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  • Originally posted by gribbler View Post
    Neither of us can predict how the USD/CAD exchange rate will fluctuate in the future.
    QFT. The best guess for what the exchange rate will be in the future is the current one.

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    • Originally posted by Hauldren Collider View Post
      Give a peace prize to Robert E. Lee for surrendering
      Southerners are a bunch of grits eating surrender monkeys.
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      • Over the past decade, sure. It probably has something to do with oil. I don't see any reason to believe further depreciation is more likely than appreciation.
        I miss the days of Chretien, when the CDN was fluctuating so wildly. Good times.

        Elect the NDP - and I'll be a happy camper. Damn Harper for earning me money from my Canadian clients.

        Right now, my bet is CDN depreciation, to, say 80 cents USD. But, it won't move much over the next 4 years and being in the USD isn't exactly in a poor position....
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        • Semi serious question, why is it that Alfred Nobel, inventor of explosive dynamite, name adorns the prize and Openheimer never deserved consideration for his war averting invention?
          "Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson

          “In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter

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          • The Nobel prize supposedly exists because Alfred Nobel saw an obituary that was accidentally printed about him calling him something like Dr Death. It may be apocryphal, but the story goes that he then setup the Nobel prize to restore his reputation.

            Whatever the truth of that, the reason the prize is 'named after him' is because it was founded by him using his money.

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            • The apocryphal story of Nobel is well known, the rationale as to why Oppenheimer was not considered given the liklihood that the nuclear weapon has averted hot wars between the superpowers, is a story I have never heard.
              "Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson

              “In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter

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              • The prize already existed when nuclear weapons were invented and renaming it would confuse people.

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                • And Oppenheimer didn't pay for it. Rule is the guy who paid the contest gets to name it.
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                  • Originally posted by kentonio View Post
                    We got bored, we had more interesting people to fight like the French.



                    Not really. Pointing at a few long standing allies who haven't been to war with each other and using that as a reason to discredit a union of countries who actually have been regularly at war with each other in the last couple of centuries is pretty weak reasoning.


                    You burned a house, and lost the most productive third of a continent by fumbling control of the most important river on that continent. Go you.
                    No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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                    • That makes Andrew Jackson your fault, BTW.
                      No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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                      • Originally posted by MRT144 View Post
                        Southerners are a bunch of grits eating surrender monkeys.
                        Famous last words, I'm seeing a lot of military vehicles here these days, something is going on.
                        "Our words are backed with NUCLEAR WEAPONS!"​​

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                        • Originally posted by regexcellent View Post
                          QFT. The best guess for what the exchange rate will be in the future is the current one.
                          You may want look up Fisher Effect.
                          One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                          • Just noticed the sig, Dauphin.
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                            • Thanks. I think I've had it close to nine months. I pheel bad for pictking on Oerdine, hear and their, fine, but bad spellin on a consistant basis irx me.
                              One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                              • Originally posted by The Mad Monk View Post
                                You burned a house, and lost the most productive third of a continent by fumbling control of the most important river on that continent. Go you.
                                The battle was after the whistle blew, so it doesn't count.
                                One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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