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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (20365)	12/23/1998 2:38:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 152472

*OT* Funny you should mention it Jon, but schnapper farming [snapper the fish, you know] was a big temptation. I got all the guff but got cold feet. Maoris here are sacred special people who have special attributes which we mere white people don't have. For example the legal right to catch fish which other people produced without buying a licence. I suspected my snapper farm would not long be operating before Maoris decided to exert their customary fishing rights in my little piece of a harbour and government bureaucrats would be all over me like hagfish on a whale when it hits the bottom of the ocean. I don't think apartheid will work any better here than it did in South Africa, but in the spirit of Xmas, we are determined to make it work. That Jesus joker had it wrong - there are Jews and gentiles, goodies and baddies, black and white, Catholic and Protestant, men and women, commies and capitalists, rich and poor, Americans and aliens, poofters and squares, and all mixed up in a bundle of absurd DNA of infinite variation out of which we find these special groups of innate superiority. Well, we have Maori and Pakeha. The DNA is already quite mixed up, but when there's some money in it, you can be sure the 12 year old boys who never grew up will find a way to maintain a pretence of significant difference. On electrical engineering, yes, umpteen years ago as part of civil engineering, I had inflicted on me Fourier, electrons, wires, and semiconductors as well as some of the ethereal world of subatomic stuff where reality disappears into a cotton wool world of ambiguous existence. I forget all that, but mostly can push 'SEND' on a cellphone and can tell when the plastic has cracked. I liked the Japanese eat all you can by the minute! Where do you come up with this stuff? Yes, mostly I was an oil technical R&D salesman marketing environment type - Texaco Canada, BP Oil NZ, London, Belgium and lastly Castrol NZ. Just on topic for a moment, on pr----g, until the very low cost of producing a minute is a significant part of the retail price per minute, there will be eat all you like, flat rates, peak/off-peak, free trips to every millionth minute and anything except a discount. Marketers justify their existence with this nonsense. Mostly, people just want a bargain. So cut to the chase and cut the price. The winner of the price wars will have a worldwide network of high quality IP voice at a cheap price. The competition is heating up. Minute Prices will drop like crazy and handsets will sell by the zillion. All quiet on the Leap front. Mqurice