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To: Valueman who wrote (15134)	9/17/1998 3:48:00 PM
From: dougjn	Respond to of 152472

Ditto. <eom> Doug

To: Valueman who wrote (15134)	9/17/1998 3:59:00 PM
From: Sawtooth	Respond to of 152472

*OT* <<If I need one of those, I'd rather be dead!>> Yes, I tend to agree; although, in the circumstance I might not feel that way. I tend to be an optimist and certainly hope that things will work themselves out for the good; maybe even the much better, or even the most excellent. In my current position I am immersed in the whole spectrum of the Y2k perspective; everything from "we won't even notice" to "it'll make Mad Max - Road Warrior and The Postman look like a day at the beach". Personally, I am only fooling myself if I think I can do a heck of a lot more than trust in divine providence when it comes to something like the world economy or the "millennium bug". Managing a Y2K project can get to be somewhat of a downer if one isn't careful. Maybe I'll put all my money into the triumvirate - Qcom/Lor/Gstrf. I'll be rich or poor, no in between! Enough negativity for one day. Best to all. ; )

To: Valueman who wrote (15134)	9/17/1998 4:15:00 PM
From: gdichaz	Respond to of 152472

To Valueman: Yep. Even suggested a few reasons why the Q might be doing relatively well.- but they were good fundamental news - and am highly skeptical that any fundamental info has any real impact on hourly or daily price action while the sky is falling and/or interest rate speculation seems to be a major influence. Welcome your ideas or those of anyone else. Chaz And agree that since this is the Q board, some discussion on the Q itself would be refreshing.

To: Valueman who wrote (15134)	9/17/1998 4:37:00 PM
From: dougjn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

Well, I acted on it. Would you care to tell us why Qcom was up? Doug

To: Valueman who wrote (15134)	9/17/1998 5:42:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 152472

Oh, I don't know about that. Easy to talk tough when you aren't dying and don't really think you'll need one. Personally, re "If I need one of those, I'd rather be dead!" I think if there was a fully hardened maximum specification P10 just a couple of metres away and I needed it rather urgently I'd choose to hop inside rather than be dead. Dougjn would also rather be dead? Very puzzling. Do they deliver to NZ? We now have the USA itself opposing free trade and threatening sanctions against New Zealand because New Zealand introduced parallel importing laws whereby anyone can import a legal product - fines were simultaneously substantially increased for anyone breaching copyright and intellectual property rights. Looks as though the USA is joining the Russian kleptocracy approach. Good luck, you'll need it. But while you are all panicking about Brazil and everywhere else, keep in mind that things are never so bad that they can't get worse. Which isn't to say they will. Many of you, Gregg included, were suggesting predicting the future is a waste of time. Yet here you all are predicting the demise of the financial systems, stock market collapses, world wide all time depressions. Hey, did you know Iran is going to invade Afghanistan? That will bring Pakistan in to support Afghanistan. Which will provoke India to open a backdoor assault through Kashmir. Iraq will reopen the jihad against Iran and have another go at Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Israel and the USA won't stand by and watch that circus engulf the major oil fields of the world, so there will be quite a squabble. Many oil fields will be busted up as a result. Which won't do wonders for gasoline prices in the USA. Some people think that cheap commodities are bad. Well, they'll get an eye-opener as the USA oil based economy heads into the gutter. China will probably decide it is an opportune time to relocate Taiwan into the People's Republic while eyes are on more important matters. Taiwan will not go quietly. Which will be bad for Hong Kong, Chinese and Taiwanese exports. Lebed will take over in Russia under a state of emergency and declare that a little stability, order and general good behaviour is appropriate. The excommunicated Russians in independent republics might prefer to join a resurgent Russia, especially as Muslims increasingly dominate politics in southern areas. At least that will give a lot of unemployed young Russian men something interesting to do - keeping them off the streets of Moscow. In fact, the old idea of an Indian Ocean Russian port might become attractive again. Down in paradise, Indonesians decide that a move to Australia would relieve some population pressure, after all, why should a few million Australians enjoy a vast continent when 170 million or so Indonesians are crowded into a hungry, violent shambles? Madeleine Albright, piqued that Xena turned out to be smarter than she, [Madeleine had to get a dictionary to see what Xena meant by "hostile atavism"] decides to apply trade restrictions to New Zealand, nuking any ships entering or leaving ports, to force compliance with anti-free-trade USA requirements and demonstrate that nuclear weapons are good for New Zealand and that she indeed knows what hostile atavism is. Stockmarkets, financial systems and much else will steeply decline. Japan? Oh yes, they'll fall back on rice growing in Tokyo on land which used to be worth the whole of the rest of the world put together. They won't quite bring themselves to suggest a greater Asian co-prosperity sphere with a trade delegation to Nanking, being mindful that the USA still has a lot of nukes and some fairly quick and effective delivery systems. Unlike the bloody Russians with their Zenits. But all this gloom and doom is hypothesis. There is more reason to expect things to get better, not worse. That is what people want. It would take serial and parallel stupidity, such as is being exhibited by the USA in regard to New Zealand's parallel importing laws allowing free trade, to really send the world into a nose dive. Trouble is, the Simpsons approach to the economy by those in charge is quite likely. I better hurry with my P-10. Mqurice PS: Just noticed your comments Ramsey re Dougjn's record attempt. You better keep score. I'm not playing golf today! [To those who don't know, I'm kidding on the gloom and doom. My prediction is that things will get better. Quickly. Unless you live in a few rotten places like downtown Afghanistan. Kashmir. Alan G will print a lot of billions, which will lower the USA exchange rate, lower interest rates and boost the stockmarket. He'll just let everyone sweat a bit and the most margined desperadoes lose [not loose Dougjn] their shirts.