And we all know how long it took to stabalise la Torre di Pisa. Actually, they left it leaning…hmmm. The shadow falling on Big Ben? The Arc de Triomphe in Paris? Or the Arcus Titi in Roma? Or just vague European looking thingies?
:-| Ok, stealth, you said above “Ripley’s stated today how the United States has donated 1.5 Trillion dollars to West Germany since1990 for Reunification… There is a stupid donation.” You have misinterpreted the caption on Ripley’s. It has cost Germany, note, Germany 1.7 trillion US dollars on its reunification. Not the USA, Germany. It simply converted whatever number of DMs & Euros spent since 1990 by Germany into US$ currency for your convenience. By the way, I had read elsewhere it was €1.5 trillion (euros), not US dollars. But regardless, the USA didn’t “donate” any funds towards it. (but I’ll be happy to stand corrected if you can show where it has, if it has, donated anything) This again goes to show how numbers being bandied about on our news today are not really understood. Which is why folks readily believe some stories floating about what is spent on whatever without realising how absurd the claim may be. A trillion, US trillion, not a European trillion, is still a very, very big number. It is, in the USA, a 1000 billion. A billion is a 1000 million. Or a trillion is a million million. 1 000 000 =million 1 000 000 000=billion 1 000 000 000 000 =trillion
OmqR-IV.0 almost 13 years ago
And we all know how long it took to stabalise la Torre di Pisa. Actually, they left it leaning…hmmm. The shadow falling on Big Ben? The Arc de Triomphe in Paris? Or the Arcus Titi in Roma? Or just vague European looking thingies?
OmqR-IV.0 almost 13 years ago
:-| Ok, stealth, you said above “Ripley’s stated today how the United States has donated 1.5 Trillion dollars to West Germany since1990 for Reunification… There is a stupid donation.” You have misinterpreted the caption on Ripley’s. It has cost Germany, note, Germany 1.7 trillion US dollars on its reunification. Not the USA, Germany. It simply converted whatever number of DMs & Euros spent since 1990 by Germany into US$ currency for your convenience. By the way, I had read elsewhere it was €1.5 trillion (euros), not US dollars. But regardless, the USA didn’t “donate” any funds towards it. (but I’ll be happy to stand corrected if you can show where it has, if it has, donated anything) This again goes to show how numbers being bandied about on our news today are not really understood. Which is why folks readily believe some stories floating about what is spent on whatever without realising how absurd the claim may be. A trillion, US trillion, not a European trillion, is still a very, very big number. It is, in the USA, a 1000 billion. A billion is a 1000 million. Or a trillion is a million million. 1 000 000 =million 1 000 000 000=billion 1 000 000 000 000 =trillion
ransomdstone almost 13 years ago
omQ R How dare you enter the ‘discussion’ with factual material. Only name calling and ranting are allowed in these comments!