Two reasons to do this: first, they retain more control over monetary and fiscal policy by not using another commodity, be it gold or USD, particularly if the value of the commodity (USD) doesn't appear that it will be as stable in the future as it has been. If they really believed in this advantage or the weakness of the USD, they would have gone in more than what they have. Although perhaps it is testing the waters.
The second, probably bigger issue, is pride. This group of five economicallly small nations could stand up to the big bully on the global scene.
You've never heard of a verbal contract? The written, signed, notarized, blah, blah, blah is not required for all contractual obligations. It is merely the easiest way to memorialize a meeting of the minds.
Unless there is a literal gun to your head or knife to your throat, you can't claim 'duress'. The threat of being made a pauper is no threat in the eyes of the law. Welcome to the the USA.
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I have studied it, albeit years ago.
Two reasons to do this: first, they retain more control over monetary and fiscal policy by not using another commodity, be it gold or USD, particularly if the value of the commodity (USD) doesn't appear that it will be as stable in the future as it has been. If they really believed in this advantage or the weakness of the USD, they would have gone in more than what they have. Although perhaps it is testing the waters.
The second, probably bigger issue, is pride. This group of five economicallly small nations could stand up to the big bully on the global scene.
Please tell me you were 'joking'...
Pssst it was the Japanese...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8lT1o0sDwI
Does he know that Barnes and Noble has its own e-reader? Or that Amazon had one before the iPad?
When you get a good rant going, it doesn't matter if other people know about the Germans bombing Pearl Harbor.
You trying to say you can't tell the difference between Jesse Jackson, Jr. and Johnny Cochrane? That's some racist shit there....
Rep. Jackson needs to keep his mouth shut on subjects he knows nothing about.
Opining on things he knows nothing about worked wonders for his father. And it has gotten junior into the US House. Seems to work for them.
Hey, that's great that they have a Nobel Prize for graphene, but isn't that... I don't know... a little specific?
So you want to turn it over to a single judge who couldn't even cut it in private practice?
It's a pretty simple standard, if it makes you tug at your collar, it gets an R, but if you get wood, it's X.
So the underwear section of the Sears catalog back when I was younger?
Please. Define: porn.
I know it when I see it. So it's time to start showing me LOTS of stuff that might be it.
The real difference is that Microsoft is real. A slashdotter's girlfriend? Not so much.
I've seen men go to jail for less than half that.
Wouldn't the NZ equiv of the RIAA count it as at least one strike per track?
It wouldn't be Chewie. It'd be one of the 6-year-old kids suddenly populating the soda fountain.
FTFY.
Actually we do. Get behind in child support payments and see what happens.
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You've never heard of a verbal contract? The written, signed, notarized, blah, blah, blah is not required for all contractual obligations. It is merely the easiest way to memorialize a meeting of the minds.
My cousin, a lawyer, who practices in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, told me that I will never need to worry about someone suing me. Why?
My Cousin: "No lawyer will try to sue someone without any money. Now, your employer . . . ? "
I guess that Zuckerberg has too much money in his pockets.
Your cousin must not do much divorce work. My ex keeps trying to squeeze me for more. My bank account is as shriveled as her heart.
Learn to take care of the toys you have and maybe we won't have to take them away from you.
They can go to the library. That's the cheapest method there is.
How bad does your credit need to be? If I'm lucky, my score is in the high 500's, and I still qualified for an iPhone from AT&T.
One milli-sievert = 100 millirem. Chest X-ray = 10 millirem=.1 milli-sievert.
And rods/hogshead?
I would think serving as George Bush's attorney general would earn the man a presidential pardon for something like this.
I could plug an old Mac into my hifi and then stream to it from my laptop. Unfortunately, this wasn't supported.
It is now. wink wink, nudge nudge...
Is she a goer?
As others have said, Greenpeace and PETA are horrible examples. Try the March of Dimes and the Rural Electrification Administration
I vote for NOW and MADD.
Unless there is a literal gun to your head or knife to your throat, you can't claim 'duress'. The threat of being made a pauper is no threat in the eyes of the law. Welcome to the the USA.