On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 19:28:27 -0800, David Nebenzahl
wrote:
: On 1/29/2011 5:51 PM Savageduck spake thus:
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: On 2011-01-29 17:01:13 -0800, David Nebenzahl said:
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: On 1/29/2011 12:49 PM Savageduck spake thus:
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: On 2011-01-29 11:09:09 -0800, David Nebenzahl said:
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: On 1/29/2011 6:41 AM Bowser spake thus:
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: On 1/29/2011 3:10 AM, David Nebenzahl wrote:
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: On 1/28/2011 10:56 PM Rich spake thus:
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: On Jan 28, 4:39 pm, Savageduck wrote:
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: French photo-journalist Lucas Mebrouk Dolega 32, dies after
: being hit in the head by a police fired tear gas grenade in
: Tunis while covering the disturbances in Tunis for Paris Match.
: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/0...-lucas-mebrouk...
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: Maybe like hockey players did, one day they'll finally start
: wearing protective helmets during riots in violent, Third World
: ratholes? Even a bike helmet would have saved the guy.
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: I'm sure Tunisians would love to hear their country referred to
: that way ... but of course, who cares about them? Their lives
: aren't worth as much as ours are.
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: That's true. But what's the exchange rate?
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: Pretty easily calculated, using news stories in the MSM and their
: relative ranking (i.e., page placement in the newspaper, etc.).
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: I figure it's somewhere in the neighborhood of 50:1 to 100:1.
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: As of 09:45AM, 1/29/2011, 1.41 Tunisian Dinar = $1US = €0.74
: (...er, there's an Ap for that)
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: So your wide range guesstimate was not too close.
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: So what does the currency exchange rate have to do with it? I think you
: may have missed my point here, which is the "value" of human life.
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: For me still 1:1.
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: Again, you miss my point.
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: For me it's 1:1 too. But that's not the conclusion any Martian would
: come to if they were to come down to Earth and observe the relative
: worth placed on American lives and non-American lives in the US.
: Evidence? Just watch the news or read a newspaper ...

Actually, I'd bet money that I watch the news and read a newspaper just as
much as you do. And I think you're full of ****.

Bob