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To: TobagoJack who wrote (135582)	9/15/2017 9:40:02 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218135

I think radioactivity can greatly impair the value of gold coins, so keep them locked-up safe. You're definitely living in the midst of a large nuclear fallout zone.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (135582)	9/16/2017 5:23:54 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Recommended By gg cox Joseph Silent Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218135

It seems a lot of hard work for no good end. It reminds me of a video of two bull seals fighting at the edge of the water. They were very focused on biting the other and defeating them to establish dominance. Suddenly one turned and ran. Victory seemed at hand for the other. But his moment of glory and testosterone boost was brief because behind him surging out of the sea was a dirty great killer whale that successfully grabbed its dinner. Seals don't do cooperative enterprise so are forced to compete, red in tooth and claw. So it was too for humans since chimpoid times when human life ran on hunter gatherer found wealth territorial alpha male totalitarian genocidal dominance hierarchies. In recent millennia there has been a trend to greater and greater regions of transactional libertarian private property rights within civilisation. Life is pretty good, relatively, in such regions. But there are places where the old rules apply. Such as where Kim the Fatter, Robert Mugabe, Chavez, Idi Amin, various jihadist rulers and whatnot rule the roost. It's a Gordian Knot that needs to be untangled. Or otherwise resolved. Your description of a solution is a black hole of introspective nothingness which would result in the Gamblers Ruin problem. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (135582)	9/16/2017 10:37:32 AM
From: Joseph Silent	1 Recommendation Recommended By abuelita Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218135

I have no military training whatsoever, and would consider spending a week doing cartwheels to not acquire one, but were I to have a military mind, my thinking may go something like this. All of existence "relies" on "thresholds" (i.e., certain constants or boundaries). If you weighed more thanx lbs, you would not be able to walk. If you lived more than x years you would not be alive :). If certain balances were not maintained, life as we know it would cease to exist. If I knew, with probability 1, that N Korea was going to destroy S Korea or Los Angeles at a certain point in time, then short of evacuating all of S Korea or Los Angeles, my only option would be to destroy N Korea before that time. We would then be at that threshold. Continuing with this seemingly insane train of thought, the idea would be to apply a devastating blow to N Korea before that date ..... so devastating that it is unable to respond. In principle, that is possible. In practice, something may go wrong. It also may not. So what you say about the other countries is not a given. Granted, it's not a chance we'd like to take, but it is also not a given. Military minds take such chances, because their world places great emphasis on just two things: defense and offense. Now I'll go back to wearing my Pope outfit and saying mass in private. :)