THE EMERITUS CORPORATION

If you are in construction, you may appreciate Gigastone. It may make you think about the projects you are about to make. For us, it pisses us off.

Really, to hold the world in your hand.

For one, giga is one Billion. A stone is a unit of measure. 14 a.p. or 6.35029318 kg.

Sylvester Stalone, in Rocky IV, had a body weight of 12.3571 stone or 173 lbs (78.47 kg).

There is an expression, being worth your weight in salt.

Now in computer use, a Giga may not be a billion. Today, actually it is, but back in the day (and if you do tradoucheanal reading) it may 2^30, 1024^3 or 1073741824 in relation to bytes.

Gigastone? That's 1,0073,741,824 stones.

To have that in your hand, you've got to be "worth your weight in salt."

Assuming you were Sam Walton and of Wall Mart, you'd be making your douche of a percentage of 94c
for one kilo of salt.

Take the average man, 200 kg.

By today's rate, that $188.00 CDN.
Or, if the top stuff ($70,000.00 USD / tonne), $15,434.35 USD / guy.

To the rest of us then, to be net worthy of a Gigastone then, the figure would be (using Sam's metric, not Sam's Club, mind you...)
6818575382.03 kg. Let's leave it at kilos.

Taking a leap, for Pablo Escobar, then, assuming a high price in the mid-1980's, that figure would be
$477,300,276,742,000.00 USD.

For gold, $270,323,034,692,363.73 USD. [@$39,645.09 USD / kilo]

That's actually enough to take care of the US Debt, under Obama, and leave something for wealth-building, aside.

You had $477T, you wouldn't want to making debt payments of $1T a year.

That's enough of our Hickory Dickory Dock for this darn day.

JP 2016/02/21
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