[Buddha-l] transparency

[Dan Lusthaus]

>Why the king of Thailand doesn´t do asanas.
> http://tinyurl.com/24omfj8
>erik

Interesting. Doesn't specify whether the feet are his own or others' (I 
suspect the latter).

Unfortunately the google data is currently close to meaningless, unless one 
assumes that every govt. inquiry or request is intrinsically evil. E.g., 
Several European countries have expressed concern over google's street views 
mapping, since some people are being photo-ed inadvertently in places they'd 
rather not be seen (like with people their spouses would find unsettling). 
Such inquiries would be included in the govt. tabulations (and I suspect 
they may make up a sizable portion of the French inquiries). Similarly, in 
the US, it was disclosed that the units taking the street view photos were 
also "accidentally" (!!??) snooping on and recording personal data from 
wireless networks they passed. Inquiries into that would be included in the 
US tabulation. There is nothing evil in the govt. and various attorneys 
general inquiring into this -- to not do so would be derelect. So unless 
google -- which surely has the sorting algorithmic ability -- breaks these 
numbers down, it is just a game of innuendo.

Dan