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It's happening on all posts.
When I go to reply and the message comes into the "Message In Reply To" box, it's fine. It's just the original message, and every message, that's in larger bold type.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Also, bob, the blue bar with Mailbox, Favorites, etc. which used to be at the bottom of the Next 10 page as well as the top has suddenly disappeared.
I want it back!
(Sorry -- what that whining? I worked so hard to persuade Matt to put it there in the first place that I feel a proprietary interest in it!)
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Good perspective. I'll have to think harder about this.
Nice to see this board waking up a bit!
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Bob -- the slowdown is indeed on this end -- 2 T1s of my ISP are on Yellow alarm and will be until they can get to the top of the mountain to hand-recycle the microwave link. Or whatever. Anyhow, not your problem.
But, my message font is showing up bold and larger than usual. Netscape 4.76, Win 98. I have no idea how to get a screen shot.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
My colors are right, but all my messages are showing up in large, bold type.
But the response box is standard type.
Using Netscape 4.76 and Win 98
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Site is VERY slow for me tonight. Is that you guys, or something weather related going through Seatlle?
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Pretty fair try at a cover-your-ass.
But just a bit to obvious.
Try a little harder next time.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
I understand you're concern.
LOL!!
Matt, you watching?
Now he's using you're when he SHOULD be using your.
Is he jerking your chain on purpose?
Or is it possible he really doesn't know better??
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Which one do you like better going forward?
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Matt and Bob,
The Jail is one of the nice features of IH which allows you an option between full posting rights and full suspension or expulsion. I hope you keep it as it is. Nobody has to read it who doesn't want to, and it provides an amusing interlude to the day's work.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
I have also owned ADCT for a while, not as actively trading it as the AIM program would, but following the guidance of the NAIC SSG and getting out of much of my position close to its high. I still own a bit, and am looking at the possibllity of adding to my position. But I think LU may be the better bet at this point.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
the more you (personally) whine about
something, the lower I move it down on my list of priorities. Is it right for me to do so? Arguably not. It
belies a certain level of spiteful pettiness.
Arguably yes.
If people learn that whining works, you'll be innundated with whining.
If they learn that whining not only doesn't work, but sets their favorite projects back, if they have any smarts they'll quit, and if they don't have any smarts, the idea they were whining about shouldn't be done anyhow.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Excellent article in Forbes ASAP March 25th, pg. 23.
Carleen Hawn, titled Fear and Posting, subtitled When No One Admits Ignorance--Look Out.
Discusses how even (even? I would say especially!) the pros who should know better got sucked up into the philosophy of investing in stuff they didn't understand and believing models that didn't really make sense because nobody else was questioning them, and you looked ignorant to be the only one questioning them.
The little investor who understands the psychology of investors and, especially, the psychology of institutional investors is, I believe, in as good a position to make money today as he or she was three years ago.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Actually, I think the infrastructure is safer than the end users. The one thing I'm sure about is that whoever is on top in the telecom business is going to need equipment. Personally, I think it's easier to pick who the surviving equipment makers will be than who the surviving end users will be. JMNSHO!
That's why, for example, I like Shaw. Power companies may come, power companies may go, but power is forever. Bet on the companies that make the power plants, because somebody will always be buying from them, and I don't much care who.
Of course, you have to be sensible about it. You can't do dumb things like following CSCO up to absurd PEs. But if you're careful with valuations, and patient, I think the infrastructure companies are the better bet, personally.
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There are two certainties in investing.
The market will go down.
And the market will go up.
Frankly, I don't care which. I intend to make money no matter which the market chooses to do.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
it is Matt
is in charge of saying what stays and what goes.
In our family, we had only a few basic rules.
One was: if you whine for it, you don't get it. Period. Even if you would have gotten it if you had asked nicely, whining loses it. Our kids quickly learned not to whine.
Another was: if you get an answer from one parent, that's it. We're NOT playing the game of play one parent off against the other. Period. End of discussion.
I hope Bob and Matt follow that second rule here. Actually, I hope they follow both of them.
Simple, effective rules for raising kids who were a bit more pleasant to be around than a lot of their friends.
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LOL!!!
Good decision.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Here's the board.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=911
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
There already IS a board - a very active one -- on home improvement. Check them out.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Most of ours are in-ground nests. When we find them we dose with with kerosene after the sun is down and they're all safely in bed. But finding them is the problem. We have over five acres, much of in woods and brush, and there are lots of places I can't get to without waking up every yellow jacket within a hundred yards.
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Nah. We'll just wait until July he's at 110 and 95% humidity, and we're in the high 70s with a gentle breeze. Then we'll laugh right back at him.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
You should be able to get yellow jacket traps at any hardware store. The kind I use are basically just an ugly transluscent plastic cylinder with screw tops and bottoms with little holes the yellow jackets can crawl into but not out of. You bait them with a hunk of decaying meat, and they crawl in and die.
They actually work quite well. Hang them up from tree branches about 30 feet apart. They sell special bait, but I've always found that a wee chunk of hamburger works fine -- after two hours in the hot sun it's plenty rank enough to attract any yellow jacket within smelling distance.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
We do get yellow jackets every five years or so. They say that a good year for salmon brings the yellow jackets. This winter was a good one for the salmon, so guess I'll bait up the yellow jacket traps early this year.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
We only have about 2", but we're colder than you are -- down at 20 this morning when we got up.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Save the ruptured tank for 5 years in the garage and then throw away.
Looks like you've been in my garage! But 5 years is nothing. Got to wait at least 20 until it gets that patina.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Not surprising. Who WANTS to live in Missouri?
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
So, how do you like the snow on the first day of March.
I hear that your schools are totally closed. Ours are running two hours late.
Getting up the mountain is going to be not a lot of fun.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Nope. I preferred my stuffed green pepper with corn.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
An interesting possibility for a long term -- I stress long term -- buy sometime iin the not too distant future might be Lucent. LU.
Had a horrible 2001. Is doing the fudge of talking about "pro forma" earnings. Which means we're in trouble.
Which they are -- stock down below 5.
BUT, the earnings seem to be turning around. They may not have positive earnings for 2002, but by 2003 may be finished restructuring, dumping the unprofitable businesses, and making money off what Bell Labs, still an impressive operation, is churning out.
And they have cash of about $.90 per share, debt isn't out of control (28% of capital), book value about $3.12. Dividend, if it holds up, and I think they'll try to keep it up if they can and they have the cash to cover it, adds a bit. Not a lot, but something. And they'll probably try to put the dividend up to .08 again as soon as they think they can, which will give a small pop to the stock price.
If you consider that in 5 years they could be back to earning 75 cents a share, and if the PE holds at about 25, you're looking at at $18.75 share price. At about $4.60, which it is now, that's a four-bagger. For old folks looking for fairly low risk growth, it's getting interesting. Or for an IRA.
Anybody have other thoughts on it?
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Define blue chips.
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The cheaper the paper, the more important the information. Peter Lynch.
Do you want to get negative messages in your Mail Box? Wait until you have only one PM in your mailbox. Then read the message, remove it, use your browser back button to return to the message, and remove it again. Voila -- your mailbox will now show that you have (-1) message.
I haven't tried it multiple times to get to higher negatives, but I assume it would.
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LOL!!!
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Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
creativity
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intelligence
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What ever happened to KISS?
Basically, stupid people.
Or, maybe better put, the assumption that people are stupid.
Once we got color on the monitor, that was the beginning of the end of KISS. More colors mean more complexity. And they mean programmers playing for the sake of playing, not for the sake of making things work better and more simply.
Then we got graphical interfaces, and that was the end of KISS. When all you have to do is put another cute (to you) little icon up on the screen to add a feature, that did it.
It's so far back I can't remember, but which was the last truly great version of WordPerfect -- 5.1?? GREAT word processor. Just took a trifle of time and attention to learn. But even that was too much for some people. So there went KISS.
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What kind of worth? As a human being or in a monetary sense?
Worth as a human being is the only kind that matters.
The other kind can be taken away from you in an instant. It's convenient, but meaningless as any measure of who you are.
There are more than a few people around the world who have almost no -- or no -- money, but are richer than you are now or probably will ever be unless you change a lot more than I think you're capable of.
Money comes, money goes. Who you are goes on till the day you die. And for many people a lot longer than that. One very good measure of true worth is how many people will genuinely mourn you when you die.
How many people do you think would genuinely mourn YOU if you died in a crash of your fancy car tomorrow?
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Me, I like 'em all, too.
Even the ones that aren't always quite so sure about liking me.
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I'm with you on Netscape 6. It's a hog, and tries to take over the computer. All I want from a browser is that it show me web pages with the minimimum overhead, and stay out of my way.
Maybe I should check out Opera??
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Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.
Question for the day: If I have the small brain, then why are you the one driving an old van?
Because he has a big enough brain to understand that what you drive has nothing to do with what you are worth.
And you don't.
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If you think this is a waste of bandwidth, just don't respond.
By responding, you show that you think it's worth the bandwidth.
Or else, you show that you're a hypocrite.
Your choice.
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