To: TobagoJack who wrote (5741 ) 4/23/2006 5:20:36 PM From: Maurice Winn Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 217822 TJ, for decades I have used the expression "head for the hills" in regard to financial disaster [meaning to avoid being caught up in said disaster]. But when I look around for mountains like Tora Bora or even gently rolling hills, none of them look very secure. Everywhere seems to be subject to other humans rampaging around confiscating, robbing, pillaging and plundering. I know gold is supposed to be very safe. The safest. Buried in various holes and sunk in the ocean at various locations for escape by night and collection en route. With the swanky new metal detectors, I'm not sure it would be safe. Wose than short-range metal detectors, there are X-ray vision pulsed monocycle ultra-wide-band microwaves which are good for mobile cyberspace communication but also good for other functions, such as that. A swarming horde of x-ray visioned phragmented photon cyberphone toters could find my stash and surely would when they figure there's gold in them thar hills. Maybe I'm in the safest gang right now. The QCOM gang, with x-ray vision [albeit only low energy microwave]. Everyone seems to want to buy my CDMA products and profits are growing fast with no end in sight. Even if they have to sell their house, they'll still buy a cyberphone. In India, the average person has next to nothing. But CDMA cyberphones are selling like hot cakes [albeit in the low-end low-cost versions - give them time] there. Having a cyberphone is one of the first purchases young people make. They know that's where the action is. They can't steal the phones. But there are many variables, many of them dangerous, to be considered. Financial pandemonium is always a LOT of fun with untoward consequences which are not necessarily good for people with assets, be they gold or QCOM. Of course Tora Bora turned out to be not such a great hide-out. Maybe some small fox-holes would be good. Saddam tried that one but they hauled him and his stash out into daylight. Mqurice