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Hillarious. Made my day. I imagine you could navigate a path to layoff by dressing inappropriately. You might have a little fun with it. Maybe insist on wearing a tie day after day that looks like someone shot their load on it. Or maybe you could wear one brown shoe and one black shoe...

Well, a friend of my family is associated with great wealth and has an income from a trust fund. He joins us on ski vacations. Basically he goes from ski vacation to ski vacation and then flys heavy gliders in the spring and summer. At one time he held a heavy glider distance record. I admire...

One observation I can contribute is that most of the time the engineering trade is modularity vs. speed. Most of the attempts at modularity I have been involved with are usually a little slower than something completely nested. I personally like processes that go out and locate the objects...

The last time Mr. Chiang decided to issue IOUs most salaried people living in the state adjusted their exemptions so that they would owe money at tax time and avoid any IOU. You don't loan money interest free to a derelict impulsive spender. One other way they are robbing the populace is...

Yeah, if you believe now is a good time for the U.S. to unilaterally disarm then I believe you are intellectually deficient. A large part of Bunnings behaviour stems from the non-support from the minority leader towards his reelection but the fact remains that it is fiscally and morally sound...

Yeah, thats right! Hall of Famer too.

F-35 is getting a huge increase in development money and more airplanes. F-22 hasn't been killed yet, congress won't allow it. When the russian T-50 showed up the effort to kill the F-22 effectively died. We're going to buy lots of both airplanes and the F-22 will not be exported to anyone. You...

Perhaps the UK could seek aid from Libya. The good Colonel al-Gaddafi could suppy financial aid, food aid (bags of dates) and a camel for every british subject. Or maybe Pakistan could supply some aid to the poor brits. India would undoubtedly be generous towards its old imperial friend.

Nobody is talking about it but I noticed that the manufacturers of the systems in questions are both US companies, Denso and Dana. I also noticed that the first Toyota plants to be idled as a result of the recalls are two plants in the USA. Is Japan about to figure out that their quality...

The Chinese are not stupid... We are not going to war with China over anything. First of all the US is not going to start a war over Taiwan. Yeah, we will sell them arms but none of the arms sales brings anything near parity between Taiwan and Chinese armed forces. Second, in a purely...

Well, I did still have one open slot on my ignore list so I was just stopping by to collect an appropriate nick. I didn't have to look too far down the thread. :D

I am conservative but I thought the country was was run with fiscal responsibility during Bill Clinton's terms. I used to attribute that to Robert Ruben but lately I give Bill Clinton a little more direct credit. I blame Greenspan for the whole thing when he lowered rates in the face of an...

A loft in downtown San Antonio, yeah I could see doing that. I like San Antonio including the river walk. I could think of worse choices. Beats Chicago for liveability anyways, unless you are partial to wafflehouses.

Normally I would debate back and forth with the british guys because there was some respect for them on my side. No longer. Once the UK sold out to Libya over the PanAm bomber I don't really pay any attention to any brits over anything. You folks have no business lecturing anyone on morality...

Ok David, you are dreaming about trading... You need recreation. I find that sports that involve alot of speed sort of reset my brain and I stop dreaming about charts and margin calls lol. That phone call thing is chilling. Airplanes are a quick way to get the necessary rush. Skiing also...

Ding! A winner! 9/11 forced the entire population of the United States onto one side or the other of a huge philosophical reality. Either you believe the USA was a victim or you believe otherwise. This bifurcation of society just sort of morphed into conservatism vs. liberalism with a far...

Fine. They dump dollars. We stop buying low-quality poisoned crap products from China. We keep buying industrial goods from them but all imports of rubber dogshit etc are banned. The Chinese government would last about 90-days. Go ahead, sit in your pathetic decomposing european...

Unfortunately I can confirm this. You are ok over on the other side, say Saphire Bay but Charlotte Amalie is dangerous. I'll try to keep it short. I went into Charlotte Amalie one evening for a few drinks. The local girls I was partying with got me a cab to go home (alone, they were like...

When I started out I was interested in mean reversion. I gathered that simply meant identification of securities with high correlation, recognition of divergences and having the apparatus necessary to realize long and short positions on the respective securities adequately fast to exploit them...

I can tell you that if a stewardess in first-class on United Airlines sits down in the empty seat next to you to chat and mentions sex in the first 30 seconds of the conversation, you might be about to find out. :D Now the 9/11 conspiracy people register with me as deluded wayward creatures...