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2005-08-28 Iraq-Jordan
SAS given 100,000 lbs. to bribe Iraqis
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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-08-28 00:17|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Off-Topic Note:
1) Num Lock ON
2) hold down Alt key and, on the number pad, type 0163:
£

Common chars
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© - 0169 (copyright)
® - 0174 (reg'd trademark)
¢ - 0162 (cents)
£ - 0163 (UK Pound)
Â¥ - 0165 (Japanese Yen)
« - 0171 (left chevrons)
» - 0187 (right chevrons)
¼ - 0188 (1/4)
½ - 0189 (1/2)
¾ - 0190 (3/4)
ö - 0246 (Shröder)
° - 0176 (degree)
± - 0177 (plus or minus)
² - 0178 (power of 2)
³ - 0179 (power of 3 - cubed)

Sorry for the interruption. As you were.
Posted by .com 2005-08-28 02:55||   2005-08-28 02:55|| Front Page Top

#2 In ISO-8859-1 encoding, of course. Our European friends who use ISO-8859-15 will see some different characters.
Posted by gromky">gromky  2005-08-28 03:35|| http://communistposters.com/]">[http://communistposters.com/]  2005-08-28 03:35|| Front Page Top

#3 True. So you can offer them their common list.
Posted by .com 2005-08-28 04:30||   2005-08-28 04:30|| Front Page Top

#4 LBS OK, try Pounds Sterling.
Posted by Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2005-08-28 04:37||   2005-08-28 04:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Or you can let HTML do the work for you. These will supposedly work in any browser using any character set.

¢ - ¢
£ - £
¥ - ¥
© - ©
® - ®
° - °
± - ±
¼ - ¼
½ - ½
¾ - ¾
ö - ö
< - &lt;
> - &gt;
Posted by Jackal">Jackal  2005-08-28 10:03|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]  2005-08-28 10:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Instead of learning all these neat geek tricks, Currency traders long ago assigned unpronounceable TLAs to currencies so you can just type three little letters:

$=USD
£=GBP (that & pound thing works!)
&euro=EUR (so does & Euro)
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-08-28 10:15||   2005-08-28 10:15|| Front Page Top

#7 Any chance of stashing this in the classics so I can find it?
Posted by Shipman 2005-08-28 10:42||   2005-08-28 10:42|| Front Page Top

#8 â„¢ = alt-0153
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2005-08-28 10:56||   2005-08-28 10:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Add this site to your bookmarks: Index DOT html. Or for a more compact and focused list, try this Latin-1 list.
Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow  2005-08-28 11:06||   2005-08-28 11:06|| Front Page Top

#10 At the current rate of exchange, that is the whopping huge sum of $180,000 USD. Peanuts. Nothing. The US military has confiscated and spent tens of millions of Saddam's dollars for similar purposes. And yes, the US bureaucrats freaked out about military people spending money that the bureaucrats hadn't parceled out to them.

The bottom line: it not only works, but it is one of the best ideas for reconstruction ever. The money didn't take critical months to get bureaucratic approval, arrive, and be carefully accounted for in dispersal. Each command used it for immediate, pragmatic, and well-thought out purposes and accomplished miraculous improvements both in the combat situation and reconstruction effort.

In future, the Pentagon should create a black budget amounting to tens of billions of dollars to be dispersed to field commanders at their discretion and with minimal accountability. These monies should be distributed as soon as major hostilities cease, in cash and appropriate other mediums to include gold, neutral nation currencies, and paper money that has been marked for future identification.
Posted by Anonymoose 2005-08-28 11:40||   2005-08-28 11:40|| Front Page Top

#11 Yea but Anonymoose just think of all the UK National Health Service appointments and operations that could have been resheduled to a later date in hopes the ill would drop dead or go away with that money. Just think how far that money might have gone at home in the UK.
Posted by Sock Puppet O´ Doom 2005-08-28 22:35||   2005-08-28 22:35|| Front Page Top

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