From: statehoodnow@gov.su.us (The Voltairian™/Black Jester™/Closet Libertarian™/Riley Bitterman) Newsgroups: alt.comedy.standup,alt.politics.libertarian,alt.sex.strip-clubs,alt.tv.duckman,alt.tv.pol-incorrect Subject: Re: LIBTR; ENT; ASS-C: More News Media and General Media Screw-ups in regards to entertainment, artiface, arts and humanities... Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 23:20:36 GMT Organization: Closet Libertarian™/Black Jester™ Reply-To: statehoodnow@gov.su.us Message-ID: <3d6ffd96.513276@news.lightspeed.ca> References: <3d6e96c9.131579@news.lightspeed.ca> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 NNTP-Posting-Host: vandial50.lightspeed.bc.ca X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: vandial50.lightspeed.bc.ca X-Trace: rsl2.rslnet.net 1030750141 vandial50.lightspeed.bc.ca (30 Aug 2002 16:29:01 -0700) Lines: 64 Path: rsl2.rslnet.net Xref: rsl2.rslnet.net alt.comedy.standup:32836 alt.politics.libertarian:37776 alt.sex.strip-clubs:85716 alt.tv.duckman:1338 alt.tv.pol-incorrect:66819 YOur right, it's 300,000,000 not 3,000,000. Silly little typo. On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:33:46 -0700, "pcjohansson" wrote: >Your missing three zeros on US pop. >Math errors drive me nuts. > >"The VoltairianT/Black JesterT/Closet LibertarianT/Riley Bitterman" > wrote in message >news:3d6e96c9.131579@news.lightspeed.ca... >> Eminem is buzzed and hyped as selling 3 million albums on Wolf Blitzer >> today, on a story about the MTV Video awards. There are 3,000,000+ >> people in the US (this makes Eminem sold to 1%/maybe less of the >> population) and world wide populationn excedes 3 billion (this >> suggests it's even worse for sales, if they are talking world wide). >> This explains why the albums are rarely sold out. This guy can't even >> put the suc in success. >> >> There's even a chance that those are exaggerated numbers. For gawd >> sakes CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, ABS News, etc... see the big picture. Docta Gov. Admr. Count Gölök Zoltán Leenderdt Franco Buday; PhG Aka The guy who is so obsessed with Jeszika Alba that he ignores her with the delusion that it's his name on the restraining order, not Michael Weatherly's. Writer, Humorist, and everything else under the moon. [Also said to be a multi-trilionare businessman and Navy SEAL] Vancouver, Neo Sumer/Olympia, Washington/Who knows where else... The Official Black Jester Website: http://www.blackjester.com/ My Ego Times: http://myegotimes.virtualave.net/ Dictionary: http://myegotimes.virtualave.net/dictionary/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "As you have the power, sir, to do some service to letters, I implore you not to clip the wings of our writers so closely, nor turn into barndoor fowls those who, allowed a start, might become eagles; reasonable liberty permits the mind to soar--slavery makes it creep." -- Voltaire [A Letter To A First Commissioner] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then gets elected and proves it. -P.J. O'Rourke -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There may not be an 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in Libertarian (in fact 2)" -- Gölök Buday, April of 2002 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PS I am not, nor have been, known as Grant Buday PPS Not Che from che-lives.com † Download Free Agent ftp://ftp.forteinc.com/pub/free_agent/fa32-121.exe Free Agent Product PageFree Agent Product Page http://www.forteinc.com/agent/freagent.htm