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Joemoney...
Go.com was never taken down...just highly pared back in features.
http://www.go.com/
There is no longer a tracking stock called DIG.
Disney traded one share of DIS for each 5 shares of DIG over a year ago now.
Meme,
As far as investing goes, life pretty much sucks.
As for my personal life, I am working from home now, every day, in my sweatpants, and making a GAZILLION $$$$ calling folks who want to take their invention ideas to the MAINFOLD.
How's life treating you?
HELP!
Did anybody see my shoes?
I think I left them here quite a while back.
Hi Meme and Sassy....long time no chat.
Just a hello......
As you may have noticed from my posting on the WLGS board at RB, I am in challenge now of Mr. Zwebner. Just tonight I emailed him for an update. Not holding my breathe here for anything positive from him.
There seems to be a stark dilemma here!
Here we are conversing STILL what MIGHT make IHUB great.
Isn't IHUB already GREAT???
Posters seem to rush to this Question and Answer Board asking the sublime question, ......
"MATT, Please listen to me."
Excuse me, but I think that Matt and Bob Z have done their utmost to get all contributors here to understand that there fondest desire is but for ppl to post their thoughts regarding investing. Geesh, this is an investing website, isn't it?
With that one sublime thought in mind I ask all posters who lurk here to take one idle moment to post a comment of signifigance on the IHUB board of their choice. Just post a hello, if nothing else.
It's sad to me that this Q and A Board on IHUB has become some sort of focal point of discussion.
The website is about commenting on inividual stocks. Can we get back to that focus sometime in the near future?
I think it must be your firewall...
Private Reply me and let's see if I can get the link to you that way.
Bullrider,
Thanks for the kind words.
All together I put about 12 hours into the creation.
I think a great website to learn HTML webpage coding is
http://www.draac.com/
Here is a story I have written about my grandniece that is to be presented to her as a special surprise this Sunday, February 10th, 2002.
Please enjoy and feel free to pass on to friends.
http://community-2.webtv.net/dpb5/BettyPimplebottom/
DickMN,
Ridi is trying to locate you.....
http://ragingbull.lycos.com/mboard/boards.cgi?board=CLB00809&read=96
Thought some here might enjoy this....
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=251930
I wonder if...
Krispy Kreme should be approached to be the Official Sponsor of the "HOLE" InvestorsHUB Website!!!???
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Happy "Almost Sunday!"
Tonight, an old great song played on the radio. It brought back memories of me as a teen in the early seventies during the Vietnam Years.
Norman Greenbaum came out with a song during that time. It really surprised me the day I was in the car with my Dad (who was never specifically religious), and he started singing along with the song!!
After that, it was his favorite song for the last 15 years of his life.
Spirit In The Sky
by Norman Greenbaum
It is a great and uplifting spiritual song, so I'll share it with you...
ENJOY!!
Here is a lively cool instrumental of it....
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/1690/midi2/spiritin.mid
And if you want to hear the original, try this link...
http://www.spiritinthesky.com/cd2.htm
Thanks Excel....
That post really hit home today!
About a year or so ago my niece was in a tragic accident.
Thank God, she survived, but had to undergo rehabilitation of her foot! She walked with a cane for quite some time but has since tossed it away by God's Will. She returned to the work force at a Day Care Center. Just earlier today, while at work, she was riding in the Nursery Van taking students to school. The roads were icy and a vehicle lost control and hit the van on the same side of the vehicle she was sitting. She is OK, but very shook, natually, after all she has been through.
I sent your post about the windshield wipers to her tonight and invited her to this board. I hope she visits.
God is always testing us. She has been tested greatly of late. But she's a survivor! And she is the very best maker of Peanut Butter Cookies an Uncle could ever hope for!
Just wanted to clarify.....
My comments do NOT relate to the Top Member List or how it is currently calculated.
They are about recognizing individual posts for QUALITY.
I believe these are two seperate subjects.
Does anyone have any Tylenol?
Here is a website that I recently found that I found Spiritually inspiring and uplifting.
I'd be interested in others' thoughts on this site...
http://144000.net/
My favorite church Marquee was...
People with the most toys don't die rich, they just die.
Bird of Prey,
I think that my idea just resolved a lot of your concerns. Let's say that 3 people recommend a post and it is given a thumbs UP symbol. Now someone comes along and gives it a "NON RECOMMEND" vote. Now the post has 3 recommends and 1 NON recommend, netting it out to 2 recommends and thus the thumbs UP symbol disappears from the post showing continued neutrality of the post.
To further clarify, if a post has 30 recommends or 30 NON recommends (as netted out), there would be either 10 Thumbs UP or 10 Thumbs DOWN symbols by the post.
The only thing I don't know is if this is a programmable function by Bob, or not.
My head hurts.
Ok, here is a thought that may work...
Rather than each and every individual recommend of a post shows up, how about it get coded so that for every 3 posters that recommend a post, that post will be given a symbol (noooooo...not a $....too confusing on RB as it is).
How about a thumbs UP symbol?
Conversely, to alleviate the undesired posts how about a "NON RECOMMEND" feature. Working it the same way, if 3 posters choose to "NON RECOMMEND" the post gets a thumbs DOWN symbol.
We must continue to think about the real reasons people read message boards. They want valuable informative information from posters that others agree with.
I think that a poster with enough thumb DOWN symbols would start to recognize that others don't share their philosophy regarding the sincerity, honesty, or very integrity of their post.
I hate it when I think this hard.
Bird of Prey and Matt and Bob,
The problem that I see is that the NUMBER of times a person posts should be a VERY small part of the equation, if at all.
Membermarks, and the number of times a posters post was actually RECOMMENDED to be read by other posters should weigh much greater on the ranking.
Isn't the whole goal of this Top Members' List to be about QUALITY, not QUANTITY ?
Just my thoughts.
E. I see you found my poem after all...I didn't read far enough along ....Sorry!
And thanks for the compliment on the poem, too!
Thanks E.
The reason for the proofing is so that if you wish to order their products with your poem engraved on them they will have the correct text is all.
To read my poem click on the very next message on this board after the one where I posted the incorrect link. I'd still like opinions regarding my poem.
Thanks for your cautionary advise. Well taken!
As far as "factoring them in" to an individuals score, I'll remain commentless.
I'm an oldy here as the timeline goes, yet I don't show up on the HOTMEMBERS list. That, in itself, doesn't bother me. What is more important to me is who says what, and why they say it. See?
That is why I think the individual RECOMMEND button would be a winner on IHUB!
Bob,
My thought is that membermarks have much less bearing on an individual poster than those anonymous posters who would choose to click on a RECOMMEND button for individual posts by a poster.
Think about it for a moment......which posts would you be more inclined to read......those that are highly recommended individually.......or those of individual membermarked posters?
What I mean is "let each post stand on it's own!"
Once we all take time to think about this it is clearly the best way to proceed.
We all have busy lives, and inasmuch as it can be fun to read the riffraff, is that truly why we are here?
If you truly can easily add the RECOMMEND feature to IHUB, please do so. I am sure that there is not one reader of this site that would disagree.
A very profound message INDEED! I like this board!
Sorry...Bad Link....
Not sure why it didn't work, but here is the text of my poem....
A Man
Once upon a time, quite past, and deep defined.
I became a Man, Unspoken, and refined.
It didn't happen quickly and it caught me by surprise.
But when it finally happened, I opened up my eyes.
I didn't want to be a Man and wanted to stay young.
Yet there was no escaping it, the damage had been done.
Frivolity had ended. It was time to take control.
Yet each attempt to step ahead gouged deeply in my soul.
Remain as though a child at heart,
I pleaded to myself.
I cast that dream and sweet desire,
high ..... upon the shelf.
I see that dream with each new day,
and still wait for the reward.
I wonder what tomorrow brings,
and what fantasies I've stored.
I'm still a youthful lad at heart
and proud to say it's true.
I see myself a child at heart,
and wonder still, "Do you?"
David Paul Beardsley
Copyright ©2002 David Paul Beardsley
OK...I'll share....
Yes, I like to write poetry. Here is one by way of introduction that I submitted to poetry.com
I have been pleased that since submitting it four or five months ago, they snail mailed me that this poem would be included in an anthology to be printed in 2003. In addition, just last week, I received an invitation from them to register for the annual Poet's Convention to be held in Orlando March 1 thru 3 for a chance to recite this poem and win a Grand Prize of $20,000.
I would be very interested in any and all critique regarding this poem, and any encouragement that I should spend the $595 registration fee that poetry.com requires in order to "compete".
Here's the link to my poem on their website....
http://poetry.com/Publications/display.asp?ID=P3620467&BN=999&PN=1
The NEXT Bubble....
An excerpt from an ABCNEWS.COM article....
It's All in the Timing
The next boom is on; make no mistake about it. You can't see it yet, but you can feel the rumblings beneath your feet. And, remarkably enough, given the grief we've been through in the last two years, it looks as though high tech will be the first sector to come out of the slump.
If I'm right, and you want to make money of the next high-tech expansion, then you are already running out of time. Here's how I see it: The people who will make billions on the next upturn invested in 2001 ? mostly as key investors or founders of new companies that will be the corporate stars of the next four years.
The people who will make millions will invest this year ? as low-level investors in early stage start-ups, senior executives at those firms, or major participants in well-targeted venture capital funds.
And the people who will make hundreds of thousands of dollars in the next boom will invest ? mostly in publicly traded stock or as recipients of employee stock options ? in 2003.
Those who will lose money on the next boom, just like last time, will be those who spend their money on already over-publicized and peaked-out tech stocks in 2004 and 2005. They will be the ones left holding the bag during the next shake-out.
Pick Your Targets
Everything I just said is meaningless unless you pick the right company to work for or invest in. One thing is for certain: none of the hot companies of the last boom will be the big plays in the next one. It never, ever works that way in tech. Rather, the hot companies will be the ones you haven't yet even heard of.
But that doesn't mean you can't find them, if you know where to look. Here are my best guesses from where the next superstars will emerge:
Real Time Computing. America's corporations are going to spend an estimated $1 trillion in the next 10 years revamping their entire IT operations to become highly interactive, instantaneous and pervasive. They're calling it Real Time Enterprise Computing and scores of companies, from Microsoft to dozens of new start-ups, are trying to stake a place in supplying it.
Dynamic Equilibrium. Dean Kamen's Segway is a glimpse of a whole world of new products that will use microprocessors and sensors to help digital products interact with the analog world. Think of machines that adapt to changing circumstances, fix themselves and respond to human interaction. Also think of the component companies that will supply the parts for these machines.
Visual Technologies. With universal broadband waiting in the wings, the Internet is going to go increasingly visual as movies, images, television, games, etc. migrate onto the Web. This will require new cameras, software, search and presentational tools and servers and routers to work. Also, as all traditional media begin to merge into a single, monolithic, Web-driven entertainment medium, whole new forms of content will emerge that we can't imagine.
Biochips. This will come later, but the company that figures out how to grow circuits or manage fast data input/output into DNA will be the next Intel.
Internet II. You may think the e-commerce revolution died with the Pets.com sock, but in fact it has just begun. E-commerce kept growing all through the bust ? and when the second generation of the Internet (broadband, wireless, real-time everywhere, visual) comes along in the next couple years, retailing on the Net will actually work. Think full-motion catalogs, virtual test drives, pay-per-view Web movies and you can see how huge this is going to be.
There. I feel better now. Can you see now why I couldn't say it all in 120 seconds?
Michael S. Malone, once called "the Boswell of Silicon Valley," is editor-at-large of Forbes ASAP magazine. His work as the nation's first daily high-tech reporter at the San Jose Mercury-News sparked the writing of his critically acclaimed The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley, which went on to become a public TV series. He has written several other highly praised business books and a novel about Silicon Valley, where he was raised. For more, go to Forbes.com. And you can talk back to Silicon Insider via e-mail.
For the complete article...
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/SiliconInsider/SiliconInsider_020115.html
Not knowing where else to post this on the site, I thought I'd try here....
About a year ago I read a crazy story about this thing called IT. IT was supposed to revolutionize society in a way that it had never been revolutionized. It turns out that IT is a 2 wheel scooter that people can ride on rather than walk. Like many other people, I saw it as nothing more than an idea, or a 'half baked' idea even.
Turns out that I seem wrong about this. I wonder if anyone here knows how to find out who this SEGWAY company is so I can do some more DD on it.
Here is an article, although brief, from ABCNEWS.COM that does some more to explain what "IT" is all about...
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/gma/index.html
Oh....but I am old and wise in my brain.
Just young and foolish in my heart.
Thanks for having me !!!!
:)
Dear Bob and Matt,
I have read the entire thread about this discussion of how an admin determines TOU and I think I have a suggestion that will help this very dilemma.
A couple of years back I was an investor in GO.COM, which has since been gobbled up by Disney.
GO.COM had a MONEY section that indeed had some of the greatest features I have ever seen on a Message Board. The very greatest of those features was a feature called "RECOMMEND". With this feature, if a reader liked and believed in what the posted message said, the reader had the ability to click on a RECOMMEND button.
What this did for the other readers was to help hone in on what the real conversation on the given board was about. Obviously, readers didn't recommend posts such as spam or half baked hyping or bashing but tended to recommend the more legitimate things like DD and News Releases.
Is this something that can be incorporated into the IHUB Website? If so, I believe that it would go a long way in neutralizing this issue of which posts or posters should be deleted or banned.
To me, all that most readers of boards want is to get to the nitty gritty messages from other posters and avoid all the inherent 'dribble drabble'. I would very much like to hear your thoughts on this idea.
Yes..running MUCH faster! Kewl!
HEY! I don't like that 50Plus idea!
I'm only 47 1/2. LOL!
How's about we call it "ESS2002"
(Ed Sullivan Show 2002)
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WOW! Maybe you can report all these places, too!
You could make a killing! ;)
http://www.google.com/search?q=gambling+contest+football
Fathers' Love Letter.....
Enjoy !!!!!
http://www.fathersloveletter.com/fllpreviewlarge.html
Matt, which poster are you folks talking about? I'd like to read some of his past posts here.
AOL Highly Recommended for 2002...
http://www.investorplace.com/free/rb_free_025A.php
Bob,
Just a quick response to the new search feature...
I tried a search of the words "ground zero" and within 2 seconds the following link came up.
GOOD JOB!!!!!!!!!
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/msgsearch.asp?txt2find=ground zero
Begging your support.
Hey, what the heck. Since Matt has introduced the Top Member List here on IHUB and I was one of the members who have been around this site since there was dirt, I am asking for any of you to support me achieving the Top Ten List of Members here. I am currently number 11 with over 465 posts, but it seems I need some MemberMarks to get onto the list at all right now.
So, be sure to push the chad all the way through! Thanks, LOL!
Begging your support.
Hey, what the heck. Since Matt has introduced the Top Member List here on IHUB and I was one of the members who have been around this site since there was dirt, I am asking for any of you to support me achieving the Top Ten List of Members here. I am currently number 11 with over 465 posts, but it seems I need some MemberMarks to get onto the list at all right now.
So, be sure to push the chad all the way through! Thanks, LOL!