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To: rkral who wrote (178175)	5/27/2004 12:39:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Ron, "then maybe .. just maybe .. you will have earned the right to say" No need to be that patronizing, sir. First, I have a right to say whatever I want. Second, it is maybe you who need to begin to understand that the exact expense for compensating employees with options is well known to the company, to the last centimo. But you never raised the question why the company carefully hides this number, behind variety of vague averages. Then you might want to think why the company has spent half of its whole operating income to buy its own papers, $30B out of $60B, for the same 8-year period under your example. The $30B is a good real chunk of money. Somebody has pocketed those $30B dollars. I agree, not all of this money went to option exercisees. However, since the number of outstanding shares stays surpisingly about the same over the years, you may want to begin to understand that there are other sources of dilution, shares conversion upon various acquisitions, who knows what else. You probably want to understand that if some shares are converted, it is also some sort of give-away process, to compensate somebody for something. The important thingy is that the net result is in spending 50% of the operating income for something as clear as mud, and you as a shareholder may want to think about this. I am not a shareholder, and I am just entertaining myself here. But I have some suspicion that "investing" in yourself is not an economically-sound idea, and looks more like a scam scheme and another part of creative "financial engineering" that needs to be understood. - Ali