Later in the year, everybody works and this one day nobody knows what the holiday's good for anyway, so who cares. :-) Just those days between the years, those are the days in catholic places (here) that just don't exist. They never have existed, I wonder why they're even on the calendar at all and how people can work on those days. You Saxons always "worked" on those days? That is strange for any Bavarian. I'm actually going to work tomorrow, since every year, a few people have to, but nobody really expects me to be "working".

"... German banks appear to have been unprepared this month for the emergence of the fault, which has been attributed to a software glitch in the microchips embedded into many “chip and pin” cards and has meant they have not coped with the change to 2010".

It's being called the Y2K10 problem, I think.

One wonders why the fat cats in Europe didn't consider that Y2K could happen to them, or did they believe the propaganda that it was just a waste of money?

((I))

Scotch tape actually solves the problem.

Mine works fine. Sparkasse, issued in late 2008. No problems at all. Just got cash the other day.

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That is why one should only carry bars of gold and a sharp knife. When you need to pay for something, you just whittle off the approximate amount. Also carry a set of balance scales with authorized weights.

Finally, something made in Germany actually broke down.

:-)

dave

<<< Finally, something made in Germany actually broke down. >>>

But it was the fault of the French

Does this mean Europe is 10 years behind the United States?

But Alan, who did the French outsource it to?

I got a call the other day from someone with what I would call a "sub-continental accent". When I asked where he was, he said Chicago. I said "Wow, are you near the loop?" His answer was that "No, he is living in a small town about 8 miles EAST of the loop". I guess he is working out of one of those fishing houses since that would put him in Lake Michigan.

I then asked him if he wouldn't rather live in someplace really pretty like Gary, Indiana. He didn't know where that was.