The Euro at $1.55

Alfred Molon wrote:

In article , Hatunen says...

Please name a few of these products.

To make a couple of examples:

1. Initially Apple was charging its European customers the same amount
in Euro it was charging US customers in dollars for song downloads.

That reflects more how much Apple (and other companies) reckon that a
consumer in a particular country will pay for an item. They still charge
more for itunes in the UK than in Euro Europe. The EU has intervened in
that I think, so it might change. The real problem is that Apple is
_able_ to force users in countries only to use prices in those
countries, but there are rights management issues involved, which
complicates things.

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Hatunen writes:

And there's transit in the southwest. Why, Phoenix is
inaugurating its new light rail system, isn't it?

Is it?

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:33:18 +0100, Mxsmanic
wrote:

Hatunen writes:

And there's transit in the southwest. Why, Phoenix is
inaugurating its new light rail system, isn't it?

Is it?

http://phoenix.about.com/od/transbus/a/lightrail.htm

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On the particular moment of Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:20:27 -0700 in
relation to Mary's disappointingly immaculate rumpy pumpy, Hatunen
put forth:

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:24:53 -0700,
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:



Mxsmanic wrote:
Hatunen writes:

Problem for whom?

Many financial organizations in Europe, and some EU governemnts,
think the euro has risen too far, too fast.

But the euro has not risen; the dollar has fallen. That's an important
distinction.

One I was also trying to make - but it fell on deaf ears.

Why is this distinction important, and how and to whom?

It's important to Americans, because a rising Euro would make one part
of the world more expensive, while a fallen dollar makes nearly
everywhere more expensive.
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On the particular moment of Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:23:10 -0700 in
relation to Mary's disappointingly immaculate rumpy pumpy, Hatunen
put forth:

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:23:34 -0700,
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

It's getting to a point where they CAN'T - and it will be a definite
problem in the American Southwest, where "public transportation" is
largely non-existent!

That's silly. They'll just start buying more economical cars,
like they did during the gas crisis some decades ago.

And there's transit in the southwest. Why, Phoenix is
inaugurating its new light rail system, isn't it?

By roughly how much are they expecting car usage to drop?
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"Dusty Furtile Morrocan" wrote in
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On the particular moment of Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:23:10 -0700 in
relation to Mary's disappointingly immaculate rumpy pumpy, Hatunen
put forth:

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:23:34 -0700,
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

It's getting to a point where they CAN'T - and it will be a definite
problem in the American Southwest, where "public transportation" is
largely non-existent!

That's silly. They'll just start buying more economical cars,
like they did during the gas crisis some decades ago.

And there's transit in the southwest. Why, Phoenix is
inaugurating its new light rail system, isn't it?

By roughly how much are they expecting car usage to drop?
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JohnT

"Dusty Furtile Morrocan" wrote in
message ...
On the particular moment of Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:23:10 -0700 in
relation to Mary's disappointingly immaculate rumpy pumpy, Hatunen
put forth:

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:23:34 -0700,
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

It's getting to a point where they CAN'T - and it will be a definite
problem in the American Southwest, where "public transportation" is
largely non-existent!

That's silly. They'll just start buying more economical cars,
like they did during the gas crisis some decades ago.

And there's transit in the southwest. Why, Phoenix is
inaugurating its new light rail system, isn't it?

By roughly how much are they expecting car usage to drop?


There is a light rail system in Los Angeles County and a few people use it
on a "park and ride" basis. Outside the morning and evening rush hours
almost no-one uses it and the frequency of trains has been very much
reduced.
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JohnT

Hatunen wrote:
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:24:53 -0700,
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:


Mxsmanic wrote:
Hatunen writes:

Problem for whom?

Many financial organizations in Europe, and some EU governemnts,
think the euro has risen too far, too fast.
But the euro has not risen; the dollar has fallen. That's an important
distinction.
One I was also trying to make - but it fell on deaf ears.

Why is this distinction important, and how and to whom?

Perhaps as an indicator of whose economy is failing and whose flourishing?

Mxsmanic wrote:
Hatunen writes:

And there's transit in the southwest. Why, Phoenix is
inaugurating its new light rail system, isn't it?

Is it?

Perhaps one should define "Phoenix"? I had always believed the
allegations that Los Angeles was "too spread out" until I moved to
Arizona! There may be rail service in Phoenix itself, but I've lived
here for more than a year now, and have yet to find myself anywhere NEAR
"downtown" Phoenix! (And Arizona drivers are too intimidating to
encourage much exploration of its urban thoroughfares!)

Hatunen writes:

http://phoenix.about.com/od/transbus/a/lightrail.htm

Looks like it's too little, too late. Unfortunately the layout of the city
has historically been dictated by the assumption that people will move about
in private vehicles; there isn't any way to build a constrained mass transit
system such as light rail that can provide even a small fraction of the same
coverage. Even buses cannot provide it. Park and Ride doesn't help unless
you have individual vehicles waiting at each end, and if you have that, much
of the advantage of the mass transit system is negated.

Add to this the extreme climate, and it's hard to see how such a system can
ultimately succeed without a significant redesign of the metropolitan area.