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Reasons for MY investment remaining and/or increasing:
1) O1000 vs. Ipod
2) IFE device(s)
3) Eclipse Project
4) Engineering/IT Staff that makes products that appeal to ME
Obviously, the acceptance/success of these products is not guaranteed (see price per share). Those 4 reasons to ME outweigh the (mostly) speculative nature of the facts that you claim as concrete facts. I suggest YOU not invest here, unless you could take a short position. If I felt the way you did about this company, and was able to short it, I would short it to zero, no quesitons asked.
Where in the world is the chat room? I have searched all over this site, to no avail. Good luck with your new responsibilities, hope you can help make this board a productive forum again.
Colt,
So far, the best and most durable bait has been fresh pigs feet, but I think almost anything will work. I have used grouper heads, canned tuna with holes punched in the can, and smoked pigs feet (for the crabs with a taste for the finer things in life?).
The crabs will resort to cannibalism, and other stone crabs are one of a few predators of the stone crab, along with octopus, sea turtles, and ME. One of the biggest stone crabs I have seen was apparently attacked and eaten by the other crabs in the trap (the claw was about the size of my hand).
The great thing about the traps is that they attract everything swimming around down there, from lobster to mutton snapper, which is a nice treat along with the succulent crabs. I have yet to hire a waitress to serve them up to me, but I can tell you that nothing brings a smile to a hungry girls face like a large plate of freshly caught stone crabs and some cold beer on a muggy South Florida evening.
Tight Lines.
JalapenoBuck...Dont forget the melted butter and/or the Dijon-Horseradish dipping sauce!
Anyone into recreationally trapping Florida Stone Crabs? I have been tinkering around with these things for a couple of years and would love to hear anyones thoughts about trapping these damn tasty crustaceans. My traps are in the upper Florida Keys on the Atlantic side, and they average 3-4 crabs per trap per week...and some of the claws are larger than even the "colassal <sp>?" size that you would find in restaurants.
Tight Lines.
no.
Yeah Hasher, Cassandra needs his bawls washed!
Such language Cadence! I suggest you not take a long position on EDIG! Enjoy your stay here, seems like you have a life sentence. Scumbag.
Acidpro,
That sounds like an unrelated services contract that HAL will not be pursuing, seperate from Boots & Coots oil well services to me...what do you think? I read earlier that the Bankrupticy issue has been at least put off for awhile, but I have not had time to find/post the link.
Cadence, hows your ass feeling? Can you sit down yet?
Kuwait, US set to douse more oil fires in south Iraq
3/26/2003 3:06:31 AM
DUBAI, March 26 (Reuters) - Kuwaiti and U.S. firefighters, stalled in their work by bad weather, are gearing up on Wednesday to snuff out two more oil wells blazing in Iraq's vast southern Rumaila fields, a senior Kuwaiti oil official said.
U.S. contractors Boots & Coots International Well Control (WEL) are to join a Kuwait Oil Co (KOC) team that has already capped one of seven oil wells on fire in the giant field responsible for nearly half of Iraq's overall production.
"We will try to extinguish and cap a fire on Thursday and if the U.S. team also puts out a fire, we will only have four left to do," KOC team leader Aisa Bou Yabes told Reuters by telephone from the scene.
Kuwaiti and U.S. officials have said it could take up to four weeks to bring a half dozen fires under control, but Bou Yabes said he hoped the job could be finished faster.
The first well, extinguished on Monday, was finally capped late Tuesday after a harsh sandstorm prevented work earlier in the day, he said.
"Today the weather is worse, but we are making preparations for Thursday to work," said Bou Yabes, a veteran of Kuwait's battle to extinguish over 700 oil well fires set by Iraqi troops fleeing the Gulf state in 1991 after a U.S.-led campaign ended Iraq's seven month occupation.
Their task this time should be considerably easier, as U.S. and British officials say Iraq has only managed to torch seven of Rumaila's 500 wells.
The area of the Rumaila fields, near the border with Kuwait, was deserted, Bou Yabes said, with no sign of armed Iraqis reported in other parts of the 50-mile-long oilfield.
"The area where we are working is under British control. We hear news of problems, but we don't see anything," he said. "We even hear the Kuwaiti firefighting team was taken hostage, but we are alive and well.
According to a pooled despatch sent on Tuesday from Terri Judd of British newspaper "The Independent" in southwest Iraq, fighting continues in the northern section of the Rumaila oilfield but British troops have secured vital facilities such as gas-oil separation plants.
The British army's elite helicopter force keeping watch on the area is to expand its territory to include an area inhabited predominantly by Bedouins.
© Reuters 2003. All rights reserved.
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/newsarticle.asp?guid={0BC7A96A-DE2A-4E4C-AB79-0B2CA85FAA95}&...
acidpro, it was my impression that the Checkpoint group may have been attempting to acquire a 40,000,000$ market cap company by foreclosing on their 1mil loan and pushing a Ch11 bankruptcy. Sounds like a good move for Checkpoint, but would obviously kill anyone holding shares once judgement is entered in the Bankruptcy court. I am doing more research into the law to find out the remedies for each side. This is an interesting play, for damn sure.
acidpro, can you explain the relationship between Kellog Brown & Root and WEL? I have poured through many different articles and have come up with nil.
EDIT: Besides both being HAL subsidiaries
Oil fires mean profits to WEL longs
Boots & Coots investors gush about its prospects
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid={50DAADE9-E42C-4400-AE92-8A67207C1F26}&siteid=mkt...
Philozarton, that would be assuming that "she" is a she, which is quite a stretch in my opinion, but like you say, who nose?
Good to hear Chessplayer, now watch out for Cassandra and crew demanding your daughter-in-law's name, address, professional accolades, birth sign, and favorite color in attempt to skew every single bit of information against a company they claim to have no interest in.
Thanks Cassandra, I would recommend you not invest your hard earned dollars in this company. Anyone knows that a 17 cent stock is a very risky (thats why its 17 cents right?) investment. As for the others, why not let THEM make the decision without your constant whining. I dont see ANYONE recommending people to go out and blindly take up a position here. What I do see however, is you recommending to blindly sell off, or completely avoid taking a position in the company without giving any credence to the possible benefits of owning e.Digital stock.
FWIW, this stock is a very volatile (in both directions) and risky trade. I have been watching it for about a month, and trading it for about a week, and it has been all over the place. I dont think it is really a long term play, but with its connections to Halliburton (and therefore Dick Cheney) who knows?
News: sets a good scene for the first post here.
Signs of Sabotage Found at Iraq Oil Wells
BRUCE STANLEY and PATRICK McDOWELL
Associated Press
KUWAIT CITY - Firefighters attacking blazes at oil wells in southern Iraq say they've found telltale signs the valuable field was sabotaged. But it appears Iraqi troops may have disobeyed orders to blow up the wells or prepared explosives that were too weak to do serious damage.
It took Kuwaiti firefighters only 15 minutes and two water cannon Monday to snuff out the first fire quenched so far at a booby-trapped Iraqi oil well.
Kuwait's senior firefighter, Aisa Bouyabes, said he believes his team and others can douse the six remaining fires in Iraq's Rumeila South oil field within two weeks.
Upon inspecting damaged well heads at several blast sites just across Kuwait's border with Iraq, the team discovered a telltale pair of black wires snaking away from each one.
"These are the same wires that were used in Kuwait to blow up our wells - the same method exactly. I've seen it before. I inspected the wells in Kuwait immediately after the liberation," Bouyabes said by telephone from northern Kuwait.
Saddam Hussein's troops sabotaged more than 700 well heads in Kuwait's oil fields as they retreated from the emirate in the closing days of the 1991 Gulf War. The damage took more than two years and $50 billion to repair.
U.S.-led forces have made a priority in the current war of trying to secure Iraq's oil fields to prevent a repeat of that scorched-earth tactic. One vexing question is why so few of Iraq's 1,685 oil wells are burning, despite ample evidence that Iraqis took time to rig them for detonation.
Although it is far too early to be certain, initial evidence suggests that in the vast majority of cases, Iraqi troops might have disobeyed orders to blow up the wells, or set explosives that were too weak to do serious damage.
Bouyabes said he believed the Iraqis had placed an explosive charge several feet underground at the blazing well he visited just over a mile across Kuwait's border with Iraq. The result was a mangled well head and flames 35 feet high.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair told the House of Commons on Monday that Iraq's oil wealth was "mined and deep-mined at that. Had we not struck quickly, Iraq's future wealth would even now be burning away."
However, the will needed to ignite a multitude of desert infernos has so far not measured up to Iraqis' apparently extensive effort to lay and wire up the charges.
"I don't think that the Iraqis ever really intended to blow these wells up and keep them burning forever," said Rob Laughlin, managing director of London brokerage GNI Man Financial.
Bouyabes said he inspected at least two other wells in Rumeila South that were damaged but not burning. They too had been rigged with black wire, and the direction of the blasts and the placement of sand bags around each well head were persuasive clues of sabotage, he said.
Yet, for some reason, the explosions at those sites weren't powerful enough to destroy the well heads and spark fires.
"Whoever put in the explosives did not want to repeat what happened in Kuwait," Bouyabes suggested. "This is just an assumption: I don't think Saddam had very good control over these guys."
Iraq has the world's second-largest proven crude reserves, and it will need revenues from oil exports to help pay for its postwar reconstruction.
U.S. Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, deputy director of operations at the Central Command in Doha, Qatar, said the absence of widespread damage in the oil fields was "a very important story for the future of Iraq."
Coalition forces had mounted operations to secure Rumeila South and the oil terminals on Iraq's Persian Gulf coast and on the al-Faw peninsula.
However, fighting around oil fields that U.S.-led forces had previously thought were secure drove away some civilian firefighters who were trying to tackle the blazing wells, an American firefighter said.
"It's not nearly as safe as they said it was," said Brian Krause of Texas-based Boots and Coots, an oil services company. "We're kind of sitting ducks out there."
U.S. Marines declared the Rumeila South oil fields unsafe for journalists to visit Monday, forcing the cancellation of a trip under Marine escort intended to give the media a firsthand view of the well fires.
"Coalition forces consider it to be secured. That doesn't meant that there's not still hostile fire going on in the region in small pockets of resistance," said Maj. Randi Steffi, a U.S. military spokeswoman.
Bouyabes, the Kuwaiti firefighter, said he planned to coordinate with Krause and other foreign specialists Tuesday. For now, his team is the only one with all its water cannons, tanker trucks and other equipment in place and ready to use.
"I would love to take a shot at putting out all the fires in Rameila South, but I don't want to get greedy and claim all the credit," he said. "The more teams that are involved, the faster we can put out the fires and stop an environmental disaster."
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Associated Press writer Bruce Stanley contributed to this report from London.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/5471667.htm
Here Cadence, I'll toss you the keys! Whoops! They went out the window! Have fun!
OT: Austonia, I was going to let this discussion fall by the wayside, but since you brought me back into it, I have a final point to make. To say that an mp3 player is "one of the best" players out there in order to expedite your auction, and then come on this board and say that by "one of the best" you mean that you hold it out to be in the top 1,000 players is just plain dishonest, especially considering the number of players available in the market is probably not much greater than 1000 (if it is in fact greater). Your agenda is known by this community already, so I doubt that anyone is surprised by your double talking in this instance.
The bids might be legally binding, but IMO you have made material misrepresentations one way or the other about the product you are selling.
Bend over Cadence, I see Bubba coming your way!
Cadence, is your behind busting at the seams yet?
Dont people allocate THEIR investment dollars according to what is important to THEM? Dont people make their decisions and conduct DD based on THEIR motives, and to address THEIR concerns? IMO jtdii has invaded my (and the average investor's) personal space and autonomy. Your opinons are unwelcome here.
I see law enforcement is doing its job here! In jail where you belong!
So is it true what the psychos over at Lycos are reporting? Or have you just renounced your full scale membership here at the hub? Or has the staff here ascertained your true agenda and decided you were persona non-gratis here? Inquiring minds want to know.
-S
Re: "Find Music" function on Zen
Scrolling alphanumerically to enter a search string...that is only a nice feature on paper. Try doing that while driving down the road, skiing, or running.
The question is WHY???
Have the inmates all escaped?
derf...great DD. Wait until cASSandra comes in on her broom and goes berzerk over those!
I bet there it is a "sack" dragging on the ground rather than jugs.
None at all OD,
That is my point exactly. For an eternal negativist to put a negative spin on a completely neutral, and totally unverified piece of DD, therein lies the problem. It is no different than posters such as MISHA etc. pumping away. That is all I am saying.
It is also a possibility that this player is a licensing of the O1000:
Reasons for my opinion:
1. Our announcement of a multi year working relationship with Musical.
2. Who cares if it does not look like the 01000, that is merely a plastic covering, which could take any shape.
3. Why should they announce that it is e.Digital technology inside? Why tip their hand as to whoever provided the technology before the release?
4. Use of ID3 tags could and/or the inclusion or exclusion of FM could be incorporated at the request of an OEM.
5. A licensee would presumably have the option to couple a licensed player with any software of their choosing, possibly to be compatible with previous players manufactured by Musical or to preserve brand identity.
I dont believe it is an apple licensee either.
IMO, you are twisting the unknowns into knowns.
I see your logic there. My mistake. Thanks.
AKvetch,
I was not replying to her, just flaunting my freedom in her (quite disfigured IMO) face, and encouraging her to act responsibly from now on. Thats all.
Greetings from the outside FoF! I hope you have a long time in here to think about what you have done. You should enjoy the tuna in here, I hear its fresh!