Shiny stuff and designer societies

[Zenaan Harkness]

On 11/2/15, Razer <Rayzer at riseup.net> wrote:
> On 11/02/2015 03:12 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>> On 11/2/15, Lodewijk andré de la porte <l at odewijk.nl> wrote:
>>> 2015-11-02 22:05 GMT+01:00 Razer <Rayzer at riseup.net>:
>>>> It's unlikely that all the warriors Genghis Khan ever mustered had
>>>> collectively even eyeballed a million people in their lifetimes.
>>> What do you mean? Seriously! Millions of civilians a year? What???
>>>
>>> WW1 totalled       < 260k
>>> WW2 totalled       < 55000k (including famine and disease related)
>> Huh? Dunno where you figures are coming from. Let's pick the hardest
>
> If "55000k" means 55 thousand thousand it comes a little closer.

My bad, thanks. Mental muscle memory kicked in on seeing a number
followed by "k". 55M would have landed correctly. Apologies for the
noise.