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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Please read the following carefully if you intend
to stay on-line and continue using email:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The last few months have revealed an alarming trend
in the Government of the United States attempting to quietly push through
legislation that will affect your use of the Internet. Under proposed
legislation the U.S. Postal Service will be<BR>attempting to bilk email users
out of "alternate postage fees". Bill 602P will permit the Federal Govt to
charge a 5 cent surcharge on every email delivered, by billing Internet Service
Providers at source. The consumer would then be billed in<BR>turn by the ISP.
Washington D.C. lawyer Richard Stepp is working without pay to prevent this
legislation from becoming law. The U.S. Postal Service is claiming that lost
revenue due to the proliferation of email is costing nearly $230,000,000 in
revenue per year. You may have noticed their recent ad campaign "There is
nothing like a letter". Since the average citizen received about 10 pieces of
email per day in 1998, the cost to the typical individual would be an additional
50 cents per day, or over $180 dollars per year, above and beyond their regular
Internet costs. Note that this would be money paid directly to the U.S. Postal
Service for a service they do not even provide. The whole point of the Internet
is democracy and non-interference. If the federal government is permitted to
tamper with our liberties by adding a surcharge to email, who knows where it
will end. You are already paying an exorbitant price for snail mail because of
bureaucratic efficiency. It currently takes up to 6 days for a letter to be
delivered from New York to Buffalo.<BR><BR>If the U.S. Postal Service is allowed
to tinker with email, it will mark the end of the "free" Internet in the United
States. One congressman, Tony Schnell (r) has even suggested a "twenty to forty
dollar per month surcharge on all Internet service" above and beyond the
government's proposed email charges. Note that most of the major newspapers have
ignored the story, the only exception being the Washingtonian which called the
idea of email surcharge "a useful concept who's time has come" (March 6th 1999
Editorial. Don't sit by and watch your freedoms erode away!<BR><BR>Send this
e-mail to EVERYONE on your list, and tell all your friends and relatives to
write to their congressman and say "No!" to Bill 602P. It will only take a few
moments of your time, and could very well be instrumental in killing a bill we
don't want. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR>Kate Turner Assistant to Richard Stepp,
Berger,<BR>Stepp and Gorman Attorneys at Law 216 Concorde Street, Vienna,
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Subject: What are the right questions?
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I have recently been rereading a good book about critical thinking. I thought
perhaps some my benefit by one of the specific excercises suggested by the
book.
Write 100 questions about a particular subject. Write these questions quickly
and without interuption. Do not be concerned with spelling or grammer. Do not
be concerned with the answers. Do not be concerned with repeating questions
in different words. The excercise is designed to find better questions than
you have been asking.
The first 20 to 30 questions or so will be off the top of your head. The next
40 - 50 questions will reveal themes. The last 10 - 20 might offer some
profound insights.
I found this excersize very useful in developing trading systems,
understanding the market and revealing my own short-comings regarding
trading. I have done it 8 times over the past year.
Another useful way to use this excersize is to use the 100 questions to take
the opposite view of a strongly held belief you want to challenge (hopefuly
your own).
Good Luck
dp
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