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Message no. 1
From: Richard Pieri <ratinox@***.NEU.EDU>
Subject: Nuyen
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 22:57:17 EST
>>>>> On Fri, 26 Nov 1993 14:59:08 +1100, Neal A Porter
>>>>> <nap@*****.physics.swin.oz.au> said:

nap> { What unit of curency is a fraction of a Nuyen? Dollars have cents,
nap> what do Nuyen have }

Nothing. Nuyen are based on the Japanese Yen, which is the /only/
denomination of currency. Banks probably keep track of fractional Nuyen out
to three or five decimals, though.

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Message no. 2
From: John Fox <johnf@*****.EDU>
Subject: Re: Nuyen
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1993 23:43:11 -0600
>> What unit of curency is a fraction of a Nuyen? Dollars have cents,
>> what do Nuyen have

>Nothing. Nuyen are based on the Japanese Yen, which is the /only/
>denomination of currency. Banks probably keep track of fractional Nuyen out
>to three or five decimals, though.

Actually, I think there are smaller denominations. At least there used to
be. However, since it is about 100 yen to the dollar, they have no real
value and aren't used much. Blame it on inflation.

John Fox
johnf@*****.edu
Message no. 3
From: Justin Kim <jlkim@******.COM>
Subject: Re: Nuyen
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 10:14:09 -0800
The Rat said:
>Nothing. Nuyen are based on the Japanese Yen, which is the /only/
>denomination of currency. Banks probably keep track of fractional Nuyen out
>to three or five decimals, though.

There are 100 sen to 1 yen. You don't see sen very much anymore
because (obviously) they aren't worth all that much. They were in common
use before and during WWII.

Justin

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Message no. 4
From: Richard Pieri <ratinox@***.NEU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Nuyen
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 15:30:51 EST
>>>>> On Tue, 30 Nov 1993 10:14:09 -0800, jlkim@******.com (Justin Kim)
>>>>> said:

jlkim> The Rat said:
>> Nothing. Nuyen are based on the Japanese Yen, which is the /only/
>> denomination of currency. Banks probably keep track of fractional Nuyen
>> out to three or five decimals, though.
jlkim> There are 100 sen to 1 yen. You don't see sen very much
jlkim> anymore because (obviously) they aren't worth all that much. They
jlkim> were in common use before and during WWII.

Just like there are 100 "mils" to the cent, but only banks use them.

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Message no. 5
From: John Fox <johnf@*****.EDU>
Subject: Re: Nuyen
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 16:40:48 -0600
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Message no. 6
From: MILLIKEN DAMION A <u9467882@***.EDU.AU>
Subject: Nuyen
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 1994 13:08:20 +1000
Calvinoi writes:

> > 2) Regarding credsticks and =Y=. Does paper money still
> > exist in 2053 or are all transactions done by credstick?
> Welp, nuYen, IMHO, exists solely in electronic form, whereas there IS
> physical monitary units like dollar bills and such for specialized
> currencies. The UCAS supports its own currency, as do other
> independant nations. These are not necessarily equal in value to the
> nuYen, though! Local currency like that just mentioned can be carried
> in physical and data form.
>
> Also, IMHO, there are two ways to exchange data nuYen. Either by
> touching credsticks (electronically transfer the nuYen from one cred
> to the other) or GIVE a credstick to someone (the nuYen on the stick
> is given to the recipient along with its physical hold.)

In "Into the shadows" one of the characters uses a nuyen coin.
Isnt Nuyen currency (coins & notes) mentioned in Shadowfiles (not sure on
that one)

Damion
Message no. 7
From: Debbie Giesbrecht <Debbie_Giesbrecht@**.CHIRON.COM>
Subject: Nuyen
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 11:54:25 PST
How much nuyen you all you GM's usually offer for jobs:

1. New shadowrunners ?
2. Limited rep ?
3. Good rep ?
4. Awsome rep ?

Debbie
Message no. 8
From: Ivy Ryan <ivyryan@***.ORG>
Subject: Re: Nuyen
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 13:34:57 -0700
Well, here's the scale I use....

On Fri, 22 Jul 1994, Debbie Giesbrecht wrote:

> How much nuyen you all you GM's usually offer for jobs:
>
> 1. New shadowrunners 3,000 to 8,000 per person
> 2. Limited rep 10,000 to 15,000 per person
> 3. Good rep 15,000 to 25,000 per person
> 4. Awsome rep 25,000 openers and way up cause you
don't hire people like that for junkyen runs. The runs are the hardest,
so the pay can go over 1,000,000 per person. That kinda money goes for
the "slip into Renraku and change thses three sheets of paper for those
three sheets, change this file to read this, and leave NO TRACES.

3,000 would be for a roughing up, or a simple recovery mission. 8,000
would include some fighting.

In my game they don't even get hired for breaking and entering jobs till
they have a Good rep or better. The fixers lost too much money using
amatuers already.

Ivy
Message no. 9
From: Chris Siebenmann <cks@********.UTCS.TORONTO.EDU>
Subject: Re: Nuyen
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 1994 21:07:46 -0400
| How much nuyen you all you GM's usually offer for jobs[?]

It depends. I'm a firm believer in moving from conclusion to premise,
and in this case the first thing to do is to decide the conclusion: how
prosperous are 'runners at their particular experience level? Base this
off the lifestyle costs, adding in a fudge factor for spare cash and
extra expenses. Then decide, on average, how many runs a year/a month
Shadowrunners get. Then divide; the result is the value of an average
run.

For any particular run, adjust the value down to signal ease or
triviality; adjust the value up to signal higher-than-usual danger
and difficulty. Pick the type of run to suit the expertise of the
Shadowrunners and what sort of work your game world offers for people
like them.

- cks
Message no. 10
From: Jarrod D Steeley <tinyskullhane@****.COM>
Subject: nuyen
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 16:20:23 EST
Hoi,SKULL HANE.
(for eyes only)

i received your threat.i have still not received my five
million nuyen in my
swiss bank account , nor my nine million nuyen in my german
checking
-banking account. the name they are under is mister rasputin
svengali
the 3rd.i expect the 14 million by tuesday.if you refuse my
generous
offer i will be forced to launch the Fe BUTTERFLY!CRASHING
over
nineteen billion systems and terminals in a matter of one
hour 29 minutes
and eleven seconds.you will also lose your life in this whole
ordeal and so will
your precious boostergang. i have trained ninjas from across
the lands
i also have the Seoulpa Ring behind me,i also hold many
forces of
dinks.mister hane i am sure i am messing with a amateur
probably
just another stupid bi-sexual gothic.so in all do respect eat
drek!
i will geek!!!! i will allow you to purfiy your soul with a
gift unto me
five thousand of the latest knife bullets arriving in san jose
tonite.
if you can intercept this shippment i will atleast spare your
INPUTS
life or your OUTPUT'S as the case might be!
i am an all powerful decker, i'm in the game are you
jacked-in?i hold
the KNOW for life, the universe,and everthing.........and the
destruction
of mankind.

resort to hyper space link, NO COMMS!!!!!!!

i will keep in touch until tuesday then see you in hell.


spooky shaman.


p.s. i was responsable for the crash of '29.


****connection terminated****






Tiny Skull Hane <Tulsa,OK USA>
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Message no. 11
From: Hannes Lundholm <mt28185@******.SWIPNET.SE>
Subject: Re: nuyen
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 23:17:24 +0100
----------
> Från: Jarrod D Steeley <tinyskullhane@****.COM>
> Till: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
> Ämne: nuyen
> Datum: den 12 januari 1997 22.20
>
> Hoi,SKULL HANE.
> (for eyes only)

<snip threat stuff>

> spooky shaman.
>
>
> p.s. i was responsable for the crash of '29.
>
>
> ****connection terminated****


Moahahahaha!!!
_I_ know you weren't!
_I_ was soley responsible for that crash!

Don't threaten people with my references, or I'll pull in my Yakuza
(Jaquzzi?) strings and choke the rings, plus that I am in control of five
of the big eight alone.

"Och det är lika sant som att du och jag sitter här, lilla barn"

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Message no. 12
From: L Canthros <lobo1@****.COM>
Subject: Re: nuyen
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 18:58:19 EST
On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 16:20:23 EST Jarrod D Steeley
<tinyskullhane@****.COM> writes:
>Hoi,SKULL HANE. (for eyes only)
<snip>
> the KNOW for life, the universe,and everthing.........and
>the destruction
> of mankind.

And the answer is...42:)
Mind if I ask just what this is?

<snip>
Canthros
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Message no. 13
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: nuyen
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 00:19:53 +0000
|Moahahahaha!!!
|_I_ know you weren't!
|_I_ was soley responsible for that crash!
|
|Don't threaten people with my references, or I'll pull in my Yakuza
|(Jaquzzi?) strings and choke the rings, plus that I am in control of five
|of the big eight alone.

*sigh*
Here we go again.....

Shadowrn is for the DISCUSSION of the game shadowrn....
Shadowtk is for inter-character communications, adhering to a set format of
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-- Inferno <00:17:12 GMT/13.JAN.58>

Please take in character posts to that, AFTER reading the formatting
rules.....
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Message no. 14
From: Jarrod D Steeley <tinyskullhane@****.COM>
Subject: Re: nuyen
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 21:16:10 EST
On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 18:58:19 EST L Canthros <lobo1@****.COM> writes:
>On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 16:20:23 EST Jarrod D Steeley
><tinyskullhane@****.COM> writes: >Hoi,SKULL HANE. (for eyes only)
><snip>
>> the KNOW for life, the universe,and everthing.........and
>>the destruction
>> of mankind.
>
>And the answer is...42:)
>Mind if I ask just what this is?
>
><snip>
>Canthros
>--
>If any man wishes peace, canthros1@***.com
>let him prepare for war. lobo1@****.com
>--Roman proverb
>http://members.aol.com/canthros1/
>
You guys have been spending just a littlle to much time reading The
Hitchhiker.

Tiny Skull Hane <Tulsa,OK USA>
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Message no. 15
From: Jarrod D Steeley <tinyskullhane@****.COM>
Subject: Re: nuyen)
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 21:16:10 EST
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997 00:12:18 +0000 Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
writes:
>|
>|[snippage of a psychopathic story]
>| So, um, what was that? I thought for a brief moment that it was
>something
>|that got thrown here instead of ShadowTK, but it wasn't formatted
>so... What
>|the hell was that? ;)
>
>I think I'd like an explaination as well....
>
>It was incredibly unreadable, whatever it was....
>--
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>Pinky?" |
>|Andrew Halliwell |
> |
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>control |
>|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the
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>
What is was is, I have a friend who <is> a little psychopath and he wrote
me that and I thought it would be fun to put up. But all the E-mails I
have got suggests that nobody here has a sence of humor so I am sorry. It
will not happen again.

Tiny Skull Hane <Tulsa,OK USA>
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Message no. 16
From: Sascha Pabst <Sascha.Pabst@**********.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE>
Subject: Re: nuyen
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 03:59:34 +0000
On 12 Jan 97 at 16:20, Jarrod D Steeley wrote:
> Hoi,SKULL HANE.
> (for eyes only)
>
> i received your threat.i have still not received my five
> million nuyen in my
[snip long and bad formatted post]
... ( <-long pause)

What was that about? In-Character storytelling? You might want to
jander over to ShadowTK. This list is for rules and background
discussion, please keep it for this. I have enough mail per day...

Thanx.

Oh, if you decide to visit TK, _read_the_FAQ_ before you post first,
and follow its formats. And to subscribe to PlotD, too.

Sascha
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Message no. 17
From: L Canthros <lobo1@****.COM>
Subject: Re: nuyen
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 22:21:23 EST
On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 21:16:10 EST Jarrod D Steeley
<tinyskullhane@****.COM> writes:
<snip>
>You guys have been spending just a littlle to much time reading The
>Hitchhiker.
<snip .sig>

Doubtful, I only read the first book (haven't gotten back to them yet,
too busy with school)

Canthros
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Message no. 18
From: L Canthros <lobo1@****.COM>
Subject: Re: nuyen)
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 22:21:23 EST
On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 21:16:10 EST Jarrod D Steeley
<tinyskullhane@****.COM> writes:
>What is was is, I have a friend who <is> a little psychopath and he
>wrote
>me that and I thought it would be fun to put up. But all the E-mails I
>have got suggests that nobody here has a sence of humor so I am sorry.
>It will not happen again.
>Tiny Skull Hane <Tulsa,OK USA>

I think it's more that none of us understood that it was a joke (doesn't
necessarily mean we would've gotten it, just means we wouldn't have had
so many questions:). You might make some sort of note to that effect next
time:)

Canthros
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Message no. 19
From: Tim Cooper <tpcooper@***.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
Subject: Re: nuyen
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 20:48:50 -0800
On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Jarrod D Steeley wrote:

> >
> You guys have been spending just a littlle to much time reading The
> Hitchhiker.

There is absolutely without a doubt, no such thing as spending too much
time reading tHGttG (and the other 4 books that make up the "trilogy").

>
> Tiny Skull Hane <Tulsa,OK USA>

~Tim-who-thinks-we-should-use-some-hermit-on-a-deserted-planet-to-rule-
OUR-glactic-empire-too.
Message no. 20
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: nuyen
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 12:33:28 +0000
|You guys have been spending just a littlle to much time reading The
|Hitchhiker.

<Ahem...>
LISTENING to hitch-hikers......
The radio series is much better.....

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Message no. 21
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: nuyen)
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 12:35:13 +0000
|What is was is, I have a friend who <is> a little psychopath and he wrote
|me that and I thought it would be fun to put up. But all the E-mails I
|have got suggests that nobody here has a sence of humor so I am sorry. It
|will not happen again.

Oh, we all havce a sense of humour....

It's just, either that was so full of "in" jokes, that it was only funny to
two people, or it wasn't funny anyway.....
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|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
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Message no. 22
From: Sascha Pabst <Sascha.Pabst@**********.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE>
Subject: Re: nuyen)
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 14:04:52 +0000
On 12 Jan 97 at 21:16, Jarrod D Steeley wrote:
[snip complaints]
> What is was is, I have a friend who <is> a little psychopath and he wrote
> me that and I thought it would be fun to put up. But all the E-mails I
> have got suggests that nobody here has a sence of humor so I am sorry. It
> will not happen again.
It's not a matter of humor. But don't ya think it would have been...
helpful for us "normal listmembers" to give us some introduction? So we
could have concentrated on bragging about the formating? It's so
distracting to have to brag about two things simultaneous! :-)


Sascha
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Message no. 23
From: Hannes Lundholm <mt28185@******.SWIPNET.SE>
Subject: Re: nuyen
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 15:45:55 +0100
----------
<snip>
>
> And the answer is...42:)
> Mind if I ask just what this is?
>
> <snip>
> Canthros
> --

You may know the answer, but what is the question?

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Message no. 24
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: nuyen
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 15:26:40 +0000
|> And the answer is...42:)
|> Mind if I ask just what this is?
|
|You may know the answer, but what is the question?

What do you get if you multiply 6 by nine?.....
(I always knew there was sumething fundamentally wrong with the universe.)
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Message no. 25
From: Hannes Lundholm <mt28185@******.SWIPNET.SE>
Subject: Re: nuyen
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 17:12:35 +0100
----------
> Från: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
> Till: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
> Ämne: Re: nuyen
> Datum: den 13 januari 1997 16.26
>
> |> And the answer is...42:)
> |> Mind if I ask just what this is?
> |
> |You may know the answer, but what is the question?
>
> What do you get if you multiply 6 by nine?.....
> (I always knew there was sumething fundamentally wrong with the
universe.)
> --

But if someone would know the answer to the question and the answer,
wouldn't the universe blow up or something? Oh, tomorrow, forgot...

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Message no. 26
From: Jarrod D Steeley <tinyskullhane@****.COM>
Subject: Re: nuyen
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 16:40:20 EST
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997 15:45:55 +0100 Hannes Lundholm
<mt28185@******.SWIPNET.SE> writes:
>----------
><snip>
>>
>> And the answer is...42:)
>> Mind if I ask just what this is?
>>
>> <snip>
>> Canthros
>> --
>
>You may know the answer, but what is the question?
What is 6x7?

Tiny Skull Hane <Tulsa,OK USA>
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Message no. 27
From: Jarrod D Steeley <tinyskullhane@****.COM>
Subject: Re: nuyen
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 16:40:19 EST
On Sun, 12 Jan 1997 20:48:50 -0800 Tim Cooper
<tpcooper@***.CSUPOMONA.EDU> writes:
>On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Jarrod D Steeley wrote:
>
>> >
>> You guys have been spending just a littlle to much time reading The
>> Hitchhiker.
>
>There is absolutely without a doubt, no such thing as spending too
>much
>time reading tHGttG (and the other 4 books that make up the
>"trilogy").
>
>>
>> Tiny Skull Hane <Tulsa,OK USA>
>
>~Tim-who-thinks-we-should-use-some-hermit-on-a-deserted-planet-to-rule-
>OUR-glactic-empire-too.
>
I have read the entire 5 books of the trilogy and their damn good.

Tiny Skull Hane <Tulsa,OK USA>
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Message no. 28
From: L Canthros <lobo1@****.COM>
Subject: Re: nuyen
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 16:54:16 EST
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997 15:45:55 +0100 Hannes Lundholm
<mt28185@******.SWIPNET.SE> writes:
>----------
><snip>
>>
>> And the answer is...42:)
>> Mind if I ask just what this is?
>>
>> <snip>
>> Canthros
>> --
>
>You may know the answer, but what is the question?
>
:):)

Obviously, the question to get that answer is "What is the Answer to
Life, the Universe, and Everything?"...OTOH, _the_ Question to Life, the
Universe and Everything? That, I do not know (haven't read pas the first
book:(

Canthros-the-Hitchhiker's-Guide-starved-shapeshifter-mage
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Message no. 29
From: Tim Cooper <tpcooper@***.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
Subject: Re: nuyen
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 16:55:17 -0800
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Spike wrote:

> |You guys have been spending just a littlle to much time reading The
> |Hitchhiker.
>
> <Ahem...>
> LISTENING to hitch-hikers......
> The radio series is much better.....
>
> --

The Cirius Cybernetics theme song alone in worth the cost of the tapes.
"..Share and enjoy, Journey through life with a plastic boy, or girl by
your side.."

~Tim-who-had-trouble-breathing-for-a-long-time-after-that-part-was-finished
Message no. 30
From: Tim Cooper <tpcooper@***.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
Subject: Re: nuyen
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 17:01:02 -0800
On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Hannes Lundholm wrote:

> ----------
> <snip>
> >
> > And the answer is...42:)
> > Mind if I ask just what this is?
> >
> > <snip>
> > Canthros
> > --
>
> You may know the answer, but what is the question?
>

Ooh, Ooh I've got it, or at least I _will_ as soon as this darn computer I
just designed stops compiling...in a few million years..

:)

~Tim
Message no. 31
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: nuyen
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 02:01:15 +0000
|The Sirius Cybernetics theme song alone in worth the cost of the tapes.
|"Share and enjoy, share and enjoy,
Journey through life with a plastic boy,
or girl by your side.."

"let your pal be your guide,
and when it breaks down,
or starts to annoy, or
grinds when it moves
<dum dum dum-dum dum>
<dum dum dum-dum dum>
or has sex with your cat.

Bring it to us we won't give a fig....
We'll tell you......
GO STICK YOUR HEAD IN A PIG!!!

I'm buggered if I can remember the two dumdumdum lines.....
I'm extremely irritated by the person who posted it now....
I'll be humming it all night trying to remember the words now...
--
______________________________________________________________________________
|u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk| "Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky?" |
|Andrew Halliwell | |
|Principal subjects in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
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|GCv3.1 GCS/EL>$ d---(dpu) s+/- a- C++ U N++ o+ K- w-- M+/++ PS+++ PE- Y t+ |
|5++ X+/++ R+ tv+ b+ D G e>PhD h/h+ !r! !y-|I can't say F**K either now! :( |
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Message no. 32
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: nuyen
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 02:03:17 +0000
|Ooh, Ooh I've got it, or at least I _will_ as soon as this darn computer I
|just designed stops compiling...in a few million years..

So what you're saying.... Is that your computer, wot you just built...

Is more powerful than Deep Thought?

:) :)
--
______________________________________________________________________________
|u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk| "Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky?" |
|Andrew Halliwell | |
|Principal subjects in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
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|GCv3.1 GCS/EL>$ d---(dpu) s+/- a- C++ U N++ o+ K- w-- M+/++ PS+++ PE- Y t+ |
|5++ X+/++ R+ tv+ b+ D G e>PhD h/h+ !r! !y-|I can't say F**K either now! :( |
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Message no. 33
From: Tim Cooper <tpcooper@***.CSUPOMONA.EDU>
Subject: Re: nuyen
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 18:29:47 -0800
On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Spike wrote:

> |The Sirius Cybernetics theme song alone in worth the cost of the tapes.
> |"Share and enjoy, share and enjoy,
> Journey through life with a plastic boy,
> or girl by your side.."
>
> "let your pal be your guide,
> and when it breaks down,
> or starts to annoy, or
> grinds when it moves
> <dum dum dum-dum dum>
> <dum dum dum-dum dum>
> or has sex with your cat.
>
> Bring it to us we won't give a fig....
> We'll tell you......
> GO STICK YOUR HEAD IN A PIG!!!

<G>

>
> I'm buggered if I can remember the two dumdumdum lines.....
> I'm extremely irritated by the person who posted it now....
> I'll be humming it all night trying to remember the words now...
> --
>

Is one of them "..or knocks down your door.."? For some reason that keeps
popping up in my head..

~Tim
Message no. 34
From: MC23 <mc23@****.NET>
Subject: Re: nuyen
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 21:29:49 -0500
Spike wrote,
>I'm buggered if I can remember the two dumdumdum lines.....
>I'm extremely irritated by the person who posted it now....
>I'll be humming it all night trying to remember the words now...

Thanks for making us do all your dirtywork. CD1 is now playing as
_I_ have to listen to the whole series until I find it. All this for
somebody who has the gall to still read my post after he killfiles them.
<grin>

- MC23, mostly harmless -
"Being on ShadowRN is alot like being drunk."
Message no. 35
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: nuyen
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 02:38:51 +0000
|
|Spike wrote,
|>I'm buggered if I can remember the two dumdumdum lines.....
|>I'm extremely irritated by the person who posted it now....
|>I'll be humming it all night trying to remember the words now...
|
| Thanks for making us do all your dirtywork. CD1 is now playing as
|_I_ have to listen to the whole series until I find it. All this for
|somebody who has the gall to still read my post after he killfiles them.
|<grin>

I said my filters were unreliable.....
--
______________________________________________________________________________
|u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk| "Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky?" |
|Andrew Halliwell | |
|Principal subjects in:- | "I think so brain, but this time, you control |
|Comp Sci & Electronics | the Encounter suit, and I'll do the voice..." |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|GCv3.1 GCS/EL>$ d---(dpu) s+/- a- C++ U N++ o+ K- w-- M+/++ PS+++ PE- Y t+ |
|5++ X+/++ R+ tv+ b+ D G e>PhD h/h+ !r! !y-|I can't say F**K either now! :( |
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Message no. 36
From: Technomancer <arvanit@***.UCH.GR>
Subject: Re: nuyen
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 17:05:20 +0200
On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Hannes Lundholm wrote:

> _I_ was soley responsible for that crash!
>

Only if you made Win29 !!! 8)

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Message no. 37
From: John Till <everett@*******.NLCI.COM>
Subject: Nuyen
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 15:21:49 -0500
Folks,

A monetary question:

If the Nuyen is the world currency, how is its stability maintained?

Obviously the Zurich Orbital may play a role as a central bank, but what
*government* or megacorp-govt sponsors and regulates the currency?
Currently, all major currencies are backed by a State (the USA, Japan, UK,
Germany). Is it save to assume that Imperial Japan backs the Nuyen?

Also, given the *great* instability of the SRN world economy/interstate
system, is there a metal that "backs up" or is pegged to the
value of the Nuyen? If so, what metal (or other commodity)?

Thanks,

John Everett Till
Message no. 38
From: Max Rible <slothman@*********.ORG>
Subject: Re: Nuyen
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 13:21:49 -0800
At 15:21 10/30/97 -0500, John Till wrote:
>A monetary question:
>
>If the Nuyen is the world currency, how is its stability maintained?

>Obviously the Zurich Orbital may play a role as a central bank, but what
>*government* or megacorp-govt sponsors and regulates the currency?
>Currently, all major currencies are backed by a State (the USA, Japan, UK,
>Germany). Is it save to assume that Imperial Japan backs the Nuyen?

>Also, given the *great* instability of the SRN world economy/interstate
>system, is there a metal that "backs up" or is pegged to the
>value of the Nuyen? If so, what metal (or other commodity)?

I wouldn't expect that the nuyen is redeemable for a guaranteed amount of
any particular metal or other substance, though I would be very surprised
if Imperial Japan didn't have reserves of something valuable (probably gold)
to back it up.

I figure that the nuyen is the international standard because at least five
of the big eight megacorps are Japanese, and decided that they wanted to
have a stable currency to work with. With their prominence in the Japanese
economy, they could do terrible things to the nation if they wanted to
flex their muscles. So five of the Big Eight went over and made Japan
a deal they couldn't refuse to make the nuyen an extremely stable currency
with the support of a majority of AAA megacorps, and then went and invited
a bunch of other countries and the other megacorps to join in.

Joining the regulatory body that handles the nuyen means that you get
a stable currency and can have a voice in getting some issued so you can
run your government; if you're a megacorp, you get advance notice of
what's going to be going on economically as various countries discuss
what they need to do with their monetary policy, in exchange for helping
keep the nuyen stable. (This is why you get such isolationist nations
as Tir Tairngire on the nuyen standard.) I expect that governments tie
their reserves of things-with-value (like gold) into the nuyen, and
the corporations adjust their trading policies. If Ares ever gets into
asteroid mining and brings back a big honking chunk of precious metal,
there could be considerable intrigue and upset...

(Note: my training in economics is limited, and I'd enjoy hearing a
critique of this notion from anyone with more knowledge about the field
than myself...)

--
%% Max Rible %% slothman@*****.com %% http://www.amurgsval.org/~slothman/ %%
%% "Ham is good... Glowing *tattooed* ham is *bad*!" - the Tick %%

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