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Technology Stocks : Globalstar Memorial Day Massacre -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Geoff Goodfellow who wrote (462)	2/4/2001 2:16:32 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 543

Geoff, one thing you should know is that anything which doesn't breach the laws of physics is possible. Globalstar is purely a mind game. The management minds have been confused about how to market it. Customers' minds were unaware of it. Shareholders' minds have gone into an all-time funk. Bernie's mind is caving in. Heck, even breaching the laws of physics doesn't mean something can't happen as QUALCOMM showed with CDMA which works in Globalstar and holds it up. So Globalstar has already achieved the impossible. If the various parties involved with Globalstar get their heads fixed up quickly, Globalstar can turn around immediately [I mean within a week]. The problem is mass brain spazz. Blackstone is going to try to straighten up their thinking [like some kind of Californian psychotherapist]. Now, just wait until Valentine's Massacre Day and we'll see what's real and what's not. No, I'm not on crack or anything else, though I do drink weak green tea. Apart from nutrients, I don't think there are substances which enhance brain power. If there were, Tiger Woods and Kasparov would be sucking them in. They don't and do very well. Your question implies that crack destroys thinking since you think I've lost my mind and you felt the need to find a factor which might explain such an otherwise impossible event. My mind is fine thanks. Perhaps not 'normal', but it does a very good job for us thanks. Who is 'us'? I'm a multi-celled organism so I meant that collection of reactionary reprobates. But I should extend 'us' to those I'm integrated with, such as family, friends, customers and those I provide information and ideas to. Such as you. My major brain failure was to think that Globalstar would learn from their initial failure to sell [which to me was obviously going to happen and I ranted so ad nauseum] and change their marketing plans so that customers wanted to buy. One could argue that is THEIR brain failure rather than mine, but since my needs involved judging their brains, mine was the failure which mattered to us. It is remarkable that they didn't learn from Iridium [despite them saying they would] and that they didn't change their marketing ideas in March when failure had happened. I obviously gave them more credit for intelligence than they have. I do know from first-hand experience just how stupid corporations can be. The individuals can be very intelligent, but the links or processing or something seem to lack function. So I was aware of the effect and how disastrously it can affect companies. Once again I have learned just how totally hopeless corporate brains can be - even when they try and are not on crack. No, I wasn't on crack then either. It was simple brain failure. I needed a better processor in my head [or perhaps more information would have done the trick - though I had a lot]. Cracked, Mqurice PS: Okay Mq, go and write 100 times - "I will never again assume intelligent life is present" "I will always wait until intelligent life is proven before investing my money". "If I have doubt about some factor which suggests lack of enough intelligent life for success - I will WAIT until that doubt is removed before investing". I suspect a similar failure to mine is the way that corporates which are full of highly intelligent, well-motivated people with goodwill fail. They assume everyone else is doing their job; it is only in the heat of action that the weak links in the chain are exposed. Such as the guy who fails to undo the mooring rope from the Zenit to the handrail. The marketing woman who thinks she shouldn't sell herself or her minutes cheap. The inventor who didn't tell the pricing people that he could build a price feedback mechanism for subscribers to choose the price [see Motorola's patent on that]. The o-ring which is feeling a bit too cold for launching a Space Shuttle and the person who should have known that but who hoped it would be okay or whose concerns were ignored by the 'Just Do It' Nike-brained macho action maniacs.