Dutch were reported to be the leaders in world pornography production and Hosting.
Now The US has dethroned the Dutch at 480 Million Pages, contributing 60% of World Porn!
US ,the world leader in every sense!
Report:
According to the survey compiled by Paul Walsh of family-friendly web product specialist ,MetaCert , more than 187 million pages of web porn are hosted in Holland, even though the population is just 17 million.
The UK, which has more than four times the population of the Netherlands, hosts a quarter of the amount of internet porn – although that is still 52 million internet pages – almost one for every British citizen.
The Netherlands is also way ahead of its European neighbours in terms of the number of adult-only domain names registered on the country’s servers.
It has nearly two million (1,836,104) domains for X-rated content. That is in contrast to the UK with just over half a million.
Darren Anstee, of Arbor Networks, told IBTimes UK: “It’s a product of the fact a lot of Web hosting companies exist in the Netherlands, and plenty of connectivity through AMSIX. Pornography is profitable and hosters can charge for space used and bandwidth utilized so it’s profitable from their angle as well.”
AMSIX is the Amsterdam Internet Exchange and is the worlds largest data transport hub in the world – accounting for around 10% of the world’s internet traffic
However the figures for Britain and Holland are still dwarfed by the US, which hosts 428 million porn pages – 60% of all smut hosted worldwide.
California is the heartland of the US porn industry, churning out 66% of all content made in the States..
America – 428.3 million (and more than 4 million domains)
We shared our findings with John Carr, one of the world’s most renowned Internet Child Safety experts. John wrote a blog post and shared it with The Sunday Times, who asked both John and I, to hold off on publishing our posts until they went to print. You can read John’s post here. And you can read The Sunday Times article here.“
I have taken the liberty to include more stats than those provided by John and The Sunday Times and we’ve used an infographic to make it easier on the eye.
Scientists have captured the first ever photo of an electron’s whizzing orbit within a hydrogen atom, thanks to a unique new microscopy technique.
Seeing inside the tiniest bits of matter is a challenge, not just because of the infinitesimal atomic scale: Extremely small things operate in extremely weird ways, a branch of science called quantum physics. And the basic act of observing such diminutive things can affect their very existence, a concept known as the uncertainty principle.
To get around that mind-warping concept, scientists have relied upon quantum theory to define the behavior of particles in time and space, coming up with complex equations that predict where and when electrons are in their whizzing orbit around an atom’s proton-packed nucleus.
The Schrödinger equation governs the atomic structure, describing a wave function. But actually observing that structure would inevitably destroy it.
Stodolna’s experiment imaged the wave function of a hydrogen atom. Hydrogen is uniquely suited for the new photography technique because the first element in the periodic chart contains just a single electron.
How people panic easily is demonstrated by the way people of reacting!
Though it needs no Rocket Technology to know that the World will end is a hoax, people tend to react funnily.
Yesterday I blogged that people were sending emails quoting NASA; to-day we find people doing the craziest things to escape the end of the world.
Read On.
Story:
The man building Noah’s Ark Lu Zhenghai of China is sinking $160,000 of his life savings into a massive ship to ensure that he and his family are protected in the event of a worldwide flood. The house-sized ship is pretty substantial, too. At 65 feet long, it weighs about 80 tons, built mostly of timber and steel. It’s unclear if there will be any animals taken onboard.
2. The man who built a nuclear shelter out of school busses Bruce Beach, a 78-year-old former high school teacher living in Ontario, is no stranger to fallout shelters. He built his first in response to the Cuban missile crisis in the ’60s. His life’s work, a sprawling underground labyrinth nicknamed “Ark Two,” was finished in the 1980s and is comprised of 42 underground school busses. Beach rents out rooms in Ark Two, and like most B&Bs, Ark Two rooms boast a kitchen, shower, and separate bunks for children and adults. “People have been in a panic because someone has prophesized the end of the world this particular week or whatever,” he told the Canadian Press. “They call us up just to make sure we have space in the shelter and I tell them, “For sure, come on down.”
3. The man building 3-ton steel balls Not to be outdone by his ship-building countryman, 32-year-old Yang Zongfu of China has been building 3-ton yellow steel balls measuring 13 feet in diameter. The balls are hollow, and inside each there are seatbelts. They’re designed to withstand a volcano, tsunami, earthquake, or nuclear meltdown. Yang calls each anti-disaster bubble “Atlantis.”
4. The man who spent $130,000 on survival equipment More than $130,000 of author Patrick Geryl’s savings have gone into survival prep. In a small wooden bunker in South Africa (far away from the site of a potential nuclear meltdown), Geryl has stockpiled walls of guns, ammo, water purification tablets, and more should the world need to be re-colonized. All of this is detailed in his tell-all book, How to Survive 2012. But with only two-and-a-half stars on Amazon, it’s safe to say it probably won’t make any best-seller lists come 2013.
End of The World. 2012
5. The man who spent $350,000 on survival equipment $130,000 is nothing! Australian marketer Robert Bast, 46, is the proprietor of a community called Survive2012.com, and has spent upwards of $350,000 stockpiling food, water, gas cookers, generators, and a pick-up truck to take his wife and three children to a safe house 1,500 feet above sea level. “What is certain is that in my lifetime, there is a strong likelihood that there will be a catastrophe of some kind,” he tells CNN. “The sun destroy power grids, a flu pandemic that kills millions, an asteroid blast or meteor or comet striking earth, or a magnetic pole shift.”
6. The couple stockpiling honey bees A New England mom named Kathy Harrison prefers her other nickname: The “Doris Day of Doom.” But rather than stockpile weapons and ammunition, Harrison and her husband are keeping something a bit unorthodox: Honey bees. “In a grid down situation those bees become not just food for us, but they become money that we can barter for,” said Harrison. “Those bees are the essence of resilience for us.”
These activities though harmful to the individual , ensure an out let is provided for basic Human drives and keep people away from indulging in other anti-social activities.
The Famous/Notorious Amsterdam District of Amsterdam is likely to close down/laws to be made stringent.
‘A decade ago, the government in the Netherlands legalised prostitution in an effort to cut human trafficking and organised crime.
But it seems their efforts have had the opposite effect. Amsterdam’s mayor says the red light district has turned into a hub for human traffickers exploiting the country’s liberal approach to selling sex.
This summer the Dutch government is expected to tighten the prostitution laws, and in the meantime Amsterdam is trying to clean up the red light district – cutting the number of brothels and replacing them with new business ventures.’
‘A third type of the Kautilyan woman was the ganika or the prostitute. Ganikas were present even at the time of the Ramayana. [19] The Arthashastra mentioned three types of ganikas: [20](1) the ganika who practised within a state-controlled establishment, (2) the rupajiva or an independent woman who could practise prostitution outside the sphere of state-owned establishments or in establishments in which government intervention was minimal and (3) thepumsachali or the concubine. The purpose of the ganika was solely utilitarian. Prostitution was a state-endorsed activity, and it generated revenues for the state. The prostitute, usually the madam or the head of a brothel and her deputy were given lump sums by the state to establish brothels and to buy jewellery, furniture, etc. The madams were accountable to the Chief Controller of Entertainers. They ensured that the prostitute’s net income was not reduced by her extravagances. [21] Independent prostitutes were not given lump sums as they were not subject to state supervision. Nonetheless, like the dependent prostitute, the independent one also paid one-sixth of her income as tax to the state. [22] In times of financial trouble for the state, she had to pay extra revenue to the state and the independent ones were obliged to pay half of their income as tax. [23] It was clear that the prostitute’s income was a stable source of state revenue and to generate it, the state encouraged prostitution by direct methods. The courtesan had to possess a wide range of accomplishments ranging from speaking as is evident in the Ramayana[24]to painting to love-making. [25] In order to enable the courtesans to acquire these skills, the state bore their training expenses, for instance, by enabling them to buy musical instruments. [26]
The prostitute was more skilled and accomplished than the average housewife. In the ways of theworld, she would be equally intellectual as any man. It would therefore be natural that men would have found greater enjoyment from the prostitute than from the wife. The provision of state expenditure to train prostitutes in all arts bore testimony to the encouragement of the state to men to visit brothels. Yet, the duplicity of the state was evident when it did not grant the heir of a prostitute a legal status. Her son was barred from inheriting his father’s property. Instead, to ensure a legal male heir by one’s wife Kautilya’s state imposed fines on married couples for failing to fulfil their conjugal duty to procreate. The fine was two times higher for the husband. [27] Since the prostitute’s son did not inherit anything from his father, it meant that the prostitute worked as hard as she could to ensure she left adequate means of provision for her children after a substantial amount of her income was taken away in the form of the taxes.
To avoid her total exploitation, the Arthashastra granted the prostitute some legal projection. For example, the rape of a prostitute was regarded as a crime. Twelve panas were imposed for raping a prostitute and twenty-four panas for each offender in a gang rape. [28] Yet, the legal loophole was that the rape of a prostitute was difficult to prove. On the other hand, the benefit of the rape law was that it took account of the physical suffering of a gang rape – be it of a prostitute – and granted her compensation. Whether the law could be exercised in practice for ensuring justice for the ganika remained a matter of conjecture.
Since the skilled prostitute earned revenue for the state, her ransom price releasing her from service to the state was also high. It would require twenty-four thousand panas to buy off the madam of a brothel as a personal concubine. The price was the second highest salary paid only to the five top officials of the state. [29] The madam was more than a common prostitute. In fact, she was a manager. Losing the madam to personal ownership meant that she was lost from the pool of skilled workers in the economy. Hence, her handover to individuals required a high ransom. It induced no change in the essential condition of the madam. Her ownership was transferred from the state to the individual.
Yet, the state recognized her skills by granting the madam a salary of upto three thousand panas if she became the king’s attendant. [30] The state therefore granted her the equivalent status of the personal advisers of the king and other attendants of high rank, such as the physician or the court poet who were paid the same salary. [31] The penalty for killing a madam was three times her release price because her death closed the ways of the state to make profit. On the other hand, the killing of a common prostitute incurred lower punishment because an ordinary prostitute possessed fewer skills than the madam did. [32] However, even the common prostitute was granted certain legal rights which would protect her. She was protected from cheating, robbery, abduction, confinement or disfigurement. Moreover, there was special legal care to protect the virginity of a prostitute’s daughter. A man had to pay a fine that was sixteen times higher than the fee of a visit to a prostitute if he deflowered her daughter by choice or by force’.
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