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To: stevenallen who wrote (48578)	11/1/2003 11:28:25 AM
From: stevenallen	Respond to of 57110

You know you're alive in 2003 when... 1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave. 2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years. 3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3. 4. You e-mail your friend who works at the desk next to you. 5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends is that they do not have e-mail addresses. 6. When you go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone in a business manner. 7. When you make phone calls from home, you accidentally dial "9" to get an outside line. 8. You've sat at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies. 10. You learn you've been laid off on the 11 o'clock news. 11. Your boss doesn't have the ability to do your job 12. Contractors outnumber permanent staff and are more likely to get long-service awards. 13. You read this entire list, and kept nodding and smiling. 14. As you read this list, you think about forwarding it to your "friends". 15. You got this e-mail from a friend that never talks to you any more, except to send you jokes from the net.

To: stevenallen who wrote (48578)	11/1/2003 12:16:22 PM
From: X Y Zebra	Respond to of 57110

Only a few years ago, we were fearful of the Chinese hordes and their army. They were the enemy. Today, our economies are so inextricably interwoven that it is our best interest to work any problems out peacefully. We now depend upon each other. If we want to find peace with the Arab world, we need to find ways to establish economic ties with them as well. If we do not, the demographic issues I outlined above will have very negative consequences for us, our children and our grandchildren. Finally, if I were young and aggressive or starting out (or starting over) I would seriously consider learning a second and third language, moving overseas and looking for opportunity. I would learn a business here and go and reproduce it offshore. Or you could consider backing a younger person with the time and energy to start a business in a foreign country. But be prepared to travel, and even if you are "only" the investor, learn the local language and customs and be prepared for changing course quickly. Thank you Steve for posting the article, great piece

To: stevenallen who wrote (48578)	11/1/2003 4:54:20 PM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 57110

Call me naive, but I do not think the primary consideration for the Iraqi war was/is oil, American hegemony or establishing a democracy in Iraq. But I think that the current US administration intends to use the event to do its best to bring about a thriving Islamic democracy. But they are making ---->all the authentic Persian rugs over in China too ! oops.. But nice to see the financial scientifc and technologic center of ivory towered Islam shift farther away from the gilded turban topped Saudis and into a more secularized modern Baghdad someday . (Even the arts & romance could thrive again, just look at India's "Bollywood" , hehe, not to mention their thriving IT areas) An amazing gamble with many costs ...wonder how well soy-beans grow there? I hear Allah loves dates and soybeans ! Too bad they cannot grow coffee ....we drink alot of that .<g> (But it is no wonder the terrorists are so vehement about their fundamentalism ....'cause fundamentally they cannot compete on any level ,as it has been shown decade after decade thru the last century , but don't hesitate to want the technology though. Ah, human "tribal" nature <g>) ;-) * Thanks for posting the "maud-man"