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To: Joana Tides who wrote (4610)	9/25/1999 11:18:00 AM
From: Blue Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7442

Howdy Techriders, it's your ol' pal BLUE oposite.stsci.edu Jed and I are back from the wilderness and I can see there is much work to be done. Here is who is on BLUE's "to do" list: 1) Steve Ballmer (Steve call Eckhard 5fer, Earl Mason and Lew Platt. Ask them if, given the choice, would they rather have BLUE or a pit bull after them?). 2) Lorraine Wang and Robert Sherwood, Forbes, etc. I was once censored (SI called it a suspension) by SI for calling a moron a moron. Let's hope SI is not watching when I post on ro-lo-wood-wang (Robert-Lorraine-sherWood-Wang). If you own GNET you don't want to miss this one. 3) SI security (or lack of). On the brighter side, how nice to have so many Techride post to read, funny stuff. Did you all know there were more Techride posts than GNET posts while I was gone? Small wonder, great grubs, great friends and great times (not to mention fun links and nude sky diving). It is nice to be back home with my cyber family. 909S2ALL, BLUE

To: Joana Tides who wrote (4610)	9/25/1999 2:17:00 PM
From: Blue Snowshoe	Respond to of 7442

STEVE BALLMER, come on down, it's time to play the moron is wrong. First for those of you who have not had the pleasure of working in the corporate world, here is how it works. You give your freedom of speech to the company, they tell you what you can say and what you can not say. If you say ANYTHING about the company you work for, that makes your company look bad or hurts the company's shareholders, you are gone.......fired. You have a job at the corporation, if you don't do your job or if you try to do something out of the scope of your job, you are out of a job....fired.....I'm not making this up, that's the rules, unless your name is Steve Ballmer. Steve to date still has a job and IMO as a long term MSFT shareholder, Steve should do his job and when it comes to stocks he should keep his mouth closed. I don't care what Steve thinks about stocks. I don't use a broker and if I did, it wouldn't be Steve. I guess when you are the president of MSFT and the forth richest man in the US you don't worry about killing your stock with a stupid comment. But, if Steve was some poor slob working his a$$ off with two jobs, investing some money for kids to go to school on, maybe, just maybe, Steve would THINK before opening his mouth. Maybe they don't teach that at Harvard in Silverspoon 101, to worry about the little people. I say he should do his job as from the cyber sleeze form letter I just got from MSFT, the company has LOST their focus. They really do act like they are brokers. I wrote MSFT and told them that a CEO's job is to worry about the company and not to play broker. In return I get a letter that shows me that MSFT and Ballmer are missing the point. A CEO's number one duty, loyalty and focus should be to the shareholder (and thus the company), that is from CEO 101, no shareholders, no company. The corporate CYA form letter shows they miss the point..."Steve Ballmer's remarks yesterday were notintended (sp by MSFT) to signal a shift in any financial guidance about the company." What the hell is this? I don't want financial guidance from Steve or MSFT, I don't want signals, I want Steve and MSFT to pay attention to software and making my MSFT stock gain value, not lose it. Other proof that Steve and MSFT are missing the point (MSFT really has their head up the anus). Do you remember when you were a kid and your Mom would say "if the kid next door jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge, would you?" The form letter also said " Many market participants and observers have expressed concerns over the past few years about market valuations and certainly they are high relative to any historical trend." Can you believe they wrote that? Software MSFT, stick to software. A lesson for MSFT wannabe brokers. Only a moron would write "high relative to any historical trend". We have never seen an economy like this, maybe markets should follow suit? As for "many market participants and observers have expressed concerns", yes we see these people on CNBC every day and every day, time and history proves them wrong. A market observer who I dare say has forgotten more about markets and economies than Ballmer will ever know, made a fool of himself trying to say the market was over priced. That guy was Allen Greenspan. Until MSFT gets back to their job and Steve stops hurting his shareholders.....Steve, MSFT, I fart in your general direction. A long term MSFT shareholder, BLUE (Credit: the line, "I fart in your general direction" was lifted from the great Kevin Watson)