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That's what your mother says, too.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
By the way, Bob, don't know what you did, but that large bold type face has disappeared, at least on this computer.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
I usually do check things out first. In this case, though, I trusted the person who sent it to me, and since I did remember the North hearings and the issue about the security system and the terrorist threat he warned of that nobody took him seriously about, I believed the rest of it.
Mistake.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Pretty nice up here, too -- mild, in the low 60s, sun is out, no wind.
Come July and August, though, you'll be roasting in the 90s and 100s and we'll still be basking in the 70s and low 80s.
Here is better!
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
But at least it got more action going here than we've seen for quite a while. <g>
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Well, if you promise to act you age plus a bit, we can let you in.
It's mostly to keep out the fresh young punks who haven't learned what life is about yet. (Like Matt, whose attempt to post there was gleefully deleted!)
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Well, I hate to say this, but apparently it's an urban legend. I had recalled him testifying about the security system, but apparently he named another terrorist, the cost of the system was $16,000, not $60,000, and Gore wasn't on the committee then. Other than that, it is true. <g>
The person I got it from, who used to be on my trusted correspondents list, no longer is.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
What a difference 15 years makes. The year was 1987 . . .
At a lecture the other day, they played an old news video of Lt. Col.Oliver North testifying at the Iran-Contra hearings during the Reagan Administration. There was Ollie in front of God and country getting the third degree from some senators.
"Did you not recently spend close to $60,000 for a home security system?"
Ollie replied, "Yes, I did, Sir"
The senator continued, trying to get a laugh out of the audience, "Isn't that just a little excessive?"
"No, Sir," continued Ollie.
"No? And why not?" the senator asked.
"Because the lives of my family and I were threatened, Sir."
"Threatened? By whom?" the senator questioned.
"By a terrorist, sir." Ollie answered.
"Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?"
"His name is Osama Bin Laden, sir." Ollie replied..
At this point the Senator tried to repeat the name, but couldn't pronounce it, which most people back then probably couldn't either. A couple of people laughed at the attempt.
Then the senator continued. "Why are you so afraid of this man?" the senator asked. "Because, sir, he is the most evil person alive that I know of." Ollie answered.
"And what do you recommend we do about him?" asked the senator.
"Well, sir, if it were up to me, I would recommend that an assassin team be formed to eliminate him and his men from the face of the earth.
The senator disagreed with this approach, and that was all that was shown of the clip.
(In case you're wondering, the senator was Al Gore.)
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
I guess I'm another old lady, like you, since I live in an area where DSL isn't available and the nearest cable line is 10 miles away.
But I don't worry about JM's insults any more -- they just show his ignorance and stupidity, which are by now so well establshed that any more proof of them is purely redundant.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
How old am I? Let's just say I started the Old Timers Club here,
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=924
and was active in the Civil Rights movement well before Selma, though not in the deep south, mostly in Maryland, which was pretty deep south in attiude if not geography. My initials are, or at least were if the cell is still there, stratched in a cell wall of the Annapolis City jail from being arrested for a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter.
That pretty much dates me, I suspect.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Or at the very least, hire Joe to troubleshoot it for
us.
Major Spew!
What a wonderful sense of humor!
Have another KKD and Pepsi, on me. That was worth it.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
No, but we might have two.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Over the years, I have come to regard with some dubiousness that phrase "it's all in fun."
What may be fun to the perpetrator of something may be far from fun to the recipient.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Iraq Boosts Suicide Bomber Payment
Wed Apr 3, 2:02 PM ET
By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH, Associated Press Writer
Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) has increased money for the relatives of suicide
bombers from $10,000 to $25,000, drawing sharp criticism from Washington. But
Palestinians say the bombers are driven by a priceless thirst for revenge, religious zeal and
dreams of glory — not greed.
Since Iraq upped its payments last month, 12 suicide bombers have successfully struck
inside Israel, including one man who killed 25 Israelis, many of them elderly, as they sat
down to a meal at a hotel to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Passover. The families of
three suicide bombers said they have recently received payments of $25,000.
The devout Muslims among the bombers, a majority, believe they will go to heaven as
martyrs and spend eternity in the company of 72 virgins. In grainy farewell home videos,
they often read passages from the Muslim holy book, the Quran, and praise God. Secular
attackers know that after the deed, their families will win the adulation of friends,
neighbors and strangers.
The other motive seems to be a strong yearning for revenge. Relatives of many of the
bombers recall how many of the young men's formative years were spent in Israeli jails.
The mother of one bomber said her son once watched Israeli soldiers beating his father.
Mahmoud Safi, leader of a pro-Iraqi Palestinian group, the Arab Liberation Front,
acknowledged that the support payments for relatives make it easier for some potential
bombers to make up their minds. "Some people stop me on the street, saying if you
increase the payment to $50,000 I'll do it immediately," Safi said. He also suggested such
remarks were made mostly in jest.
Saddam has said the Palestinians need weapons and money instead of peace proposals
and has provided payments throughout a year and a half of Israeli-Palestinian battles. "I
saw on Iraqi TV President Saddam saying he will continue supporting the (uprising) even if
it means selling his own clothes," said Safi.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Saddam's payments inspire a "culture of political
murder."
"Here is an individual who is the head of a country, Iraq, who has proudly, publicly made a
decision to go out and actively promote and finance human sacrifice for families that will
have their youngsters kill innocent men, women and children," Rumsfeld said Wednesday.
But Saddam is not the only one giving money. Charities from Saudi Arabia and Qatar —
both U.S. allies — pay money to families of Palestinians killed in the fighting, including
suicide bombers.
The mother of Jamal Nasser, a 23-year-old architecture student who died trying to ram an
explosives-laden car into a bus carrying Jewish settlers, said she received a check for
$10,000 from Iraq and another for $5,000 from Saudi Arabia. She said she plans to put the
money toward buying an apartment. She wants to move her family from the small place
they've been renting for more than 20 years. The money she received is about half the
cost of a small apartment in Nablus.
Fifty-five Palestinians have blown themselves up in attacks on Israeli civilians in the past
18 months of fighting.
Under the new Iraqi payscale, decided on March 12 during an Arab conference in
Baghdad, the families of gunmen and others who die fighting the Israelis will still receive
$10,000, while the relatives of suicide bombers will get $25,000.
Safi and two others from the Arab Liberation Front visit families in the northern West
Bank and make the payments. "We go to every family and give them a check," he said.
"We tell them that this is a gift from President Saddam and Iraq."
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Also, since they say they update LiveUpdate on Wednesdays, it indicates that one should set the Live Update for Wednesday evening or Thursday -- setting it tor Tuesday would leave you nearly two weeks behind by the following Tuesday.
Thaks for that link -- I'm up to check my live update scheduler right now!
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my philosophy of education is that in school one learns those things that schools should be good at teaching.
I was once part of a three member team that totally re-engineered the entire curriculum for an entire high school.
During the course of that process, I developed my theory of schools. It was, simply, that the only thing a school can count on students learning is how to survive at that school. If you are lucky, some students will also learn how to succeed at the school.
For example: if you want students to be critical thinkers, you must design a system that requires them to be critical thinkers in order to survive. Not just to get grades, but to survive. Mostly, we claim we want to teach students critical thinking skills, but if they actually try to apply them, they get cut down. So, what are they going to learn -- to be critical thinkers, or not to be critical thinkers?
If you want students to learn to cooperate with otherst, you have to put them in situations where cooperation is an essential survival skill. This, for example, is what the Outward Bound program was originally based on. If you don't cooperate with the group, you're going to be left in the wilderness, and perhaps die. Your choice. (Actually, it wasn't, they would never let kids actually die, but they would let them get mighty cold, and hungry.)
The information kids learn in school isn't completely irrelevant, but it is NOT the primary thing they learn.
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No problems here, either.
Maybe it's because our hearts are pure.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
No problems here.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
I hope too long really isn't too long.
I miss it!
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
I'm sorry you took offense at my posts.
We simply disagree on the use of the term censorship so significantly that I don't feel it's a productive use of my time, even if you think it is of yours, to continue the discussion.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
One more comment -- anybody getting into NICK should realize it has very small float and very low volume. It's a strange stock for a traditional buy and hold investor to look at. Not wrong, but unusual.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
What a coincidence -- I was looking at NICK just this morning.
One thing that bothered me was on their cash flow statements they show consistent and very large negatives from "investing activities." I think that was the phrase they used. Do you know what this is about?
I've requested the AR and 10-K, will run those when I get them, so haven't called IR on this question, but maybe you know?
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
It's yours for a mere three monthly payments of $9.95. But wait! That's not all you get! You also get . . .
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Too frequent use of profane agressive argument causes it to be ineffective.
It also, frequently, indicates a lack of sufficient intelligence or vocabulary to make the point more effectively without profanity.
If you have ever heard a debate at Oxford or Cambridge Universities, you will appreciate the enormous creativity there is in insulting somebody to the core without the use of a single word of profanity.
Far more effective.
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I have always tried to be polite where politeness is deserved, and you deserve it.
Didn't mean to be impolite.
It's just that definition is at the root of all discussion. If there is no agreement on terms, there is no basis for intelligent discussion.
If you are going to argue that my asking a rude guest to leave my home constitutes censorship, then our definitions of the term are so far apart that I don't see how we can intelligently discuss the issue.
I view censorship as a very serious matter. I frequently recommend what I consider to be one the seminal books on the issue -- Nat Hentoff's "Free Speech for Me but Not for Thee."
But for me, censorship is an attempt by government or other public authority to restrict or prohibit access to ideas they wish not to have presented. I think applying the term to a teachers shushing a student who is interrupting a lesson, or a guest in a private home who refuses to act politely, weakens the term and detracts from what I view as the true evil of censorship.
I'm not saying your definition is wrong -- you have the right to use words the way you want to. I'm saying that since our definitions are so divergent, intelligent discussion seems impossible, and the attempt at it will only be frustrating.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Well, then, I don't think your definition of censorship is particularly helpful to the discussion. So I will bow out of this topic and move on.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
It seems to me that Ola was being punished for his abusive personality. That is censorship. Laugh
all you want but it is what it is.
I think we have an issue of definitions.
Let me try to clarify the definitions.
Tell me which of the following you consider to be censorship.
++ you invite a friend over to your house for a bar-b-que. He starts openly insulting your wife and daughters, using vile language. You ask him to stop. Is that censorship?
++ he doesn't stop. You then ask him to leave and take his comments somewhere else. Is that censorship?
++ an ex boyfriend keeps calling his ex-girlfriend and harassing her. She changes her number, but he manages to get the new number. She goes to court and gets a protection order so if he calls her again he will be arrested and his butt tossed in jail. Is that censorship?
++ a man walks in to the middle of an Easter service and starts screaming at the top of his lungs about the evils of the Catholic Church and pedophilia and the wrongs of the church's position on abortion and continues screaming and completely disrupting the service. He is asked to leave. Is this censorship?
++ he refuses to leave. The police are called and escort him out. Is this censorship?
I'll just start with those.
The term censorship is a loaded term, as we all know, but it may help unload it if we can come to some agreement on what is and what is not included in the definition.
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FONX broken again today. Worked fine yesterday but now back to the same old error
that's what I've always thought about FONX, too. <g>
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Sensitive male.
Pretty baby.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
What heat? Compared to standing in front of a jury trying to persuade 12 good men and women and true that your client didn't do something we all know he did, and succeeding in getting him acquitted, this is a piece of cake.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
I should point out that this post was made over at the Hangout because somebody complained there was no action there. So it was just to start a bit of action.
Paule brought it over here without letting me know in advance that he wanted to.
So realize that it was an intentionally provocative post, not necessarily a position I advocate.
Let the fun and games begin! (Or, maybe, continue?)
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
There is no justification for gratuitous nastiness in
public discourse.
I think you hit the nail on the head there.
I have no concept with a robust discussion that turns temporarily nasty. That's part of the give and take.
But someone who is consistently nasty to virtually everybody for no reason, who seems to enjoy being vitrolic simply for the sake of being vitrolic, has no reasonable role here.
I wasn't one of those who complained, either. But things have been a lot more pleasant with him gone. And i don't see that we're missing any ideas that would contribute diddley to anybody.
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So, get an exciting topic started.
How about:
Should the US should nuke the entire Middle East, turn the sand into glass, and wipe out both the Israelis and Palestinians?
We would have to take some heat from the world. It would be ferocious for about a week, probably involving an Arab oil boycott for about a month until they realize what happens to their lifestyles without our money, but the whole thing would die out in six to twelve months. After all, we're still the world's only super power -- what can the worrld do> And that will be a lot less time than we'll be dealing with this mess if we let it go on.
And a lot cheaper -- think of all the money we send to Israel and how much that could support Social Security.
What do you think. Should Bush order the strike?
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
the way my grandmother told it, it was "Ladies get all in a glow."
And my grandmother was ALWAYS right.
And no, I'm not casting aspersions on Carolyn,
Just telling it l i k e i t i s.
(that's the nearest to a Howard Cosell voice I can do in writing!)
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I agree with you that EXPD is richly valued -- I think I said as much.
It's tough to find really good companies at really good prices -- but if this was easy, everybody would be rich. It takes work to make money, so I don't mind working at it.
I would have to go back and recheck my LNCR SSG, but the last time I looked it had crept into the hold zone, but not by too much. That that was a few weeks ago. I'm pretty tied up with finishing the house at the moment, so am not spending the time I want to on investments. But in a bit . . .
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
no, ola's not a tough guy to figure out.
He's easy to figure out.
He's the kid in third grade who loves to pick fights. With anybody, for any reason.
Never happy unless he's trying to make somebody mad.
Problem is, people here are smarter than those on RB. We see through him.
He's a windbag with no substance or intelligence behind him.
No, he's not a tough guy to figure out at all.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
what you find on ebay is worse than what you already have.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
What's it worth to you to know?
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.