Acropolis Now

**Jolt** · 05-31-2010, 22:03

Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat

Portugal exports pics of children? Kiddie porn?

Something worse. We export the name of a Portuguese born mercenary/traitor who sold himself to the Spanish crown (Against the Manueline Ordenances), to sail around America and reach the Mollucas, on the name of our home-produced laptops.Magalhães/Magellan

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%C3...Magalh%C3%A3es

**Louis VI the Fat** · 05-31-2010, 22:18

Originally Posted by Jolt

Something worse. We export the name of a Portuguese born mercenary/traitor who sold himself to the Spanish crown (Against the Manueline Ordenances), to sail around America and reach the Mollucas, on the name of our home-produced laptops.Magalhães/Magellan

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%C3...Magalh%C3%A3es

And it's such a runaway international succes that Wikipedia can suffice with describing the thing only in Portuguese!

**Jolt** · 06-01-2010, 12:35

Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat

And it's such a runaway international succes that Wikipedia can suffice with describing the thing only in Portuguese!

It started like, one year ago. In one year, with an economy the size of our own, you can't expect to have Magalhães's from Mexico to Japan. Then there is the computer's own Economy of Scale.

**Furunculus** · 06-01-2010, 15:54

Germans suspect French Banks of using the ECB to ditch Greek debt, and thus clear up their balance sheets, whilst German banks do the noble thing and agree to hold onto Greek debt until 2013.

the EU transfer union is now in full swing:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...697680,00.html

**Vladimir** · 06-01-2010, 16:54

Can anyone place this in context? Say, international banking within the last 50 years?

Value is based on perception. I'm beginning to perceive financial institutions as fiction authors.

**gaelic cowboy** · 06-01-2010, 17:59

Originally Posted by Vladimir

Can anyone place this in context? Say, international banking within the last 50 years?

Value is based on perception. I'm beginning to perceive financial institutions as fiction authors.

There would be an element of truth to this as these institutions make money from transactions and not saving "Churn Churn is there battlecry"

**Vladimir** · 06-02-2010, 00:15

Originally Posted by gaelic cowboy

There would be an element of truth to this as these institutions make money from transactions and not saving "Churn Churn is there battlecry"

Sorry, I'm not sure what you're saying.

It seems to me that they're making it up as they go.

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 06-02-2010, 00:54

Originally Posted by Jolt

Something worse. We export the name of a Portuguese born mercenary/traitor who sold himself to the Spanish crown (Against the Manueline Ordenances), to sail around America and reach the Mollucas, on the name of our home-produced laptops.Magalhães/Magellan

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%C3...Magalh%C3%A3es

The Tagali stamped paid on his account. But he grabbed the credit for a circumnavigation anyway!