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If you move to Austin, I would recommend you living close to where you work and within walking distance of a bar. Preferably both would be near 4th and 6th street. You might like Copper Tank and Fado (much better than other cities).

Austin was great. The traffic continues to suck. You got it all there: bars, vibrant people, higher education, golf, lakes, etc. Also, several trading outfits.

The opening statement caught me off guard, but I have not been able to keep up with the entire thread. The opening statement is circular reasoning ala St. Anselm (google it, I don't remember the manifest but it is St. Anselm's only famous one). Second, people that claim to be athiests but...

EUPHORIA or possibly ecstasy or elation. weird question.

I would refer you to St. Anselm and circular reasoning. Cheers. Read some Iris Murdoch after that.

If wheat was illegalized and a company patented synthetic wheat then you would pay $50 for that slice of bread.

Seykota's trading tribe was following this one last spring. It was listed on his website.

I lost $80 on the shell game in Times Square... ahhhh....

I agree with you mostly. It would not be worthless but schwag (spelling?) would be a fraction of what it is today. Exotic strains would continue to command a premium. Let's be realistic though, it's a weed. It can be grown anywhere in the world easier than cotton or tobacco certainly...

Legalizing pot would absolutely lower the price. Marijuana can be grown just about anywhere and does not deplete the soil that it is grown in unlike tobacco. As evidence, consider the cost of a pound of high grade marijuana in Vancouver BC with what it will command in Las Vegas, LA or Chicago...

I keep on thinking of this 19 y.o. guy I knew two years ago that was adamant that it was easier for him to score cocaine than alcohol. Prohibition does not make sense considering how easy it is to score drugs. The ridiculous sums we spend on police enforcement and jail would be better spent on...

Gary, Indiana is where it is at. A 3 bedroom house on 1/8 acre with bars on the window will cost you as little as $40k and you are supposedly only 45 minutes away from the Chicago pit action. Machine gun turrets and bullet-proof glass is extra. Be sure to paint your house and dress in neutral...

look for IAAC's earnings which come out next Wednesday I believe. Their forward earnings looks suspicious. If they miss or come in low look out below!

It is frustrating that I sold the JST at $15 and change a few weeks ago (had a limit sell that I did not anticipate getting filled in as this was a sleepy ADR with limited public info). It seems safer now that new people who know as little about it as I do are invested in it. It could hit 30...

The end will be when computers can reliably predict human decisions that are subjective and not objective. In the interim, the systems that use news feeds should be able to profit from events such as an announcement made during market hours that a stock is being added to an index. This...

Companies have spent years and millions of dollars unsuccessfully trying to get computers to perform much simpler tasks. Easier said than done. There isn't a uniform rubric for trading all stocks anyways. For instance, the essay components of standardized tests use a rubric. Testing...

I went to Australia as a teenage exchange student many moons ago and was amazed by how clean the cities were and how it was safe to be walking in small groups through the rougher sections of town early in the morning. Plus, it was cool to be going to bars at 16. Let's be real though. VB...

Rebate scam idea of the week: offer something at a good price when the rebate is factored and then over charge pre-rebate. Pocket the difference. I paid $157 for McAfee Internet Security Suite Wireless Network Edition 2006 (junk) in July or August. I was promised a $150 rebate. Why not...

Mark Barton was with Momentum and, I believe, some other firm before that. There is a monthly business school meetup that has a lot of institutional traders/ firms represented.

. You have never had to call the Phillippines and speak with someone who barely speaks English, is extremely rude and has no employee number and does not provide a last name. This person is clueless like his managers that have no idea why the rebate was not approved. Being cautious and...