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Case 580SK 4WD with a yard of clay in the loader vs a Deere skidder? Kinda doubt it. hehe
Got a trailer for it yesterday. 30-feet. What a monster! Problem is, it doesn't seem to track well. I was going down the road with it, and the end of it was about 10-12 inches to the right of the right side of my truck. My truck's hard enough to keep in a single lane. The truck and trailer were darned near impossible. I need to use it Monday or Tuesday to haul the backhoe, but I'm taking it back after that. Will likely get a 2.5 yard bucket for it, too, for snow moving.
In fact, I should be able to just about pick up a Deere skidder in that one. <g>
Demo'd the Cat 236 and 248 skidders and need to demo the Case. Might give the Deere a try, too. I was pretty impressed with their backhoes but got the Case because of price. The 248 was plenty powerful (236 was powerful "enough" but not "destroy itself digging" powerful) but both of them really felt too light in the back, even with maximum weights. I'm moving mostly clay here and if I'm able to get it with a skidder (or the loader), it's wet and heavy.
I'm starting a landscaping/excavation business (as a part-time gig) and expect to get a skidsteer within the next 6 months. What my wife doesn't realize (or care about), is that the business has one primary purpose: To take heavy depreciation on the backhoe for a couple of years then get my dream machine: Case 580M Wide. I hear the Cat 420 is just as nice, though. Well, a friend of mine sells Cats, so of course he says it's better than the Case. Lots more expensive, too.
Regarding Prey, I respect intelligence nearly as much as integrity and since intelligence is easier to see, I respected him for his intelligence. Also fell "prey" to the common misconception (on my part) that intelligent people who write well have integrity and are able to put important things above how they "feel" about people. Definitely was a bad call on my part. Live and learn.
Heated track would be a huge plus in this area. Would extend the season by a LOT! In the winter, the cold is more of a barrier than the precip. But if the surface could be kept ice-free, the track can stay open.
Putting a roof over it would be more expensive, but of even more benefit in KC. There were a lot of otherwise nice days I'd show up at MGP, but it'd be closed because of the rain. I wouldn't have minded running on a wet track (and drying it out -- a good idea would be discount laps when the track's wet), but the MGP cars are aggressive enough and the tires so dry-oriented, that it'd be dangerous.
One of my big frustrations there (and an example of what I felt was poor management) was mixing the slow kiddie-carts with the bigger ones. The best lap times are achieved when your tires are good and hot, and it was really frustrating to do a "sloppy" lap to heat up your tires, then have them cool back down before you could get back onto the track.
One of the cooler things about generic go-kart tracks, though, is wheel-to-wheel racing. At MGP, you race only against the clock. The timing and green-light system are intelligent and try to stage the cars so there's no overtaking, so you can get about 4 cars running the same lap, but I remember one time my daughter was in front of me in one of the "kiddie-karts" and I was in the club car and overtook her right at the finish line, despite her starting way before me.
She watches the timing tower as intently as I do, and also tries to shave tenths of a second off her lap times. She was so excited about somehow turning a 0:47 when she usually does about 1:20. Hated to break it to her. <g>
We were in Florida last year and I ran the track at Orlando. That' a seriously fun one! Unlike KC, there are a couple of turns at the Orlando track where you can lose it in a *major* way. One of which is the last turn before the finish line, when you're really trying to go as fast as you can. An extremely technical track.
Took an aunt of mine (her brother is noted Egyptologist, Kent Weeks, btw) for a lap in the 2-seater in KC once and went real easy on her. Ran maybe a 70% pace (turned about a 1:00 -- I can turn 52's in that car with my daughter as passenger). I was talking the whole time, showing her the best line since I assumed she was going to do some laps of her own, and when we came in, I told her "Let's try one at full speed." While I was handing the guy my lap ticket (still rolling slowly), she was out of her harness and out of the car in one quick motion. Wimp!. hehe She just wanted to be able to say she'd done it at least once.
There's an open-track event in St. Louis this weekend but it looks like (very unfortunately) I won't be able to go. Too bad. If I could've made it to this one, I'd qualify to be an instructor from this point on, and wouldn't have to pay to go to these events in the future.
Excel (or anyone), if you want the ultimate go-fast fun, look for "Driving Schools" or "Open Track" events at road courses in your area. The BMW and Porsche clubs sponsor lots of them. All you need is a decent-handling car in good condition. Doesn't have to be a BMW or Porsche (I run my Mustang all the time). At a Porsche club event last month, I saw a 4-door Honda Accord. And he was actually making pretty good time. It's more about the driver than the car.
My son was the passenger in his truck the day I discovered that it topped out at 100. It had plenty of muscle getting there, but the computer shuts it all down once you're there. In fact, it keeps it shut down, no matter how much you slow down, until you lift the loud pedal at least a little bit.
He's ridden with me on the track in the Mustang but never at full speed. Maybe an 80% pace. And he used to go to Malibu Grand Prix with me all the time back when we had one in KC. In fact, he was the second-youngest person to ever qualify for the "Club Car" license there. The Club Car is a fire-breathing version of their regular cars and with stickier tires. You have to run two back to back observed laps at a pace unobtainable by most drivers before you get your license for that one. In all the many years the KC MGP was around, we got our Club Car licenses months before it closed and mine was number 35 and my son's was 36.
Anyway, because my son (and my daughter, too, to an even greater extent now) was brought up on speed, he actually drives pretty conservatively on the road. I'm hoping he asks to share the Mustang with me sometime at an open-track event, possibly with me as his Instructor. But I'm not offering until he asks. <g> He already handles most of the maintenance/repairs when I'm at the track.
Getting back to the Malibu Grand Prix, there was a "Who's the Fastest in KC" competition there a few weeks before they closed. I came in second place. First place (by 2 hundredths of a second with both our lap-times in the 50.7 area -- you have to be able to do clean 51.99's to qualify for the club car) was a kid named Bob Zimmerman. Imagine the confusion on the tote-board. He won $500 in free lap tickets and I won $250 in tickets, so we became good friends over the next several weeks as we used up our tickets (and then some). It was then that I found out he was an icon at that MGP. Why? Because he was the youngest to ever qualify for the club car.
Whenever I had consulting gigs in Overland Park, I would spend my lunchtimes up there wolfing down a sandwich real quick and getting in as many laps as I could in an hour. If I was near MGP, I was doing laps. I kept my own helmet and gloves in the car for that very reason. I was literally spending hundreds of dollars a week there. One of the few people who would buy tickets 100 at a time (because they were $1.40 each in hundred-lots but $2.50 each in smaller increments).
The day they shut down was a very sad one for me. It was an important part of my life and my family also loved it. Personally, I felt they weren't managed well enough to optimize income, but their problems likely went beyond that, as evidenced by their stock's activity (MBEW.OB).
I had numerous conversations with the regional veep and it looked like a strong possibility I'd be partnering with them to open another track, but that fell apart as the company's retrenchment worsened. To this day, if I had the funding, I'd rather run a go-kart track than do anything else. Especially now that KC has become dramatically more racing-inclined.
Zimmerman and I both showed up the day they closed and they kept the track open for us long after they closed for normal business that night. We stayed until 1 in the morning thrashing the Club Car for the last time before it was dismantled and the parts shipped to other tracks.
I've got a dirt track here with old MGP tires at all the turns and my office and basement are filled with memorabilia from them. They let us take our pick of the pictures and other things on the wall.
In fact, my paperweight is the steering wheel hub from that Club Car.
Maybe one of these days, I'll open my own go-kart track. It'd be awfully expensive to do it the way MGP does, though. They're not karts. Far more aggressive than what most people think of when they think of karts. And probably too intimidating for the general public.
Lordy, I miss MGP.
Getting back to kids and speed, I bought myself a Manco Dingo kart a couple of years ago. The one with the electric-start 13-horse Honda engine. An extremely aggressive off-road kart. We haven't measured top speed on it yet, but I suspect it's a bit north of 50-mph. My 4-wheeler tops out at 42 and my daughter runs away from me when she's in the kart. Yep. My daughter. 12 years old and driving that thing like crazy both on our gravel roads and on our track (a half-mile road-course layout) and on a neighbor's oval track. It's become "hers".
She's very much into driving or riding at speed. But I've made sure she understands how to do it. It's not every daddy who hears his 12-year old daughter tell him through his in-helmet radio "You're going to catch a black M3 in 3 laps -- he doesn't understand the 8-9 kink and you should take him there." Or who keeps telling me she wishes we had a 2-seat kart so I could show her the correct line from the driver's vantage-point through some of the more technical turns on our track.
For this family, fast driving is one of our real strong bonds. But we emphasize doing it safely and appropriately. To this day, my daughter and I still race to see who gets their seat-belt "clicked" first. Been playing that game forever.
http://www.sound.net/~bytor/zcar2.jpg (my daughter 5 years ago)
http://www.sound.net/~bytor/bobz1.jpg (daddy having some fun)
http://www.sibob.com/manco1.jpg ("her" kart)
Just wanted to say something else.
Your post is very revealing in a "true colors" kind of way. I hope those who "follow" you, or go to a site primarily because you're there, saw or will see it.
I have counted both you and Poet among my friends. A couple of my most trying friends, but friends nonetheless. Friends who obviously despise each other for reasons I've never wanted to know, but still friends. Friends who have made my life more difficult in the past, despite my asking them, as friends, to quit doing so, but friends.
Making things more difficult for me is something I can overlook for the most part, since dealing with such issues is part of what I was paid to do, and I was a professional at it; able to largely take in stride what most people couldn't honestly comprehend dealing with. I don't overlook threats, though.
I've always maintained a position, with both of you, that I don't want to know the personal details behind this ongoing war you've had, and that from an administrative and somewhat personal viewpoint, you have both been deeply in the wrong, but that I didn't know and wasn't going to determine which of you was "more wrong".
Poet pissed me off more than you can imagine with a post attacking me once, and it's no coincidence that I quit InvestorsHub that night and things have never been completely "right" between us since, but you went even further than that. Your threatening post to me decided for me that it's you who is "more wrong".
Telling someone in a polite, veiled way that I hope they don't cause Matt the struggle they at one time caused me means we're working as a team? That post, though written to Poet, was intended for both of you and someone else, with the assumption each would know who I was talking to. Neither of you seemed capable of letting it go then, and I was hoping you could now.
macros to you both!!
This is a very interesting thing for you to say, especially in light of the fact that I was emailed macros as attachments yesterday that I can only assume are malicious. I haven't received such attachments in several months, but yesterday I got two of them. And of course, I'm not stupid enough to launch them.
I don't think you're behind my receiving these two, as they've got plenty of fingerprints on them that exclude you, but I want you to be aware that sending me such scripts or macros would be futile. And that your statement, which is easily construed as such a threat by any reasonable person, is very irresponsible and more than a little foolish for you to post publicly.
To Joemoney:
Your taking my comments way to seriously
Pretty strong condemnation of the colleges you claim to have attended. Must be their fault; you being real intelligent and valuable and all that. <g>
Why do you fail to realize the extent to which you harm your own credibility every time that malodorous maw of yours starts spewing?
Now go ahead and dispute my very relevant point with a wave of your limp wrist and the spewing of nonsense about my "jealousy". It's so cute how you do that.
I've got an idea about how we can resolve our differences, though:
You claim to have a Mercedes (I doubt it -- but we'll just say you do).
I've got a backhoe (or, so I claim).
Bear with me......
Ever seen "Battle Bots"?
PS. Your implication that because you "have" a "Mercedes" and I don't means you've got more expensive wheels might be a pretty bogus assumption. Your pretend Mercedes really doesn't impress me. Really.
PPS. Know the difference between a Mercedes and a porcupine? A porcupine carries pricks on the outside.
PPPS. It's a joke. I first heard it about Corvettes.
I'm not even going to bother to argue with you because your only jealous.
I admit it. I'm envious of your superior intelligence and command of the language.
<chortle>
I just hope Matt doesn't have to deal with people trying to just barely skirt the fringes of his gag order. That was always a real tough aspect of my job on SI. If people just accept that "It's done!" and get back to other things, then it's a lot easier for everyone.
Personally (FWIW), I think you're doing the right thing. Arguably, you should be able to boot anyone you want for any reason you want. Your house; your rules. If you don't like the vowel/consonant ratio in their posts, they're gone. If you decide you suddenly have an aversion to the letter "J" and want to boot everyone with that cursed letter in their name, they're gone.
But besides being the owner, you're the administrator, and it would be unseemly, at best, to boot people for other than the reasons you've already stated via the rules.
Besides, he's a pathetically easy target. One of those "love to hate" characters. If he'd just shut his gaping maw for a while, some of us would actually be a little disappointed.
Anyway, people should (IMO) be booted when they're causing harm (threats, spam, etc) that is best addressed by their removal.
In a case like this, where someone is being resoundingly refuted and we all really see them for what they are, I don't believe any administrative action is called for.
Kids who join the military today are kids who are not going to college, and have displinary problems
You're talking out of an orifice other than the one from which people are supposed to talk.
My son just started college but informed me this weekend of his intention to put college on hold and join the military. I'm behind whatever decision he decides to make.
I don't want to ruin an important part of my life by joining the military.
Personally, I wouldn't want you to be in the military. But I don't need to worry. It's one of those things where the people who have no place in the military also have no inclination to be there. It's a self-correcting/protecting system.
much too lazy to be doing pointless drills and excercises.
They're not pointless. A lazy slob would be a liability to his comrades.
At 20 years old, I have accomplished more than 99% of the people in the United States (financially)
I don't believe that for a second. I think it's just bluster. You're far too lacking in intelligence and common sense for the above statement to be true. If you're rich, I'd wager that it's an inheritance or insurance settlement.
But if you're referring to your moral bankruptcy, well, that's nothing something to brag about. We all see it and don't need the reminders.
I would probably get beaten up in the military for being such a preppy.
Fortunate for you there's no draft. And the term is "fragged".
I commend the bravery of those who do join,
In the same post in which you insult those who do??? Why are you so slow to realize that you're your own worst enemy?
I take more pride in my mental ability
Your pride is obviously misplaced.
God Bless America, and all but one of its inhabitants
I hate being depressed and sad, and that NYC crash was something that could have made me sad.
SO I just have to mute all this emotion to avoid feeling bad.
Combine this with your posts about "promoting" and the problem becomes very clear: You're more than self-centered. Nobody matters to you except you.
You don't care if others' lives are crushed so long as you're not inconvenienced. You don't care whether others lose money on stocks you tout, so long as you make money. I'd bet that if you see a "Lane Closed" sign on the highway, you zip past the line of cars in the one open lane just as far as you can, then force your way into that lane.
This is one of the problems that has plagued message-board communities. Especially the market-related ones.
When Silicon Investor got started, it was a collection of people who shared expertise for the mutual benefit of all of their fellow members. We were all in it together and for each other's benefit. As such sites became popular, though, they started attracting people who had only their own self-interest at heart. People got hurt. Then people started making it their sole function on these sites to ferret out such people. Many of them. The name Janice Shell quickly comes to mind.
Fortunately, the ferreters tend to be way smarter than the self-centered touts they expose, but unfortunately, the creeps are far more numerous, and since they have the almighty dollar as a motivator, they're far more persistent.
One of the biggest problems with message boards, frankly, is people just like you, Joe. With your obvious "It's my world and you guys are just in it" attitude, I believe you epitomize the problem with these boards and the biggest danger they contain.
Fortunately, you can do little harm here anymore. You've got your own pack of ferreters, some of whom were erstwhile bedfellows. And if you tried to change identities, I'm sure Matt would squash your accounts like so many bugs. Appropriate.
I care about the community, collectively, first and foremost, followed by each of its members as individuals. You care about neither. It's an unfortunate fact of life that you choose to be a liability to the community. Whether the community is called "InvestorsHub" or "America". Actually, it's not so much that you choose to be the way you are. It's that you don't know any other way to be, since you have no empathy within you. For that I blame and feel sorry for your parents.
God Bless America
Ross Perot used the word "they" when speaking about the Black Community at a NAACP conference and lost the entire black vote
Actually, the phrase, which he used *repeatedly* was "you people".
I shuddered when I heard that. Didn't really imply racism in my opinion, but it did show him as a person who'd grown up in an older culture and hadn't paying much attention lately. At a time that racial distinctions were (appropriately) becoming more blurry and less meaningful, he used "enlightened separatist" language. He also solidly had my vote until that happened.
LOL
I think your a very ignorant person
It's "you're".
Well, if it isn't one of my favorite people weighing in.
My humble (nah) apologies for your inability to comprehend my previous missive.
I'll try to shorten the words a bit in the future. Just for you. :)
IMNSHO=In My Not So Humble Opinion
If I have an opinion, which I often do, it's a considered opinion and I typically don't offer opinions where I'm not qualified to do so. My opinions often aren't humble opinions, so I don't call them that.
Any humble questions? <g>
I've got one: It looks like the traffic's really up. Got any figures? I'd check for myself, but I'm on my way out the door and my computer's pretty busy right now giving me a list of all the prime numbers between one and a million.
A geek with too much time on his hands. Tragic.
For a change, I'm in agreement with everything you just posted.
Kudos, Matt! IMNSHO, you've put together an impressive string of "good moves" recently. Exciting to watch, even from the sidelines.
Only purpose is to attempt to discredit one's opponent through innuendo.
What I can't figure out is why you keep doing that.
But you knew that going in. Your only hope is to somehow intimidate me. Which brings me to
another thought about your last post. You wouldn't be threatening to crack me now would you?
That would certainly be a good reason to disguise what you wanted to say, considering the legal implications
and whatnot.
All that based on a post that, by your own assertion, you don't understand. 'nuff said.
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Whenever you or one of your cohorts have returned to post at IHUB, you have been
atagonistic. Often launching what amounts to personal attacks. Your message to me is a prime example.
I have no "cohorts". I act alone; they act alone. If someone happens to respect me, that doesn't mean they're involved in a conspiracy with me.
So......
You specifically stated untruths about me. I responded. I wouldn't have even shown up were it not for your attack on me, so kindly stuff your high and mighty "I'm so put upon" bit. I didn't just suddenly land in here and start swinging. You were talking crap behind my back so I came by to set the record straight. But, no. You'd rather portray me as the bad guy who suddenly showed and was mean and hurt your poor wittle feewings out of the bwue.
As the saying goes, "Don't start none and there won't be none.".
Go ahead...just do it, or do you already have one called SI?
WTF are you talking about? Oh, that's right. Even you don't really know.
To think I respected you and your opinions at one time.
and their leader demonstrate their intent to overthrow the existing management and
reshape IHUB to their own vision. And the expectation that the moneymen behind IHUB would go along with it because
of the "big name" player leading them. When their motivation became clear and Matt and the moneymen refused to
give in. Bob and the posse were left no option but to tuck tail and run.
That's a fairy-tale you just made up based on whatever speculation fit your view of how you *wish* things to be.
You apparently have no idea why I left, despite my making it pretty obvious, and Mr. Mirarchi making it even more obvious. Or you do know (I've always suspected you were smart enough) and are simply misrepresenting the situation to please those with whom you choose to associate by spouting the party line.
Really classy of you, BoP. I truly regret having ever made your acquaintance or having paid attention to anything you'd said before. I won't repeat that mistake. You're just as bad as your bedfellows, the only difference being that you're articulate enough to seem credible at face value.
My morals are still intact. Beats hell out of a paycheck. Too bad you don't know how good that feels.
I have to wonder, as someone else did, why you're even here. All you do is attack others. I was thinking this was supposed to be a site about the market or some such thing. But, what the hell. I'm beyond caring how damaging you and your ilk are. That's Matt's problem; not mine. My caring begins and ends with addressing your lies about me.
Anyway, have fun kids. Someone else pointed out these posts to me so I figured I'd go ahead and reply, but you're really (collectively) not worth another nanosecond of my time.
Now give each other high-fives for having virtually kicked my butt off the site with your stunning reparte. Whatever makes you feel good. I couldn't care less, kids.
Bob Z.
Geez, spam-tout. You're really all screwed up in your thinking.
You're just a closet basher-promoter
Not even sure what the heck that means. But I don't bash or promote. I civilly discuss relevant facts and opinions.
for sale to any asshole who will come over and pump you up on your "..I'm Bob - please love me.." boards.......
What do you mean "for sale"?
Can anybody guess where SI's rule that "..you get shut-off if you criticize an SI-watchbird.." came from..?
SI has no such rule. SI has always been more lenient about criticism of itself and its employees than criticism of other users.
Kindly get your facts straight.
Or, being reported up the line for screwing off in the face of massive you're-not-doing-your-damn-job evidence to management.
Yeah, I remember those emails. Management always sent them to me, laughing their asses off. They knew full well I did my job at least as well as anyone else possibly could, and put in 200% effort on it.
Easy to criticize, though, when you don't have a clue what you're talking about except that you repeatedly get your little hand slapped for spamming, etc.
As before, you continue to mis-state the facts. You were warned multiple times, persisted, and were removed as chairperson.
Make any money on that one?
Better for a board to be dead than to be very active and run by a manipulator who deletes opposing points of view so that only his "Buy! Buy! Buy!" nonsense gets seen and the appearance is given that nobody can come up with reasons not to bet the farm on the company.
I'm glad we disagree on this.
How's UMCC doing these days, anyway? Oops. Just checked. Looks like an alltime low. At least, for all of the time that QCharts is showing me. And what's with that span of time in which it looks like it had zero trades? Looks like that ended around the 23rd of June or so. Unless QCharts is screwing up, which wouldn't surprise me. Was the ticker temporarily different or something? I don't keep up with that company.
In hindsight, do you still think it was okay to delete negative posts solely because you felt the content of them was wrong? Do you feel responsible for the losses of people who bought on seeing only positives in the way I'd hold her accountable if I shorted it and lost big because she were deleting all positives about it?
If I were Matt, I'd show you the door and let you go piss and moan about it on Raging Bull.
Were you working for the competition during your month-long rein as dictator?
Of course not. Oh, and it was 6 weeks. Not a month. And I wasn't a "dictator". Dictators don't voluntarily step down as I did. You were one of the people I specifically didn't want sullying my good name by association.
Not sure why you'd ask your rhetorical question about "the competition". What do you mean?
Now, what say you go make a contribution somewhere to this site that Matt so generously allows you to use, rather than running off at the mouth about things you don't know squat about, eh?
No it is not Bob and I got calls on this newest CROCK you are trying to convey (Spew).
Fine. You're right and I'm wrong. If it makes you feel better and smarter to believe that, I'll quit trying to relieve you of that illusion. I raised a small technicality and you've blown it all out of proportion. You make a mistake in terminology and get not only defensive about it, but extremely offensive. So, since you're shouting the loudest, you win. No problem.
And I'm not biased against BB stocks. They don't fit my personal risk profile, so I don't play them. Simple as that. Oh, and I'm also not strongly inclined to buy stocks being promoted by people who can't act reasonable and civil and have to resort to vitriol and shouting-down as a means of addressing anything that doesn't fit their view. Even if it's their view of a relatively insignificant technicality.
No one making you look stupid but yourself.
Recite that in front of a mirror a few times. The (hopeful) blinding flash of insight that results is called an epiphany. :)
You're welcome.
A quick comprehension lesson, no charge:
I guess you need to just go out and inform all stock reporting sites that the exchange they refer to is NOT NASDAQ
I didn't say the Nasdaq is not the Nasdaq. I said that "Nasdaq" and "OTC" are synonymous. And that OTCBB is another entity entirely.
I was correcting a minor rookie error, but you took it as an opportunity to spout more crap about me. Figures.
We can't all be as smart as you. Fortunately.
You're reading way too much into it. OTC is not BB. OTC and OTCBB are two separate things. Period.
Not surprising that you use that simple statement as a launchpad to attack my character. It reflects on you far more than it does on me.
And, Joe, I didn't expect it to make any sense to you. It was a clear, concise statements of fact which had but one flaw: It didn't agree with your belief. Therefore I'm either evil or stupid or both. Not a problem.
Nasdaq and OTC are synonymous. RHAT is an OTC. It is not, however, an OTCBB.
OTC simply means "Over The Counter". As in "trading in a market". Nasdaq is a "market". NYSE and Amex are "exchanges".
OTCBB means "Over The Counter Bulletin Board".
Bulletin Board stocks are the ones Gary's referring to. Calling them "OTC" is the kind like calling a Chihuahua a Wolf. Kinda related, but not the same.
Or, put another way, MSFT is an OTC stock; IFTA is not. It's an OTCBB.
I see that OTC vs BB distinction is still evading you, eh? hehe
RHAT is an OTC, not a "big board".
You're welcome.
200 posts a day, down from what?
About 1200-1500.
most of the former activity was people complaining about the horrible job adminBob was doing anyway.
Really? You and 3 of your buds were writing 1000-1100 posts per day about me? Had no idea.
Obligatory stock-related commentary: So, how's your baby, IFTP, doing? Did they ever do that reverse split the bashers kept saying they'd do?
Anyway, I've said my piece and have no desire to increase hits here or wage war with the likes of you, so I'm outta here for a bit again.
Nor damange your reputation.
If you've got something reputation-damaging to say about me, let's hear it. You're implying that you do, which is just as bad.
Too Bad, people do not all respect their commitments.
Yes, it's really too bad you don't. There has been no allegation (prior to your comment) that I haven't respect my commitments, but you know full well that you are reneging on a very basic one of yours.
What do they owe you, Bob?
Not saying currently. Let's leave it at that they just owe me. They haven't disputed it, have promised to make good a while back, but simply haven't and now ignore email asking them why and when.
Are they being fair?
IMO, definitely not.
Keeping their word?
No.
How do you think the situation can be resolved?
Them giving me what I'm owed, what they've promised, and are legally obligated to give me would be a start. That simple.
The following ad didn't come from me and I wouldn't advertise with a company who does business the way this one does.
So, you don't intend to fulfill your obligation?
There isn't a "level" I want to "play" on. I simply want what's mine. Nothing morally repugnant about that, so your "high road" bit is more like "high-handed".
Settle your debt and you'll likely be rid of me.
Looks like you're down to about 200 posts per day, eh?
Anyway, you and your boss Anthony seem to be ignoring me in email, so shall we discuss it here? You know precisely which bone it is I have to pick with you.
Edit: The below ad (paid?) likely from a user and "chairman" of the site (at least it was when I first saw it) is not my text and I do not support the advertising entity.
A person whose wisdom I respect just shared this with me: "it ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to."
He's right.
There's no longer a battle or war, as I should've noticed about an hour or so ago, if not sooner. Others have voted with their feet, and now it's time for me to do the same. Those who want to continue doing battle with spectres, have at it.
Peace, out.