Replies to post #30268 on Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

[SPIN]

Do i think i am going to change their opinion?

not the zealots, of course not, but i find value in testing the strength of the mettle as it relates to the claims made about the fundamentals of Wave.

thanks fer the spellcheck on "ornery."

highly doubt Howie'd ever agree to meet anyone affiliated w/Wave in any way... even you.

too many Travis Bickle-types to risk it.

[lugan]

OT: From www.timelines.ws

1969 Nov 13, Speaking in Des Moines, Iowa, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew accused network television news departments of bias and distortion, and urged viewers to lodge complaints.
(AP, 11/13/97)
1970 Nov 13, VP Spiro Agnew called TV executives "impudent snobs."
(MC, 11/13/01)
1970 Dr. Hale E. Dougherty (d.2002) began marketing a Spiro Agnew wristwatch. It was a re-sult of the current joke: "Did you know that Mickey Mouse wears a Spiro Agnew watch.
(SFC, 1/3/03, p.A28)
1971 Spiro Agnew, US Vice-President, visited Greece and called the ruling junta the country's best leaders since Pericles. (SFEC, 11/21/99, p.A20)
1973 Aug 8, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew branded as "damned lies" reports he had taken kickbacks from government contracts in Maryland and vowed not to resign. He eventually did resign.
(AP, 8/8/97)
1973 Dec 6, House minority leader Gerald R. Ford was sworn in as vice president, succeed-ing Spiro T. Agnew. Agnew, vice president to President Richard M. Nixon, resigned from his of-fice and pleaded no contest to one charge of income tax invasion in return for the dropping of all other charges. Agnew, the only US Vice President to resign in disgrace, was fined $10,000 and given three year's probation.
(AP, 12/6/97)(MC, 12/6/01)
1974 May 2, Former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew was disbarred by the Maryland Court of Appeals, effectively preventing him from practicing law anywhere in the United States.
(AP, 5/2/97)

[Thig]

HBG I think they got Agnew on tax evasion. Hard to believe I'd ever be nostalgic for the lost era of innocence which was the Nixon White House!

Spin--You have a great way with words and your posts don't wander astray of the facts. For both of which I am grateful. I'm still curious about why the language about the two percent figure was so convoluted unless it was to make interest accrue during the 90 day period. (Just like it does for the idiots who finance consumer electronics 'one year interest-free' at best buy. After the year they find out that they've collected a hefty interest charge on their (usually mostly unpaid)balance.)

And don't fergit--2 percent simple interest per month is actually MORE than 24 percent APR thanks to the miracle of compounding, the concept of which no less an eminence than a certain A. Einstein considered the most significant invention of the twentieth century.

EDIT Sorry about the nested parentheses. I used to program in LISP.