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To: Don Earl who wrote (2018)	8/16/2003 12:59:18 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 20039

HOLLYWOOD ACCOUNTING? Re: If they were making anything close to the kind of money they report, they wouldn't have to float a new series of bonds every six months. Aaron Sorkin, the writer of NBC's West Wing and a number of movie hits like "A Few Good Men" was on Charlie Rose this week. He complained about one film he'd written the screenplay for that cost $47 M to make and has already grossed $350 M in distribution. To date, the accountants still can't pay him a dime because his net position on profits is still underwater. <g>

To: Don Earl who wrote (2018)	8/16/2003 8:03:17 AM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20039

Because, the people who own the energy companies shares are part of the same immoral classist elite as the people who run them. Long and short, they don't give a rats ass about anyone else, as long as that divend check rolls in every quarter. Mankind at his/her core is an immoral creature that will rob, cheat, manipulate and even kill to ensure his/her comfort and well being. Street crime is just the most obvious manifestation of this sad part of human nature. Government and business coruption are much bigger and less obvious forms of this same human flaw. That's why it's important, if you are one of the few moral and principled people in the world, to become active in your community, to vote, to try to make a difference and to try to educate about the wrongs in the world (as we are doing on this thread). Because, lord knows, the moral people are way outnumbered by the people who don't give a $hit about anyone but themselves.

To: Don Earl who wrote (2018)	8/16/2003 5:18:05 PM
From: KonKilo	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20039

The New York City medical examiner's office, using DNA analysis, has managed to identify slightly more than half of the 2,792 people killed in the attack on the WTC towers, and it is feared that the remains of as many as 1,000 victims may never be identified. Given the fire and collapse of the two towers, this is not surprising. What is surprising is the contrast between the DNA identification process in New York and the DNA identification process that took place with respect to the victims of the Pentagon crash. Again, there was an horrific crash and a terrible fire, but authorities report that they identified remains of 184 (or here) people who were aboard Flight 77 or inside the Pentagon, including those of the five hijackers, but could not match the other remains with any of five people who were also known to be on the flight. In fact, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology claims to have identified the remains of all but one of the passengers on Flight 77. If they achieve their goals, the New York investigators hope to achieve a 65% rate of identification. That is in a situation where many bodies were found intact as many of the victims died due to the collapse of the buildings and not due to fire. Identifying 184 out of 189 Pentagon victims is a 97% success rate in a case where we are to believe that heat was sufficient to vaporize the fuselage and engines of the plane, a vaporization needed to explain the almost complete absence of wreckage left behind of the plane, but not degrade the DNA of the passengers inside the plane. How do we reconcile a 50% rate of identification in New York, or 65% if they achieve their goals, with a 97% identification rate in Washington, especially where much of the DNA obtained in Washington had to be obtained from the area where the fuselage surrounding the passengers was before it was vaporized by the heat? xymphora.blogspot.com posted 1:47 AM