About US$3 Million Spent per Second on Pornography in Indonesia

[Kyle Williams]

This has nothing to do with Tor.  Wrong mailing list dude.



On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Roy Lanek <lanek at novenine.com> wrote:

> > What kind of nonsense.
>
> Not so much ... I wonder: are you fishing perhaps? This is Tempo Online
> translated in English. There quite likely can be a *salad* ...
> quantitatively
> speaking. (Reading the article is also--agreed--not always clear to
> understand
> what is peculiar to Indonesia vs. what is general; moreover, Indonesia is
> going to introduce a *great firewall* next year ...)
>
> But qualitatively, they may not be that wrong.
>
> I ignore how the business goes, but I remember to have read in Singapore of
> astronomical *NETTO* sums made a month by pimps [in Singapore].
>
> 4.2 million sites make less than 1 USD a second per site. I don't know how
> many hits *successful* sites have and how the *administration* goes in the
> *branch*.
>
> There are to pay: hosting, ==HEAVY== *commissions* on the left and on the
> right for sure [Indonesia is the country with the largest Muslim population
> in the world: you could drink Whiskey and Vodka and be *entertained* even
> in Aceh too--paying of course]: protection from the police, politicians,
> malavitosi, *insurances*, indemnifications for the ISPs etc. And so on ...
> Internet-expenses-in-general inclusive [in Indonesia there are generalized
> power outages daily since months ... up to 7-8-9-10 hours of blackout
> 7/24].
>
> I guess that the *material* shown will be specialized ... meaning that it
> will
> be *Asian* [and made in Asia, not in the Netherlands, U.S. or Switzerland],
> not Russian nor Nordic. That will have a price too. They will then need
> some
> certificates, or cellular phone infrastructure, for doing *business*--I
> would
> include the latter too, the business extra [there are enough *bapak* in
> Indonesia, a country of perhaps 230+ million, with MUCH more money to spend
> than you have: Singapore's #1 foreign flat owners are Indonesian, I
> believe,
> ethnic Chinese ones inclusive of course] in the balance.
>
> I would add the *amortization* of the hardware--desktops, notebooks,
> whatever--and of the time wasted by the "consumers."
>
> 3000, 300 ... even 30 USD/s [or who knows, 3 million a day] would still be
> significant.
>
> >    1 s            3.075.000 $
> >   60 s          184.500.000 $
> >    1 h       11.070.000.000 $ (11 mrd $ per hour!!!)
> >   24 h      265.680.000.000 $ ( 265 mrd $ per day)
> >    1 month   7,9704 x 10^12 $
>
> Could it be world-, or continent wide? ... but it makes even limited
> difference, eventually; you are missing the point: to be, say, "drown,
> hanged
> and quartered" [I am quoting a movie based a popular book] makes little
> difference after stage one of the series has been carried out.
>
> > If that country were so rich I would live there for 15 years now. My wife
> is
> > indonesian and I know how poor that country is. They NEVER were able to
> spend
> > just a small part of that money. Another fact is that education there is
> > incredibly bad and lots of people are stupid in a way noone can imagine.
> I
> > think this is the reason why such nonsense finds it way into indo
> newspapers.
>
> And *uncertainty [Heisenberg] principle* verified ... *interesting* in a
> sense! For a couple of correct observations you have made you have written
> some compensatory idiocies on a country which you clearly do not know.
>
> /Roy Lanek
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