Riso posted:

http://www.overcriminalized.com/CaseStudy/McNab-Imprison-by-Foreign-Laws.aspx

"The Supreme Court is currently considering whether to take the case of four businesspeople sent to prison for importing lobster tails from Honduras. Their convictions are predicated on supposed violations of the Lacey Act, which makes it a crime to import “fish or wildlife taken … in violation of any foreign law.” Here, the foreign laws are Honduran fishing regulations that have been declared null and void in Honduras, but are somehow still being enforced by American federal courts."

QCIC posted:

This is kind of misleading because the name of the South African state and its current territory wouldn't be anything other than "The Republic of South Africa", although traditional names for tribal lands may have fallen out of use.

Purno posted:

Vivian Darkbloom posted:

International river basins:

Schizotek posted:

If you expanded this city to cover the whole world 40k style it'd be almost exactly one quadrillion people, considerably larger than the numbers most scifi writers use for their world spanning cities. Star Wars Coruscant has a population of a trillion, for example. 40k itself, with cities the size of continents that extend hundreds of miles into the sky caps out at a few hundred billion. Scifi writers have always lacked a proper sense of scale.

Kamrat posted:

computer parts posted:

Dotted lines seem to be "under construction" or planned:

Nintendo Kid posted:

Uh, unimaginative? It's street names and neighborhood names, the same as most transit systems use. What, are they supposed to be completely unrelated to the location?

ComradeCosmobot posted:

Uh, because there is only one China, and Taiwan is a part of China. Duh.

And to bring this back to the politically-loaded theme: see also the superfluous Diaoyu Island callout

Nintendo Kid posted:

But they are named after local landmarks when there's a local landmark to name after? Did you even look at the map? Or more so, have you ever been to New York?

Jippa posted:

Soviet Commubot posted:

I like that there are about as many native Spanish speakers in the US as there are in Spain. Also, isn't it kinda cheating to list all of that under "Chinese"?

Disco Infiva posted:

Hello steinrokkan, please meet my best friend Kulen.

Guavanaut posted:

It seems to be a point of pride with some native Chinese speakers that their language is harder (once you factor in the writing system etc.) than most others.

http://pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html

Grand Fromage posted:

Like most things in Korea, it's about the appearance rather than the content. The goal is for students to seem like they're learning, and to memorize enough material that they can pass the standardized English test. The test is famously terrible and much of it is esoteric nonsense that has no connection to how people speak, and even native English speakers often don't get what the gently caress the questions are asking. Actually understanding anything or being able to communicate is never involved in the process. The Korean English teachers often don't understand the language either and can't communicate in it, I met more than a few in that category. The whole thing is to learn to pretend that you speak English without ever actually learning to speak it.

I don't know what he means about the American ESL thing either. I "taught" English in Korea for years but I never did ESL in the US so I have no reference for that.

Ghost of Mussolini posted:

For comparison: "Percentages of people in European countries who said in 2010 that they "believe there is a God" "



It's politically loaded because there is no "No data" for grey, therefore those unshaded countries aren't European.

Hogge Wild posted:

Phlegmish posted:

This is a very idealistic view of constitutional monarchies as monarchs are still human beings with opinions and ambitions no matter what is theoretically supposed to be off-limits. Said opinions also tend to be terrible. For example, in 1990 King Baudouin of Belgium refused to sign a new law on abortion, so that he actually had to temporarily abdicate for the law to pass. I do not feel represented by these people and would much rather not have a head of state at all.

fermun posted:

Rehosted:

SoggyBobcat posted:

Didn't the KMT renounce their claims on Mongolia? I'm pretty sure I remember that being a thing somewhat recently.

Pakled posted:

A politically-loaded map with a politically-loaded color scheme.

showbiz_liz posted:

The most common form of birth control in China is IUDs, followed by sterilization. Here's some stats.

Powered Descent posted:

I couldn't find a single instance of a fatality in the green "Other" category. What sort of thing would that be, anyway? Skydivers who came down over a highway and got hit by a truck before they landed and technically became pedestrians?

Pakled posted:

fishmech posted:

School attendance doesn't guarantee that they know how to read. Dumb people still exist.

computer parts posted:

The Heihe–Tengchong Line, an imaginary line that divides China into two (more or less) equal area parts. The Western side has ~57% of the area, but 6% of the population. The Eastern side has 43% of the area but 94% of the population. The population ratio has been relatively unchanged since the 1930s.

Baron Corbyn posted:

Taiwan has cities named Taipei, Taitung, Tainan and Taichung which translates as North, East, South and Central Taiwan respectively. They've always annoyed me for being a) very generic names for cities and b) not having a West Taiwan.

Baron Corbyn posted:

Well, that's one less thing to be irrationally irritated in my life.

Ras Het posted:

Wessex, Sussex, Essex, Middlesex but nae Nossex

mcustic posted:

Colonialism.jpg

twoday posted:

vyelkin posted:

Found on facebook with no source:

cebrail posted:

At some point they should just make up a decent name for their country.

icantfindaname posted:

Antti posted:

Is it at all possible it's a composition of Roman-era maps of coastlines? So Cyprus looks like the Romans had Cyprus down on their maps? Because that's the only way that map can be salvaged.

Bloodnose posted:

I guess I need to see the question/methodology for that map. It's so weird. How is Bosnia a higher proportion than famously nationalist Serbia? Why are so few Brits down to fight for king and country? I wonder what America would look like with this question. I'm not a hardcore nationalist but my instinct would be to answer yes to that question because it does give me a sense of "we've been attacked and need to defend ourselves" rather than "poor people on another continent need killing."

icantfindaname posted:

Greeks are Slavs in denial

yaffle posted:

I'd like to order this for our library, do you know if it's in print under another name?

Guavanaut posted:

Is that why East Anglia hates Europe too?

dont be mean to me posted:

Carbon dioxide posted: