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You gorgot to mention THE most important ingriedient in comparing RIMM to AAPL: Steven Jobs. Maybe MSFT can buy RIMM, instead of the rumored NOK, might be the best they can hope for...as it's game over for the cell phone market for RIMM, longer term. RIMM has basically no apps...

The union is there for the membership, no? Easy (on paper at least) fix, privitize the USPS...let them use the public market for funds, and things will change...or they'll be gone... Republicians have had controll, likewise the democrats, over the last 30 years...and what have they done...

Why not just sign up for IQFeed? ($50/month, or so)... But maybe you need the AMTD feed for trading...then never mind... http://iqfeed.net/

This might not matter to the traders needing the feed from AMTD... But QT & IQFeed has no issues whatsoever...$50'ish/month... http://www.iqfeed.net/

By Barry Ritholtz - April 18th, 2011, 11:10AM There is an old Wall Street joke about analysts: “You don’t need them in a Bull Market, and you don’t want them in a Bear Market.” Which brings me to Standard & Poor’s. They put a “negative” outlook on the U.S. AAA credit rating...

Can still be downloaded from their site... Might be charged $120.00, don't know for sure, since AMTD supposedly is dropping QuoteTracker at the end of 2011... http://quotetracker.com/download.asp

Here's some charts to go with the numbers... http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/04/ryan-v-obama-some-chart-porn/

Consider buying a Dell (or anyone else, since support is overseas) from a retailer...Best Buy...(might not have all the models)...if any problems, just bring it to them...(bought 2 Dell laptops at BBY, never had a problem...don't know what kind of support they give)... As above, the Precision...

How about a (vacation) condo in southen Florida, or western US where the prices are starting to level off? Nice place to visit in the European winter months ;)

Thanks, forgot that HR 1068 died...my bad...

Here is a link to sign a petition against the proposed tax...(I also left it back on page 12 of this thread)... http://no2tradertax.rallycongress.com/1536/tell-congres-to-block-trader-tax/%20

Ritholtz had some comments on Cramer... http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/03/smackdown-vigna-vs-cramer/

Wasn't Bernanke talking about a longer timeframe for reducing the deficit? Our national debt was very high after WWII, and was reduced over time... Isn't it unrealistic to believe we are going to reduce the debt load in just a few years? I know it makes for good politics, but... We...

Reverse split... 1:4

Looks interesting... http://www.tomsguide.com/us/20-finger-input-10-finger-input-projected-capacitive-technology-multitpuch-C2254PW,news-10210.html

Try IB (interactivebrokers.com)... http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=tradingConfiguration&p=permissions-default

Have you thought about renting a LCD screen? Should be able to find a rental store in most towns...

Presently using Quotetracker & IQFeed, for the last 8+ years...Both been supurb! (Trading equities only.) Testing out the free version of Multicharts, using IQFeed's 7-day free trial...(monthly charge for MC is roughly $20-25 more that of QT; for that one gets more than 10+ days of intraday...

IB has an options calc that can be downloaded from "Widgets & Gadgets"... http://interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=tradersuniversity&ib_entity=llc

http://www.cnbc.com/id/40531528 Einhorn was on CNBC yesterday (12-06-10), and maybe S got a boost from his positive comments. http://www.cnbc.com/id/40537195