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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_urchin who wrote (13996)	5/16/2002 2:19:09 PM
From: russet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81394

Re: Messina,.. Thanks for the chicken predictions. There are rumors in the wind that SUF.t management wishes to take out the minority shareholders of Messina, and may issue some kind of share issue to do so shortly after they establish their secondary listing on London's AIM market. I'm also told there is a healthy(?) appetite for miners like SUF operating in SAf, by many small mid-cap funds in Europe, so an AIM listing may increase access to SUF by these funds. Around here, such a buyout would command a premium over the current shareprice to entice shareholders to give up their shares, giving you perhaps a chance to make a few extra Rand. I was reading yesterday that someone has developed a gun that could shoot 1 million bullets per minute. Perhaps you could get the downpayment for such a gun to mount on your vehicle for daytrips, by investing a few Rand in Messina and wait for the predicted takeout? http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,46570,00.html 2:00 a.m. Sep. 28, 2001 PDT SYDNEY, Australia -- It may not be ready for George Bush's "first war of the 21st century." But it may well be ready if there's a second. In perhaps the most audacious upgrade of high-speed weaponry since the introduction of the Gatling Gun, Australian inventor Mike O'Dwyer has developed a machine gun that can fire bullets at a rate of 1 million rounds per minute. Firepower like this is causing the U.S. and Australian militaries to sit up and take notice. Both are funding deeper research into O'Dwyer's ideas, which he cooked up in his garage during more than a decade as an Australian retail store executive. Osama bin Laden, however, needn't worry. The research is long-term and isn't expected to yield any new lethal weapons anytime soon. Even so, the implications of the new technology's ability to change warfare are immense. And somewhat amazingly, the theory is pretty simple. Rather than use mechanical firing pins to shoot bullets one by one, O'Dwyer's gun holds multiple bullets in the barrel -- one behind the other. Electronic charges set off in different parts of the barrel, just fractions of a second apart, fire the bullets in blindingly fast succession using traditional gunpowder. The result is akin to a laser beam of lead and it offers several advantages over a regular machine gun. First, the new gun is solid-state and electronic, meaning there are few mechanical parts to jam. Second, more bullets can be fired with one squeeze of the trigger before the gun recoils. But perhaps most remarkable of all, the unique ballistics of firing projectiles close together means that the bullets farther back of the pack actually push those in front of them, thereby increasing bullet velocity.