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

To: tekboy who wrote (3082)	7/11/2001 5:50:49 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

Quite right TBs and it annoys me when people selectively quote and alter the meaning. But I deny misquoting, though I was unclear on the target of my comment. I did read the part which disagreed with the idea expressed by McCain, but I was simply referring to the McCain concept as being frightening as it was he who was going to be president, not the writer [a no-account ranter like me]. But the writer was also going on about do-gooding as though the individual freedom was to choose your own way to do greater good [volunteering, Little League, starting a company]. Ick! I have nothing against anything like that, but the implication is that those things are 'really good things'. I disagree and think monopolist $ill and royalty profiteer Irwin Jacobs [and me] have done a LOT more for people than any do-gooder volunteers [and $ill will do a lot more good with his Windows than his vaccines - hmm, actually, he's so smart he'll probably do even better with his do-gooding]. That's because $ill and Irwin only do well if people choose their products and services. It's the act of voluntary choice which is crucial. People have chosen to give them vast payments and the level of profit is a direct measure of the level of good that is done. Customers only pay large profits to a company if the benefits from the products are commensurately large. Your buddy Paul Krugman whines that Californians' wealth is being transferred to electricity suppliers and argues for a price cap. nytimes.com Since the Californian voters were so stupid as to arrange a shortage of electricity, they deserve to have their wealth transferred to those who dared put up the capital to produce electricity. The huge electricity profits are the rewards the shareholders should get. They are going to be robbed by monopolistic governments at state and federal levels if price caps are introduced. For 'the greater good', the electricity shareholders are to be robbed. It's not for the greater good. It's for the pecuniary advantage of the Californian voters. Voting themselves rich will work in the short term, but I have already noted their criminal inclinations and will perhaps invest elsewhere. Voting oneself rich is the modern equivalent of cargo-cult. Yes, I know the flow of immigration is towards the USA [and NZ and Australia]. It's when people have a lot of loot that they leave the USA. [That's my theory anyway based on those I know who have left] It's when they are trying to get money that they go there. If a place is really nice to live in, people with a lot of dosh go there. That's not a criticism. It is essential that the world have places to invest and create wealth. But I don't see any reason that a place couldn't be both a great wealth creator AND a great place to live when loaded. Anyway, each to their own and the vast migrations taking place, and interbreeding, are changing the world pretty quickly now. The world is homogenizing, despite various efforts to retain ethnic and cultural purity by frustrated traditionalists. But now I think of it, that's very much on the fringes. China, India, Africa, Japan are not homogenizing much at all! That's happening mostly in NZ, Australia, Canada, USA where there are big immigrant populations from all over the world. Mqurice

To: tekboy who wrote (3082)	7/30/2001 4:28:27 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

state.gov state.gov Colonisation Powell Colinising China. Reading that, it seems that CDMA and the business side of life is what it's really all about and the two political systems are hanging on to the business coat-tails, trying not to get run over by the economic interests, while pretending to control those interests. Taiwanese are investing a bit of money in China too. What did you think of Colin's visit? Mqurice

To: tekboy who wrote (3082)	7/30/2001 5:21:58 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12231

dailynews.yahoo.com Saddam gets grumpy about confronting a girl [Condominium Rice]. Vice President Taha Ramadan wouldn't really want to say anything other than Saddam will have total victory would he? The Iraqi cemeteries are full of people who thought Saddam wasn't Allah's right hand man. < BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A senior Iraqi official was quoted on Monday as saying Iraq would achieve a ``final victory'' over the United States which has threatened to use military force in response to Baghdad's attempt to shoot down a U.S. U-2 spy plane. President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) was leading the country against ''the forces of evil, tyranny and aggression presided over by America,'' Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan was quoted by the Iraqi press as saying. ``Final victory against these forces will be realized and America and its allies including Britain, Zionism (Israel) and their agents the rulers of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia will be defeated,'' Ramadan said on Sunday in a speech marking the 1968 revolution which brought the ruling Baath party to power. Iraqi anti-aircraft defenses came close to hitting a high-altitude U-2 spy plane with a missile last Tuesday. According to a U.S. account, the modified Russian-made missile just missed the plane in a ``no-fly zone'' over southern Iraq. In Washington, a senior U.S. official said on Sunday that Saddam was on the U.S. ``radar scope'' and the administration of President Bush (news - web sites) would use military force against his government in a ``more resolute manner'' than in the past.> Condoleezza isn't seeking a condominium with Saddam, that's for sure! He gives her a perfect oppportunity to show that guys shouldn't mess with Condoleezza on a bad hair day. dailynews.yahoo.com <WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush (news - web sites)'s national security adviser put Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) on notice Sunday that the United States intends a more resolute military policy toward Iraq. The warning from Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) came days after an Iraqi surface-to-air missile was fired at an American surveillance plane. ``Saddam Hussein is on the radar screen for the administration,'' Rice told CNN's ``Late Edition.'' ``The administration is working hard with a number of our friends and allies to have a policy that ... looks at use of military force in a more resolute manner, and not just a manner of tit-for-tat with him every day.'' She said the policy also will examine the use of economic sanctions so that their effects will be felt by the regime rather than the Iraqi people, and that the policy will have a role for opposition forces within Iraq....> The economy needs cheaper oil - OPEC is keeping the screws a bit too tight, so it's time to let a bit more flow. Letting more out of Iraq while blowing up Saddam will work out just fine! Condoleezza will have fun. Iraq doesn't like the idea, despite the bluster. <...Iraq denied on Saturday that its defenses had fired a missile at the U-2, saying U.S. officials wanted to create a pretext for a fresh military attack against Iraq...> But they do say they fired at these planes. Why deny one if not the others? Maybe they didn't fire at the U2? <BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq said its anti-aircraft defenses fired at Western planes patrolling a ``no-fly zone'' in southern Iraq on Monday. ``At 9:40 a.m. local time (1:40 a.m. EDT) on Monday American and British planes violated our airspace coming from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait...and flew over the provinces of Basra, Dhiqar, Muthanna and Qadissiya,'' a military spokesman was quoted by the official Iraqi News Agency as saying. It did not report any casualties. ``Our brave ground defenses confronted the planes and forced them to return to the bases of evil in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait,'' the spokesman added. > I wouldn't be surprised if the USA did use a fake attack on a U2 as a justification [not that any is needed]. Mqurice