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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jill who wrote (4890)	3/20/1999 9:24:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

<the fines were an effective threat to those who kept their gas on in spite of requests not to> Thanks for your response. Above comment sounds a bit different from your initial comment to me. <And frankly, every individual turned off gas supplies on their own, if they lived in a house. Fines were threatened, but not levied as far as I know. > If everyone were doing what they were supposed to do, there would have been NO reason to increase the fine from $500 to $10,000. Your initial response reminded me of a conversation I had last fall with some very dear friends in Houston. But, we were talking about Japan then - not Australia. Their daughter married into a VERY wealthy and well-connected Japanese GREAT wedding reception. Gutted the interior of a defunct movie theater. Laid in 3 levels of flooring. Interior was like scene from Casablanca. Kids have since gotten PhD's from UCLA in theater(she) and film(he). The Japanes in-laws came over with some friends/family and several interpreters. Delightful group. They/we smiled a lot. Conversing thru interpreters is somewhat stilted. They had another ceremony in Japan in December. Really neat. The bride wore a red kamona. Anyway, I asked if there were visible signs of Japanese economic collapse. My friends,who had an interpreter, guide and limo throughout their travels ... (gratis from in-laws) said ... "No sign of economic impact. Japan's still doing pretty well. Everyone's exaggerating about what's going on in Japan." Flattsville, or someone else may be able to provide the link ... since then there have been about 27,000 suicides in Japan related to "saving face" and "economic collapse". Anyway what may have been an "annoyance" to you (with a home in NYC and Australia) ... may have been perceived differently by a middle-class Australian family, or a bankrupt small-business. Cheryl