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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (7750)	8/27/2001 2:17:06 AM
From: marcos	Respond to of 74559

'There isn't any need to link it to gold or other asset because it's linked to the thing which governments control = the lives of their citizens.' Exactly ... there's a good reason to link to gold - 'let my people go' 'Gold perhaps makes a nice sound when slapped down, but it's very subject to theft, being heavy in your pocket [for example when you carry some to buy a house] and isn't as inherently valuable as somebody's time [though it represents time taken to dig it]. ' On security, i should think the same would apply to paper ... as to weight, i dunno about that, i can comfortably carry fourty kilos, got a good stout rucksack, and that's ... let's see, 32 fine ounces to the kilo roughly, times 625 = 800kNZ ... that'll buy a lot of house around here, with matching his and hers range rover utes thrown in ... however, as you point out, it's the 21st century, so really the carrying is done electronically - goldcurrencies.ca 'Better still would be a currency based on share values' Uh-huh ... i know where this is leading, don't i -g- 'No more Aztec medieval golden ideas. No more obsidian in the heart. No more fiat money based on nationally captive people who are no more than indentured serfs. Freedom! Cyberspace Eudoracoin based on the Q and q [with 100q = 1Q] with 1 Q representing 1 share of QUALCOMM. ' The cellphone thing will never catch on, Maurice - if people wanted to answer the phone they would simply sit or stand beside it, after replacing its plug in the jack ... one of the great joys of life is to be out of earshot of the damned thing ... i'm going to take one with me? - aw, c'mon ... no, i suspect where this plan will run into problems will be in your choice of company ... now me, i'd consider units of [and may it please the court, i'd like thusly to demonstrate that i am genetically but fifteen thirty-seconds goldbugger] the mother company to this one - seglobalalliance.com ... see, people don't want some silly thing ringing at them everywhere trying to sell them carpet cleaning, even if they have carpets, what they want is to trade, they just love to trade, all over the planet, over all sorts of dodgy bandwidth, they just want to get the trade through and later for the carpet cleaning, thank you