Start with 700,000,000,000.
Divide it by 365.
1,917,808,219.13
Divide that by 24.
79,908,675.8
Divide that by 60.
1,331,811.26
Divide that by 60.
That gives you 22,196.85 .
That's how much money the US Department of Defense officially spends in one second. $22,196.
Or, one second of DoD budget = a top of the line Honda Civic.
31.5 million top of the line Honda Civics a year, even.
The DoD spends roughly $80,000,000 per day.
The poverty line in the US for a family of four is $22,050 / year.
So, in one day, the US Department Defense spends more money that it would take to keep 3,624 families-of-four just above the poverty line, for a year.
14,496 people for a year = one day of defense spending.
Our priorities are broken.
On a lighter note, from the album "Reading, Writing and Arithmetic" here's The Sundays with "Joy":
Yeah, priorities.
Seriously, how stupid is the geographic block on music videos? Is there somewhere I am apparently able to purchase these here in Europe? Remember when music videos were called, “Promotional Videos,” you know, like advertising?
they do that?
that’s f’d up.
I get why they do it with, say, Hulu. The videos there are of shows that are licensed and sold to networks over here so they have the rights to show them here.
But music videos? I don’t get it. Or rather, I get that there are licensing or label contract issues but I don’t get what the damage is if I see it from Europe. There is no money lost, there is no alternative European version of Youtube where I can watch it. I just don’t get it. And I really don’t get those labels who pull all their videos from Youtube. It’s like the radio. It’s not like if I have it available on Youtube I am not going to buy the record.
Who are Vevo anyway? Yes, blocked for me here in the UK too.