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To: llamaphlegm who wrote (14315)	8/22/1998 9:14:00 AM
From: IMPRISTlNE	Respond to of 164684

<<<Please stop acting like an arrogant jerk i happen to like arrogant jerks...they always seem to SMELL the jack...lol <G> by the way, i hear bezo's is an arrogant jack smelling jerk...

To: llamaphlegm who wrote (14315)	8/22/1998 3:02:00 PM
From: Bill Harmond	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 164684

>>jerk You shorts need you chain jerked. Why do you resort to name-calling when I challenge you directly like that? If that's being a jerk, then you need to hear it, because you sound like you have zero vision of what's possible. Why is it the shorts who scream and pout and make up terms like amazonegonenuts.com which, aside from making you feel better, present nothing? Do you listen to yourselves, too? I think you shorts are prejudiced by your losses, and hyper-sensitive about the practically correct contrarian view. You should be long and have to wade through the schoolyard analysis you shorts propose...conspiracy theory, name-calling, and general group therapy! Wake up. You're losing money and a very rapid rate so far. Even if Amazon gets blown off the Internet by some unseen greater power one day, so far you are very, very wrong. >>airy fairy utopian generalist cr-p For someone like you who's an early adopter of the Internet, you should have a better clue, and be better informed. Internet usage is exploding, from practically zero to nearly 50 million users in the US alone in four years. No other communication (or other) technology has been adopted at this rate. None. Start by understanding the platform, its growth rate, the high economic status of its user base, its convenience and security. Then get very familiar with the leaders in Internet commerce ...like Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, Dell, Amazon and others. Understand which ones are gaining territory in the land grab, and at who's expense. Read what Wall Street says instead of dismissing it. That is the most dangerous thing you shorts do. You seem more interested in conspiracy theories. Understand the players. Do you know who Jimmy Wright or John Doerr is? >>i'd suggest that -- you're dead wrong. Not yet, but I consider it all the time. -- none of us -- not even you -- knows if amzn will rule the web, be crushed out, or merely be a decent niche player. No one ever said we did (see below). -- you might end up looking as perceptive as the visionaries who touted tulip bulbs at the end of the run, the nifty fifty in '73, biotech a few years back, gold etc. So what? That's a risk we all take. Another (so-far proven) possibility is that we are making the investment of a lifetime. >>all you do is assume that NO competitive threat can EVER get in amzn's way. This (and the one above) is a perfect example of what I'm talking about...attributing words to us longs we haven't said, and then trying to dismiss us as radical for having "said" them.