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Shik
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This always happens. Discussions about Wolf 3259 end up talking about how the yen matched the peso or some such.

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Mars Needs Women
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Well after all, the Federation doesn't seem to have a type of currency. Maybe they use Republic credits?
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Peregrinus
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The Federation has Credits, too. It's Earth that doesn't use money any more.

--Jonah

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Da_bang80
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quote:
Originally posted by HopefulNebula:
I feel so... loved... [Razz]

(And yes, Da_bang, seafood is creepy. Fish are just gross, but shellfish... *shudders*
Omg Yes! SO creepy. Lobster and Crab really get me freaked though. Well, pretty much anything with it's skeleton on the outside is just SICK and WRONG on a million seperate levels. Just picturing those creepy six legged, pinchy little monsters with thier beedy little eyes and those nastyass antennae. *Ugh!* *Double Shudder*

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Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.
The courage to change the things I cannot accept.
And the wisdom to hide the bodies of all the people I had to kill today because they pissed me off.

Remember when your parents told you it's dangerous to play in traffic?
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Mars Needs Women
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quote:
Originally posted by Peregrinus:
The Federation has Credits, too. It's Earth that doesn't use money any more.

--Jonah
But Earth is part of the Federation, isn't it?
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Peregrinus
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Earth's relationship to the Federation is not like, say, Florida's relationshp to the United States. The Federation is a political and economic alliance of independent member worlds. It's more like the U.S.' relationshp to the U.N., if the U.N. had its own global currency that all the member nations used for trade.

--Jonah

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TSN
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Reason not to eat seafood #57 : Creepiness.

(See also : here and here.)
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HopefulNebula
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Ah, so more like how the UK is part of the EU but doesn't use the Euro?

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Peregrinus
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If the U.K. had abundant free energy and replicator technology, and didn't NEED any currency within their society. [Smile]

--Jonah

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quote:
Originally posted by Peregrinus:
Earth's relationship to the Federation is not like, say, Florida's relationshp to the United States. The Federation is a political and economic alliance of independent member worlds. It's more like the U.S.' relationshp to the U.N., if the U.N. had its own global currency that all the member nations used for trade.

--Jonah
And all this time I thought the Federation had a centralized form of government. But then it brings up the question, could a member nation of the UFP leave if it wanted too?
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Peregrinus
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I think we may have seen that happen, or threaten to happen.

And the U.N. having their General Assembly in New York City isn't centralised?

--Jonah

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Nim
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New England fried clam, Louisiana hot shrimps, Lobster Newberg, clam chowder.
Jambalaya, Gumbo (with extra tabasco and cayenne pepper), sizzling Grembapemba.

Every one of them pearls abound in these peoples' lands. *Stewiemode* "GOD!"

Regarding the lessening of NZ lit standards, you wouldn't believe how many borrowed vogue words/sentences my people have assimilated from your precious Sex und the City, Friends and Desperate Housewives.
The pathetic subway paper columns are rife with them. Swedish and english, dancing together in some dirty mosh pit.
And don't think we don't have our own problems with instant message lingo and comp slang spilling over into every other forum in existence.
Except the obituaries. I think.
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Shik
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It's payback for the Swedish Chef. My generation STILL uses "Bork, bork, bork!!"

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Is lobster Newberg some sort of cousin to lobster Zoidberg?
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