The Big Bang was a fizzle.Like the 1st ashes series of cricket and the first flight by harry Houdini,it happened near Sunbury ,victoria,au.People began a system of barter.Bob would do a few hours work for alice and earn Barter Units of Money at the rate pegged to the dollar.This system grew organically and exponentially to the point where the treasurer,Peter fuckface costello stepped in and ruled that these BUMs (I forget what they where called) would be taxed at the rate of 1 to the dollar. Thus nipping the experiment,that directly threatened the state, in the bud.Since then we have APster so I believe we should try again.Ryan sounds like he might be the "forth man"to do this.I wish him well.Use the force,ryan,the APster force. "No complex system was ever written from scratch. It always started out as a simple system that was patched incrementally. "chairman jamesd.