The Off Topic Topic

[Neil]

I had no idea that in Ethiopia all the land belonged to the state. No wonder the country's economy is so fucked up.

If only they could be like all those successful and rich African countries.

Botswana's per capita GDP is like 10 times higher and something like 30% of the country has AIDS. Ethiopia's as pathetic as it comes.

Also, if Wikipedia's correct they have no patent law.

Unfair comparison.  Botswana was a British colony, and thus had the advantage of civilization.

[Monoriu]

I had no idea that in Ethiopia all the land belonged to the state. No wonder the country's economy is so fucked up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Ethiopia

IIRC, Mono said that the HK government also owns all land and only leases it out for 99 years.

That is true.  But we can still trade land/property and get mortgages for them. 

[Valmy]

Botswana's per capita GDP is like 10 times higher and something like 30% of the country has AIDS. Ethiopia's as pathetic as it comes.

Also, if Wikipedia's correct they have no patent law.

Botswana is a large country that is incredibly blessed with natural resources and has a tiny population.  It should have a GDP 10 times higher than alot of countries.

[Monoriu]

Botswana's per capita GDP is like 10 times higher and something like 30% of the country has AIDS. Ethiopia's as pathetic as it comes.

Also, if Wikipedia's correct they have no patent law.

Botswana is a large country that is incredibly blessed with natural resources and has a tiny population.  It should have a GDP 10 times higher than alot of countries.

Hong Kong is a tiny place that has no natural resources at all and has a huge population for its size.  We have a better GDP than Botswana 

[Syt]

[Neil]

Just over a million people, on a station with a volume of 7.2 million cubic kilometres?  That strains credulity.

[Tamas]

ADMINS PLEASE EMPTY THE UPLOAD FOLDER OKTHXBYE

[Syt]

Just over a million people, on a station with a volume of 7.2 million cubic kilometres?  That strains credulity.

A lot of that space is made up of the reactor core and assorted bottomless shafts.

[Grey Fox]

ADMINS PLEASE EMPTY THE UPLOAD FOLDER OKTHXBYE

Languish is not your personnal file server.

[Ed Anger]

I wish Sasha Baron Cohen would drop dead and spare me his shitty movies and the commercials of said shitty movies.

[Josquius]

Damn Thais

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1195683/Thailand-paints-elephants-look-like-pandas--Thais-like-pandas-better.html

[Jaron]

LOL that is great!

[Neil]

Just over a million people, on a station with a volume of 7.2 million cubic kilometres?  That strains credulity.

A lot of that space is made up of the reactor core and assorted bottomless shafts.

Even looking at just the surface area, that's only 26 people per square kilometre, which is roughly equal to Kyrgyzstan.  Even a fairly difuse city like Los Angeles, which has an area four and a half times smaller, has a population density 55 times that of the Death Star.

[jimmy olsen]

Just over a million people, on a station with a volume of 7.2 million cubic kilometres?  That strains credulity.

A lot of that space is made up of the reactor core and assorted bottomless shafts.

Even looking at just the surface area, that's only 26 people per square kilometre, which is roughly equal to Kyrgyzstan.  Even a fairly difuse city like Los Angeles, which has an area four and a half times smaller, has a population density 55 times that of the Death Star.

How many droids were on the Death Star though?

[Neil]

Just over a million people, on a station with a volume of 7.2 million cubic kilometres?  That strains credulity.

A lot of that space is made up of the reactor core and assorted bottomless shafts.

Even looking at just the surface area, that's only 26 people per square kilometre, which is roughly equal to Kyrgyzstan.  Even a fairly difuse city like Los Angeles, which has an area four and a half times smaller, has a population density 55 times that of the Death Star.

How many droids were on the Death Star though?

There didn't seem to be that many.  We only saw 3:  The torture droid, the little mouse droid and the protocol-looking droid near the elevators.