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To: Follies who wrote (93718)	8/20/2012 10:06:01 AM
From: Joseph Silent	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217774

how can I own a piece of cyberspace that I can hold in my hand? donologues.com Invest in 3D holographic porn and go to town with a phallusy. :)

To: Follies who wrote (93718)	8/20/2012 11:11:11 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 217774

You could buy a server. Those are actual physical things you can hold in your hands. But really, things you can hold in your hands are not particularly valuable. A bag full of diamonds is still quite valuable. Even gold is fairly hefty to cart about. $1 million in gold is 1000 ounces which is 50 kilograms, which won't even get you on an airline without paying excess weight fees. You certainly won't carry it in your pocket. If you load a bag with 50 kilogram in it, people will observe quite a heave for such a little bag. You might be better to put it in a bigger bag with polystyrene to make up the volume. But let's consider more carefully this business of "holding it in your hand" and being real and not just paper. < how can I own a piece of cyberspace that I can hold in my hand? Don't tell me QCOM because that's just a piece of paper, that's not cyberspace. > "Pieces of paper" which these days are just electronic records and not even paper, are government-backed ownership rights. Gold is only "owned" by you thanks to government-backed bits of paper which say that other people are not allowed to rob you of your gold. QCOM and other certificates of ownership can be transacted in seconds. People can log in, click to sell, then wire transfer money out of the USA in minutes, admittedly with overnight clearance delay, but it's hard to beat that speed with a decision to escape with your suitcase loaded with gold. If you took your gold as carry on, the people at the airport would have to let you go with it, rather than calling the government confiscators. My guess is that government confiscators would give you grief. "Are you carrying monetary instruments worth more than $10,000?" The original question was about reliability of value 3 years from now. Mqurice