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To: carranza2 who wrote (73605)	4/28/2011 9:32:34 AM
From: see clearly now	Respond to of 217822

Hm..efficiencies and simplicity in a home centered work-life style accommodated by technology varying in scale from the simple light bulb to computing-communication via the cloud(s) can take us a long way to accommodate us on this earth..a small example follows..see the comparisons: metaefficient.com While Canada appears to well positioned and I live in Vancouver which is a favorite hedge location globally, we may bear the burden of being next to the 'big Elephant' as it seemingly is destined to go through its Imperial death spiral by repeatedly 'shooting itself in its feet'?

To: carranza2 who wrote (73605)	4/28/2011 1:49:18 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217822

C2 I'm with you on Canada, apart from my 2020 foresight prediction of reglaciation starting in 2020 [there was an icy shot across the bows over the last 3 winters but the solar maximum was underway again so there was a temporary reprieve]. In fact, my wife and I are Canadian "Landed Immigrants" and our son is actually Canadian/New Zealand dual citizenship. We didn't even have to buy the citizenship, just have an anchor baby. Tradable Citizenship would be much more sensible but thanks Canada. We were thinking ahead. Fortunately for me, I understand the exponential function very well, as well as a few other functions such as Fourier transforms and you could even throw in the Schroedinger equation and other wave functions, especially functions at NZ's east coast beaches or Piha and I'd be happy as a pig in mud. My [admittedly rusty] understanding of Fourier's ideas led me to recognize Qualcomm when I stumbled over it in August 1991 having come up with the same idea in 1989. I learned from Gladstone Gander [GG] as a child, how to be lucky. GG stumbled [literally] over a lump of gold. Luck is an art form. GG had it. I also like Gyro Gearloose [GG] and Uncle Scrooge. Donald was okay too as The Regular Bloke. We have to watch the GG function [George Gilder, Geoff Goodfellow - there's something "lucky" about the letters GG]. The thing to keep in mind is that exponential functions describe reality, they do not create it. So when people say "It has gone exponential", apart from not having a clue what exponential actually means, they are attributing a propulsive mechanism which does not exist. What they really mean is "Gosh, look at that thing zooming". In nature, such "exponential" functions do meet limits such as the food supply for maggots on a dead rat. Maggots increase exponentially until the food runs out. So yes, not everyone can have a dirty great SUV and roar around freeways as they do in Los Angeles. Well, they could, but the fuel would have to change and it's very questionable that they would want to do so. I have little impetus to roar around much at all in even a smallish car, let alone a dirty great "Yank Tank". I'm certainly not going to expend a lot of effort or cost in doing so. There is more to life than roaring around freeways in SUVs. It's fun to zoom along freeways for a while, to see what it's about [avoiding rush hour which is now much of the day]. But it's much more pleasant to paddle in the water at Piha and cerf around in Cyberspace. I don't see why the hordes should aspire to life in an SUV. It's not really resources and the shortage of them that matters, it's the mind of Man. The article made a passing reference to human ingenuity and the idea that people can do more with less and can dig in deep water for oil rather than just poke a stick in the ground and come up with Spindletop. But he missed the essential point of human ingenuity just as Zombie did in the "I Am A Mindless Zombie" stream. Zombie missed the financial bust on borrowed money because he had a hole in his head right where the component which does the observing was supposed to be. Amazingly, despite that stream being there since 2002 for all to read, the vast housing bubble got going, exponentially, and millions of people went bust with their "house prices never go down" mindless mantra. Now there is a gold bubble looming. Here's a hint. Dr Irwin Jacobs was reading "The Elegant Universe" in the way that others read "The Da Vinci Code". As a means of enlightenment, only one of them is useful. I got The Elegant Universe too [actually, it was a gift]. My rusty wave function mind couldn't dig into it - I'm more at the Spindletop stage of brain function whereas Dr Irwin Jacobs can do deep water drilling without springing a leak. To elucidate, the sky is literally the limit for the exponential function of economic development and GDP per capita. One can dive into some Calabi Yau equations and come up with whole new economic realms, as the migrants across the Bering straits did long ago and Christopher Columbus did more recently and the Polynesia migration did in NZ, Cook Islands, Hawaii, Tahiti and Easter Island. Look at the GDP per capita generated by stuff like Facebook for example. Some yokel kid fiddles with his computer and libido and hey presto, something worth more than General Motors and Ford combined. That's Paradigm Shift Happening. A spot of Page Rank and bingo, General Electric starts to look like a has been. Apple is pouring GDP off the end of the production line like Spindletop produced oil. My old company, a sister of The Seven Sisters, produces less GDP than does Apple. BIG OIL is not such a BIG DEAL now though Obama is stuck in the old paradigm, banging on about alternative fuels [which I was working on 30 years ago, ho hum]. Put Qualcomm chips with Apple iPhones, click on Google, download the Yahoo! finance functions, and you'll see that even Ford fueled with Exxon is a has been compared with that Cyberspace gang. Those oily companies are so last century. The Industrial Revolution and Malthus were from centuries before that. The times, they are a changing. The answer is blowing in the wind: youtube.com Gold? <Because there is absolutely nothing I can do to influence the apparent mistakes we are making except discuss them, I look at these things strictly from an investment standpoint. In that regard, the way to protect yourself and your family from the problems that the limitations on resources will undoubtedly create is to buy farmland and commodities (including gold because the price of everything is going to go higher and we will need to protect purchasing power) then sit and wait. > Gold is not even last century. That's 19th century and mediEvil, suitable for Aztecs prancing naked around their campfires, sacrificing young women, chanting imprecations to their superstitions and for Spanish hunter-gatherer tribal alpha male dominance hierarchy genocidal conquerors. Farmland is nice but is an investment one would make 3000 years ago in Mesopotamia, or the hinterlands of the Yangtze. Read The Elegant Universe and spring open some new financial dimensions with some of those exponential functions. As the current financial system approaches the event horizon of Black Scholes equations it's time to go warp speed to hyperspace. The sky's the limit. Create an exponential function propulsion system outa there. I am still working on my Graviton Spin Reversal System which is coming along well. A 100 kg version could transport 70kg of person in 3D comfortably, quickly, cheaply and safely. No SUV required. I'm also working on my gold and US$ replacement which is coming along nicely too. Mqurice