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Strangelove wrote:

rats19 wrote:I'm guessing at that point they'd start WWIII and blame it on Russia/China

(to the relatively few... and severely charred... folks remaining).

We'd then all have to go live in the boonies with Topper.

Strangelove wrote:

Topper wrote: But is it traded in US$'s or is the price only quoted in US$'s?

BOTH, which artificially creates huge demand for the US buck.

Or so the theory goes...

The artificial demand for the us dollar is created through the treasuries purchase of US gov debt. S much demand, that they have to crank up the printing presses to keep up with it.

Well I suppose there are a few ways the US artificially stimulates demand for the US buck.

The question is how important is the petrodollar to the US in that regard

.... important enough to instigate wars, overthrow governments?

There has been a windowless van parked across the street for the last few days.

Just to be on the safe side I hired a coupla thugs to put gasoline & match to it.

They should be here any time now... *peeks out window*

STRANGE as it may seem i LOVE irony!

Use diesel or kerosene.

GPS has been acting weird for the past 10 days. tells me +/-3m accuracy and then I save the location as a waypoint and it plots it 45m away. same thing with all my coworkers gps units.

System is maintained by the US Coast Guard...........................................................

Topper wrote: GPS has been acting weird for the past 10 days. tells me +/-3m accuracy and then I save the location as a waypoint and it plots it 45m away. same thing with all my coworkers gps units.

System is maintained by the US Coast Guard.................................................

Yeah, GPS is the baby of the US military (they share it with the world at large).

Yeah, that's gotta be Iran screwing around the system.

Yeah, time to nuke those fuckers back to the Stone Age!!!

To the victors go the oil.

Meanwhile the van left.

Should I ask the thugs for my money back?

There are four different GPS systems. The US, Europe, China and Russia. Access to the US and Russian systems is free but few of our gps units read the Russian signal (however many of our smart phone do including iphones). Too bad because it would provide much better accuracy for us in the northern hemisphere. Europe is in the midst of replacing theirs and will be the tits. Free basic service with a pay for higher precision service as well as having transponders on the satellites for two way communication with receivers. A great SAR add on that works similar to SPOT. The Chinese system does not provide global coverage so fugetaboutit for now.

Topper wrote:There are four different GPS systems. The US, Europe, China and Russia. Access to the US and Russian systems is free but few of our gps units read the Russian signal (however many of our smart phone do including iphones). Too bad because it would provide much better accuracy for us in the northern hemisphere. Europe is in the midst of replacing theirs and will be the tits. Free basic service with a pay for higher precision service as well as having transponders on the satellites for two way communication with receivers. A great SAR add on that works similar to SPOT. The Chinese system does not provide global coverage so fugetaboutit for now.

I use not cell phone or dumb phone, nor gps. No one knows where I am, neither do I....most of the time....what day is this? I think I must be in Belgium

dead reckoning

Reckin' wrong, you're dead.

Topper wrote:There are four different GPS systems. The US, Europe, China and Russia. Access to the US and Russian systems is free but few of our gps units read the Russian signal (however many of our smart phone do including iphones). Too bad because it would provide much better accuracy for us in the northern hemisphere. Europe is in the midst of replacing theirs and will be the tits. Free basic service with a pay for higher precision service as well as having transponders on the satellites for two way communication with receivers. A great SAR add on that works similar to SPOT. The Chinese system does not provide global coverage so fugetaboutit for now.

Guess I'm behind the times, last I heard the US GPS was the only one worth shit.

Also didn't know you could pay extra for higher precision.

Technically those other systems have different names.

For eg. the Russian one is "GLONASS".

"Global Positioning System" (GPS) is owned and operated by the US military.

Hmmm do you think there's a chance Spidey has wandered into Iran again?

*calls NSA buddy*

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Arachnid wrote: I use not cell phone or dumb phone, nor gps. No one knows where I am, neither do I....most of the time....what day is this? I think I must be in Belgium

Wake up pal, all you long-time domestic-terrorist types have been drugged & tagged (GPS implants).

The NSA calls me.

Galileo is the European gps system under construction.

Does the new iphone fingerprint scanner connect to the NSA yet.

basically we are a zit. scratch that...we are the excrement of the ecrement of a giant cosmic zit.

might explain DoubleBarreledRectum

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/09/17 ... 41690.html

Arachnid wrote:basically we are a zit. scratch that...we are the excrement of the ecrement of a giant cosmic zit.

might explain DoubleBarreledRectum

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/09/17 ... 41690.html

Meh, they used to call em "philosophers"... now they call em "astrophysicists".