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To: TobagoJack who wrote (63172)	5/2/2005 6:24:07 AM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Thanks for the links - I will read your history lesson General - what did the guy in india use on india ebay to take payment from the guy in texas on american ebay - a gold coin? As billions more get on EBAY - are they only gonna sell items if you send them a gold coin first? I see the guy in eskimo village north alaska maybe taking some Jack Daniels or maybe an MRE from www.longlifefoods.com if he is thirsty or hungry for his good - say his club he uses to beat seals that he has too many of - but no gold coin?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (63172)	5/2/2005 6:52:51 AM
From: shades	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Lets get right to the heart of it - when the drughead, crackhead, alcohol head, hungry, starving, frozen eskimo says I will sell you my club, my igloo, my daughter, or porno movies of me banging seal on ebay - what will he want for payment? A gold coin? I don't see it - my mind cannot accept that guy in eskimo village - and spearchucker in south america - and jungle man in serengeti and poor asian in middle of nowhere china when they all get on their cheap laptops to sell shit on ebay are gonna trade shiny metal back and forth - I just don't accept that. csmonitor.com These kids have wood carving I want to buy - or a rock that looks like the virgin mary they found out by the hut - they put it on ebay - I want to buy it - what are they gonna take in payment? Gold coin? What for? Now what if they are on Sony Everquest and I offer them level 30 wizard character - which one has more value to poor kid in hut with laptop that likes blowing up shit in virtual game? Shiny coin that makes him bored or level 30 wizard that fries the dragon with magic missle +5? Check out what your asian friends think people VALUE and WANT - it aint shiny METAL! games.slashdot.org Sony Online To Sell Virtual Property Posted by Zonk on Wednesday April 20, @11:25AM from the first-sign-of-the-apocalypse dept. OMG! writes "In an open letter to the community John Smedley, the president of Sony Online Entertainment, announced their new service 'the Station Exchange' which will allow players of Everquest II to trade their items for real live money. Sony Online is the first major player in the MMORPG genre to embrace commercial trading of in-game items." Commentary available from all the usual suspects, including Wired, the Players, Terra Nova, F13, and Grimwell. This would seem to be a total reversal of the policies of certain other MMOGs. imdb.com Grave of the fireflies - nice japanimation where USA blow the japs away - 2 kids have money - no one will sell them rice - they starve to death - lets say they had laptop for cheap or free - wireless connected to the matrix or could go to library and get on internet to try and sell something for rice - they ask me what you want - I think 2 kids maybe they draw me a picture and I buy that from them - I ask them what you want - they say rice - why would I send them a gold coin? I don't get it. Captain Kirk never wanted a gold coin - he did need Dilithium crystals though - Energy. When you can show me how to power my computer, P2P movies, napster MP3's, USS Enterprise and all the other digital wealth I possess with a gold coin I will listen. When China sent the spies here in 1997 - they could have stolen our gold - that is not what they valued - they wanted our patents and technology and research - not gold. I am really trying to keep an open mind because you are a lot smarter than me Jay - but the future is the matrix - the future is virtual - and shiny metal doesn't make my nieces cream thier jeans - but when I fire up Mario and Zelda on the gamecube they are HAPPY - I gave one of them a gold necklace once - she traded it in at the pawnstore for a copy of the little mermaid and some brittney spears CD - what a dummy - that gold chain was worth more than brittney and little mermaid right? Gove coconut a gold chain when she gets older - then say gold chain or IPOD and music and GAMEBOY - I bet she doesn't think much of the gold coin. Will you teach her otherwise?