So does a thread GOTO a bit of a TAN.

Once upon a time...

[b]READY[/b]
10GR.8+16⏎
20C.1⏎
30F.W=2TO319⏎
40F.X=0TO319STEP W⏎
50F.Y=0TO191STEP W⏎
60PL.X,Y⏎
70N.Y⏎
80N.X⏎
90N.W⏎
100G.100⏎
L.⏎
[b]10 GRAPHICS 8+16
20 COLOR 1
30 FOR W=2 TO 319
40 FOR X=0 TO 319 STEP W
50 FOR Y=0 TO 191 STEP W
60 PLOT X,Y
70 NEXT Y
80 NEXT X
90 NEXT W
100 GOTO 100

READY[/b]
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Now it's...

[b]MsgBox[/b] "I liked 6502s better." ' [i]VB ain't V, and ain't B neither...[/i]

I thought that a reference to TRAP would've given it away - Maybe A$(4,6) will do the trick.

Either way, I've gotta add to the Wiki pages.

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> How dare you <B>?[/b] a ' like that! [pounds fist on the table and
> breaks it] IF you were right NEXT to me, THEN I'd
> POKE you right in the.. uhm... <B>TRAP[/b]! And I wouldn't <B>STOP[/b]
> even if you promised to... uhh.. GOTO hell and never RETURN with
> no $s attached... you DIM-witted.. err...
>
> You're talking about formatting with HTML? And not that BASIC doesn't
> matter?
>
> BYE! [RUNs away very, very, very quickly...]

FOR the NEXT message you send, could you make your INPUT more CLEAR COS your REM is making me wonder what sort of CHR$ you are. :) :)

I have my moments, but usually it's when I'm under stress. Go fig. !-P

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ROFLMAO. :D

How dare you <B>?[/b] a ' like that! [pounds fist on the table and breaks it] IF you were right NEXT to me, THEN I'd POKE you right in the.. uhm... <B>TRAP[/b]! And I wouldn't <B>STOP[/b] even if you promised to... uhh.. GOTO hell and never RETURN with no $s attached... you DIM-witted.. err...

You're talking about formatting with HTML? And not that BASIC doesn't matter?

BYE! [RUNs away very, very, very quickly...]

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> sorry for the non-html formatting of the links, but I have *no idea* how to do
> html tags. VBA, SAS and BASIC is as good as it gets for me.

Not that it really matters. Cut and paste works just fine.

> > That's all that the <a>
> href="http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/lirr/pubs/tmimages/tvmgray.jpg">automated
> > ticket vending[/url] machines spit out. Do you have any idea how annoying
> it is
> > to have $17.25 in change in your pocket? F'ing MTA a'holes...
>
> I really believe that is to force you to buy a more expensive pass so they
> have the money up front to waste instead of waiting for it to trickle in by
> ride.
>
> Don't get me started on transit subjects. I moderate a transit forum and I'm
> always jumping on my local system about how they screw things up and drive
> people away from the system instead of toward it.

It's because you guys have an "advanced" mass transit system. Here is the local (for me) one:
http://www.tranzmetro.co.nz/

The reason they have introduced a text msg system is that the trains can be delayed quite a bit: signal failure, hot weather (they welded all the tracks together, didn't allow for heat expansion of the metal), points failure... so it's the way to find out - once you've left work to catch your train - that the train isn't going..... because it's not even at the platform.

> They could put Frankenstein on the coin, it wouldn't matter much to me as long
> as I could spend it and didn't confuse it with other coins.

Hmm.. scary money.... I wonder if that could be one way of trying to limit down the consumer society... must send a letter to our Finance Minister about this immediately...
Although we have a Mäori warrior on our 20c piece:
http://www.rbnz.govt.nz/currency/Money/0160568.html

sorry for the non-html formatting of the links, but I have *no idea* how to do html tags. VBA, SAS and BASIC is as good as it gets for me.

I really believe that is to force you to buy a more expensive pass [snip!]
This is the MTA we're talking about - Mismanaging and Thieving )

They could put Frankenstein on the coin, it wouldn't matter much to me as long as I could spend it and didn't confuse it with other coins.
LOL! :-D

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> That's all that the <a> href="http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/lirr/pubs/tmimages/tvmgray.jpg">automated
> ticket vending[/url] machines spit out. Do you have any idea how annoying it is
> to have $17.25 in change in your pocket? F'ing MTA a'holes...
>

I really believe that is to force you to buy a more expensive pass so they have the money up front to waste instead of waiting for it to trickle in by ride.

Don't get me started on transit subjects. I moderate a transit forum and I'm always jumping on my local system about how they screw things up and drive people away from the system instead of toward it.


> I like the golden dollar over the silver dollar, but Sacajawea? What
> was wrong with Susan B. Anthony?
>

They could put Frankenstein on the coin, it wouldn't matter much to me as long as I could spend it and didn't confuse it with other coins.

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To truly explore, one must keep an open mind...

Sorry 'bout the dead links - They worked on my machine... dunno why not on yours. :-(

Anyway... the "reason" why it's Sacajawea on the piece of gold is because she "surrendered her identity as a Native to [the conquering] Lewis and Clark" whereas Susan B. Athony fought for the right to take part in society as equals. In essence: ``Submissives=Good, Activists=Bad, ergo, don't fight the System, and therefore, it's Sacajawea.``

It was stupid when I heard it, and it still is just as stupid now.

.o0(...or is it?)

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> At least I didn't say you were full of guano... :-D Having lived in three
> countries (and no less than six currencies thanks to several corrupt Ministros
> de Economía), I can safely say it's not the case.

To continue complete off-topic multi-threads, which countries?

> Still, there's quite a few <a> href="http://www.banknotes.com/US-ST-NY.JPG">weird[/url] <a> href="http://www.banknotes.com/AQ1.JPG">notes[/url] out there.

Continue with your conspiracy theories, I do not have the "access" to be allowed to see these pages, I get automatically redirected to the homepage.

Now that's got me curious

BTW what was your golden dollar/silver dollar conspiracy? Like a lot of the others aren't incredibly stupid (the British royal family are alien reptiles in disguise, a government that can't keep photographs of soldiers abusing prisoners is capable of hiding all evidence that aliens have landed for 40 or so years....) :)

That's all that the automated ticket vending machines spit out. Do you have any idea how annoying it is to have $17.25 in change in your pocket? F'ing MTA a'holes...

I like the golden dollar over the silver dollar, but Sacajawea? What was wrong with Susan B. Anthony?

.o0(Actually, I do have a "conspiracy" theory behind it, but it's incredibly stupid)

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>
> Although I always found the US to have very strange coinage.
>

Coinage in the US is getting stranger with all the commemorative coins coming out over the past few years such as the 50 state quarter set and Lewis & Clark nickel set which are all general circulation coinage.

Then there is the dollar coin attempts. The "Carter Quarters" from 1979-1981 are still floating around and are easily confused with a regular quarter. The latest attempt in 2000 was the Sacagawea coin. At least it was gold in color but they still can confuse people that have difficulty seeing and aren't paying close attention.

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To truly explore, one must keep an open mind...

At least I didn't say you were full of guano... :-D Having lived in three countries (and no less than six currencies thanks to several corrupt Ministros de Econom&iacute;a), I can safely say it's not the case.

Still, there's quite a few weird notes out there.

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> Pink? Orange? Blue?
>
> Find me that bald eagle!

To...
- spray it with paint to make it more colourful?
- to execute all last surviving birds in the attempt to get a better coloured bird?
- .....?

BTW the causal effect is bird --> bill, so the hypothesis is one-tailed (so as to speak in statistical terns, uh I mean terms).

:)

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Pink? Orange? Blue?

Find me that bald eagle!

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> The ATMs here only give out multiples of $20, which look like...what I like
> to refer to as "play money"
> You took the words right out of my mouth...Pink and blue can't be US$
> colors.to much like Monopoly money...

I have now developed, what I modestly :) call my "native bird colouring theory of a country's bills". NZ has the kiwi - a flightless bird of a rather brown plumage, hence our bills tend to be somewhat restrained in colour, and certainly only one colour per bill (very similar to our birds). The US has the bald eagle, which really only has two colours (and artists argue that white is not a colour anyway, it's a hue), hence the staid nature of your bills. On the other hand, Australia has galahs and lorikeets and budgies (I have *no idea* of their native bird) and they have colour galore on their bills.

At least it's a falsifiable hypothesis. :) :) :)

I always found the US to have very strange coinage.
you ain't kiddin'! we're the only
country that doesn't put the numerical value on a coin (ie: "10&cent;" instead of "one dime").even i can figure out the value of &#x4e94;&#x5186;, but that's probably because i'm adept at ideographs ("&#x4e94;"="5" and "&#x5186;"="&yen;")

...all your bills look the same (same size, same colour).I used to wonder why I got so much change until I realised, "oh sorry, I didn't realise it was a $20, I thought it was a $1"...
Look in the corners of the note.Better yet [produces a 9mm] gimmie yer wallet.>:-D

The ATMs here only give out multiples of $20, which look like...what I like to refer to as "play money"
You took the words right out of my mouth...Pink and blue can't be US$ colors.to much like Monopoly money...

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In Japan I occasionally ran across a 1 yen coin, made out of aluminum (and always mangled, it seems). Completely pointless coin. It was worth .8 cents at the time for exchange rate. Everything on the street was priced in units of 10 yen. If I recall correctly, playing a cheap arcade game was 50 yen ($.40) and a draft beer averaged 600 yen ($4.80).