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The wood industry has changed. Ever buy plywood ? Metric.
2x4's are smaller than ever. Guess you buy from different sites. Martin On 4/23/2011 11:17 AM, Josepi wrote: You seem to be very political aware so you probably already know where most of Canada is at. Our system is about the same as the US except we pushed out metric a little harder for a while. There was a case of a gas station owner selling in "Imperial gallons" and he was taken to court over it, where the judge said something like "I don't care what you sell it in as long as it is defined" and that was the end of forcing metric down our throats....too bad in some repstecs but until we get the bog bad wolf US to convert we are in a mixed bag for most users. I always say the wood industry won't convert until the sheet of ply wood starts to go metric sizes. You can't space sruds at some metric size when sheet goods are still 4x8'. 2x4s.. who cares if they are 184 x 235mm or whatever? As long as the delivery truck sends all the same sizes...LOL You guys (the US) seem to get screwed by the French every time. Reading the history the French like to devise standards, you guys jump in and then they change it all and the rest of the world seems to follow on another standard. The same thing happened on the short and long scale counting systems but it always appears to be the French devised systems. They must be obsessed with the length of their dicks and constantly need a new measurement system...LOL You can tell the extent of your leadership prowess by the number of peoples that are ****ed off at you. Better you than us! Have a good one! ------------------ "Ed Huntress" wrote in message ... I think you'll find that most countries, not just Canada (or the US) do not use the SI system universally, even though they use the metric system. France may be an exception, but then, they usually are. d8-) The whole metric issue in the US is not well understood by people from other countries. Most of our big-time manufacturing is fully metric. The small shop owners here who do contract jobbing will tell you that they are working in metric as much as in inch (we don't call it "Imperial," because it's really not), or, if they serve the automotive, medical, or aerospace industries, they are almost exclusively metric. This has been true for decades. There are two reasons for using metrics. One is the ease of working with formulas that involve multiple units -- force, distance, mass, etc. That's of more importance in science and engineering research, where we are fully metricized. The other reason is cross-border compatability. In those cases, where it matters, we use metrics. But it usually doesn't matter. If you were buying an American toaster (if we still made toasters) in Italy, you wouldn't care much if the screws in it were metric or inch. But we'd probably be using metric fasteners, anyway. As for using metrics versus inch in a metalworking shop, it doesn't really matter at all. Most of the units you're using are linear dimensions, and it hardly matters which base you start with for that. Angles, speeds, etc. are non-dimensional (degrees) or based on universal units (hours, etc.), so it's irrelevent for those measurements. It's a tempest in a teapot. People from other countries are ****ed off at us because we won't jump on their one-world bandwagon. But they're always ****ed off at us, anyway. d8-) |
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On Apr 22, 8:48*am, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote: Andrew VK3BFA wrote: On Apr 19, 1:21 pm, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: Andrew VK3BFA wrote: * *Typical, you snipped everything when you reply. Sorry - did I stuff up a coherent reply by doing that - apologies, please tell me what vital thing I left out. if you got done by (type 2? - not sure) diabetes, then you got the short end of the stick. You didn't have time to stuff yourself up physically. . At least, not properly. Mate, lifting big console tv's ended in the 70's - is this some sort of memory of how tuff you were, or just a random rant? Or something you did for a few weeks while you did something else? -give some context here. how long did you do it, was it more than work experience? You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a Band-Aid on it, because it's Teflon coated. Yep, true. * *Keep making a fool of yourself, we're all used to it. Thank you - from you, thats appreciated. I aim to be consistent, one of the basic rules of philosophical debate. Happy to post the rest of the rules, been codified for several hundred years now - you do know this, dont you.?....where were you educated? (this is why social skills and basic literacy is now a mandated part of most engineering courses, they finally realised Engineers where social idiots) -- You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a Band-Aid™ on it, because it's Teflon coated. Yep, still true. Duct tape is pretty good tho. Abrade the surface so it can key to it - - you actually ever DONE anything? - this aint about your suburban ego, mate. This is the real world, not some cosy comfortable VDU screen...and the Chardonnay Swilling Bourgeois just get in the bloody way...come the revolution..... Andrew VK3BFA. |
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On Apr 23, 6:51*pm, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:29:05 -0700 (PDT), Andrew VK3BFA wrote: On Apr 19, 3:06*am, Gunner Asch wrote: Gunner Gunner - fair enuff, sounds good to me, cant argue with much/most of that. OK, I shot me mouth off. bad day/century, whatever. sorry. -mate, stuff the antique bike stuff, get something you can ride, use, in the years ahead. KISS, ok? - sell some of the scrap, do it now, do it while you still can. Its later than you think. Still dont understand your tag line - is it right wing wit, or what? Andrew VK3BFA. |
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Andrew VK3BFA wrote: On Apr 22, 8:48 am, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: Andrew VK3BFA wrote: On Apr 19, 1:21 pm, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: Andrew VK3BFA wrote: Typical, you snipped everything when you reply. Sorry - did I stuff up a coherent reply by doing that - apologies, please tell me what vital thing I left out. if you got done by (type 2? - not sure) diabetes, then you got the short end of the stick. You didn't have time to stuff yourself up physically. . At least, not properly. Mate, lifting big console tv's ended in the 70's - is this some sort of memory of how tuff you were, or just a random rant? Or something you did for a few weeks while you did something else? -give some context here. how long did you do it, was it more than work experience? I did it from the mid '60s till the early '80s. i started at 13, part time in a TV shop. Keep making a fool of yourself, we're all used to it. Thank you - from you, thats appreciated. I aim to be consistent, one of the basic rules of philosophical debate. Happy to post the rest of the rules, been codified for several hundred years now - you do know this, dont you.?....where were you educated? My formal education ended with high school. I taught myself electronics from magazines and used college EE textbooks. Apparently I did a good job, because I tested out of a three year engineering course in the Army and was later awarded a letter of commendation for doing work that supposedly couldn't be done outside of the AFRTS service depot in Sacramento. I wrote some ECOs on the equipment at my last job, and several of the engineers wanted to know why I didn't have an EE degree. The only other education I received was basic training to kill with a M16 and cold weather survival, in Alaska (this is why social skills and basic literacy is now a mandated part of most engineering courses, they finally realised Engineers where social idiots) Engineers with 'social skills' end up in sales, because they aren't good engineers. Good engineers just want to be left alone, and get the job done. The only anti social engineer I ever worked with wasn't with the company for very long. He came highly recommended, but was absolutely useless. For instance: He wanted to change our inventory system by assigning a single part number to parts. He smiled and said "For example: 10K resistors would have 103 for a part number". He got extremely ****ed off when I pointed out that we had seven different types of 10K resistors in our current inventory. You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a Band-Aid™ on it, because it's Teflon coated. Yep, still true. Duct tape is pretty good tho. Abrade the surface so it can key to it - - you actually ever DONE anything? - this aint about your suburban ego, mate. This is the real world, not some cosy comfortable VDU screen...and the Chardonnay Swilling Bourgeois just get in the bloody way...come the revolution..... Sigh. I was a TV broadcast engineer at three TV stations. The first was in the US Army. The second was at a 5 MW EIRP UHF station with a transmitter site near Orange City, Florida. The tower was 1749 feet AAT and had a freight elevator for maintenance. There were two TV stations, five FM radio stations and a lot of trunked radio and government repeaters. I built the third station with a 'heavy iron' 1952 RCA UHF transmitter that weighed around 10,000 pounds. I dismantled it, transported it from Central Florida to the Florida panhandle and reassembled it. I owned and ran an industrial electronics repair business for several decades. Everything from sound systems to industrial controls. I had three school systems under contract for all their electronic repairs, and a lot of business called be when something failed and their production line was down. I even repaired electrical problems on forklifts and some heavy earth movers after other people had screwed them up. I owned and ran a computer store for several years, but the location wasn't very good and the landlord was a pain. I was building telemetry equipment for the aerospace industry when my health failed. NOAA, NASA, ESA and other agencies bought their equipment from us. Most of it was large, heavy and built to last for decades of continuous service. Some was fairly lightweight, and was picked by NASA to be put aboard the ISS. My official title was production test tech, but I worked with every department in the plant. When there was a dirty job, or new product, it hit my bench, or I was sent to engineering to solve the problems. Reality is that I am in pain 24/7 and only have two or three productive hours a day. I don't drink. I had a couple beers in the early '70s, and didn't finish either can. I recently picked up a 70+ pound computer monitor from my office computer table and set it on the floor. No easy place to hold on to it, but I handled it OK. I was still able to load 200 pound empty relay racks by myself a couple years ago, but I haven't needed to recently. I collect & repair old computers to give away, and that includes some heavy monitors. I have to lock my left knee to walk without a cane, but still manage just fine. I was a few years from retirement age when my health failed. IOW, I lead a very productive life. Now. Have YOU ever done anything? -- You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a Band-Aid™ on it, because it's Teflon coated. |
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On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:57:17 -0400, "Ed Huntress"
wrote: wrote in message .. . On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:43:09 -0400, "Josepi" wrote: Anybody got a Canadian equivalent of those sugar readings? Ou scales go from about 4.0 to 20-30. Funny the Canucks always use different scales for all medical reading than the US does. Must have something to do with the weird gallon they use...LOL It's the Yanks that use strange numbers. When the rest of the world still used gallons, it was only the USA that used the "short" gallon - and now that the rest of the world has gone metric, it is basically ONLY the US that is holding out using their "weird" measurement system. Why would it matter? The USA uses mg/dl, the rest of the world uses mmol - and to convert mg/dl to mmol you devide by 18. To convert mmol to mg/dl you multiply by 18 mmol is milimole per liter. mg/dl is .01 grams per liter. Approx .18 grams/mmol Most of the research on both blood diseases and diabetes was done in the US, and the system of measurement we use for blood glucose concentration is indeed metric -- mg/dl. It was a Canadian who "discovered" insulin. What we tend to avoid for consumer use is SI units -- in this case, millimoles per liter. Most countries around the world have one or more objections to SI, so you're unlikely to find a "pure" SI system anywhere. In Canada, the Porsche Cayman R is advertised as having an engine that produces 330 horsepower, not 246 kilowatts. The Audi S6 sold in Canada is advertised as producing 398 lb-ft of torque at 3000 rpm, not 540 Newton-meters. WHO is it that has the mixed system? g |
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On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:10:45 -0500, Ignoramus30510
wrote: On 2011-04-22, Laurie Forbes wrote: On 4/20/2011 4:32 PM, Ignoramus29323 wrote: On 2011-04-20, Jon wrote: On 04/17/2011 07:35 PM, Spehro Pefhany wrote: Sitting can agravate some kinds of back problems, and the pain can be there or lower (like in the legs or hips). YEAH! When I screwed up my back some years ago, I had a Toyota Corolla. Normally, the seat didn't bother me any, but when my back was in bad shape, that seat could leave me practically crippled after driving to/from work. I rolled up a jacket and set it in the angle between seat- and back-part of the car seat, and it helped immensely. It just changed the tilt of my pelvis when sitting there, and made a big difference. Anyway, I hope Iggy's back is starting to clear up, it was NO FUN when I had that problem. I just lived with it, and it got essentially completely better, but I have to watch out to not overstress whatever it is there that is now a weak spot. Jon Jon, thanks, it is much better today, it is the first day when I do not have major discomfort. i Glad you are feeling better but I must ask, did you follow advice given here and go to a chiropractor or acupuncturist?? I did not. The point I'm getting at here is that chiropractic and acupuncture are quackery and, if you had gone to either, you may have concluded that the improvement you are seeing now was a result rather than the natural course of events now that you have 1)removed yourself from the original cause of the pain, and 2) waited a while for the swelling to subside naturally. I agree. Quacks make great use of the fact that most (90%?)illnesses and disease will resolve itself given removal of the original cause and passage of time. Anyhow, the taking of an anti-inflammatory, in moderation, can be helpful in speeding the recovery process but, if the condition returns, even with moderate load on the back, I would go to an actual doctor i.e a physician for further treatment as required. He may refer you to a physiotherapist or prescribe other medications but at least you will have confidence that scientific medicine is being utilized rather than snake oil. PS, I know what it's like and I advise anyone who cares to listen to take care of your back because if you abuse it (or even if you don't), back problems can be a lifetime sentence. I think that what I have no is periods of no exercise, followed by lifting something extremely heavy for me, like an engine or a big whatever. This is not healthy. I should exercise regularly so that my back muscles are strongly and the back is better supported. i I say you are right - just take it easy getting into the exercise regimen - seeing a physiotherapist to learn the right exercises to strengthen the right parts of the back first might be a good move, too. I stay away from the "back-benders" - saw one the last time I had a back issue - it felt GREAT for 1/2 an hour after each of the 2 treatments - but if anything worse the next day. I relaxed for a few days, then I HAD to go shovel some snow - I took it easy, and in about 10 minutes I was "warmed up" and the pain left, as fast as it had come a week earlier. |
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wrote in message ... On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 11:57:17 -0400, "Ed Huntress" wrote: wrote in message . .. On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:43:09 -0400, "Josepi" wrote: Anybody got a Canadian equivalent of those sugar readings? Ou scales go from about 4.0 to 20-30. Funny the Canucks always use different scales for all medical reading than the US does. Must have something to do with the weird gallon they use...LOL It's the Yanks that use strange numbers. When the rest of the world still used gallons, it was only the USA that used the "short" gallon - and now that the rest of the world has gone metric, it is basically ONLY the US that is holding out using their "weird" measurement system. Why would it matter? The USA uses mg/dl, the rest of the world uses mmol - and to convert mg/dl to mmol you devide by 18. To convert mmol to mg/dl you multiply by 18 mmol is milimole per liter. mg/dl is .01 grams per liter. Approx .18 grams/mmol Most of the research on both blood diseases and diabetes was done in the US, and the system of measurement we use for blood glucose concentration is indeed metric -- mg/dl. It was a Canadian who "discovered" insulin. Yeah, I know that it was a Canadian who isolated therapeutic insulin from dogs' pancreases. I've been a Type I diabetic for 36 years, and I was active in several self-help groups. But right up through the production of biologic human insulin, and the development of the Medtronic insulin pump, as well as many other treatments and research, most of it was done in the US. -- Ed Huntress What we tend to avoid for consumer use is SI units -- in this case, millimoles per liter. Most countries around the world have one or more objections to SI, so you're unlikely to find a "pure" SI system anywhere. In Canada, the Porsche Cayman R is advertised as having an engine that produces 330 horsepower, not 246 kilowatts. The Audi S6 sold in Canada is advertised as producing 398 lb-ft of torque at 3000 rpm, not 540 Newton-meters. WHO is it that has the mixed system? g |
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 06:16:01 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote: On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 22:53:06 -0400, wrote: It was a Canadian who "discovered" insulin. Yeah, and in a list Robatoy posted over on the Wreck, Canucks were also guilty of inventing the traffic light camera. That negates the chewy goodness of your insulin. Oops. I shouldn't post 2 minutes after I get up in the morning. That was a Dutch Canuck posting about DUTCH inventions. My bad. -- Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation. -- Thomas H. Huxley |
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(Sorry this took so long for a reply.)
"Josepi" wrote in message ... You seem to be very political aware so you probably already know where most of Canada is at. Our system is about the same as the US except we pushed out metric a little harder for a while. There was a case of a gas station owner selling in "Imperial gallons" and he was taken to court over it, where the judge said something like "I don't care what you sell it in as long as it is defined" and that was the end of forcing metric down our throats....too bad in some repstecs but until we get the bog bad wolf US to convert we are in a mixed bag for most users. I always say the wood industry won't convert until the sheet of ply wood starts to go metric sizes. You can't space sruds at some metric size when sheet goods are still 4x8'. 2x4s.. who cares if they are 184 x 235mm or whatever? As long as the delivery truck sends all the same sizes...LOL Most metric countries use 2400 mm x 1200 mm for plywood sheets. So I guess their ceilings are a couple of inches lower than ours. It could be a problem if you're building a boat from US plans, because planking that's a couple of inches short can leave you pretty wet. You guys (the US) seem to get screwed by the French every time. The thing that really ****ed us off was when they took a run at our gold reserves in 1971. I still haven't forgiven them for that. If Germany invades them again, they can go **** up a rope for all I care. d8-) Reading the history the French like to devise standards, you guys jump in and then they change it all and the rest of the world seems to follow on another standard. The Japanese aren't happy about it, either (a Japanese measuring equipment company used to be my client). The same thing happened on the short and long scale counting systems but it always appears to be the French devised systems. They must be obsessed with the length of their dicks and constantly need a new measurement system...LOL You can tell the extent of your leadership prowess by the number of peoples that are ****ed off at you. Better you than us! It's a lonely job, but what are the alternatives? Sheesh. Have a good one! You, too. -- Ed Huntress |
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:22:57 -0400, "Ed Huntress"
wrote: The thing that really ****ed us off was when they took a run at our gold reserves in 1971. I still haven't forgiven them for that. Have they forgiven the US for claiming that the dollars they held were each worth 1/35 of an oz of gold? ;-) |
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"Spehro Pefhany" wrote in message ... On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:22:57 -0400, "Ed Huntress" wrote: The thing that really ****ed us off was when they took a run at our gold reserves in 1971. I still haven't forgiven them for that. Have they forgiven the US for claiming that the dollars they held were each worth 1/35 of an oz of gold? ;-) They were, but they could have taken a damaging bite out of Fort Knox if they cashed in. The thing was, the Bretton Woods signers were supposed to know that you don't try to screw the central bank of another member unless you're ready to go to war. The French didn't seem to get it. So we dropped the gold standard altogether. Screw them. -- Ed Huntress |
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:37:03 -0400, "Ed Huntress"
wrote: "Spehro Pefhany" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:22:57 -0400, "Ed Huntress" wrote: The thing that really ****ed us off was when they took a run at our gold reserves in 1971. I still haven't forgiven them for that. Have they forgiven the US for claiming that the dollars they held were each worth 1/35 of an oz of gold? ;-) They were, but they could have taken a damaging bite out of Fort Knox if they cashed in. What could be so damaging about exchanging one thing for something else of equal value? |
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"Spehro Pefhany" wrote in message ... On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:37:03 -0400, "Ed Huntress" wrote: "Spehro Pefhany" wrote in message . .. On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:22:57 -0400, "Ed Huntress" wrote: The thing that really ****ed us off was when they took a run at our gold reserves in 1971. I still haven't forgiven them for that. Have they forgiven the US for claiming that the dollars they held were each worth 1/35 of an oz of gold? ;-) They were, but they could have taken a damaging bite out of Fort Knox if they cashed in. What could be so damaging about exchanging one thing for something else of equal value? Spehro, if you want to get into this subject, either tell me what you really know or find out for yourself. I'm sorry, but this is a long one, and I'm short of time for getting into it. The froggies were trying to pull a DeGaulle-type power play, trying to knock the US out of its role of running the world's reserve currency. They were still resentful about having lost their pre-eminence in the world and they were pretty miserable about it. They had their own ideas about how the Bretton Woods regime was supposed to work, and they didn't see themselves filling a secondary role. You can take it from there. -- Ed Huntress |
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:12:19 -0400, the renowned "Ed Huntress"
wrote: "Spehro Pefhany" wrote in message .. . On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:37:03 -0400, "Ed Huntress" wrote: "Spehro Pefhany" wrote in message ... On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:22:57 -0400, "Ed Huntress" wrote: The thing that really ****ed us off was when they took a run at our gold reserves in 1971. I still haven't forgiven them for that. Have they forgiven the US for claiming that the dollars they held were each worth 1/35 of an oz of gold? ;-) They were, but they could have taken a damaging bite out of Fort Knox if they cashed in. What could be so damaging about exchanging one thing for something else of equal value? Spehro, if you want to get into this subject, either tell me what you really know or find out for yourself. I'm sorry, but this is a long one, and I'm short of time for getting into it. My point is that the arrangement was already full of cracks and the pillars were collapsing - the US was running huge deficits, in part to finance the wars in Asia- with no political will to contain expenditures.. and the dollar was no longer nearly as good as gold. In fact, parallel private markets valued it quite a bit lower at the time. The Frenchies (and Swiss etc.) were aiming to be first out the door.. the gold standard has seldom survived a significant war. The froggies were trying to pull a DeGaulle-type power play, trying to knock the US out of its role of running the world's reserve currency. They were still resentful about having lost their pre-eminence in the world and they were pretty miserable about it. They had their own ideas about how the Bretton Woods regime was supposed to work, and they didn't see themselves filling a secondary role. That may be, but we've almost come full circle. You can take it from there. Best regards, Spehro Pefhany -- "it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com |
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"Spehro Pefhany" wrote in message ... On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 17:12:19 -0400, the renowned "Ed Huntress" wrote: "Spehro Pefhany" wrote in message . .. On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:37:03 -0400, "Ed Huntress" wrote: "Spehro Pefhany" wrote in message m... On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:22:57 -0400, "Ed Huntress" wrote: The thing that really ****ed us off was when they took a run at our gold reserves in 1971. I still haven't forgiven them for that. Have they forgiven the US for claiming that the dollars they held were each worth 1/35 of an oz of gold? ;-) They were, but they could have taken a damaging bite out of Fort Knox if they cashed in. What could be so damaging about exchanging one thing for something else of equal value? Spehro, if you want to get into this subject, either tell me what you really know or find out for yourself. I'm sorry, but this is a long one, and I'm short of time for getting into it. My point is that the arrangement was already full of cracks and the pillars were collapsing - the US was running huge deficits, in part to finance the wars in Asia- with no political will to contain expenditures.. and the dollar was no longer nearly as good as gold. In fact, parallel private markets valued it quite a bit lower at the time. The Frenchies (and Swiss etc.) were aiming to be first out the door.. the gold standard has seldom survived a significant war. It's true that the US monetary position was very weak because of the cost of Vietnam and the Great Society, without commensurate tax increases (sound familiar?). Germany started buying US gold. Then we talked to them and pointed out that it might be in their short-term benefit, but they were doing damage to the whole Bretton Woods system and international currency stabilities by doing so. So they agreed to hold dollars and stopped buying gold. The French didn't care. Rather, they felt that they knew better how to run the world's currency. This was kind of ironic because the true exchange rates of the franc had been bouncing all over, and, under Bretton Woods, they had been forced to abandon export subsidies and other self-centered policies. But they were out only for themselves. What the French were trying to do was to take advantage of the pegged gold price to buy US gold, and then to turn around and sell it on the private market, where prices were not pegged and were floating up. They didn't want to hold gold. They wanted to weaken the US's political and economic position in the world. One thing I learned from my study of comparative politics, which I studied in French Switzerland in 1968, was this: Never attribute responsibility to any action by the French government, that can be explained simply by their desire to assert their superiority by putting someone else down. As a student in Europe at the time, I have my own opinions about French attitudes toward the US during the Vietnam war, and they aren't pretty. They had been humiliated that we had to take over their anti-communist insurgency after they were defeated. By aligning themselves against us in the '60s and '70s, they assuaged their humiliation and simultaneously promoted themselves as the great moralists. That was *after* Algeria. Sheesh. The froggies were trying to pull a DeGaulle-type power play, trying to knock the US out of its role of running the world's reserve currency. They were still resentful about having lost their pre-eminence in the world and they were pretty miserable about it. They had their own ideas about how the Bretton Woods regime was supposed to work, and they didn't see themselves filling a secondary role. That may be, but we've almost come full circle. Well, we're back in the same place, and some of the same forces brought us here. -- Ed Huntress |
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Oh, wow! I feel you, mate!
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