<<You want to ignore the one salient point about the options mgmt received... it's an industry norm. No I didn't like them... no IMO they didn't deserve them. But read it again: it's an industry norm.>>
The wake up calls keep coming! Aiming, seriously, have you been following the economy lately?--derivatives; mathemetical computations on trading (flashtrading etc.); ponzi schemes that don't end; big brokerage hedge fund scandals; pharmaceutical improprieties via illegal marketing (aka-drug pushing), etc.--it is all 'the norm.' Does it make it right? Absolutely not. You are at the bottom of a diminishing food chain.