one billion is a fifth of five billion: 5, 000, 000, 000
so one billion is 1, 000, 000, 000
or one thousand million dollars
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one billion is a fifth of five billion: 5, 000, 000, 000
so one billion is 1, 000, 000, 000
or one thousand million dollars
"Milliard" is a French-derived word meaning the number 10^9. It is unused in American English and is rare in other forms of English, though occasionally encountered, after having been replaced widely by the short scale "billion" during the 20th century. The numeral "thousand million" is unambiguous. The word "milliard" is a common word to many other languages.
sorry thought you were bein funny callin a milliard a million... never have heard that one before lol. my bad.
oh. lol. thats why i was confused. yea im french so my english often sux. :( sorry lol. so 1 billion is 10^9?
yeah I guess so lol billion = milliard learn somethin new every day I guess
haha thx for teh teaching
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Originally Posted by Edgar
you don't know the facts.our intel had been talking about al queda hijacking a plane for 15 years!!somehow that MUST be w's fault??you have seen one to many moore movies.or maybe a older president was more to blame??4 serious attacks in 10 years?1st world trade center attack,kenya,tanzania,uss cole?what did we do?launch a couple missles from 2000 miles away?what a load of crap that was!every president is WARNED~!!what the hell do you think ?too funny!!what a sucker!
I'm just really glad to see there are anarchists left in the world :)
u r attacked in 9/11 not because your goverment is sleepinQuote:
Originally Posted by amsterdam
u r attacked in 9/11 because out there(out of your planet)millions of people gettin pissed of with u,u r annoyin nearly everybody in the world(probably not israel)
lol when i mentioned israel i'v just remember dr. evil and mini-me
and sadly it's not only a bunch of neo-consevative nutters ,people like u in usa all over the country,so u keep electing dr evil,bush goes another 1 comes
once u experience greed it's 2 late, difficult 2 come down.u got 2 be a superpower bloodsucker that's what u know all your life nothin else.
usa reminds me an old transylvanian story "more blood u drink younger and powerful u stay"
the biggest genocide in history not happened in germany or russia or rwanda
14 million native people dissapeared in north america since c.colombo
the whole continent changed completely in a few century
Ur so full of it amsterdam, I dont know my facts? Yeah every president was warned, but as soon as Bush got in office, he took al-Quaida right off the front burner (even when the Clinton administration warned W' and company of the threat al-Quaida posed before leaving office.) because he was already itching to restart his daddies war in Iraq.Quote:
you don't know the facts.our intel had been talking about al queda hijacking a plane for 15 years!!somehow that MUST be w's fault??you have seen one to many moore movies.or maybe a older president was more to blame??4 serious attacks in 10 years?1st world trade center attack,kenya,tanzania,uss cole?what did we do?launch a couple missles from 2000 miles away?what a load of crap that was!every president is WARNED~!!what the hell do you think ?too funny!!what a sucker!
Reguardless of which administration started the fued between al-Quaida and the US, the point is; of course they were gonna strike back and we should have been prepared for it! I mean for fucks sake, like you said, we've had fairly conclusive intelligence (and other warnings.) about this for years, but apparently Bush decided that that intelligence wasn't half as important as the inconclusive rumor(and yes thats all it was, a rumor, 1 that was started by sadaam himself.) that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Its not just W's fault we weren't prepared for 911, many dropped the ball on that 1, but maybe if he wasn't taking vacations at his stupid fucking ranch all the time, he'd of concerned himself with our security and do his fucking job. How bout now huh? Years later and he still hasn't beefed up airport security. In fact our homeland security seems to consist entirely of that stupid color coded alert system and starting more wars. He doesnt have ne1 guarding our water supply, our chemical plants or our nuclear power plants! Thats now, after the attacks! If we get attacked again, what would his excuse be then huh? He's into his 2nd term and he still hasn't done the most basic things to protect our homeland. There isn't any reason to defend that prick. He's been spoiled all his life, and he's done nothing but help his buddies in big business since he took office.
Oh and while im on this bush bashing rant, i might as well mention his drug policies. Bush refers to his substance abuse as youthful indiscretions and therefore it should be forgiven, but when it comes to other peoples 'youthful indiscretions' he has no tolerance whatsoever. In fact he doesn't even have tolerance for those who need to smoke pot medicinally (he is responsible for the federal task force that is busting all those medicinal growers and users in California!), which by the way, obviously wasn't the reason he was smokin it. I mean godamn, he is responsible for putting cancer and aids patients (not to mention all the other medicinal users/growers.) who grow their own medicinal crops (which they have prescriptions for, and need for their great suffering and pain.) in in prison! This is the fuckin crook you support amsterdam? BTW, is that name supposed to be ironic?
P.S. I never saw fahrenheit 911.
oh by the way the latest warning came only 1 month b4 911, and had been specific that al-Quaida was planning on using a jet in the attack.
actually its not a rumor that they had chemical weapons. They did use to have some. Probably do still somewhere. mustard gassing the kurds ring a bell? Do you really think Bush just said... lets go bomb iraq and hope he has some shit layin around tomorrow. If you do.. well I need not say any more. Its not Bushes fault for the drug Policy either. Thats every state with medicinal marijuana laws fault. It is federally illegal, has been for a long time. Untill the supreme court comes out with its ruling (probably summer) It is a federal crime to grow marijuana. Even if you do have a med license.
a* attack. (it didn't say specifically what that attack would consist of.)
Mustard gas isn't a weapon of mass Destruction, and Bush had his own reasons for attacking Iraq, the intelligence was just an excuse. What the fuck, are u trying to justify those bullshit busts? It is partly his responsiblity! because if he (and others) didn't push for it to happen, it wouldn't have happened (the pot busts.) Those pro med marijuana laws are a godsent, what the federal government is doing about them is whats fucking criminal!
and i dont mean criminal as in against the law, i mean criminal as in fucking WRONG!
any fuckhead can make mustard gas in his back yard, so thats hardly a good reason to start a war.
man... Any idiot can make ricin too. But throw it in a missile and kill 13000 people with it, then its a weapon. Bush doesnt control the military like a god you dip. Congress can veto any decleration of war. If you think you know half the things the intel knows about that place... then you dont belong in any politics discussion. And the pot thing, its just law. Do you think the DEA was formed by Bush or something? give me a break man. America is founded on laws. You cant break the laws. Simple as that. Its sad actually though. People like you criticize Bush for all the wrong reasons. You name off all these things "he" did and does. Try naming off some stuff he is actually responsible for. Like the tax cuts. Or not being able to pronounce nuclear. He is an idiot, but only because of the stuff he does, not because of what the governemnt does. "The skin of victims of mustard gas blistered, the eyes became very sore and they began to vomit. Mustard gas caused internal and external bleeding and attacked the bronchial tubes, stripping off the mucous membrane. This was extremely painful and most soldiers had to be strapped to their beds. It usually took a person four or five weeks to die of mustard gas poisoning. One nurse, Vera Brittain, wrote: "I wish those people who talk about going on with this war whatever it costs could see the soldiers suffering from mustard gas poisoning. Great mustard-coloured blisters, blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying that their throats are closing and they know they will choke." 13000 people went through that because of Sadaam, as far as Im concerned we shoulda just killed him right the first time. The fact that you think you can make mustard gas makes me question your intelligence also. What book did you read this in? is it the method with canola oil? bleach and ammonia? or maybe the one melting down shit on your motherboard. all hoaxes. If you wanna know how to make it look up the meyer method.
yocass dont put words in my mouth and pay attention to the ones i actually typed if ur gonna criticize. I didn't refer specifically to to the tax cuts, but i did allude to them when I said he's just been helping his buddies in big buissiness. He(his administration, if you really need me to be that specific for u to understand my point of view.) did give tax cuts favoring the rich. I never said he controlled the military like a god. (though in fact he does have a great deal of control over them, duh, he's the commander in chief of the armed forces.). Of course Congress approved the war, do you think they would ever want to look like they were impeding the war on terrorism? (which the war in Iraq is not) Even if congress didn't approve, that doesn't mean Bush can't take millitary action, so yeah to technically delclare war you need the approval of congress, but thats only semantics. The Vietnam war was called a police action at the time, did that make it any less of a war?
What, i shouldn't talk politics because i dont believe the motives he claims we went to war over? How many times did he change that story on why we were going to war btw? 4? Do you really think if he keeps changing his story, that he's being honest about his reasons for war? Hell no! Excuses excuses.
You say "If you think you know half the things the intel knows about that place... then you dont belong in any politics discussion." Yocass why dont you just quit bein' an ass for a moment and stop to think about it... I dont claim to know half the the intel and i dont have to. I'm just usin some freakin common sense! If he had good intel (a good reason) that suggested Iraq was as real threat to US, dont you think he would have made it public by now, or b4 the elections in order to gain more support from the public? (he's been nothing if not opportunistic up till this point, so why would he stop being so now?)
Of course mustard gas is very devistating, so is any weapon in sufficient quantity, so whats your point? We have nukes, should some1 invade us to disarm us?(after all we have supported many a brutal dictator.) And no, I'm not the fuckhead that can make mustard gas, im not into chemistry. I was commenting thats its not a hard chemical to make for some1 who is into chemistry so certainly any country with a chemist or even and underground wanna be chemist can make it.(besides he didn't sell this war to congress or the public with just mustard gas, a chemical thats been used in warfare since WW1.) Mustard gas can be synthesized by reacting sulfur dichloride (SCl2) with two moles of ethylene (C2H4). Yeah its terrible what Saddam did and he should be severely punished for his war crimes, but there were other ways to oust him from power. Ways that wouldn't yeild such high American casualties. Even so, we helped that fucker into power in the first place, even when we knew he was trying to develop real WMD's (such as nukes) at the time. So we arn't entirely innocent in all this.
And the pot thing, no, of course i dont think the DEA was formed by Bush, but he (and others as i said b4) does provide the incentive for those busts to happen (as I've also said b4)... But dont take my word for it, look it up yourself! http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/16/thread16876.shtml
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread9193.shtml <= those are just two quick sources, there are plenty more.
Yeah you just keep sayin "America is founded on laws. You cant break the laws" next time u get busted for pot. That can be your mantra while your sitting in a jail cell...
Call me crazy but i think that bush is certainly partly responsible for what the bush administration does.
err sorry i sorta went off topic there, I'm not tryin to blame all that on bush... I just think our governments foreign policies need to change as a whole, so that we dont have more terrorist groups coming after us. Yeah we should keep an eye (an eye not a fist) on the rest of the world if for nothing else than for our own safety, but do we really need to be the aggressors? Hasn't that helped the terrorists recruit, and fueled new hatred? I mean we can't very well take the whole world on... :p
name one nation never ever made any mistakes?Quote:
Originally Posted by Edgar
as far as striking first goes.
well im glad they aint waiting till some country sneaks up agian,if they get intell says some shit going on,STOP IT THEN dont wait,why should waiting till your hit beside the head make sense.IT DONT if i know/think somebody gonna hit me,ill hit them first,i expect my nations leaders to do the same.
any country stick up its ugly head to bite the usa
gets its head cut off
and i can say about fucking time
but mr bush did not need to say "bring it on"
he is a idiot
peace
I can't name a country that hasn't made ne mistakes but i can name a country thats made relatively few mistakes, leaves the rest of the world alone and in my opinion is 1 of the most civilized nations in the world. The Netherlands.
I really believe that if we hadn't been so deeply involved in the middle east where we didn't belong in the first place, the terrorists wouldn't be a threat to us. Thats the main reason i think we need a serious change in foreign policy. As a country we went from strict isolationists to all up in everyones business. We need to find some middle ground.
I am not saying canada alone could beat the U.S. i am saying that if we declared war no doubt we would get half the world as allies and all we would need would be china, and britains navy which is still the best in the world.oh and p.s. of coarse we counldn't beat a country in a war when they spend billions of dollars on weaponery to protect itself from all the countries its pissed off all it would take would be one assasination attempt on bush before he declared war on the world the fuckin putts
mustard gar isn't wmd??that is news to me.
they are kicking arabs out of holland as we speak.
maybe if we sat around on our hands like we did in the 90's nobody will hate us?get real man.being #1 is hard work.
your not number one you just think you are
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Originally Posted by dazedandcontributing
yea right!!dont hate us cause we run the show. :D
you must really live in another galaxy far,far away to believe that shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by dazedandcontributing
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Dawa Preparation: Place a few living scorpions into a pot, close it well and heat for some time. The residue is to be used in medicinal preparations.
I will pray that Osama gets stung by a scorpion, and that a sand vipers may bit him in his sleep, And that Osama may be poisoned with hemlock, and that he may simmer in boiling oils.