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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (19533)	6/7/2002 11:50:42 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi KastelCo, <<massive redistribution of wealth and privilege>> is certainly true, and I am afraid of the second-level effects on many, and the 666th order of derivatives on a few, leading perhaps to chants about final solutions, lines in the sand, and holding camps for economically less advantaged folks. People, of all political flavors and economic scents, each time we checked, tend to take <<massive redistribution of wealth and privilege>>, a/k/a revolution, rebellion, uprising, chaos, doom, ... very personally. And yet, Maurice sees nothing, at all, except his cellular phone, perhaps until the time when there is no one at the other end to pick up the conversation. Chugs, Jay

To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (19533)	6/8/2002 12:07:21 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Gidday KC, Kiwi wines are doing well. We have lots of Kiwi whines too [mostly of interest only in our local media]. The acidic plonk of my youth is as out of date as the Fortran IV punch cards I used to mess around with in the dead of night when I could book time on the punch machines. Log tables, slide rules. Walking miles to school, barefoot. A used bicycle costing a year's newspaper delivery money. Times were tough. I have no sympathy for the rich, whining brats of the cyberspace revolution. Pay of $1 an hour is heaps. They can buy a scientific calculator after a day's work. I had to work for a month to buy my first one. A used car would take them only a year to buy and it would be a classy piece of equipment compared with what I could buy after a year's work. You'd be amused to know that I met a computer programmer in 1976 at Lake Paudash [in Ontario] and we were discussing the future for programmers. I thought that surely after a few years all the programmes that were needed would be written and demand for programmers would drop. How wrong that idea was!! A huge, vast, booming industry took off and is still growing like crazy with no sign of reducing [though the pay rates are]. Mqurice