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| magic:
--- Quote from: nctnico on April 05, 2020, 05:40:08 pm ---You can buy all kinds of leaded solder (86 types of 60/40 alone) from Farnell. --- End quote --- Try to order it as an individual to anywhere in the EU :P I was talking about sales to general population on platforms like eBay. This definitely is forbidden, and for a few years already. Any pure lead you may buy as an individual is also, technically, illegal. There may be exemptions for products made of lead, dunno. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: magic on April 05, 2020, 06:28:44 pm ---I was talking about sales to general population on platforms like eBay. This definitely is forbidden, and for a few years already. Any pure lead you may buy as an individual is also, technically, illegal. There may be exemptions for products made of lead, dunno. --- End quote --- What do they use in place of those little lead weights used to balance car tires? Ours are still made of lead. As far as I know the little weights used for fishing line are still lead as well though not being an avid fisherman I haven't tried buying those in many years. |
| MadTux:
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on April 05, 2020, 06:14:53 pm ---And as I said, gold is inconvenient to work with - not easy to split in smaller chunks of value, possibly unsafe to store/carry around (dead easy to steal), etc. --- End quote --- Why that? A bar of gold, a sharp chisel of good steel and a miligram scale is all that's needed to divide it into smaller chucks. I see more of a problem with aluminium bronze, brass etc as gold lookalikes, difficult to distinguish on small quantities. But if I guy comes along, with like a 1kg bar of gold, that I can hold in my hands and he chisels it off in front of me, I would be pretty sure, it's real. Crypto cash on the other hand, with transaction fees, network crap, verification, wrong address etc... Not so sure that works, if the world burns..... |
| Kilrah:
To me gold's value is historical and nothing more. It was the shiny beautiful thing that doesn't degrade and became desirable mostly for its appearance as a status symbol for cultural and spiritual reasons. Nowadays nobody gives a shit about gold anymore (in Western cultures, different in Asia obviously). It has some uses as a material but nowhere near enough to justify the value that's given to it. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: Kilrah on April 05, 2020, 06:55:28 pm ---Nowadays nobody gives a shit about gold anymore (in Wester cultures, different in Asia obviously). --- End quote --- Huh? $1675.00 per ounce says quite a few people give a shit about it. I'd love it to be cheaper than it is because it really is useful stuff but I don't think there's a time in human history that it has been cheap. Even if it dropped to 10% of the present value it would still be expensive stuff. I don't hoard the stuff personally but it has been a pretty safe investment for a very, very long time and unless we reach a point where the very survival of the human race is in question I'm quite confident that will not change. The value may fluctuate but I think one would be hard pressed to find something less likely to end up worthless. |
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