To those of the Emporium

Ok... now, addressing your message:

An "emporium" is a large retail establishmet selling a wide variety of goods. Are you guys some sort of temporal Wal Mart? Is your name Demetri Magorium?

Have you ever been to Emporia, KS? Swing by sometime. I know it's not tropic or arCtic, but I can hook you up with a tour of a few places....
 
Its not a pysical book, its formatted for our Handheld. There are lots of pictures as well. The pages in question show information on currency exchange, acsessing the company funds, airport procedures, public and train transit, and things like that.

I realized you were being sarcastic, but, if you care to know, proper procedures on foot-wear take place from pg#208-240. Again, lots of pictures.
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I'm in agreement with Derby......seems unlikely that The Emporium would spend $400 billion on a time machine while their Human Resources Department are not even given a lousy few bucks enough to hire people who can spell properly.

And come to think of it....why are they hiring people who need 14 pages of a several hundred page 'manual' to tell them how to get on an airplane ?? I was making trips on my own by plane when I was 13......nobody gave me a manual !

And your 'currency exchange' makes me laugh. Lol....I mean, how the hell do you establish the current exchange rate for a Roman Denarius ? Do you have an exchange rate mechanism agreed with Caesar or something ? Does someone at 'The Emporium' just pluck a figure out of the air.

So what is the current Dollar to Denarius exchange rate ?? Feel free to make up a figure...lol.
 
http://www.quadrigaancients.com/qc1.html#C12C has denarii for anywhere from $50 to $145, so I'd place the Roman rate of exchange at $1USD = .02 to .006 RD depending on who the emporer is.

Funny you bring it up. I once read a time travel story, where a guy had found a way to travel back to an idealistic past US, but had to come back to the present to buy antique money when his was rejected. He did not get a good exchange rate.
 
has denarii for anywhere from $50 to $145
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Yes but that's the problem. With inflation a Denarius would now be worth $100 or so.....but clearly it was not worth that when it was minted.....probably less than a dollar in today's terms. It would be almost impossible to assess the dollar equivalent....as the economies and goods simply are not comparable. A time traveller would be buying at whatever a Denarius was worth then.

There is also huge scope for cheating in all this. A time traveller could sell his watch to Caesar for 20 Denarii......and convert that into $2000 when he got home.
 
I think you're being a little too literal. You're going to have to have physical currency, so you'd have to buy it in your own time, or at least in a time where antique currency dealers exist. I was just trying to be funny by actually calculating the exchange rate.

Also, this brings up the fact that time travel funding should be unlimited. Anytime the budget is running low, you just jaunt back a couple hundred years and make some solid investments. Nothing that would be unethical, like stock purchases, just a CD, or a simple interest-bearing savings account. After several hundred years of accrual, you'd have a ton of money. Call it Frye's First Law of Temporal Economics.
 
In a word, yes. And the word is "your" - not you.
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I've taken the time to download a modern dictionary so you all don't criticize my spelling "mistakes" anymore.
I think I figured out the confusion over competition/compition. When I'm from the "tion" makes a "tish-i-ahn" sound, when apparently in this time period it only makes the "sh-ahn"
 
An "emporium" is a large retail establishmet selling a wide variety of goods. Are you guys some sort of temporal Wal Mart? Is your name Demetri Magorium?
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We are a privately runned facility, with no specialty besides the furtherment of knowledge. We've only recently started the time travel branch of the Emporium, and so far its only been used for Zoological and Historical research, and of course our Zoo.
I guess a Wal-Mart of Scientific Discovery would be more accurate.
 
If you can condense a field guide of each individual culture's rules and customs from the Pre-Ice age North American Tribes to the 2030's to anything less than several hundreds of pages, please do so. There are five pages on short-notice Airport Procedures, which mostly gives you a cheat sheet on what you can and cant bring on an airplane, I find that reasonable.

There is an applet in the manual that works out the usual exchange rate of any currency you've preloaded into your handheld. We've established sort of "banks" for Emporium members in more modern times.
However for more ancient trips, that becomes to difficult to calculate accurately, so we are just given what our researchers and historians deem more than enough of the local currency and are instructed to use it wisely. 
 
If you can condense a field guide of each individual culture's rules and customs from the Pre-Ice age North American Tribes to the 2030's to anything less than several hundreds of pages, please do so. There are five pages on short-notice Airport Procedures, which mostly gives you a cheat sheet on what you can and cant bring on an airplane, I find that reasonable.
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I see.............and does your 'handheld' also convert spoken American English into ancient Latin, with a suitable accent too, for when a centurion walks up and asks what is that strange device you are holding ?

And why do your time travellers need an airplane to get to a meeting ? Or indeed even an announcement. Or indeed, even to attend the meeting......as surely the minutes of the meeting would already exist in whatever future time they travelled from.
 
This is really, really boring. Do I really have to ask this? OK, I will.

So I understand you are telling us that spelling has changed in the future. Are we also to presume (is this leading the witness?) that you have also changed the conjugation of verbs? Specifically, did someone decide to conjugate the verb "to run" as "runned" for the....??? (future perfect) tense?

Dude, Demetri...go away, plan out your hoax better, and come try again. This is pitiful.
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This is really, really boring.
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Agreed. Boring. Had it been the case of his being the first OWETO to come along with a statement of "I can't interact with the plebes" followed by a side-stepping excuse concerning the linguistic differences between present and future generations when poor spelling and grammar skills are pointed out it might not be quite so boring. However, this is OWETO Number "42" and it's just old, stale and unimaginative.

Here, as with every other OWETO argument that takes them off message (original message), it is sufficient to refute the "I can't interact with the plebes" initial assertion by engaging them in off-topic conversation. For some reason these vastly advanced technological time travelling persons feel compelled to justify their silliness with still more silliness. Next thing he'll let us know that he's not a physicist and knows nothing about the physics behind his society's ability to travel in time. Old, stale and boring.

Oh, well. So much for imagination. The guy can't spell. A time travelling equivalent of the trained monkey/professional wrestler/jalopy driver "astronaut" from LBJ's proposal for NASA's Space Exploration Program.
 
Understand that I am unable to divulge key historical events(#ARC8)
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Actually.....that statement alone tells me the story is BS. It is a statement based on a popular misconception of the dynamics of events that is often portrayed in sci-fi and time travel stories.

It is BS because there is no such thing as a 'key historical event'. The notion that some events are crucial and fundamental to the course of history is complete nonsense and garbage derived from human misperception.....and not from scientific fact.

We tend to assume that the events that hit the headlines are the key events. But events are happening all the time. Every headline event is the result of millions of other events......the absence of any one of which would change the course of history.

Let me give an example. Let's say you're a time traveller pottering about in 1885 in Austria. You're not telling anyone anything.......don't want to upset history ! So, you take a casual stroll through the streets of Vienna, enjoying the beautiful scenery. You round a corner.....and accidentally bump into someone. Nothing dramatic.....the other guy just drops his newspaper, reaches to pick it up....and wanders off. You think nothing of it.

BUT....that guy now misses his train by 5 seconds. He was on his way to see a lady for a date....and in his lateness she goes off with someone else. Well, you probably still think nothing of it.......except, the man you bumped into would otherwise have been Hitler's father, and you just made a MAJOR change to world history !

Fact is....the TINIEST little event could change world history. For all you know, if a time traveller farted in a supermarket in 1956.....he might avert the Vietnam war. Any event, no matter how seemingly trivial, has the potential to change history dramatically.

So...the notion that some time traveller is here, but avoiding telling us 'key events' is utter baloney.
 
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