How does it feel to own stock in the 1% of the co.s that it's not just a shakedown, but a legitimate cost of doing business. It's been my experience in my 70 yrs on this planet that what ceos say and what they do, 99% of the time are completely opposite. If he were still a ceo you can bet that if we get our recert letter, he would know who we are. As someone earlier stated, compensation can be made in various ways, obviously a rock yields no blood, but enough rocks will pave a road. Having been through a number of recessions and worked through all of them, and not always at the same job, I feel these are the times that weed out the weak and the infirm and tell them, so to speak, to move in a different direction, co.s included. These co.s built their fortunes on our tech, time to pay up, one way or another. jmo RJ