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  1. Sam Mcgee

    College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S.

    Here's College that's affordable: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/549772
  2. Sam Mcgee

    Do you ever turn your computer off?

    If you want your computer to be running at 8 am couldn't you just set it to start automatically at 7:50 am? It's not that hard and you'll probably save about $100 a year in electricity: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/369729/how_to_automatically_start_your_computer/ People don't pay much...
  3. Sam Mcgee

    Do you ever turn your computer off?

    I have five computers all over the house and I set all but one of them up to turn off/hibernate after 30 minutes if they aren't used. That probably saves me at least $500 of electricity every year. I find though that the power saver feature on Windows XP is quite unreliable. About a third of the...
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    General Motors / Ford / Chrysler

    Since Canada has about a 10% share of the North American automotive industry they are expected to put up about 10% of the funds to bail them out. From my perspective as a Canadian, I'd say the better thing to do would be to help Frank Stronach of Magna International buy Chrysler like he wanted...
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    College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S.

    The best employees in most businesses are the ones that are intelligent and will work hard. How can you tell if someone is intelligent or works hard just from a resume or an interview? A degree is proof that a person has these qualities. In that case it doesn't matter much if the things a person...
  6. Sam Mcgee

    Do you ever turn your computer off?

    I think the computer is a lot more likely to be outdated/too slow way before it wears out from heating and cooling. If you leave a computer running 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, it'll use about $150 a year of electricity, maybe a third of that if you keep it off when you're not using it. The...
  7. Sam Mcgee

    College May Become Unaffordable for Most in U.S.

    A university education can cost about $100,000 and five years of time. The five years of time can be five years of lost earning power at say $50,000 per year= $250,000. The total cost of a university education could therefore be said to be somewhere around $350,000. I would estimate that...
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    Decent charting software to use with IB

    I think Multicharts has made one of the best charting programs that will work with IB.
  9. Sam Mcgee

    Optometry Scam

    Here's the best evidence I've seen for the benefits of eye exercise in the reviews of this book entitled "Improve Your Vision Without Glasses or Contact Lenses" : http://www.amazon.com/review/product/0684814382/ref=sr_1_3_cm_cr_acr_txt?%5Fencoding=UTF8&showViewpoints=1 If you look at the...
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    Optometry Scam

    It would appear that Myopia does have some hereditary component but the traditional view that it is completely hereditary is falling by the wayside: http://www.agingeye.net/myopia/2.1.php A study could show that myopic children come from myopic parents but wouldn't it be logical that...
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    Optometry Scam

    You could extend that logic to explain why the polar bear population is in decline. Global warming is a myth, that's not what's killing the bears. Maybe we should stop sending eyeglasses to the Inuit so the polar bears could have a fighting chance to get something to eat.
  12. Sam Mcgee

    Optometry Scam

    I have my insurance, my wife's insurance and government insurance that will pay for the optometrist or opthamologist. I'm not trying to save money, I'm trying to save my vision, read the whole post. It doesn't matter if he's a good opthamologist or optometrist or a schmuck. The whole...
  13. Sam Mcgee

    Optometry Scam

    I think this is a serious issue for anyone like a trader who spends more than an hour a day at the computer. I'm sure there are many traders who have damaged their vision with too much time at the computer. We'd all love to be good profitable traders but would it be worth it to go blind in the...
  14. Sam Mcgee

    Optometry Scam

    I've found that my eyes are affected from spending too much time looking at stock charts and such on computer monitors. Over the last few years I've had to get stronger and stronger prescriptions. Finally my prescriptions for distance vision became so strong I wasn't able to see my computer...
  15. Sam Mcgee

    QUESTION about hiring a programmer to automate your trading

    I would say if you have to learn a programming language, learn Easylanguage from Tradestation. Multicharts also uses Easylanguage and you can use it with a number of different brokers and data providers. I think it's a fairly easy language to learn. I've just started to teach myself and it's a...
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    QUESTION about hiring a programmer to automate your trading

    I believe that it's no small feat to figure out a mechanical trading system that's actually profitible. I would say that learning something like Easylanguage and making a program is going to be a much smaller and easier task than finding a profitible trading system. If you're so sure that it's...
  17. Sam Mcgee

    Postal Service Looks To Cut 40,000 Jobs

    We've never had Saturday deliveries in Canada that I know of, it works fine monday to friday.
  18. Sam Mcgee

    Solar Stock Depression - what happened??

    Solar Power Game-changer: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103130924.htm
  19. Sam Mcgee

    1929 depression => WWII

    If you study the problem of global warming enough you can see that there's a real probability that it will kill everything on the earth: http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2008/03/peter_ward_qa?currentPage=all If someone with some common sense wanted to revitalize the economy...
  20. Sam Mcgee

    Odds Czar: Simple Biases In the Futures Market: 2008

    Art, I just bought three more of your books, hope you make a few $, you deserve it. Sorry, I bought them used (the Dutch in me), you might not make enough money to buy lunch but I like to think that I at least bought a cup of coffee for you. lol. When I finally make a few $ with your shared...
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