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To: skinowski who wrote (462393)	12/28/2011 1:04:44 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794367

I didn't know the letters CDMA, but it was the same idea. Fourier transforms are beautiful mathematical tools [which I learned to use in engineering school] and it seemed to me that silicon chips were so small in the late 1980s that the processing power needed could be squeezed into teeny little cellphones and do the heavy lifting of encoding and decoding at the other end and generally moving bits around really quickly to put a lot more data through a given amount of spectrum. I wondered whether it was a business I could start but decided it was too hard. It was a chance in a million that I met Bill Gardner from Qualcomm in August 1991 and he told me that they were doing just that. A bit like Tradable Citizenship. It would take a political career to make it happen and I'm not a politician though I have pushed very successfully some political ideas and might just do that [get somebody else to do the actual work of making it happen]. For example we [a small group of us] got Epsom won for Act [a NZ political party] and that changed the government in bygone times and still helped in the latest election. In 1983, The New Zealand Party got going. I was discussing political stuff with a very annoyed and frustrated friend and suggested he get a political party going by that name to get Muldoon out and he did just that,. He told his friend Bill Taylor [a lawyer] who with Bob Jones [a local identity] formed the party and won sufficient votes to oust Muldoon. Bob Jones had the public presence to do it, and the interest and fun in doing it. Muldoon called it "The Bob Jones party". That got Muldoon out and Lange in and a lot of deregulation under way. As Archimedes said, with the right place to stand, a lever can move the world. <How citizenships would get assigned to existing current citizens. Etc., etc. There would be other repercussions as well. Citizens of less than very desirable jurisdictions would not need to apply, ever - because in poor countries they would never be able to raise the needed millions. > Same as passports now = people are identified as bona fide citizens and are assigned passports. Computers remember the details. Soon passports will be not required, just show up at a border and present iris, voice, face, fingerprint, PIN to the inspecting computers. At Auckland airport, I still have to poke my passport in a machine, but soon they'll figure out that my face has all the information they need. People can now go from poor countries to others by being sponsored by companies which want to hire them. Swarms of Indians and Chinese have gone to live in the USA and are now citizens. Google hires! Companies around the world are combing through looking for talent. Livedoor in Japan tried to hire swarms of talented foreigners but the government stymied them and they were able to get only a few through the border. Yes, a good slogan helps popular appeal. No doubt if a politician wants to use the idea of Tradable Citizenship, they'll come up with some slogans so people don't have to actually think. "Earth in the balance" = yes, we must cut CO2. "Peace in our time" - sure sounds like a good idea. "Down with Big Brother" - hey, not so fast there Mq, we quite like being state chattels. "Don't let a slogan do your thinking for you" = my favourite slogan. People think that good things have to be simple, but the opposite is true. Good things are complex. Look at human dna for a start and how our brains are made. Check out an A380 and what it does. Google's algorithms are not beginner class programming. The General Theory of Relativity is too arcane, abstruse, abstract, and esoteric for nearly everyone even if they know those words. Being a tribal member in a chimpanzee tribe is relatively simple. Human tribes worked like that until a few millennia ago and still do in some places. But people prefer the complex improvements we have made over the centuries. They like their Cyberphones and air travel. They are annoyed that they are STILL, in the 21st century, being told to turn their DeVices off in flight. Absurd, but that's how they do it. We are still state serfs and can't even sell our share of the property we create. Absurd, but true. Mqurice

To: skinowski who wrote (462393)	12/28/2011 1:09:04 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794367

For example, Lenin announced "All land to the peasants! All factories to the workers!". And then proceeded to nationalize every inch of land and every functioning enterprise, and to enslave both the workers and the peasants And ironically it was the successful peasants - the kulaks - that became "class enemy #1" along with the Russian middle class and aristocracy. Can't have peasants standing up for the land they won and made fruitful! The kulak's farms were "collectivized" and the kulaks were purged. en.wikipedia.org