Ghost, to understand where R3 is coming from, you really need to turn back the clock to 9 months ago, to 12 months ago, or even longer. Guys like R3, myself, brian and many many others on here have all drank the kool-aid and I think will readily admit it. We have been told for many many many months over and over and over that big news was right around the corner, that big contracts were coming, huge things were happening, we were even congratulated last August for sticking by them as if to say that our wait was finally over. That is when their party began and ours quickly ended unfortunately. We all understand the risks of investing/trading in this market, and I readily accept them, but I for one can see the frustration of someone who has put thousands of dollars into a company that has missed deadline after deadline after deadline, followed by excuse after excuse after excuse, has dumped literally billions of shares on their shareholders AFTER congratulating their shareholders effectively sending the message that a contract was virtually right in front of them last August.
I have believed for a long time that there IS something that separates this company from other stinkies, and I still hold on to that to a degree, but far be it from me or anyone else who has been around this stock for a long time to not see the complete failures that could have been avoided along the way. I'm willing to accept (and have no choice to accept) many of the decisions that the company makes, good or bad, and maybe there are good reasons that they never hit any deadline they have ever set (like lack of money, etc.), but to me a gagged TA is inexcusable, and ANYONE who thinks that it is excusable is living in a completely different reality than I am. Especially for the length of time it has been gagged now. And with SP playing dumb about it? SP has said many times that he intends to run this company as if it were a BIG company... I don't know a whole lot of big companies who gag TA's for months and then pretend like they don't know why. There is only ONE reason to gag a TA for this amount of time.
In spite of that, most of us frustrated longs do still hold out hope. I don't believe SP is a criminal but I do believe that he is political in nature in that he will tell people what they want to hear if he thinks it will help his cause, as opposed to telling the truth.
I'm still holding, waiting, i've resolved myself to just being patient and waiting this one out (which I do NOT do often,) and I still have the mindset of I don't want to miss out IF/WHEN this one EXPLODES, which I still hold out hope for. That said, as I've said many times, what used to feel like a slam dunk, has now turned into a Shaq free-throw.... flip a coin.
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