Article View: ca.general
Article #20990Re: 'Two Bucks'
From: Darin McBride
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 1995 16:06
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 1995 16:06
23 lines
1700 bytes
1700 bytes
Jeff Clough (clough@argo) wrote: > Darin McBride (mcbride@ee.ualberta.ca) wrote: > : It's because it is alot cheaper to make coins than paper. Supposedly > : will save us $250 million a year. > I think that should be $250 million over *20* years. This is equivalent to > $12.5 million per year. Could be. That would make more sense. :-) (Not the part of being $12.5 million/year, but that a politician would be inflating numbers... <G>) -- Darin McBride:mcbride@ee.ualberta.ca/Darin.McBride@tower.ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca Enjoy each day as if it were your last, care about each moment as if it were your last for one day, one moment, you *will* be right! My opinions? Take 'em as you will. If you wanna blame my employer, and are stupid enough to do something about them tell me so I can laugh... Keeper: alt.bbs.renegade FAQ
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<3jfbui$q16@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!sunserver.insinc.net!news.bc.net!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!mcbrideReferences:
<3j54b4$nv6@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> <3j59kq$1c9s@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca> <3jf8o0$mpi@nntp.gov.ab.ca>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 106ed4,1df261bf035804b9 X-Google-Attributes: gid106ed4,public X-Google-Thread: 112f74,1df261bf035804b9 X-Google-Attributes: gid112f74,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-06 16:48:21 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!sunserver.insinc.net!news.bc.net!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!mcbride From: mcbride@ee.ualberta.ca (Darin McBride) Newsgroups: ca.general,ab.general Subject: Re: 'Two Bucks' Followup-To: ca.general,ab.general Date: 6 Mar 1995 16:06:42 GMT Organization: University of Alberta Electrical Engineering Department Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3jfbui$q16@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <3j54b4$nv6@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> <3j59kq$1c9s@rover.ucs.ualberta.ca> <3jf8o0$mpi@nntp.gov.ab.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: nyquist.ee.ualberta.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]