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Hey,
just wanted to share the current prices for EUR and USD dollars comparing to one Slovak koruna
If you take one month back, the 1 USD price was 22,3 Sk and one euro was about 33 Sk, but these days it's starting to get down, one USD today means 19,3 Sk! A record in the history!
I remember, maybe it was 1-2 years back, one British pound was 59 Sk... comparing to today's 38,6 Sk, it's a huge difference.
Alboin wrote:It's likely that the USD will fall closer to your koruna in time.
I just LOL'ed ... compare 5 400 000 inhabitants of our nice small state vs. 305 000 000 of them in the U.S.
But that I'm afraid, will not be possible. Starting from 1.1.2009, the koruna will replace with euro. I think we have too weak economy for that kind of currency. Ah well, politics politics.
Alboin wrote:You guys lost the whole war-of-1812-thing, right?
How the heck would I know? Do I seem like a person who is aware of cultural history?
Well, the War of 1812 is pretty well known in the states. I just figured they'd teach it more in Canada considering Canada hasn't had the most expansive military history.
It's pretty well known here too. I believe the Brits won (I won't say "we" because Canada didn't really exist as a country until 1867). They burned down the White House to boot.
Top three reasons why my OS project died:
Too much overtime at work
Got married
My brain got stuck in an infinite loop while trying to design the memory manager
It pretty much just dragged on for several years and ended in a stalemate. I'd chalk it to the British as well though as the US was the initiator of the war. It was a dumb war overall(probably the stupidest war the US has waged), pretty much just a boundary dispute. The only good thing that came out of it was that it finalized the boundary lines of Canada and it ended up improving U.S trade relations with Britian.
Regarding the U.S dollar yeah it's bad. The current administration well... doesn't really regulate a large number of things it should. Hopefully the next one will do a much better job, though I feel for whoever gets tasked with cleaning up the current mess we're in.
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I thought it had gotten better.
