Oldtent Archives 2007 - 2008

problems seem to follow us where ever we go..

we take them with us in our consciousness .. to repeat..

We suffered a water system failure on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica near the Panama border on the Pacific Ocean on January 1, 2000. It was a gravity feed system and an air bubble got trapped at the top of an upside-down “U”. It was a challenge but luckily no snake-bites during the search-and-repair mission and we found a lemon tree that was engorged with fruit that had to be picked immediately in the process. When the water came back we had great lemonade. But to get back to your point- it was indeed fear that drove us to retreat to Costa Rica over y2k… We only wanted to never suffer a bad ice storm over the holidays again. There was no radio and no TV and no telephone and no electricity, but we still had a Y2k failure. Go figure.  And that was before I knew that gold had any use other than adornment.

Yer right, in politics and money nothing happens by

accident. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Auric

I was y2k aware, and knew it had the potential for a serious systemic lock-up.  I corresponded with many old mainframe cobol programmers who were pulled out of retirement to ‘fix’ date codes in the last six months, on panic schedules.  Other companies simply bought new equipment and modern software as a way around the mess.   I know that there WERE problems that were covered up and swept under the rug… much as we are now seeing in the current financial system lockup.   I still believe that the y2k bug had something to do with the near coincidence of the top of the SM later in 2000.  At my workplace, we experienced an undocumented ‘bug’ on Feb. 28-9, 2000 in an old PC-based system that was rendered obsolete and unrecoverable in a broadcast automation system.

I was prepared for a ‘bump in the road’ then… and that’s what I told people to expect.

Dammit!  What in H am I gonna do with all these ants now! 

“As much as I hate to admit to agree with a mad hawaiian…”

Mad?  Mad, you say??    Ooo.. Eee.. Ooo.. Aahh.. Aahh

Re:Txx.v,  Looks like an interesting company.  The chart looks strong.  A blue-sky lottery ticket for sure though.  It may be a winner down the road but I sure wouldn’t put all my funds in it.  If I had a limited amount of funds I’d put most of it in something safer, maybe a fund like GDX.

Cheers

I could repeat my same regard again…I have no clue as to what “gives” in the remainder of my days.  I get your point.  I do have a bit of this (bullion) and that (stock).   Whatever happens…happens…

However, Wang Fengyou apparently escaped the net — until last month. He had established the Yilishen Tianxi Group in 1999, running it for eight years on hype, guanxi, or political connections, and what appeared to be an irresistible offer — pay 10,000 yuan to buy three boxes of ants, give them food and water until they die, when the firm would pick them up. After 14.5 months, depositors would receive 13,250 yuan.

http://www.asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=910&Itemid=32

frankly you don’t give a dam about what..lol. i was trying to get a correlation between those that today are the most vocal about gold confiscation, the most dire predictions etc..

the thought was to have those who ran for the hills in y2k are the same type personalitys that post about these things..

usually those that run when they see others run.. are acting out in their minds some thing dreadful…

granted bad things can happen but usually not as bad as we suppose.

Yeah what she said! 

“We found it quite interesting that gold’s rallied smartly in the past two days even as the US dollar has held steady, and even advanced a bit, relative to the EUR. Thus, gold priced in EURs advance even more sharply than did gold priced in terms of the US dollar… evidence, we think, of the world’s growing disdain for currency generally, arguing strongly for a sustained rally in gold. Perhaps the “Gold Bugs” were right after all.”

….if he was waiting for lower prices….he got em…

Frankly…I didn’t give a damn.  It did sell some additional software…so I guess it served a “meaningful” purpose.

Sorry almost forgot. Safe trip my friend …….Goldballoon you watch yourself too eh.