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Well said.. pass on the risk to the taxpaper, and let the plutocrats accumulate even more. I do enjoy however the self-justification many traders put out "I make markets more efficient and create liquidity"

I hope you are being sarcastic; I say that because there are people on this board who really believe that drivel.

Jeez, another front-running thread. Why do people insist on using IB if they think they are not getting a fair-shake? is it because the difference between another direct-access broker and IB is more than slippage resulting from IB's supposed "malfeasance"? "only a fool does not know...

Not sure what is going on with your drive D. Try one of the free registry clean utils like regclean. First remove any applications via control panel of anything you dont need. Then run a registry cleaner. I would download the following free apps Spybot S&D Ad-Aware AVG rootkit...

Sounds like your registry may be overburdened and you may have picked up some rogue malware or a virus. Also be careful of running two antivirus programs/firewalls etc. Additionally as mentioned before, defrrag your drive, clear your internet cache and cookies. I use the free editions...

He he, I'd say welcome to ET, but you have been here for a while :)

Agreed, fundraising expenses have been criticized for United Way, as a matter fo fact they are probably a very bad of example of a charity.

Well sounds like you have a working strategy, there is a couple things you can do.. 1. write a book - haunt elitetrader about it and claim that its the next "Reminisces of a Stock Operator" - oh wait you'd have to blow out your 3.7m on a small cap first... 2. sell your strategy on how you...

If nobody is making a difference - why does the IMF, United Way, World Bank even try? to fatten the coffer's of the bureaucrats? Your cynicsm is well received. I donate my time and money to charities because I have been there and needed the help. There are some amazing changes occurring...

If I sell a long position in a stock and take an equivalent position in deep ITM LEAP, could I legitamately (legally) take the loss and it not be considered a wash-sale? They are two different securities right?

My sentiments exactly. Spot on!

As much as I hate Bill Gates, the Gates Foundation does invest in MANY ways without a MS Windows based hidden purpose. Any charity can follow its own mission and bias, I would direct you to the foundation itself, here are a few examples and this is only in the global health section in 1999...

It is hardly surprising that the power elite in Pakistan (esp. the Bhutto's) are involved in graft and bribery. The circumstances are similar in India Business as usual, the politicians make a living at every level of government from corruption. To people who do business in south Asia...

This distills what I think is the power of intellectual freedom and collaborative "crowd-sourcing". the power is moving from corporate R&D labs to the people. "The free world says that software is the embodiment of knowledge about technology, which needs to be free in the same way that...

They actually had to prove to the courts that they reverse engineered the x86 instruction set and started out with PIN compatible x86 processors. (a la clean room version I think of the 386 or 486) Same as TransMeta, National Semi and VIA now their processors are not pin compatible with...

I am not against corporate profit, I am against profiteering - there is a difference By that statement you tacitly agree then that patent's do stifle innovation? (you did not contend on that) if there were no patents, there would be dozen's of manufacturers making the same drug or...

I think if there was real financial armageddon, even the gold would be worthless only food, fuel, goods and medicine would have value :) the only need for gold would be medicinal, industrial and chemical. (and of course in goldshlager?sp) :)

I had said it stifles innovation. A blockbuster change such as the transistor or DNA sequencing or mass production can easily explain mass jumps in productivity. Something usually revolutionary will create this effect. Revolutionary advances circumvent the patent system, incremental advances...

If you can do without coins, you can buy bullion in varying denominations (1oz to 16oz) at most asian jewelry stores at the current price of gold. I buy a 1oz biscuit of gold for both my kids on their birthday as a kind of forced savings plan with something material to give them when they...

The Progress Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 8) of the U.S. Constitution provides that: "Congress shall have the power... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and...