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To: CatLady who wrote (9493)	4/17/2000 12:23:00 PM
From: lorrie coey	Respond to of 12810

Hmmm. Ok. It had that sarcastic edge that implied that I was a "CT"...which I'm not. The word 'conspire' has negative connotations... A 'loose cabal' would be more accurate of a description for what I believe has transpired... Anyway, I was dead serious in my response to you- The new 'smart chips' will have many beneficial uses... I am concerned with the ABUSE of the new advances... That's All.

To: CatLady who wrote (9493)	4/17/2000 1:02:00 PM
From: lorrie coey	Respond to of 12810

"Today the metaphor for the mind (and more precisely, the brain) has shifted to the computer, but wirelessness is enjoying a veritable rebirth. Only a few years ago, the image of the information age was a person Wired (as in the formerly-bleeding edge magazine of that name), plugged in, turned on. Today's image is IBM's man on the park bench screaming 'Sell! Sell!' with his wireless headset and eye-sized video screen. As John Brady argues, he sits as a self-congratulatory icon of contemporary capitalism, but also points to the continuing need and vitality of public space. Cellular phones proliferate everywhere and in some countries are making an end-run around hardwired telecommunications. Geoff Sauer's tour of Pittsburgh with his 900MHz headphones illustrates the pervasiveness of wireless telecommunications -- all these tiny little broadcasts, all these voices calling out into space. Hearing these transmissions together renders apparent the artificiality of our atomized lives, our false senses of privacy and individuality." english-www.hss.cmu.edu Fascinating.

To: CatLady who wrote (9493)	4/30/2000 2:08:00 AM
From: EL KABONG!!!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12810

This is not a moron nomination. I choose to post this message here because I know that a lot of skeptics read this thread. And I suspect most of them would find some amusement in this fund... Here we have a brand new mutual fund. Friday (4/28/00) they made the fund's first investment, Employee Solutions (ESOL), which is a small cap company with lots of current problems. The web site clearly elaborates on these problems. In fact, this is one of the best "basher" sites against a stock I've ever seen. Opinion supported by verifiable facts (if anyone takes the time)... The fund proposes to acquire significant positions in small cap stocks, and then using that position, to "pressure" current management into enhancing shareholder value... I'm not joking. This is really what they say. It's founded by two "perfessers"... Read for yourself. Be sure to <click> on "Employee Solutions" to see how they effectively "bash" the purchase that they just completed... eraider.com KJC