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To: steve harmon - analyst who wrote (2293)	7/28/1999 9:53:00 AM
From: astyanax	Read Replies (2) of 4337

You're right, stock markets really are tied into the past. It's quite amazing that we still operate in a free market where the markets actually close down just because it is night time locally. And that we price in the anachronistic x/16 fractions rather than exact decimals. And that we have floor brokers relay orders by flashing hand signs and screaming in a chaotic pit. absolutely absurd. it's a miracle that things work as well as they do but we've got a ways to go. now that the Internet is the greatest globalizing force in the post-pangaean era, I wonder if English will become the lingua franca for the western hemisphere. The French are already ballistic about the thought (e.g. Toubon vs. Georgia Tech/Metz "website cultural offense" lawsuit). Who knows, us bloody Americans may give some ground and finally go to a rational systems of measurements - the metric system. Things are going to blend together... - This rambling message provided by Netconductor.com >>steve harmon wrote: more softbank...[snip]...a softbank adr would improve its visibility in the u.s. even better would be a global internet stock market that crosses borders and artificial boundaries -- the internet is global, the stock markets are tied to the past

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