Tuesday, January 07, 2003 8:24:59 PM
MB,
1) What are/list all of your aliases (up in the 5+ range)
Rootus
But Anyway
Crap Dice
AstockcollapseNow
EDIT
Oh yeah! I just remembered the others! A bunch under "OVERLORD" such as -OVERLORD-, --OVERLORD--, ---OVERLORD---, etc.
Sorry, I forgot about those!
/EDIT
Honestly, like I have mentioned before, if I do have additional aliases I do not recall "who" they are and, in fact, would be interested in finding out.
2) Are you invested in EDIG? Were you invested in EDIG? Ever employed by EDIG?
I am not currently invested in EDIG. I have made two round trip trades in EDIG, once in 1999 and again in 2000. I have never been employed by EDIG.
3.) I'm most interested in *why* you put your time, effort into speaking negatively of a company that you (I assume) have no plans to profit from. Surely your time has to be valuable.
I've been following EDIG since the stock was trading at 0.10 in early 1999 when a friend recommended the stock to me. I've spent an inordinate amount of time doing research on the company, its competitors and the markets they target. I enjoy following the story, digging through EDIG's SEC filings and sharing what I find to be pertinent information for other investors to read and hopefully provide feedback.
I also find the "cult" (your word) behavior of many of its investors to be extremely interesting. Studying/observing the groupthink-behavior of EDIG investors has actually aided me in better understanding the "psychology" of the market.
Anyhow, I guess my main motive is following the storyline to it's conclusion. I've been following the company since MP3 players were little more than conceptual devices, long before Napster was created and when EDIG was seemingly a huge up-and-coming technology powerhouse affiliated with IBM, Intel, Lucent, Texas Instruments etc. Nothing ever came about from said relationships in terms of revenues to the comapny although the stock made one of the bigger market moves in 1999/2000.
4) What is your favorite Krispy Kreme donut?
Tough question. Although there is only a few KKD stores within 100 miles, I'm more of the KKD standard glazed donut kind of guy. No frills.
5) If you want to be legitimate and people take you for your word, why is it that you continue to create new accounts, using false names, false e-mails to do this?
One reason is I think much of the stuff I post has some merit to it. If you were to review my posts (those not deleted) I think you will find that I'm not one of those people that post a one line message that is more a waste of space and time than anything else. Anyhow, it frustrates me when I spend time uncovering what I believe to be a decent topic of conversation, compose a message to share with others interested in discussing it and within 5 minutes it's deleted.
I get pissed off and refuse to be, what I believe, unfairly silenced just because my opinion is not the popular one. Is it an immature reaction to sign back up and post the message again? Probably, but I am a big advocate of freedom of speech.
6) Because of #5, what gives you any right to trash a company when you are guilty of lying (multiple times) yourself?
Good point but I don't really see my actions as lying per se. If I was using multiple alias to respond to one another or whatever; I believe that is a form of deception or lying. While I won't use multiple aliases to intentionally deceive, I have, as you know, used them to continue to publicly voice my opinion. The EDIG folk are a tough crowd to please and while I'm not here to kiss arse and make friends by succumbing to the standard group opinion; I wish my message (and alias) wasn't so quickly snuffed out rather than discussed or dismissed based on it's merits.
7) Who is your favorite country music artist?
I'm not a big fan of country music (probably because I haven't listened to it enough) although I think Shania Twain is beautiful so by default I automatically like her stuff. Oh, have you ever heard the sond Japanese Cowboy by Ween? I guess it's a country song, a funny one!
8) Do you follow/invest/trash/pump any other companies besides EDIG?
Yes I do, I trade professionally and manage some investment accounts of friends and family so I generally have a love and fascination for the market and the stocks that make it such. For some reason, I also have a good time (hobby?) researching stock swindles. I love trying to figure out the machinations of a good "mystery". I guess it is sort of a welcome diversion from doing TA and FA on some of the larger capitalized companies.
9) How tall are you?
Six foot three.
"If you can make money off stupid people, then by all means, take it from them legally. They clearly don't know how to do use it." - IH Admin (Matt) FATT Thread Message # 553
1) What are/list all of your aliases (up in the 5+ range)
Rootus
But Anyway
Crap Dice
AstockcollapseNow
EDIT
Oh yeah! I just remembered the others! A bunch under "OVERLORD" such as -OVERLORD-, --OVERLORD--, ---OVERLORD---, etc.
Sorry, I forgot about those!
/EDIT
Honestly, like I have mentioned before, if I do have additional aliases I do not recall "who" they are and, in fact, would be interested in finding out.
2) Are you invested in EDIG? Were you invested in EDIG? Ever employed by EDIG?
I am not currently invested in EDIG. I have made two round trip trades in EDIG, once in 1999 and again in 2000. I have never been employed by EDIG.
3.) I'm most interested in *why* you put your time, effort into speaking negatively of a company that you (I assume) have no plans to profit from. Surely your time has to be valuable.
I've been following EDIG since the stock was trading at 0.10 in early 1999 when a friend recommended the stock to me. I've spent an inordinate amount of time doing research on the company, its competitors and the markets they target. I enjoy following the story, digging through EDIG's SEC filings and sharing what I find to be pertinent information for other investors to read and hopefully provide feedback.
I also find the "cult" (your word) behavior of many of its investors to be extremely interesting. Studying/observing the groupthink-behavior of EDIG investors has actually aided me in better understanding the "psychology" of the market.
Anyhow, I guess my main motive is following the storyline to it's conclusion. I've been following the company since MP3 players were little more than conceptual devices, long before Napster was created and when EDIG was seemingly a huge up-and-coming technology powerhouse affiliated with IBM, Intel, Lucent, Texas Instruments etc. Nothing ever came about from said relationships in terms of revenues to the comapny although the stock made one of the bigger market moves in 1999/2000.
4) What is your favorite Krispy Kreme donut?
Tough question. Although there is only a few KKD stores within 100 miles, I'm more of the KKD standard glazed donut kind of guy. No frills.
5) If you want to be legitimate and people take you for your word, why is it that you continue to create new accounts, using false names, false e-mails to do this?
One reason is I think much of the stuff I post has some merit to it. If you were to review my posts (those not deleted) I think you will find that I'm not one of those people that post a one line message that is more a waste of space and time than anything else. Anyhow, it frustrates me when I spend time uncovering what I believe to be a decent topic of conversation, compose a message to share with others interested in discussing it and within 5 minutes it's deleted.
I get pissed off and refuse to be, what I believe, unfairly silenced just because my opinion is not the popular one. Is it an immature reaction to sign back up and post the message again? Probably, but I am a big advocate of freedom of speech.
6) Because of #5, what gives you any right to trash a company when you are guilty of lying (multiple times) yourself?
Good point but I don't really see my actions as lying per se. If I was using multiple alias to respond to one another or whatever; I believe that is a form of deception or lying. While I won't use multiple aliases to intentionally deceive, I have, as you know, used them to continue to publicly voice my opinion. The EDIG folk are a tough crowd to please and while I'm not here to kiss arse and make friends by succumbing to the standard group opinion; I wish my message (and alias) wasn't so quickly snuffed out rather than discussed or dismissed based on it's merits.
7) Who is your favorite country music artist?
I'm not a big fan of country music (probably because I haven't listened to it enough) although I think Shania Twain is beautiful so by default I automatically like her stuff. Oh, have you ever heard the sond Japanese Cowboy by Ween? I guess it's a country song, a funny one!
8) Do you follow/invest/trash/pump any other companies besides EDIG?
Yes I do, I trade professionally and manage some investment accounts of friends and family so I generally have a love and fascination for the market and the stocks that make it such. For some reason, I also have a good time (hobby?) researching stock swindles. I love trying to figure out the machinations of a good "mystery". I guess it is sort of a welcome diversion from doing TA and FA on some of the larger capitalized companies.
9) How tall are you?
Six foot three.
"If you can make money off stupid people, then by all means, take it from them legally. They clearly don't know how to do use it." - IH Admin (Matt) FATT Thread Message # 553
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