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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (6619)	8/4/2001 7:43:31 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

He means the Chinese weren't, and aren't, living in the Stone Age, otherwise known as the Neolithic. They were reading, writing, living in cities, wearing fine garments woven out of silk, had orchestral music, astronomy, medicine, architecture, mathematics etc. etc. while your ancestors (and mine) were wearing fur skins and painting themselves blue. Excellent philosophers, too. Western science is still learning about acupuncture, herbal medicine, and so forth, but you don't see big, fat Chinese people keeling over from strokes and heart attacks at the age of 50. Yes, there are a lot of peasants in China, but they've got everything we have - literacy, schools, hospitals, universities, electricity, roads, bridges, dams, factories, you name it, they've got it. Rocket science, satellites. Loral used to launch on Long March rockets, remember? Part of their being behind on the latest technology is due to an embargo, remember? So it's not like they are stupid or uncivilized, it's their government, which they can't do much about.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (6619)	8/4/2001 8:13:06 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Here's the glasses, Mq: China, even in the disastrous case of NOT accepting QCOM and other glass beads you're talking about, is not in stone age. It was not in stone age, when your and my forefathers learnt how to climb down the tree. Your texts have a strange flavour - like an on-going discussion at some kick-off party in 15th century Spain, for a guy going off to proselytize foreign ("stone-age") lands in South America - "Give'em Hell&Cross&G3 handy, Juanito, and blow them off the planet, if they dont comply". Have you thought a little who the readers could be? Or is it just a selected few invited - me, my ego and my message? dj