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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM)
QCOM 165.13+1.1%Nov 26 3:59 PM EST

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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (6684)12/24/1997 2:33:00 AM
From: jweiner1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 152472
 
i've lurked for a while (at least as long as ive been selling puts and accumulating for the long haul) and two things have it so that i cannot hold my tongue.

item 1: a motorola salesman hung around one of the ucla clinics for an hour and a half to close a sale of one startac7000 to the hapless physician in attendance. when i asked if the buyer was familiar with cdma and qcom, the motorep assured them that cdma was "20 year old technology and that the gsm startac was state of the art". after he left i suggested that they try the other brand and return the gsm phone if not up to snuff. i had no idea that moto had to invest such resources to sell a phone these days...

item 2: the main problem with irradiated food is transport and disposal of nuclear waste. the benefit of the tech is spurious-it does not make food any fresher and does not fundamentally improve on existing tech for extending shelf life. All the radiation in the world will not improve food handling practice throughout the distribution chain. All it does is give a last gasp of hope to those desperate planners of low level waste dumps and transport services.

but i digress

james w
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