Maktoum V Maktoum

Anyone else spotted this?
Chelsea V Liverpool

Is International Life Vice President just a title?

Blinded by the Craziness

The smartest thing in this article is the articulation of the common observation:

And what's interesting is that most Indians hang out with Indians, Filipinos with other Filipinos, Arabs with their brethren so on so forth, so it reminds one of what Amartya Sen says in his book Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny, about multiculturalism and how cultures in the same place tend to coexist in parallel rather than in nexus.

From Dubai: First Impressions - There's more to the city than tall buildings

That Single IP problem

If a country, or more specifically, a telecoms provider, uses only one IP address, then whatever that any user does is associated with that country. So if someone decides to blatantly edit nonsense into wikipedia, or try to hack into the US government servers, thee are repercussions.

Case in point: Wikipedia has banned Qatar:

Apparently Qatar has a single ISP, Qtel, with a single IP address shared by the entire country. Wikipedia has blocked that IP address for anonymous edits, but is allowing users of that IP address with actual Wikipedia accounts to continue to edit articles. There’s one problem, though. You can’t create an account if you enter Wikipedia from that IP address. It’s a bit of a Catch 22, and users will be forced to either use a proxy to enter the site (many of which are also banned), or simply stop editing altogether.

This is not a problem specific to Qatar, by the way. The UAE doesn't seem to have enough to go round, although I think it has gone past the problem of just one, but there are way too few. And while foxy proxies may be the answer for some, this may cause problems for the masses, in time.