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To: shades who wrote (66214)	7/15/2005 6:45:17 AM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

The horizontal dimension on the charts is more of a challenge than the vertical :) Getting the exact turning point remains hard, to say the least. If I said anything like that about anyone it was about people who just engage in criminal activity. Most of them do end up in jail or dead soon or later. Those guys you are talking about may be unethical and pushing the limits, but they are playing the system. In politics outright corruption while in office doesn't make much sense in Western countries. Yeah those guys get things done for their mates, but it makes sense to wait for the payback after you leave office rather than risk it all getting caught before then (often for a much smaller amount). See Colin Powell joined Kleiner Perkins... There was this guy in Australia who was elected a senator for Queensland at age 28, I think he served like 6 years in parliament and then retired with a pension for life and went to work in investments. People were outraged in the media, but he played the system. Well, that's the way it seems to me. If you think you can't win you won't. Because you won't give it a shot. You've got to be aware of how the system works, see what works for you and then keep at it. JMO