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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (1059)	10/14/1998 5:15:00 PM
From: Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Mauice: If somebody steals their property, they will take succour from courts, political and military systems. That is what civilisation is for Tero. That is not a threat. They have said they will defend their rights to their property. It is very peculiar and Orwellian to call that extortion or blackmail. I agree, except for succouring to the military. If succouring is a word. Maurice, ASR systems work fantastic, however with those wierd words like succour, you might have to do a spell check. Generally, ASR algorithms can get as much as 95% accuracy. Face it, all of us can talk faster than we can type. However, I do not want to be reading your dictated rants... <g> Did you also read about the Denso hot stuff cdmaOne single mode handset being sold exclusively by Sprint? It reads like a real winner! You better run a comparison with Nokia's efforts. I would give the crown to Nokia for handsets, though. A "friend" of mine just got a 6160 from AT&T. My "friend" absolutely loves it! dave

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (1059)	10/14/1998 8:14:00 PM
From: Randy Ellingson	Respond to of 34857

Tero you really must have the national trait of Finns. Incidentally, we too have Finns, Neil and Tim, musicians of some renown. Of Split Enz fame? Randy

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (1059)	10/15/1998 12:46:00 PM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 34857

No Finn is named "Neil" or "Tim". We have decent names like "Yrjö", "Reiska" and "Väinö". I'm afraid this casts suspicion on the rest of your facts, Maurice. I have this theory that good people of Finland are driven to self-destruction by twisted enemies of Finnish high tech industry. Some of them having names like "Mike" and "Dave". Anyway, I think Ericsson has dug themselves a hole. Their current stock resurgence is built on their recent claim that they are not losing market share to Nokia. This took the investment community by surprise. And for a good reason: they are being mendacious. Truth will come out next week. The Nextel numbers are very interesting. They actually have lower number of subscribers than in the previous quarter. I think the sheer impossibility of the Mot-centric iDEN standard is starting to become obvious. As several GSM phone manufacturers introduce their new worldphone models functioning in about hundred countries during next winter, GSM should get a further boost in USA. Yeah, Motorola is bringing out an iDEN/GSM phone... but it will be a Motorola product. One week until 3Q... consensus expects 39% sales growth. Nokia should show at least 45%. Depends on where the handset sales number is. I hope the growth there is in the 60%-70% range. Since Nokia's sales growth fizzled in the second half of 1997, that is not so hard to reach, especially since the growth was at 50% already during the second quarter of -98, even before the 51xx, 6150 and 8810 launches. Tero

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (1059)	10/24/1998 8:07:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

RE: Latin etymology You are close on extorquere, but the essence of torquere is the "twisting" not the snatching or wrenching. The good Norman French legal term "tort" means twisted; torque means twisting power, and extorquere means literally twisting something out of the victim on the rack, where you may recall Errol Flynn's arms are wrenched from their sockets (in Captain Blood) when ropes on his wrists attached to a drum and tackle are twisted. Hence, the word "torture" being twisted on a rack. I fervently enjoy your literary profusion. Pity about the Latin.