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To: Yogizuna who wrote (40534)	6/8/1999 11:18:00 PM
From: Hans	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 94695

One person in 100 owns a computer? Sounds suspicious. World population as of 07/01/99 is 5,996,215,340 (US census). Call it 6 billion), so 1 in 100 would be 60 million PC's. As of 1/1/1999, there were 108 Million web users in US, Japan, UK, Germany, and Canada along (Computer industry almanac). This means that 48 million web users dont have a PC. Quick, lets buy web TV stocks <g>. Although it seems that everyone has internet access, online penetration is currently well under 100% of PC owners. Some people dont have a PC but surf at work (should they count?). To balance this, some people have two or more PC's. You gotta questions those statistics...

To: Yogizuna who wrote (40534)	6/9/1999 1:28:00 AM
From: Skeet Shipman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

Yogi, Yes, we are living like kings. And it makes me question the allocation of resources; especially, the free market allocation of capital. Have you checked the price to book ratios of the internets? There are countries in Africa, which may be anticipating as high as a 40% HIV infection of their populations. And we are arguing intellectual rights!!! The drug companies could go together and form a not for profit African manufacturing facility to provide for this need. This way they could control the amount, appearance, and distribution of the drugs. Skeet