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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (81143)	5/25/2000 9:56:00 AM
From: Don Lloyd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

MB - news.excite.com "Hijacking Suspect Parachutes Out Updated 9:28 AM ET May 25, 2000 By A Man MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A hijacker armed with a pistol and a grenade robbed 290 people on a Philippines Airlines jet today before leaping from the plane with a homemade parachute, authorities said. ..." Note the anonymous byline. "...The plane was depressurized so that the hijacker could jump out while it circled 30 miles from Manila at 6,000 feet, PAL spokesman Rolando Estabillo said. A strong gust of wind swept into the plane when the door was opened, a passenger said. The hijacker had difficulty getting out the door. "I had to push him because he wanted to jump," a flight attendant said...." Philippines Airlines must recruit from suicide hotline dropouts. -g- Regards, Don

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (81143)	5/25/2000 12:49:00 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Michael, Microsoft is down again now that they judge has indicated that he's inclined to break it into 3 baby bills. This may seem an odd question, but at what price would you consider Microsoft a value stock? Both the OS and the application baby bills would have compelling near-monopoly positions in the desktop world. True, that is no longer the whole world from the average business user's perspective (as it was 10 years ago), but it still a large world and will remain so for a long time, despite the swing back to thin-client systems. And Microsoft is taking a respectable hunk of the Server/OS world, despite NT's limitations as a large-scale server OS. So it's not going broke anytime soon. Where would you get interested in it?