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To: TobagoJack who wrote (75097)	12/9/2006 12:09:54 AM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

come on shades, most nit picking and unbecoming. The devil is always in the details - lest stargate atlantis would already be here. Let me ask you a question, what ratio of MBA's who understand capital movements is required to manage Spocks advancing research and science discoveries? What ratio is going to get us to stargate atlantis in mine and your lifetimes? 1 MBA to 1 Spock? 5 MBA's to 1 Spock? 50000000 Ken Lay's to one Spock? Perhaps MBA's are too rare, let me say it another way maybe some here will understand - what ratio of realtors to scientists is going to bring about life extension? If everyone is selling paper and stocks and houses back and forth to each other - how do we ever fix the hayflick limit and keep our cells from dying? Or said another way - how many people have to watch captain kirk in his new show "SHOW ME THE MONEY" and take daily lessons in "fear factor" to get us to stargate atlantis? hehe Or said another way - how many gold hoarders to spocks is it going to take to make flying cars come ala THE JETSONS? I thought so. there is a world of difference in 'immediate and near possession', as in physical form and somewhere around, as opposed to mixed in with rocks, highly diluted, and in a large pit, somewhere else around Thats the beauty of it though, that thug with a gun is not about doing hard work, but ease of life through violence. So follow me now, you are an evil thug - is it easier to shoot general chen and take his hoard that is already processed in his backyard - or to shoot the arizona gold miner and then work his claim for the next 20 years getting out the same amount of gold? Remember in TEOTWAWKI the thugs are gonna start getting at the easy stuff first eh? Why even shoot general chen and take his gold, if you are a thug with a gun and a tank - you dont need to control the gold - you can already make the rules with just the weaponry eh? You had lots of GOLD, Canada changed the RULES on you eh and thier trusts - they had the tanks eh? Why is this so hard for you? The old saying about the GOLDen rule: the thug with the gold slugs makes the rules is wrong, the thug with guns and the drugs makes the rules from what I see. But for the sake of your meme lets continue: Put a military base over the gold mine and leave it in its raw form - why actually dig the stuff out and make access to it EASY? So that you THINK they will let you FLEE with it - BWAHAHA - HAHA! Too funny General! Like you thought Canada couldn't just change the rules overnight on you?!? I have a theory that works for me and goes along with my recent trip to crews lake park that I posted about a few messages back. See there is this park, with a lake and lots of people working off of MY TAXES to keep this park up and service the lake - but there is NO LAKE. I can't fathom for the life of me why I am being taxed so that people can be paid to work at CREWS LAKE park to maintain a lake that does not exist and that no one visits or fishes in - but then I thought - if these guys weren't doing phoney baloney busy work - they may get on stuff like crack rock - and then they may start taking out guns and shooting me so they can get their crack rock fix - and I would much rather they do a little phoney baloney busy work taking care of a lake that does not exist rather than shooting me - wouldn't you? So that is the whole deal for NOT putting a military base over the gold mine - that doesn't make the most idle hands busy - what makes many more idle hands busy is to actually keep digging up the gold and then putting it back down in the ground again a la fort knox - dig it up, put it back down, dig it up, put it back down, full employment is the fed's mandate eh? Unneeded Busy work and useless phoney baloney waste is all around - but is better than the alternative eh? Now you understand why capital is wasted building alaskan bridges to nowhere - it has NOTHING to do with profit or need or getting a good return on your money - it has EVERYTHING to do with keeping idle hands busy - cause you remember those guys 2000 years ago that wrote the bible said Idle hands the devils work eh? I imagine your powerful buds in China are sick and tired of idle farmers rioting with thier pitch forks - we need to give them lots of useless busy work and keep them occupied lest they start a revolution eh? I have an idea - lets get them on the net so they can trade youtube videos back and forth - that should buy at least another few years of pacification - hehe. My uncle has a road construction friend in west palm beach, my last few visits there I am freaking out at all the road delays. I am like how do the RICH don trumps tolerate this BS! Then it was explained to me - OK here are your options - useless busy work for the poor people digging up and rebuilding roads that don't need rebuilding - or lots of idle hands that get it in thier heads to come over to your nice 2 million dollar home and shoot you and rob all your wealth - an easy choice no? How many roads and bridges to nowhere could the communist party in china come up with to keep idle hands busy? oh, another thing, regarding what you termed real work, what would that be in your schema, and how could you believe you do more of it than i ? do tell. I said the point of my life is FUN, its seems much more fun to me to load up coconut and go dig up king solomans gold with indiana jones in an arizona gold mine adventure than just to walk over to a coinstore and bury some lumps in the backyard and hope the world blows up. You say do tell - I will tell, but keep it a secret - if everyone finds out - then the secret loses its power. I refer back to what I learned in kindergarden. I was a young babe and they made me watch this film called WALL STREET about a dude called Gordon Gecko - he would buy a company - say do an LBO and then resell it later to a greater fool - much like I feel goldbugs do as well - must find the greater fool. The hero in the movie was this father that moved luggage back and forth over airplanes (I dont even fly anymore so his work is useless to me) - he said do something with your life besides living off the buying and selling of others - CREATE something. How many traders clicking buttons back and forth on their terminal can our society support - already the hot topic in IT backrooms is how much more energy can we suck before the electrical grid is overwhelmed: http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/06/12/08/1335220.shtml Shortage of Electricity Drives Data Center Talks Posted by Zonk on Friday December 08, @09:03AM from the let's-get-cold-fusion-licked dept. Engineer-Poet writes "Per the San Jose Mercury News, competitors such as Google and Yahoo are meeting to discuss the issue of electricity in Silicon Valley. How much of the USA's 4038 billion kWh/year goes into data centers? Enough to make a difference. Data centers are moving out of California to spread the load and avoid a single-point-of-failure scenario. This is a serious matter; as Andrew Karsner (assistant secretary of energy efficiency and renewable energy for the Department of Energy) asked, 'What happens to national productivity when Google goes down for 72 hours?' I'm sure nobody wants to know." From the article: "Concern about electricity pricing and volatility has led Microsoft to talk with its network manufacturers about building more efficient servers. IBM and Hewlett-Packard -- which both build data centers -- want to improve efficiency at the facilities. AMD promotes changing the design of data centers to increase airflow to keep the supercomputers cool." You know there are professional gamers that get PAID to shoot you in DEATHMATCH - some make six figures. They work very HARD general. Some just buy and sell virtual swords from world of warcraft on Ebay - they are burning REAL FUEL to do this - the IRS has gotten so interested there is serious talk about TAXING this virtual wealth - I don't know how far down the rabbit hole we can go - I took the blue pill too soon I guess. They work very hard though buying and selling virtual swords on Ebay - some put in 20 hour days and have all kinds of stats and figures memorized - they are so sharp they don't EVER fudge a decimal place - how much do you think we should pay these guys? When I say pay, lets not think in terms of lumps of metal or pieces of paper, lets think in terms of how many liters of water, gallons of gas, baskets of apples - you know the consumables. As for believing I do more than you, I seriously doubt I do more work than anyone here, I am very lazy you see, Mogambo Guru may be the only other person on this planet that is even lazier than I am. I haven't "worked" in a very long time - I retired in my mid 20's. Riley G looked into my future and foresaw Tony@pacific was going to tell me about all the good BRE X shorts that would burn my friends like baldmanfrommars and make them all hairless and how I could profit. I just chat, play deathmatch, play online monopoly (I love that game), read economic news, every once in awhile run over to the university to talk with the professors about the latest science stuff. Some people work thier hands to the bone and work all the hair off thier head so they can stay in that nice hotel in london and lounge by the pool, some of us just pull up in the walmart parking lot and lounge by the cola machine. Don't take my word for it though, here is a guy that used to share hookers with John Corzine and Sandy Weil - Goldman Sachs fellows I think - he was flying a personal jet to the hooker rendezvous one day - then driving a used YUGO the next day - but he knew the secret - listen at today's broadcast - there is only ONE reason to buy a stock - not to make the world better - not to get rich from long term buy and hold - there is ONLY ONE REASON - he tells you in today's program what that one reason is - OVER AND OVER he tells you what the ONE REASON to buy a stock is - take 30 minutes of your time and listen at his program and tell me what that ONE REASON is - I believe that ONE REASON to buy a stock is the same ONE REASON to buy a lump of metal. businesstalkradio.net The smartest guy with the highest IQ works as a bouncer in a night club - his IQ is around 200, much higher than mine - what has he figured out that you haven't? hehe