LJ Index

  1. Year at which the over-65 population of Germany will approach 50%: 2030
  2. Multiple of over-65 growth rate, by which the under-35 population of Germany will shrink if the birth rate remains constant: 2
  3. Millions of immigrants Germany will need to acquire per year to sustain its current work force: 1
  4. Number of times Tove Torvalds has won the Finnish karate championship: 6
  5. Cost of a Windows network solution tested at the CRN test center: $4,688
  6. Cost of an equivalent Linux-based network solution at the same CRN test center: $317
  7. Percentage cost savings of Linux vs. Windows at the CRN test center: 93
  8. Percentage of humanity that lives on less than $2 per day: 50
  9. Billions of people who live on less than $1 per day: 1
  10. Number of women who die per minute in childbirth: 1
  11. Days of paperwork processing it would take to legalize a bakery in Cairo: 500
  12. Percentage by which use of "web bug" surveillance (via 1x1 pixel surveillnce gifs) has grown over 3 years ending August 2001: 500
  13. Percentage of top 100 Web destinations that use Web page "spawning" (opening of unwanted windows) of some kind: 30
  14. Percentage of the top 100 European domains that employ spawning: 20
  15. Percentage of sites on the Internet that use "mouse trapping" to prevent the user from closing a page or using its back button: 5.7
  16. Average number of sexual partners among persons aged 16-55 in the U.S.: 14.3
  17. Frequency of sex per year among the same population in the U.S.: 124
  18. Position of both the above in relation to all 27 countries surveyed: 1

Sources: 1-3, Economist; 4, Open Source Initiative; 5-7, Computer Reseller News; 8-11, Bill Clinton; 12, CNET, sourcing Cyvaillance; 13-15, Cyvaillance

Notes (not for publication):

http://www.economist.com/surveys/displayStory.cfm?Story_id=770839

cost savings with linux

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/news_comment/dimbleby/clinton.shtml

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6873202.html?tag=owv

http://www.boston.com/news/daily/27/sex_chart.htm

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