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To: MonsieurGonzo who wrote (8302)	4/29/2000 2:11:00 PM
From: Gersh Avery	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11051

call -151 and fall into the rabbit hole<g> Hell .. I'd love to be able to hack into '95 and strip out the slop! Problem is that so much of is code for hidden entry points, that I'd kill it for sure. Most of the time it'd look like it was OK .. then blammmmm .. (so what else would be new) Cut my teeth on a IIe .. started to look at the PC (MS DOS) and thought it was arrogent. So much stuff designed to keep little minds out of the innereds .. Then I sat down in front of the mac. I felt like I had been totally sold down the river. The split into OS and apps would (at least should) make it so that the "hidden" routine stuff stops. Would be nice to see the entire OS source published .. but (fat chance)

To: MonsieurGonzo who wrote (8302)	4/29/2000 7:43:00 PM
From: Trading Machine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11051

Now I KNOW from whence MG emanates!!! I have always been curious about voices on the other end of the phone line. Well, all of us have "pictured" the woman on the other end as a --- well what ever the dream picture is ... Fun hugh? (except for the females in the audience maybe)!!! Well now those of us reared in the techno generation KNOW Steve!! Yeah.. Strange, I never figured you as a NAZNUT in DOW clothing!! gg You are obviously a technocrat of some standing by virtue of your musings. Fun to look back at what coulda/woulda/shoulda been hugh? BTW you neglected to cover the era from the Arpanet to the beginnings of the Internet, turning X.25 into a "lower layer" protocol and introducing the world to an IP layer and a transport layer that guarantees in-order delivery of packets with 10x-13 BER. THEN you can talk about how Bill Gates took other peoples work and turned it into a gazillion dollars! tisk, tisk, tisk, coulda/shoulda/woulda... BTW the ADM 3A came before the Z-80, way before! Well, I ordered the Encyclopedia of Chart Formations and next week I'm gonna blow your doors off!!! ggg On the other hand it will take me a week to read it... gg --- But after I read it, -- WATCH OUT --. gg The only thing that will keep me on balance is TB bidding against me. gg Happy trading next week and I hope all the dudes on the thread make lotsa mooolaa!! CU Paul K.

To: MonsieurGonzo who wrote (8302)	4/29/2000 8:37:00 PM
From: Trading Machine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11051

Kind of an interesting article from "The Street" on a meeting with W. Buffet in which he said, "He (Buffet) compared the excitement such speculation creates to the thrill of the early rounds of one of the oldest money scams. "It's the same principal as a chain letter. There is no wealth created by a chain letter," Buffett said. "There are actually frictional costs like envelopes and postage. Trading [speculative stocks] is no different." Still, Buffett acknowledged that just like a successful chain letter, the speculation could continue for the foreseeable future. "In the end valuation does count, but it can go on for a long time. When you have a growing number of participants with ever-growing sums it can last a long time." In response, Munger (Berkshire Vice Chairman Charlie Munger) was his typically glib self. "I think the reason we use the term 'wretched excess' is there are wretched consequences," he said. "If you mix the chain letter or Ponzi scheme with something like the Internet, you mix something very bad with something very good. But, if you mix raisins with turds, you still have turds." I would submit that an awful lot of folks got left with the latter over the last 3-4 weeks. gg Buffet said that Berkshire trimed at least 25 million shares of Disney from their holdings last year. The question is, are these rasins?? CU Paul K.