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To: long-gone who wrote (6470)	6/16/1999 2:59:00 PM
From: Zardoz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81980

Gold is a beautiful shiny metal with no inherit value except that which aquired by the markets. "The very fact that today INTC, IBM, and others today use gold wire in their bonding processes, the military requires it in many Mil-Spec electronic applications which are exposed to the corrosive environment of sea spray air." The military specs are an archaic specs design. Many newer alloys offer better resistance to corrosion. The military are slow to accept newer standards. Should we tie all our designs to theirs, then many MR's {Magnetic Resonance} would not function. Gold Salts are an unproven medical treatment {especially for arthitis}. Titanium is also use in pacemakers. Dental use is cosmetic. "All generations are flawed": You lowered my comment into a generalization. I've now corrected you to the sentence that I said. I didn't say:"No inherent value" PS: "limited inherent value" means that a value can be limited, and once limited, be removed from significance. Which justly means it can be of zero limit, and thus not of "inherent value". Any worth is justly given by a market, which is what I said in the first place. [8?)