At 03:13 PM 2/16/2002 -0800,Keith Hudson wrote: >In desperate circumstances currencies become real > > (in many areas of Afghanistan grain is now the only currency).
Hi Keith, I agree!! Not only do currencies become real; so do people!! Real circumstances versus simulated circumstances makes all the difference. Perhaps that is why young people came up with the expression "get real" and also it might explain why they don't vote. When things become real-ly, real-ly desperate re real survival,not the TV version, potable water becomes more important than food. As you well know Keith, humans can only last about 2 to 3 days without water and several weeks without food(depending on reserves of body fat). So we should be basing our currencies on potable drinking water (it is easier to swallow than oil or gold and is truly a floating currency). Canada's weak dollar (.62 vs U$) , if we get real, will soon be worth its weight in water! That is why I recently sent FW the findings of the report on the privatization of drinking water ( no responses yet) and also the Moyers' expose' on Chapter 11 NAFTA.( no responses yet). Three guys in suits form a private tribunal and get a billion $ for their corporations from governments who try to pass laws to protect their citizens' drinking water. Take care, Brian McAndrews ps I tried your experiment and played chess against my computer. It beat me easily just like Big Blue beat the world champ a few years back and my blood pressure did go up as I played. It also goes up when I make love!! But I got some revenge on my computer by challenging it to a contest of original joke making. I won hands down. I guess it doesn't have a humour chip as powerful as my humour gene. Here is my joke that made my computer cry uncle: Why do Irish Catholic male Canadians( I'm trying to be politically correct) always lose at water polo? They keep drowning their horses.
