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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (80)	11/24/2001 6:22:15 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 621

12 years since the last peak in house prices jfred! That doesn't sound like hyperinflation. Houses are like hamburgers = a reasonable combination of economic components. Deflation in the dot.coms and telecosmic stocks is fair enough. The Dow is still burbling along at a constant level, heading for 3 years of stability. No deflation in sight [thanks to Uncle Al's printing machine]. The public comments by Osama and co show they really are detached from reality about what the USA is and what it might do. It's not just the USA either. I am angry too and so are a lot of people. Do you think Americans will hunt down IRA terrorists and their friends and friends of friends? I expect the USA anti-terrorist obsession will only run to terrorists who harm Americans. I can name friends of supporters of the IRA if you like. Right here in SI!! Don't forget French terrorism [Rainbow Warrior] and I actually suspect that that was a three way deal between Britain, France and the USA to show NZ what they could expect with their anti-nuke position. People are reported to be getting major retail therapy in the USA to recuperate from the WTC and anthrax attacks. I want to see a Prozac sales graph over the past 6 months in the USA. I bet it's down. Which to me will prove that the modern world is, as Ted Kaczynski says, increasingly unsuitable for large human primates and when the world reverts to their more natural norms [like survival and killing - plenty to occupy the mind without angst about the meaning of life], things seem more 'normal'. People feel better. That's my theory anyway. An interesting article here about the exponential approach to a singularity in human affairs and technology development, including the stockmarket. Very large item so you'll need bandwidth to download happily. kurzweilai.net Mqurice

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (80)	9/9/2002 9:57:34 PM
From: AC Flyer	Respond to of 621

>>Put your money on this one. The country is realllly pissed off, in the sort of long-haul way that is Very Bad News for those who were foolish enough to have aroused our collective anger. The constant group infighting that marks American society is suspended right now, and that's not real good if you were planning on killing lots of American civilians. There is a very old American flag that predates the Stars and Stripes, it is a rattlesnake with the motto "Don't Tread On Me". Someone has foolishly confused the rubbish that Hollywood produces for the American character, and they will learn the error of their ways in the brief and terrifying days they have left on earth. I don't think we are going to get tired of hunting down terrorists, friends of terrorists, or friends of friends of terrorists for a very long time.<< I hope you're right, JF. I think that America's enemies do misunderstand the American character, believing Americans to be soft. If they read a little more history they would know that Americans are capable of great courage and self-sacrifice. I think often of the Battle of Midway and the American airmen who flew obsolete torpedo bombers to attack the Japanese fleet knowing that they did not have enough fuel to return to their own carriers. The Japanese had naval superiority in the Pacific and this was a battle that the outnumbered American Pacific Fleet had to win. Many of the American planes were shot down before they reached their targets, most of the rest ditched after completing their attacks. Many of the pilots and aircrew did not survive but four Japanese carriers were sunk or so badly damaged that they were permanently disabled. The Japanese Navy was not able to field a force of any consequence in the Pacific after Midway.