Re: Hypocrite of the week? Hayden Panettiere wants to save dolphins from hungry Japanese, doesn't care about cows or chickens

Forge <forge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article <170220082226476056%cmn-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, cmn-
> nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 says...
> > Forge <forge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > 
> > > In article <160220082256145229%cmn-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, cmn-
> > > nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 says...
> > > > At their peak, there were estimated 60­100 million bison in the
> > > > mid-19th century.[2] Not billions and billions.
> > > 
> > > 60,100,000,000 is sixty billion. That would fall under my definition
of 
> > > "billions and billions."
> > > 
> > What does a "-" character between two numbers mean to you? 
> > It is not equivalent to the comma that you substituted for the dash.
> 
> In your original post as quoted directly above, there are no dashes and 
> no decimals. It says and I re-quote, "60100 million bison."

That's very strange, because the dash is there. I see it even in your
post, but not in your requote. Do you see the dash in "mid-19th
century" or does it say "mid19th"? 
or mid­19th (option dash) (this is the one you shouldn't see) 60­100
or mid‹19th (option ****ft dash) 60‹100
or mid-19th (dash) 60-100
> 
> For the record, the most widely accepted estimate is 70 million so yeah,

> nowhere close to a billion. *sigh* Woulda been neat to think about 
> though.

Just think though. If 70 million covered 3 states, a billion wouldn't
have left any room for the Indians to sneak up on them.