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So, how will America vote now?

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  • Pobby
    Pobby Posts: 5,438 Forumite
    Realy wrote: »
    Tell you the truth I think most people would love to do that. I would if i had the chance.
    (Bloody spectrums, Commodore and BBC's;) :D )


    Lol, no I think he had something to do with modems.
  • Realy
    Realy Posts: 1,017 Forumite
    Pobby wrote: »
    Lol, no I think he had something to do with modems.

    I thought it might make you chuckle.:D.
  • Pobby
    Pobby Posts: 5,438 Forumite
    I was posh me. I had an Amstrad 464!!!!
  • Realy
    Realy Posts: 1,017 Forumite
    Pobby wrote: »
    I was posh me. I had an Amstrad 464!!!!

    But they were fun back then, waiting patiently and then waiting some more. Saving to magnetic media was russian roullet for files.:D
  • mewbie_2
    mewbie_2 Posts: 6,058 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Back then... we were the future. Oh well.
  • Realy
    Realy Posts: 1,017 Forumite
    And now we are the past. lol. (or is that past it)
  • beaujolais-nouveau
    beaujolais-nouveau Posts: 651 Forumite
    Generali wrote: »
    I think bailing out non-US investors is the whole point of this deal. ... The point of this bill IMHO is to keep foreigners on side.

    Well, using Enron-accounting won't do it. Look at this thread on the Democratic Underground Forum -

    http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3521891

    - the banks want to be able to value their assets (the ones that will be bailed out) at whatever they think they should be worth. Or in other words, to falsify their asset valuations. That USD 700bn won't go far.
    YouGov: £50 and £50 and £5 Amazon voucher received;
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  • Realy
    Realy Posts: 1,017 Forumite
    beaujolais-nouveau wrote: »
    Well, using Enron-accounting won't do it. Look at this thread on the Democratic Underground Forum -

    http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3521891

    - the banks want to be able to value their assets (the ones that will be bailed out) at whatever they think they should be worth. Or in other words, to falsify their asset valuations. That USD 700bn won't go far.

    I think you misread it.

    "Since 2007, the banks have had to value their mortgage-related assets at current market prices,"
    That as been the write downs.
  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    I got given an Amiga 500 when I was 12, in 1990. Lovely (-:
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • Chris2685
    Chris2685 Posts: 1,212 Forumite
    The Amiga 500 was my first computer when I was about 4/5, also in 1990, and is the reason I am such a geek now :D
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