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To: TobagoJack who wrote (45248)	1/26/2004 12:33:58 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

<<the loss, as always, falling mostly upon the poor and the ignorant.>> This is "Fiat Money Inflation in France" by Andrew Dickson White This is Elmat a week ago: Message 19723638 <<The day I discovered that Inflation is a tax in poor, is one that rank mostly!, mind you I come form galloping inflationary Brazil, so this was very important.>> Message 19723638 I am reading on!!

To: TobagoJack who wrote (45248)	1/26/2004 1:32:27 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Jay, I am delirious with excitement. I was drooling over your survival kit, then clicked to the end and found this post giving me an ebook to read about fiat money no less. achamchen.com That's after having also viewed the Bora Bora paradise. We are nearing Nirvana. That followed a pleasant stroll around the Manukau Harbour shore, enjoying beautiful nostalgic views over Mangere Bridge, Puketutu Island and surrounding districts after munching on a delicious Turkish Kebab which saved me the trouble of revisiting a distant land for such a delicacy. Wife and I sat and enjoyed the ambience and views. The distant motorway made me think of hundreds of millions of cars around the world rushing hither and yon at that very moment. Maybe it was only 10s of millions at that moment. Where were they going to and why were half going one way and the other half were going to where the others had come from? Where they were wasn't as good as where they wanted to be, whichever way they were going. It reminded me [and it's an idea that revisits me constantly over the years while I wait for CDMA phragmented photons to develop to their full mystical magic] that it would be far easier to take my eyes out of my head and stretch my optic nerve so much that I could put my eyes on the other side of the world or anywhere, from Aladdin's Cave to the view from a Globalstar satellite, to a view from the top of the Eiffel Tower to a bar stool opposite the washroom in the Great Wall Sheraton [I forget the exact name]. That would be a bit impractical but I wonder whether I couldn't splice some optical fibre to avoid the stretching process. Or even, so that my eyes could remain in my head for close up viewing, use some surrogate eyes linked via cyberspace and CDMA air interface to a retina scanning device, giving an image to each eye for 3D perception. Digital cameras with many pixels and good zoom function are at a state of design now where it would be practical to install stereoscopic pairs all over the world, each with in IP address and with a steerable function so they could be pointed in any direction and zoomed for close up viewing. The same trick could be done with stereophonic microphones, hooked up to an EarCell[TM] or even cochlear implant. That wouldn't give the smell and feel of an ocean as one plunges in. Nor the itch of a biting insect. Nor the taste of the US$20 chicken soup [guaranteed influenza free]. Nor the sensory thrill of a romantic interaction at the top of the Eiffel Tower in the bar of the Great Wall Sheraton. But it's a good start. Back to your survival kit. achamchen.com The books can be replaced by an ebook and the electronic gadgets can be superseded by a CDMA2000 1xEV-DO cyberphone, the gold and other monetary baubles by pixelated transfers from your stores of wealth on servers around the world. Carrying money is so last century. The watches would be redundant as the cyberphones keep perfect time and in any form you'd like [universal, @internet time, Greenwich, Hong Kong, countdown to the End of Bora Bora]. The shells and pearl and diamond decorations would perhaps still be nice to carry, for beauty and luck or something. The universal survival kit will be a cyberphone and associated devices; cochlear implant, EarCells[TM], MicroVision 3D viewer, spare, small version for jogging, waterproof illuminated for diving, diamond encrusted for going out to Monaco casino high roller's table. Functionality here: Message 19712987 Note radioactivity function, Vegemite dispenser, flashlight etc. 2003 saw 1xEV-DO cyberphones get going and W-CDMA [3GSM] revving up too. 2004 will see excitement building further. Your crusty old GSM devices will be heading for the museum soon. This is very, very exciting. The Year of the Monkey is getting me going and it has just begun. Thanks for sharing your Bora Bora excursion to paradise via cyberspace. With a 1xEV-DO connection via a Microvision 3D retina scan and stereophonic input via EarCell and my feet in a bucket of water and shirt off outside in a deck chair, given the great weather we are enjoying, I would not be able to tell I'm not there. I could sip on a tall cool drink. Ahhh, bliss. I'd have to be careful not to just roll over and fall onto the lawn instead of into the ocean. Have your shoulders started slumping ever so slightly forwards and your face settled back into the stressed look of the cacophonous city? I think it takes about 3 days for the transition to be complete [especially if going straight back to work]. Mqurice