BS: 1,000 British Soldiers desert

Subject: RE: BS: 1,000 British Soldiers desert
From: Teribus
Date: 06 Jun 06 - 04:31 PM

A billion, in America, is a thousand million. That would be written

1,000,000,000
If we wanted to make a book with a billion dollar signs, printed 1000 per page as before and with pages printed on both sides, our book would be 500,000 pages long.Now that's a very long book!

Interestingly, in England, the British define a billion as a million million. That would be 1,000,000 times 1,000,000 which would be written 1,000,000,000,000. The British book would be 5,000,000 pages long.

1,000,000,000,000
You can find out more about the British numbering system at the following website called Numbering Systems and Place Value:

http://www.mazes.com/numberingsystems.html

Subject: RE: BS: 1,000 British Soldiers desert
From: GUEST,roberta
Date: 07 Jun 06 - 01:55 PM

Surely the marine T shirt read
join the marines
meet intersting people
and blow them up!
hup hup hup hup!!!

Subject: RE: BS: 1,000 British Soldiers desert
From: GUEST,ifor
Date: 07 Jun 06 - 04:51 PM

It is amazing how the war guys ignore the facts of recent history.The UK and USA war machines were both up to other people necks in blood...and they did it for oil and control of the Middle East.
The Scott Report [HMSO 1996] gave a devastating account of how the British govt colluded with British business to supply Saddam with the armaments of war.
And the USA lined up its banks, businesses and military might to do the same.
ifor