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Admiral Spruance carried one around with him.
Don't know why.
But they are part of the tool kit of sailors at sea and getting the wrong answer or not being able to get the answer can be deadly.
As set out here.
First we have to define what is news.
In 1976...a year without war in Iraq the muder rate was 12/100,000 population population
Corrected for current population the expected murder rate in Iraq would be 3060 murders per year in Iraq...or 8.3 per day.
If we take the 1980 US Homicde Rate of 10.2 per 100,000 population 10.2 per 100,000 population (admitted not a good year) and adjust for Iraqi population we end up with 2,600 murders per year or 7.1 murders per day.
From my own spreadsheets...excluding exposive related deaths and badly decomposed bodies..the average "Muder Rate" in Iraq has been at EIGHT/DAY since December 2007.
The expected number of murders occurring in a relatively peaceful society is NOT news.
Explosive related deaths make up about 2/3rds of Iraqi Casualties...this is news...there has been an average of one suicide bombing a day since December 2007 The vast majority don't make news because they are single digit suicde bombings. While appropriate for local news...the threshold for international news is at leat a double digit death toll.
Personally, I would be ashamed of myself if I decided I wanted to blow myself up and take a lot of people with me if I only killed 2 or 3 others. How hard can it be to leave the gas valve on, invite a few folks over and light up a smoke?
There is no news...because everyone with a brain already knows...the war has ended...its just a matter of the DUMBASSES who can't manage to take more than 2 or 3 people with them when they blow themselves up realiizng it.
...what Cindy Sheehan thinks of Barack Obama, wonder no more.
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