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Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime.

From	owl <owl@rooftop.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime.
Date	2013-01-14 00:51 +0000
Organization	ok by me, so long as it doesn't get out of hand
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bbgruff <bbgruff@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Ezekiel wrote:

> > "bbgruff" <bbgruff@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> > news:alg7j7Fdko6U1@mid.individual.net...
> >> owl wrote:
> >>
> >>> You see, the problem is that you are ignoring the fact that murders are
> >>> predominantly an inner-city gang-related problem in the US, and much
> >>> more tied to centers of high population density.  I came across a stat
> >>> the other day that observed iirc that US has about 180 cities with a
> >>> population greater than 200,000, while UK has only about 50 at that
> >>> level.
> >>
> >> Huh?
> >> Perhaps you are missing the point that the population of the U.S. is
> >> about 312 Million compared with less than 63 Million in the UK.
> > 
> > That makes the population ratio in the US 4.95x larger.
> > 
> > 
> >> Thus, with large cities in the ratio 180:50, the U.K. has more large
> >> cities
> >> (almost twice as many) per Million population.
> > 
> > Incorrect. Using 200k as some sort of magic-number, according to Wikipedia
> > the number of US urban areas with a population of 200k or more is 179. The
> > number of UK urban areas with 200k or more residents is 34.
> > 
> > The ratio is 5.26 to one. In other words, the US has 4.95x the population
> > with 5.26 the number of large urban areas. The US has *more* large urban
> > areas per capita than the UK.
> > 
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_urban_areas
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_in_the_United_Kingdom

> So far so good, and thx for the links.

> So we agree that the number of people in the U.S. living in cities with a 
> population greater than 200,000 is about 6% higher than in the U.K.
> That's a close call, in fact?

Huh?  More people live in just the top 8 US cities (of 179 with a
population greater than 200K) -- 64,707,439 -- than the entire UK
population -- 62,641,000 (2011).

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Britain -- the land of violent crime. owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2013-01-13 13:44 +0000
  LOL! You are being lead around by your nose! You are too ridiculous! :) Big Steel <"The One"@One.net> - 2013-01-13 08:49 -0500
    Re: LOL! You are being lead around by your nose! You are too ridiculous! :) owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2013-01-13 13:54 +0000
  America still the murder capital of the world 7 <email_at_www_at_enemygadgets_dot_com@enemygadgets.com> - 2013-01-13 14:03 +0000
    Re: America still the murder capital of the world owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2013-01-13 14:10 +0000
  Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. bbgruff <bbgruff@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-01-13 15:11 +0000
    Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2013-01-13 15:52 +0000
      Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. Big Steel <"The One"@One.net> - 2013-01-13 10:58 -0500
        Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2013-01-13 16:07 +0000
          Diaper Rash Owl, I am sure your drugs have you confused again. Big Steel <"The One"@One.net> - 2013-01-13 11:10 -0500
          Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2013-01-13 11:12 -0500
            Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. George <hpt@invalid.invalid> - 2013-01-13 09:37 -0700
              Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2013-01-13 11:43 -0500
                Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. "Cola Zealot" <Cola_Zealot@fuckoff.com> - 2013-01-13 19:28 +0100
                Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. flatfish+++ <phlatphish@yahoo.com> - 2013-01-13 13:29 -0500
      Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. bbgruff <bbgruff@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-01-13 17:01 +0000
        Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2013-01-13 12:36 -0500
          Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. bbgruff <bbgruff@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-01-13 23:25 +0000
            Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2013-01-14 00:51 +0000
            Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2013-01-14 13:40 -0500
        Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2013-01-14 00:20 +0000
          Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. bbgruff <bbgruff@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-01-14 00:31 +0000
      Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. spike1@freenet.co.uk - 2013-01-13 16:42 +0000
        Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2013-01-13 13:03 -0500
          Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2013-01-15 08:29 -0600
  Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. Big Steel <"The One"@One.net> - 2013-01-13 10:18 -0500
    Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. "Mr Pounder" <MrPounder@RationalThought.com> - 2013-01-13 19:18 +0000
      Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. Big Steel <"The One77"@One77.net> - 2013-01-13 14:26 -0500
        Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. "Mr Pounder" <MrPounder@RationalThought.com> - 2013-01-13 20:13 +0000
          Hi Mr. Pounder!:) No no ho, it's not going to work Mr. Pounder the Chicago City Dump is where a sociopath as the Chicago City dump creature  (you) belongs. :) You can't change your spots on your hairy nasty back. :) Big Steel <"The One77"@One77.net> - 2013-01-13 15:18 -0500
      Mr.  Pounder  your ass we know what part of your body you are pounding, huh? :) Big Steel <"The One77"@One77.net> - 2013-01-13 14:29 -0500
      Yeah you had better pound the Chicago City Dump -- Chicago's City Dump creature.   :) Big Steel <"The One77"@One77.net> - 2013-01-13 14:35 -0500
      Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2013-01-15 08:04 -0600
        Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. Big Steel <"The OneOOOOwee"@OneOOOOweee.net> - 2013-01-15 09:21 -0500
        Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2013-01-15 10:14 -0500
        Re: Britain -- the land of violent crime. owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2013-01-16 00:55 +0000

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