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To: TobagoJack who wrote (56095)	10/8/2009 9:15:15 PM
From: Maurice Winn	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217572

No, I meant from the time you were discussing in that post and with reference to the prices we discussed in those posts. You put a slant on everything - must be that Made in China fakery syndrome. <you meant gold from around 250 => 1050, since when you and i engaged on the issue of gold vs qcom, no? > BTW, have you checked that your gold doesn't have an interior of depleted uranium, lead and melamine? There are many millions of instants from which we can time things and strange though it might seem to you, I have considered gold as an investment since, heck, at least the mid 1970s [though not then as a personal option so much as studiously watching it as a score card of what's really going on]. Some time in the 1980s I started thinking of it as a possible place to stash money for the same reasons that you have recently taken an interest in gold as a financial relativity theory reset option. When you started proselytizing gold to me at the dawn of the 21st century, I did reconsider it and even went to ogle the real stuff to see if that could get me to do the deed. It was a close call. But gold wasn't invented when you popped over the parapet. I was a physical silver hoarder before you were born. I learned a lesson with that one = people will steal stashes of silver [and therefore gold] if they get half a chance. Fortunately, it was [in the greater scheme of things], a trivial loss but I guess the experience led me to agree with the Made in China philosophy of criminal punishment. Saudi Arabia has low crime rates so maybe they have a better scheme. My brother reported that during his presence in Mecca the shops would just leave their tills and stuff unattended and go off to prayers - unlike in NZ, every third passerby didn't just help themselves to cash and goods. I like the involuntary organ donation strategy for punishment. Corneas, kidneys, parts of livers, legs, hands, skin, for some crimes. Heart and lung removal, the rest of the liver, pancreas or whatever is useful for more serious crimes. Sell the parts to the highest bidders. Use the proceeds to catch more criminals and help victims of crimes. It could be quite a large and profitable process, though I fear crime would go down rapidly. Pretty soon, there would be as much graffiti and broken glass as there is in Singapore. Women could walk naked in parks in summer without being harassed. Children would play happily and safely. Silver could be kept on a shelf at home. When considering transactions, I like to get right up close and personal so that the transaction can occur by a casual gesture of agreement. It was fun to see the gold in Grafton. Mqurice