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To: TobagoJack who wrote (18877)	5/11/2002 1:45:33 AM
From: marek_wojna	Respond to of 74559

Thanks a lot for good and an expensive for your pocket answer. I would suggest to you to do some walking and find one of many Cafe Internet which charge that money per hour not a minute but walking streets of Moscow is like swimming in the Nile by the crocodile nests. I'm not talking about designated for foreigners areas of Russian capital where everything is insured by high premiums which are used for protection. marek

To: TobagoJack who wrote (18877)	5/11/2002 5:27:52 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<at USD 3.00/minute access charge here at the Marriott in Moscow, I must be productive with my thoughts ... > Gidday Jay, right now I'm listening, via headphones for good sound quality, to Irwin Jacobs via cyberspace, lying on my couch with notebook computer with 80211 link to our mainframe which links by ADSL to cyberspace and thence to QUALCOMM's web site where there is a place to click to listen to Irwin Jacobs' latest presentation. qualcomm.com While I'm doing that, I'm typing to Jay in Moscow who doesn't have mobility so has to pay an extorquerationate fee for a fixed hotel connection. You obviously value cyberspace to be spending US$3 per minute [even for a short time]. You can do a lot better. When QUALCOMM has got Globalstar going properly, you'll be able to upload a request direct from your mobile phone or data device, such as a Treo, to a Globalstar satellite, which will route the request to the IP identified server which will download your requested data via a high data rate satellite system such as Skybridge. The cost would be cents per minute, not dollars per minute and possibly as low as 20c per megabyte or less. It sure is a remarkable world. Whether you are in Trinidad, Hong Kong, Beijing or Moscow, you are right there, pixelated on my screen. This is big time stuff. 7 million Koreans swarming all over cyberspace via CDMA can't be wrong. Happy travels, Mqurice PS: It would be nice to have a Bluetooth link to two hearing-aids for sterephonic sound instead of big headphones with a wire. But these things take time.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (18877)	5/13/2002 1:28:52 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi Jay - When you get to a cheap connection place, please expand on comments on Japan - how having a volitile exchange rate helps what I assume the Japan government is trying to do ? Japan is doing an 'Argentina' right now, but in a slightly more stealthy way. Instead of Argentina's shutting the banks, forcing USD to local unit currency conversion, releasing liquidity above and way (&^(&$#@$# beyond economic fundamentals, Japan 'is' (by design, default, or natural market inclination) gyrating and whipping the currency exchange rate so that folks are reluctant betting on capital export on a scale necessary to totally deflate Japan with one single stab of the needle, compelling savers to buy JGB debt paper at 0.00x% annual return, and releasing liquidity to cleanse the damage out of sight. Best Regards, energyplay