[geeks] FYI: CompUSA is offering OS X 10.5 for $99 (after rebate)

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2007/11/02 Fri PM 02:03:55 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] FYI: CompUSA is offering OS X 10.5 for $99 (after rebate)

>On Nov 2, 2007, at 7:29 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>
>> Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>>> Organized piracy only exists in a power vacuum.  The Ottoman military
>>> fleets were no threat  by then.
>>
>> Point of information:  Organized piracy is alive and well to this  
>> day in
>> the South China Sea.  (As a matter of fact, it's been on the increase
>> lately.)
>
>Yep.
>
>Also, did you read about the US Navy pulling out of some Asian sea  
>lanes 2 years ago?
>
>Piracy went up over 300% in just a few months.
>
>Neat videos online of US and Danish ships working together off the  
>african coast.

The aricles mentioned earlier back up the "power vacuum" assertion, they attribute much of the problem to the near complete lack of government in Somalia, a hot-bed of current pirate activity.

Lionel