<I had no idea how far his support for Alan Salmasi would go! Maybe he should set up a fund for Alan and solicit donations on his behalf, after all Alan helped commercialize CDMA ya know! If Maurice would have done this years ago maybe Alan wouldn't have felt compelled to assemble a team of lawyers, lobbyists and public relation specialists to bilk the American public of billions. >
Good point Ron. A trust fund for Allen and Nextwave is a great idea. Americans who understand what it is to be American would be keen to have their name as a supporter.
It would also be a great idea to award Allen <the National Medal of Technology Award, which is the highest award bestowed by the President of the United States for extraordinary achievements in the commercialization of technology or the development of human resources that foster technology commercialization.>
Also, he could get "Immigrant of the Decade" award, which I will donate to Congress to award. He came from Iran, which is smack dab in the middle of mayhem [how much fun could it have been with Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, USSR as neighbours] and made good in a huge way, encircling the globe with Globalstar and providing the 21st century means of communication. Perhaps a Papal beatification would be in line too. A British knighthood wouldn't go amiss either [after all, his services to the world have provided the only total coverage of the British Isles via Globalstar] not to mention coverage now or planned of most of the British Commonwealth countries [Hyundai pulled out of India when the Asian Contagion financial mayhem hit in 1998, along with the Zenit crash and the South African gateway seems to be held up in bribery issues].
Sure, the Globalstar business failed due to rotten marketing, but the assets are all happily waiting for somebody who understands consumer surplus, price elasticity and what makes a bargain.
The American public won't be 'bilked' out of billions. There are property laws, which have been established over centuries, with judges, police and army to defend those property rights. Those defenders will not allow themselves or Congress or the public to be bilked. Neither will they allow Nextwave Telecom to be bilked by the FCC holding fraudulent spectrum auctions. Selling something which you don't own is a definite no-no. By the way, I own a really nice bridge in Auckland www-personal.umich.edu and am holding an on-line auction in January - it's a really beautiful bridge and the tolls on it would be hugely profitable [it runs on communist principles at the moment and traffic jams are a nuisance]. Please send me your credit card details and authorize a deposit payment of $100,000 and I'll register you to enter the bidding.
Governor Gray has been trying to create a people's communist system, but has ended up with traffic jams and electricity shortages, so the programme is going badly. They want to try the new-fangled free enterprise, capitalist system, which they've heard is better than slavery of the people as a way to get the joint jumping.
When I called you names Ron, I was tongue-in-cheek and was more or less just copying back to you what you had written [you know, shame, shame, shame, what a bunch of hogwash, outrageous etc] but I got carried away when I was dealing with the onslaught of communism again. So I hope I didn't offend you. I was just trying to make the point that freedom is a precious, fragile thing which is constantly under threat because nature abhors a vacuum and DNA's primary attribute is to spread itself around and take control, even if other DNA is the way. Private property is the essence of freedom. A person's self is also private property though governments, including the [allegedly but hypocritically] lands of the Statue of Liberty [France and USA] constantly crush that individual freedom.
Osama and Gang oppose freedom and destroy those who restrain them from trampling over others. Osama is NOT in favour of private property [unless it's his]. TV was banned, men had to be bearded, women had to be burquaed, each aspect of life was controlled. Privately-owned people, planes and the WTC were destroyed in a total war for control of Saudi oil fields and the Moslem world. If one is not allowed to own other than approved private property then it's a fraud to say there are property rights.
I said most people are unknowingly Osamaland supporters. The main point is the subsuming of the individual by the powers that be [Osama and Omar] who dictate life, permitted actions, permitted property. The individual is considered a subset of those in power. Increasingly, that is the case in the USA and other democracies and has always been the case in autocracies and other dominance hierarchies.
Our lives are circumscribed in thousands of ways unrelated to protection of others' property rights. People seem to like that and they vote for more of it, usually because they don't realize that when they vote to control somebody else, they forget that other people are voting to control them right back and everyone ends up red-taped and under control. There is a strong urge to be in a herd which usually ends with being a beast of burden and all too often a sacrifical soldier. Goosestepping is a lot of fun in Nuremberg, but not so good when millions of people get angry with repression and start fighting back.
The individual is all too often subsumed by and seen to be nothing more than a servant of those in power. A mere mitochondrial energy supplier to the body corporate. The unwitting Osamaland supporters I mentioned support that process [until they find themselves getting a few problems - first they came for the Jews, but I wasn't a Jew, then they came for the homosexuals, but those people deserved it, then they came for...]. We are essentially smart chimps on two legs so dominance hierarchies have a long history in the human world. Freedom and property rights are still very young, constantly under threat as the alpha male and dominance hierarchy fall back to their basic instincts.
Kiwiland has been voting itself into Kremlin Kontrol methods and we have Helengrad trying to recreate the USSR in microcosm [but without the engineers and rocket scientists], so I've seen the trend up close. We have Kremlin Kontrol Kargo Kultism [KKKK] as the most popular politics at present.
On Cargo Cult. I love Google. I clicked to get a reference and bingo, I not only got a good enough description but embodied in something far better. Here's the cargo cult reference but read the article and here also is the last comment made by Richard Feynman in that article.
wwwcdf.pd.infn.it
<In the South Seas there is a cargo cult of people. During the war they saw airplanes with lots of good materials, and they want the same thing to happen now. So they've arranged to make things like runways, to put fires along the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, with two wooden pieces on his head to headphones and bars of bamboo sticking out like antennas -- he's the controller -- and they wait for the airplanes to land. They're doing everything right. The form is perfect. It looks exactly the way it looked before. But it doesn't work. No airplanes land. So I call these things cargo cult science, because they follow all the apparent precepts and forms of scientific investigation, but they're missing something essential, because the planes don't land.>
Speaking of freedom in his last paragraph:
<So I have just one wish for you -- the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity. May you have that freedom. >
My point about the cargo cultists is that people don't understand where wealth comes from. You were saying that the value in the spectrum belongs to the American people. I say the value was created by QUALCOMM and they forfeited that value by negotiating a rotten deal on royalties. The government then captures that value because they control the spectrum which a lot of people want to use. I agree that the government as the arbiter of public property [air, ocean, rivers, spectrum] has to allocate use of it and restrict pollution of it and they should sell to the highest bidder [who thereby demonstrates the most valuable need for the spectrum].
But the value of the spectrum was created by the creators of the technology which enables that creation of that value. That technology is CDMA. Analogue and TDMA can't carry enough calls to compete with CDMA, so CDMA service providers can outbid TDMA service providers [though it's a close call because minute prices are still so high that the CDMA air interface component of a minute price is still very small].
The government got a windfall because of the low CDMA royalties. But they are not bilked if the creators of that CDMA can prove that in fact they own the spectrum which the FCC thought was theirs [don't forget to send me your credit card details and $100,000 for the Golden Gate Bridge auction].
In the USA, there are courts who protect property rights. That's good. That gives people worldwide the confidence to send the hard-earned money to the USA to build more good stuff. If that confidence goes, the USA will go.
I think that explains it,
Mqurice
PS: The other way in which most people are Osama supporters is that as It encroaches increasingly and the gap between those who have It and those who don't grows, there will be a Luddite reaction. The anti-globalisation people are on the track. The cry will be "The world is for humans, not machines. Down with CDMA. Down with CDNA. Don't play God!" Ted Kaczynski might be released from prison and Osama [if alive] might be redeemed as a misguided protector of the human world against the march of the machine as more and more people find themselves sidelined. CDNA = cyber deoxyribonucleic acid [genetic engineering for people and the use of electronics in conjunction with our wet chemistry]. We'll have CDMA built right into our genetically engineered heads. Osama supporters don't like that idea. They want to keep the human world human. Not that that means anything. There has been a long trend from our chimpish ancestry to what we are now; it's just that the pace is very noticeable now. |
