Gold Press Latinum
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A friend of mine, one day, accidentally managed somehow to get his TV into
"closed captioning" mode- the "universal translator" for deaf people
where the dialogue scrolls across the bottom of the screen- shortly
before DS9 came on.
Whenever that valuable commodity that comes in bars was referred to, it
came out on the text line as "Gold Press latinum," not "gold pressed
latinum." He wrote Paramount, and got a response that "Gold Press" is
correct, not "gold pressed": supposedly, "Gold Press" is supposed to be
some kind of trademarked/copyrighted/controlled latinum encapsulation
process that only the galactic "mint" is able to do.
By the way, he has never since figured out how he got his TV set to do
that, and has not been able to repeat it. If you know how to do so, you
may find out some interesting things, it seems!
Benjamin Hoppe
RE: Colosed captioning (Bad spelling, too.)
All new TVS made since June of 1993 are required to have that built in. Just hhim read his instruction book...
Vidiot
<A fascinating nugget:
<
<A friend of mine, one day, accidentally managed somehow to get his TV into
<"closed captioning" mode- the "universal translator" for deaf people
<where the dialogue scrolls across the bottom of the screen- shortly
<before DS9 came on.
<
<Whenever that valuable commodity that comes in bars was referred to, it
<came out on the text line as "Gold Press latinum," not "gold pressed
<latinum." He wrote Paramount, and got a response that "Gold Press" is
<correct, not "gold pressed": supposedly, "Gold Press" is supposed to be
<some kind of trademarked/copyrighted/controlled latinum encapsulation
<process that only the galactic "mint" is able to do.
Obviously you haven't been reading my press release postings. When the
Gold Press Latinum was first mentioned in a press release, it was posted.
If you would have been reading these news groups more often, you would
have known the correct spelling.
<By the way, he has never since figured out how he got his TV set to do
<that, and has not been able to repeat it. If you know how to do so, you
<may find out some interesting things, it seems!
RTFM
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Christopher K. Koenigsberg
> <came out on the text line as "Gold Press latinum," not "gold pressed
> <latinum." He wrote Paramount, and got a response that "Gold Press" is
> <correct, not "gold pressed": supposedly, "Gold Press" is supposed to be
> <some kind of trademarked/copyrighted/controlled latinum encapsulation
> <process that only the galactic "mint" is able to do.
>
Ah, but remember that Quark's brother "shaves the latinum"....... would the
shavings have the same mint value as the original bars?
Drothar the Omniscient
> Ah, but remember that Quark's brother "shaves the latinum"....... would
the
> shavings have the same mint value as the original bars?
My guess is that this is just an expression- like it is now, meaning that
he takes a bar he doesn't think will be missed every so often.
DTO
Michael Olin
>> Ah, but remember that Quark's brother "shaves the latinum"....... would
>> the shavings have the same mint value as the original bars?
>My guess is that this is just an expression- like it is now, meaning that
>he takes a bar he doesn't think will be missed every so often.
Do you really think the snivelling Quark would miss a bar of latinum?
Not likely...
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Has anyone stopped to think that, perhaps, "latinum" is not an
element. Perhaps it is like saying "gold minted Krugerand" or
"gold Double eagle (old U.S. coin)? If latinum is a form of
coinage, rather than an element, it would be possible to shave
some gold off the edges ( a common practice with old U.S. coins -
one of the reasons for using a harder metal). Gold may not be
replicatable to the point of maintaining all of its best
properties.
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Jason Wong
Ar> All new TVS made since June of 1993 are required to have that built
Ar> in. Just hhim read his instruction book...
Really? What happens if you record the CC? What happens on the
playback tape (i.e. can it be turned on and off on your tape?)
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Mel Walker
Wilcox) wrote:
>
>GIRL IN ST4: Don't tell me, they don't have money in the 23rd certury, right?
>ADMIRAL KIRK: Er, no, we don't.
Well, they don't have 20th century USA Dollars in the 23rd century. They
probably don't even have VISA cards. Should Kirk have said, "Well, I don't
have any more dollars, but I do have a few bars of gold press latinum back
on the ship...?" Besides, they still have something called "credits", and
they still get paid in TOS. Spock says so. "Do you know how much StarFleet
has invested in you?" "Certainly. In training, <some huge vulcan number>
credits. In pay...."
>PICARD [in "Neutral Zone]: We have eliminated all want and need.
Sounds more propaganda-ish than realistic. He was probably refering to
ordinary wants. Certainly, you can't replicate bartenders, waiters, tailors,
and the like. The service industry would still be alive and striving, right?
Also, people will still want and need energy to run the replicators, right?
>GEORDI [in zillions of episodes]: We can make those in the replicator.
Can he make gold press latinum?
>QUARK: I'll give you five bars of gold press latinum for that.
Quark must, in part, be charging for the service he provides, the rent on
his establishment (?), and the energy he uses. We know that he use
replicators. However, some drinks and food might not taste quite the same
when made with replicators.
>Anyone else smell an INCONSISTENCY?!?
No. How big is your nose? :-)
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Ged
similar to what we have in England - where tokens of exchange (bank notes)
don't really have any intrinsic worth themselves, but are representative
of gold, supposedly kept in tha bank of England.
Now what it GPL was supposedly kept somewhere, and all currency was kept
on computer record, and the GPL never had to actually see the light of
day..
??
Comments all ye economists ?
Paul
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