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Gold/Mining/Energy : Corner Bay Silver (BAY.T) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GraceZ who wrote (1632)	12/5/2000 4:36:13 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 4409

Ok, nolo contendere, what i don't know about digital or for that matter conventional fotography would fill volumes ... and yes, by infrastructure i was meaning from the consumer's viewpoint, assuming a computer to be necessary, perhaps that is not so. But i tell you this - it does not exist in that town, which serves a wide area of at least one million people minimum ... i'll know when it arrives because i've asked people to tell me, because i'm interested in this very question. The majority of people in the area born before 1960 cannot read and write, a significant minority speak only rudimentary spanish if at all [varieties of maya dialects] ... your minimum cost of dollars 200 for a camera equates to 2.000 pesos mexicanos, more than an annual income for many ... when we go we take for gifts several packages each of the disposable cameras, bought on sale four for thirty-five Cdn, something like that ... it is a major cost for some to have them developed. Trivia point in re México and silver - The very word peso means 'weight', and its use as a name for the currency comes from the fact that the peso mexicano was once defined as one ounce troy of silver ... but then as Adam Smith expressed 'the avarice and injustice of princes and sovereign states diminished the real quantity of metal' to the point where now it takes fifty new rolled-back 1-for-1000 'pesos mexicanos' to buy one ounce ... the word plata ['silver'] is still synonymous with money, and there are a lot of old coins buried out back around the countryside ... this doesn't represent recent buying, as there is no vogue for it among the young, and while that does not appear likely to change in the near future, there is a cultural basis for it when and if the economics arrive.