forbes.com Another good article.  Explaining why The New Paradigm in general and QUALCOMM in particular will attract capital and ability at high speed from all round the world.  It is self-reinforcing.  The world is QUALCOMM's oyster.  Software Engineers and capital allocators can quickly and easily see where to go.  It's not into the dingy dungeons of Europe's crumbling castles.
   Now I'm going to have to read more of that stuff...damn...<...The poor boobs. Any employer that accedes to such make-a-job foolery is dead meat in the Web era, which dispatches capital and talent to disruptive new enterprises at light speed. The race to bottom is on a luge called Life-time Job Security, not Free Trade. But throughout Europe, few dare admit to this--even now...>
  Oh, oh, he's onto the speed of light and $ill has noticed the speed of thought.  Let's hope Irwin has finished reading 'The Elegant Universe' and has started another major paradigm shift happening.  The 'speed' of light is a real pain in the neck!  Like wearing a straitjacket with your eyes shut and earplugs in.
  Mqurice
  PS: But notice the citadel of free trade is eroding from within!  The USA is subsidizing, stopping exports and stopping imports.  Just a little at a time, but the universe is made up of a little at a time.
  Oh, oh, he's really onto the ether and speed... forbes.com <Today American products have roared back. Most are world-beaters. Computers, software and telecom are running up the score. Our entrepreneurial know-how and financial technology are ahead of everyone else's by light years. Even where American products lag, such as in consumer electronics and luxury sedans, the gap is narrowing. Consider Qualcomm, which has emerged from the ether to challenge European supremacy in cell phones. ...>
  Also!!  <-- While top Chinese and Taiwanese leaders lowered their voices Monday, a Chinese military newspaper laid out in chilling new detail how China could conquer Taiwan by force. Beijing's tactics, the publication said, might include a neutron bomb attack on Taiwan and a nuclear showdown with the United States.
  "The United States will not sacrifice 200 million Americans for 20 million Taiwanese," predicted one of the articles in a 16-page special issue of Haowangjiao Weekly, which is sponsored by the People's Liberation Army. "They will finally acknowledge the difficulty and withdraw."  > 
  Maybe a demonstration explosion above Beijing at midnight, say 200km high, would persuade the PLA that it would NOT be a good idea to pursue that train of thought too long.  Then lower it each night...
  I'm sure China doesn't wish to be a 1000km wide ground zero!!  They are using Hitler scare tactics... |