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To: JohnG who wrote (7911)	10/26/2000 3:06:54 PM
From: Puck	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Well naturally, since European stocks represent the largest holdings in my portfolio, and they make damn good mobile phones and wireless infrastructure equipment to boot. God bless them. ;)

To: JohnG who wrote (7911)	10/26/2000 4:25:15 PM
From: LarsA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

exhaling sound ----I'm glad that was an expression of your sense of humor, JohnG. As a co-owner of QCOM I'm also happy about the HDR/multimedia chip-set. BUT my own view is that IF Bluetooth is a success, the most typical data transfer to a PC would be from an existing cell phone, with one existing cell phone contract, GSM, TDMA or CDMA - via Bluetooth, since it's neutral. Just for practical reasons in terms of subscriptions and stuff. Now, if a killer app is found that needs true broadband very soon, HDR may get really hot among the operators but I doubt it. I bought QCOM for the WCDMA IPR.

To: JohnG who wrote (7911)	10/26/2000 7:44:31 PM
From: Joar	Respond to of 34857

>>..in general, europeans are socialist, idiot lemmings that think bureaucrats and the European Commission can do a better job of allocating resources and generation innovatons than can a free market economy?..<< Nice to see, JohnG, that you do not disappoint us regarding your ability for political analytic sharpness, intellectual reasoning, and sense for nuances. By the way, you repetitive and naïve referring to the concept of “free market economy” as something characterizing American trade makes me wonder: - what is your opinion about the American habit of rapidly sending off government representatives to talk the potential trade partner into the right lane (to convince them that buying American is the only right way) as soon as their is a risk for that an important order from that other nation will go to an non-american competitor? Sometimes, the discussion on this thread has concerned the uncertainty whether some potential non-american customers of QCOM, for example, would end up NOT choosing Q:s stuff in an important industrial deal. I have noticed, that at those times, several posts on this list rhetorically – and as a way if seeking comfort - have asked themselves whether “the American government” really would allow such a thing to happen, without intervening. Thereby exhibiting that they apparently see such an order as totally natural, and even desirable. It would not surprise me, if you belong to those posters. When you talk about “free market economy”, do you mean in other ways free, but with the exception of free American intervention, when American industrial interests are threatened? JohnG, you do not seem to grasp that your bias is obvious to anyone, who is capable of thinking. But apparently, you are not aware of it yourself, which is significative. Best as always, Joar