To: Zeev Hed who wrote (10145 ) 11/10/1998 6:58:00 PM From: Norman H. Hostetler Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 13091
Hi, Bill Carraway, if you've learned how to find this stuff on the internet, you know a heck of a lot more about operating computers than you claim ("I can't do anything but turn it on or off," you said). Or maybe it's being fed to you by lawyers, though I can't figure out how you found enough money to keep the lawyers employed. But, since we know the SEC makes copies of all this stuff, I understand why the lawyers think it's necessary to make copies of this stuff, and I suppose that extends to management and whomever. I have this image of knots of gnomes, somewhere out in the abyss of cyberspace, busily converting trees into constantly reproducing stacks of 10,000 more-or-less inane posts on GRNO. (Charles--there's a clue here to the mysterious disappearance of forests. "Burning" is obviously a diversionary tactic meant to keep us from discovering the truth. I suspect it results from collusion between the SEC and the CIA.) Another example of how politics infects everything. Speaking of which, check out the TIME magazine series on the growing dependence of big corporations on government welfare--tax credits and rebates, write-off rules, low-interest loans, bailouts for mistakes and failures, etc. It would take decades for these handouts to come close to paying off their costs through taxes generated from increased employment or production. The political demands for reduced government spending and taxes are, as usual, loaded on the backs of those least able to defend themselves in the political world or least able to significantly alter their own conditions--the 90% of individual welfare recipients who are under 18, over 65, or disabled. In the meantime, this political rhetoric serves as a diversionary tool so we don't really see the multi-billions handed out to savings and loans companies, or railroads, or Chrysler, or speculators in derivatives and hedge funds, or thousands of other examples. =+=+=Norm