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There is a difference between stating ones feelings and asking valid pertinent questions on managment performance. I could not state my feelings on this board nor would I. They would be deleted. I take it that you are all rosy with TKO managment performance??
No need to slam me like that and question my character. I thought we didn't do that on this board or is it OK if your not in the elite group??
You may be going down with the ship too...
I agree with SteelDog I sold all my TKO yesterday and today also. I don't see anything coming of the meeting. IMO there won't be any significant action in TKO until Q1 or maybe even Q2 2007. If they had anything to announce it would have happened before the stockholders meeting. The nice thing about todays modern era of electronic trading I can buy back in to TKO on news in a nanosecond through Scottrade for $7 in pre or post market hours. It just makes more financial sense to me to put my money to work somewhere else, I added to my LVLT and GME and a few others and can sell them in a nanosecond and back into TKO when there is an announcement. I just hate to watch my money diminish drip, drip, drip, drip, drip...
P.S. Do you want to know what I think exactly what will happen in the meeting tomorrow?? Go back and read post #2543 taken from the Yahoo board. I think it's very insightful. Let everyone know what your thoughts are!!!
Isiah how do you know that there is a shred of truth to any of these rumours?? Thats all they are is rumors. I still haven't seen any positive proof that any of this is true Re: Invoices, reported revenue, PR's from the company etc...I still love this technology but as a prudent investor I am seeing nothing but sell, sell, sell, and run the other way signs. It's basic investing in speculative stocks 101...
I sold some TKO today and added to my LVLT position. Whats interesting about that is Crammer gave it a triple buy X9 on his Mad Money show, what ever that means. LVLT might double before TKO does who knows... };~')
To Everyone planning on attending the shareholders meeting. In response to Isiah's Broker, Sirius, steeltowndog, and anyone else planning on attending the shareholders meeting PLEASE hold their feet to the fire and make them answer the questions truthfully. Below is a post I made late last night. It is a post and a response taken from the Yahoo Board. IMHO this is insightful, informative, and probably true. That is just my opinion. Any Thoughts??
God Speed and Good Luck at the meeting...
My thought:
RP's guaranteed response to most stockholder questions on Friday. I took this off the Yahoo board and thought it would be appropriate.
Origional question:
"Will the executivities be taking any questions from shareholders on Friday?" by NTHOMP in an email to
both J. Noel and M. Porter neither of whom has given him an adequate response he felt.
The answer from another post was:
"Ron is going to take questions but he will respond as he did in the interview. "Things are just taking longer than I thought, but I am so excited about the future and the many opportunites that await this company and its rich technologies..."
"I like many CEOs think my stock price should be higher and I believe as we close agreements the share price will reflect that progress...."
Those two responses can be the answer to almost any question, and he will use it very effectively on Friday."
Isiah and Sirius and anyone else attending the stockholders meeting please hold their feet to the fire and make them answer questions truthfully. I will repost my post last night taken from the Yahoo board. I think it is insightful, informative, and maybe truthful. Please let us know all about it when you return. God Speed and Good Luck...
Listing requirements link taken from Yahoo board: You may have to cut and paste that into your browser...
I believe one of the requirements for AMEX listings is a $3 share price or pretax income of 50 million for standard #3. I'm looking for a delisting notice to come soon on this really fine equity.
http://www.venturelawcorp.com/listing_requirements_amex.html
RP's guaranteed response to most stockholder questions on Friday. I took this off the Yahoo board and thought it would be appropriate.
Origional question was "Will the executivities be taking any questions from shareholders on Friday?" by NTHOMP in an email to
both J. Noel and M. Porter neither of whom has given him an adequate response he felt.
The answer from another post was:
"Ron is going to take questions but he will respond as he did in the interview. "Things are just taking longer than I thought, but I am so excited about the future and the many opportunites that await this company and its rich technologies..."
"I like many CEOs think my stock price should be higher and I believe as we close agreements the share price will reflect that progress...."
Those two responses can be the answer to almost any question, and he will use it very effectively on Friday."
Sirius I won't be able to attend the stockholders meeting but if you would please double what you just said for me. Your concerns come very close to my own. I will trust you and others from this board to ask RP the hard questions and not the edited softball fluff in the interview. That interview was edited and I believe set up to try and pacify the stockholders. Please hold their feet to the fire and express our frustrations and concerns. May I also add that the Company's and Boards primary and fiduciary responsibility is to the STOCKHOLDERS and not to themselves.
Did you see some evidence of insider selling today? I sounded like that in your post, but I may have misinterpreted it. I really wonder if they are finalizing the details for a sale or merger or takeover?? To me it makes a lot of sense that would explain the silence!! It sure seems like they are making an effort to keep the share price down.
I don't want to be totally negative here but we need some hard evidence and not rumor through second hand sources of all these wonderful things coming just around the corner. I have no way to tell if they are even true, no hard evidence. Is the GE rumor substantial? I don't know? Homeland Security is very shaky at best, that agency doesn't know weather it's coming or going and rife with corruption. Trends West? Haven't seen a single invoice yet.
Hello Everybody I finally got my shareholders meeting notice and proxy in the mail yesterday. I am so relieved now. How did everyone vote??
Do you believe that?
Sirius, Thanks I already read it at 7:00am this morning. I asked the same question a couple of days ago. Why meettheceo.com?? If I were a CEO and had to pay for an interview to promote my company I would have chosen someone on the East Coast preferrably NYC not Calgary Canada. Calgary is a beautiful modern semi-major city in Canada not the USA.
Another question is this link was given to us by henalopen on the Yahoo Board then you posted it here. I asked henalopen to please identify him/herself, no answer back. A mystery person???
Who listens or even knows about Meet The CEO?? I wonder why RP chose them for this interview?? He obviously had to pay for the interview...
Sonny please don't act too quickly there is a lot of frustration with TKO coming out. Please do't take it personally on my behalf. Thanks for all of your hard work I appreciate it greatly.
OT: I think that I am going into a "Quiet" period for a while until all this sniping is over with. If it wasn't for humor and back and forth this board would become a vast wasteland thanks to TKO's no news. If thats what some of you want then so be it...
OT:Sirius I agree with you whole heartedly. Walrus I don't know you but, who put a BURR UNDER YOUR SADDLE?? Some people are just so stuffy they just can't stand to see others enjoying themselves. BTW you are sniping you violated the new rules of the board and your posts should have been deleted!!!
BTW If TKO does not announce I predict this board will become a barren wasteland for we will all wonder off into the stock wilderness lost forever without each other. It might become necessary for us to OT each other to find our way home. I know there has been alot of idle chit chat lately but it is not our fault. It is TKO's fault that we have become so disoriented and wondered off topic. Thanks!! for bringing us back from the wasteland. We need your guidance O' Great One.
Back it up or don't say it. As far as I am concerned TKO only has 2 more days to make good before the shareholders meeting. Since they don't announce on Monday or Friday that only leaves Tuesday and Wednesday for a big announcement. Can I sneek a joke in here??Hahahahahahaha. It would be considered a cheap shot by some to make an announcement when people are traveling to shareholders meeting Thursday. This is begining to look like a poorly timed shareholders meeting. Just couldn't get an announcement out beforehand. I just can't see what is holding up some of theese announcements like Trends West?? I know it sounds like I am being negative I'm just really puzzled...
OT: Man and Monkey
A guy walks into a bar with his pet monkey. He orders a drink and while he's drinking, the monkey jumps all around the place. The monkey grabs some olives off the bar and eats them. Then he grabs some sliced limes and eats them. He then jumps onto the pool table and grabs one of the billiard balls. To everyone's amazement, he sticks it in his mouth, and somehow swallows it whole.
The bartender screams at the guy, "Did you see what your monkey just did?"
"No, what?"
"He just ate the cue ball off my pool table...whole!"
"Yeah, that doesn't surprise me," replied the guy "he eats everything in sight. Sorry! I'll pay for the cue ball and stuff." The guy finishes his drink, pays his bill, pays for the stuff the monkey ate and leaves.
Two weeks later the guy is in the bar again, and has his monkey with bar again. While the man is finishing his drink, the monkey finds a maraschino cherry on the bar. He grabs it, sticks it up his butt, pulls it out, and eats it. Then the monkey finds a peanut, and again sticks it up his butt, pulls it out, and eats it.
The bartender is disgusted. "Did you see what your monkey did now?"
"No, what?" replied the man.
"Well, he stuck a maraschino cherry and a peanut up his butt, pulled them out, and ate them!" said the bartender.
"Yeah, that doesn't surprise me," replied the guy. "He still eats everything in sight, but ever since he had to pass that cue ball, he measures everything first.
OT: Wait till the cold air comes after the snow. In Colorado we got 2ft and -20 temp last night. A little present from us to you...HA HA...
Yikes!!!
Sirius I was just comparing him to post #2334 saying what a nice guy RP was and had a really nice boat "My Boat" as a chuckle...
Thanks Sonny I just hope he can answer that.
I hear Ken Lay was a Real Nice Guy too. He also had a boat. See any similarities?? I'm feeling real surly today only 2 days left for this news...
LAKINGSPHAN go to www.meetheceo.com and check that email address to make sure, there might be another t in that address. There is also a toll free phone #...
Meet the CEO if there is no announcement premarket tomorrow what is RP going to talk about on this interview?? There will be some angry questions waiting for him. Think about it Calgary Canada??
LAKINGSPHAN look at my post I gave everyone the phone # and email address to ask a question...
Shorts Covering
Sirius, I went to meettheceo.com site to see whar it was. It's a podcast out of Calgary Canada. Calgary?? You can submit a question to RP @ 1.888.236.8899 or on the site. Maybe we should ask RP some tough questions make him sweat a little?
GEL Ron and the boys are running out of days to make something happen be4 the meeting. Wednesday Thursday this week and Tuesday Wednesday next week to make 2 or 3 PR's. Be very careful with your investment it is highly speculative. I have this fear that something is not quite right here, maybe even sinister. I sincerely hope not. I read a post earlier today about the boys taking the money and running that may be in the realm of possibilities thats why it was posted. It's a real good thing that we have all this documented research and emails from corporate if something were to happen. The poor stockholder always is last in line to recover loses though. Just look at ENRON for a shining example of that
Help!! MM's or Market Managers could someone explain to me what they do. How do they affect the price of a stock?? I thought market forces did that. If I read this post correctly then this morning's open down $0.06 was some how affected by the MM. BTW someone purchased 43,000 shares before the market opened today. TKO trades on the AMEX and cannot be purchased in the pre or post market. What gives?? I have seen thid happen several times and it always affects the poening price. Is that the work of the MM?? These probably seem like stupid questions to some of you but that's how I learn.
GEL Thanks for Tropos and Earthlink? Where is TKO it looks like Motorola is prime partner here and several others. This plays into my fear that the longer TKO sits and does nothing the more likely it will be passed by it's competitors. Patent or no patent they have absolutley no lock on this technology...Looks like there goes the MDU business??
All cities have had this for 20 years it's nothing new.
I think you are very correct to worry about this. Go back and read my posts I was warning about this very sort of thing. Just because TKO has a patent means nothing reverse engineering is the king.
Re: Shareholders Meeting
I called my broker today to see if companies are required to notify shareholders in writing informing them of the shareholders meeting. He said technically the SEC/EDGAR posting was considered public notice. TKO is also on the AMEX and they don't have a formal notification requirement like NASDQ or NYSE so I guess their notification is sufficient. I just think it's a little chikenshit way of doing things but that's our TKO.
I think he's a republican
The story below is just in time for election day. Finding His Niche In Life
An old country preacher had a teenage son, and it was getting time the boy should give some thought to choosing a profession. Like many young men, the boy didn't really know what he wanted to do, and he didn't seem concerned about it.
One day, while the boy was away at school, his father decided to try an experiment. He went into the boy's room and placed on his study table three objects: a Bible, a silver dollar, and a bottle of whisky.
"I'll just hide behind the door," the old preacher said to himself, "and when he comes home from school this afternoon, I'll see which object he picks up. If it's the Bible, he's going to be a preacher like me, and what a blessing that would be! If he picks up the dollar, he's going to be a businessman, and that would be okay, too. But if he picks up the bottle, he's going to be a no-good drunkard, and, Lord, what a shame that would be."
The old man waited anxiously, and soon heard his son's footsteps as he entered the house whistling and headed for his room. He tossed his books on the bed, and as he turned to leave the room he spotted the objects on the table. With curiosity in his eye, he walked over to inspect them.
Finally, he picked up the Bible and placed it under his arm. He picked up the silver dollar and dropped it into his pocket. He uncorked the bottle and took a big drink.
"Lord have mercy," the old man whispered, "he's gonna be a politician!"
Smart Ass
THE 6 BEST SMART ASS ANSWERS OF 2006
SMART ASS ANSWER #6
It was mealtime during a flight on Hooters Airline.
"Would you like dinner?" the flight attendant asked John, seated in front.
"What are my choices?" John asked.
"Yes or no," she replied.
SMART ASS ANSWER #5
A flight attendant was stationed at the departure gate to check tickets.
As a man approached, she extended her hand for the ticket and he opened his trench coat and flashed her. Without missing a beat, she said, "Sir, I need to see your ticket not your stub."
SMART ASS ANSWER #4
A lady was picking through the frozen turkeys at the grocery store but she couldn't find one big enough for her family.
She asked a stock boy, "Do these turkeys get any bigger?"
The stock boy replied, "No ma'am, they're dead."
SMART ASS ANSWER #3
The cop got out of his car and the kid who was stopped for speeding rolled down his window.
"I've been waiting for you all day," the cop said.
The kid replied, "Yeah, well I got here as fast as I could."
When the cop finally stopped laughing, he sent the kid on his way without a ticket.
SMART ASS ANSWER #2
A truck driver was driving along on the freeway. A sign comes up that
reads, "Low Bridge Ahead." Before he knows it, the bridge is right ahead of him and he gets stuck under the bridge.
Cars are backed up for miles. Finally, a police car comes up. The cop gets out of his car and walks to the truck driver, puts his hands on his hips and says, "Got stuck, huh?" The truck driver says, "No, I was delivering this bridge and ran out of gas."
SMART ASS ANSWER OF THE YEAR 2006
A college teacher reminds her class of tomorrow's final exam. "Now class, I won't tolerate any excuses for you not being here tomorrow.
I might consider a nuclear attack or a serious personal injury, illness, or a death in your immediate family, but that's it, no other excuses whatsoever!" A smart-ass guy in the back of the room raised his hand and asked, "What would you say if tomorrow I said I was suffering from complete and utter sexual exhaustion?" The entire class is reduced to laughter and snickering. When silence is restored, the teacher smiles knowingly at the student, shakes her head and sweetly says, "Well, I guess you'd have to write the exam with your other hand."
Politically Correct 101:
Politically Correct
Due to the climate of political correctness now pervading America , Kentuckians, Tennesseans and West Virginians will no longer be referred to as "HILLBILLIES,."You must now refer to them as APPALACHIAN-AMERICANS.
And furthermore ...
HOW TO SPEAK ABOUT WOMEN AND BE POLITICALLY CORRECT:
1. She is not a "BABE" or a "CHICK" - She is a "BREASTED AMERICAN."
2. She is not a "SCREAMER" or a "MOANER" - She is "VOCALLY APPRECIATIVE."
3. She is not "EASY" - She is "HORIZONTALLY ACCESSIBLE."
4. She is not a "DUMB BLONDE" - She is a "LIGHT-HAIRED DETOUR OFF THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY."
5. She has not "BEEN AROUND" - She is a "PREVIOUSLY-ENJOYED COMPANION."
6. She is not an "AIRHEAD" - She is "REALITY IMPAIRED."
7. She does not get "DRUNK" or "TIPSY" - She gets "CHEMICALLY INCONVENIENCED"
8. She does not have "BREAST IMPLANTS" - She is "MEDICALLY ENHANCED."
9. She does not "NAG" you - She becomes "VERBALLY REPETITIVE."
10. She is not a "TRAMP" - She is "SEXUALLY EXTROVERTED."
1 1. She does not have "MAJOR LEAGUE HOOTERS" - She is "PECTORALLY SUPERIOR."
12. She is not a "TWO-BIT HOOKER" - She is a "LOW COST PROVIDER."
HOW TO SPEAK ABOUT MEN AND BE POLITICALLY CORRECT:
1. He does not have a "BEER GUT" - He has developed a "LIQUID GRAIN STORAGE FACILITY."
2. He is not a "BAD DANCER" - He is "OVERLY CAUCASIAN."
3. He does not "GET LOST ALL THE TIME" - He "INVESTIGATES ALTERNATIVE DESTINATIONS."
4. He is not "BALDING" - He is in "FOLLICLE REGRESSION."
5. He is not a "CRADLE ROBBER" - He prefers "GENERATIONAL DIFFERENTIAL RELATIONSHIPS."
6. He does not get "FALLING-DOWN DRUNK" - He becomes "ACCIDENTALLY HORIZONTAL."
7. He does not act like a "TOTAL ASS" - He develops a case of RECTAL-CRANIAL INVERSION."
8. He is not a "MALE CHAUVINIST PIG" - He has "SWINE EMPATHY."
9. He is not afraid of "COMMITMENT" - He is "RELAT IONSHIP CHALLENGED."