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Post #26,285 by Arkadiy 1/29/02 9:45:26 AM Reply	Ash, you're amazing. Where does all your healthy skepticism disappear when it comes to Money? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> *PS - heard recently that there is not One billionaire in the UK; where did we manage to screw up our legal origins and begin to create little Thanes of Cawdor all our own? <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< You've heard it same place as me, on NPR's Car Talk in the Puzzler section. It was a question: "Why is there not a single Billionaire in UK?" The answer is: in UK (and in the rest of the world AFAIK), they use the word "milliard" instead of "billion" to denote 10^9. Thus UK has milliarders, not billionaires.
Post #26,297 by marlowe 1/29/02 10:27:58 AM Reply	Ash has always been a very selective skeptic... as his response above demonstrates. [link\|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/index.html\|http://www.angelfir...e/index.html] Sometimes "tolerance" is just a word for not dealing with things.
Post #26,304 by Brandioch 1/29/02 10:47:22 AM Reply	I heard it differently. one - 1 ten - 10 hundred - 100 one thousand - 1,000 ten thousand - 10,000 hundred thousand - 100,000 one million - 1,000,000 ten million - 10,000,000 hundred million - 100,000,000 thousand million - 1,000,000,000 ten thousand million - 10,000,000,000 hundred thousand million - 100,000,000,000 one billion - 1,000,000,000,000 But in the US, we don't follow that pattern. We assign names to every 3 zeros thousand - 1,000 million - 1,000,000 billion - 1,000,000,000 trillion - 1,000,000,000,000 Personally, I prefer the first system. It seems more sensible to me.
Post #26,474 by Ashton 1/30/02 5:06:21 AM Reply	Curses! Foiled Again. Milliards n'Milliards of Stars.. ..call it poetic licentiousness - after all, a Pound Sterling ain't no Pound o'Sterling - now is it? [Truth] I know of no prose means for inculcating the Revealed Truth that, letting Any* @#&%$* homo sap control as many other homo saps* - (as even One-$B guarantees) is stark raving lunacy, period. We Know How we Are... [/Truth] So I cheated. And I regret none of it. It is a far far better thing. But I didn't lie: I heard* it.* :-\ufffd

Why they hate us: the envy theory - (marlowe) - (43) - Jan. 28, 2002, 06:37:25 PM EST

Interesting. - (Brandioch) - (2) - Jan. 28, 2002, 06:50:31 PM EST

Why ask why? - (marlowe) - (1) - Jan. 29, 2002, 10:30:15 AM EST

Voodoo economics - (nking) - Jan. 30, 2002, 01:09:52 AM EST

Laughing my tail off.... - (Simon_Jester) - (3) - Jan. 28, 2002, 07:48:17 PM EST

Bin Laden is winning? - (marlowe) - (2) - Jan. 29, 2002, 10:34:38 AM EST

Marlowe... - (Simon_Jester) - Jan. 29, 2002, 12:10:59 PM EST

Depends on your definition of winning - (nking) - Jan. 30, 2002, 01:14:21 AM EST

Wow! a veritable glossary of cant - (Ashton) - (24) - Jan. 28, 2002, 07:59:14 PM EST

Minor nitpick...... - (Mike) - Jan. 29, 2002, 09:29:16 AM EST

Ash, you're amazing. - (Arkadiy) - (3) - Jan. 29, 2002, 09:45:26 AM EST

Ash has always been a very selective skeptic... - (marlowe) - Jan. 29, 2002, 10:27:58 AM EST

I heard it differently. - (Brandioch) - Jan. 29, 2002, 10:47:22 AM EST

Curses! Foiled Again. Milliards n'Milliards of Stars.. - (Ashton) - Jan. 30, 2002, 05:06:21 AM EST

Pardon me, your envy is showing. - (marlowe) - (16) - Jan. 29, 2002, 10:44:37 AM EST

Wrong measures - (gtall) - (15) - Jan. 29, 2002, 11:05:41 AM EST

'Consumption' - a pretty spot-on measure after all. - (Ashton) - (14) - Jan. 30, 2002, 06:11:08 AM EST

Depends on how you calculate waste - (gtall) - (6) - Jan. 30, 2002, 08:09:26 AM EST

Startling statistic - (wharris2) - Jan. 30, 2002, 09:00:30 AM EST

Predator inefficiency - (mhuber) - (1) - Jan. 30, 2002, 11:14:15 AM EST

Re: Predator inefficiency - (gtall) - Jan. 30, 2002, 04:46:21 PM EST

It's all soluble without magic. - (Ashton) - Jan. 30, 2002, 03:17:05 PM EST

Nit: Most cow methane is due to burping. - (Another Scott) - (1) - Jan. 30, 2002, 03:18:28 PM EST

Gotta Love.. the implications and our next plan - - (Ashton) - Jan. 30, 2002, 03:36:02 PM EST

Malthus has been patient with us? - (marlowe) - (6) - Jan. 30, 2002, 08:56:05 AM EST

Gosh marlowe, sometimes your rhetorical questions are just - (Ashton) - (5) - Jan. 30, 2002, 02:50:25 PM EST

Begging the question. Whence the power? - (marlowe) - (4) - Jan. 30, 2002, 04:47:49 PM EST

The more rapacious 'won', of course - (Ashton) - (3) - Jan. 30, 2002, 06:25:21 PM EST

Big problem with that theory. Conflicts with real world. - (marlowe) - (2) - Jan. 30, 2002, 07:02:59 PM EST

Any use of the word 'real' to bolster a stereotype - (Ashton) - (1) - Jan. 31, 2002, 01:43:53 PM EST

Methinks you're suffering from reality envy. -NT - (marlowe) - Jan. 31, 2002, 04:18:34 PM EST

A veritable balance of cant. - (marlowe) - (1) - Jan. 29, 2002, 10:59:31 AM EST

Thus speaks one who has never served. - (Brandioch) - Jan. 29, 2002, 11:15:47 AM EST

Isn't this your third or fourth "why they hate us"link? - (Silverlock) - (2) - Jan. 29, 2002, 11:27:41 AM EST

Yeah, I'm going for a record. - (marlowe) - (1) - Jan. 30, 2002, 11:40:22 AM EST

No hate needed. I just calls 'em as I sees 'em -NT - (Silverlock) - Jan. 30, 2002, 11:42:54 AM EST

Envy theory, good answer. - (nking) - Jan. 30, 2002, 01:23:33 AM EST

Primitive black magic? - (mhuber) - (6) - Jan. 30, 2002, 04:00:00 PM EST

Envy is a symptom of pride. - (marlowe) - (5) - Jan. 30, 2002, 04:51:13 PM EST

For you, maybe. - (Brandioch) - (2) - Jan. 30, 2002, 05:33:32 PM EST

Who fears welfare queens? - (marlowe) - (1) - Jan. 30, 2002, 07:06:16 PM EST

Perhaps you don't listen. - (Brandioch) - Jan. 30, 2002, 07:57:44 PM EST

A bit of theological theory - (mhuber) - (1) - Jan. 31, 2002, 03:18:36 PM EST

Ben Franklin's take - (Ashton) - Jan. 30, 2002, 06:31:35 PM EST

You idiot! WE'RE the People's Front of Judea!
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