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To: BubbaFred who wrote (46809)	2/29/2004 9:57:50 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Bubba, you are obviously not much of an engineer. The valve tower I built has had no maintenance and should stand for another half century and more, as will the canal and plenty of the other stuff I've had a hand in creating. Which misses the point anyway. The value in a community comes from those who have gone before. Mao types don't understand wealth. They think it is low-hanging fruit which is found, to be divvied up by a Great Leader [usually with them as the primary recipient]. Communities are wealthy due to the virtues Jay recites from time to time, which are always at risk due to the seven deadly sins and the movement of the line between good and evil which runs right through the heart of every person. Nor do you understand property. The creators of property should be the ones who enjoy the benefits. The communist idea is that property should be collective and individuals should be happy to contribute to the benefit of the Great Leader. I don't need newcomers to pay for a bit of maintenance to existing facilities. The construction process was the hard part. Keeping the drains clean and repainting is the easy part. Our house will need paint too one day, but the fact that the structure and land cost us a lot, doesn't mean I need random immigrants to move in at no charge to help with the painting and hoik on the driveway. I can pay for the maintenance and improvements with QCOM profits. I doubt you can understand or be persuaded. But on thanks ... I have many times thanked people who have helped in the world of CDMA. For example, and thanks to the modern search possibilities and memory of cyberspace Message 19078185 I didn't buy QCOM shares for a quick flick if some sucker was prepared to pay heaps more than I paid, as they were in 1999. I want to die owning QCOM shares, which is of course unlikely, because the world never stands still and dreams slip through fingers and other opportunities arise, and one must always respond to the shifting sands of hope and reality. I can be a landlord in Shanghai today, but not because I said thank you various times in various ways. You were wrong in all ways. That's because your premises are wrong. Start from first principles and try again. Mqurice PS: Thanks again and again to all the wonderful people who have spent so long learning how to do it and then have helped create the world of CDMA, Globalstar, BREW, radioOne and the wall of patents on the bridge of MV QUALCOMM. Message 19270760 You should get the point by now: Message 17405638 Brad, aka S100, Sier, died nearly two years ago.