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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRJs5yL62BA Talking about the Gold standard again.

Life is my link. Just use a strong magnet. You will find plenty of 2006 and 2010 non-steel pennies. Unless they magically found a way to make steel non-magnetic. Its always possible they aren't using Zinc either - but I don't know of any other metals they might be using.

Things could be worse than the depression of the 30's. You would figure with all the technological advances up until the 1930's (electricity, mass production, fertilizers, etc...) since say 0AD, that people would not be starving. But they did. Economies of scale fail on equally large scale. Bad chicken eggs? Throw a billion of them away. From a starvation standpoint however - North America could be spared at least one more year. California had a massive deluge of rain, meaning that surface water levels will finally be replenished after decades of drought. And since they shot down Proposition 19 - they will probably go back to growing apples. A 25cent per pound apple would be nice for a change.

Stealing copper and hoarding pennies is something completely different. Canada made it illegal to melt silver coinage in 1973. The US made it illegal to melt pennies and nickels on Dec 14 2006. Its also illegal to export more than $100 worth. http://www.usatoday.com/money/2006-12-14-melting-ban-usat_x.htm I'm not sure about Canada, but I believe that nickel, copper, and zinc are still fair game (it was only silver coinage that was specified way back when) - if you remove them from the country that is, it is always illegal to melt locally. Unless they abolish the penny as a currency - then you can do whatever you want with it. Note: There are quite a few non-steel 2010 pennies. Many speculate that we went back to Zinc because it became cheaper than pressed steel for a short period of time. Zinc is cheap to stamp into coins, Steel although a much cheaper metal - requires much more (expensive) energy to produce. Steel is really just Iron - of which the entire earth is a gigantic iron ball.

CBC is under an old mandate of being the national emergency channel. It costs a lot, because technically they have to at least try to get every square inch of Canada. Sort of like Canadapost, where they probably lose money when they try to deliver a package further north. If left to private enterprise, many northern communities would simply starve or have greatly reduced services.

Have you tried to get a pure nickel nickel lately? Out of 1000 pennies, about 200 will be steel nowadays. The majority zinc, and not that many copper. And thats 1996. I haven't seen a pure nickel nickel in circulation in ages. You would be lucky in a $2 roll to not have all steel. All US nickels to this date are 75/25.

The electronic and paper US dollar is eroding faster than Canadian coins. 2011 will mark the introduction of Steel Toonies and Loonies, which means a Toonie will contain about 0.58 cents worth of metal value. A 1996 pure copper penny contains 2.3 cents worth of metal value. What is worth more, when you are stranded in a third world country and need to pay for a meal? 4 Toonies or one penny. The US reserve status is not eroding in many parts of the world... Because the vast majority of the world never pinned their currency to the US dollar in the first place (Most notably China) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DOLLAR_AND_EURO_IN_THE_WORLD.svg Canada does not even technically pin against the US dollar. Our currency is officially tied to the Pound under British Commonwealth (which right now, is arguably worse than being pinned to the US) I'm still not looking forward to King Charles III being on all of the currency though.

Because a nickel is five cents, not quite double the size of a penny, and usually has only 25% nickel and 75% copper anyways. Copper has more practical uses with anything to do with electricity, heat dissipation, or plumbing. Nickel is more or less used when you need things to be inert.

There were actually quite a few zinc pennies made all the way to 2006. Some steel some zinc during the transition years.

Silver. 16:1 to gold usually right? Still seems like a massive bargain even now. I heard that JP Morgan has a lot of paper silver right now on shorts. Anyone want to bankrupt the bank?

Spot price finally broke $4 US per pound. Its been playing with this ceiling for a while now. So - Is it time to start creating copper quarters? Something of tangible size other than the near knife thin dimes? Maybe something like the old 1920 penny. Or should we wait to make copper loonies? Sad that copper used to be used for pennies just a few decades ago, and now its viable as a quarter. $9 trillion in US bailouts does not come without cost..

If North Korea is the "spoiled" child, I'd hate to see the redhead stepchild.

If there is one thing that Team Fortress has taught me, is that a bow and arrow beats a minigun anyday.

Drownings happen a lot here in Calgary. There are a few pools in which to learn when its not summertime. But I think winter survival skills are a teensie bit more important. When you lose your first toe to frostbite, you will be wondering why you spent money on swimming lessons.

Cthulhu demands spellcheck If you come from a background where racial issues result in inequality, then multiculturalism is bad. Bad in the sense that it can be discriminatory and oppressive. Many middle eastern and black nations tend to fall into this category. Chinese tend to fall into the religionless or agnostic category, meaning that multiculturalism is not so much of "failure". Its more of a "make sure all the unshaved male engineers are in the basement, and have a sexy female secretary pool in the visible area" idea. Religion has long been used as a tool of multicultural racism (and sexism as well) sometimes resulting in segregation. But then again - at the beginning of the century, Canada was against religionless athiests (godless people) more than alternate religions. As with many nowadays - I worship corporations (and maybe a tentacled divine being)

Hooray for lazy Canadians that can't be bothered to have kids. Its commitment that not many are willing to take anymore, 16 years sounds like a life sentence. Heck, you'd be lucky to have a one year divorce rate that is not 50%. I blame California.

Ohhh... Now it all makes sense. They are going after Gordon Campbell. Which means that it must have been his re-opening mining/mineral rights in BC that caused this accusation. Too coincidental with the Queens visit to be anything else. I assume that the Queen is concerned about possible foreign ownership of mineral rights in BC at 17 cents per acre per year. Really though, its the year 2010, if the Brits haven't come to claim mining rights by now - I don't think they ever will. Its probably in BC's best interest to reopen year to year crown land mining claims.

Nixon screwed over everyone else in the world. But in the end, it didn't take long to reciprocate. Gold is important as a low water mark for currencies, even if everyone converted whatever currency they have, there would still be less than one ounce for every person on the planet. Nixon pretty much started a chain of events leading up to devaluation of the US dollar. But its not like anyone cares about "credit card" type economics during Nixon, sure it was great for the US for maybe a decade, but just like a credit card debt hangover - it usually comes back with a huge bite later. But that seems to be the way the US likes economics, borrow to the point of bleeding - and then borrow some more.

Lets invade the US, we won last time I think we could do it again.

Happy "Glad I'm not living in a province that has their tax rate increased today!" Had to say it. But otherwise, enjoy the nice weather.

I think you've got it. That is the right question to ask. To add: Cadmium does have use, but definitely not as a household battery. Cadmium (in the toxic form used in batteries) in my opinion should be banned from any consumer uses.

To me this is a silly question. Of course it should not be banned. There are far worse metals out there. Inside of your old NiCD batteries, Cadmium is a ridiculously dangerous metal that has the potential to contaminate any household where a battery happens to be compromised. Cobalt is far more useful from a radiation standpoint. Other metals are just as hard as uranium. Before you ban uranium, you should probably ban 12 to 20 other metals and isotopes before that - if that is the consensus. Most metals do have legitimate uses outside of war however, so banning them will probably hurt progress as well. Uranium just happens to be abundant, thats all.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/map/2008/# If you zoom into Toronto, its amazing the Liberal stronghold they have, with the two NDP seats too. Look at that evil hole in Alberta lol. Rahim Jaffer lost to the NDP candidate, ahaha. Man are they crucifying Jaffer now.

Looks like some Soviet spies got caught in the US posing as Canadians. Rumor has it that Russia increased their spy and influence agencies (with money and personelle) 4x in 2007. I'm guessing the ones caught were Directorate PR, X and KR, with maybe some corporate information stolen too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Service_(Russia)#SVR_Command_Structure What I want to know, is that if Ignatieff is in, would these people be considered Russian spies, or Canadian sponsored spies, lol.

Nah, they aren't taking money from Alberta. They are taking money from the farmers and tradeworkers to pay the military. Very Kim jong Il, million man army or a really well paid smaller militant force. Keep them Toronto citizens in line, show them whos boss. Y'know abuse of power, lol. You can't really blame Toronto, many did not want the conference there. I was just wondering where the tanks were?