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To: LindyBill who wrote (79661)	10/22/2004 10:21:15 AM
From: SBHX	Respond to of 794363

Soros recently passed much of the fund’s management to his two grown sons, Robert and Jonathan, but under his direction it rejected the prevailing orthodoxy about the rationality of the market in favor of the notion that markets were prone to chaos and distortions stemming from human error. Whether Soros's intention is pure or not. That note about Soros profiting from market chaos and distortions is clearly a conflict of interest. If you were paranoid, you'd think the contradiction in Soros' regard for Reagan and support for Kerry has ulterior motives behind it. Simply put, that's what folks like me would think : that a JK administration would be (1) human error, (2) chaotic, and (3) prone to distortions stemming from (1). The template is Chamberlain. Soros should understand Chamberlain, Hungary is not that far from Czechoslovakia. What Chamberlain did that day in 1938 surely must sear deep into Czech culture. Heck they even share a common history. Hungary in 1956, and Czechoslovakia in 1968. There are checks and balances in the US. Congress and the people are not blind sheep, just as there are limits to how far down the river a JK's multilateralist administration can sell Israel, there is also limits to how GWB's administration can suddenly become warmongers. Beyond this possible range of options, vast majority of americans and the legislative branch will follow the executive branch down neither paths. Nor will they be allowed to. However, the range of possible paths is clearly a wide one, and there is some pain ahead if you don't believe in either direction to take. It's just not as wide as Soros claims to think it is.

To: LindyBill who wrote (79661)	10/22/2004 10:51:18 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794363

Tiny TV-B-Gone turns off most any boob tube By MAY WONG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Plenty of people love television, but apparently some have had enough of it. A new key chain gadget that lets people turn off most TVs -- anywhere from airports to restaurants -- is selling at a faster clip than it would take most people to surf the channels on their boob tubes. "I thought there would just be a trickle, but we are swamped," said the inventor, Mitch Altman of San Francisco, a self-described geek with a master's degree in electrical engineering. "I didn't know there were so many people who were into turning TV off." Hundreds of orders for Altman's $14.99 TV-B-Gone gadget poured in one day earlier this week after the tiny remote control was announced in Wired magazine and other online media outlets. At times, the unexpected attention overloaded and crashed the Web site of his company, Cornfield Electronics. The key chain fob works like a universal remote control but one that only turns TVs on or off. With a zap of a button, the gizmo goes through a string of about 200 infrared codes that control the power for about 1,000 television models. Altman said the majority of TVs should react within 17 seconds, although it takes a little more than a minute for the gizmo to emit all the trigger codes. "I can be mischievous, but I'm not going to do anything malicious, and I don't want to make anyone's life more difficult," Altman said, admitting that he hasn't owned a television in 24 years. "I just don't like TV, and I'd like people to think more about this powerful medium in their lives." Altman does not contend that all TV is bad. "There's just so little time in all of our lives," he said. should we spend so much time on something we don't necessarily enjoy?" So beware: Next time you're at a laundry or restaurant, the blaring TV might just mysteriously turn off. seattlepi.nwsource.com