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Is it really gold?
"Peter Irwin" wrote in message ... What is unusual is that the forgery business is more or less legal and open in China and that none of the world's economic powers are interested in giving the Chinese government any incentive to stop I say nuke 'em! |
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"Petronius" wrote in message ... "Peter Irwin" wrote in message ... What is unusual is that the forgery business is more or less legal and open in China and that none of the world's economic powers are interested in giving the Chinese government any incentive to stop I say nuke 'em! Sorry. As life threatening as the counterfeit threat is, we always use diplomacy with countries who can nuke us back. Military action is reserved only for those countries where the results would be pretty much a slam dunk in our favor. And then we even seem to blow that. |
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Is it really gold?
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:37:43 -0500, Lee
wrote: I was watching that gold commercial Gordon Liddy does for Roseland Capital. At the end he shuffled a handful of gold coins from one hand to the other. They sounded like a handful of plastic to me so I was wondering about it? Was he shuffling real Gold Coins? I haven't seen the commercial, and I doubt if I could tell by looking even if I did. But I don't see any reason why they'd use plastic, so my guess is what you are hearing is the result of either bad sound effects or bad sound mixing. Come to think of it, the gold coins currently offered for sale at Roseland are .9999 fine gold, so they are comparatively soft. I don't have the least idea what two of them clinking together _would_ sound like. And since I only own one gold "coin" of that purity, I'm not about to experiment. http://wemightneedthat.biz/Images/HighReliefObverse.jpg -- Mike Benveniste -- (Clarification Required) Don't succumb to the false authority of a tool or model. There is no substitute for thinking. |
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On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:16:05 -0500, Michael Benveniste wrote
(in article ): On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:37:43 -0500, Lee wrote: I was watching that gold commercial Gordon Liddy does for Roseland Capital. At the end he shuffled a handful of gold coins from one hand to the other. They sounded like a handful of plastic to me so I was wondering about it? Was he shuffling real Gold Coins? I haven't seen the commercial, and I doubt if I could tell by looking even if I did. But I don't see any reason why they'd use plastic, so my guess is what you are hearing is the result of either bad sound effects or bad sound mixing. Come to think of it, the gold coins currently offered for sale at Roseland are .9999 fine gold, so they are comparatively soft. I don't have the least idea what two of them clinking together _would_ sound like. And since I only own one gold "coin" of that purity, I'm not about to experiment. http://wemightneedthat.biz/Images/HighReliefObverse.jpg Thanks. This helps. Lee rarebirdyatverizondotnet Park Ridge, NJ |
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On Jan 19, 1:39*pm, Peter Irwin wrote:
Mr. Jaggers lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote: Peter wrote: http://www.tungsten-alloy.com/en/alloy11.htm is worth a look. *Our esteemed colleagues from China have most interesting ideas. Curses, foiled again. *But then, whom does one trust? *It seems that the world is headed in the direction of increasing sham, pretense, and artificiality. *And all of it is sanitized and whitewashed by the glitter and sparkle of a bold webpage. There has always been sham, pretense and artificiality. One hundred years ago, people made fake gold coins by wrapping platinum in gold. Only the rise in the price of platinum put a stop to it. I had until recently regarded doing the trick with tungsten as being beyond the capabilities of counterfeiters. What is unusual is that the forgery business is more or less legal and open in China and that none of the world's economic powers are interested in giving the Chinese government any incentive to stop it. Peter -- Note that the link I supplied is only one of several Chinese offering to prepare tricky counterfeit coins with Tungsten. Interestingly, there is some evidence that they are not so inclined to tangle with Canada as with the US. |
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Peter wrote:
Note that the link I supplied is only one of several Chinese offering to prepare tricky counterfeit coins with Tungsten. Interestingly, there is some evidence that they are not so inclined to tangle with Canada as with the US. If there is one nice thing I can say about Harper as PM, it is that he says what he means and he means what he says. This seems a rare trait in a politician, and if he hangs in long enough this may give him some advantages in diplomacy for a man who seems so undiplomatic. Peter. -- |
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