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Non-Tech : Rocky's Personal Iomega Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (22)	1/17/1998 11:05:00 PM
From: Teddy	Respond to of 166

Rocky, check this out! Surely iomeaga is in big trouble now: Updated 4:54 PM ET January 16, 1998 The iceman goeth BOLZANO, Italy (Reuters) - The frozen remains of a prehistoric man, believed to be the oldest mummy in the world, were returned to Italy Friday, ending a six-year custody dispute with neighboring Austria, officials said. The two nations have been squabbling over the 5,300-year-old corpse since 1991 when it was found by tourists on the Similaun Glacier in the Oetz Valley and whisked off to Innsbruck by a team of Austrian experts. Italy laid claim to the mummy, nicknamed Oetzi after his finding place, after surveyors ruled it had been found some 33 feet on the Italian side of the Oetzal Alps. He had to be transported in a refrigerated truck to Bolzano, the capital of Italy's Alpine Alto Adige region, under armed guard following threats from Austrian nationalist groups upset at his Italian repatriation. His remains will now be housed in a special windowed refrigerator, kept at a constant temperature of 21 degrees (Fahrenheit) and 98 percent humidity, in Bolzano's Museum of Archeology, and will go on show to the public starting March 28. Various articles found with his body -- a bow, axe, daggers, leather clothing, fire-lighting equipment and a basket -- will also be on display. The decision to put Oetzi on show, rather than lay him to rest, has created some controversy on both sides of the border but Luis Drunwalder, a senior Bolzano city official, said the body would be displayed in a "sacred atmosphere." Experts who studied Oetzi's remains believe he died of exhaustion at the age of about 45, and that he was about 5 feet, 5 inches tall and weighed 88 pounds when he died. They believe he was suffering from worms and diarrhea, as well as arthritis -- 57 tattoos found around several of his joints were thought to be a neolithic therapy for the ailment. Experts say Oetzi remains the world's oldest mummy despite the discovery of a 6,500-year-old adolescent girl in the Austrian town of Linz, because his body was well preserved, rather than just a skeleton.

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (22)	1/18/1998 2:28:00 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 166

>>AOL first and foremost is adored by Wall Street. Out of the 22 Brokers who cover it, 14 issue a Strong Buy, 5 issue a Moderate Buy, and 3 issue a Hold.<< Rocky - No question that AOL is currently a Wall Street darling. But oh, how quickly that can change. The analogy between AOL and Netscape is a good one. Actually, the picture you paint of AOL's fundamentals is just a tad bleaker than the reality. Yes, they have a loss for the trailing four quarters, but the last three quarters were all profitable, with EPS increasing at a rapid clip. Most likely, the analysts who rate AOL a Buy believe that the business model for this kind of company demands a lot of capital outlay before profitability sets in. If this quarter's report shows the same level of EPS growth, the stock will probably be able to maintain its sweetheart status. If not, well, it could get ugly. Here's a good question for you. When a stock is at its all-time high, is that a good time to buy? - Allen

To: Rocky Reid who wrote (22)	1/18/1998 9:01:00 AM
From: Teddy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 166

Rocky, you have always praised IOM's marketing skills as one of the main reasons they are able to sell so many of their poor quality, high priced products. What do you think of this marketing idea? Updated 4:51 PM ET January 16, 1998 Finger-giving frog can stay on beer labels NEW YORK (Reuters) - A naughty frog with a raised middle finger may be far from being a prince, but New York State still has to let the amphibian gesticulate on beer bottle labels under free speech rights, a court has ordered. The prestigious U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, in a ruling dated Thursday, said the New York State Liquor Authority violated the U.S. Constitution by banning Bad Frog Brewery from selling beer with the insulting label. In its ruling, the Second Circuit overturned a lower court's decision to throw out Michigan-based Bad Frog's commercial free speech challenge to the liquor authority's ban. "A picture of a frog with the second of its four unwebbed 'fingers' extended in a manner evocative of a well-known human gesture of insult has presented this Court with significant issues concerning First Amendment protections for commercial speech," the judges said. A three-member panel of the Second Circuit, comprised of New York, Connecticut and Vermont, said the state's prohibition does not materially advance its asserted interest in insulating children from vulgarity or promoting temperance. The Second Circuit said the district court found the frog's gesture "connotes a patently offensive suggestion." The appeals court said hand gestures signifying an insult have been in use throughout the world for many centuries and the extended middle finger, known in the United States as "giving the finger" or "flipping the bird" is said to have been used by Diogenes to insult Demosthenes. Bad Frog did not dispute that the gesture is widely regarded as an offensive insult and versions of the label feature slogans such as "He just don't care," and "An amphibian with an attitude." The labels have been approved for use by the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and by at least 15 states. However they were rejected by New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania.