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To: elmatador who wrote (53518)	8/13/2009 4:31:19 PM
From: Muthusamy SELVARAJU	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217694

Like many around the world, I've watched Brazil from afar over the years, but something seemed to have 'lit' the country when Lula was elected to office. Not sure if he was the cause or the effect, but living in Malaysia, I sit and watch for a similar 'magic' to happen here: in many ways, it seems the only way to go forward on a sustained basis, as any multi-ethnic, resource-rich, democratic country (like Brazil, Malaysia) can only go so far, as in the past, with its privileged few raping its abundant resources, leaving the minimum for the masses through the trickle down process. Malaysia is struggling right now, but its basic values such as democracy, inter-racial harmony are at least on surface, largely intact. I wait for a Lula clone to show up here soon! Since you now spend a lot of time in Africa, do you see the potential for South Africa to repeat the Brazil 'magic' over the next few years? It seems a shame, after Mandela, so much of their natural 'energy' is sapped everyday due to the HIV/AIDS factor, but perhaps this country lacks the critical 'DNA factor' that always existed in modern day Brazil? In this part of the world, Indonesia's president Yudhoyono seems to have 'lit' the country too, and I think this great, complex, but beautiful country is going to go places over the next 50 years, with its basic values like democracy, multi-everything (religion, language, ethnicity, bio-diversity) very much intact. Congratulations, and all the best, Selva

To: elmatador who wrote (53518)	8/13/2009 4:52:15 PM
From: Gib Bogle	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217694

Giving money to the poor! Socialism! Get the stake and the garlic!

To: elmatador who wrote (53518)	8/13/2009 6:15:38 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217694

Good news here, no microscope needed. Huawei is cleaning up and lined up to dominate LTE with full spectrum dominance: gigaom.com <By Om Malik \| Tuesday, August 11, 2009 \| 7:40 AM PT \| 2 comments Earlier this year, I wrote a post in which I bet that Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei would win the WiMAX sweepstakes. I would like to amend that bet to place it on Huawei winning the 4G sweepstakes, thanks to the number of carriers deploying the Long Term Evolution standard. For with the exception of Ericsson, Huawei faces little competition in the market for LTE gear. I’m amending my bet after reading this morning that Vodafone is using Huwaei to run LTE trials. Indeed, with Nortel and Alcatel-Lucent on the ropes, the Chinese company smells blood in the North American market. It recently opened an LTE lab in Plano, Texas; it has signed up European carriers Telnor and TeliaSonera as customers for its LTE gear; and it’s in the running to become a supplier to AT&T for its 4G network. ... continues... > L M Ericsson down for the count. Nortel out. The vast Euroswindle of the world with GSM is drawing to a close. Let's hear it for Huawei = hip hip, hooray, hip hip, hooray, hip hip, hooray. They are bringing more competition to the service provider world and providing opportunity to a billion people in China to do great things, not that they'll be allowed to by their bosses in Beijing. Your Brazilian ethanol might even be the right stuff to fuel the revolution as fuel cell fodder. Just squirt another dose of ethanol into the Smartbook with a Mirasol screen and carry on for another couple of days. It's far easier to stretch eyes and ears wirelessly through cyberspace to the desired location than actually physically go there in 3D via car, train, bus, airliner with hotel and other high costs. With good stereophonic and binocular vision, "being there" will be easier in cyberspace than in 3D. The end of the oil era will come like that, not because we run out of fossil carbon and hydrocarbons. Nor will CO2 be a problem. A few cameras and microphones can take the place of millions of heads craning their necks for a peek of the view, with remotely located viewers enjoying [or not] the experience from anywhere. Mobile cyberspace rulz ok. Bring it on. Mqurice