 | | Re: Why the founding fathers limited government scope (was Re: Rolling Blackouts —James Simpson
| | | | (...) Our society tends to be quite liberal with the use of percentage figures to back up a supposed presupposition or argument. Did anyone see that Nova episode about meteors? "We don't know how many [large] meteors there are in the solar system, (...) (24 years ago, 14-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | | | | | | Percents, Per Se —Dave Schuler
| | | | | (...) That's fabulous! I read an article back in '92 that proclaimed we'd already discovered 90% of the world's oil. Dave! (24 years ago, 14-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Percents, Per Se —Larry Pieniazek
| | | | | (...) Grin. When in fact we had already discovered 100% of it! At least 100% of that which had been discovered at that time. :-) Aren't the "proven reserves" larger now than they were then? Not that I know what that means, actually, it's just a (...) (24 years ago, 14-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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