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To: ahhaha who wrote (6230)	3/15/1999 12:48:00 AM
From: Impristine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

dude, 666, dude you are scaring me, i am not dead yet, this stock is in my retirement account, 666, don't say that, man,

To: ahhaha who wrote (6230)	3/15/1999 1:55:00 AM
From: Jing Qian	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Ahhaha, 2 months ago, you were saying ATHM would go to 2000/share. Today you are saying it would go to 100 in 2 years and possibly go to 10 with a major correction. So what caused you to change your mind so quickly? About 1 month ago, I sensed from your writing that you turned bearish all of a sudden right before your complete disappearance. You posted a dozen messages implying some kind of a debacle. After disappearance of 1 month you came back saying the stock would go to 10. OK, I got it, one month ago, you exited all your position and looking to re-enter the position today. When did you become a value investor? Talking about a multiple of 50? Did you attend a Charles Schwab basic investment seminar during your absence? It's hilarious. BTW, your writing style is obscure. If you can't get your idea across clearly. I guess you are just talking to yourself. Jing

To: ahhaha who wrote (6230)	3/18/1999 8:43:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

The satellite guys wouldn't believe me when I said it won't work. Maybe they will believe this guy: Thursday March 18, 3:47 pm Eastern Time Warning: solar flares may mean more havoc than Y2K By Bernard Hickey LONDON, March 18 (Reuters) - A burst of solar flare activity around the millennium could wreak more havoc on satellite systems and power grids than the Year 2000 computer problem, a senior British Y2K planner said on Thursday. A surge of solar flares or solar storms that can shut down power grids and burn out satellites was expected to peak in late 1999 and early 2000, a conference for Y2K planners was told. ''Solar flares could do damage far beyond anything the Year 2000 could do, and it could hit us on that weekend,'' said Michael Lewis, the deputy chief executive of Britain's Association of Payments and Clearing Systems (APACs). The last peak in the 11-year cycle of solar flares was in March 1989, when surge of atmospheric magnetic activity shut down the Hydro-Quebec power grid in Canada, leaving six million people without power for days. Lewis, who is helping coordinate the British banking system's Y2K response, said the dangers of solar flare activity happening in tandem with the Y2K computer problem could not be ignored. ''It's not a 'my wife has been abducted by aliens story'. It's a serious problem. It comes in cycles and it happens to coincide with the millennium this time,'' Lewis later told Reuters. ''It's something that people tend to forget. It can knock out communications satellites.'' A sneak preview of how solar flare activity could paralyze communications came in May last year when it is believed solar flare activity knocked out the Galaxy 4 satellite over the United States. For three days chaos ensued as 40 million pagers stopped working, television and data broadcasts were disrupted, and many credit card transactions were blocked. The satellite's operator, PanAmSat (NYSE:SPOT - news), had to ask users to repoint their antennae to other satellites. The outage caused havoc in the U.S. medical system because many doctors relied on their pagers to be alerted about patients. This next solar flare peak is expected to have much heavier impact on communications satellites than in 1989. This is because so many more satellites have been put in place and are used more widely for mobile phones, the global positioning system (GPS), and as a route for the Internet. Lewis said communications and power failures caused by solar flares could compound a loss of public confidence in communications and computer systems just when it was most needed -- around the millennium.