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To: TobagoJack who wrote (25522)	11/18/2002 4:55:02 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

* The Lord of the Taniwha * Thanks Jay. My visit to Hong Kong was in 1990, so it's due for a visitation again one of these days. Mostly I want to inspect Shanghai, Beijing and a few other places. Meanwhile, Mighty Q! touched $40 today x 10 = $400. That Aztec stuff is falling behind. The Martha Mine was fascinating. I've previously gawped down the holes at Butte and at Bingham copper mine. Bingham was like the Grand Canyon! But Martha Mine isn't too bad for Hobbitland. It struck me as odd that for decades I've never had a look but have travelled around the world gawking at other things. That seems to be a local-yokel syndrome. People often don't notice what's in their midst. Anyway, what a huge effort it is for the miners to produce $320 in value. Uncle Al KBE can do it with a click of a mouse. Heck, he might even have trouble doing so little. His minimum unit might be US$1 million. You can see why the USA is rich and the dumb Kiwis are poor. We spend our lives digging holes in the ground, half a kilometre deep, through solid rock, to find a bit of gold. Yanks click a mouse and bingo, another $1 billion in the till to buy the gold, holidays and bed-making services of the dumb Kiwis. However, not all Kiwis are making beds, are in the mine, or scrabbling in the tailings. Some of us are conspiring against the USA and our heroic knight, Uncle Al KBE, who has done a masterful and admirable job of keeping the old-style American Empire currency pre-eminent. Hidden away in cyberspace is an ethereal monster under construction. Homeland Security won't be able to touch it. I can even announce It's development and they can't do anything about it. The USA will look a bit like Mugabe's Zimbabwe in 50 years. Flailing against tidal forces in demography, technology and abstract concepts which bush-babies can barely grasp. Actually, can't grasp. Jiang Zemin and co try to stop It, limit and control It, while being sucked into It's maw. Hu Jintao is off and running now. He'll hijack what was created in the USA and with petatrillions of cdma2000 phragmented photons will enmesh the planet with Arpanet and CDMA. But he won't be able to tame the monster either; inevitably, he'll become a humble servant. A Taniwha is being loosed on the planet. The Lord of the Taniwha, with powers to make the Lord of the Rings look a child's prank. People can slip their fingers, eyes and ears into It's power and use it. Like using the gravitational field and energy of a black hole, one best sail close along the event horizon. However, while being on the edge, others are falling inside, which extends the event horizon. So even if you are sailing along outside, you end up on the inside. The energy required to move outward as the event horizon expands, ever faster, is too great for our small, self-contained reserves. Inevitably, our little bit will be subsumed and contribute to further and faster expansion. So it is with the power of It. The temptation to use It's power will be overwhelming for all. The consequences will be a paradigm shift. A BIG Paradigm Shift. Aztec imprecations and Uncle Al's incantations will be like farting against thunder! Peeing in the ocean. Mqurice