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FBN was indeed a classic. Too bad they got sued by Bizwire. I haven't seen any really good 4/1 pranks since.
Maybe you and Matt should cook something up here for next year? With CSS you could easily set something up for just a day, couldn't you?
Hmmm. I'll put on my calendar to watch out. Forewarned . . .
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Some of those are wonderful nostalgia.
Like 2838 "Presstek -- Stock of the Decade??"
Presstek? Have you checked their chart recently? If that's the stock of the decade, we're in DEEP doo-doo!!
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Why does it start at 391 -- have all the threads before that been totally elminiated? Or is the script just not finding them?
And why so many holes in it?
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
With all the stuff that NEEDS to be programmed for this site, you're spending your programming time HOW?
Jeesh.
No more of these excuses about how you don't have time to program this or that feature.
Won't work any more.
Now get in there and make the spellchecker work in edit mode, for example.
Jeesh.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
I shudder to think of you and Matt actually slugging it out. Like two mini-Sumo wrestlers with glasses and without an ounce of their athleticism. Truly scary to contemplate.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Jeesh. And matt slapped down JM and me for a private fight on this thread.
Life ain't fair!
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YES, I'M A SENIOR CITIZEN!
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I'm the life of the party...even if it lasts until 8 p.m.
I'm very good at opening childproof caps with a hammer.
I'm usually interested in going home before I get to where I am going.
I'm awake many hours before my body allows me to get up.
I'm smiling all the time because I can't hear a thing you're saying.
I'm very good at telling stories; over and over and over and over...
I'm aware that other people's grandchildren are not as cute as mine.
I'm so cared for -- long term care, eye care, private care, dental care.
I'm not grouchy, I just don't like traffic, waiting, crowds, politicians.
I'm sure everything I can't find is in a secure place.
I'm wrinkled, saggy, lumpy, and that's just my left leg.
I'm having trouble remembering simple words like ...
I'm realizing that aging is not for wimps.
I'm sure they are making adults much younger these days, and when did they let
kids become policemen.
I'm wondering, if you're only as old as you feel, how could I be alive at 150?
I'm a walking storeroom of facts ... I've just lost the key to the storeroom door.
Yes, I'm a SENIOR CITIZEN and I think I am having the time of my life!
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Gas grills are for weenies.
Real men use charcoal.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
If you want it over there, make up a combined summary message of the past posts, to bring people up to date, and tell us all (well, all but one) to get cracking over there!
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
PERFECTO!!
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
No, didn't happen to get it from there.
Got it out of my head and some rememberance of articles in Science News, which I read weekly and have for longer than you've been alive.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Okay.
It's a minor problem anyhow. Nothing that affects the operation of the site or the validity of stock postings.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Glad for the butting in. Wish I had time to address this now, but don't. If I don't get back to you on it, remind me.
But also, the jailhouse may not be the best place for such a discussion. Do you have any other suggestions on where this might better be taken?
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Not really.
JM resents it when I answer questions he addresses to Vivian, because he's really not looking for information but for "gotchas", which he won't get because Viv is one smart cookie, but JM isn't able to identify smarts, so he keeps trying.
But since Viv has declined to play his games, you should know that under certain circumstances, certain particles can travel faster than the speed of light. But so far it seems that no particles with mass can travel in a straight line in a vacuum faster than the speed of light. But there are also some indications that the universe is expanding at a rate faster than the speed of light. So it's not true to make a blanket statement that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, but it may be true -- at least it's a so far unrefuted theory, which is the best you ever get in science -- that under certain defined circumstances nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. So it depends on how you ask the question and your definitions of terms.
And at this point the so far unrefuted theory is that no humanly constructed space vehicle can travel faster than the speed of light.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Bob -- I always thought the way to play with the message counter was to go back and edit responses to PMs. But today I discovered you can also mess with the counter's brain if you go back and make a totally separate second response to a PM.
Of course, you probably knew that. But I didn't.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Wish I could do the same! But soon. Now they're promising they'll be done by the end of May. (Originally it was Christmas, then at the start of Spring break, April 13, now it's May 30. After that, who knows? But things are progressing, so it will be some day!)
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
And the next generation will pay for it.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
I agree totally with the need to balance neat features with ongoing functionality. You can get things so complicated that the interface and features interfere with just getting the job done (the difference between WordPerfect 5.1 and later versions!).
I think the key is to approach it as a structural issue. How does IH intend users to use the site? Why does this place exist? (answer: for stock discussions. But in order to keep people coming in, you also need to provide recreational sites -- bread and circuses!) What features are essential to those purposes? And what are cutsie-tootsie, but really don't enhance or add to the purposes of the site? I mean, you could add a dancing elephant or bear graphic, depending on whether the market was up or down at the moment, on every screen, but would that really add?
I like the simple format we have now. Limited choices, and those choices all relevant to what users really need. Start adding too many bells and whistles, and you start running the danger of overload. (IMO, opening things up to emoticons was questionble, and allowing gifs in signatures, especilly animated ones, was a clear step in the wrong direction, but what do I know? And I do love Vivian's dragon, so would make an exception for it.)
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My wife is an elementary school teacher, and I can agree with that. Even in this safe community, the neighborhood kids seldom get together just to play in an unstructured way. They are inside most of the time, and when they do get out, it's usually for something adult organized, like little league, sailing derbies,4-H, etc. There's very little opportunity for them just to go outside and be kids.
The proverbial sandbox is basically gone from our communities. It offered a world of opportunities for unstructured play -- you could build cities in it, dig for buried treasure (sometimes left by the neighborhood cat, but when you're three, that's just as exciting as pirate jewels!), or whatever. The Calvin and Hobbes world is alien to the modern kid. Sadly.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
<i. I know I've changed the way I think as each decade slips by.
I would hope so! If you didn't, you life would be sadly wasted.
Therein, I believe, lies the problem with
philosophy. Unless it speaks to your soul it makes no sense.
I would say that about modern philosophy -- my problems with it is that IMO it deals with trivialities rather than substance. That's why I love Plato. Even when I disagree with him, which is often, he makes me think a lot more deeply about what it is that I DO believe. To challenge complancy. Whether or not I actually change my thinking when I read (or, now, re-read since I've read all of him several times over the ast 30 years) him, he always gives me something new to ponder on.
Which, I believe, is his point. "The unexamined life is not worth living." It's not so much, I think, that Plato wanted to tell you how to live your life, as that he wanted to help you LOOK at your life more deeply. In contemporary vernacular, it's not the destination, it's the journey.
In that, I find him more useful than Aristotle, who I think was more concerned with telling you his answers than helping you develop your own. And Nietzche is even more so than Aristotle. Which is why Plato is still for me the el primo philosopher.
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I have nothing to say
From the mouth of the babe comes forth truth.
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From my perspective, I think it would be nice to put some sort of dividing line over the signature to differentiate it, but as to the graphics, for me, at least, the present system works fine. If I want to see a graphic, I just click on it. Using a dial-up modem, I woldn't automatically download images even if there were differentiation, since 90% of them are irrelevant to me.
So I would say, if you can add it easily enough as an enhancement, why not, but if it is complex or eats overhead, for me there are better ways to use programming time and resources.
(How? Like figuring out a way to mark as read messages that are read in the next 10 and previous 10 formats, and allowing spell check in the edit screen, for starters. <g>)
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Well, I know who the description is, but the photo is you. Chubby, eating junk food, messy work area, definitely you. My concept of GI simian is of a much skinnier guy, and without that moderately intelligent look in his eye.
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Yeah, you're right.
But it's 5:00.
Only three more hours and I get to go home and finish my work in the home office.
LOL!!
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Projection.
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Blow me a kiss as you pass!
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Well, that makes it 10:56 our time, and to one who was up at 6:00 as usual and at my desk before 7:45, that doesn't sound much like morning!
Are you retired that you can still be stretching and yawning at 11:00??
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Where in Hades are you that the day starts at 1:56 in the afternoon??
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No matter what
I say, you are going to think it's "weak"
Correction.
No matter what you say, it IS weak.
Not because I think that, but because it's true.
Now bug off and let two intelligent people discuss intelligent writing.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
I am always looking for an intelligent discussion with somebody. Since that's not possible with you, I gladly entered into such an intelligent discussion with Vivian.
If you think you can find that stuff anywhere on the web, have fun. The search might do you good, you might learn something, assuming you're capable of admitting that there's anything left in the world for you to learn.
Vivian and I have no need to fake discussions of people we have both read.
If you had gone to college, maybe you would have had the benefit of reading them, too. But since you pooh-pooh college as a waste of time, I seriously doubt you've read a single word of either. Or if you did as a high school assignment, you certainly didn't understand them.
Now bug off and let Vivian and me show you what an intelligent discussion consists of.
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Totally weak.
Wimpy even.
You should quit trying to engage in battles of wits. You come unarmed.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Basically, Plato was an extreme idealist, Nietzche was an extreme realist. Both took their opposite views of human nature to the limit. Plato couldn't conceive of a philosopher king who was still obsessed wth power. Nietzche couldn't conceive of a ruler who would place altruism over the acquisition of power.
If you look at our country today, sadly, Nietzche was more right than Plato.
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People can easily wear masks to disguise their stupidity.
Wrong.
You can disguise intelligence.
You can't disguise stupidity.
As you have clearly proved.
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TEdit: Oops, sorry Matt, I got sucked into this on your thread. Hope you didn't get to this before I edited it -- don't want to violate the rules!
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
I have twins, and couldn't imagine losing one of them. Hope I never have to live to see the day.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
LOL!!
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Bob -- not sure whether you're aware of this, and if so whether it's intentional.
I have a correspondent who has a gif in their tag. I have gifs supressed.
When I read public messages, the gif comes up as a surpressed chart link which I can click on if I want to see it.
But I went to a PM from the same person today, and instead of getting the surpressed chart link it showed the URL to the chart without underlining or, it seems, a way to click on it to get the graphic.
Just a different way of handling the suppression.
Were you aware of this?
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
What's with this "might" stuff?
She IS fun.
And smart, too, which is a right good combination.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Joemoney just may take his bat and ball and go home.
Be still, my beating heart.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
I'm sorry for you, and your sister. Must be very tough on all of you.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.