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To: TobagoJack who wrote (11908)	11/27/2006 4:13:21 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218043

TJ, you might be interested to know that Tarken-san was instrumental in Livedoor getting the Skype agency in Japan and he even featured as one of the two models for it in the Livedoor site for a while. So once again you are using "my" products. <am at tokyo airport, and been using mobile skype to sms as well as speak to folks on two continents, for free > And you were using it at Narita? Via what wireless system? In Japan it is CDMA, which is QCOM as you know. A double-banger Mqurice service. This is great! Surely you had to pay for your wireless connection - perhaps it was a free wifi connection, though I didn't know there's a free wifi link at Narita. Just checked Google and there does seem to be free wifi at Narita airport [Terminal 2]. That's excellent. The more use and value people get from wireless services, the more they'll come to depend on using them. Since they'll always need wide area networks, they will buy devices with wide area network features. I recommend a cyberphone upgrade for this Xmas. Shareholders of QCOM are being paid out regularly, with Happy Meal size dividends. Including Leap Wireless as a dividend [which I cashed at $93 a share] I have had much more than my initial QCOM stake repaid, so managers have done a reasonable job for me. But not satisfied with that, the share price is so high that there is obviously a lot more expected by shareholders. What is happening in Asia ... looks like good cash flow for the CDMA Empire. Excellent. <folks are still not locked on to the possibility that what is happening in asia is an once in 800 years transformational renaissance > It's much more than a 1:800 year event. The change is something as unusual as the invention of DNA. It's a 1:1bn year event. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (11908)	11/27/2006 11:21:43 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 218043

TJ we have more technology that we can digest but have not enough materials. I keep saying is the age of the materials but MQ is not listening. We will be 'mining' the cities for the materials they have. Like shutting down telephones on fixed lines, just to get the copper cables for the scrap metal value. We will have companies collecting garbage for free just to 'mine' the trash for recycling. Many materials are still too cheap: Water and Paper are next in line to be going up. Not only that. The people will get more money and they will go for better diet. More meat for instance... This thing has a potential that - as you correctly pointed- people have not yet grasped.