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From: "Sascha Pabst" <Sascha.Pabst@**********.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
Subject: Re: Value of hunting Runners (was: Killing...)
Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 21:13:38 +0200
At 20:12 Uhr 21.05.96, TopCat wrote:
>>Hey! My character /is/ a shareholder in more then oppne false identities!
>>I am really interested in the official statements of a corp, pet projects
>>etc that come with holding (a few, OK) shares.
>So you'll get info like "Our corp does many things. From building design to
>pharmaceuticals. With our corp, you can't go wrong". Now if you buy up a
>few hundred million in stock, you might be able to get some useful info. If
>you can get a few hundred million worth of the stock from a current
>stockholder (good luck).
I think you get more info... but I still have to test the hundred million
stock think... could you lend me a few billion nuyen? :-)

>>>And YOUR plan it was to set up a meet with the runners to have 'em all
executed
>>by snipers (to cut losses to a minimum). By THAT time, your goodies will have
>>grey hair :-)
>I have thousands of plans, that's just one of them.
...the one you mentioned. You are fragging arro... no, stop, this is not
clever when I want you to lend me money, is it? :-)

>The art of burying expenses in reports is not lost on corporations or
>governments. If you can't hide a few hundred thousand in a quarterly report
>over hundreds of billions of nuyen, then you have no business doing any
>accounting for the corporation. In fact, if you can't hide millions in the
>shuffle somewhere, you're useless.
So you cleverly hid a few a few millions, and then spend it for... what?
FOR WHAT?

>Rich people get rich by spending their money.
Yup, you are right. I was wrong. Stupid wrong *slap my own fingers which
typed such a nonsense*

>They buy things that grow in
>value and become worth more.
Again you are right. I just forgot dead shadowrunners gain worth :-)

Sascha

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