Off Topic / Non RC But Interesting

GREAT!!! Dr.1 Driver "There's a Hun in the sun!"

Sweet!

SNIP

Unless of course we talk about the unit known as the British Billion (Rarely used in the UK now but more so in Europe) which is 10 followed by 12 Zeros. Now things really get complicated. ;) Gord Schindler MAAC6694

Indeed so rarely used now in the UK that many people here have no idea it ever existed. Nowadays a billion is a thousand million, and not the million million that it used to be. I wasn't aware that the rest of Europe still (or indeed ever) used "our" old billion though. Interesting!

It used to be said that a UK billion was the only thing that was *bigger* than it's American equivalent. Though I guess they forgot about your funny little pints and gallons.

Merry Christmas!

We certainly do in Norway. We count million, milliard, billion, billiard, trillion, trilliard, and so on, multiplying by a thousand each time.

-tih

No. 1 billion divided by 60 seconds per minute, 60 minutes per hour,

24 hours a day and 365 days per year is 31.7 years ago. Perhaps this shows how old the intro is--from 1959 to 1992 would be about a billion seconds. 1,000 seconds is about 16 minutes.

1,000,000 seconds is 11.6 days.

1,000,000,000 seconds is 31.7 years.

Marty

Also, if you do the math, the 56 billion that we have spent on the war so far comes out to $186.67 per person in the United States. Sounds like a bargain to me!!!

It took less time to take Iraq both times than it will take to uncover what really went down at Enron, Worldcom etc.

Whats the betting they find Osama before they find out which bent lawyers, accountants and politicains lined their pockets?

That the fellow's post was wrong that 1 billion seconds ago it was 1959. 1 billion seconds ago, it was 1971.

Marty

Absolute lack of an opponent is even greater!! If there had been any chance of serious resistance and mass casualties, we would never have gone in.

John VB

I'm sure you do. You're a passionate Republican, and the message was, in the time-honored fashion of US Republicans, lined with hatred for those many Americans who don't vote for your beloved Party.

Can someone explain to me how Republicans can reconcile all their big words about America and Americans with their seemingly boundless hatred for a very large part, possibly a majority, of their own people? It's not even as if there were much of a difference between the two parties -- I'd say Gore Vidal put it rather well when he said that you have a single party, with two right wings... :-)

Me, I tend to distrust those who put Party over People, whether the Party in question is Republican, Communist, Nazi, or whatever.

-tih

Typical Socialist! "Comes the revolution we will all have whatever he has that I want."

My late father was a strong Democrat. At the time I was a strong Republican. We enjoyed many hours fishing and drinking some beers together, plus doing chores around his house when I was available, after some 13 years protecting the world against the Red Hordes. We had a lot of laughs at each other and ourselves together in our constant arguments. Definitely no hatred there.

Not much difference in 1959 and 1971. Mostly haircuts.

***Merry Christmas***

Bob

Don't argue with him. Let him enjoy his nanny state.

Bob

Boy, lately ive been feeling every bit of a billion seconds old......

That's funny, you don't look a bit over 999,999,999,999 seconds old.

Bob

Me, I tend to distrust those who have no idea what they're talking about. Especially those from socialist nations who know nothing about the US, what it is and what it stands for. Then they go and try to tell us how to run our nation, our economy, our politics and when and to whom to give our money to.

Maybe we should have let Germany KEEP Norway!

Chuck