POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : XKCD := WTF? : Re: XKCD := WTF? Server Time
7 Sep 2024 01:23:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: XKCD := WTF?  
From: Patrick Elliott
Date: 7 Nov 2008 23:12:47
Message: <491511bf$1@news.povray.org>
Darren New wrote:
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
>> The key point being, while it gets more worthless over time, in terms 
>> of general inflation, it will never get **more** valuable **ever** 
> 
> Of course it will. Why do you think there are commodity markets in 
> currencies?  Do you think the value of Canadian money hasn't gone up in 
> America, for example? Did you ever put off a holiday trip to Europe 
> because the Euro was so much more expensive than the Dollar nowadays? 
> Don't you think the Chinese Yuan buys more today than it did 40 years ago?
> 
Given that I don't "generally" go running to some foreign country to 
exchange my money to make it worth more, like a stock certificate, and 
most other people don't either, its not something I or most people would 
count as "gaining" or "losing" value.

-- 
void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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