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To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (39524)	7/31/2001 7:48:04 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

Hmmmmm, I see ole Jimmy boy hath brought about a raft of sincere & thoughtful posts today. BTW JC, your suspended animation theory is possibly more accurate than not, BWDIK? Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Mr. Invisible Ö¿Ö

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (39524)	7/31/2001 8:58:04 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

Lots of folks are pondering what's happening with the market... Message 16151999 I have had some rough learning experiences in the last few years but I will use the knowledge in the future and be a better investor. At the moment I have very little money in the tech sector....I prefer the biopharmaceutical & medical device space right now. Its also been quite challenging working with young software firms. I am close to closing an Enterprise Licensing Deal with the Broadband Test Group of a $3 Billion Boston-based software firm. Yet, these folks are dealing with some tough times and are squeezing their vendors as much as possible. I am working with some brilliant software developers who have created a unique product that our first client really needs -- In fact, their engineers have fallen in love with our software during the evaluation period and are already starting to integrate our code into the new release of their broadband testing product. That gives me some leverage. It will be interesting to see how much cash I can extract from this firm. We have already given them a 30% discount off of 'our list price' <G>. I only want our new company (softcrate technologies) to get what's fair and reasonable. Best Regards, Scott BTW, thanks for stopping by JC....We miss you on the porch. I remain cautiously optimistic about the market and feel 2002 will be A MUCH BETTER TIME for the economy. Once 'recovery mode' kicks in, the market could come back quickly. There is a ton of excess cash on the sidelines and it will not stay there...=)

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (39524)	10/10/2001 11:30:30 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

Subject: Editorial from a Romanian newspaper An Ode to America Why are Americans so united? They don't resemble one another even if you paint them! They speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations. Some of them are nearly extinct, others are incompatible with one another, and in matters of religious beliefs, not even God can count how many they are. Still, the American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand put on the heart. Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the army, the secret services that they are only a bunch of losers. Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts. Nobody rushed on the streets nearby to gape about. The Americans volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand. After the first moments of panic, they raised the flag on the smoking ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the colors of the national flag. They placed flags on buildings and cars as if in every place and on every car a minister or the president was passing. On every occasion they started singing their traditional song: "God Bless America!". Silent as a rock, I watched the charity concert broadcast on Saturday once, twice, three times, on different TV channels. There were Clint Eastwood, Willie Nelson, Robert de Niro, Julia Roberts, Cassius Clay, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Springsteen, Silvester Stalone, James Wood, and many others whom no film or producers could ever bring together. The American's solidarity spirit turned them into a choir. Actually, choir is not the word. What you could hear was the heavy artillery of the American soul. What neither George W. Bush, nor Bill Clinton, nor Colin Powell could say without facing the risk of stumbling over words and sounds, was being heard in a great and unmistakable way in this charity concert. I don't know how it happened that all this obsessive singing of America didn't sound croaky, nationalist, or ostentatious! It made you green with envy because you weren't able to sing for your country without running the risk of being considered chauvinist, ridiculous, or suspected of who-knows-what mean interests. I watched the live broadcast and the rerun of its rerun for hours listening to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a wheelchair without knowing who she was, or of the Californian hockey player, who fought with the terrorists and prevented the plane from hitting a target that would have killed other hundreds or thousands of people. How on earth were they able to bow before a fellow human? Imperceptibly, with every word and musical note, the memory of some turned into a modern myth of tragic heroes. And with every phone call, millions and millions of dollars were put in a collection aimed at rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit which nothing can buy. What on earth can unite the Americans in such a way? Their land? Their galloping history? Their economic power? Money? I tried for hours to find an answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases which risk of sounding like commonplaces. I thought things over, but I reached only one conclusion. Only freedom can work such miracles!