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Title: U.S.A. data National vrs Global
Post by: 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.
Title: U.S.A. data National vrs Global
Post by: Duedel 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.
Title: U.S.A. data National vrs Global
Post by: Capt. Pork on April 22, 2004, 02:13:56 PM: Quote
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.
Title: U.S.A. data National vrs Global
Post by: Urchin 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.
Title: U.S.A. data National vrs Global
Post by: straffo on April 22, 2004, 02:40:13 PM: Quote
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 :)
Title: U.S.A. data National vrs Global
Post by: Duedel on April 23, 2004, 01:51:32 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Capt. Pork
A comma here and there wouldn't kill you, Dueds.

ROTFL :D
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?
Title: U.S.A. data National vrs Global
Post by: Dowding 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.
Title: U.S.A. data National vrs Global
Post by: -dead- on April 23, 2004, 04:00:18 AM: Quote
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? ;)
Title: U.S.A. data National vrs Global
Post by: Duedel on April 23, 2004, 04:26:32 AM: Quote
Originally posted by -dead-
What about the infamous EU comma mountain, eh? ;)

:D :D :D
Title: U.S.A. data National vrs Global
Post by: straffo on April 23, 2004, 01:14:40 PM: Quote
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 ?
;)
Title: U.S.A. data National vrs Global
Post by: -tronski- 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
Title: U.S.A. data National vrs Global
Post by: straffo 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" :)