To: Maurice Winn who wrote (41931 ) 11/23/2003 2:04:28 PM From: TobagoJack Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74559 Message 19528474 <<China 1760? … That was many lifetimes ago>> … It was the leading cusp of the sharp edge of the Event Horizon of TeoTwawKi, just after the TPonRr, right after the moment Gravitons took hold, inexorably compressing space-time, wrestling control of navigation from the statecraft know as Qing Dynasty hsoy.org “In 1760, the government established a set of regulations to control the foreigners and their ships”<<Even human evolution has moved on since then>> … in the matters that do not truly matter, you are probably correct; but not in the anti-matters that can make a big difference, which means you may be fatally wrong. In this season of giving thanks, I must appreciate that there are patient investors like ACF Mike around, happy to hold bloated blue chips, and Pezz probably should give thanks that there are birds like you amongst the pigeons, glad to inherit the has-been leaders from the leading edge speculators. <<Plus, the numbers of us are huge compared with then>> … yes :0) and thus the excitement welling up from within me.<<We are running a never-before experiment>> … Let me give you a hint … most experiments fail.<<We are in uncharted waters. This is boot-strapping writ large>> … stop talking sexy. I am already very excited from contemplating these concepts siliconinvestor.com <<The USA has got elastohydrodynamic money engineers these days. Debt is just another aspect of money>> … A statement of utter complete … words fail me. In any case, let me give you a hint, ‘the Aztec metal is still cheap compared to QCOM, and the closing of the gap in 2003 is just the first of many gap closings’.<<Uncle Al KBE is an elastohydrodynamic money engineer. No longer do we just lug water from the river. No longer do we dig up gold to run the economy>> I have decided to borrow more USD since I probably may never have to pay it back, because I believe here you are unwittingly correct Message 19528528 <<Debt is not a problem. It is the solution>> Maurice, I am thankful that folks like you are around, with your nonsense of history, odd sense of economics, zip sense of money, and naught sense of exchanges, making the taking so much easier, and enabling so little regret. Did you ever ask yourself the most important question of all questions, under all circumstances and in every situation, and that is, ‘what if I am wrong?’ On this issue Message 19528660 << Those are just the ramblings of an old hammer [EDIT: Tommy Franks] who thinks the world looks very like a nail. Of course he thinks a military solution with military intelligence is the way to run our wild and wacky world. He is obviously not so enamored with democracy as shown by his dismissal of it as some recent experiment>> … I hope you are right, but this is also worrying Message 19529455 “Sweeping new emergency laws to counter UK terror” … there certainly appears to be plenty of Tommy Frank types all about, ready with the possibly easy answers that may lead to failed solutions. Chugs, Jay