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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (1710)	5/19/2000 2:43:00 PM
From: Jon Koplik	Respond to of 12247

Details of AOL 5.0 version destroying your computer. From : accessmagazine.com (Access magazine -- that newspaper insert that is all about computer & Internet stuff). FIX THIS! Based on reader questions and our own experience, we know there are things about AOL's service that require attention. Here's our list of the worst offenders: AOL takes over. When you install AOL 5.0, you're asked if you want AOL to be your default access to the Internet. If you say yes, AOL may mess with other ISP settings or browsers you may want to use, preventing them from operating cleanly, all without telling you what's going on. Several class-action suits have been filed, charging that AOL's installation instructions in this area are misleading. AOL says that it's just trying to make its users' lives simple. In fact, it says the feature was added "based on feedback from members," though apparently not those users with other ISPs. [And, another thing ... ] Getting the boot. Stay online for an extended period and you'll be asked to sign off. Stay on past that, you may just get booted with no warning if AOL decides you're just lollygagging. It's AOL's way of regulating the traffic of 1.2 million simultaneous users, but it's very annoying when you're downloading a file from the Web, which AOL may see as inactivity.

To: Jon Koplik who wrote (1710)	5/20/2000 1:30:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12247

*OT but related in that spectrum and body parts should BOTH be sold by auction, not beauty contest, to avoid fighting over the profits, bribery and corruption* From an earlier discussion on selling body parts [thanks Paul] <On a long dead and morbid subject, just came across: "In April, the Orange County (Calif.) Register revealed that human tissue banks, which are widely believed by the donating public to be either government or non-profit-operated, are highly profitable commercial concerns, with annual revenues of $500 million and rising. Today, a cadaver "donated to science" actually brings up to $200,000 for tissue banks and their contractors. The companies argue that if they paid for cadavers, the costs would rise to tissue recipients (who range from blind people receiving corneas to makeup models who want fuller lips)." -Chuck Spepherd 74777.3206@compuserve.com From the News of the Weird column in today's (May 15) San Jose Mercury News. So, the doctors are not getting the money for the body parts, but sure enough someone is. Frightening that a cadaver is worth 200K, might lead to a bit of a market. > Get your body parts here: ocregister.com Actually, I don't find it at all frightening that a cadaver is worth $200K. It amazes me that it is so cheap. Spare parts for an old car approach that sort of price [depending on the car of course]. I'd have thought somebody dying from the lack of a kidney, blind from lack of corneas, suffocating because of lung disease, fibrillating with a failing heart and maybe just needing a bit of a lift in life and their face, might value the parts a little more highly. Look at it another way. How much would you have to offer somebody who is healthy to remove those said parts from their body? I dare say you'd be looking at MUCH bigger numbers than $200K. That's a way of getting a ball-park figure of the value. It surprises me that doctors, hospitals, the body part shop, the nurses and all the other hangers-on are allowed to get their pound of flesh, but the family of the deceased are out of luck. I dare say, given the prevalence of shooting in the lower socioeconomic community and road deaths, where the good bodies would come from, it essentially means that the white people are getting the body parts from black people and not even having to pay for the privilege. I dare say the great majority of people getting the money and body parts are actually white. Of course nobody would suggest that this is a ploy to steal from melanin-rich people, and few would even have thought of what actually is happening statistically. But whether one thinks about it or not, doesn't change the actual outcome. Okay, I'm being a bit provocative there, because it is certainly all done without intentional malice, but it seems to me that the donor estate and family of the donor should be the primary beneficiary. You'd think Congress, which is so worried about ensuring minorities and poor people getting an even break or even preferred access to spectrum [not that the target people benefit from favouritism in contracts etc], would be onto this and demanding payment to the families of the deceased. [I'd link this to the previous discussion, but it's way upstream somewhere]. Meanwhile, how about that Q! price? Slip sliding away... Mqurice