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Non-Tech : Tulipomania Blowoff Contest: Why and When will it end? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dale Baker who wrote (2843)	5/14/2000 12:48:00 PM
From: Mad2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3543

Yeah, the Internet is just a fad....... No more a fad than electricity, telephones, radio, TV, nuclear power, conglomerates.....not a hula hoop! What seems to have been a fad is the belief that any company doing business on the internet was a good investment..........deserving a market cap of 1-10bil dollars if the idea was at all even plausible.....;?) mad2

To: Dale Baker who wrote (2843)	5/14/2000 2:53:00 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3543

Interesting ... my wife and i have just finished taking care of a little Bischon [sp?] cross dog, also named S kura [which means 'cherry blossom' apparently] [cutest little thing you ever saw, we got quite attached], for a couple of neighbours who returned to Japan for six months. When they got back, they had us over to dinner and were showing us pictures of the valley in which they'd been living ... it was covered in April with blossoms, mostly pink, from peach orchards and a unique sort of vineyard style i've never seen before - very few stems per hectare, the vines perhaps ten metres apart, and trained on wires that spanned the vineyards about two and a half metres up. Well, i have a long-term vineyard plan here, and the system looks to me like it's a lot easier to establish than our locally-common german system of rows at two-metre centres with vines one metre apart ... great saving in labour, poles, special wire, started vines, etc. So i'm very interested in why and how the japanese do it this way - are they using a variety adapted for this technique? How long does it take these vines to use the space? How do i learn details about this method? The way i'll answer the questions? - The Internet. Our friends say they will do what they can to line us up with a local vintner who speaks english and is on the net at least to the point of using email ... and i don't expect it to take long.