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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (32125)	4/2/2008 2:13:44 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 219563

Cyberspace is great = it stimulates thinking which otherwise wouldn't happen. It is nothing less than a monster brain. I'm in the process of deflating the economy, by reducing counter party risk meaning avoiding hypothecation of my shares. That will mean Big Ben has to chuck another bale of bucks out to compensate for the reduced liquidity. Multiply me by a few million and that give Big Ben some helicoptering to do. The crux: <guard against the one faulty human gene that is micro-code for lazy evil wastrelism, tries to print 'money' and stamp 'wealth' > Having investigated DNA engineering, for the purpose of increasing intelligence, it's more than one gene, but maybe only half a dozen important ones. I think the same genes might be doing similar work in lazy bludging wastrelism easy street "thinking". You have hit on something. Our intelligence genetic engineering has been on hold for a few years as the main researcher is busy on other things. Perhaps I should resurrect the idea if he's interested. Intelligence is easy to test. I don't know what tests measure lazy evil confiscatory wastrelism, but I dare say impulsiveness, deferred gratification are highly correlated. For example, give a child a bag to hold with a yummy in it, tell them if they hold that and wait until the researcher returns in a few minutes, they will get another one too. But if they want to, they can eat that one now. Then check the DNA and see which ones are correlated. They are "wealth" genes. Offer mothers the wealth genes for their offspring - heck, one could do a free installation with a futures contract = payable only if said offspring makes $1million by 30 or something. People would pay a lot more for guaranteed wealth. Meanwhile, I fully intend to print money and stamp wealth by inventing the Qi, the prototype of which is coming along nicely, so I must have that common gene too. But the Qi would be more like the English language which is extreme wealth, but not something which you pay to use. Anyone can use it. Imagine inventing English if everyone was speaking their local barbarian language and what wealth it brings. I couldn't sell 450MHz OFDM/CDMA to a person talking Mandarin - they wouldn't know what I was saying, even if I waved my arms a lot and talked really loudly and slowly. But if they could use English, it would be easy and great wealth would result from the simple expedient of having a lingua franca. The British Empire did just that and great wealth did result around the globe and right there in Hong Kong which without the British would be a sweaty village. The USA would be populated by buffalo with CB chasing them around with spears instead of enjoying the wonderful modern wealth and luxury of SUV traffic jams, corporate cubicles and Happy Meals at McDonalds. It's fashionable these days to denigrate the British Empire, but the local yokels were elevated from the muck and can now use the Queen's Englische without payment of even a small royalty. QUALCOMM does still require a small royalty. Rome wasn't built in a day and it did cost a lot to build the British Empire, developing English as the synapses of humanity. The Qi will be similarly valuable. Imagine if everyone went back to speaking only their local lingo how wealth would collapse. The US$ is not exactly English, because they insist on maintaining control and ownership of it and guess who gets the profit from the pixelation process. It is NOT me. Not only do I not get dividends [other than interest] for holding US$, but they tax my interest and dilute me too. Highway robbery. Nobody EVER had to pay a royalty for using English, though trade was of course a lot easier with those who were using it, so cash did flow to the English "owners" of the language. Going back to gold is not the answer. You will love Qi. Gold will be relegated to ornamentation and some electrical soldering. Mqurice