Author Topic: U.S.A. data National vrs Global (Read 370 times)

Yeager · « **on:** April 22, 2004, 12:15:26 PM »

Picked up this little ditty recently on NPR. I have not verified this personaly but I find the disproportion amazing.
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The United States population represents 5% of the global population.

The United States economic output is 50% of the global economic output.

Duedel · « **Reply #1 on:** April 22, 2004, 12:32:58 PM »

If u mean the gross national product and u believe these numbers than its no wonder that u have a lets say strange egocentric patriotic view of the USA.

Capt. Pork · « **Reply #2 on:** April 22, 2004, 02:13:56 PM »

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Originally posted by Duedel
If u mean the gross national product and u believe these numbers than its no wonder that u have a lets say strange egocentric patriotic view of the USA.

A comma here and there wouldn't kill you, Dueds.

Urchin · « **Reply #3 on:** April 22, 2004, 02:21:24 PM »

GNP includes money spent on everything. Maintaining a military, not to mention using it, is quite expensive. As is several other things the U.S. spends a lot of money on.

straffo · « **Reply #4 on:** April 22, 2004, 02:40:13 PM »

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Originally posted by Capt. Pork
A comma here and there wouldn't kill you, Dueds.

sorry but comma are paid in $ ... it would hurt our economy to abuse it

Duedel · « **Reply #5 on:** April 23, 2004, 01:51:32 AM »

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Originally posted by Capt. Pork
A comma here and there wouldn't kill you, Dueds.

ROTFL

Sry, here we go:

If u mean the gross national product and u believe these numbers, than its no wonder that u have a, lets say, strange egocentric, patriotic view of the USA.

BTW I really have problems with english point position. Are there any understandable rules?

Dowding · « **Reply #6 on:** April 23, 2004, 03:48:06 AM »

Unfortunately, Duedel, English doesn't generally abide by rules. Punctuation, like intonation when speaking English, really comes from practice and exposure to the language in action.

-dead- · « **Reply #7 on:** April 23, 2004, 04:00:18 AM »

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Originally posted by straffo
sorry but comma are paid in $ ... it would hurt our economy to abuse it

What about the infamous EU comma mountain, eh?

Duedel · « **Reply #8 on:** April 23, 2004, 04:26:32 AM »

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Originally posted by -dead-
What about the infamous EU comma mountain, eh?

straffo · « **Reply #9 on:** April 23, 2004, 01:14:40 PM »

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Originally posted by -dead-
What about the infamous EU comma mountain, eh?

don't you mean the overproduced period we need to burn from time to time to keep their price high enought ?

-tronski- · « **Reply #10 on:** April 23, 2004, 05:12:01 PM »

Sorry only poofs and general Euro-trash use punctuation!!!

Real men use language like they took a handful of words and threw them at the screen till something stuck

use incoherent sentences you commies!

Tronsky

straffo · « **Reply #11 on:** April 23, 2004, 05:16:58 PM »

Like we usually say in France to someone who has trouble forming a sentence "spit all ,we will sort"