
Jason writes -
USA Inc. is spending $1 billion each week for their mad war. That's $1653 per second = street price of a superb new 3Ghz laptop computer.
In 1 year, at the present Shrub spending rates, we could buy new computers for 31,536,000 children/people. I imagine if one placed an federal order for 31 million laptops you'd get a good deal. So perhaps 50 million kids this year seed? What else would be needed to make sense of such proposal?
I'm afaid I am finding it hard to fully distinguish this thinking from Red Skeleton's ideas on avoidng the approaching overpopulation apocalypse. "Did you know that there is a woman somewhere giving birth every 12 seconds?" And the near obvious punchline: "I think we need to find that women and stop her." Art

"Did you know that there is a woman somewhere giving birth every 12 seconds?"
And the near obvious punchline:
"I think we need to find that women and stop her."
Well it seems she had daughters and grand daughters who all grew up since Red Skelton cracked that one. 86,000,000 more people per year = 2.7 babies per second in 2003 How does one take these big numbers and relate to them in social and in personal terms ? Can anyone think straight when the numbers get really large? Science is full of much larger mind-bending scale ranges. $400 billion year is what those lame-brained elected members of Congress voted to spend on this year's Pentagon budget. By all accounts they are borrowing from their/our children and grand children to pay the bill. While the money stays more or less in the economy, people and businesses do benefit, get educations etc, but most of the material product is useless and irretrievable. Even dumb-ass Hollywood BIG-budget movies are profitable from time to time, and the good ones have considerable shelf life. Maybe it's stupid crazy to ask such questions like mine, but not nearly as crazy as what is actually happening now in terms of massive resources. We are not supposed to talk or think about this stuff. Let's go back to cool tricks with attributes and dictionaries.. Think I 'll go outside and look at Mars again. Lucky it happened on a new moon :-) - Jason
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Arthur
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Jason Cunliffe