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Strategies & Market Trends : Winter in the Great White North -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: marcos who wrote (6250)	4/1/2005 7:11:28 AM
From: stan_hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8273

Even if we're in for a substantial USD rally near term, I doubt it would last for long. The US has spent years putting themselves between a rock and a hard place with their deficits, and I don't see how Greenspan or anyone else is going to be able to turn the boat around quickly. However, it's too long and complicated a debate to have on that topic here now. I generally don't sweat the short term fluctuations in USD POG and prefer to keep my eye on this ball -- stockcharts.com[w,a]wallynay[pb104!f]&pref=G Same price in Loonies as late 2002, i.e. there is no bull market in gold (yet), just a bear market in USD -- I question whether that's widely understood. Not saying that USD POG gyrations don't create trading opportunities, just that the Kanuckistan junior gold mining landscape has been, is, and might continue for a while to be about exploration competence IMO, not about the POG. As a consequence, the late 70s-early 80s technique of throwing crap up against the wall and hoping most of it sticks isn't likely to work

To: marcos who wrote (6250)	4/1/2005 8:50:27 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 8273

You donna hafa to lissen to thosa fifth column guys. Gold is yer fren, taka my word for that. It's shiny, it's heavy and you canna burn it like dat cheap paper stuff that, the US govmint puts its faith in. (A preposition is a bad thing to end a sentence with) Green ink fades. Gold is forever. I understand that anything that does not have points, weighs less than 15 pounds or has a bar less than 30 inches earns your mistrust and scorn real fast, but try firefox mozilla. The new protean netscape-like browser is getting kudos from the crowd. (Hey the Wall Street Journal kannot be raung kan they?) mozilla.org And the download page is: mozilla.org Your language is English English not British British EC<:-}

To: marcos who wrote (6250)	4/2/2005 6:37:58 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8273

So fess up, what sort of wind powered 386 silicon are your running? Does it have a colour screen? I used to surf the net like a troglodyte on a 166 MHZ Pentium running Netscape 4.5 and a 2 or 4 gigabyte drive. It used to do all that I wanted. I eschewed sound and real player, even flash macromedia and the like as affectations. We surfed the web like a fallen women covers the back alleys in the waterfront district, and emailed every thomaso, dickless and harried in the world wide planet. Now in these modernized times, I utilize firefox mozilla with a 1000 Megaherz Athlon on a, 'gasp', ten thousand million-byte, 6500 RPM, super EIDE drive, with a 16 speed CD-Writer, the KDE-GUI, 128 megabytes ram, sound -- all under Slackware 9.1 -- it has all the bells and whistles, Baby. It is hard to keep up to Apple Quick-Time and all the latest Real Player movie versions that come out about once a month -- but the computer and 15 inch G-52 monitor cost me a total of 500 Canuck pesos. And it never needs re-booting. The system stays as a silent witness to the wonders of silicon durability with its one great monotonic eye unblinking 24-7 for months at a time, sans viri, worms or blue screens mortuus. Confession: I also run a 1.5 ghz, 2 meg cache, Centrino, Win 2000 Laptop, with 802.1b/g wireless -- but it is just for show. It doesn't do anything more useful than impress Bay Street luddites that you are a "hacker". ADSL is getting faster. Sympatico still has laughable email tools and anemic storage, but with Linux I get 100 kilobytes per second download speed or better. That is about as fast as 1.2 megabit ADSL is supposed to run. I can download 100 megabyte files with ease in a few minutes.(10 to 15 at most) That should take you a 3.8 hours on a 56 K modem but I doubt that it would ever work. EC<:-}

To: marcos who wrote (6250)	4/2/2005 6:54:55 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8273

Who cares about gold.... Dent says buy tech... investorshub.com Oh nevermind I just realised it's audio.... so you can't hear it on your monolith.... I cannot believe you guys cannot fork out 7 or 8 hundred loonies for a cheap net surfer with speed... .... not worth it to waste time with second hand old stuff either... Then again I'm still running a P120, Pentium Pro 200, and PII Celeron for specific tasks and do quite nicely with an old P3 for everything else... actually we have 3 P3s My little guy needs Win 98 for games... I have one for my wife and Daughter to use and mine for work... (which precludes Linux...) Are you too far out in the boonies for DSL ? K