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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Snowshoe who wrote (2258)	10/8/2000 5:47:47 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 12245

Snowshoe, my lot in life is to employ the good folks at QUALCOMM and Globalstar to produce a good income for me, Alan Green$pan to run a currency, Bill Clinton to bomb the Chinese if they invade Taiwan, the petrol station attendants to fill my car and farmers in the USA, Chile, South Africa and New Zealand to supply me with a wide range of delicious comestibles. I have a fleet of rental cars waiting for me at LAX. The pleasant people along the highway attend to my needs with restaurants, postal services etc as I cruise into San Diego for a day on the ocean with some really Good Guys. The Seattle people make great software for me. The other Seattle people make excellent 747s. The Saudis kindly sell me lots of oil. BP processes it and delivers it all round the world and stores it, awaiting my presence so they might fuel my tuk-tuk or taxi if I choose not to walk. I'll use a Kyocera connection to It. I think Lexus is an excellent car to drive [I don't have one - still on the Camry]. Everything else I have seems to be Made in China. My lot in life is wonderful thanks [the usual human limitations and mortality excepted]. I hope you weren't mistaking me for a peasant sheep farmer in the Antipodes. I hope you weren't indulging some foolish collectivist fantasy that individuals are defined by the place they live. It's sad to see people wrap the flag around their pathetic lives and sacrifice themselves to false ideals. We are all one-worlders here [in SI], whether we know it or not! There are local laws, but they are being increasingly subsumed by the bigger picture. Good old Carl Barks [deceased]http://www.acciom.se/barks/index.html educated me and a great job he did [I really appreciated his efforts]. Education being a volitional thing I hasten to point out, not a one way inflicting of some alien culture on a young mind. A free child chooses their education. I do NOT get educated by Nigga Rap, Beverly Hills 90210, Baywatch etc [other than to see inside barbarian minds]. Actually, the paving on the concrete highways is harsh to drive on. I prefer the nice roads like the new toll freeway which cuts off some of 405 between LA and San Diego. If you could vote for more asphalt and less concrete with your taxes, I'd appreciate it. Thanks in advance. You seem to be saying that there were not laws broken by MSFT, but rather a counter-culture action by Microsoft. Are you really saying it's just mob rule in the USA, not the rule of law? Breaching the accepted business norms is illegal? If Bill Clinton, some powerful Congress members, etc don't like you, then you can be done over?! Wow. Some law. I don't think you know exactly what laws were broken and how. I have to admit to being uninformed too, which makes for a great debate! Perhaps going nowhere, but lots of noise and smoke. Mqurice PS: < Ode to the Disney Ducks They ride tall ships to the far away, and see the long ago. They walk where fabled people trod, and Yetis trod the snow. They meet the folks who live on stars, and find them much like us, With food and love and happiness the things they most discuss. The world is full of clans and cults abuzz as angry bees, And Junior Woodchucks snapping jeers at Littlest Chickadees. The ducks show us that part of life is to forgive a slight. That black eyes given in revenge keep hatred burning bright. So when our walks in sun or shade pass graveyards filled by wars, It's nice to stop and read of ducks whose battles leave no scars. To read of ducks who parody our vain attempts at glory, They don't exist, but somehow leave us glad we bought their story. Carl Barks, 1999. > home4.swipnet.se