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[Fragnot]

[Clownwarlord]

Exchange rate ... USD is woroth more:

http://www.xe.com/cu...From=USD&To=CAD

I just checked 1 USD = 1.227 CAD which I agree is less than the 29% but then if you add on Tax that could account fo the extra boost in price.

SO ....

22.7% more is the worth of the USD over the CAD and then add on a 7% sales tax = 29.7% if they are charging 29% more then you are actually winning back the .7% but usually companies just round down anyways.

As for the worth of currancy is what your government has in a ratio of gold to currancy printed. That is the basic deffinition of where currancy worth comes from.

[Mystere]

clownwarlord, on 20 June 2015 - 03:19 PM, said:

As for the worth of currancy is what your government has in a ratio of gold to currancy printed. That is the basic deffinition of where currancy worth comes from.

<steps out of the shadows>
Gold has ceased to be the currency standard for a long time now. The international monetary system is now made of pure fiat money.
<steps back into the shadows>

Edited by Mystere, 20 June 2015 - 03:37 PM.

[Mycrus]

Kahnawake MechMaster Prime, on 20 June 2015 - 08:51 AM, said:

so I just went to go get some MC n I noticed that as a canadian I have to pay 29% more for my MC... WTF??
I went to go get 6500mc for 29.95 an they wanna charge me 38.60!! that's almost 30% more then what It says.. but if I was in the US they would only charge me the 29.95 whats the deal with that???
ive gotten MC before in the past like maybe 6+ months ago.. they never charged me 30% more..

Its the price you pay for good ping

Mystere, on 20 June 2015 - 03:36 PM, said:

&lt;steps out of the shadows&gt;
Gold has ceased to be the currency standard for a long time now. The international monetary system is now made of pure fiat money.
&lt;steps back into the shadows&gt;

Its tagged to oil... petro-dollars... or the local currency exchange rate to the almighty 1 bux...

truly fiat currencies have no value - Zimbabwe monopoly money

[Mystere]

Mycrus, on 20 June 2015 - 04:20 PM, said:

Its tagged to oil... petro-dollars... or the local currency exchange rate to the almighty 1 bux...

truly fiat currencies have no value - Zimbabwe monopoly money

You have it upside-down. Oil is pegged to the US dollar, and in an inverse relationship -- well at least until 2008, when oil prices jumped. Of course, oil is back to 2008 levels or thereabouts.

Oil is priced in US Dollars and the good ol' US of A just might go to war to stop that from changing. In fact, there are those who believe that the real reason behind the Iraq War was because Iraq started selling oil in Euros.

Edited by Mystere, 20 June 2015 - 04:43 PM.

[bad arcade kitty]

are you silly, the amount of your local currency doesn't mean that you pay more or less if you pay by the current exchange rates you pay the same; well, minus conversion fees

[Mycrus]

Mystere, on 20 June 2015 - 04:26 PM, said:

You have it upside-down. Oil is pegged to the US dollar, and in an inverse relationship -- well at least until 2008, when oil prices jumped. Of course, oil is back to 2008 levels or thereabouts.

Oil is priced in US Dollars and the good ol' US of A just might go to war to stop that from changing. In fact, there are those who believe that the real reason behind the Iraq War was because Iraq started selling oil in Euros.

whatevs, too tired to explain.

[Quick n Fast]

I just fine it messed up that a Canadian company charges its Canadian players in USD.

[Escef]

Mystere, on 20 June 2015 - 10:16 AM, said:

Yes, it is instead a means of global destruction ...

/sigh

So long as the a**holes that need to be destroyed get destroyed with as little collateral damage as possible, I'm all for it. Maybe you've never had to deal with the reality of marketplaces literally awash in the blood of women and children because some jackwagon decided that turning a bicycle into a fragmentation bomb was a reasonable way to influence his countrymen, I don't know.

[Mystere]

Escef, on 21 June 2015 - 09:52 PM, said:

/sigh

So long as the a**holes that need to be destroyed get destroyed with as little collateral damage as possible, I'm all for it. Maybe you've never had to deal with the reality of marketplaces literally awash in the blood of women and children because some jackwagon decided that turning a bicycle into a fragmentation bomb was a reasonable way to influence his countrymen, I don't know.

Unfortunately, 100,000++ deaths is not exactly "as little collateral damage as possible".

[Escef]

Mystere, on 21 June 2015 - 10:19 PM, said:

Unfortunately, 100,000++ deaths is not exactly "as little collateral damage as possible".

Look up how many of his own people Saddam Hussein killed and get back to me. Just in case you're too lazy to get some perspective, in 1 year Saddam Hussein killed more people than the Iraq and Afghan wars combined did from 2001 to 2011. Tell me how much good sitting off to the side pretending that sanctions were accomplishing anything did. How many people have to die because no one wants to do anything? That's what I hate about people that say war isn't the answer. It isn't that war is a good thing, it's a horrible thing. But even worse is trying to justify sitting back and ignoring human suffering because "war is wrong".

[Mystere]

Escef, on 21 June 2015 - 10:31 PM, said:

Look up how many of his own people Saddam Hussein killed and get back to me. Just in case you're too lazy to get some perspective, in 1 year Saddam Hussein killed more people than the Iraq and Afghan wars combined did from 2001 to 2011. Tell me how much good sitting off to the side pretending that sanctions were accomplishing anything did. How many people have to die because no one wants to do anything? That's what I hate about people that say war isn't the answer. It isn't that war is a good thing, it's a horrible thing. But even worse is trying to justify sitting back and ignoring human suffering because "war is wrong".

I'll just leave this here and let it speak for itself.

[Escef]

Mystere, on 21 June 2015 - 10:36 PM, said:

I'll just leave this here and let it speak for itself.

Proves nothing. Opinions don't save lives.

EDIT: Tell you what, do a Google image search for "market bombing", preferably with safe search off. You look at the damn horror. Look at it long and hard. You want to tell me that fighting to stop that isn't worth it? I volunteered to help stop those things from happening. It could have cost me my life, and I was very aware of that. And you have NO IDEA how sad and frustrated it makes me to know that this kind of thing is still happening. At the very least, all I can do is hope that most of the people I helped protect are still alive. Your ignornace is painful, and your moral high horse is a dead weasel.

Edited by Escef, 21 June 2015 - 10:54 PM.

[bad arcade kitty]

american intervention to iraq (several times in a short span!) destabilized that whole region, guess who is ultimately to blame for people being killed by isis, and also why people even join isis

Edited by bad arcade kitty, 22 June 2015 - 12:11 AM.

[sneeking]

We Australian's get a similar deal.

It was ok when our dollar was matching and some days exceeding the US dollar but...

Our government has taken a strategy of holding our dollar down to keep Chinese interested in buying our iron ore

Sucks for online shopping sucks for online gaming but is good for our country.

Its likely Canada has a similar idea about its oil sands ?

[XtremWarrior]

Escef, on 21 June 2015 - 10:37 PM, said:

Proves nothing. Opinions don't save lives.

Yup, most of the times, opinions are only there to make people get killed.

But i have an idea: Sadam killed his people, America comes and rescue them.
American government is also killing people - be it by favouring crap food (hello ministers from Monsanto), crap investments (hello guys who created the global 2008 bankruptcy) or crappy wars (iraq/afghanistan/ iraq the first time/etc.).
So what i propose is European countries invade you just to save your own population (destroying most of your social infrastructures on the way - so we can put our own companies on the market to rebuild everything) and after that we see in what state you are and how happy you feel about it?

Edited by XtremWarrior, 22 June 2015 - 12:47 AM.

[Escef]

XtremWarrior, on 22 June 2015 - 12:45 AM, said:

So what i propose is European countries invade you...

Hhahahahaahh.... Son, if Europeans can stop arguing about their own monetary crisis and build a real military, they can bring it.

EDIT: Also, as soon as they're done arguing about how the right thing to do about their refugee crisis is foist it onto someone else.

Edited by Escef, 22 June 2015 - 01:20 AM.

[XtremWarrior]

Escef, on 22 June 2015 - 01:19 AM, said:

Hhahahahaahh.... Son, if Europeans can stop arguing about their own monetary crisis and build a real military, they can bring it.

EDIT: Also, as soon as they're done arguing about how the right thing to do about their refugee crisis is foist it onto someone else.

China then?
Well, that was a nice way to avoid answering.

[Escef]

XtremWarrior, on 22 June 2015 - 02:15 AM, said:

China then?
Well, that was a nice way to avoid answering.

You didn't really ask one. You just decided to pass off being a passive-aggressive **** as a question.

[Ghogiel]

Just start a bank and you can create money instantly by giving yourself a loan, then when you pay yourself the interest back you can pocket that too. It's a win win.

Edited by Ghogiel, 22 June 2015 - 04:44 AM.