MKSheppard wrote:Yeah, i want my money to have something TANGIBLE to back it, rather
than something that's intangible and can be changed instantly by decree..
Even gold isn't tangible, since its people who agree on the value. The
government can mint gold coins again, sure, and the only reason its
valuable is because you want it. That IT. It costs because you have to make
and effort to get it. But then, if the value is based on the work time, then
the only people who will have it is the miners.
Faith money is a tangible representation of assigned value.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has said that the US had not objected to the Malaysia-initiated use of the dinar for international
trade.
*snickers* I sure as hell bet we didn't.
Perhapes we can speed things up by having Boeing demand gold the next time they order spare parts for there F/A-18's?
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has said that the US had not objected to the Malaysia-initiated use of the dinar for international
trade.
*snickers* I sure as hell bet we didn't.
Trading in Euro or Yen in preferance to the greenback is one thing, and quite understanderble..but gold?
Via money Europe could become political in five years" "... the current communities should be completed by a Finance Common Market which would lead us to European economic unity. Only then would ... the mutual commitments make it fairly easy to produce the political union which is the goal"
Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has said that the US had not objected to the Malaysia-initiated use of the dinar for international
trade.
*snickers* I sure as hell bet we didn't.
Perhapes we can speed things up by having Boeing demand gold the next time they order spare parts for there F/A-18's?
I can hear underpants being changed as we type.
Malaysian PM *Allah, they want 6 billion in gold.. , we dont have that, what do we do now?"
Malasian Finance Minister "We, um, write script on the promice of gold in exchange.. !"
And thus the wheel is reinvented....
Via money Europe could become political in five years" "... the current communities should be completed by a Finance Common Market which would lead us to European economic unity. Only then would ... the mutual commitments make it fairly easy to produce the political union which is the goal"
Stuart Mackey wrote:I can hear underpants being changed as we type.
Malaysian PM *Allah, they want 6 billion in gold.. , we dont have that, what do we do now?"
Malasian Finance Minister "We, um, write script on the promice of gold in exchange.. !"
And thus the wheel is reinvented....
Hee hee hee... 6 billion dollars in gold is ~17.5 million ounces even now (according to my handy dandy currency converter). We should demand all purcheses from our country be in gold. Then we can build a solid gold version of the Statue of Liberty made entirely of melted down Islamic money and really cheese them off.
"Show me an angel and I will paint you one." - Gustav Courbet
"Quetzalcoatl, plumed serpent of the Aztecs... you are a pussy." - Stephen Colbert
"Really, I'm jealous of how much smarter than me he is. I'm not an expert on anything and he's an expert on things he knows nothing about." - Me, concerning a bullshitter
Gil Hamilton wrote:Hee hee hee... 6 billion dollars in gold is ~17.5 million ounces even now (according to my handy dandy currency converter). We should demand all purcheses from our country be in gold. Then we can build a solid gold version of the Statue of Liberty made entirely of melted down Islamic money and really cheese them off.
Solid gold statue of a pig sharing a bottle of bourbon with Mohammed and Ariel Sharon would piss off a whole lot more!
"This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.” -Tom Clancy
I fully support this idea, and encourage all Muslim nations to enact it.
If Religion and Politics were characters on a soap opera, Religion would be the one that goes insane with jealousy over Politics' intimate relationship with Reality, and secretly murder Politics in the night, skin the corpse, and run around its apartment wearing the skin like a cape shouting "My votes now! All votes for me! Wheeee!" -- Lagmonster
I think no body should care about what the foolish people are saying. To claim that a great Islamic Empire would rise is to live the fool's paradise. Muslims are the biggest enemy of themselves. In the former East Pakistan where I come from the goverment military killed three million people in a nine month civil war. Then you have internal wars in Algeri, Sudan, Ethopia, Indonasia etc.
In I doubt if more than a few thousand people at most heard of this particular anti-american group.
Muslims have no intentions of taking over the world. They are fine the way they are today. Do not care about what fundies say. Even in the heart of the Arab world the strict religious laws are not followed to the letter. For example places like Dubai and Emirates look just western cities, Infact the average citizen in there is richer than an average westerners. People there live the way they want. You have your burqa clad women and turbine clad man and at the sametime you will find beutiful girls in Jeans and handsome man in western clothes.
The biggest irony about the muslim world is that rules exist only on paper. If you have seen "The Matrix" you know that the matrix exists all around you. Similarly in muslim countries the system exists all around you. You may be in trouble if you try to fight the system but if you live your own life the way you like it you are ok.
Gil Hamilton wrote:
Hee hee hee... 6 billion dollars in gold is ~17.5 million ounces even now (according to my handy dandy currency converter). We should demand all purcheses from our country be in gold. Then we can build a solid gold version of the Statue of Liberty made entirely of melted down Islamic money and really cheese them off.
Sadly the thing would squash under its own weight.
"This cult of special forces is as sensible as to form a Royal Corps of Tree Climbers and say that no soldier who does not wear its green hat with a bunch of oak leaves stuck in it should be expected to climb a tree"
— Field Marshal William Slim 1956
Sea Skimmer wrote:Sadly the thing would squash under its own weight.
OK, we can just gold plate the Statue of Liberty we have now, but that's not the point.
"Show me an angel and I will paint you one." - Gustav Courbet
"Quetzalcoatl, plumed serpent of the Aztecs... you are a pussy." - Stephen Colbert
"Really, I'm jealous of how much smarter than me he is. I'm not an expert on anything and he's an expert on things he knows nothing about." - Me, concerning a bullshitter
Darth Wong wrote:The Nation of Islam bravely prepares to advance into the New Millenium by adopting the currency exchange theories of 1000 BC. Praise to Allah!
, we dont have that, what do we do now?"
