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Conrad

02/25/11 8:56 PM

#33937 RE: The Grabber #33931

Grabber, it time for me to bow out with dignity . . I have never understood any of this "virtual" share business even though I have tried to follow some of the discussions when this idea was invented. Somehow I apparently I do not have any affinity with "virtualities". Maybe I am too much of a realist. When some one says "I an virtually broke" then I have no idea what it means. . .they drive a car, drink booze and pay rent and I do all the things they do. . .well, maybe not all of them. . .some things I am doing for any money.

What the hell is a virtual share?
Is it Play Dough?
Monopoly Money?
Lego?

If you don't have equity then you are out of the game, mo matter what you call the play dough.

Get Real.
Don't go Virtual!

In Engineering they tried to teach me the Virtual Displacement Method for finding deformation of loaded structures.

They failed.
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Conrad

02/25/11 9:55 PM

#33939 RE: The Grabber #33931

Grabber,

After some thinking abiut the vitual things that it must be something like imagined profits as proposed in the virtual theories of Gilles De LatouretI have formulated it as follows:

Numerous investors have advanced conceptions of Virtual Shares but prominent among these in continental investing has been De Latouret, who uses virtual shares to refer to an aspect of unreal investing that is abstract, but which is nonetheless real in some way. An example of this would be the meaning, or sense, of a share, which is not a material aspect of the investment (whether it be written or spoken or imagined) but is nonetheless an attribute of that investing. De Latourets’s concept of the virtual shares has two aspects: first, we could say that the virtual share is a kind of surface effect produced by the actual causal interactions of the investor with the Stock Market, which occur at the metaphysical level. Second it creates an illusion of security that arises from the intense actualisation the virtual profits that accrues from such an investment in the transcendental sphere of the imaginary investment so that the investor actually thinks he is really creating profits, which are of course not really real.

I do however understand Imaginary Numbers much better. Take this for example:

Z=Exp(i*pi -1/i^2.3)* e^i)
Z= -4.83888511 + 5.98531348i

I know this because imaginary numbers are just as real as real numbers!
:-)