Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Try 15% of Oslo's population. Children, parents, grandparents. Daniel On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, bdcolen wrote: > Oh pulllleeeze, Henning - Any of us are capable of looking at the t.v. > coverage of the demonstrations this past weekend and telling that > however one wants to argue about head counts, there was an astounding > number of people, in New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, etc. etc., > who came out to protest. > > "1000 weirdo people who don't count" - dream on. > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Henning > Wulff > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 7:12 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: RE: [Leica] FS: Special Anti-War Protest edition Leica M7 > > > At 5:59 PM -0500 2/14/03, Austin Franklin wrote: > > > Well, the last one was estimated by SF Police (not organisers) at > >> 100,000 to 150,000 and with the growing shift in public feeling > >> about potential war, I would guess rather more than that this. > >> > >> How big does it have to be before it's classed as "massive"...? > > > >I don't know, but when they count the number, are they going to use > >"statistical" (snicker, cough, choke...) methods, and "really" count > >only a very dense area, and then apply this density for some overall > >(inflated) area...and play with the numbers so that 10,000, including > >normal traffic and tourists etc. somehow turns into "100,000 ANGRY > >protestors"? > > No, of course not. They're going to look at a large field, in which > there are only 10 or 20 protesters and apply _that_ density for the > overall area and arrive at a conclusion that 100,000 angry protesters > are really only 1000 weirdo people who don't matter anyway. > > -- > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html