[e-gold-list] Re: density and other matters - e-land now!

2003-11-09 Thread Danny Van den Berghe
> I think it would be great, as Danny says, to have an "e-land" currency. > > Observably, this could be done. > > Would it be a success? Who knows, but it would be great to have a go. > > The various points people have made (including me) about why land is > not suitable as a Money are all very we

[e-gold-list] Re: density and other matters - e-land now!

2003-11-08 Thread jpm
JP, why don't you rise to the occasion? ;o) I would have no interest in doing it, and would not be interested in being involved in such a project. (ISL can sell a DGC Software Pak to anyone who is interested in same, though!) As Danny says, "Money is what people are willing to accept as such",

[e-gold-list] Re: density and other matters - e-land now!

2003-11-08 Thread Robert B.Z.
JP, why don't you rise to the occasion? ;o) As Danny says, "Money is what people are willing to accept as such", and if structured in a way that it generate revenue on it's own without being subject to risky market movements (ie. might be a good idea not to base e-land on a block of flats), it may

[e-gold-list] Re: density and other matters - e-land now!

2003-11-08 Thread James M. Ray
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The various points people have made (including me) about why land is not suitable as a Money are all very well. But that's a theory, observation would be the final test! ... I still think e-wine (properly storing good reds) would be better. Think about the joy of

[e-gold-list] Re: density and other matters - e-land now!

2003-11-08 Thread jpm
I think it would be great, as Danny says, to have an "e-land" currency. Observably, this could be done. Would it be a success? Who knows, but it would be great to have a go. The various points people have made (including me) about why land is not suitable as a Money are all very well. But tha

[e-gold-list] Re: density and other matters

2003-11-08 Thread Danny Van den Berghe
> > Density is not an important property as far as backing > > an e-currency goes. > > It is if you actually store value. If you just pretend to > store value, perhaps not. There is no need to store land. You can can just let your land be out there on the street and no thief will take it in the

[e-gold-list] Re: density and other matters

2003-11-07 Thread Robert B.Z.
There are many shades of grey Jim. Please don't take what I consider responsible behaviour as an indication that you finally figured out under which category to sort me. I might in fact not fit into any and yet in a way into most of the mutually exclusive categories you seem to have created to so

[e-gold-list] Re: density

2002-05-27 Thread Ragnar
> sizewise i'd say 1lb of gold is about the same size as > a *wine cork*! > nearby wine cork is about 7/8 inch diameter and 1 3/4 inches > long which is just over 1 inch cubed. You gotta stop drinking, Jay... ;) You lush! Ragnar __ Do You Ya

[e-gold-list] Re: density

2002-05-27 Thread jpm
>> What's the best physical object to compare it to? ("pack of >> cigarettes," "deck of cards" or something) > >sizewise i'd say 1lb of gold is about the same size as >a *wine cork*! good one!!! Let's say then a champagne cork, which is a bit chunkier compare to a pint bottle of wine (or

[e-gold-list] Re: density

2002-05-27 Thread Jay W.
> What's the best physical object to compare it to? ("pack of > cigarettes," "deck of cards" or something) sizewise i'd say 1lb of gold is about the same size as a *wine cork*! according to the live e-gold statistics page at http://stats.e-gold.com there are around 200 e-gold account holders w

[e-gold-list] Re: density

2002-05-27 Thread C. Cormier - Ormetal Inc.
On 27 May 2002, at 11:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What's the best physical object to compare it to? ("pack of > cigarettes," "deck of cards" or something) Smaller than that I think... I would say a cube of 3cm. --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscr