OT: A Billion Dollars

[Richard the Dreaded Liber]

$1,000,000,000.00

Does everybody realize that that's approximately
0.0 ......


Holy Crap! I did a quick google on "Federal Budget" and came up with this:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2005/05msr.pdf

On page 15, there's a section:

Table 2: ECONOMIC ASSUMPTIONS
(Calendar years; dollar amounts in billions)
#[That's Billions, with a "b". - Rich]
2003 actual
Gross domestic product (GDP):
Current dollars ............... 10,988
[snippity-snip]

Ten. Thousand. Billion. Dollars.

So one BILLION dollars is 0.01% of the Gross Domestic Product.

One is 0.01% of 10,000, isn't it?

OK, I have to admit, that's the whole GDP - I was looking for
expenditures, and could search further, but it's gotta be in the
trillions.

Oh, well, like they say, a billion here, a billion there, and after awhile
you figure out it isn't even real. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Active8]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 18:27:17 GMT, Richard the Dreaded Liberal wrote:

you said you were getting rid of your alter egos, but you seem to be
aquiring new ones.
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Best Regards,
Mike

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 17:34:48 -0500, Active8 <reply2group@ndbbm.net>
wrote:

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 18:27:17 GMT, Richard the Dreaded Liberal wrote:

you said you were getting rid of your alter egos, but you seem to be
aquiring new ones.

He's just trying to see if I can keep up... I can... I kill an alter
ego just a fast as it appears ;-)

...Jim Thompson
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[John Larkin]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 15:51:46 -0700, Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 17:34:48 -0500, Active8 <reply2group@ndbbm.net
wrote:

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 18:27:17 GMT, Richard the Dreaded Liberal wrote:

you said you were getting rid of your alter egos, but you seem to be
aquiring new ones.

He's just trying to see if I can keep up... I can... I kill an alter
ego just a fast as it appears ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Artie Shaw just died. He was married and divorced eight times. That's
a real altar ego.

John

 

[Paul Burridge]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 15:45:36 -0800, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:

Artie Shaw just died. He was married and divorced eight times. That's
a real altar ego.

Presumably he died bankrupt, then?
--

"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.

 

[martin griffith]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 15:45:36 -0800, in sci.electronics.design John
Larkin <jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 15:51:46 -0700, Jim Thompson
thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

snip

Artie Shaw just died. He was married and divorced eight times. That's
a real altar ego.

John
Are you getting lessons from John Woodgate?

martin

Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

 

[keith]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 16:47:36 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 15:45:36 -0800, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 15:51:46 -0700, Jim Thompson
thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 17:34:48 -0500, Active8 <reply2group@ndbbm.net
wrote:

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 18:27:17 GMT, Richard the Dreaded Liberal wrote:

you said you were getting rid of your alter egos, but you seem to be
aquiring new ones.

He's just trying to see if I can keep up... I can... I kill an alter
ego just a fast as it appears ;-)

...Jim Thompson


Artie Shaw just died. He was married and divorced eight times. That's
a real altar ego.

John

You'd think he would have learned by at least #3 ;-)

Ah hell, I learned before #1 divorce. She's told me many times that I
can't afford her lawyers. ;-)

--
Keith