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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (56931)	12/5/2004 2:53:24 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Ray, hooray for Newt Gingrich [I didn't know he was still around]: <"Having said that, Thompson's warning about a flu pandemic was his greatest single service to our country." Gingrich concluded that if Thompson is concerned, than the threat is real. He called on the Congress to meet the challenge of creating a 21st century virtual public health system that can respond to the threat of a pandemic, and suggested starting with hearings so that Members of Congress and the nation can understand the full scale of the threat. "While we were all deeply shocked and saddened by the attacks of 9/11 that resulted in the deaths of thousands, a pandemic, whether natural or engineered, could kill millions." The former Speaker said. "The response, therefore, must be equal to the threat." Gingrich, who holds a Ph.D. in history, stated that the flu of 1918 killed more people worldwide in a single year then the total number of people who died during the four years of World War I.> The USA is perhaps going to realize there is a major league catastrophe coming down the turnpike in time to do something about it. Mqurice

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (56931)	12/5/2004 3:50:37 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

12 deep ocean fishing trawlers, 12 booby-trapped mini-subs, released just in time to hide below 12 freighters/tankers passing within fireball range of 12 carriers, and it's then bye bye carriers, wherever they happen to be the thing about nukes is that they don't have to be elegant or even too accurate this is why the US is particularly against nuclear democracy, as in 1 country 1 vote ;0) the carriers are dinosaurs, and expensive too hydrofoils and submarines armed with astute anti-ship missile and intelligent mines ... perhaps the QCOM of marine conflict dunno, just speculation

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (56931)	12/8/2004 4:04:04 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Ray, oil has made it down to $40, no matter what sort of gerrymandering and pedantry you come up with. You can find oil at $41 for sweet crude in New York, a whisker above $40]. But there's more to oil than that; Brent is now under $39. bloomberg.com Also, the no-brainers who paid $455 for gold have got worth less nausages. Meanwhile, after taking a breather after lapping G, the Q has caught up again with 3G services achieving lift-off and profits galore and cash flow running hot. Mobile cyberspace is now in prime time around the world. It must be time for another interest rate increase to ensure the US$ doesn't lose too much market share in the currency stakes. No-brainers are likely to find that the reason for the big bump over our eyebrows is that no-braining our way through life is NOT an evolutionarily desirable tactic. Mqurice

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (56931)	12/11/2004 2:33:49 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Ray, OPEC is hilarious. As with so many people, they see markets as something to 'control'. So they are now planning on cutting production, which contradicts Saudi Arabia's announcement a month or three ago that they were going to boost production by 30% over the next year or three. Oil is a has-been. It's a remnant of the steam engine and the industrial revolution based largely on thermodynamics, belts, gears, cams and wheels. The Otto cycle internal combustion engine is a veritable Gordian Knot which has become increasingly complex over a century. A superconductor-levitated and propelled, one moving part vehicle [the vehicle itself being the moving part] would be a much simpler, cheaper, safer, cleaner, quieter, quicker way of moving people around. That's still in the future [note Jay that demand for platinum doesn't feature in such a system]. In the meantime, a fuel-cell propelled 5 moving-part vehicle would be a good intermediary [which does include platinum]. A motor in each wheel would provide propulsion and braking. 4 wheels and the vehicle would be the only moving parts, with a steering motor on each wheel to go around corners. A joystick, or electronics would provide control. Humans controlling vehicles doesn't seem like a good idea. Electronics/photonics react at the speed of light. Humans react in half a second, if they are even bothering to pay attention. I guess the oil doomsters are realizing that with production being cut going into the northern hemisphere winter, there isn't really a big shortage of the stuff. OPEC can't keep prices above $40 a barrel for many years because they'll lose too much market share and reduce their net present value. Whether they like it or not, they don't control the price of oil other than for a short time. Competition does and there is a LOT of competition, from insulation to cyberspace to noocular power, wind-power, photovoltaics, ethanol and good old coal. Mqurice