Act together!
This is a British site covering a European story, why on earth isn't the fine reported in Euros, who cares how man dollars it was!
Besides which the dollar is falling so fast you'd need a dynamic update!
Estonia has fined a local man a year's salary for involvement in last April's sustained denial of service attacks against the Baltic nation's critical internet systems. Dmitri Galushkevich, 20, of Tallinn, was fined 17,500 Estonian Krooni ($1,641) on Wednesday after he was found guilty of launching an assault on the website of …
I'm sorry but this is ridiculous, and your 'conversions' remind me of the time I tried to use toy money to buy an ice cream as a child.
US Dollars may look more realistic than the pretend money I tried to use back then, but I'm sure you could much more than a mere $1641 for 20 quid. Shit, even the choco coins I sent my nephew and niece for Christmas only cost a fiver between them.
I suppose it all comes down to whether you want something you can play with or sweets. And if I know British kids, they'll take the sweets every time.
one of google's more useful features:
Google for: 17500EEK in eur
get Taimo's result.
@Matt - I fully agree. And when the Brits finally see the light and get the Euro, we can scrap yet another conversion.
Anonymous frequent traveller who thinks the Euro is one of the best things since sliced bread