>> ^conan:

I'd give my left arm for 4 USD a gallon. Right now we're at 7,57 USD a gallon (1,50 EUR per liter). And that's for diesel, which is subsidized over here. I'm happy i don't need Super (Premium you call it i think), regular isn't sold here anymore.


Yeah, I really have no time for americans complaining about gas prices. Forget a hybrid or a diesel, just buy a small car.

And OT: my main issue with hybrids is their environmental impact. Sure on road, they're a great idea, but not so much once you amortise the energy cost of the life cycle of the vehicle. You want to be environmentally friendly and save money. Buy an oldish car with a small engine.

I'd give my left arm for 4 USD a gallon. Right now we're at 7,57 USD a gallon (1,50 EUR per liter). And that's for diesel, which is subsidized over here. I'm happy i don't need Super (Premium you call it i think), regular isn't sold here anymore.

That printing money thing sounded reasonable to me so I looked up currencies for backup. Being in Ireland where the price of petrol is the equivalent of 8.33 USD per gallon which my driving friends tell me is up about 25% these past 6 months it seemed like a global thing to me. ANYWAY.

I found a cool applet for showing historical exchange rates.
Really neat exchange rate thingy
I found it informative to take base as USD and the foreign exchanges as Euro, GBP & Chinese Yuan

These websites show historical oil prices for all those currencies:

Oil_vs_USD

Oil_vs_EUR

Oil_vs_GBP

Oil_vs_CNY

I looked at 180 days history for the above graphs.


As you can see, all the oil price graphs have a similar shape and have indeed gone up about 25% for all currencies. Also, you can see that none of the currencies have moved very much with respect to the USD. So yeah, either they're all printing money (CHINA DOES NOT NEED TO, for defs, yo) or the oil prices are not cos America's printing money.

I did actually look for counter-examples in surging economies but even AUD and CAD show the same jump. If anything, that the exchange rates wrt these countries have gone down and the commodity price of oil has gone up for all of them at a similar rate is a positive for the states.


So yeah, I don't accept your hypothesis.
>> ^bobknight33:

Sounds right. Presidents don't have control of gas prices as the left blamed Bush back when he was president. But there is a big difference between Obama and other presidents.

Under this administration there have been massive amount of printing money. Remember QE1, QE2 and possible QE3 have done nothing except debase our currency which has caused inflation. Gas prices will not come down to any great extent but will only go up along with everything else.

>> ^jonny:

You mean housing prices? Yeah, I'm aware that many houses cost more than $260k. The title is a just reference to Glengarry Glen Ross.
>> ^kir_mokum:
you do not live in vancouver.


I was gonna say, USD 260,000 - which is approximately GBP 163,532 - would not buy you much in London, either. My small one-bedroom flat in a not-terribly-nice area of SE London cost me £1500 more than that watch. But now I get the reference I'll let you off.

its prity obvouse , the one things pirated content lacks is reliability and quality ( although often better than lagit stuff at the moment )

if publishers offer games music films as instant download load instant access on different pyament plans that span all media then they would make a total killing and allso remove the second hand market which is costing them way more than bloody general pirating.

for example I should be able to google a film and the top link should be to a websit for that film the website should allow me to

1) buy a phisical copy that comes with a poster and colector shit ( can be same price as blue ray now or more its a colecters edition for fans this would be the same for physical media companies would still make a killing of this as collectors and fans will still buy these for the physical item and promotions.

2) Allow me to instantly stream the film on-line for a set fee based on how old it is
under 3 months 5 USD for SD streem 7USD for HD/3D streem with ablity to watch it any time that week older than 3 months 3USD SD $5HD
Older than 6 months 1USD SD $3HD

3) have a subscription service for all films produced by all companies
£15 a month gets me full acess to all the above streeming and downloading and storing and play back on all platforms same time as they come out in cinema ( people go to the cinema because its the cinema/socail thing, not because of the film ( most people will watch films at home in the future)
£2.50 a month gets me full access to stream all films in SD and a discount on HD 1 off streems.

The whole point is that you make it conveant and price it so that everyone or each house gets it by default you allso link a socail aspect of it so people get there own account for the sake of comments and sharing stuff on face book , the social side is why multiple people in a single house would get it.

Did you know that I make just under that and I can't afford to feed my kids or even take my family on a holiday, or go for a drive, just for pleasure etc. We don't even have cable TV, credit cards or insurance.

Just sayin' what's your point.

I work a decent job with a fair wage and I can't afford the basics in life. The cost of living is beyond the wage. So when you state that 40,000 is the one percent "Globally" - you need to remember, it's all relative to the living expenses.

>> ^rebuilder:

Did you know that if you make about 41,000 USD per year, after taxes, you are in the top 1% income-wise?Globally.

Did you know that if you make about 41,000 USD per year, after taxes, you are in the top 1% income-wise?Globally.

>> ^Payback:

>> ^BoneRemake:
After reading some of the replies I have a tad more respect for this video.

I hope not too much. Still foolishness.


Yeah, total fool, making so much money that he can blow cash on a stunt like this... Man, I'm glad I'm nothing like him and don't have a spare half a million pounds lying around. \= )

Incidentally, the figure is in pounds so it's actually 708 thousand USD give or take.

Whoops! Thanks for catching that!

>> ^BicycleRepairMan:

So thats about 40 SEK then? Some missing zeroes in that title?

>> ^deathcow:

at current $56694.63 USD per kilogram of gold, the gold is worth
2204 lbs / 2.2 = 1001.8 kg of gold
1001.8 kg $56694.63 = 56.796 million dollars worth of gold
so what gives with the $1,000,000 face value?


No idea bud, just typing in what I'm seeing.

at current $56694.63 USD per kilogram of gold, the gold is worth

2204 lbs / 2.2 = 1001.8 kg of gold

1001.8 kg * $56694.63 = 56.796 million dollars worth of gold

so what gives with the $1,000,000 face value?

Thanks for the follow-up info -- puts this in proper context.


>> ^merkado:

Oh my...
This happened last saturday
They fined Marco Fabian with 1 Million pesos (aprox. $75,000 USD), all of which is going to a charity for people who are affected by the recent waves of violence

Oh my...
This happened last saturday
They fined Marco Fabian with 1 Million pesos (aprox. $75,000 USD), all of which is going to a charity for people who are affected by the recent waves of violence

I can get there if you send me a passport and $3000 USD