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To: Dean Dumont who wrote (1302)	5/2/1999 11:40:00 AM
From: Don Pueblo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3795

Still time to change "obserd" to absurd. It would help. TIA

To: Dean Dumont who wrote (1302)	5/2/1999 12:35:00 PM
From: Cindy Powell	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 3795

Try a little reading comprehension course sometime Mr. Dean. I said the Dick Tracy badge that they have earned on S.I., and did not trash S.I. in any way, shape, or form. I love <3 Silicon Investor. You are paranoid, and you twist everything around to your fancy just like a few other people I know here on Silicon Investor. I am not going to expand upon the Karma stuff with you, but I do agree with you to a certain extent with some of what you said. I haven't had to wrong someone and then "get my Karma" to learn lessons in life. Alot of my convictions have come from seeing others wronged, and empathizing, or being wronged myself. For example. I have had alot of personal items (purse, for example) stolen from me, and I know how it hurts to be infringed on monetarily as well as personally. I had my University I.D.s and pictures of my kids, and alot of trivial things that meant alot to me but that wouldn't have meant anything to anyone else, and so it goes beyond "dollars and monetary value." I have been adamant about being honest not due to Karma, but because I know how it feels, and I wouldn't want to inflict that hurt (either monetarily or emotionally) on others. Also, (not directed to anyone specifically), Stand up comedians are performing their 'jokes' and 'parodies' within a "pre-understood" atmosphere of parody and within parameters that are well defined as "comedy." Whereas your (Janice, Jeff and Bill) parameters and atmosphere brushed brazenly and thoughtlessly against Business Wire, who, as a professional organization were slighted in the process. So you all better leave Jay Leno and Bart Simpson out of this one as a rationale for the legalities of your "parody." You should have checked out your legal responsibilities and had your legal interests protected before you launched your little boats into this fiasco. You can bet Leno and Bart Simpson and their affiliates had their legal parameters all mapped out before the fact, and not after the fact, as you all are doing.