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It is of little significance, Bob.
It was a whimsical thread that I created to allow myself....or others I suppose, the opportunity to post anything they wished by using encryption, thus keeping the "offensive" material from ever being understood by anyone but the author [edit: or those with the key], and thus, I supposed, outside of any TOU-related problems.
Matt made a determination, one supposes after checking with his multi-alias boss and Monsier Goelo, that the thread should go because in his estimation it wasn't worthy.
I'm sure no one will lose any sleep over it; certainly I will not.
Hasta Noche
Ahhh, the capricious censorship clause.
Are they still burning books down in Tallahassee?
Errr...uhhh...why was my thread deleted?
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=645
Did it violate the User Agreement?
Do you simply reserve the right to delete any thread that, based upon your subjective judgment, doesn't belong?
Did it not contain as much "investment-related" potential as, say, the BEER thread?
I dub thee Sir Destroyer of Creativity, Censor of the Most High, Exhalted Spoiler of Fun.
I face reality. I don’t like it.
- Fred Schneider of the B-52's, in response to an interviewer's question about critisism that the band makes nothing but meaningless music that plays out
their campy fantasies.
Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
Reality is that which,
when you stop believing in it,
doesn't go away.
- Philip K. Dick
that thread could be used to prove the guy is nuts.
Believe me, it wouldn't be hard to find better proof than that. For instance, could I interest you or any other strangers in some pictures of myself in my underwear?
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That's why I put it in the "Lounge."
Why did you create a lounge, if not for lounging.
The last time I talked about investments, I got notice of a subpoena. Better to talk about poutine, and even better still to talk about poutine under encryption.
If a tree falls in the woods,
and there is no one around to hear it............................
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=645
Does Ihub have a "new subjects" list?
Or do I have to go through every directory and subdirectory to see if there is anything new that I am interested in?
If not, are you going to be adding one?
If so, when?
Thanks in advance.
I think you should spend less time
writing stories and more time doing
what you Montrealers do best:
http://www.tx7.com/fries/docs/experiment/x002.html
In that case, this song may be more appropriate:
MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS
Words and music by Hank Williams, Sr.
If the wife and I are fussin', brother that's our right
'Cause me and that sweet woman's got a license to fight
Why don't you mind your own business
(Mind your own business)
'Cause if mind your business, then you won't be mindin' mine.
Oh, the woman on our party line's the nosiest thing
She picks up her receiver when she knows it's my ring
Why don't you mind your own business
(Mind your own business)
Well, if mind your business, then you won't be mindin' mine.
I got a little gal that wears her hair up high
The boys all whistle when she walks by
Why don't you mind your own business
(Mind your own business)
Well, if mind your business, then you sure wont be mindin' mine.
If I want to honky tonk around 'til two or three
Now, brother that's my headache, don't you worry 'bout me.
Just mind your own business
(Mind your own business)
If mind your business, then you won't be mindin' mine.
I might tell a lot of stories that may not be true
But I can get to Heaven just as easy as you
Why don't you mind your own business
(Mind your own business)
Well, if mind your business, then you won't be mindin' mine.
Mindin' other people's business seems to be high-toned
I got all that I can do just to mind my own
Why don't you mind your own business
(Mind your own business)
If you mind your own business, you'll stay busy all the time.
Too late baby is......Perfect!
Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time
There´s something wrong here, there can be no denying
One of us is changing, or maybe we´ve stopped trying
And it´s too late, baby, now it´s too late
Though we really did try to make it
Something inside has died and I can´t hide
And I just can´t fake it
It used to be so easy living here with you
You were light and breezy and I knew just what to do
Now you look so unhappy, and I feel like a fool
And it´s too late, baby, now it´s too late
Though we really did try to make it
Something inside has died and I can´t hide
And I just can´t fake it
There´ll be good times again for me and you
But we just can´t stay together, don´t you feel it too
Still I´m glad for what we had, and how I once loved you
But it´s too late, baby, it´s too late
Though we really did try to make it
Something inside has died and I can´t hide
And I just can´t fake it
Doctor, heal thyself.
It is already in writing,
and was reported nationally,
and I don't recall any clarification,
under circumstances where a failure to so clarify
might be seen as an admission.
Or not.
My favorite subjects are no longer updating new posts.
How's about the dudes runnin' this joint spend a little less time yappin' and more time with their heads under the hood.
Therefore making unfounded assesments may not be accurate.
????? I don't know what in tarnation that means.
Obviously, do what you want to do. Post whatever you want. You apparently think you know the law as it relates to waiver of confidentiality. Who am I to say you don't? But just in case....why not pick up the phone and call your lawyer....or don't.
Are you in Montreal, because if you are I have a very important question to ask you......
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How is it that there are so many gorgeous women in Montreal? I've never seen anything like it in my life.
Has it ever occured to you,
that by posting portions of your business plan,
and using those portions to support an on-going argument,
that you might be (note the use of "might"),
waiving whatever confidentiality may exist as to that document.
In other words,
you can't selectively quote portions of a "confidential" document that you control and expect others not to be allowed to post other portions in their possession as rebuttal.
Something to think about, eh?
Thanks mang.
I've actually got a lot more questions,
all just things I'm curious about,
that you don't have any obligation to answer,
but since you've been so nice,
I don't want to come across like an A-hole,
grilling you with endless questions,
so I guess I'll just say....goodnight.
Take two:
Okay, thanks......so
if I am getting this straight (and correct me if I'm wrong please....
you are the President of Investorshub.com, Inc....
which is owned by Market Fusion, Inc., .....
You are a "partner" in Market Fusion, Inc......(although you may have meant to say you are a "shareholder," unless perhaps the corporation Market Fusion, Inc. is owned by or owns a partnership with a similar name) but apparently your partnership interest is not so controlling as to enable you to say or do whatever you want re employment issues....
I appreciate you being so candid.
EDIT
dang thing posted before I was done writing when I hit the "enter" key.
Give us until tommorow afternoon or so. Today was a Holiday in the great white north.
Who calls the shots around here, you or a bunch of Canadians?
Edit: I notice the market fusion guy who has been posting here all day says he is from "the great white north." Maybe he can give you permission to talk.
What do you mean by "correct?"
"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter."
Variously attributed to: Voltaire, Marcus T. Cicero, Mark Twain, Blaise Pascal, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and George Bernard Shaw,
It is I who am impressed.
17 pounds.
You should know that I have received replies from everyone I send your post on to, with the exception of NORML.....who for some reason is always a little slow to get around to doing anything.
a-ha!!! Gotcha.
I knew that you would not be able to resist chiming in on my question, and so you should know that I have imbedded some super java code into my message that has given me your IP address, telephone number, weight within 17 pounds, hair color, time of last bowel movement, and tattoo locations.
Since you are obviously stalking me, I think it is only fair and high time I published one of your many threatening PM's to me:
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To: Quahog
From: mr.mark
Date: May 14, 2001
Hey dude, what's up?
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Clearly the work of a deranged lunatic. You should know that I have already copied your post and forwarded it on to the SEC, NASD, NAACP, NORML and the Pope. In other words, you're in deep doo doo.
Shouldn't there be an apostrophe in "Investors Hub?"
As in....Investors' Hub.
This is the Q&A board, right?
Thanks in advance.
Are you familiar with the phrase, "preachin' to the choir?"
<gg>
Here is a good example of the dangers of this whole CoB concept, and why anybody with any sense was rooting for Bob to reign in the trouble he inherited when he came on here:
First click here just to read the headline:
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010517/0503.html
Then read this: http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=107916
What is true and what is not true I don't know. Just an example of the kind of thing that might have been avoided.
testing
I am confused:
Read this from today's PR:
SeaView Video Technology, Inc. (OTCBB: SEVU) (www.sevu.com) announced today that the Company has been accepted for membership in the HomePlug Powerline Alliance, Inc. According to VP J. R. Cox, a memo from HomePlug, Inc. stated, "We are pleased to acknowledge that the HomePlug Powerline Alliance, Inc. (HomePlug) has received your application for membership. The organization recognizes your valuable input and support, and we look forward to your participation."
So which is it? Has SEVU been accepted for membership, or have they applied for membership? If accepted, why didn't they use a quote that said so?
I can attest to that, as I tested several on chorn's deleted thread. Two of my list were edited, they were: **** and ****er. [asterisks substituted by iHub]
P.S. The words represented by the asterisks are not the same.
What's funny is that
Bob gets paid to delete your accounts,
while you apparently have nothing better to do.
Spammer alert:
This guy included a link in his post and intimated that clicking on the link would take the user to a new thread, when it fact clicking on the link caused that thread to be bookmarked as one of my favorites. I believe that this is shameless thread-touting, and an attempt to unduly influence the non-functioning Hot Subjects list.
http://www.investorshub.com/beta/read_msg.asp?message_id=96867
I demand satisfaction!
Origin of:
Pie in the sky
From the song 'The Preacher and the Slave', which complains about the theology/philosophy of the Salvation Army. 'You will eat, by and by, in the glorious land way up high in the sky. Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die, that's a lie!'.
http://www.shu.ac.uk/cgi-bin/tp_post4.cgi?=282700
With all this talk about defamation,
and what is and what isn't,
I present to you for your amusement,
my favorite case on the subject,
in which a scorned wife
is called a whore in public,
and one state's highest court
undertakes to determine whether
the truth might be a perfect defense.
Quahog
[Some text deleted, some made bold, by yours truly for purposes of readability]
Johnson v. Johnson, 654 A.2d 1212 (R.I. 1995)
OPINION
WEISBERGER, Acting Chief Justice.
****The facts of the case as stated succinctly in the plaintiff's brief are as follows.
On the evening of August 29, 1986, plaintiff entered Twin Oaks Restaurant in Cranston and proceeded to walk to the podium. While at the podium, plaintiff saw defendant approach and ask her how her "[epithet] lawyer Fishbein" was. The defendant then drew nearer plaintiff who was standing with her then boyfriend--now husband Philip Caliri. At a distance of about four feet, in a loud voice, defendant screamed, "Phil, you are a * * * [epithet]. You could have prevented this case." The defendant then pointed his finger in the face of plaintiff, while talking to Philip Caliri but screaming for all to hear, "You and that [obscenity] whore are costing me a lot of money." These defamatory remarks were made in the presence of between fifty and seventy-five people in the foyer of the restaurant. After the remarks were made, the noise level changed from loud to very quiet.
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The transcript discloses the following factual recitation:
"Now, in this case, the charge made against the [d]efendant was that he had slandered Mrs. Johnson. There is no question, based upon the facts here, that Mrs. Johnson was a lady of somewhat dubious habits. The record is rather clear and indicates she had married the [d]efendant, Clifford W. Johnson, some time in February, I believe, of 1964, and that marriage lasted until July 16, 1968. Of that marriage, there was one child who, for purposes of this record, should remain unnamed. Now, at the time of her divorce from the [d]efendant, Clifford W. Johnson, in July of 1968, Mrs. Johnson was pregnant with a child and that child was not the progeny of Clifford Johnson, but was instead the progeny of his first cousin, Richard. And, as fate would have it, a month after her divorce in July of 1968, she married Richard Johnson. She married him on August 13, 1968. And after that marriage to Richard Johnson she unfortunately did not settle down but continued to have extramarital tendencies and those tendencies [led] her to an involvement both social and sexual, including several pregnancies that were aborted, with a Ronald Malafonte, properly named; Malafonte means bad child. That took place in 1980, as I recall the evidence. Apparently having tried Ronald Malafonte and apparently having tired of Ronald Malafonte, and apparently after Richard Johnson became suspicious and divorced her, she then decided that she would take up again with the [d]efendant, Clifford Johnson. As they say in polite circles, there's no fool like an old fool, and Clifford came running. He resumed a non-common law relationship with Carol[e] Johnson that lasted until she fell out of love with him and in love with a fellow by the name of Philip Caliri who, I believe, was a Sergeant on the Cranston Police Department at the time and who later graduated and was promoted to be the maitre'd at Twin Oaks Restaurant, but whatever it be, while she was seeing Mr. Caliri, and I assume while he was whispering sweet nothings into her viable ear, she decided perhaps she could get something from the first Johnson, Clifford, and she then claimed in a lawsuit in Family Court that there was a common law marriage that had come about as a result of her amorous relationship with Mr. Johnson, this is Johnson No. 1. That relationship, that common law relationship was alleged to have taken place because Johnson No. 1 put her up into an apartment or into a house, and she was living there and he was visiting there, and I assume they got to be great chess and checker players.
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"Prior to the Supreme Court's final determination of the common law relationship, but while the litigation was all still ongoing, Mrs. Johnson went to the Twin Oaks Restaurant in Cranston where her new-found love was the maitre['d], and on the night of August 29, 1986, Johnson No. 1 unfortunately happened to be in the restaurant and from the evidence we were told that he went there frequently. I was very much interested in what his relationship was with the maitre['d], but I assume he always got a good table. Anyway, on the night of August 29, 1986, Mr. Johnson, after I assume having a few liquid refreshments, decided to go to the [m]en[s'] [r]oom, and on the way back, in the presence of the usual crowd, there was estimated in the testimony to be 50 to 75 people, Mr. Johnson walked by Mrs. Johnson and her new-found love and he uttered the words we've been discussing for the past few moments. Without repeating them, he displayed his affection for Mr. Fishbein and he also displayed his affection in descriptive terms for his former wife and his would- be common law wife, because the common law matter was still going on at that time. Without going into it, he referred to his wife as a whore.
* * * * * *
"There's no question in the [c]ourt's mind, as suggested by Mr. Keough, that she was not of virtuous character and that she perhaps fit all of those descriptions of a whore that was given to the jury. But nonetheless, be she a whore or not, she's entitled to the protections of the law, and the law is clear and the law is that while truth is a defense, if it is uttered maliciously, it is then actionable, and that's what happened here. So that when I'm reminded of my definition of what a whore is, those definitions are all from decided cases and they all fit the [p]laintiff, there's no question about it; but so does the constitutional prohibition and the protection that she has, and that is that one cannot be slandered maliciously."
Without question the trial justice in his determination regarding the law of slander and libel bore in mind the provisions of article 1, section 20, of the Rhode Island Constitution as well as the provisions of G.L.1956 (1985 Reenactment) §§ 9-6-9 which provides:
"In every action or proceeding, civil or criminal, for libel or slander, the defendant may, with his plea of not guilty or his answer, file a written notice that he will prove the truth of the publication charged as libelous, or of the words charged as slanderous, and in such case may, upon the trial, give the truth in evidence, without any special plea of justification or affirmative defense in his answer; and the truth, unless published or uttered from malicious motives, shall be sufficient defense to the person charged." (Emphasis added).
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The term "whore" has been defined in Black's Law Dictionary 1597 (6th ed.1990) as:
"A woman who practices illicit sexual intercourse, either for hire or to gratify a depraved passion. A woman given to promiscuous intercourse. A woman who practices unlawful commerce with men, particularly one who does so for hire; a harlot; a concubine; a prostitute."
The trial justice cited similar definitions from Webster's Dictionary in his instructions to the jury.
Factually, this is indeed a close and difficult case. The findings of fact made by the trial justice are clear and unequivocal that the plaintiff fit the definition of the defamatory term applied to her.
**********
For the reasons stated, we sustain the defendant's appeal in part in respect to the award of punitive damages and remand the case to the Superior Court with directions to enter judgment for the plaintiff for compensatory damages only together with interest and costs and to expunge the award of punitive damages.
It is apparently a one of a kind,
made by somebody with way too much time on his hands:
This figure is quite the intricate one, for it utilizes parts from 4 different figures, including one from the old G.I. Joe line of the 80's. For the body I used the torso of ESB Lando, painting it black. For legs and arms I used those from the Dash Re ndar figure, painting the blue areas black. On the sides of the legs, I painted green stripes, to match the colors of CorSec, unfortunately you cannot see them from the pic above, I will try to remedy that in the future. For the head. I used the head of a G.I. Joe figure I believe called Shockwave. Since I had the cape left over from Lando, I painted its outside silver, and slapped it on the figure's back. To finish it off, I gave Corran the blaster pistol from the ESB Lando and a short blue saber from th e X-Wing Luke which was made into a Snow Speeder Pilot Dash.
They're keeping you on a tight leash.
As long as you only get one pic, here's my suggestion:
http://www.eecs.uic.edu/~jfleigel/starwars/corranho.jpg
That mark is a sneaky one.
You see how he just lurked here until he was able to key into your diabolical plan.