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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Another FOSS Gem
Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 05:20:51 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-05-23, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 May 2024 01:35:05 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>
>> That's when I went with the German outfit (which eventually became
>> individual.net and became a paid service). I tried to pay them but the
>> billing outfit they were using didn't like something about my debit card
>> — so I ended up going to eternal-september (another German outfit). I've
>> been with them ever since.
>
> After it went paid they were using a European version of PayPal, 
> Click'n'Buy iirc. Every year I would get an alert from MasterCard about 
> suspicious activity when the 10 Euro charge hit. I would approve it and 
> life went on. C'n'B folded eventually and now they use PayPal so it goes 
> much smoother.  
>
> It keeps me in tune with exchange rates. It used to be about US$ 15, but 
> now it's $10.92. When the EU gets through screwing around it might become 
> a real bargain.

I think the British Pound used to be over $2 (when I bought Sinclair 
computer stuff from England). Now it's at $1.27. The euro is at $1.08. The 
Canadian dollar used to be almost even (sometimes higher), now it's at 73¢.

Wonder what will happen when the petro-dollar collapses?

-- 
[Self-centered, Woke] "pride is a life of self-destructive fakery, an 
entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality." 
"It was pride that changed angels into devils..."     — St. Augustine