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http://www.fin24.com/Economy/INFOGRAPHIC-Zuma-earns-more-than-most-world-leaders-20150311[^]
At the bottom of this article are two interesting charts, showing the GDP and GDP per capita for some countries.
Points that I found interesting:
1. The high GDP per capita of the UK: Higher than that of Germany as well as Japan! Well done Brits!
2. The weak performance of Russia.
3. Despite the phenomenal growth in the GDP of China its GDP per capita is still pathetic.
By the way: The salaries of world leaders are shown in South African Rands. One SA Rand is worth about 9 US cents, due to that country's economic mismanagement over the past 50 years.
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Cornelius Henning wrote: One SA Rand is worth about 9 US cents, due to that country's economic mismanagement over the past 50 years.
Woudl that be SA mismanagement, US mismanagement, or both? 
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In the mid-1970s one SA Rand was worth 145 US cents. Today it is 9 cents. I do believe that says it all! 
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Ah.
So both then - but the US was slightly less incompetent? 
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Quote: but the US was slightly less incompetent
The implication that SA mismanagement is only "slightly" worse, is incorrect. I lived in that country up to 18 years ago and can tell you it was a helluva lot worse than the US! 
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#3 Yeah, given the denominator is 1.3 billion+, the GDP per capita is obviously small. India's is smaller still, largely due to the untold millions of poor.
If China/India had a GDP per capita matching Western levels (40,000 USD) with their current populations, no other economy would really matter - that's how big their populations are.
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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Don't talk to me about financial shenanigans fupping the exchange rates. A large part of our income is in Euros and in the last two months the steady slide of the EUR-GBP rate has taken hunnerds of spondoobies out of our pockets. In January I got 82 pence to the Euro, yesterday it was 64, and that bloody hurts.
veni bibi saltavi
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Sliding from 82 to 64 in a couple of months is harsh! What's going on with your exchange rate? 
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One word, Greece.
veni bibi saltavi
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It's strange that a relatively small economy, like Greece, can have such significant impact on the Euro. Sumthin's wrong with this picture, I just dunno what it is!
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That's only part of the problem and in this particular case, Greece might be a perverted sort of blessing. Draghi and the ECB want to weaken the Euro to give a boost to inflation. Hence the QE exercise underway.
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote: Draghi and the ECB want to weaken the Euro to give a boost to inflation.
Yes, because inflation is Good!
And high oil prices are Good!
You have to remember that things that good for just about everyone in the world are bad for the banks and the super-rich, and only the banks and the super-rich matter!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It seems there is a group dedicated to helping users recover:
WPF Therapy[^]
(Actually appears as first result in Google for me; are they trying to tell me something?)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Great find. I would PM this to John, right a way. 
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Sacha Barber and POH are resident of UK and gurus of WPF. Check with them.
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I go there for my regular semi-colonic irrigation
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After all these years of programming and you still can't take care of a semi-colon.
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He can, he irrigates it.
You should see how it's grown, must be at least 48pt by now, with lots of little demisemicolons.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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I am glad I am miles kilometres away. No intentions to see it.
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Are you sure you didn't write "WTF products", miss match in P and T can cause a lot of problems!
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I don't think I've ever seen a website that says so little in so many words.
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Try this[^] or this[^] on for size then.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Ask John Simmons - Outlandish Coder, he works with WPF or at least that is what he is complaining about recently. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
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Oh yeah.. just what I needed! 
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Start of game, england lose badly, lose 2 points, end of game, but don't give them the bird (6, 5)
Specially for griff and pompey
One day I aspire to having a signature.
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