There's the old Dr Who episode, 'Horror of Fang Rock' (4th Doc & Leela) where a side issue concerns a businessman racing (chartered a fast sailing boat to cross the Channel in a severe storm) to get to the London Stock Exchange before news of some 'BIG DEAL'(tm) that had occurred in Paris has time to get there. Apparently no telegraph or lines down. Could fit right into the TU right down to the monster (Horror)!

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On Fri, 6/16/17, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Long Route Merchants
 To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Friday, June 16, 2017, 2:59 PM

 On Jun 16, 2017, at 1:07 PM,
 Grimmund <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
 wrote:

 J6 is WAY more expensive (8.78) than two J3 jumps (3.1),
 unless your time is very valuable, or your information is
 valuable and has a short half-life, that 2.8x premium price
 is expensive.

 Yes, J6 is for transporting people and information, not
 cargo.

 If something happens that moves markets in a big
 fashion; you can bet that megacorps and really wealthy
 individuals will have zero compunction about beating the
 X-boats out to take advantage of it ahead of everyone
 else.

 who cares about spending
 megacredits in transport costs if it makes you gigacredits
 in profit?

 -- 

 Bruce Johnson

 University of Arizona

 College of Pharmacy

 Information Technology Group

 Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs

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