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Former Member
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When I played a bit with the pages in the member area I found the page where you can select your home country. Imagine my astonishment when I found that I could pretend to live in NIUE (2100 inhabitants) or even on Bouvet Island (Zero inhabitants, all pop. data from CIA world factbook), but someone had decided not to give me the choice of pretending to be Cuban!
 1) This thingy is called the "WORLD" Community Grid. How about including the world?. 2) I thought this project was supposed to be free of all these petty little things like nationalism, profiteering, and ideology. This little omission lets the project look more and more like an American Project. 3) Sad, really. Chris |
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Hi astronoid
 When I played a bit with the pages in the member area I found the page where you can select your home country. Imagine my astonishment when I found that I could pretend to live in NIUE (2100 inhabitants) or even on Bouvet Island (Zero inhabitants, all pop. data from CIA world factbook), but someone had decided not to give me the choice of pretending to be Cuban! 1) This thingy is called the "WORLD" Community Grid. How about including the world?. 2) I thought this project was supposed to be free of all these petty little things like nationalism, profiteering, and ideology. This little omission lets the project look more and more like an American Project. 3) Sad, really. Chris  Because Cuba, Iran, and Syria haven't been invaded yet silly!  Now Iraq is another story..........  HAY! Where the hell is IRAQ???  |
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What happened to Iraq!?
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Former Member
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At least we have Wyoming now, listed as a USA state. If anybody can find any other missing parts of the globe, let's add them to this thread.
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 Wow, thank you Uncle Sam! First I thought that someone simply paid more attention to the selection of smilies than the selection of countries. I never suspected that someone actually rewrote the atlas to not include Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lybia, and who knows what else. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" * Maybe I should start folding@home.  A(stro)noid *(somewhere in Hamlet) |
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When I played a bit with the pages in the member area I found the page where you can select your home country. Imagine my astonishment when I found that I could pretend to live in NIUE (2100 inhabitants) or even on Bouvet Island (Zero inhabitants, all pop. data from CIA world factbook), but someone had decided not to give me the choice of pretending to be Cuban! 1) This thingy is called the "WORLD" Community Grid. How about including the world?. 2) I thought this project was supposed to be free of all these petty little things like nationalism, profiteering, and ideology. This little omission lets the project look more and more like an American Project. 3) Sad, really. Chris Wow, thank you Uncle Sam! First I thought that someone simply paid more attention to the selection of smilies than the selection of countries. I never suspected that someone actually rewrote the atlas to not include Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lybia, and who knows what else. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" * Maybe I should start folding@home. A(stro)noid *(somewhere in Hamlet) Hay -OJoke Have you not read the news? "Lay be ya" is leaving Lipstick marks all over our  Day Re Air Bay Be............ That gives them the right to be LAST......... See YA! [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Dec 2, 2004 4:34:28 AM] |
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Former Member
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Updated list of territories that have been declared as doubleplus ungood by
Big Blue :Afghanistan, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Lybia, North Korea, Serbia. Anyone dare to engage in crimethink and find any more?  |
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Former Member
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We're going to get a list of all countries from the UN register and try to add the missing ones.
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Former Member
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We're going to get a list of all countries from the UN register and try to add the missing ones. good to hear that from an ADMIN ... lets hope that "accidentally" IBM remove this country. |
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We're going to get a list of all countries from the UN register and try to add the missing ones . -BBover3 {ADMIN} good to hear that from an ADMIN ... lets hope that "accidentally" IBM remove this country. -narkalios Great Idea! "Remove Cuba by Accidental ICBM!" Thanks Uncle Sam PS-astronoid "Afghanistan" [Edit 2 times, last edit by Former Member at Dec 6, 2004 12:02:37 AM] |
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Former Member
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May I suggest an easier route:
The CIA Word factbook (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/)has a complete list of countries that also looks suspiciously similar to the country list used by the WCG project (before the WCG list was 'cleaned').  If the CIA can publically admit that there is a country called  CUBA , why can't IBM?  Astronoid |
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