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To: mishedlo who wrote (79053)	5/13/2008 2:10:45 PM
From: benwood	Respond to of 116555

In Neal Stephenson's book, "Snow Crash," lots of people lived in old shipping containers around L.A.

To: mishedlo who wrote (79053)	5/13/2008 8:18:32 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Good find. This simple and simply brilliant housing solution containercity.com gives new meaning to "they sweat, we think" as containers made in emerging asia are used in homeland america - - very pretty, comes in all colours - sturdier than wood frame - difficult to burn - imported - can be re-exported - easy to arbitrage across borders - can be grown / shrunk per family requirements - cheap enough to skip large mortgages, credit card debt will do - easier to move house - easier to repossess - can be colour coded to indicate useage / owners - can be digital coded and gps tracked, on-line licensed and auto-pay taxed (flick of digital switch shuts utilities at will) - good for crowd control, when equiped with on-line enabled doors and windows - if further enabled by automated computer retrieval and transport system via a racked configuration, can be linked with the public security regime (suspects are trapped while they sleep, home retrieved, transported, spray painted colour black, and sent to prison yard) - more standard, and certainly modular, and so much easier to index, securitize, and speculate on via on-line ameritrade - fits in with the platform company concept chugs, tj