What is a Billion?

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yes.

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[SkyDekker 1,465]

Look at the snopes.com link provided above for a somewhat reasonable explanation of that.

[mnealtx 0]

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Hi Mike,


[shakes head] poor, poor Johnny forigner... even short changed in their maths.

Now when/where I was at school

a thousand is a hundred x a hundred
a million is a thousand x a thousand
a billion is a million x a million

your Gallon is short and so is your Billion... you need to protest to you government.

and to think, I thought that everything was BIGGER in the USof A

Just like the Brits to hold on to outdated conventions...are there ANY other countries (besides GB) using "milliard" or "thousand billion"? It's good to see that y'all are coming around to proper thinking, though.

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

[SkyDekker 1,465]

Actually, billion directly translated to Dutch is biljoen and is used to mean million x million

[shropshire 0]

1, 2 , lots ......... would suit me better, I'm sure

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[Douva 0]

The thing I always found interesting about a million versus a billion is that, if you were to get a dollar a second, from the moment you were born, you'd be a millionaire before you were twelve days old, but you wouldn't be a billionaire until you were over the age of thirty-one.

I don't have an M.D. or a law degree. I have bachelor's in kicking ass and taking names.

[Andrewwhyte 1]

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Just like the Brits to hold on to outdated conventions...are there ANY other countries (besides GB) using "milliard" or "thousand billion"?

I don't know what milliards are, but I do enjoy billiards.

[jakee 1,594]

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1, 2 , lots ......... would suit me better, I'm sure

"In fact, Americans traditionally count like this: one, two, three . . . many, and people assume this means they can have no grasp of higher numbers. They don't realize that many can be a number. As in: one, two, three, many, many-one, many-two, many-three, many many, many-many-one, many-many-two, many-many-three, many many many, many-many-many-one, many-many-many-two, many-many-many-three, LOTS."

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

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and to think, I thought that everything was BIGGER in the USof A

Just our penises.

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[Andy9o8 2]

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Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu (D), is presently asking the Congress for $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans .

This is a blog that's making its way across the e-mail blogosphere. Pick out a whole sentence from it and Google it; you'll see.

The TRUTH is that Senators Mary L. Landrieu a Democrat, and David Vitter, a REPUBLICAN, jointly introduced the Hurricane Katrina Disaster Relief and Economic Recovery Act, which provided for $250 billion in LONG-TERM aid to the entire state of Louisiana and the Gulf coast.

Here's what Republican Vitter had to say:


http://landrieu.senate.gov/~landrieu/releases/05/2005922648.html

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"The entire Louisiana Congressional delegation has been working together on all of the major help that we're going to need from the federal government since Hurricane Katrina hit. We've focused on not just short-term relief, but the medium- and long-term recovery needed by Louisiana and the Gulf Coast," said Sen. Vitter. "I am pleased to introduce this legislation in the Senate with my colleague Senator Landrieu, which represents specific, concrete initiatives to help our state's recovery efforts."

The Hurricane Katrina Disaster Relief and Economic Recovery Act calls for substantive future federal investments in state, local and private sectors. A bipartisan and bicameral effort supported by the entire Louisiana delegation, companion bills have been and will be introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives.

"While it is extremely important to rebuild Louisiana's infrastructure, it is equally vital that we create jobs for our people," said Sen. Vitter. "I'm particularly interested in making sure this recovery is led by the private sector as much as the public sector, which is why this legislation includes tax relief for families, tax credits for businesses, depreciation and other tax incentives to make sure we get businesses and jobs back to southeast Louisiana."

So let's summarize:

-It was introduced by both a Democrat and a Republican - not just the Democrat that the bloggers want to bash.

- It goes to long-term investments and tax credits, not just quickie payouts, as the bloggers imply.

- It goes to the entire hurricane-affected area, not just New Orleans - which, as we all know, has recently replaced "ghettos" as the vogue code-word with which to engage in a little thinly-veiled race-bashing - since, of course, the word "Negroes" has gone out of style.
(But of course, you can't say that aloud, or people will turn it on its head, FoxNews style, and say you're "playing the race card." Oh, well.)

[Unstable 9]

I don't know what to say..... 250 Billion dollars is ridiculous. When the Stock Market Crashed after the Roaring 20's, the Government, instead of giving out handouts, gave out jobs building and rebuilding the country. Something tells me all of the displaced New Orleans Residents living in Temporary Trailer home who are able to work, are not actually doing so. What are they waiting for, a $555,000 Dollar check to be dropped off in their mailbox?

=========Shaun ==========

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not just New Orleans - which, as we all know, has recently replaced "ghettos" as the vogue code-word with which to engage in a little thinly-veiled race-bashing - since, of course, the word "Negroes" has gone out of style.
(But of course, you can't say that aloud, or people will turn it on its head, FoxNews style, and say you're "playing the race card." Oh, well.)

Yup, mentioning crime rates in New Orleans (523/100k violent crime rate for 2006, btw) and showing that NO refugees increased crime rates in their host cities is "playing the race card", all right.

Too bad - you could have gotten in a GW reference and said it was all Bush's fault and gotten the trifecta.

Mike
I love you, Shannon and Jim.
POPS 9708 , SCR 14706

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and to think, I thought that everything was BIGGER in the USof A

Just our penises.

There are some big dicks in America? - Comes a shock, does that

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

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I don't know what to say..... 250 Billion dollars is ridiculous. When the Stock Market Crashed after the Roaring 20's, the Government, instead of giving out handouts, gave out jobs building and rebuilding the country. Something tells me all of the displaced New Orleans Residents living in Temporary Trailer home who are able to work, are not actually doing so. What are they waiting for, a $555,000 Dollar check to be dropped off in their mailbox?

Well, there needs to be functioning businesses, and/or active rebuilding projects, to act as employers, to provide those jobs in the first place. Yes, I suppose more people could have become refugees and moved away from Louisiana to find work in other states (many did), but somebody has to stay behind to re-build.

As I quoted the Republican senator in the post preceding yours, the hurricane relief bill would help rebuild the infrastructure (which requires the employment of laborers), and would provide tax credits and incentives to help more businesses get back on their feet in order to provide jobs. It's not a short-term handout-giving bill; it's a long-term economic stimulus bill.

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Too bad - you could have gotten in a GW reference and said it was all Bush's fault and gotten the trifecta.

Hey, you forgot to mention Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy and Michael Moore. Nyeah, nyeah.

Did you hear the one about how one of Bush's advisors informed him of a plane crash that killed 23 Brazilians.
"Oh, my God, that's horrible", lamented Our Hero.
And then He paused.
"Wait a minute. How many is a brazillion?"

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..... but a Billion (A million, million) has12 zeros in the U.K - that's all I was saying.

.... and on the same theme (you not getting the inside British stuff) bob is slang for pounds (or is it Guinneys?) in some quarters of UK.

When I was there it was quid - I think.

And are you telling me a billion there has 3 more zeros than a billion here?

Somebody must be fucking with me.

" . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

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Now when/where I was at school

a thousand is a hundred x a hundred
a million is a thousand x a thousand
a billion is a million x a million

Ah, I think this explains the loss of empire.

" . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

[jakee 1,594]

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When I was there it was quid - I think.

It is. Bob and Guinneas (still used to describe prize money in horse races for some reason) were amounts of old money under the long defunct non-decimal system. I guess some people use bob to refer to pounds, but quid (like buck in the US) is pretty universal.

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[shropshire 0]

The Guinneas (21 shillings) came from auction houses.. the extra shilling went to the house as commission.

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

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Hi Mike,


[shakes head] poor, poor Johnny forigner... even short changed in their maths.

Now when/where I was at school

a thousand is a hundred x a hundred
a million is a thousand x a thousand
a billion is a million x a million

your Gallon is short and so is your Billion... you need to protest to you government.

and to think, I thought that everything was BIGGER in the USof A

And there you go again, perpetuating the teachings brough to you by your fucking queen cunt and her useless family.

You should check about what you say about history, as the whole debacle was brought by the French back in the MDCC's, to include Holland in the list.

And so goes your noticed attempt to once more perpetuate your Hatred towards USA.....

"According to some of the conservatives here, it sounds like it's fine to beat your wide - as long as she had it coming." -Billvon

[shropshire 0]

... and breath.

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[juanesky 0]

And let go of your thinking that royals also are hollier than thou..

"According to some of the conservatives here, it sounds like it's fine to beat your wide - as long as she had it coming." -Billvon

[shropshire 0]

Sorry to shater any illusions that you may have about me.. but I don't think like that about the Royal familiy.

Please try not to read too much into peoples posts (especially in SC) - it's just entertainment.

(.)Y(.)
Chivalry is not dead; it only sleeps for want of work to do. - Jerome K Jerome

[SkyDekker 1,465]

He is so obsessed about the Brittish queen, and loves Bush. I am pretty sure he has a picture of each and masturbates while looking at both nightly....

[juanesky 0]

Are you really entertaining any sexually explicit ideas about me?...

Talk abour weird.

"According to some of the conservatives here, it sounds like it's fine to beat your wide - as long as she had it coming." -Billvon