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To: William JH who wrote (46486)	6/15/1999 8:49:00 PM
From: The Ox	Respond to of 95453

One note on Y2K and embedded chips. What does "failure" mean in an embedded chip? Usually it means ANY malfunction and that includes the not necessarily "fatal" failures but include any number of possibilities. Not all "failures" will cause a chip or system to shut down. Many are simply bad dates being transmitted by these chips. In many systems, simply having a bad date is not a disaster that would force a complete shut down of the process. Y2K is very serious and needs to be addressed by every company, organization and government but not every Y2K "bug" failure is catastrophic.

To: William JH who wrote (46486)	6/15/1999 9:49:00 PM
From: Think4Yourself	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

re: "Owning delisted stocks is not a strategy I care much for." nor me. There is often NO liquidity in stocks that fall of the big exchanges. More often than not they go bankrupt within a year or two of delisting. Been there - done that (several times). Don't care to go through it again. I still have 3k shares of a stock that went that route 7 years back. Creditors got almost everything. Shareholders DID get two things: a tax writeoff and the shaft!!