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To: TobagoJack who wrote (55922)	10/6/2009 11:05:00 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217680

table will return if Gold Reaches 2K,

To: TobagoJack who wrote (55922)	10/6/2009 1:18:08 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217680

Excellent = that's 1 Nobel Prize [presumably for something better than a Peace Prize for Yasser Arafat or one for Al Gore]. I have been bullish on China always [due to my mother's influence in the early days, along with neighbours]. 25 years ago I was advocating BP Oil to establish science and R&D there to make use of swarms of super talented women who were stuck with growing rice. I have always been in favour of Qualcomm doing the same. Mqurice

To: TobagoJack who wrote (55922)	10/6/2009 1:43:55 PM
From: Mark Bong	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217680

Charles K. Kao must be a really brillant person for that discovery. Without him, you would not receive this message.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (55922)	10/6/2009 2:53:49 PM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217680

Congratulations to your friend. About time for the Noble people to notice - they waited a long time for the integrated circuit, so that only Jack Kilby was still alive, Bob Noyce having been long gone. By the way, the South China Morning Post has the mention of the prize "below the fold" on their website - why is it not at the top ? He was vice chancellor of Hong Kong University.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (55922)	10/6/2009 4:53:12 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217680

Battered Ireland has just decided to ditch its prosperity-bred aversion to Europe’s Lisbon treaty, now that it’s down on the luck o’ the Irish. Bankrupt Iceland has forsaken its Viking independence and is waiting, cap in hand, to be admitted into the EU. And now both Latvia and Lithuania are beginning to look like fiscal basket cases that will have to be put on euro-funded life support. Spain and Portugal aren’t smelling all that good, either. Will the imminent collapse of Latvia be good news for the greenback? todaysfinancialnews.com

To: TobagoJack who wrote (55922)	10/7/2009 2:19:30 AM
From: KyrosL	1 Recommendation Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 217680

Charles K. Kao is ethnic Chinese but an American and UK citizen. en.wikipedia.org Americans gladly accept all ethnicities and are proud of it. In fact almost all Americans are immigrants if you go back just a few generations. It's an advantage they have over most other countries, especially ones that view foreigners with suspicion and call them dirty names.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (55922)	10/7/2009 4:50:31 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217680

Haw haw haw - hilarious. Proves my point. They need to escape: < Kao's family moved to Hong Kong in 1948. He completed his secondary education at St. Joseph's College in Hong Kong. He then graduated in electrical engineering in 1957 from Woolwich Polytechnic (now the University of Greenwich) but received his degree from University of London and obtained his PhD degree in electrical engineering in 1965, from Imperial College London[9][10][11][12](at that time a constituent college of the University of London). While studying for his PhD degree, Kao also worked as an engineer for Standard Telephones and Cables (STC) at their Standard Telecommunications Laboratories research centre in Harlow, England (now Nortel Networks). Kao did his groundbreaking work at STL where he was a young engineer and researcher. Since leaving STL, he has worked as director of research at ITT Corporation. He joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1970, and served as the university's Vice-Chancellor from 1987 to 1996.[13] He also back to ITT during 1970s. > You really don't get it do you? He moved to Hong Kong in 1948, which was the year I was born and shortly before the glorious revolution with Mao performing great leaps forwards to intellectual glory. In common lingo, they fled just in time. Good move and thank goodness for that. CDMA without the fibre backhaul would move much more slowly. Woolwich is down the road from where one my great grandfathers lived. So your fibre man did it with the help of we Anglos. TJ, you are so silly. If the British Empire had brought China into the commonwealth club, without those silly Boxers getting stroppy, Japan would have been headed off at the pass and none of that nastiness would have come to pass. But that's all hypothetical water under the bridge and the fact is that your bloke escaped to London where he was free to do great things, by the good graces of Great Britain, which he enjoyed doing and hooray for that. Mqurice Psst, don't worry, we know you really do get it, you just aren't allowed to give a hint that you have such naughty thoughts. Yes, I could ask Google for the list of Nobel prizes given to people in China for successes out of China. But the list will be trivial.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (55922)	10/7/2009 5:06:16 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217680

BTW didn't you make some comment about an old proverb about iron and nails and children and goose stepping? Imagine trying to invent fibre optics while goose stepping. Somehow it seems that it would be very difficult to do. Goose stepping and cloned thinking compliance with autocracy are highly valued in China [by the bosses] so it's understandable that not much is achieved. That can change and quickly, so we live in hope. Mqurice