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To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (15386)	5/30/1999 3:31:00 PM
From: Monty Lenard	Respond to of 99985

OT Of course I won't accept a cookie from you <g> Well that is one cookie you won't ever have to worry about me trying to give you. <g> I don't think it is so much being paranoid as it is just hanging on to one of my rights that our forefathers were wise enough to give us and our veterans were generous enough to pay for with their blood. People need to wake up and pay attention IMHO. Once we say "well that little bit won't hurt" they will ask for more. Just like the Clinton War. They feed us just a little at the time because they know that if they had said on the front end "We are going to have to put troops on the ground" the people would have said NO. So we get it in little doses. It is done the same way with everything. If we were asked to give up our right to privacy, we would say NO. But we will let them INFRINGE on that right a little at a time until all of a sudden that right no longer exists. Hell, look at what the credit reporting agencies know about us or the insurance companies that provide health insurance. The doctors & hospitals tell them everytime you take an asprin. All these things keep adding up and I for one have drawn a line in the sand. What really burns me is that if you say you do not want to let them put cookies on your computer...they call you paranoid. I am not paranoid and neither am I stupid. I don't need their HELP to navigate the web and make MY EXPERIENCE RICHER. That is pure BS. They did not do all this engineering to make MY experience richer and anyone who believes that.... I have a bridge I will sell them. They did it to track and gather data. The did it to sell product. BTW, I don't like telephone solicitation either. I have a standing order at my office to transfer ALL calls from LD services to ME. I love to talk to THEM. I will tell a client this is a call I MUST take and go to another office just so I can make their life miserable and will spend a hour on the phone with them.(Usually they are so mad after a few minutes they hang up and ruin my fun). I am an AT&T customer and will die an AT&T customer. Why? Because they developed the technology and THE government made them give it to others. Now in order to make a LD call from a motel I have to dial 45 numbers. Dinner is ready or I would say more. <g> BTW, I use a little program called Cookie Pal that someone pointed me to about a year ago and it is just FANTASTIC and inexpensive. PS That will teach you to post to me. VBG

To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (15386)	5/30/1999 4:06:00 PM
From: Chip Anderson	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 99985

Kinda slow on a holiday weekend so I thought I'd ask about something that's been bugging me for some time now. Look at the long-term S&P 500 chart on stockcharts.com. See how the market shifted into overdrive at the start of 1995? My question is "Why?" Can anyone remember the specific event or change that caused this new, steeper uptrend? I'm doing some research into the question today but thought I start by gathering theories from "the experts." All ideas, theories, suspicions, speculations, postulates, and wild guesses are greatly appreciated. Chip stockcharts.com