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To: rkral who wrote (176290)	12/29/2003 1:38:37 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 186894

Ron, Management .. and politicians .. need to let accounting matters be decided by accountants. So whose idea was it not to expense stock options in the first place? I'm too young to know the history of stock options, so someone else will need to help me out here. Tenchusatsu

To: rkral who wrote (176290)	12/30/2003 12:29:05 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Hi rkral, RE: "need to let accounting matters be decided by accountants." You can structure accounting any way you want, but if China has a better option policy than your country and is attracting more entrepreneurs and engineers as a result, your accounting won't matter because your company may not exist for long. On another note, are you an INTC investor? RE: "There is no association between California regulations and expensing options" I didn't interpret the article as implying there was an association between the two, but can see how someone else who doesn't live in CA might interpret these as related. I think there's a larger message in this article - is the USA competitive relative to 300,000,000 new middle-class workers in China and 300,000,000 new middle-class workers in India? The moment we stop attracting top talent from China & India, we have serious concerns, because we would not have an additional pool of people that can start companies to get the unemployed people working again. We've got unemployed folks, but many don't seem inclined to start businesses at all - even when there are so many tools to do so. So, we need to import more talented & hungry leaders into this country who can start companies in order to give our talented unemployed people jobs. We are having a jobless recovery in Silicon Valley because initially due to offshoring but probably more importantly, because we drastically stopped importing entreprenuers to start new businesses here who in turn could hire unemployed people. And the VCs have followed the entrepreneurs. 50% of capital is out of the USA - this is shocking and has never happened before until now. We've got a lot of followers who are unemployed - and while they are very talented scientifically, too many are not proactive enough to start a company. We need to import more entrepreneurs here to launch companies. China is getting ultra aggressive in their entrepreneur programs. Seriously aggressive. Frightenly so. Regards, Amy J