On Jul 30, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Kay C Lan wrote: > >> I look in my wallet an there are a couple of notes and a couple of plastic >> cards. The notes represent about 0.01% of iMoney I have in my account. I can >> use those plastic cards to access the BankCloud and if the strangers at the >> Bank are willing, the machine will give me more real money on a 1 to 1 >> reduction of my iMoney. Sometimes I don't even have to change iMoney into >> real money, I just go to the shop and transfer iMoney from my account to >> their iMoney account which all resides in the same BankCloud. Of course I >> have to pay a 'rental' fee for the privilege of being able to access my >> iMoney at virtually any time or shop. But then again, if a stranger at the >> bank goes all Nick Leeson on me, the bank will collapse and my iMoney in the >> BankCloud will disappear like the early morning stratocumulus, leaving me >> without any real money. >> >> Strange what we think we'd never do. > > Or even stranger, we could trust our money to so-called professional money > managers who mishandle it so badly that the world economy is brought to the > edge of collapse. ;)
I've always wondered why they're called "brokers" ... I think if I were in that line of work I'd find another way of describing it. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
