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To: regli who wrote (49692)	4/16/2006 12:11:55 AM
From: shades	Respond to of 116555

Since Spock is a fantasy figure, the comparison seems somewhat unfair. Now hold up Regli - we are about to start ww3 over magic men in the sky that will burn you in hell forever if you dont worship baby jesus right? Bush talks to this magic man and is on that magic mans holy war. Don't discount fantasy - lots of people are tied up in it - even trotsky's hero dick believed he was really living in 1st century Rome eh? I could just as easily have chosen to compare the Daleks and the Phoenicians and a similar but opposite point could have been made. And would be just as relevant - belief can help shape reality - to a point. The issue here is simply choosing the correct trend at the right time. If you pick the correct trend and ride with it you will generally do very well. Right, I thought the techies I know were gonna give roddenberrys trek trend a try - the gold trend didn't bring us up out of the quagmires and swamps the many times it was used in the past eh? Babies still starved to death through all those ages eh? However, if you ride the last trend which is similar to soldiers fighting the last war, your success rate is likely not as high. Yet so many goldbugs tell me if I horde gold it will make the gubbment honest and stop the evil in mens hearts. Newsflash - it won't. paper or gold or seashells - foxes in henhouses always want to eat eh? I was a tech investor in the 90s because my background is in technology since the 70s so that was easy an easy choice. However, this decade is not the decade of tech IMO and I read about new tech changing the world daily on slashdot.org - why they have even brought us the 6 billion dollar man - that used to just be a TV FANTASY show - amazing eh? Lee Majors is rolling in his grave at you! hehe hardware.slashdot.org Bionic Man May Soon be a Reality Posted by Zonk on Saturday April 15, @01:42AM from the cue-cool-sound-effect dept. choongiri writes "The London Guardian is reporting on the creation of replacement eyes and working hands in the race to build a $6bn human. Currently being worked on is everything from bionic eyes to an entire exoskeleton enabling the wearer to carry 200lbs. From the article: 'The 1970s gave us the six-million-dollar man. Thirty years and quite a bit of inflation later we have the six-billion-dollar human: not a physical cyborg as such, instead an umbrella term for the latest developments in the growing field of technology for human enhancement.'" therefore bound to provide far less in term of returns in that sector than in commodities and gold. When you have a hearing aid, a pace maker, hooked up to the dialysis machine or artifical kidney and all the other wondrous medicine and pills and science of our future I am going to wonder how valuable those gold coins up in your closet really are to you. Copper, oil - these are different from gold. I am also a firm believer in the credit bubble and as such have to worry about the stability of the financial system. Bubbles burst all the time - Japan went down in fiery flames and if I go there now I can only buy a japanese hamburger with a silver coin eh? How do all the people who didn't horde shiny metal still eat? With such a frame of mind, I would be a fool not to have a Time will tell. significant allocation in PM's which are likely going to be the only forms of money that will retain their value once the credit bubble bursts. I saw a movie called mad max - all money was worthless - even gold money - if you didn't have guns and water and oil - you died - money or gold or silver made no difference. I saw a movie called the postman - I saw a movie called waterworld - I read the history books when governments collapsed in the past - hording gold coins didn't seem like it protected you from the huns or the egyptians or the romans or the spanish when it was time for heads to be chopped off - in fact if ANYTHING - hording gold coins made them single you out for having your head chopped off. When in a state of anarchy - any good reason will do eh? If you wish to live - best to prevent the state of anarchy - try to keep reason and rationality at the forefront - not runnung around hording gold and saying take it over my dead body - that is silly. Once you recognize a bull market, try to stay on it and ride it. That in itself is a very hard thing to do. At some point - people so tire of the rigged casino - they stop going in there to play - and it won't matter wether you have roulette - blackjack - or slot machines - if you got no customers - doesnt matter what market you in - you are finished. My ancestors had lots of confederate money and gold - when the union soldiers came in - they lost it all. Why didn't gold save them? You all want me to believe gold will save me - it is HONEST money - yet the union soldiers with guns showed my ancestors what was honest - a bullet in the head if you didn't COMPLY - that is honesty. wscoin.com The leaders of the South well knew the dangers of inflation and did not originally intend unlimited issues of paper money. Further, it was to be backed by cotton. The South in 1860 produced over four million bales of cotton of which three-fourths was exported, over half of which went to England. Planters were asked to contribute a portion of their crop to the government for which bonds were given in return. Or, as vice President Stephens described it, a loan of the cotton with the bonds being a profitable investment selling above par if the Confederacy won the war, if not they will be worth just as much as anything else you have, and nothing else you have will be worth anything. An accurate prediction.

To: regli who wrote (49692)	4/16/2006 12:33:31 AM
From: shades	Respond to of 116555

forbes.com Check out this list Regli - one of them - the top dawg - the billionaire that makes other billionaires steam with envy - he came out wearing an outfit dressed as SPOCK at one of his keynotes - now when I see the richest man in the universe dressed as a spanish pirate conquistador or Jesus - then I will listen to you and george bush - until that time - Spock for me. images.google.com