The French, at least in Canada, put the currency symbol after the number.
GreyEyedGhost
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Spoken language is already inefficient, which is why we use so many shortcuts in it. If I'm texting someone about an upcoming event, I might also just use the day of the month or the weekday (wings on Fri?). But if I'm writing an email, signing a document, or doing something else that might be referenced weeks, months, or years in the future, ISO 8601 is the way to go.
Be the change you want to see. I use month names or ISO 8601 in anything written, have been for a year to the point where using month names is more accidental than anything else. If anyone asks, I mention it's government standard. Hopefully, the ambiguous date forms die out faster than the Imperial system.
Looks like I need to post this again.
Our little bastard takes days to settle down after we take him and his littermate to the vet. They've been together their entire lives, but if either or both go to the vet, even in the same vehicle, he's all "Who the fuck are you?!" when we get home. And his brother is all, "Aww geez, what the hell's the matter now?" Every time.
Not all cats, but a lot of cats. Also a lifelong cat owner. I have a cat who I would warn small children away from. His littermate is so friendly and cuddly, though. Of course, both want nothing to do with kids, so they disappear as soon as someone under 4' enters the house.
Based on the math, it would have been 640 the previous year or quarter. It's a big drop, but we can do better!
The answer appears to be, "Yes, right here and now." The post isn't locked, you don't appear to be banned, people are engaging you on the topic you raised. Is there something missing here that doesn't satisfy your question?
This headline made me laugh so hard. "Hey, guys, could you, um, give up some of your legally enshrined rights and privileges so we can harvest more resources without oversight from anyone else and the profits can go to the companies doing this and not the people the land belongs to? No? Okay. Well, good talk."
Alberta leaving Canada does nothing to help them and will certainly harm them. Did she offer some glass beads while she was at it?
Only if the government keeps subsidizing them to do so by taxing the hell out of us
If Starship cost $3 billion over its lifetime and was entirely funded by US taxes, it would cost, on average $10 per citizen. Note that that is over the lifetime of the project and not by year. Is this the taxing to hell you're talking about? Not NASA's $25 billion this year alone (and that's one of the cheaper budget items)? Do you need to start a GoFundMe to help you out with that?
Now how am I supposed to take you seriously when the easiest statement for you to fact check is so hyperbolically incorrect?
Some things make financial sense but not in a national security, social security, or unity sense. Privatizing utilities generally falls into one of those categories. I was arguing with my brother once about privatizing the local telco and he said it wasn't profitable. I responded with, "So? It never had to be profitable." There were certainly problems with it, and the expense was one of them, but it hasn't really gotten much cheaper after privatization, although a lot of people who could afford to buy stocks made a lot of money. And don't ask why, when our company was converted to publicly traded, we all didn't get stocks in it. Saying that out loud just proclaims it for the money grab it was.
We have.