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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (70792)	11/30/2008 6:46:24 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Depends on the monk perhaps, monkery no doubt being a varied sport ... Ohsawa was known to have recognised the odd smoke and brewski as food/medicine groups, just saw them as very yin so presumably ate raw meat or rocks or something for balance ... it's actually one area where i part company with traditional goldbugs, being personally open to the concept of a beer standard, once the obvious minor problems impeding its utility as 'storehouse of value' and 'medium of exchange' can be overcome by technological means, perhaps with a universal system of tankage infrastructure and to-the-last-mile quality copper piping ... naming of currency unit would of course follow your lead of the Qi, actually precede it alphabetically speaking ahem, and be known worldwide as the Pí, easy for brits as they already use the term and need only transpose it from pence to pints True enough that waves of anti-human anti-fun temperance satan-inspired sentiment do come along, sounds like you may be susceptible to a bit of it yourself at the moment, but they never last long, the human spirit will always win out in the end, movements opposed to it are as smoke in the backroom of the pub, take for example this silly bunch who failed to make it thirteen years into the planned one thousand of their programme, in fact pretty much got smoked themselves, and good riddance - en.wikipedia.org Couple of notable things about the chinese recently - one, they are consuming 9.25 tonnes of copper every minute, 24/7, 365 days/yr ... that's 340lbs/second, every second, every day - Message 25214133 Two, they seem to be having difficulty coming to terms with the reality of their occupation of caucasian lands, which of course cannot fail to have knock-on effect on la Reconquista of Aztlán since it will almost certainly delay the return of gringos to wherever it is they belong - nytimes.com