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To: Bobby Yellin who wrote (11797)	5/17/1998 6:29:00 AM
From: Bobby Yellin	Respond to of 116815

ripples..possibly Singapore biz.yahoo.com then what? ps..really hot yesterday in this part of town..has the effects of El Nino started to turn to the opposite..energy anyone? psspss..now for the cigarette tax...wonder how many voters might not be too happy..weak argument..if administration only wants teens to smoke smoking..why not just raise the age to 21 years old for purchasing cigarettes? am waiting for some reporter to ask that question...amazing how tax revenues are popping up ps. welfare reform..great ..after the grace period the states and cities will have to take over...some more sleight of hand? re unions..workers at the hamburger place at one location are now trying to join..maybe Ahha(sp) was right

To: Bobby Yellin who wrote (11797)	5/17/1998 7:03:00 AM
From: Richard Mazzarella	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116815

Bobby, my guess is that the government just sees Microsoft as too powerful, Gates to rich. Just like Standard Oil and US Steel in the past. There is some truth that letting Microsoft have its way the market is bad for technology advancement. As soon as anything in computing is a "standard", it's obsolete. Microsoft has been brutal limiting real competitive innovation and should get kicked off its pedestal. However, the market will view this as intrusion in the free market and sell off. Remember, for the last 10 years the market has been Microsoft and Intel. Everything else improved in value through their technology. Intel isn't the problem of a Microsoft because Groves has always been more market friendly. Microsoft started by Gates ripping off DEC's basic interpreter. A pattern here? That pie in the face was well deserved! Did you see the congressional hearings where Gates in essences told congress "it is because I am"? The government has a big pie for Billy.

To: Bobby Yellin who wrote (11797)	5/17/1998 9:02:00 AM
From: Ironyman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116815

Bobby,,,A company ( PTSC ) has a java direct chip/ whole board. the product has a shark name. This not a hype,,,I only watch tech stocks these days. I believe that the whole sector will be hit hard soon.

To: Bobby Yellin who wrote (11797)	5/17/1998 2:57:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116815

Only in America? Can't happen in Welfare Country? French face summer of ghetto gang wars By Philip Jacobson in Paris A WAVE of violence among street gangs in France's bleak suburban ghettos is putting pressure on its Socialist government to adopt "zero tolerance" policing methods. With one month to go before the World Cup, a flurry of killings has shocked the nation and raised fears that, without swift action, the feuding will spill over into the long summer holidays. The French Interior Minister, Jean-Pierre ChevŠnement, has given a warning that the clashes reflect a deepening "culture of hatred". He faces increasing demands for measures similar to New York's pioneer crackdown. The latest figures show that violent incidents involving teenagers are becoming increasingly common - and more deadly. Fatal shootings have more than doubled over the past five years, with pump-action shotguns responsible for most of the carnage. Since March, youths wielding fusil … pompe - usually with barrel and stock cut down for easy concealment - have killed at least four people. The most recent victims died on the same day earlier this month: one was blasted in the back at close range in an eastern suburb of Paris after trespassing on another gang's turf to retrieve a stolen moped; the other was shot repeatedly after an argument over a girl in an outlying area of Marseille. Last week also saw a silent march in memory of 17-year-old Jean-Michel T‚hou‚ through Aulnay-sous-Bois, north of Paris, where a high proportion of inhabitants from Francophone Africa live in grim tower blocks. T‚hou‚ was beaten to death by a pack of youths who attacked him at random after a leather jacket had been stolen from one of their gang by someone living on his part of the estate. "They fell on Jean-Michel like a pack of wild animals and he never stood a chance," said his uncle, Patrice, while friends laid flowers at the gate of the school he had attended. "It was a public lynching." As Lionel Jospin, the French Prime Minister, conveyed his condolences to T‚hou‚'s family, a boy of 12 was among four suspects (none over 18) being questioned about the murder. For one veteran police officer with long experience of working in the quartiers sensibles - sensitive areas - around Paris, the recent killings are part of a frightening trend among France's most disadvantaged young people. "They will tell you quite openly that there's nothing to live for, no chance of getting out of their lousy apartments, no hope of finding a decent job and settling down," he said. "All that's left is drugs and crime and running with friends in the local bande." Flick-knives and baseball bats are the weapons most often found on gang members picked up in the street, the officer said, but firearms are on the increase. "After all, you only need an ID card to walk out of a hunting shop with a pump-action under your arm, and nobody uses one of those things just for potting rabbits." These days, too, it is not only clashes between gangs that worry the French authorities. Police report that toughs from the outlying suburbs are taking their guns - often concealed in a sports bag - when they head into the city centres. The other day a youth was shot and wounded outside the Palais-Royal, in the heart of Paris's tourist district. Random attacks by youths on public-sector workers such as bus drivers and refuse collectors are also more frequent. "Anybody remotely associated with authority provides a target for the brick-throwers," one social worker said. It would be wrong to attribute this solely to gang members, he added. "You meet a tremendous amount of anger everywhere you go in these neglected slums." Under strong pressure from the conservative opposition, M ChevŠnement is considering giving police broader powers of "stop and search" and will review France's gun laws. There has long been concern about weapons being too easily accessible to children whose parents belong to shooting clubs. Legislation modelled on measures that Britain introduced after the Dunblane murders could be rushed through parliament. Yet while the French economy remains so depressed, driving youth unemployment in the suburbs most afflicted by gangs well above 50 per cent, the violence seems certain to continue. As a psychotherapist who works with the children of the ghettoes points out, the pressure has been building for years, but nobody in authority took much notice. "A society that leaves its children without any real prospects when they become adolescents is storing up trouble for itself," Charles Rojzman said in Le Monde. "The violence is going to get worse, because it is now affecting kids of no more than eight, 10 or 12 years old."