I dont know how to express my feelings in words, so I made a picture.

Probably worth persevering with the words.

OK then.

1. Egypt has jumped on the tyranny-toppling bandwagon too soon. Their chant seems to be:

"What do we want?"
"SOMETHING ELSE!"
"When do we want it?"
"ERM...DUNNO...WHAT IS IT?!!"

It's not inconceivable that this time next year the more cosmopolitan Egyptians might be yearning for the good old days before Sharia law.

2. Every day of anarchy is another day the looters get to devastate the relics of one of the world's great cultures. Only last week Dr. Hawass' mission in life was to bring all pillaged Egyptian relics back to Egypt. Right now he's probably blessing his failures. I just hope most of the thieves are like the ones who broke in to a Cairo museum and had no idea of the value of the exhibits so they ransacked the shit out of the souvenir shop.

Are you sure you wouldn't just prefer a few crappily-made unfunny jpegs?

Well fuck man, if it's a choice between dictatorship, starvation and souvenirs...

:D

Much prefer the words.

Damn. I had a really good pic of Ramses The Great with his cock out.

Post it anyway, for Dan's benefit if nothing else.

here

Cutting off the internet to an entire country is such bull shit. They should find where the master routers are and storm the building. And have someone with a bit of tech savvy amongst them I guess...

You can see the use of Google services, including GMail which is on this graph over time.

It's coming back up by the looks.

Calm down lad.

Aye, they've turned the internet back on. But yeah, complete bullshit to shut a country's communications off like that, though it does make it easier for the government to control the riots and stuff that way.

Controlling the riots and protests. That certainly worked.

Much easier to organise with Twitter and the like though.

I'm fine darling.

there have* been no revolutions since Facebook and Twitter existed, but litteraly hundreds prior to them.

 

{{{logic}}}

 

 

 

*possibly.

You're totally right, but in this day and age it does make things easier to organise. Stopping the internet certainly won't have any chance of stopping the riots, it'd probably make them worse because the people are more pissed off.

{{{{skewed samples}}}}

Yes, but, if people have Internets then they're less likely to get bored and go outside and protest. DYS?

Exactly!

Homer Simpson school of statistics .