed before I could post it. It's been doing that recently, and I don't know why.
I took some statistics from Barna Research and prochoice.org and determined that:
- The "average American woman" has slightly more than 0.5 abortions.
- Christian women have an average of between 0.105 and 0.220 abortions each.
- Non-Christian woman have an average of between 0.695 and 2.735 abortions each.
The data's there, but I'm not going to type it all up again. The largest source of error comes from deciding who is a "Christian", and Barna gives two results -- 85% of people classify themselves as Christians, but only 41% of people actually hold Christian beliefs. Prochoice.org says that 18% of women who get abortions call themselves Christians.
My conclusion: Mr. Taranto's Roe effect definitely has some statistical basis, and it's very likely that the large percentage of anti-abortion youngsters is due in part to the fact that people who are against abortion have more children than people who are in favor of abortion. I only wish I'd thought of the idea myself.
Internet Explorer crashed before I could post it
1. Run your maintenance functions daily.
2. Update your anti-virus and then run it.
3. Get a spyware program like this and then run it daily.
Or you could just not use Internet Exploder unless absolutely necessary. I have to use XP/IE at work but at home I find that OSX/Safari to be a much better combination. For the Linux crowd Safar = Konqueror engine + nice front end.
Do an experiment and tote up how much time you lose to excessive crashes. Put a $ amount on that time and if a years worth of outages costs more than a bottem end mac (eMac, $799) then you should get one for browsing and whatever other uses you might have for it.
For most people a bottom end computer is more than adequate for >90% of what they want to do and most people's applications needs can be satisfied by either Mac or Windows. For Linux the figure's a little lower, may 80%.
amen on the Emac....our advertising manager @ the magazine just got one, and doesn't crash, doesnt freeze,,
Just works, unlike her NEW compaq. The one I've been designated the "call tech support" person for. The compaq is sitting upstairs in a box.
The Emac (OSX 10.3) even runs aol (UGH) faster, can use a phone # the compaq couldn't/wouldn't (?) recognize, even after numerous calls to AOL (india) "tech support"
..she's thrilled.
Oh, by the way, she's also 65+. She uses it for doing advertising, sales/reservations, maintaining LARGE susbscriber and advertiser databases, etc...nary a hiccup.
Gotta love it.
I used Mozilla at home for a while, but it's super-slow and I lost patience. I've never really had problems with IE crashing before. I installed LimeWire a few days ago, and I suppose that could be causing problems somehow; I uninstalled it (I don't do much file-sharing).
Anyway, yes, thanks for all the tips on how to avoid IE. Still, it's the best browser I've used.
camino, the newest thing from Mozilla for mac, is stupid fast....