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

To: Ramsey Su who wrote (3117)	7/15/2001 9:48:18 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12232

Thanks for the tea offer Ramsey. I'm feeling a bit better now, so maybe another time. Meanwhile, here is some political stuff for you. nytimes.com <...Senior officials who worked for the former president — including Secretary Powell and Vice President Dick Cheney — are sprinkled through the top echelons of his son's foreign policy machinery. Now, another one, Brent Scowcroft, who was the national security adviser to the former president, is expected to be the new chairman of the president's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, said its current chairman, Warren Rudman. Mr. Scowcroft, who recently criticized the administration, saying that it had let down its Arab friends during the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict, spent time with father and son at the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Me., last weekend. ... Relations between Saudi Arabia and the United States were at a high during the first Bush presidency, when the elder Mr. Bush successfully led the gulf war against Saddam Hussein of Iraq, largely from bases in Saudi Arabia. But recent friction between the Saudi military and American soldiers at the Prince Sultan base in Saudi Arabia have led some senior Pentagon officials to believe that the crown prince's discontent over the administration's Middle East policy had spilled over. The Saudis have said they will not extradite 11 suspects they hold who are wanted by the United States in the 1996 truck bombing that killed 19 American servicemen. > I wonder if Brent Scowcroft mentioned CDMA. Brent is on the board of directors of QUALCOMM. For newbies, Brent hired Condoleezza Rice when Brent worked for George senior. It's all one big happy family. Even Bill Clinton and AlGorhythm were buddies of MightyQ! and Irwin. Do you remember I told you in early 1996 that CDMA spelled politics in quantum language? That all augurs a lot better for QUALCOMM when the antitrust drool starts. Poor $ill was on his own and made some faux pas when playing golf with Bill Clinton ages ago [such as saying BillC doesn't 'drill down' in investigations - and I wonder if he was not forthcoming enough with political donations]. $ill didn't have a big bunch of Washington buddies. When Spinco happens, the antitrust threat will recede much further over the horizon. Q! will have to get to $500bn market cap before the threat becomes significant [give or take a couple of hundred $billion]. BREW could get the drool flowing. If they take on the US$ with their own CyberQ encrypted Eudora currency, that'll definitely cause baying as the hounds are released for the hunt. Especially when they leverage all that into Globalstar for a worldwide monopoly system. Succinctly, Mqurice PS: If I was one of the 11 suspects, I think I'd beg to be excommunicated for life in prison in New Zealand. In the USA they'd give them the Tim McVeigh treatment. In Saudi Arabia they'll probably take a swing at them with a diamond-encrusted, gold-handled executioner sword. If I couldn't get to NZ or the French Polynesian prison paradise of Hao, I'd seek extradition to the USA where due process would give a chance of a stay of execution, especially since execution is getting a lot of bad press, what with Sandra O'Connor feeling statistically nervous about killing people who didn't commit the particular crime for which they were executed. Usually, those killed in error seemed to deserve it anyway [they always seem to have a long record of criminal activity, so the only bad thing about killing them is that the really bad one got away].

To: Ramsey Su who wrote (3117)	10/8/2001 3:48:07 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12232

<Whenever you are ready to start therapy again, my kitchen table and a nice cup of tea will always be waiting> Ramsey, I'm ready for therapy. I have just been on another Winning Vacation and the consequences for QUALCOMM were comparable with my previous holiday when WTC was destroyed along with New Millennium hopes for humanity. The SUVacation Effect is comparatively weak! I am developing paranoia. Given what happened to deflate 1901 New Century excitement, [WWI, Titanic, depression, WWII, famines, earthquakes, pestilence, disease, communism, totalitarianism and a lot more besides], I suppose it's certain that comparable 21st century events will occur. The 20th century was mostly good news, but interspersed with more bad news than bears contemplation. It's easy to focus on the bad news, but at the end of the 20th century, there were over 5 billion people [about 4 billion more than at the beginning], living a greatly extended lifetime with vastly improved quality of life and unimaginable technological developments and mod cons with mobile cyberspace zygote just getting started and globalisation gathering strength. Nevertheless, given that QUALCOMM has sagged right down to under $40 and my Globalstar Tonka Truck has capsized I could do with a nice cup of tea. I have been having a LOT of fun, but am feeling queasy, hanging on tight with white knuckles. Mqurice