Dear Snake:

I am a business man. I make a decent salary.

I have, at any given time, about 30 employees. I`m sure that, on at least one occasion in the past 25 years, one of them has asked, ``What, pray tell, does Mr. zties do that justifies his salary. I don`t see that he does anything that should entitle him to be making more salary than me.``

You know what? If my employee has a problem with my salary, he can always quit and go work somewhere else.

If you, as a shareholder, have a problem with the salaries paid to Nanopierce employees, you can always sell your shares*, take the proceeds and invest them in a company where the CEO takes no salary. That is the beauty of the stock market.

Good luck.

-zties

*Snake, you DO hold shares, don`t you?