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To: Ali Chen who wrote (80257)	11/17/1999 11:06:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1570736

Ali, OT... Probably the biggest reason retiree expatriates move to Mexico is that they can live much cheaper. Many of them are on US government pensions! So the US is good enough for them to rack up a check every month but not good enough to live in. A lot of the same could be said for the other bunch of expatriates down there. They made their money in the US...stinking up the place along the way, only to "move out" later.

To: Ali Chen who wrote (80257)	11/17/1999 11:24:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1570736

Looks like the Athlon motherboard shortage is working itself out. FIC-SD-11s are now $130 on pricewatch. The BCM boards have really dropped... One source tells me they actually cost less than the FIC board... Jim

To: Ali Chen who wrote (80257)	11/17/1999 11:36:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1570736

Ali, I recall the old Al Cap attacks on the USSR and the satellite countries. He called the USSR "upper slobovia" and the eastern blco "lower slobbovia". The currency of lower slobbovia(ls) he named the 'razbuznik' and it was officially worth nothing. So the poorest bum from the USA who managed to get to ls with 1 US penny could buy up all the currency in ls and have change left over. Of course he would cartoon such a bum, with castles, girls, cakes, planes, booze etc at his disposal. For many years the sovbloc would act in a non-economic way and expend 1000's of manhours for small amounts of US $. Once they had to pay their workers in a hard/convertible currency they were unable to. I think the Russian corruption is the greatest threat we have to world peace. Most goods exported from the USSR do not retutn $ to the USSR....those $ go to swiss and US banks and the raw materials for those goods are squeezed out of the broken socialist system. In effect the profit leavse and shows up as $$ offshore and the people can barely feed them selves. I have a great fear that some small tac nukes will be bought and used. If we can stall this for another 5 years or so this problem will cease as most small tac nukes need replacement of fast decaying transuranics and the central goverment has a hold on this choke point. Still plutonium bombs are a risk and every day that passes and we do not get a big bang in NY or Washington or Moscow or ?? give me a feeling of relief. (not that I sweat each night, just it is a real and present risk...makes me wonder if a Y2K bomb is sitting counting the days as we speak. Bill