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Re: SDRAM + MONITOR

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From: Alien Spawn
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 04:40
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Just like in big budget futuristic movies the "whole world" and "planet
earth" generally should be read as "God Bless America" the only country on
the planet. The only country in the world that acts as "global cop" yet has
ghettos in every city.

Who cares if its oz dollars or septic dollars, check the message source
before responding like a half wit.

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"Craig Sampson" <craig@psi-aus.com> wrote in message
news:39f791d8.41911353@news.iinet.net.au...
> "e1000" <noone@biteme.com> wrote:
>
> >what an asshole - how am I a "fucking knob" if the price of ram is half
of
> >what was posted.  nowhere in his post is there anything saying that he
was
> >australian or that he was talking about australian dollars.  If there was
> >some indication that he was talking about Australian currency I would
have
> >left it alone.  Since this newsgroup is also not country specific, it was
my
> >natural reaction to read the dollar sign as american dollars.  Shit,
those
> >prices would be AWSOME if they were Hong Kong dollars........
>
> This is a fair call IMHO.  The universal trading currency worldwide is
> US$ if not stated otherwise, so I think e1000 made a fair comment.
>
> Anyone who's ever done any importing/exporting will know this is true.
> If you restrict posts to those newsgroups which a obviously and
> exclusively Australian then its a fair bet figures are going to be in
> AU$, but if not, and you don't specify, well, the assumption is (and
> should be) US currency.
>
> C
>
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