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To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (60176)	2/11/2000 3:12:00 PM
From: AltLar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

Anybody know what's up with RNTK. Up over 80% today on 10 times normal volume. They do NG to liquids. Larry

To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (60176)	2/11/2000 3:31:00 PM
From: SargeK	Respond to of 95453

Slider: "I view myself as the long lost redheaded stepchild, you never had..." Correction: SargeK: "Long lost redheaded child, I never knew.." >g< K

To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (60176)	2/11/2000 4:06:00 PM
From: SargeK	Respond to of 95453

dont let briggs go on vacation guys ! by: SliderOnTheBlack 2/11/00 3:16 pm You guys couldnt hold this up without him huh ? VBG.... messages.yahoo.com The ultimate Pump & Dump weakness! You just gotta brag! How many aliases do you have on Yahoo? I can confirm at least 20. The Boiler Room is persistent and LOUD! O/T - Tell your mom hello, little dude! (Redhead, I remember)

To: SliderOnTheBlack who wrote (60176)	2/11/2000 4:30:00 PM
From: Brian P.	Respond to of 95453

<< It is not personal with me either; I view myself as the long lost redheaded stepchild, you never had... and I have 1st dibs on the seat next to you at our SI Rig party ! >> They seat you two next to each other, and after four drinks between you all bets are off--you'll either be swinging at each other or hugging each other. The rest of us will be amused either way. How's this article for the intersection of two off-topic themes on this thread?: (1) the limitations of "W" and (2) tech craziness and cyber-vandalism ===> February 11, 2000 FOREIGN AFFAIRS / By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Mr. Bush's Homework The Times Op-Ed page sponsored a forum yesterday for people to give advice to George W. Bush on how to reinvigorate his campaign. I'm a day late, but here's my entry: The first thing Governor Bush needs to grasp is the context of his campaign. He should consider just a few facts: 1. When Bill Clinton was elected president seven years ago there were 50 pages on the World Wide Web. Today there are over 50 million. 2. In 1992 no one had heard of e-commerce. This year retail e-commerce alone in the U.S. will hit $50 billion -- all of it untaxed, which is starting to drive mayors and governors crazy, because they're losing their tax base. The original Boston Tea Party was colonists throwing tea into the harbor under the motto "No taxation without representation." The new Boston e-party will be mayors and governors throwing Internet servers into the harbor under the motto "No representation without taxation." 3. The three biggest foreign relationships the U.S. has today -- with Japan, Russia and China -- have all been turned upside down, as all three countries go through the painful adjustment to globalization. While U.S. foreign policy in the cold war was about how to manage the military strength of Russia and China and the economic strength of Japan, today U.S. foreign policy is about how to manage the weakness of Russia, China and Japan. The old security agenda has been inverted, and with cyber-vandals disrupting Yahoo, eBay, E-Trade and Amazon.com, who knows what new threats are emerging? In other words, the whole context for this campaign is that we are now in a period of radical change, possibly more sweeping and complex than in any period since 1776-1789. While the candidates are not talking about it, many voters feel it. And this leads to Governor Bush's biggest problem -- that many wonder whether he is up to managing this complexity. You remember that silly picture of Michael Dukakis riding in a tank, with an ill-fitting helmet on his head, in the 1988 campaign? That picture helped to destroy Mr. Dukakis's chances because, at the height of the cold war with Russia, who could vote for someone who looked so dopey in military headgear? Well, the dunce cap is to this presidential campaign what that Army helmet was to the 1988 campaign. Any candidate who looks too comfortable in a dunce cap has a real problem today. George W. is not a dunce, but he has not exactly demonstrated that he is a master of complexity, and that is a particular liability in this campaign. Voters look for one of two things in a candidate: convictions or capabilities. Ronald Reagan was not the smartest president, but he conveyed strong convictions about the biggest issue of his day -- how to confront the Soviet Union -- and people connected with that on a gut level. So much so that they gave Mr. Reagan the freedom to pursue a nuanced, far-reaching arms control policy toward Moscow. President Bush was not ideologically consistent, but his curiosity and instincts made him extraordinarily capable at managing the complexities of ending the cold war. What hampers George W. Bush today is a gnawing sense that he has neither the convictions nor curiosities to cope with this new world. (But beware John McCain: he may have too much conviction about the cold-war foreign policy, and be too quick to invade in all the wrong places.) George W. doesn't convey any sense that he understands the period of radical change we are entering, or has any big ideas -- other than a big tax cut -- for how to deal with it. He also has another problem: We all know him, or at least we think we do, because we all went to high school with him. We all had a kid in our high school class -- the charming, pampered goof-off, the one you let peek at your homework -- whom you loved for fraternity president, but not student council president. A president doesn't need to be a genius to be successful, if he has strong convictions relevant to his times. A president doesn't need to have strong convictions to be successful, if he has capabilities relevant to his times. But in a period of radical change, a president must have one or the other. If George W. is to survive, he must prove that he indeed has one or the other, that we really don't know him, and that he really isn't just copying his advisers' homework. Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company