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<<My question is I read alot of articles where the name is left out due to the age, since he is just 15 I'm wondering why they printed his name.>>
Although I may be a few years late to this question, it is a small thing called the First Amendment, which while not legally meaningful, does come before the Second Amendment. Last I checked, there is nothing in the First Amendment that prevents any media outlet from disclosing facts about minors. Whether a story is accurate is another issue, but there is nothing wrong with a disclosure about a minor -- even though many media outlets will, as a matter of policy, not include names of minors.
I think I would have to be belchzilla, not some weasly little burper.
Yep -- long time. Realized I had not ever been here on this computer and had to try three times to get the password entered. Thought about just cranking up a new name, but figured I'd wait to tempt fate.
I'll just take one percent a year to manage it for you.
Opinions sought:
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=3946
This place has not burned down yet? Think I'll skip the last 25,000 unread messages.
Came back to create a new board, so I guess I'll start spamming it here.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=3946
This looks like for $400 a year, I can own 150 different stocks in dollar denominated fractional shares and trade them 600 times a month for no additional cost, plus be able to have 10 trades a month in other securities for no additional charge, and finally, if I run out of trades, extra trades cost only $3.95 each.
It also appears that their software wil keep track of the tax consequences and that it can be downloaded an imported into Quicken.
Where has something like this been all of these years.
I keep wondering where the catch is. I know that this is not a day trading account, but for long term buy and holds, I have not seen anything close.
I have been holding with no action in JBL for a while -- I forget how long. I almost pulled the trigger yesterday at $29.50 to sell some of it, but kept waiting to see if it could break out to $30 or above. Today's action looked like it just followed the market, down early, recovering most of it late. If it does not pop through $30 the first couple days of next week, I will lighten the load and wait for it to dip again.
But some of our clients will be finding their way off of death row. Unfortunately, three of our clients missed out on this life saving event by 1-5 years.
Edit -- grub
And now it looks like I could have had a 15 bagger (and a 30+ bagger a short while ago) if someone would have sold it to me at .01.
Looks like we may have a bit more downside.
Liked it at $24 and change, gotta love it at $22 and change. I dipped a bit more this morning. I don't like averaging down, as a general rule, but buying low is the name of the game.
Cruise was fun (Rhapsody of the Seas, Royal Caribbean, out of Galveston), casino was very nice, albeit with limited tables that were always too crowded, had a nice variety of games for an on board casino (blackjack, 3 card poker, let it ride, caribbean stud, bonus blackjack, craps, and roulette). The people in the casino were great. Credit line was approved so I did not need to mess with carrying cash.
The atmosphere was much more relaxed that a normal casino. No one keeping track of bets or bet size. Minimal supervision from the pit for cash, check, and color changes. They made a point of learning and calling the regular players by their first names. My only real complaint is that we had to buy drinks -- they were not free.
All of that said, the cards sucked big-time. Lost more than I have ever lost at one stretch. Out of about 15 sessions over 7 days, I lost money on 13 of the 15, and the two winning sessions were only marginal wins -- about $300 total. But, heck, I did turn $5 into $35 at roulette with consecutive wins on red and even. Just wish it had been $500 into $3500.
Saw one guy hit back-to-back four of a kind at let it ride with a $25 bet. He was one happy camper. Saw a $5 slot machine pay off $9000 and then another $5000 about an hour later. A couple of video poker machines were paying off nicely (but not to me). One was paying so much so frequently, they shut it down.
All-in-all, not as cheesy as the cruise casino I was in 18 years ago, but definitely not Las Vegas.
Heading off on a week long cruise -- hope the RCCL casino is half-way decent. I'll just be ahppy if they have approved my credit line so I don;t have to bring as much cash.
<<as well as many of us here, need some positive direction.>>
A positive direction would be to eliminate the.... but I don't want to go there.
<<brought Matt to his knees!>>
You must be trying to get me really jailed. That is just too easy..... I don;t need to be my own client.
It is not likely i will spend much time here, although I appreciate the sentiments. Having broken the online habbit, I intend to keep it that way.
Since I have a HUGE crusie begining in a couple days, it may be along time beofre I visit again.
See how quickly I work....
I made a bit on JBL's last dip to ~$25 and got out at $27 and change. Just picked some more up at $24.40ish. It may take a bit longer this time, given the recent guidance, but it should continue to be a profitable position trade.
I would gladly defend both you and churak, but if it requires reading even dozens, much less hundereds, of posts, I am likely to be ill prepared.
Funny that you mentioned Dickie Thon -- I uttered his name (for the first time in years) after popping up a drive on Sunday; it was short, shallow, high, and just sightly pulled. If he missed it, Biggio would have had it a couple years ago or Doug Raider many years ago.
$20 on the street corner may be more fun than being defended.
JBL has started to look attractive again -- although I would still prefer closer to $25 -- at ~$26ish
Have not kept up with the stock, but they had some coverage within the last week or so on some TV show -- discovery channel perhaps. They said that for $1 million someone could order today and get it in a year. Of course, since there is no FAA approval, it would be nothing more than a decorator item.
I have followed their concept for years, but have seen little evidence that it is still anything more than a concept.
It has been a couple of months. Lost some over a bout three hours counting in Louisiana a couple months ago and then won about half of it back the next in about 30 minutes day playing on a continuous-shuffle table, which I usually hate and refuse to play. Go figure.
Had one stretch with a very, very positive count with $200 a hand on two hands and lost three in a row (six hands) while the dealer pulled a BJ and drew to two 21s (as I recall) -- just really screwed up the night.
It seems like most of my travel lately has been to non-gaming destinations (Atlanta, Wyoming, Delaware, DC, and Florida). The upcoming travel will be about the same (Nebraska, Arkansas and Boston (unless I get a day to head down to Conn.). But, come the fall, long trips to Mississippi and Vegas beckon. I will probably squeeze in at least one trip to Louisiana before the fall (and maybe a few if a case there will heat up a bit).
Had lunch with my counting teacher today and had to fess to little to no practice for about a month. I need some warm-up work before hitting anywhere.
Although I am not around here much any more, I still take a look at this thread from time to time.
While I personally disagree with the lack of what I perceive as basic humanity in the sentiments expressed in Japan, as reflected by the article below, our country, our leaders, and our people, would do well to appreciate and understand that our "view" of the world, as well as right and wrong, are not shared, much less blindly, by most of the rest of the world. Until we understand, appreciate, and respect (even while we adhere to our own righteously held beliefs) such contrary views, we will continue to repeat the mistakes of the powers of history. Even if we are right, we are not right just because we think or say so -- much less because we have the military power to impose our views by force. Our justness and the alleged world order is, proverbially speaking, little more than a legend in or own minds. Even while we share economic and political goals with other parts of the world, our cultural differences are still immense. These, as most things, are a matter of perspective. We have the right to disagree and not to support those with whom we disagree -- we do not have the right to impose our views simply because we disagree and view it differently. To do differently is the epitome of hypocrisy.
Troy
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TOKYO, April 22 — The young Japanese civilians taken hostage in Iraq returned home this week, not to the warmth of a yellow-ribbon embrace but to a disapproving nation's cold stare.
Three of them, including a woman who helped street children on the streets of Baghdad, appeared on television two weeks ago as their knife-brandishing kidnappers threatened to slit their throats. A few days after their release, they landed here on Sunday, in the eye of a peculiarly Japanese storm.
"You got what you deserve!" read one hand-written sign at the airport where they landed. "You are Japan's shame," another wrote on the Web site of one of the former hostages. They had "caused trouble" for everybody. The government, not to be outdone, announced it would bill the former hostages $6,000 for air fare.
Beneath the surface of Japan's ultra-sophisticated cities lie the hierarchical ties that have governed this island nation for centuries and that, at moments of crises, invariably reassert themselves. The former hostages' transgression was to ignore a government advisory against traveling to Iraq. But their sin, in a vertical society that likes to think of itself as classless, was to defy what people call here "okami," or, literally, "what is higher."
Treated like criminals, the three former hostages have gone into hiding, effectively becoming prisoners inside their own homes. The kidnapped woman, Nahoko Takato, was last seen arriving at her parents' house, looking defeated and dazed from tranquilizers, flanked by relatives who helped her walk and bow deeply before reporters, as a final apology to the nation. Dr. Satoru Saito, a psychiatrist who examined the three former hostages twice since their return, said the stress they were enduring now was "much heavier" than what they experienced during their captivity in Iraq. Asked to name their three most stressful moments, the former hostages told him, in ascending order: the moment when they were kidnapped on their way to Baghdad, the knife-wielding incident, and the moment they watched a television show the morning after their return here and realized Japan's anger with them. "Let's say the knife incident, which lasted about 10 minutes, ranks 10 on a stress level," Dr. Saito said in an interview at his clinic on Thursday. "After they came back to Japan and saw the morning news show, their stress level ranked 12."
To the angry Japanese, the first three hostages — Nahoko Takato, 34, who started a nonprofit organization to help Iraqi street children; Soichiro Koriyama, 32, a freelance photographer; and Noriaki Imai, 18, a freelance writer interested in the issue of depleted uranium munitions — had acted selfishly. Two others kidnapped and released in a separate incident — Junpei Yasuda, 30, a freelance journalist, and Nobutaka Watanabe, 36, a member of an anti-war group — were equally guilty.
Pursuing individual goals by defying the government and causing trouble for Japan was simply unforgivable. But the freed hostages did get official praise from one government: the United States.
"Well, everybody should understand the risk they are taking by going into dangerous areas," said Secretary of State Colin L. Powell. "But if nobody was willing to take a risk, then we would never move forward. We would never move our world forward.
"And so I'm pleased that these Japanese citizens were willing to put themselves at risk for a greater good, for a better purpose. And the Japanese people should be very proud that they have citizens like this willing to do that.
"In contrast, Yasuo Fukuda, the Japanese government's spokesman offered this about the captives' ordeal: "They may have gone on their own but they must consider how many people they caused trouble to because of their action.
"The criticism began almost immediately after the first three civilians were kidnapped two weeks ago. The environment minister, Yuriko Koike, blamed them for being "reckless."
After the hostages' families asked that the government yield to the kidnappers' demand and withdraw its 550 troops from southern Iraq, they began receiving hate mail and harassing faxes and e-mail messages. The Japanese, like the villagers in Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," had to throw stones.
Even as the kidnappers were still threatening to burn alive the three hostages, Yukio Takeuchi, an official in the Foreign Ministry, said of the three, "When it comes to a matter of safety and life, I would like them to be aware of the basic principle of personal responsibility.
"The Foreign Ministry, held both in awe and resentment by many Japanese, was the okami defied in this case. While Foreign Ministry officials are Japan's super elite, the average Japanese tends to regard them as arrogant and unhelpful, recalling how they failed to deliver in time the declaration of war against the United States in 1941 so that Japan became forever known as a sneak-attack nation.
Defying the okami are young Japanese people like the freed hostages, freelancers and members of nonprofit organizations, who are traditionally held in low esteem in a country where the bigger one's company, the bigger one's social rank. They also belong to a generation in which many have rejected traditional Japanese life. Many have gravitated instead to places like the East Village in Manhattan, looking for something undefined.
Others have gone to Iraq looking to report the true story, since Japan's big media outlets have generally avoided dangerous places. (Almost all of them left Iraq over the last week on a government-chartered plane, leaving Japan's most important military mission since the end of World War II essentially ignored by the news media.)
Mr. Yasuda — who was in the second group of hostages and also described the stress of his return as far greater than what he felt during his captivity in Iraq — quit his position as a staff reporter at a regional newspaper to report as a freelancer in Iraq.
"We have to check ourselves what the Japanese government is doing in Iraq," Mr. Yasuda said during an interview Thursday night. "This is the responsibility on the part of Japanese citizens, but it seems as if people are leaving everything up to the government.
"The okami reacted with fury at such defiance. Some politicians proposed a law barring Japanese from traveling to dangerous countries; even more of them said that the hostages should pay the costs incurred by the government in securing their release.
"This is an idea that should be considered," The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's biggest daily newspaper, said in an editorial. "Such an act might deter other reckless, self-righteous volunteers."
When two freed hostages mentioned wanting to stay or return to Iraq to continue their work, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi angrily urged them "to have some sense."
"Many government officials made efforts to rescue them, without even eating and sleeping, and they are still saying that sort of thing?" he said.
The comment was revealing, one that would not likely be heard from the United States government. Here, the government is now trumpeting "personal responsibility" for those going to dangerous areas — essentially saying that travelers shouldn't expect any help from the government to secure their safety or get out of trouble.
Again, no Japanese politician dared to speak out against this idea
Indeed, Mr. Koizumi's handling of the hostage crisis translated into positive evaluations in public opinion polls, and the issue diverted attention from Iraq's worsening security situation and the fact that Japan's troops, according to this country's war-renouncing Constitution, are supposed to be in a noncombat zone.
Grasping Japan's attitude toward them, the hostages found themselves under crushing pressure, Dr. Saito said.
According to him, Mr. Imai, the 18-year-old former hostage, registered a high blood pressure reading. Ms. Takato, who had a pulse rate of over 120 beats per minute, kept bursting into tears. When the doctor told her she had done good work in Iraq, she cried convulsively and said, "But I've done wrong, haven't I?"
On Tuesday, Ms. Takato used the tranquilizers Dr. Saito gave her and finally left Tokyo for her hometown in Hokkaido. Ms. Takato, the news media reported, expressed fear about returning to her family home, but she may as well have been talking about returning to Japan. "I feel like going back home quickly, but I'm also afraid of going home."
April 23, 2004
That's too bad. I really did not figure that you wanted all of the discussion on this thread. Guess I figured wrong. Out.
Don't ban yourself, come on over to the official banning forum.
#board-2295
Let us do it for you.
Hey now, it is hard enough these days to keep the government from taking my rights: I don't need someone betting them. By the way, my right to what?
I live for whoop a$$. He sounds more like Tennissuds (i.e., the frothy lather one gets from getting sweaty) than anything else.
Everybody????
Well, you did return, didn't you?
Nice catch. LOL.
Your a businessman, CEO I think? Your suppose to have talent, ability , business skills. So be carefull where your stepping.
And you're obviously an unedumucated blowhard.
have you noticed how some posters have disappeared as they felt my hot breathe down their necks.
You really should save your sex talk for other threads or take it to the showers.
Never could teach that boy there's always another trade!
Try learning it yourself first.
discontinue my service immediately.
That is the first intelligent thing you have had to say.
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Respectfully, I don't think most will think that is really a "feature." I'll save the rest of my initial thoughts, for what they may not be worth, until I see how it goes. I don't want to jump the gun on something that may implode on its own.
On another note, I just got the following error message twice while trying to edit a post.
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error '80040e14'
Line 1: Incorrect syntax near '='.
/boards/post_reply.asp, line 9
Are you planning on making wags or just spamming that service?
I started playing the penguin games a couple days ago: the third version. It is very addictive.
I actually hit a couple backwards for negative scores. -50ish feet as I recall.
On the mega one, 22ish feet seems to be the muckup swing.
Each one has its own special spot for maximum distance. Personally, even though they don't go as far, I like to see them stick. Try getting one stuck with the tail angled forward.
~~~~~COMPX 02/12/2004~~~~~
Previous Close: 2,089.66 up 14.33
2090 WTMHouston
2099 timhyma
2105 rayrohn
Thanks...Guess that makes Churak the winner.
I agree on letting Burp out, at least on parole. Besides, since Bob won't tell us who won the Vegas gambling wag, I need to find a willing soul to throw a fit about it on the Q&A thread. 10 to 20 posts ought to do the trick, you think?
Burp: the bill is in the mail.
The best tag line never put on the shirt was "I Hubbed her brains out." Of course, for the priest it might have to say "I Hubbed his brains out."
Now if you could just get him to pay attention to much more important things and tell us who (besides him) won, all would be right with the world.
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