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To: TobagoJack who wrote (1985)	11/13/2005 5:56:27 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217774

Hi TJ - My Toshiba laptop is dying after 2 years + of heavy use, so I bought a Lenovo ThinkPad - T43 with fingerprint security, touch pad AND pointer. It is extremely well made and designed, an improvement over the last IBM versions, and well worth the small price premium ($ 200 or so) over HP or Dell. Nominal price premium is about $250, but there are more useful items - like 2 pointing devices, the anti - drop sensing, quality of keyboard, etc. These have actual costs, and real value. The specialized retail / service / IT support and configuration place where I bought can't keep them in stock. Even Lenovo's website warns of possible delays on their tablet model machines. I don't know if you are familiar with the Lenovo management, but if they can keep this up the company should do very well. Relative to the goal of China having a world class company in every major area, it looks like they have made it.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (1985)	11/13/2005 6:23:04 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217774

I think TJ may be taking a certain wholesale diamond merchant to a nice lunch.... he could be a very useful advisor. Colored diamonds - like red and purple - can be very interesting.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (1985)	11/13/2005 6:31:47 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217774

Of chocolate and factories: Factories have to be located where the people who's going to consume the produce is. It is non sense to cart materials to one country or region, manufacture there and the distribute. Because industrial revolution started in Europe and they were the first to develop the know how, stuff had to be shipped there, made and the sold back. Countries produced raw materials and bought the final products. Now what we have is: a country or region has the competitiveness (meaning the right labor force) to make things and the stuff has to be shipped there and the shipped back. We are back to square one. Which brings us back to Chocolate factory country: Cocoa and other food inputs were shipped to a country developed the know how in producing food. The circumstances (like lots of babies=lots of baby food and baby formula. Lots of kids=lots of confectioneries) favored this country. Now circumstances changed (the babies and the kids are somewhere else in the world. Chocolate factory country is being hollowed up. And this hollowing up is that points to a bleak future for the whole Europe. Tell the chocolate country: Develop more tourism. It is the only thing that will remain there.