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To: Gib Bogle who wrote (60990)	3/14/2005 4:25:29 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Aha! Now I recall Gib. That was May 2000 that we were selling our house in Armadale Road. Our main interest then [apart from QUALCOMM] was Globalstar, which turned from a fortune to zero. Global Crossing wasn't then part of our equation. That came later after the bust and lasted about 2 weeks before somebody in SI warned me that their debts were stacked to the roof with note holders well down the creditor pecking order. My normal extensive DD was very brief and along the lines of "Jay Chen paid a LOT more than this, so I'll just buy it for the fun of it, so I can enjoy a little gloating". After buying, some investigation caused sudden onset of buyer's remorse and rapid abandonment of the position, fortunately without loss. Phew. But at least I got a brief gloating dividend [non-taxable]. Zinc? Surely there's not enough zinc to make any difference to anything [there obviously is a source that matters and a consequence too or it wouldn't be interesting]. When lead was in petrol, there must have been a huge amount flooding out with stormwater into the harbours. Not to mention all the lead from paint, and everywhere else. We used to put 0.84 g/l in petrol and there was about 1000 tons a year of lead sprayed around Auckland by cars [if I recall rightly]. Lead is highly toxic, zinc isn't. It's a nutrient. On the brain transducers, I'm thinking of a detection system which filters out the junk thought and only picks up the pre-sympathetic signals immediately before download, or even during download, to the tongue, lips and larynx muscles. Just as CDMA works by fast Fourier transforms in cunning and powerful little processors to pick the right signals out of the mess in a noisy spectrum, with learning, a processor could do high-precision interpretation of neural signals. When the processor detects, among the extraneous things you mentioned, the download process for saying "How do you do?" to said attractive young woman, it would see the signal for "how" "do" "you" and "do" among the mess of other thoughts. It would pick up and transmit "how" "do" "you" "do", leaving the salacious stuff back in the pre-output department. I suspect the processing power required would be supercomputer standard at present, so I figure cervical nerve transducers would be a LOT easier [but still horribly processing-intensive]. Mqurice PS: I note that the Manukau harbour around Mangere Bridge, which was dead in 1989, with not even a crab or worm in the mud, is rapidly coming back to life, with fish now in the water too. Pikes Point tip, Pacific Steel and other industry, Westfield, sewage effluent pollution, oily/lead/tyre/etc runoff from roads etc etc have all stopped polluting the harbour. When I was 5, it was alive and swimming at Shelly Beach in Mangere was fun and clean. Then it all died over a couple of decades. Then came back to life over the last 15 years. Any zinc will be a thin layer on top of feet of lead and other muck.