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To: TobagoJack who wrote (24172)	10/13/2002 11:22:01 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Jay, 'picking at' breakfast is not my style. I guts it with gusto. Unfortunately, due to a combination of laziness and deteriorating middle-aged metabolic rate, which are maybe the same thing], the amount I can gusto is far less than it was. Getting fat isn't conducive to long term happiness. So I have to make do with loading my Tonka Truck instead of my mouth, the aim being to increase my and family's long term survival and enjoyment prospects. So, our goals seem similar. But our techniques remain different. I'm increasingly unsettled with my US$ holdings - it's like holding a hand grenade while counting, intending to toss it before the bang. My predicament is that I am not sure where the heck to toss it so it doesn't get me. As you say, the economies, [and that's all components of them too], are linked; not necessarily in synch. One thing I disagree with is; <Our objective is not to maintain our score, but to increase our score. For that, we must venture forth and rip the scores from others, and in turn, keep these newly accumulated scores for ourselves. > It's sort of true, but misses a crucial link. You have expressed a zero-sum score-keeping system which is part of the Aztec way of life when territory was fixed and owned by either them or us. You could easily be misled by that faulty thinking into a big booby-trap. With no inflation, thanks to the magic of Uncle Al, combined with Biotelecosmictechdot.com Unlimited productivity improvements and life-enhancement, the total score everyone can have can go up a long way. Their purchasing power in numbers of notebook computers, sunglasses, plane trips, houses, days off work, medical services, meals out can increase along with everyone elses'. Being an engineer, I like to look at boundary conditions and first principles. First principle is that Uncle Al can print an infinite number of pixelated $s without even bothering to cut down a tree, let alone waste vast resources digging a gold mine and building big defended vaults. The boundary condition is that cunning engineers and less cunning politicians can make a world where fully-automatic factories clone software and produce Lexi for near-zero human effort per kilogram of production. The politicians do their best to disrupt the process and terrorists actively destroy it with explosives, well-poisoning and plane crashes. But the amazing engineers outwit them both. Contrary to Greenie scary stories, there isn't actually a boundary condition. The sky's the limit. The point is, the champion investors can have millions of those $$s without having to take them away from others in a zero-sum Aztec bloodletting. The screen could stay permanently green and champion investors can simply pull ahead of the crowd at high speed - everyone can be a winner [though of course they won't be - the terrorists and policians will destroy some and others will arrange their own demise, both financial and fisical, not understanding that the way to enlightenment, great wealth and happiness is through those CDMA phragmented photons]. Be cautious in seeking the crimson rivers of profit. Japan might conspire to quantum tunnel into your wealth by sleight of hand, using your yen for their wealth in a judo move converting your wealth to their yen. It is far more effective to build an empire by such means than by raiding with military might, cruel confiscation, rape and murder. Watch an octopus slide a slender, delicate but sticky tentacle tip, un-noticed, far from it's beady eyes and cunning core, to the quarry. The red in tooth and claw days of territorial empire, simple predator behaviour and Aztec zero-sum tribal conquest are gone. But Japan might be like an octopus - seemingly harmless until too late, with a sucker on your money and many to follow. There will still be winners and losers. In the abstract cyberspace world of pixelated CDMA$$yenJPMpoundGEAuFNMNZQCOM the rules are different. You might even win numerically, with a net positive score, but Japan might win even more. I'm not sure just how the rules work, but it definitely involves Uncle Al and Japan with pixelation of yen, dollars and all other currencies. Even now I can sense a tentacle tip on my Uncle Al dollars - although they are hidden deep inside servers in a bank somewhere nice and safe, though I don't know where. I'd better get outa here. Where the heck to? Mqurice