> It's so rare to see you engaged in a discussion about anything even remotely > political...so....I can't resist!
LOL! Well, as you can tell I barely know what I'm talking about, so typically I prefer not to put my ignorance on display. > Says who? Intellectual property is a huge part of our economy and plays a role in > most of our employers - public and private. Well, perhaps this is just my misunderstanding of the term. > What do you mean by this? Frankly, I think the information revolution has really >only > just begun. How many people here owned a personal computer 20 years ago - > 1982? But don't you think we're seeing a very real leveling out in the PC industry? The majority of us who are going to want to own one do, and while we may have bought into upgrading every 2 years or so, when the improvements were so monumental (anybody try to work on a 386 lately?), now the improvements have become so slight that those sales are not what they were a couple of years ago. True, many people do not own a PC, but do they even want to? > > and will eventually need to return to the production of > more tangible > > goods. > > > > Why? What is this need based on? Well, I can't point you to any articles on the web. ;~) It's nothing more than a gut feeling that I get driving around this country that gives the perception that LOTS of areas haven't changed as much as we would like to think they have. Are you familiar with the "Pluggers" comic strip? It's sort of based on this concept (and if you look, MANY of the submittals come from SC). Bob NP: Ryan Adams, "Damn, Sam (I Love A Woman That Rains)"
