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To: 8bits who wrote (42650)	12/13/2005 12:30:41 AM
From: shades	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 116555

It is compact easily transportable store of value. A visa card is money too, and lots lighter than gold or oil - and that is why my mexican illegal immigrant neighbor uses her credit card and does not send her sister back home in mexico gold coins. Did you catch that post? Message 21923029 Here it is again - my mexican neighbors mom does not understand what you say about GOLD - she trusts MASTER card - she says - MASTER THE MOMENT - hehe. I try to tell her what you and the general say, that cash, and dollars, and credit cards and checks and wire transfers and smart cards etc etc are for fools and idiots - but she still goes to linens and things and MASTERs the moment mastercard style - what a dumb immigrant - she will never make it in this country if she doesn't get that GOLD meme into her mind - after all gold has been money for 2000 years right? I can carry a smart card/credit card worth a lot of yuan/dollars/chickens or what have you - gold cannot compete my friend - the velocity of transactions happening all over the globe every nanosecond from ebay to paypal to the little south african farmer selling poppy seeds on his IBM ecommerce solution should make it very clear to you MONEY as you understand it died a long time ago concerning GOLD. I wonder if SI BOB or SI DAVE would think tomorrow if they could no longer take SI subscriptions by credit card but only in REAL GENERAL CHEN MONEY - GOLD COINS - I bet SI BOB and SI DAVE would not like all that hassle of having to go to the post office, take the gold coins, running the measurements/test on them to make sure they are REAL gold coins and then giving you access to level 10 features - HAHA - see how silly it is when you look at the reality of doing transactions with shiny bits of metal? www-306.ibm.com Here you go. My old employer - imagine Raja selling all the items in the catalog only if shiny bits of metal arrive in their mail - are you NUTZ? Now with a straight face make me believe that tomorrow, Ebay, TicketMaster, Amazon, Fedex, etc etc - pick any other of a million websites that do stupendous numbers of transactions every single day - can exist with shiny metal chunks going back and forth over lines on a map - stop being silly. That is General Chens job - hehe.