To: TobagoJack who wrote (42394 ) 12/8/2005 10:10:02 AM From: shades Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 116555 Hundreds of thousands of people that prepare themselves?!? General you sound more and more silly everyday. When you and mogambo have your piles of gold, and my mexican neighbors have all the farm land and cows - and you come to them for food and all you have is gold and they will not take it - what are you going to do? - whip out your sub machine gun mogambo/RAMBO style and TAKE it from them? Bush does - but I thought you were of better character than him. You need to watch an old humphrey bogart movie - treasure of the sierra madre - the mexican man valued his hat and some donkeys over shiny dust. What a fool he was no? Out there in that desert that hat kept the sun off him, the donkey had many uses, but they were not as USEFUL or VALUABLE as shiny metal dust eh? I am rolling!! Stop! Billions of people needing food, heat, energy, entertaiment and travel are NOT going to give you and mogambo any RULE over them because you have shiny dust sucka! Are you NUTS?? I really am beginning to think you are.thinking about lovely gold and its rising price trend while making nasty BWAHAHA! You kill me General - that is so damn funny!! Gold rising in PRICE of what? US dollars - something you and warren buffet and many here think are worthless CLOWN BUCKS - FISH PAPER?? BWAHAHAHAHA! Ok so lets follow your thought process - you will horde gold - because in the future it will go up in PRICE - therefore you will get many DOLLARS for it - but the funny thing is - the thing you still dont understand - whatever PRICE you GET for the shiny lump of metal - it will not be enough to get what you really NEED in a world of limited resources - ALL the GOLD in the UNIVERSE will not buy you the last oil field - guns and war will decide who gets that - all the GOLD in the universe will not buy you the last free ACRE in california - corrupt gubbments and criminals will decide that.because patents are worthless at best, and costly most of the time, while the true benefit more often than not go to others I did say they were "supposed" to make the world better, but whatever HATE you have for patents, they have done WORLDS more for me than shiny metal EVER WILL - you are NUTS?!!i will wager you that girls prefer gold to patents, and am willing to bet my patents against your gold No this is a LIE - you will lose that wager - in fact you already have - my niece pawned her GOLD bracelet to buy a brittney spears CD - a technology that came out through the patent system no? YOU LOSE.in any case, i am planning to substantially increase my already substantial gold allocation % upon pullback Make sure you increase your GOOG shorts too - one day you might be right. The dollar will fall according to many, buffet included, but there are smart card technologies and banking systems backed up by nations and governments with nuclear bombs and big tanks and submarines and warships and the worst of all - greedy lawyers!! If you dont follow the RULES - you get a bullet in your head - comprende senore? - a little while back you showed me a chinese casino ship they decided to take into WARGAMES with Russia - now if they were smart like you - they would realize all they need is SHINY METAL to be a world powerhouse - not a damn military - what fools they are!! The MEME of gold is far more powerful than a loaded weapon or nuclear bomb staring you down. Hell they should sell all thier guns and that ship, put all their soldiers to work converting coal atoms and lead atoms to gold atoms - then they can be RICH and everyone in the world will give them whatever they want in exchange for gold atoms - damned be thier cheap goods or military protection - those gold ATOMS trump all that - how silly General - grow up! N Korea has bush crapping his pants because they have lots of GOLD right? Thier leader is parodied in the movies because he had GOLD like MR. T right? I pity da foo Elroy Jetson already educated you about history that the rich russians in the city STARVED TO DEATH clutching their gold not understanding why the dumb farmers in the countryside would not trade them food for shiny metal! There was once an english king - he was very worried about the barabrous hordes invading his land - he started the first inventory and accounting of all the resources of his kingdom - stuff like pigs, and goats, and chickens and eggs and cows - stuff people NEED AND USE and EAT. These were the things he was going to TRADE the barborous hordes to not INVADE. In the future, you and coconut will want food, and shelter, and clothing, and entertainment, and travel and energy - along with many other things - LONG before you will want, need or use shiny metal. You have convinced yourself SHINY GOLD will be taken in trade for these things - that it will trump all else - that is a truly foolish belief. Oil will be traded for bacon, and friends DVD's will be traded for brittney cd's. And those that cant TRADE - they will have MILITARIES to take by FORCE - as happened all through history and will happen in the future. And as they over extend and rot from the inside - new cultures and nations will rise with "THIER MILITARIES" to be the new powerhouse. No nation in existence is going to be a powerhouse because they have GOLD with no MILITARY to back them. Its not about the GOLD general, it hasn't been for quite awhile now. Keep hoarding your gold, I will keep refining my weapons and soldiers to be more and more battle tested. Watch a movie called DUNE - the man that controlled the SPICE - had the most hardened battle tested force in the universe. It doesn't take GOLD to have power - it takes LAWS enforced by thugs with guns who will ultimately end your existence if you don't follow the RULES.boston.com