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Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC



On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 04:49:26 +0100, Jan Minar wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 05:01:17PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
>> Here's another view of that data:
> 
> What about this one?:
> 
> | Country Aid(Billions) People(Millions) Dollars/Person
> | Australia	1	19.7	50.76
> | Austria	0.5	8.1	61.73
> | Belgium	1.1	10.2	107.84
> | Canada	2	32.2	62.11
> | Denmark	1.6	5.3	301.89
> | Finland	0.5	5.1	98.04
> | France	5.2	60.1	86.52
> | Germany	5.4	82.3	65.61
> | Greece	0.3	10.6	28.30
> | Ireland	0.4	3.9	102.56
> | Italy	2.3	57.9	39.72
> | Japan	9.2	127.2	72.33
> | Luxembourg	0.1	0.4	250.00
> | Netherlands	3.4	16.1	211.18
> | New Zealand	0.1	3.9	25.64
> | Norway	1.7	4.5	377.78
> | Portugal	0.3	10.1	29.70
> | Spain	1.6	40.2	39.80
> | Sweden	1.8	8.8	204.55
> | Switzerland	0.9	7.3	123.29
> | U K	4.7	60	78.33
> | USA	12.9	290.3	44.44
> 
> As any person capable of reading can see, The US *are* the worst!

Wow, yes, thanks for pointing that out.  It must be me who is incapable of
reading, because I had no idea, until I saw your post, that 44.44 < 39.8
or that 44.4 < 25.64, for instance.

Must be the New Math.

You ought to file bug reports against gcc, perl, bash etc., because they
all think that it's the other way around.

-- 
....................paul

It is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big
enough hammer.
               -- Sun System & Network Admin manual




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