Secret Moves To Stop Using Dollar For Oil Trading

Originally posted by ziggy1706
The dollar represent AMERICA!!!! if it all switched over to the Euro, should we not simply throw our constittuiondown the toilet and become Eurpe#2 then? NO EFFIN WAY

Oh dear! Said Archimedes!
Those damn Romans will going to destroy everything!
What will happen to our efforts and all of our knowledge!

Archimedes died c. 212 BC during the Second Punic War, when Roman forces under General Marcus Claudius Marcellus captured the city of Syracuse after a two-year-long siege. According to the popular account given by Plutarch, Archimedes was contemplating a mathematical diagram when the city was captured. A Roman soldier commanded him to come and meet General Marcellus but he declined, saying that he had to finish working on the problem. The soldier was enraged by this, and killed Archimedes with his sword. Plutarch also gives a lesser-known account of the death of Archimedes which suggests that he may have been killed while attempting to surrender to a Roman soldier. According to this story, Archimedes was carrying mathematical instruments, and was killed because the soldier thought that they were valuable items

Eventually Archimedes ended up being killed by a Roman soldier while allegedly was trying to "borrow" (without the intention to later return) his instruments of work which for the uneducated Roman might have appeared like valuable artifacts that would give him a decent profit on the local black market..

Despite this, Archimedes is still being revered among us 2000+ years later and the most valuable thing, what he has cherished and has striven for, is still around us.

Now, are you telling me that a crappy bank note is the heart and soul of your country? If this is all there is about America, then I ques you were never a real country to begin with, or you just maybe on the way to become a real one after the crappy bank note gets out of the way. Isn't it your choices that drove you here after all? Make better ones in the future.
There! Problem solved! Also it doesn't appear to be a good excuse to nuke Europe over it.

Take out the trash.

[edit on 6-10-2009 by spacebot]