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To: HomeBoy Security who wrote (120816)	3/19/2001 12:02:44 AM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

vbj, you sound extremist. that is like saying, we all die someday so why even try. maturity does not lead one to that conclusion. maturity tells you to control what you can, accept what you can't control and hope you can tell the difference. when one sticks one's head in the sand then they are prone for a spanking! prepare for the worst and hope for the best. personally, i'm happy the net companies have subsidized so many of my purchases. :-)

To: HomeBoy Security who wrote (120816)	3/19/2001 8:05:22 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

SO i guess your suggesting why even try. My two cents are the following. Large sums of capital and resources should not be put into the hands of those incapable of putting it to good use. There was a time and that will be the case now when capital is given to those with good ideas and experience or near experience in implimenting them. Amazon is such an obvious misallocation of capital. Two plus billion dollars were handed to Bezos to create a on-line retailer. There is nothing wrong with the idea of an on-line retailer but would it not be better to provide that capital to someone that understood retailing? Bezos' "specialty" I believe was money management. He has been able to take two billion dollars in resources and totally eliminate it. That is very sad.