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I'd be a lot more inclined to laugh if this weren't so serious. The financial security of our country is at serious risk given the astonishing rate of decline in the dollar since the election. With the Chinese selling off dollars like hotcakes, costs of toys made in the Orient, such as DVD players, PDAs, and iPods, will be just a little higher this year and the trend will only continue.

Wow, that would be great. All the crap Americans buy from China would be expensive. Over time, this would make manufacturing our goods in China look less profitable. Factories would move back to the USA. Joe Factoryworker could go back to work making the ipods his friends buy their children. Once again the American blue-collar worker would have a chance!
Oh, wait. I forgot, China's Yuan is directly linked to the US Dollar and doesn't fluctuate relative to our currency. So the dollar can tank as much as it wants, and Chinese goods remain a bargain. Damn.

Actually, while the value of the Chinese yen to the American Dollar has been at the same rate for months, the Yuan's value compared to the Japanese Yen has started to climb, approaching even exchange. This means much better profits for Chinese companies in Japan.

Also, the ASEAN is preparing to admit China, leading to the world's largest free trade bloc. They'll have improved access to markets in China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand. The Chinese know that business is about to improve in China as well as the entire East.

Actually, while the value of the Chinese yen to the American Dollar has been at the same rate for months, the Yuan's value compared to the Japanese Yen has started to climb, approaching even exchange. This means much better profits for Chinese companies in Japan.

Also, the ASEAN is preparing to admit China, leading to the world's largest free trade bloc. They'll have improved access to markets in China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand. The Chinese know that business is about to improve in China as well as the entire East.

This is my last rejected submission on climate change - posted anonymously to avoid karma-whornig accusations.

New evidence of climate change unprecedented in human history seems to arrive almost every day. Two new studies have added more data to the mountain of evidence supporting the anthropogenic climate change hypothesis. A UN Environmental Program report shows that the world faces a 'staggering threat', with the Arctic already being severely affected, with thawing of much of the sea ice and the Greenland icecap predicted.

The extinction of polar bears and seals seems likely. Worse, the decrease is salinity will affect the thermohaline pump that drives the North Atlantic drift, potentially stopping the Gulf Stream and reducing Europe to an icy wilderness. But it's not all bad news - the reduced ice cover will open new areas for gas and oil extraction!

Meanwhile, at the other end of the planet, Nature reports that the respected British Antarctic Survey has shown that loss of sea ice has causedAntarctic Krill populations to crash; this is the probable cause of crashing populations of various species, including the Gentoo penguin. (BAS press release here.) Sceptical readers may be interested to note that the US government now accepts that human CO2 emissions are causing climate change.

I prefer this one - the OS X calculator can do currency conversions based on current exchange rates, but that graph looks great for skiing down...

Please go educate yourself on the current state of the U.S. Canadian exchange rates.

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The problem is that many retailers and resellers don't pin their prices to the current "official" exchange rate, but use an inflated number to cover uncertainty and risk. The UK is supposedly the country most worse off due to this phenomenon.

For the record, A$99.95 becomes roughly $70.00US at recent exchange rates, an equivalent to a 40% mark-up from $50 for a typical game for being sold "down under." The Australian price would have to be A$69.95 to be inline with the current exchange rate, if my math is correct.

Games do seem to cost more in Australia, but we have to start getting into factoring average yearly salaries, tarriffs and what not to make sure...

You are right on the deficit, but the dollar is getting stronger (you can get more and more EUR for 1 USD).

A strong dollar however suggests that the U.S. economy is improving. This is happening only because the risk of the interest rates going up has been increasing over time with an expectation of the recovery. International trading balance and international investment overall can however be very vaguely disconnected from measuring the performance of an economy only by focusing on internal metrics. (Even though of course, with economies constantly becoming more global, that's slowly becoming an obsolete approach.)

Despite the dollar exchange rate suggesting an improving economy, he still did not prove why the U.S. economy doesn't suck right now or in the mid-term future.

It is not, USD is weakening against euro all the time. Check this out: http://www.x-rates.com/d/EUR/USD/hist2003.html

It is official -- The UN is now confirming: The USA is dying

One more crippling bombshell crushed the already beleaguered American economy
when x-rates.com confirmed that the American Dollar has dropped yet again,
now down to .9 of a Euro. Coming on the heels of a recent Usenet survey which plainly states that The American Economy is in a recession, this news serves to
reinforce what we've known all along. The USA is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict the USA's future. The hand writing is on the wall: The USA faces a bleak future. In fact there won't
be any future at all for the USA because it is dying. Things are looking very bad for America. As many of us are already aware, the US continues to lose relevence. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

The IT industry is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core
developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time IT jobs to india only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: The American IT Industry is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Microsoft Encarta states that there are 291,065,636 people in America. What is the US's national debt? Let's see. According to the The Debt clock the USA's National Debt is 6,465,271,811,559.14. Therefore each American
is $22,212.42. in debt. In fact, the USA's national debt has continued to
increase an average of $992 million per day since September 30, 2002. Indeed,
it can clearly be seen the the US is going broke faster then the Soviet Union did

Due to the troubles of American Meddling, An Capitalist Gorvernment and so on,
South Vietnam was attacked was taken over by North Vietnam who sell another
a more compassionate government. Now Iraq is also dead, its corpse turned over
to feed the US media.

All major surveys show that the USA has steadily declined in the world economy.
America is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If
the USA is to survive at all it will be among a broken collection of warring
factions. America continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save
it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, the United States of America is dead.

Fact: The USA is dying

calculator say: 550 GBP = 1027 USD = 817 EUR

I'm paying $20 for mine ($15.71 USD @ 0.785237). I wouldn't call it a deal really though, since the government sees fit to subsidize them. Its a whole other debate whether this kind of thing is in the same category as highways and other infrastructure. I just don't think its fair to compare US ISP prices to Canadian ones, the rules of the game are very different.

I'm not sure what you meant by the Canadians have less money thing though. The gap between rich-vs-poor is probably much smaller in Canada than the US. But I don't think you can make a general assumption that we have less money. For example, if you compare your average Canadian Joe with his southern counterpart, Canada Joe is much better off this January than he was last January. I tried to take a look at the overall median income for both countries in 2000 (The only common recent year I can seem to find statistical data for), we're pretty equal.

USA $42,148 USD ($60,832.21 CDN @ 0.6929 - Dec1999 exchange rate) or at todays rate $53,679.69 CDN
Canada = $55,016 CDN

I don't know exactly how to compare the two considering the rise and fall of the US $ over the past few years. There's too many other factors like taxation rates, and services available, and regional conditions for me to make a call on it. My idea of an urban ghetto is probably very different than USA Joe's too. I say urban ghetto, because my previous job had me travelling in northern Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. Let me tell you, some of those reserves are scary places to be, but I think the reasons may be very different, and the populations are much much smaller.

I'm going to submit before I get the urge to haul out my Stats 100 text. (Which reminds me, the comparison of US to Canadian tuition rates would be another interesting study)

It's so bad that even $1.00 costs $1.27

1 USD = 1.35 AUD
1 GBP = 2.35 AUD (1 GBP = 1.75 USD)
1 EUR = 1.65 AUD (1 EUR = 1.23 USD)

(Currency values taken from http://www.x-rates.com/.)

So those 0.99 AUD downloads are equivalent to getting 0.73 USD downloads from the US iTunes music store. Not bad at all.

The 0.99 xxx artificial price point is good news for Aussies, but I can't help but think Brits (and, to a lesser extent, continental Europeans) are going to get shafted when similar stores appear for us - 0.99 GBP is 1.62 USD (and 0.99 EUR = 1.22 USD).

and a currency calculator

I calculated the 26Mb/s at being 35USD/month with the modem rental fee. That's a DSL line. I realize Japan generally has higher population density, but to merely up the flow of DSL lines, would that depend on that at all really? Wouldn't the ISP just have to up the total bandwidth that they have to give out? (I know little of how that side of things work.) They're just just trying to get all the money they can from us, it seems. Or maybe everyone knows that if we all have 26Mb/s then dissemination of pirated software and media would definitely go much higher.

As an L1 worker in Oracle, I can only say that I earn the same as my american coworkers and not less.

The USA is Dying

It is official -- The UN is now confirming: The USA is dying

One more crippling bombshell crushed the already beleaguered American economy
when x-rates.com confirmed that the American Dollar has dropped yet again,
now down to .9 of a Euro. Coming on the heels of a recent Usenet survey which plainly states that The American Economy is in a recession, this news serves to
reinforce what we've known all along. The USA is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict the USA's future. The hand writing is on the wall: The USA faces a bleak future. In fact there won't
be any future at all for the USA because it is dying. Things are looking very bad for America. As many of us are already aware, the US continues to lose relevence. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

The IT industry is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core
developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time IT jobs to india only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: The American IT Industry is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Microsoft Encarta states that there are 291,065,636 people in America. What is the US's national debt? Let's see. According to the The Debt clock the USA's National Debt is 6,465,271,811,559.14. Therefore each American
is $22,212.42. in debt. In fact, the USA's national debt has continued to
increase an average of $992 million per day since September 30, 2002. Indeed,
it can clearly be seen the the US is going broke faster then the Soviet Union did

Due to the troubles of American Meddling, An Capitalist Gorvernment and so on,
South Vietnam was attacked was taken over by North Vietnam who sell another
a more compassionate government. Now Iraq is also dead, its corpse turned over
to feed the US media.

All major surveys show that the USA has steadily declined in the world economy.
America is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If
the USA is to survive at all it will be among a broken collection of warring
factions. America continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save
it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, the United States of America is dead.

Fact: The USA is dying

It is official -- The UN is now confirming: The USA is dying

One more crippling bombshell crushed the already beleaguered American economy when x-rates.com confirmed that the American Dollar has dropped yet again, now down to .9 of a Euro. Coming on the heels of a recent Usenet survey which plainly states that The American Economy is in a recession, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The USA is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict the USA's future. The hand writing is on the wall: The USA faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for the USA because it is dying. Things are looking very bad for America. As many of us are already aware, the US continues to lose relevence. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

The IT industry is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time IT jobs to India only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: The American IT Industry is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Microsoft Encarta states that there are 291,065,636 people in America. What is the US's national debt? Let's see. According to the The Debt clock the USA's National Debt is 6,465,271,811,559.14. Therefore each American is $22,212.42 in debt. In fact, the USA's national debt has continued to increase an average of $992 million per day since September 30, 2002. Indeed ,it can clearly be seen that the US is going broke faster then the Soviet Union did.

Due to the troubles of American Meddling, a Capitalist Gorvernment and so on, South Vietnam was attacked was taken over by North Vietnam who sell another a more compassionate government. Now Iraq is also dead, its corpse turned over to feed the US media.

All major surveys show that the USA has steadily declined in the world economy. America is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If the USA is to survive at all it will be among a broken collection of warring factions. America continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, the United States of America is dead.

Fact: The USA is dying

As of today's exchange rate of £1 to $1.67179

£1.70 = $2.84
23p (£0.23) = 38 ($0.38)

It is official -- The UN is now confirming: The USA is dying

One more crippling bombshell crushed the already beleaguered American economy
when x-rates.com confirmed that the American Dollar has dropped yet again,
now down to .9 of a Euro. Coming on the heels of a recent Usenet survey which plainly states that The American Economy is in a recession, this news serves to
reinforce what we've known all along. The USA is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict the USA's future. The hand writing is on the wall: The USA faces a bleak future. In fact there won't
be any future at all for the USA because it is dying. Things are looking very bad for America. As many of us are already aware, the US continues to lose relevence. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

The IT industry is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core
developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time IT jobs to india only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: The American IT Industry is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Microsoft Encarta states that there are 291,065,636 people in America. What is the US's national debt? Let's see. According to the The Debt clock the USA's National Debt is 6,465,271,811,559.14. Therefore each American
is $22,212.42. in debt. In fact, the USA's national debt has continued to
increase an average of $992 million per day since September 30, 2002. Indeed,
it can clearly be seen the the US is going broke faster then the Soviet Union did

Due to the troubles of American Meddling, An Capitalist Gorvernment and so on,
South Vietnam was attacked was taken over by North Vietnam who sell another
a more compassionate government. Now Iraq is also dead, its corpse turned over
to feed the US media.

All major surveys show that the USA has steadily declined in the world economy.
America is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If
the USA is to survive at all it will be among a broken collection of warring
factions. America continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save
it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, the United States of America is dead.

Fact: The USA is dying

It is official -- The UN is now confirming: The USA is dying

One more crippling bombshell crushed the already beleaguered American economy
when x-rates.com confirmed that the American Dollar has dropped yet again,
now down to .9 of a Euro. Coming on the heels of a recent Usenet survey which plainly states that The American Economy is in a recession, this news serves to
reinforce what we've known all along. The USA is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict the USA's future. The hand writing is on the wall: The USA faces a bleak future. In fact there won't
be any future at all for the USA because it is dying. Things are looking very bad for America. As many of us are already aware, the US continues to lose relevence. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

The IT industry is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core
developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time IT jobs to india only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: The American IT Industry is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Microsoft Encarta states that there are 291,065,636 people in America. What is the US's national debt? Let's see. According to the The Debt clock the USA's National Debt is 6,465,271,811,559.14. Therefore each American
is $22,212.42. in debt. In fact, the USA's national debt has continued to
increase an average of $992 million per day since September 30, 2002. Indeed,
it can clearly be seen the the US is going broke faster then the Soviet Union did

Due to the troubles of American Meddling, An Capitalist Gorvernment and so on,
South Vietnam was attacked was taken over by North Vietnam who sell another
a more compassionate government. Now Iraq is also dead, its corpse turned over
to feed the US media.

All major surveys show that the USA has steadily declined in the world economy.
America is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If
the USA is to survive at all it will be among a broken collection of warring
factions. America continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save
it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, the United States of America is dead.

Fact: The USA is dying

It is official -- The UN is now confirming: The USA is dying

One more crippling bombshell crushed the already beleaguered American economy
when x-rates.com confirmed that the American Dollar has dropped yet again,
now down to .9 of a Euro. Coming on the heels of a recent Usenet survey which plainly states that The American Economy is in a recession, this news serves to
reinforce what we've known all along. The USA is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict the USA's future. The hand writing is on the wall: The USA faces a bleak future. In fact there won't
be any future at all for the USA because it is dying. Things are looking very bad for America. As many of us are already aware, the US continues to lose relevence. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

The IT industry is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core
developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time IT jobs to india only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: The American IT Industry is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Microsoft Encarta states that there are 291,065,636 people in America. What is the US's national debt? Let's see. According to the The Debt clock the USA's National Debt is 6,465,271,811,559.14. Therefore each American
is $22,212.42. in debt. In fact, the USA's national debt has continued to
increase an average of $992 million per day since September 30, 2002. Indeed,
it can clearly be seen the the US is going broke faster then the Soviet Union did

Due to the troubles of American Meddling, An Capitalist Gorvernment and so on,
South Vietnam was attacked was taken over by North Vietnam who sell another
a more compassionate government. Now Iraq is also dead, its corpse turned over
to feed the US media.

All major surveys show that the USA has steadily declined in the world economy.
America is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If
the USA is to survive at all it will be among a broken collection of warring
factions. America continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save
it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, the United States of America is dead.

Fact: The USA is dying

It is official -- The UN is now confirming: The USA is dying

One more crippling bombshell crushed the already beleaguered American economy
when x-rates.com confirmed that the American Dollar has dropped yet again,
now down to .9 of a Euro. Coming on the heels of a recent Usenet survey which plainly states that The American Economy is in a recession, this news serves to
reinforce what we've known all along. The USA is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict the USA's future. The hand writing is on the wall: The USA faces a bleak future. In fact there won't
be any future at all for the USA because it is dying. Things are looking very bad for America. As many of us are already aware, the US continues to lose relevence. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

The IT industry is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core
developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time IT jobs to india only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: The American IT Industry is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Microsoft Encarta states that there are 291,065,636 people in America. What is the US's national debt? Let's see. According to the The Debt clock the USA's National Debt is 6,465,271,811,559.14. Therefore each American
is $22,212.42. in debt. In fact, the USA's national debt has continued to
increase an average of $992 million per day since September 30, 2002. Indeed,
it can clearly be seen the the US is going broke faster then the Soviet Union did

Due to the troubles of American Meddling, An Capitalist Gorvernment and so on,
South Vietnam was attacked was taken over by North Vietnam who sell another
a more compassionate government. Now Iraq is also dead, its corpse turned over
to feed the US media.

All major surveys show that the USA has steadily declined in the world economy.
America is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If
the USA is to survive at all it will be among a broken collection of warring
factions. America continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save
it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, the United States of America is dead.

Fact: The USA is dying

It is official -- The UN is now confirming: The USA is dying

One more crippling bombshell crushed the already beleaguered American economy
when x-rates.com confirmed that the American Dollar has dropped yet again, now down to .9 of a Euro. Coming on the heels of a recent Usenet survey which plainly states that The American Economy is in a recession, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The USA is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead
last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict the USA's future. The hand writing is on the wall: The USA faces a bleak future. In fact there won't
be any future at all for the USA because it is dying. Things are looking very bad for America. As many of us are already aware, the US continues to lose relevence. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

The IT industry is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core
developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time IT jobs to india only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: The American IT Industry is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Microsoft Encarta states that there are 291,065,636 people in America. What is the US's national debt? Let's see. According to the The Debt clock the USA's National Debt is 6,465,271,811,559.14. Therefore each American is $22,212.42. in debt. In fact, the USA's national debt has continued to increase an average of
$992 million per day since September 30, 2002. Indeed, it can clearly be seen the the US is going broke faster then the Soviet Union did

Due to the troubles of American Meddling, An Capitalist Gorvernment and so on, South Vietnam was attacked was taken over by North Vietnam who sell another a more compassionate government. Now
Iraq is also dead, its corpse turned over to feed the US media.

All major surveys show that the USA has steadily declined in the world economy. America
is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If the USA is
to survive at all it will be among a broken collection of warring factions. America continues to
decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For
all practical purposes, the United States of America is dead.

Fact: The USA is dying

it's AUD$0.01 per kb up to 5MB and then AUD$0.05 per kb. I don't know about the speed.

So it's pretty damn steep, but you get to replace about four different gadgets with this one egg basket.

(AUD$10.24 per MB @ ?kbps, but remember AUD$1=whatever the current rate is)

It's just the US dollar that has been going down, and the others seem to be going up compared to US dollar.

Here, try comparing AU$ to CDN$. Neither is growing compared to the other.

Or, here's EURO compared to AU$.

It's just the US dollar that has been going down, and the others seem to be going up compared to US dollar.

Here, try comparing AU$ to CDN$. Neither is growing compared to the other.

Or, here's EURO compared to AU$.

I try not to, but I can't resist this time.

It seems that out dollar has been gaining value for quite some time, while the US is going broke faster then the Soviet Union did.

i'm no economist but to my untrained eye, measuring "economic reality" is at its heart a relative (comparative) activity. kind of like a related rates problem w/ many many many factors. one thing i have found interesting is to look at the historical behavior of the exchange rate between the EUR and the USD and speculate as to reasons for the parity flip since mid-late 2002.

i think if the EU follows the IP lunacy of the US, the graph between EUR and those currencies of countries that don't adopt such race-to-the-bottom thinking (e.g., east asian "2nd world" countries) will begin to look similar to this, and not long after that, the parity flip will place US/EU in 2nd world status.

if you can make it to brussels, i suggest printing this graph out and prodding people w/ the question "how do you really measure economic reality?"

Oh, how appropriate.

Well, to answer that, I point you here

I just bought something on ebay. While I waited for escrow to go through, the price climbed 5%. Need I say more?

BTW... the barbarians did not have better tech. The story of the fall of Rome was one of corruption. The barbarians were Germanic tribes driven from their homelands by war, and looking for food. They stopped north of Italy, and sent a plea for help. The Roman senate voted to give them food, and said "come on down; we'll feed you." Then they gave a contract for providing that food to a Senator who was expected to embezzle most of the value of the contract.

He was not as inefficient as they expected, though; he embezzled it all. So they came through, and ate all the food (picked up some gold in the process). The slaves said "No food? We know who starves first." and joined the barbarians in their sweep out of Italy in search of food. So in less than a year, Rome was cleared out of all its slaves. What remained were patricians who didn't know how to lift a fork to their lips. Thus fell Rome.

Oh, and the Germanic tribes weren't defeated by better technology, as much as by better tactics.
Specifically, the tactic was to defeat one tribe, and then allow them a choice: slavery, or freedom without land, if you fight the next tribe over as our front lines.

Hey, you're talking about millions of users. Millions of users mean millions of dollars. Ask Apple with their well-received iPod (now available for the PC) whether Mac users (1) have money and (2) listen to music.

I wish Sony all the worst and am glad my CD collection was "completed" when I got pissed off at the ridiculous prices several years ago.

But hey guys, clean up your act and I'll rush out and spends ... dollars. The US kind that are worth more than other dollars (at the moment anyhow). Really.

• 73.61 Australlian Dollars
  
• 25.88 British Pounds
  
• 40.67 Euros
  

Btw, you might want to change your sig, given that dollar already was under 1 euro less then a month ago... graph

Find a currency converter.

If you telecummute from Brazil, you get a nice raise every day. cool.

I'm moving to a tropical country :-)

...which is still pretty ridiculous. As of 27 April 2000, US$1 is equivalent to GB£0.6350. See http://www.x-rates.com/tables/GBP.html.

Some other sites with currency exchange rate info:

• http://www.currency-exchange-rate.com
• http://www.rubicon.com/passport /currency/ccfram.htm
• http://www.currency.co.nz/
• http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/xr/

Here, help yourself.