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| Under 18 years – 141,020,000 |
Oops... :D
It should be 14,120,000.
Don't you know, Mr. Eagle-eye, that taking into account the rate of typist errors is highly significant for a good statistician? :)
OK. Score a point.
Steal a day and 'enjoy your R + R' (c) Amy
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| #18 (permalink) Mon Jul 17, 2006 22:45 pm Statistics! A useful tool? |
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Hi,
I think statistic is a good thing, unless you want to use it in your own life. (This guys've never won on the lottery, have they?)
Let's say, you have a plan for the future, it looks perfect, you considered every single possibilitys which could be occured, and you can only be sure in one thing: something's going to happen, good,or bad, but things NEVER go the way like they should.
If you play poker then you know, the only thing it matters is LUCK, just like in the real life.
These guys can use the past for making plans for the future, but they need millions of people, and hundreds of years to get a close result, but if you think of one man, it can't work. There is no average man on the Earth,and there is no average day.
If you go for the numbers, like :this is my salary, this much goes for the hydro, this goes for food, gas, insurance, you'll say: that's it, I'm broke.
That's why I never count my money. :)
Just like in that joke, fools are protected.
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| #19 (permalink) Mon Jul 17, 2006 23:18 pm Hydro |
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| spencer wrote: |
| this much goes for the hydro |
Is 'hydro' your slang for 'beer' or am I missing out on something important here :? :) ? |
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| #20 (permalink) Mon Jul 17, 2006 23:30 pm Statistics! A useful tool? |
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Hi Conchita,
so you'll never let me leave the past behind, and start a new life? :)
I was talking about that thing you have to pay monthly. I might missdiald some letters, but that's not too shocking from a drunk, is it? :)
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| #21 (permalink) Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:20 am Statistics! A useful tool? |
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Hi Spencer
Then your fingers must have been trying to type the word mortgage. :lol: The word fits, don't you think? I mean, it begins with "mort" which brings to mind the idea of "dead". And often after paying the mortgage, people's bank accounts are nearly dead. :shock:
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| #22 (permalink) Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:50 pm Statistics! A useful tool? |
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No, actually I didn't mean mortgage.
What do you call these guys who provide electricity, and this kind of things.
Does any of them sound like hidro, or hydro?
Damn, I always payed to those guys in Canada, and they don't exist!
Where's a cop, I've been robbed! :)
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| #23 (permalink) Tue Jul 18, 2006 13:11 pm Hydra(s) :) |
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| spencer wrote: |
| Does any of them sound like hidro, or hydro? |
Hi spencer!
Do you mean 'Hydra'?
In my Soviet schooltime the phrase 'Hydra of capitalizm' :D was still used as a newspapers' (like 'Pravda' :) ) journalese.
That’s Hyrda, a mythological many-headed serpent.
'hydra' – evil (malign forces) that is/are hard to fight with :) :lol:
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| #24 (permalink) Tue Jul 18, 2006 14:30 pm Statistics! A useful tool? |
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| spencer wrote: |
No, actually I didn't mean mortgage.
What do you call these guys who provide electricity, and this kind of things.
Does any of them sound like hidro, or hydro?
Damn, I always payed to those guys in Canada, and they don't exist!
Where's a cop, I've been robbed! :)
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They do exist, but they rob you all the same! 'Hydro' comes from 'hydroelectric company', I guess. What you have to pay is usually called 'the electricity bill' -- in Spain, we often call it 'the light bill'. |
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