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To: JC Jaros who wrote (1909)	12/9/1999 4:54:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2615

Linux-on-Itanium effort gets more backing A coalition of firms aiming to make the Linux operating system work on Intel's upcoming Itanium chip is getting bigger, with the addition of the four biggest Linux sellers, sources said. news.cnet.com

To: JC Jaros who wrote (1909)	12/9/1999 9:20:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2615

Well it's kind of like a hoot-e-nanny where every body gets together and smokes some of their grandpappy's ole rotten green pipe tobaccie and loses all track of time like sailing away in a far off land. Naturally there is nothing to do until the boat arrives on shore again so they sing songs and man the oars. If you are pulling with a woman its a lot more fun. Sad songs are best because they make you feel nostalgic for home (and family 5 cents a minute extra) which if you think for a minute about you don't want to go back to anyway. Much wine is consumed liberally and everybody knows the words to weird songs and poems that mean so much more than they did before you became aware or hip. ie knowing something about something that nobody can explain because they are afraid to admit they don't know. If in doubt about the meaning of the folk movement it can be said that it is all political. Except of course where everybody actually hates real politics because it isn't against any particular thing. So back to songs. Just about every song in the modern anti- rip off song movement of the 60's onward was written by some old black street musician who could not afford to copyright it. So naturally it ends up on the hit parade nome de plume of Morey Rotterdam or the Rolling Rocks, highly original, highly aware modern psychoramic gitter pickers. No way Beggar's Banquet or Let it Bleed could have been written in toto by let's say Furry Lewis (Black street sweeper from Chicago) Or could it? It turns out that 80% of Bob Dylan up to say Lay Lady Lay is lifted by public domain and not so public domain 1920's to 1940's blues songs. Think I am kidding? It's All Over Baby Blue and even MotorPsycho Nightmare, and Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands are all song theft. You would think the themes are modern as today's purple microdot. Not so. Nothing new under the sun. At least the Animals (Eric Burdon) attributed their hits to combing the archives of the blues collections of Blackwood and other song troves. Are the Beatles original? No. Lots of their later stuff steals song lyrics and riffs from older songs. It's all recycled. Judy Henske? Farewell to Aldebaran and all sorts of good Blues stuff on Mercury Circa 1960 to 1968. EC<:-}