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To: Sig who wrote (137941)	6/25/2004 3:30:42 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Sig; Re: "Discovered it many years later perhaps." The discovery of America was inevitable as the technology of ship design and navigation slowly improved. If it hadn't been Columbus, it would have been fishermen off of Newfoundland. Oh, didn't the Vikings discover the place years before Columbus? Re: "Leaders are still not replaceable. Try to replace Bill Gates ..." Bill Gates is rich, but he designs almost nothing at Microsoft. If he hadn't been around, our operating systems would be sold by some other filthy rich company, and the technology types would be complaining about their incompetence instead of Microsoft. There were operating systems before Microsoft even started and there are still plenty of operating systems that don't involve Microsoft at all. The production cost of software, once it's written, is nearly zero, and this makes it a natural industry for monopolization. All Bill Gates is, is the leader of the company that got lucky in the race for the monopoly. No difference between that and "Wheaties" except that software is a lot more profitable. Re: "... Warren Buffett ..." BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! LOL!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! What, are you arguing now that none of us would have insurance if it weren't for the efforts of Warren Buffet? Heck, I can't recall anything I've ever bought that Warren Buffet was at all involved in. Gates was a better example. What is it, is this "worship the rich" day on SI? Re: "... Michael Dell" There are thousands of companies making computers. If Dell had never existed, we'd still be using the damned things. Dell has far less of a monopoly than Microsoft so I don't see why you're bringing it up. Better examples than "captains of industry" would be military leaders who were able to lead their men to victories that were not supported by numbers of men or quantities of materiel. In this I do not include guys who won with all the advantages of production on their side. Re: "I am thinking the terrorists did their very best with those 4 car bombs yesterday, probably cannot do much worse." Eventually, if this keeps up, the terrorists will be detonating nukes in Central Park. I'd call that "worse". Like I've said before, save your victory rhetoric until after terrorism begins to decrease. Re: "The handwriting is on the wall, after the 30 th they will be criminals with severe penalties under the new Iraq." What is this? Another claim that you can see the light at the end of the tunnel? This is hilarious given the long stream of similar statements that have come out of the idiots running the government. Let's see, what can I recall from the past year. First there was the declaration of victory (on the aircraft carrier) back on May 1, 2003. Then they were saying that there were only a few "dead enders" still fighting. Then they said that with the killing of Saddam's sons, the insurrection would end. Then they said that capturing most of the rest of the "cards" would pacify Iraq. Then they went on about how bringing back electricity would do the trick. Finally they found Saddam and they said that with his capture the insurrection would die away. Then there was talk about American soldiers would quit dying since we were training so many Iraqi policemen. Then they talked about rounding up all the terrorists in Falloujah, but the US backed down. They they went after Sadr, but they ended up backing down on that too. Now they say it's going to be better after June 30th. Here's some news: June 30th is going to come and go and the war is going to ignore it and just keep on going. Why? If there was some magic thing that could be done AFTER June 30th to stop the insurrection, it would have been done already. Maybe that's thinking too deep for the average Joe to follow, LOL, but I did notice that US polling now shows that more than 50% of the American public believes that the war was a mistake. Could be that listening to the previous litany of predictions that the war was about to take a turn for the light at the end of the tunnel has jaded some people's views. It's like the Communists promised, Iraq will be pacified and friendly to the US when the USSR becomes a worker's paradise. -- Carl