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To: P2V who wrote (28260)	4/24/1999 4:46:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 152472

Ants Mardy, I'm awake now and if being wild and crazy is what it takes to get wild and crazy investment results, I'm in! It was fun going through the AZ 50 year financial panic with GSTRF bumping along the bottom at $9 and Q! touching $38 with margin calls starting to look possible, but nearing the sky is even more fun. I can't wait to bust right through and see what's on the other side - now that's scary and likely to be VERY wild and crazy. Are quarks real? where is The New Paradigm taking us? will Q! make more money than all of history combined, literally, with Eudoracoin{TM} and exponential revenue growth? Scary, but a LOT of fun. The fun HAS begun! Irwin is very, very, very happy. It's odd that Jon should pick on wild and crazy ants because ants fascinate me. During our travels around Europe and USA, we found all sorts of ants [we have a very few tame types in NZ]. There is something about their mindless but social and very successful way of life which runs parallel to us and most people know what I mean. Unfortunately, our mindlessness is nearer ant level than omniscience, though the Web is helping there. Kosovo, Rwanda and Gallipoli show that we still use ant techniques for social interaction. NZ invaded Turkey, very unsuccessfully, back in the first world war, and ANZAC day - right now being conducted at the cenotaph in Auckland, commemorates the shambles and heroic people who lost their lives in other conflicts, much as the Serbs commemorate their Kosovan loss hundreds of years ago. People in New Zealand today are wearing poppies [representing the poppies and lives in the fields of Flanders where vast numbers of Europeans were killed in trenches and mayhem]. I wondered about territoriality and recall conducting ant wars in Spain. It was summer in 1974 while Portugal was in conflict and we drove straight into tanks in Greece and Turkey who were being disputatious over Cyprus, though we didn't know anything at the time and wondered why tanks were hiding under haystacks - we assumed it was farmers stopping cows grabbing a feed between meals. We got the low-down from Sezgin Burak, a fairly famous Turk after whose son and cartoon character [a horse-mounted hero] Tarken is named after. He picked us up hitchhiking and took us around Istanbul and out to meet his family. There were guns all over Europe and a very incongruous sight was to see [in 1989] a machine gun patrol with finger-on-trigger and 'spotter' radio guy in the lead, in Bruxelles airport terminal. Like finding them in your living room! Anyway, back to the ants, a little bit of cheese was desirable to ants. Ownership of it was dictated largely by how close to the nest it was. If mid way between competing nests, there would be some dispute and some injury and death, and somehow or other, they agreed who had won, well before the number of bodies had become very significant compared with the overall numbers. If I then moved the cheese closer to the loser's nest, the balance of power would shift and ownership would swap, again without excessive loss of life. Little ants [tiny ones only 2mm long] could beat monsters about 15mm long. The monsters would just lunge wildly, grabbing dirt or whatever. Of course if they, by luck, got hold of a little one, it was in trouble, but the little ones could easily find the big ones and would climb up and about 20 of them would be biting the giant ant, who lost! There were red ants, black ants, big ants, small ants, long ones, solid ones. All sorts. It was surprisingly difficult to get a major war going. USA ants can be quite violent - we were visiting a dam in Southern Colorado near the Little Colorado river way back in 1977 with our nearly 1 year old son Tarken and he started wailing. Inside his ear canal was a dirty great [about 10mm] ant having a chew! They obviously don't like aliens messing around disobeying whatever 'USA Ant Rulz OK' there are. Lucky it didn't get right inside! Fortunately, the scorpion at the Grand Canyon didn't sting us, nor the bears in Yosemite [we wondered why we were the only people in a little tent - everyone else had Winnebago RV's with 'ROADKILL' for number plates. But the Tarantula we saw marching across the road didn't have a show [when we went back to check it out, somebody following had skooshed it]. There are some snakes which seem as though they know how to deal with aliens too. None of them seem quite as dangerous as the drugged looking armed guards in various tourist venues in Washington. We have gorse [a prickly noxious weed with beautiful yellow flowers] as about the most dangerous [to people] natural stuff in the wild in NZ [imported by some silly immigrant many decades ago when they were thought it would be good to bring in English stuff]. Even the sharks have only eaten about 6 people in 100 years. Violent people are the most dangerous thing here. So, to keep it very brief, the CDMA cheese has been interesting and it seems that Qualcomm owns it. Also, the USA has plenty of devices for seeing off aliens. Sometimes sad and sometimes glad, Mqurice