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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (51638)	7/19/2004 1:31:56 PM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 74559

Welcome back Raymond!

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (51638)	7/19/2004 2:08:59 PM
From: energyplay	Respond to of 74559

A number of economists have done studies on this. The need for trust varys with the product, time frame, and ability of the buyer to evaluate the product. Sawn lumber 2x4s are a commodity, and can be visually inspected. You could buy them from almost anyone. Life inusrance is abstract, and you won't be around to inspect the payoff. That's why there are rating agencies, like A M Best. Some basic degree of honesty can be enforced by simple laws, especailly for simple physical objects. As for a 'beliefs' I try to avoid to many of them.

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (51638)	7/19/2004 4:27:16 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Ray, thanks for the links to Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski's new book,http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465027261/qid=1041793485/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-8525591-2774518?v=glance&s=books and The Prize, which I was kindly gifted by some friends in San Diego a couple of years ago [I'd never heard of it]. Brzezinski's plan was to support the Mujahideen in Afghanistan against the USSR, giving the Russians their Vietnam, which would defeat them but give the USA hegemonists access to military bases in Saudi Arabia and so on, to control the oil, and then cause the Islamic Jihadists to turn their attentions from the Russians to the Americans, which would enable the USA to defeat the powers in the middle east and take over The Prize in entirety. You will have noticed that John Kerry is specifically NOT thinking of withdrawing from Iraq. Bonesmen know wassup and what the plan is. Iran and Syria are next on the Hit Parade. Probably Iran first because of the noocular connection. Iran isn't building noocular reactors because they are running out of fuel oil to power thermal power stations. Pakistan's Islamic Jihad supporters might even have helped them out in the noocular bomb production technologies, or even with an actual bomb or three. Meanwhile, my two main companies, BP and QUALCOMM continue to take over the world. BP funded [by way of salary] my stake in QUALCOMM and QUALCOMM keeps me in the manner to which I have become accustomed as they colonize China and India and the rest of the world. I guess you know that Brent Scowcroft is on the board, to give a direct link to the White House [don't even need to pay any middle-men]. Oil is a has-been Ray. The main action is in the cyberspace realm and particularly the mobile cyberspace realm. While people are watching The Prize, which is on display out front, with good old-fashioned war and gore, the man behind the curtain is doing the real stuff, which is hidden in phragmented photons suffusing the aether all around and through the masses who are not even aware of what is happening. Here is Irwin Jacobs test-driving the airliner version, linked through Globalstar to the Global Gridiron [GG] cellular.co.za I checked the dictionary and gridiron is a better word that I thought - all meanings apply dictionary.reference.com I love a global conspiracy to rule the world! Especially being one who receives the dividends instead of being like Ted Kaczynski in gaol for opposing the GG. Okay, I admit it, I'm baiting you. It's my way of welcoming you back. I love the smell of fire and brimstone in the morning. Polite conversation is nice, but without the wackoes of the world, it's a bit tame, inbred, introverted and self-reverential in a Goedlian kind of way. psyche.cs.monash.edu.au I do wonder at times though whether Ted was right panix.com While living in Belgium and working for BP Oil International for The Prize [being cashflow from the transport fuels customers of the world], I took one of our visiting nieces for a tour of the industrial area of Zwijndrecht, Belgium [not Holland], where I worked. It was night time and it was an eerie feeling to see huge areas of factories churning away day and night, feeding each other in a monstrous self-perpetuating business to business entity. There were a few cars in the car parks to watch the dials, like Homer Simpson, with the nuclear reactor supplying the chemical plants, steel producers and a whole array of factories, supplying the robotic car factories which are then hauled through the night at 70 miles and hour on huge trains. It really was creepy and detached from any evolutionary comfort zone for humans. Brrr... An interlinked mesh of inhuman industrial monsters. That was just the warm-up before I'd even heard of cyberspace. "Roll up, roll up, buy your cyberspace devices here, hook up to The Web, log in and locate yourself, put in your PIN and your credit card details, swing by the SUV store and live happily ever after, on the Freeway to Freedom". And the crowd rolls in, more enthusiastically than those taking a train ride to the countryside in Nazi Germany. Look, I don't know whether Ted and Ray [Kurzweil kurzweilai.net ] are right or wrong, or whether it's good or bad, but the pay's good. I'm just doing my job, okay! We don't know where we're going but we're on our way, so we might as well ride in an SUV and be connected while we travel. Have you bought a CDMA cyberphone yet? You will soon. Mqurice PS: I wonder if having a name like Zbigniew was a problem for him, especially with his surname, not to mention middle name. I wonder if that's why he likes geopolitical warfare. Kaczynski is similar. So is Kurzweil! What's with all the 'z's and 'k's? You don't see John Smith carrying on like that.