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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (68936)	4/29/2008 7:14:45 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Citizenship expires at the end of life of the individual though, it is not a toothbrush, a car, a house, or a share of QCOM ... it has limits, all of those things have their own limits of course, well this is just another sort of limit, that naturally 'goes with the territory', so to speak, pun intended ... now i haven't actually checked, but expect that a quick google search will fail to come up with common law and precedent on the matter, and can just imagine you up in front of the old beak waving your signed and sealed title that you bought cheap just before expiry of some hapless tourist the french bombed in Auckland harbour It all goes back to tribal law - you may or may not have the right to leave the tribe, but no one has the right to enter, absent consent of the tribe or whoever is in charge of it ... and when you expire, so does your membership, even if you sold to someone else your membership in a particularly commercial tribe, to say it goes on indefinitely would be like trading water that passed under the bridge already - you could do that, but the buyer would be left a bit at sea, and in need of something else to drink Speaking of which - an old friend i used to do that with once spent considerable time and effort calculating the value of this province, on an all-up sale ... he was a major forestry company executive, dealing with a socialist regime in the mid-seventies, much of the industry was out of work, other industries as well, mining had been absolutely killed, and it was hard times, the people had voted themselves poor again, for a while ... so using a few reasonable assumptions, he did his sums and came up with a value of two millions per capita for all in the province ... this in a time when to earn say thirty thousands had you sitting pretty well, and that's if you had a job ... possibly he had misjudged the market, and would have had to discount that price somewhat, or take back a mortgage perhaps, anyway for a geordie out of U of Edinburgh he came up with points remarkably like the ones you make here, they are good ones