The Last Cyber Court Session?

"I would be very interested as to whether the artistic and altruistic goals of your dream are more important to you than the mercenary aspects of success." segued the Prosecutor.

"You mean, Am I in it for the money?" said Glitter.

"Objection, my clients potential fiscal future is irrelevant, it's like asking someone what will they do if they win the lottery."

"Over ruled" said the Judge, "I for one would like to hear how Glitter  intends on directing the cash flow."

"It'll take a lot of words in a row with no interruptions from the prosecutor."

"I think we can promise you that," said the judge looking ominously at the prosecutor.

"O.K. The comparison to a lottery is actually the appropriate segue for dealing with this subject. The Internet is, in effect, a gigantic lottery and each web site is a potential winning ticket, however, unlike a lottery ticket that need only be "picked from amid the many" once to be successful, the very essence of the wwweb means that a successful web site need be "picked from amid the many," many, many, many times before it can be considered a success in any terms.

I believe that in it's purest form a web construct (personal) is in effect a cyber citizenship statement, a place where you show the icons and tokens of your affiliations, the idea being that like minded people can join with you to help foster common goals. This is how I perceive my cyber profile, yet nearly every body else seeks to view it in purely mercenary terms...

There is no doubt that the rewards of a successful web sales campaign are of Billgatesian proportions. Assuming the size of the wwweb is @ 100 million users, a 1% return equals "Profit X 1,000,000 in Dollars."

There are rumoured to be somewhere between 40 & 400 million cannabis smokers in the world, personally I reckon the number is closer to 4 billion, but we'll work on the figure of a 1% web response to keep the maths simple and because I think only a very small percentage of cannabists are webbed up as yet.

Coincidentally, the Finale -Lighting Ceremony Scene requires One Million extras, all wearing teeshirt tickets, all attending the ppparty / concert of the millennium. The budget for this facet of the concept is $50 million, quite a small amount of money really, of course that $50 Million is "just" the tee shirt / concert ticket sales, there are other profit streams, from movies, videos, book sales & other associated BBT-PPP merchandise..

All of these cash flows could so much as triple the total revenue, I dunno, it's all so far down the track and so much genuine product production lies between there and now and the figures above are only for the opening day party or a 1% total web response, as to my personal cut out of what ever figure you come up with, I can only assure you that would be somewhere in the region of proportionate to the amount of work I've done and time I've spent developing my lottery ticket.

As to what I am going to do with any surplus cash flow, the answer is start up the second hand space ship industry, the mechanism I intend to accomplish this with is Solar Funerals, I plan to buy/lease Woomera Rocket Range in South Australia from the Government and then start launching second hand I.C.B.Missiles filled with toxic waste, worn out astronauts and terminally ill Solar Funeral ticket holders at the Sun."

"But what if one crashes?" asked a horrified Prosecutor.

"We'll arc 'em up and out over Antarctica, that way if one doesn't make it all the way up, the pieces that hit the ground will only fuck up life for the penguins, scientists and seals." joke joked Glitter.

"That is environmentally insane, a crash could destroy a global treasure."

"Obviously it would as safe as humanly possible."

"But the consequences of a crash are devastating."

"As compared to the consequences of leaving all these weapons in perfect working order under the control of minds that are predisposed to use them?"

"Your honour I would like to call a recess whilst I consult with my superiors about this most recent development."

"On what grounds?" said Lazel.

"Glitters success has far more serious ramifications for the future of the planet than my government at first realised and he must be stopped at any cost, either that, or we are dealing with a situation where any further prosecution and resultant media exposure will disproportionably benefit the accused what ever the out come."

"You'll have to do better than that Mr Prosecutor."

"It's unfair your honour, this whole affair comes down to a matter of perceived cool. What chance does a Government have against a dreamer who want's to build a Peace Pipe and then rid the world of nuclear waste?"

"I see your point," said the Judge. "The Government want a stay in the proceedings until either they get cooler or Glitter gets - - - what's the opposite of cool?"

"Attitude challenged?" said a smiling Glitter "Anyway, it's the concept that's kewwwl, not me, I don't consider my self cool at all."

"In that case Glitter do you want to grant the prosecutors request?"

"Sure, it's time I got back to reality for a while anyway, there have been some interesting developments lately and it's time I exploited them to the full."