Alan Mackenzie <[email protected]> writes: > In gnu.misc.discuss Alexander Terekhov <[email protected]> wrote:
>> All the euros on your bank account is your intangible property silly. > >> No? > > No. "in", not "on", and "are", not "is". All the euros in my bank > account are a number of metal disks 2.3 cm in diameter, if an > inconveniently large number, all perfectly tangible. Then you would be paying storage fees rather than getting interest. Tangible property is what you place into a personal safety box. The numbers on your account are not tangible, merely directly convertible to tangible property. People putting their savings into the Icelandic state bank had a bit of a problem when too many tried the conversion at once. The bank ran out of sufficient access to tangible property. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
