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To: gjhinc who wrote (42733)	2/26/1999 10:12:00 AM
From: Impristine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164687

Gjhinc, i think you are mistaken, marketing people, 'serve' no purpose, in this world, they are all really technical, people, with no understanding of 'beans,' counting or any of that complicated stuff, and they all try to pee, through that same little hole, called the www....

To: gjhinc who wrote (42733)	2/26/1999 11:32:00 AM
From: j g cordes	Respond to of 164687

What does Intel want? Are you just extensions of their chip? zdnet.com A serious question going forward. Should every car be tagged with a transponder, then every piece of luggage with a tracking device. The question is where and how forcefully the line is drawn between individual freedom and business interests. These interests are not one and the same. This is the same fight warned about in Orwell's 1984, except he saw government as the enemy. Intel knows its who controls the bits.

To: gjhinc who wrote (42733)	2/26/1999 7:15:00 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164687

gjhnic -- a man after my own heart -- you touch on issues that disturb me above all else. I have no problem with zany valuations if the growth potential is real -- but here it is not, and you hit the nail on one of its two heads. For me the other is competition from real retailers and real logistics companies, including the catalogue types that will be more inclined to move in once there is a market big enough to make it worth their while -- they have the logistics capability that the AMZN's of this world don't have -- almost a replay of what you describe in information processing. Some will say 'ya but they are not selling books, or CDs -- they are selling whatever comes along and doing it better cause they are on the WWWoftime' -- and nobody will ever catch them. I don't think it will be a mtter of catching them, I think somebody will be peeling them off the wall that they are going to hit at about 100 mph in a few months.