[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[AEF]

On Nov 28, 11:02 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
wrote:
> On 11/28/2011 6:18 AM, AEF wrote:
> > On Nov 28, 6:00 am, Jan-Erik Soderholm<jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
> > wrote:
> >> AEF wrote 2011-11-28 11:40:
>
> >>> On Nov 23, 1:16 pm, Jan-Erik Soderholm<jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> JF Mezei wrote 2011-11-23 18:58:
>
> >>>>> Simon Clubley wrote:
>
[...]
> >>> BTW, how's that Euro working out?
>
> <snip>
>
> If you allow your politicians to print money you need only to look in
> the mirror to find the source of the problem!
>
> Germany in the 1930s is the classic example.  You could get more heat
> burning inflated Deutchmarks than by burning the coal you could by with
> them.

Well, I'm sure there's more to it than that. The U.S. gov't (the Fed,
actually) printed money during the current crisis and the US dollar
hasn't become worthless.

You can almost always overdo a good thing: too much salt on your food,
drinking too much water, etc.

>
> I've noticed that there is no longer anything that you can buy for a
> penny!  When I was young you could buy candy or chewing gum for a penny,
> or a pack of matches.

I don't see why this is a problem. Actually, when a penny could buy
something, the increment of a cent is too coarse. What if the cost of
gum were 0.1 cents? Charging a penny would be a rip off!

The real problem is that there still *are* pennies! :-| I heard
recently that it costs two cents to make one cent. (!) Maybe that's
why the world economy is a wreck! (~_^)

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AEF