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Dizer writes: "Today sees the historic introduction of the new European Currency (Euro) into European hands. The Eurozone market, with a population
of 300 million people, will be cashing in their Punts, Francs and Deutschmarks in favour of the new common Euro currency. This is the biggest currency transition in history, vive l'Europe! See stories on
ireland.com or the BBC."
December 31, 2001 Posted: 8:38 AM EST (1338 GMT)
ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico (AP) -- As hundreds protested nearby, a church group burned Harry Potter books, Ouiji boards, and the complete works of Shakespeare.
The complete works of Shakespeare.
Jack Brock, the Christ Community Church founder and pastor, said the books burned Sunday were "a masterpiece of satanic deception."
"These books teach children how they can get into witchcraft and become a witch, wizard or warlock," Brock said. Members sang "Amazing Grace" as they threw book and magazines into the fire.
Across the street, protesters chanting "Stop burning books" stretched in a line a quarter of a mile long.
By the way, the church's/intellectual terrorist's
email address is
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The website is here
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I know it is the first new currency for ages, but why did they have to invent a new currency symbol which isnt on US keyboards, older european keyboards or existing fonts installed on systems and printers.
There are umpteen little symbols on the normal keyboard, and they could have used a few letters as they have done in the past "SFr", "DM" to give us "e$" or something like [e500] that would even avoid all those mime encoding errors you get with UK pounds where £ maps to %163 and the currency value gets screwed up.
sigh.
-stv
On that note, scanning this thread one finds a mind-numbing array of ignorance and misconceptions about Europe
Scanning this tread also reveals a mind-numbing amount of European prejudice and ignorance about America, presumably from Europeans. Not only do Europeans seem to have these xenophobic and parochial attitudes, but they also seem to feel compelled to display them at every opportunity, furthering the impression that they are both ignorant and ill-mannered.
It's sad, really that attitudes of Europeans prevalent since the discovery of America towards the "colonies" still persist some 500 years later.
It's really sad that there are people like you who think like this.
To me you sound just as bad as someone saying that "I care more about the unknown hobo on the street than my own family members". Brutal and dishonorable.
When I was a kid I was taught to respect the God, your family and country (in that particular order). A strong nation of a collective of people who are tied together by blood and common culture -- not by some fancy hobby like computing. How can you even compare hundreds of years of common history and culture to Linux?
I don't understand what your nation could have done to you to get you that mad, but I hope that some day you'll come to see why supporting only your own kind of people is the right decision. Have some pride in your nation's history!
erhmmm.... when was the last time you experienced a Frenchman willingly learn German?
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That's ridiculous. The Europeans who post here obviously know a lot more about America than the Americans know about any place else. How many of them think that Canada or Mexico is part of the US, or that Texas or Alaska isn't, or that you can go to jail for not being a born-again Christian? None that I've seen. But there have been people who display at least as much ignorance about Europe who still feel quick free to mouth of whatever prepostorous claims they want to believe is true.
And the last time europe unified politically was for the crusades when the infidel muslims started threatening christian europe. What do we have today? Muslims threatening the West. What better time for both a reunified europe and a new war? Russia (part of the european continent), should join the E.U., and the E.U. should then start a new, final, crusade to exterminate Islam completely...
You are fucking dumb like all british people.
Euro doesn't mean loss of independence
Damn ignorant british people
Stick your queen up your *** !!!
Wow, an arrogant american, who would have thought. One of the reasons UK has not adopted the Euro is there paramount arrogance? YOUR money looks mickey mouse, or like monopoly money, since it is all one colour! Boring....
Time goes on. Economies rise and fall, or at least cycle. The Euro economy will go through a low part of the cycle, or a depression-type thing, and all of Europe will be down.
Before, it was just Germany, or Italy, or France, that could be having a bad economic time at a certain snapshot of history. Sure, usually the European economies follow each other pretty much, but not always. However, with all countries linked at their core by the Euro - ALL European countries (That use the Euro anyway) will be in a depression at the same time. Hard to recover from.
I think it's a really stupid idea, and will end in tears or war. And this is coming from someone who is really not affected by this, as I live in the United States. But you people in Europe should really be careful, your government, or the Euro-people, somebody anyway, is really pulling the wool over your eyes when it comes to the long term prospects for the European economy. Dangerous experiment, have fun!
most of the people here think that the euro sucks big time. It is a huge spill of money . Also they gave the label to it that is was very hard to copy the eurobiljets-- yeah right it is already been done for several times. I hope this will be a flop and they go back to our normal kind of money "the Guilder" greetingzzzz
"Today sees the historic introduction of the new European Currency (Euro) into European hands. The Eurozone market, with a population of 300 million people, will be cashing in their Punts, Francs and Deutschmarks in favour of the new common Euro currency. This is the biggest currency transition in history, vive l'Europe!"
You may think that with this move, you gain some kind of unitive power, but in actuality, you lose all individuality and a great deal of control over your own economy.
You guys are doomed.