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To: Gregg Powers who wrote (11317)	6/9/1998 5:32:00 PM
From: limtex	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Gregg - sort of OT and sort of on Topic Whatever the outcome here it seems to me that your clients are in very good hands. Like many newcomers to investing I've had my emotional ups and downs expressed here to vent some frustration. Only a short time ago this kind of correspondence was not even a dream for any of us. Now it has become an essential part of our lives. I was interested to see two lists of the ten best performing stocks over the last ten years one for the US and one for Europe. The US one was very heavily tech weighted the European one was headed by a package tour operator and there were others like it in the list. It struck me that anyone can start up a tour operating company. You don't need seriuos R&D or the engineering brains out of the California universties or MIT or a bunch of engineeers from Intel or another major leaving to start their own operation with an idea they've had. Equally to be an investment banker or advisor in this environment in my view you need to be willing, able and happy to make use of all this fantastic new gadgetry that once again wasn't even a dream twenty years ago. You obviously enjoy the immersion in the technology and make use of it in your every day life whereas some investment bankers/advisors I have seen in Europe revel in the fact that they are computer illiterate. Running a laptop with a mbile phone takes some doing to get it all working on an every day basis. Not that its difficult but in my view as of today you need to be a little keen to get it going. Anyway I am getting an education from SI and to some extent Yahoo. I must say that I've given up on Motely Fool for anything that I can get on SI ot Yahoo. I don't say an education lightly...OK a little knowledge isa dnagerous thing but no knowledge is even more dangerous and its also boring. I've had lquite a few comments recently especially from younger people asking how I manage to keep up with "all this". Sorry SI but I didn't tell them. Now your posts seem to me to be very soundly commerically based as well as highly technically informed and I and I'm sure others here are very grateful. Best regards, L

To: Gregg Powers who wrote (11317)	6/9/1998 5:39:00 PM
From: JMD	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Gregg, well you and Maurice have finally got the conversation back to a level where the ol' Surfer can chime in. I say we outfit the goodship Qualcomm, put Maurice on the masthead with a megaphone, sail on over to Scandanavia, and bury those double-talking dudes in an avalanche of rants. I'll lob in a few jokes to distract 'em, meanwhile you circle around, take Tero captive, we lock him in the brig, and force him to read the SI Q thread for one year or until he buys a Q phone, whichever first occurs. Just in case you guys missed me, I've been in deep technical research on LMDS. Still not sure what the initials stand for but then acronyms have alway been problematical. Here's the deal: WinStar and Teligent have got a boat load of spectrum for which they paid zip. My first Hobie board cost more. Way I hear it, their spectrum is way up there where frequencies wiggle around faster than Fats Domino in his hay day, and like Mr. D, we're talking some very impressive mass here. "Whole lotta bandwidth goin' on" is, I believe, the main point. Now inquiring minds want to know: what might this have to do with the Mighty Q's secret weapon, the infamous WLL? I keep thinking we're gonna whip the world cause we don't have to dig it up in little trenches and pour millions of pounds of copper and glass in there, ergo I get a mite sensitive when somebody invades our airspace if you follow my drift (impressively long sentence SM!). Okay, so who wants to deliver peace of mind by telling me 'don't worry, be happy' and everything's gonna be cool in the morning? What meaning these LMDS interlopers and could they be persuaded to set up shop in Sweden rather than San Diego? engineer, whip out your slide rule and toast these dudes! Also, you guys have to answer fast cause tomorrow morning an enormously cash flow positive week begins. Sufer Mike and his Surfette are off to the Right Coast where, on Sunday, number one son struts his stuff across the stage, and, allegedly, emerges at the other end with sheepskin in hand. Yeaaaaaaaaaa! Maurice, how do I recognize the real thing? For what I've got invested, I'd be P.O.'d big time if they slip us some ersatz hide. No worries mates, my previous absences from the thread usually result in major price advances for the Q, unlike the nefarious Mr. Su whose vagabond ways routinley crater the damn thing. Back up the truck, Ramsey's back and Surfer Mike's off to foreign adventures. Happy trails all. SM