Harper's Index for May 2005
Jun. 13th, 2005 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fajrdrakoI always love these things. The best:
Annual cost of all sixteen U.N. peacekeeping missions currently underway : $3,870,000,000[United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (N.Y.C.)]
Monthly cost of the U.S. occupation of Iraq : $4,100,000,000[U.S. Department of Defense]
But the clincher is:
Amount a Chinese online gamer made last year by selling a virtual sword he had borrowed from a friend : $850[Shanghai Zhen Xing Law Firm]
Months later that the friend retaliated by stabbing him to death with a real knife : 6[Shanghai Zhen Xing Law Firm]
That should teach him to steal a virtual weapon. If he were alive to learn the lesson... though I suppose now, in some afterlife, he maybe has a new appreciation of the difference between real and virtual weapons?
