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Iceland PM resigns (guardian.co.uk)

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[–]Joshua_a1988 1292ポイント1293ポイント  (102子コメント)

Crowds that make up a sizable percentage of Iceland's entire population beating drums and firing flares outside his office probably contributed.

[–]vikinick 1388ポイント1389ポイント  (101子コメント)

For those not aware, sizeable means 7% of the country at a protest. Any time when more than 1% of your country is at a protest, you fucked up massively.

[–]zachattack82 570ポイント571ポイント  (100子コメント)

To be fair though, such an event is much more likely in a country where the entire population is mostly concentrated in the capital. If literally every single citizen of DC was protesting it still wouldnt be even half a percent of the US population.

[–]2OP4me 306ポイント307ポイント  (91子コメント)

The united states is fuck huge, DC protesting wouldn't even make up a 1/4 of a percent.

[–]07yzryder 273ポイント274ポイント  (41子コメント)

lets see

Iceland Population - 330k

least populated US state (wyoming) - 586k

DC = 627K People or .002 so .20% of the US pop. so almost a quarter of a percentage point lol

[–]scottmccauley 168ポイント169ポイント  (25子コメント)

You can't just lease out an entire state for just $586,000. I mean, you're only getting 9¢ per acre that way.

[–]07yzryder 104ポイント105ポイント  (17子コメント)

whoops fixed.

honestly its wyoming though.... i wouldnt go above a nickle

[–]Kerrby87 37ポイント38ポイント  (5子コメント)

I'd take it.

[–]Bad_Sex_Advice 10ポイント11ポイント  (3子コメント)

Great! Let me draw up a contract, meet me back at my office. My fee is usually 13%, but I'll take 10 if the money's up front.

[–]MegaPurtle [スコア非表示]  (1子コメント)

If only this could be real. The value of Jackson hole and Yellowstone alone would turn the time into a profit scenario. Add in a ton of wind turbines and you'd be set

[–]ironzerg [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

That's what she said.

[–]passwordsarehard_3 18ポイント19ポイント  (10子コメント)

Average land value in WY is $450 an acre. http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2013/06/land_values_soar_in_parts_of_w.html

[–]5i1v3r 5ポイント6ポイント  (8子コメント)

I'm from the city, is that a lot? $450 sounds like a steal for a decent apartment.

[–]hatsune_aru 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

Considering the population distribution you'd find that almost all the land is wildly less than 450 or wildly more than 450

[–]ishootpentax 5ポイント6ポイント  (2子コメント)

Very, very cheap. Even here in SC, you're looking at $3-5k an acre.

[–]RoboOverlord [スコア非表示]  (2子コメント)

You do know they are talking about bare undeveloped land, right?

$450 an acre is practically giving it away, but it's not as if you could move there and just live on that acre. Just getting basic utilities to your property is going to cost another $50k, obviously depending on where your land is in relation to the nearest developed area.

[–]BigCountry1182 [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Dirt cheap dirt

[–]dfleish [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

That's less than the average price per square foot of a condo in Hoboken.

[–]Rhawk187 7ポイント8ポイント  (1子コメント)

This is America. Name your price. Also, I think Lichtenstein lets you do just that.

[–]RandomPrecision1 [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

I don't think that turned out to be real. People made a sub for it (/r/RentLiechtenstein) and everything, but it doesn't sound like logistics were ever done by either Liechtenstein or people wanting to rent it.

You can totes rent some random villages in Europe though

[–]sagnessagiel 2ポイント3ポイント  (1子コメント)

but that's how jefferson made the louisiana purchase

[–]Osiris32 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

At a nickle per square mile, no less!

[–]agangofoldwomen 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Reminds me of the Louisiana Purchase.

[–]fickle_floridian [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

That is the lease of our concerns, which are available at a very attractive rate.

[–]BahBahCobaltSheep [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Alaska was bought for 2 cents an acre.

[–]MartinMan2213 32ポイント33ポイント  (11子コメント)

But let's take the Washington DC metro population instead of just the city itself, metro area is 6 million and we'll use your US population of 313.5 million.

DC metro would be just under 2% of the population. Still a small percentage, but that's a large amount of people in one area.

[–]07yzryder 18ポイント19ポイント  (9子コメント)

can you imagine how that would look? 6 million people marching in DC.....

[–]MartinMan2213 25ポイント26ポイント  (7子コメント)

TIL of the Million Man March, it's been done DC with close to 1mil, it can be done again.

[–]07yzryder 17ポイント18ポイント  (4子コメント)

yea and that packed the streets, imagine 6 times that.... it would make a VERY VERY clear statement lol.

[–]kadozen1 6ポイント7ポイント  (0子コメント)

Now imagine all 6 million playing Smoke on the Water on guitars

[–]amakudaru 2ポイント3ポイント  (2子コメント)

The real question is, how many would die? Statistically speaking, at least one person will kick the bucket. According to google, 8,215 people die per 1 million in the US1 every year. That's about 225 deaths daily per 10 million. 6 million in attendance, so 135 deaths over the course of that day.

[–]Neglectful_Stranger [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Weren't the numbers inflated for the MMM?

[–]espressoadict 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

How about 30 million?

[–]Iwkyawy 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'll go grab a pint at Nanny Obriens and wait it out...

[–]azureharri 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

r/theydidthemath

[–]who-bah-stank [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

.20% is only 80% of a quarter of one percent.

[–]Easy_Floss [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Still 17% off the population off Reykjavik protesting almost 20% off the population off the capital protesting is insane.

[–]Superchap 58ポイント59ポイント  (23子コメント)

I'd be amazed to see 1% of the U.S stand up for anything but it seems so fractured.

[–]R_V_Z 123ポイント124ポイント  (10子コメント)

"We are abolishing the Super Bowl"

Instantaneous revolt.

[–]Superchap 29ポイント30ポイント  (0子コメント)

Whoa we want to see change not anarchy!

[–]KelleyMcChes 7ポイント8ポイント  (0子コメント)

"Make football great again!"

[–]cutol 16ポイント17ポイント  (5子コメント)

Introducing the Mondo Bowl!

[–]TimbuFTZB 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

i'd much prefer having it replaced with TI6

[–]MuonManLaserJab -1ポイント0ポイント  (0子コメント)

"Take the Snitch out of Football!"

[–]TheRaunchiestRick 6ポイント7ポイント  (4子コメント)

"In an effort to go green, we are switching to hybrids only." - NASCAR

[–]Tommyboy420 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

Why not? E-boost around turn 3,that would be fun.

[–]thebook92 [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Hell, WEC and F1 already do it. Then again, this is NASCAR we're talking about...

[–]Nottooshabbi 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

All they'll stand up for is to walk over to the fridge and back.

[–]CLU_Three 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Ha ha are you serious? If we had only one percent standing up for something all the time that would mean the country was more fractured. Look at how the country votes. If someone is only getting 1% of the vote they drop out.

[–]megafartcloud -2ポイント-1ポイント  (4子コメント)

if anyone eliminates social security you would see massive protests.

[–]DarkOmen597 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

Was just discussing this with a buddy of mine. I am in California and getting to DC would be a fucken mission.

My proposed solution : protest at your state capital and local mayors office.

It's the only way to get everyone's voice heard.

Imagine of protest like this broke out all across 50 states. It would send a very clear message.

[–]johnnybrealgood [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Occupy Wall Street was the largest protest in recent memory, but the media, including reddit, mostly made a joke out of it.

[–]liberationation 26ポイント27ポイント  (22子コメント)

The population of DC is 0.00188% 0.21% of the population of the United States

[–]07yzryder 21ポイント22ポイント  (5子コメント)

someone forgot to carry the decimal when converting to a percent.

http://www.infoplease.com/us/states/population-by-rank.html - source total pop = 321,418,820 DC pop = 672,228

672,228/321,418,820 = .00209 = .209%

[–]liberationation 9ポイント10ポイント  (3子コメント)

You are correct, my bad

[–]NaganWasFramed [スコア非表示]  (0子コメント)

Those numbers also assume that Obama and his family are protesting themselves.

[–]AHSfav 9ポイント10ポイント  (15子コメント)

That can't be right

[–]Ominusx 23ポイント24ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah you're right. It's 0.2% of the population of the USA. Still tiny though!

[–]Kein_Internet 10ポイント11ポイント  (7子コメント)

It's pretty close.

Now, if we include the DC metropolitan area, we can get up to 2% of the population... pretty crazy to imagine a crowd that size gathering along the National Mall.

[–]MikeBond008 5ポイント6ポイント  (4子コメント)

Yea but the metropolitan area extends to Northern Virginia and Maryland not exactly a fair comparison. As some one who lived there, no one in Northern Virginia considers themselves living in the capitol.

[–]Nevermore60 4ポイント5ポイント  (2子コメント)

I live in Alexandria, inside the beltway. I loosely consider myself to be living 'in DC.'

[–]creep_nu 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Inside the beltway is DC, outside you're in the burbs. You might not technically be in DC, but you might as well be.

[–]NotQuiteVanilla 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Say hey to Rick.

[–]mudtrooper 5ポイント6ポイント  (0子コメント)

But everybody in the rest of VA does.

[–]Fonzirelli 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I went to the National Mall during the "Rally to Restore Sanity" hosted by Jon Stewart (Or the "Rally to Restore Fear" hosted by Stephen Colbert if you want to look at it that way) And I swear it felt like the crowd was about that size.

[–]bbelt16ag -3ポイント-2ポイント  (0子コメント)

If trump or Hilary wins there will be....

[–]SinkHoleDeMayo 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

DC is tiny, remember we have several other very large cities here.

[–]suddenly_seymour -1ポイント0ポイント  (3子コメント)

That's accurate when only including population within the city limits. The metropolitan area (which includes baltimore, arlington, and all the suburbs in between) would be around 0.2% of the country.

[–]ZonEat 5ポイント6ポイント  (1子コメント)

Baltimore is actually not counted as part of the DC metropolitan area. It has its own designated metropolitan area as Baltimore-Towson.

[–]suddenly_seymour 2ポイント3ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah I was just going off the Wikipedia list of largest US metropolitan areas... Which I guess combines the two? It lists them as #4 together. Kinda seems like cheating but DFW is combined, too, so who knows.

[–]Choco_Churro_Charlie 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Like we care what our government does.

[–]tehbored 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Also when your entire country has the population of a small city. The entire country of Iceland is half the size of Washington DC.

[–]idreamofstars 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

Doubt you would get 1% of any city here protesting anything so it's still pretty significant

[–]livinincalifornia -3ポイント-2ポイント  (4子コメント)

Which is why a very limited federal government is necessary, otherwise absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[–]guamisc 4ポイント5ポイント  (3子コメント)

The other side of the coin that people love to ignore is that the larger corporations get, the more power they have. Large multinational corporations necessitate powerful federal governments otherwise absolute power (of large megacorps) corrupts absolutely.

[–]livinincalifornia -1ポイント0ポイント  (2子コメント)

That's a false narrative, because the governments are well aware of it and take kickbacks. They are part of the same corrupt elite establishment.

[–]guamisc 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

No, it is the only logical narrative where the people don't end up complete screwed. If I accept your original narrative, we're already fucked and the megacorps now will own us forever and more. However if we can find some way to get rid of alot of the influence of money in politics (campaign finance reform, remove gerrymandering, remove cap on # of HoR districts, etc) we can get rid of a lot of the corruption that got us here in the first place.

We already know what a weak, powerless federal government will lead to, corporate power run wild. It will leave us all impoverished wage slaves, I wish that was an exaggeration :/

[–]livinincalifornia 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

They go hand in hand, corrupt overreaching government and corrupt power grabbing corporations. When a society begins to decline, in our case due to a financial cartel called central banking looting our nation of its true wealth, corruption runs rampant.

We need cryptographic solutions and contracts transparent and enforced by computers instead of corrupt politicians and CEOs.