To: Maurice Winn who wrote (28251 ) 1/31/2003 8:57:51 PM From: Stock Farmer Read Replies (2) | Respond to Aarrgghhhh. Evilness. the most reputable, capable, talented, creative, and other good things, type of people , one occasionally runs into some of the most disreputable (but talented and creative) and other bad things, type of people. As the old saw goes, once you can fake sincerity, you've got it made.Some people are charlatans, dishonest crooks, or merely over-reaching dreamers. But they might superficially seem excellent prospects. If they are excellent prospects, they will be showing a track record, which should be scrutinized intently. I shouldn't denigrate the job, but I think I could do it before breakfast. I'd just get a report on the median pay rate in US$ of the median human on earth. I'd set it at $1 per hour. If their pay was sliding up, to $1.00001, I'd put interest rates up and cut the rate of production of new $, increase bank prudential reserves, the usual. If their pay had slid to $0.999999, I'd do the opposite = cut interest rates, pixelate swarms of new $$ etc. Patenting the world's money supply is concerned... and ref: I am not sure that Q has noticed this idea. They should of course, before Microsoft figures it out. ... Too late, there is prior art. Cisco figured it out while the mighty Q was busy pixelating speech in violation of the laws of psychics and Microsoft was busy cornering the market on the justice department and all of them were transforming air into shares into dollars as fast as insiders could cash in. If it hadn't been for the downturn in the tech economy and things kept up apace, Cisco's equity purchases in FY 2007 would have surpassed the spending of the US Defense Department. War with [insert politically correct villain nation here] notwithstanding.
