To: John Dough who wrote (25884 ) 4/2/1999 3:09:00 PM From: Maurice Winn Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 152472
*OT Rant for Easter - Who gets the credit* Mark, if you owe it all to them, you should write out a check! Putting up the money while Q! puts up the brains is a pretty good contribution too. Don't forget Klein Gilhousen and the many other people whose names are on the patents. Don't forget our very own 'engineer' who helped make the things. Don't forget the multitude of other people who have helped in so many ways. Don't forget the customers who decided we shareholders had produced something worthy of them paying us and all the Q! people and suppliers money. Don't forget Ericy who were not simply a reptilian do-or-die stupid dinosaur after all. They demonstrated ineffable human nature; intelligent co-operation, ability to learn from others, recognition of error, a wish to participate in the great human race. The GSM Nazis are redeemed. This is good. The original Nazis could not be redeemed and chose to die in a bunker like some stupid reptile, which is about what they were though they did have some approximate concept of human co-operation, though theirs was more like hyena co-operation. Hyenas co-operating is a pretty ugly sight. We see it now in Kosovo. Before I get side-tracked, thanks to Ericy for paying a lot of money, swallowing some pride and signing up for IS-95 and CDMA - which I always said they would. Good luck with China Ericy - get those cdmaOne Babes pouring off the production line. Now Kosovo. It seems that it is time for the United Nations to quit stuffing around while a replica of Warsaw's Jewish areas being cleared is carried out in real time, in 3D, complete with a lot of human anguish. While most will survive, that is not much consolation to the many who will not while being evicted from their homes. This is NOT good for cdmaOne sales in Kosovo! Though I guess one shouldn't joke about such a situation. The UN should simply declare it a UN protectorate, move in with a million troops, declare it a new country, hand them their constitution, hold elections to see who gets to run it and Bob's your uncle. The Serbs living there would need lots of protection because let's not forget the Kosovans are probably vicious bastards too! Especially after this. It seems they used to beat up on the Serb minority a bit and Milosevic used to get sent out there to try to sort things out. He's been getting a bit heavy-handed lately though. Religion sure has got a lot to answer for. The 'ethnicity' of Kosovans I think has more to do with their Moslem superstition than their DNA. With equally superstitious, racist and stupid people facing them, the scene is set for an Easter crucifixion or three. Ericy was positively genteel compared with that lot who seem intent on heading for the bunkers. The 20th century sure has been as ugly as it's been amazingly successful. Happy Easter, let's hope for some redemption, Mqurice PS: Thanks to Gregg Powers too and I'm happy to think that he is enjoying a marriage and a stock price and a LOT of happy customers who own Q! stock. Grin, Gregg, Grin! "Life's a giggle..." [my mother-in-law's quote]. That's what it's all about.