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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Snowshoe who wrote (25235)	11/14/2007 11:59:11 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 219863

That is unboring. Peter Blake found his sailing trip up the Amazon very non-boring too, until a bullet bored into his back. I'm sure he was full of adrenaline the situation was so exciting. Stan Shaw would NOT have been bored as they hacked his head off [the Moslems]. The 23 year old nephew, Matthew Ferrara, of Phil Goff, the NZ Minister of Defence, who was killed in Afghanistan while working as a soldier for NATO, would not have been bored. He was a highly talented American soldier. nzherald.co.nz He was the first NZer killed there. I used to work with his grandfather, Bruce Goff [who was a sales engineer for Europa, a NZ oil company]. Bruce is a very nice bloke. NZ is a village. Phil Goff's sister married an American. They had 5 children. He was about 5th in his class at West Point. He was fluent in Mandarin, was a fighter pilot too, top sportsman. Really nice guy. Killed by Islamic Jihad All highly coincidental. None of the participants here would have been bored: <Eight international troops and 11 Afghan soldiers were also wounded in the fighting which began when insurgents ambushed their patrol from multiple positions with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire. > Personally, I think they'd all have been much better off to have a nice cup of tea together, and come up with a scheme to install OFDM/CDMA in 450MHz across Afghanistan, with Zenbu as the Wi-Fi link for fast, cheap, secure wireless, internet access. Matthew, being fluent in Mandarin, could have helped Huawei and other China companies set up shop in Afghanistan. Globalstar would be providing total voice coverage. Spot would provide position location, tracking and messaging [via Globalstar]. If TJ wasn't so lazy, he'd have phoned Hu Jintao and the whole thing would be happening. Now there's no Matthew to help things along. I'm staying in boring Epsom and can't speak Mandarin. Even when I speak loudly and clearly and wave my hands at them, they [people in Beijing] don't understand me. Mqurice