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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (40794)	9/24/1999 9:18:00 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116927

<<I believe ecommerce will continue to maintain pricing pressure on goods and services as we see so many products commoditized.>> Even if "our friend Clinton" continues to restrict the very (though slight)productivity gains which brought us here?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (40794)	9/25/1999 6:34:00 AM
From: Bobby Yellin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116927

where did you get 1997? I found that bizarre..most of the date problems were put back in the sixties because of lack of space and assumption that those systems would be replaced way before 2000 as an aside how much time have you wasted with trying to reach a company for information and going from one menu to another and then finally being put on hold for a human..how much time is actually spent at businesses trying to undo glitches or constant computer training and updating and having to freeze while networks are down.. ecommerce is fantastic for competition..but totally lousy for bottom line..until enough businesses are driven out of business but... If Asian companies get their acts together and we really have global shopping via the net..watch out for all the US corps who have been using cheap foreign labor,increasing the trade deficit for cost savings..if foreign corporations start selling their own light bulbs, computers,clothes etc instead of making them US corps..wow a whole new ballgame.. then it would be also interesting to hear about "productivity" please explain the part about productivity..

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (40794)	9/25/1999 9:51:00 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116927

<<However, one caveat to my current opinion would be something occuring that is politically or militarity disruptive, especially in Asia. China is still a wildcard.>> Bush talks tough to Russia Says he?ll pull U.S. out of ABM treaty over Star Wars WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Presidential candidate George W. Bush says that if Russia does not agree to amend the 1972 Anit-Ballistic Missile Treaty to allow the United States to deploy a large and effective national missile defense system, his administration would withdraw from the treaty. "If Russia refuses the changes we propose, we will give prompt notice under the provisions of the treaty that we can no longer be a party to it," he told an audience Thursday at the Citadel in South Carolina in the first defense-policy speech of his campaign. The treaty prohibits the deployment of a missile defense system, as it would have upset the "mutually assured destruction"-based deterrence that existed between the well-armed United States and the Soviet Union. "I will have a solemn obligation to protect the American people and our allies, not to protect arms control agreements signed almost 30 years ago," he said, according to an advance copy of his prepared speech. The Clinton administration is preparing to negotiate changes to the treaty that would allow the deployment of a limited NMD system, in the event such a system is found to be feasible. Bush favors a far larger system, aides told reporters today. Bush would also direct a "devastating" response to any acts of terrorism against Americans, especially on U.S. soil, but he declined to specify what that response would be. "Our first line of defense is a simple message: Every group or nation must know, if they sponsor such attacks, our response will be devastating," Bush said. Bush's foreign-policy adviser, Condoleeza Rice, would not say whether that response would entail the use of nuclear weapons. If elected, Bush vowed he would review worldwide U.S. military commitments to see whether they warrant continued involvement, with a special eye on peacekeeping missions in Kosovo, Bosnia and Haiti, although Congress has determined that the deployment in Haiti will terminate by next spring. The Pentagon plans an even earlier withdrawal of the approximately 400 troops there.(cont) codaily.com