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That's like being asked to prove you're the best whore in the house.
This being the "Question and Answer Board", are there any OTHER "interesting" business relationships you care to confess to?
Did cash or other things of value change hands here?
Dave, anything you'd like to get off your chest?
Contest: Estimate how long it is before Matt deletes this post.
Yeah.
What happened to #board-5441?
Amen. I wonder if Admin will start peddling approved official jacknoots.
OK. Good enough. That's what Dave just told me. I'm all in favor of throwing out low-life lying spammers.
LOL!!!! SI is Silicon Investor, the other site owned by Bob.
http://www.siliconinvestor.com/default.aspx
How would you characterize it? Apparently there are posters with semi-Admin powers and no one knows who they are.
So SI has Secret Police?
Send your resume to IDWD.
(What am I doing on IHUB? It's where all the scams went when they left SI.)
The REAL question is "How much are they pating him for these glowing reports?"
You don't?
Cudda swore it was the only one you ever use.
Say, Warden, I was just wondering.......
1. Do you grant asylum to political refugees from SI over here?
2. You already got "Advanced Search" and you don't charge for it???? WHAT'S UP WITH THAT???
Did you know April 14 is when the Titanic hit the 'berg?
Man, you're easy! Jill would have him long ago! I won't worry about getting in trouble over here!
Could be "investors" now.
Seen the latest Business Week dated 3/22? They have an article on the job situation. Their take is that the small growth in jobs in spite of significant growth in GDP is because companies are still getting productivity gains from new technology and don't have to hire new people to get more output.
This is a test.
This is only a test.
That OTHER site seems to have gone zingy.
Some people think their 'puters have fried their 'lectrons.
THis is just to show that mine, while totally insane on that other site, behaves normally here. Well, at least as normallly as I ever behave.
Kindly ignore that blaring, screeching, deafening siren in the background. We defeated the dirty commies decades ago and they promised not launch.
Hmmmm. This test seems to be working.
I thank you for your kind attention.
Go back to your internicine warfare.
It's been down for hours. And it's Sunday. Probably no one around the servers currently and they don't even know it's down, so it could be tomorrow morning before it's back.
Could this be a plot by Bob to get everyone over to IHUB?
Sure seems to be. I was able to connect about 10 AM PDT, but not since.
Stop that! You're going to depress me!
There are some (I believe) signficant differences between Japan and the US too. Some good for us, some bad. One that is good for us is that we do not have the political paralysis that has characterized Japan for decades. And that actually was intentionally built in by the US during the occupation.
I never could figure out Iridium. The places where there are lots of people with lots of money already had cellphone service. The places that didn't couldn't afford Iridium bricks at $1000 a pop or had no people. How many penguins use cellphones, ferchrissakes?
More younger Americans give up investing - survey
Wednesday June 11, 11:37 am ET
NEW YORK, June 11 (Reuters) - More younger Americans have stopped investing because of losses they've suffered in the stock market, a new survey has found.
The survey, sponsored by the Mainstay Funds unit of New York Life Investment Management, found that only 59 percent of investors ages 22 to 36 owned investments outside of their retirement plans in 2003, down from 70 percent in 2002.
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The percentage of these people who stopped investing because of market losses rose to 11 percent in 2003, up from 4 percent a year earlier, the survey found. The majority of these investors -- 58 percent -- cited a "lack of funds" as the reason for falling ownership of non-retirement assets.
"Those who perceive themselves as conservative have increased steadily over the past three years," Beverly Moore, managing director of retail markets at New York Life Investment Management in Parsippany, New Jersey, told Reuters on Wednesday. "They are concerned about the prolonged recession and negative environment."
The survey, released this week, polled 515 people and was completed in March, before this spring's stock market rally took off. The broad Standard & Poor's 500 index (CBOE:^SPX - News) has jumped more than 16 percent since the end of March.
Moore said that many investors appear more optimistic than they were a few months ago, when the survey was completed.
Although younger investors have grown more sober during the bear market, they are still less conservative in their investments than older people, the survey found.
According to the latest survey and MainStay's similar polls of other age groups, 31 percent of investors who belong to the so-called "Generation X" -- a term from an early 1990s novel by Douglas Coupland used to describe the post-Baby Boomer generation -- described themselves as "conservative," compared with 45 percent of Baby Boomers aged 37 to 54 and 53 percent of those ages 55 to 70.
The survey also found that 61 percent of Generation X investors expect a higher standard of living in retirement than their parents.
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/030611/financial_fund_investors_1.html
True. OTOH, P/C often fails to signal changes.
GE actually has paid its penance.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ge&d=c&k=c1&t=my&a=v&p=s&l=off&z=m&q=l
More so than the average Dow stock.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=^DJI&d=c&k=c1&a=v&p=s&t=my&l=off&z=m&q=...
Of course, one thing to keep in mind about many of these averages is that the books are cooked. Poorly performing stocks are periodically trashed and replaced by ones doing better, causing the whole average to do better. The Dow of now is not the Dow of 1990 is not the Dow of 1980 is not .....
I think you're right. Although that does little good. No apparent rush to leave in spite of SI's poor (non-existent?) performance. But it is PAINFUL over there.
I wonder, though, if it will matter now that IHUB has bought SI. Will the 2 sites be merged into one? Will one be shut down? Will SI's problems become IHUB's problems?
I ALWAYS miss all the fun, Bob! So when did we surrender to Canada? And French Canada at that!
Is it because we were stooopid and sent our army a long way from home instead of guarding against the evil plots of warmongering Canucks?
Does the date have anything to do with this?
You oughtta learn inglish like we Mericans speak, boy.
Huh? You only let one guy in here at a time?
What do you use for brains when you need them?
More important: Wouldf it be true?
How's SI behaving for you? I can't get in.
I was about to suggest we reconvene the thread over here.
Politics was different then.
Oh. OK. Then what Nixon did only three years later was just fine and he was unjustly persecuted.
Politics wasn't all that different. If that had happened anywhere except Taxachussets, the out coke woiuld most likely jhave been different. Vehicular manslaughter never has been considered a virtue.
But the fact is it did happen and this is now, not then. Why is he still Senator? And how can anyone who supports him have the audacity to criticize Bush? His sins are rather petty in comparison.
Maybe you should go out and get some fresh air.
TIPS seems to be a rather broad brush. It reminds of what I've read of the STASI- -the East German secret police that used millions of citizen informers.
And it's not even what's done with oit now. It's what can be done with it in the future. Being spied upon by the gov't isn't exactly my idea of what the US is about.
What should be done with it? Shut it down. Dump it. People can still call the FBI and police if they think something funny is going ojn. But setting up an organization to encourage and do that under gov't auspices is dangerous. We got through a civil war where the enemy looked looked just like you, two world wars, and the Cold War without this. We'll survive this too.
And SI is still screwed up. I wonder if has been bought by IHUB?
In that case, Ashcroft is an outstanding Attorney General and Bush is an absolutely terrific completely honest President.
Let's see, I'm married. I go to a party, get drunk, pick up a woman, start driving back to my pad to do our thing, drive off a bridge into a river, leave her and the car, go home, and don't call the cops until many hours later. She dies, of course.
And then, belonging to the most powerful family in the state, I use my connections to escape any consequences.
What do you think would have happened to you in those circumstances? (Minus that last line above of course.) Do you think you'd be out of jail yet?
And you have the audacity to complain about GWB using his family connections to escape the consequences of a little bit of minor piddling insider trading?
Aw, come on, Poet, gimme a break. GWB is a saint in comparison. Kennedy KILLED A WOMAN ferchrissakes.
If you don't condemn him and demand his removal from office, don't whine to me about Bush. Bush is strictly a bushleaguer in comparison.
"fine Senator". Sure doesn't say much for the Senate.
I can't tell you if SI is acting up. I can't get on to find out.
That was a fiasco and awful, repulsive incident.
Just wanted to make sure it didn't slip by unnoticed.
I didn't say TIPS was late. I said "1984" was late- -by 18 years.
2002 - 1984 = 18
You think it will violate civil rights?
Is the Pope a Catholic?
I'm glad some of you people aren't in public office.
What makes you think we're not?
Separating out the smartass answers in the above is left as an exercise for the reader.