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I think the McMillan book is an excellant primer. Risk already had me purchase and read most of the books he has suggested on this thread and I will say wholeheartedly that the 3% of information I actually understood of the total availible knowledge found within Taleb, Natenburg, and Marlow...

RIMM was in the 180's in late 99 or early 00 -- I know because I sold shares at that level and a few months later they were worth 40 or so... Had I only known :( ASKJ was a funny one "in the day". It could move 10 pts on under a million shares...

Mecro, This is not a "bubble investing" strategy. This is a market strategy that happens to have plays/moves exemplified when the broad market is in a speculative "buy happy" type of mood.

LOL! Wow that is the most confused I have been in a loooong time :) I'm saying to myslf -- wow this kid is a moron, yeah I think I will let him know as much, then I scroll down and bam theres my post and I'm thinking wait a second I don't remember posting to ET today -- WTF someone figured...

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Anything in particular that you enjoyed about the article Surf? I would love to discuss anything I have posted on this thread -- thats the point :) Hope all is well with you -- haven't spoken in awhile, Commisso

The rest of the coffehouse conversation can be found here; http://dangermouse.brynmawr.edu/csem/coffeehouse.html I planned on pasting the entire thing here, but it seems I should have taken better account of how big it was :)

Pat: The example may be extreme, but it makes my point that there is a vast difference between a real phenomenon and any simulation of it. This is so for hurricanes, and even more so for human thought. Sandy: Look, I don't want to get too tangled up in this line of argument, but let me try...

Pat: The machine tries? Isn't that a loaded way of putting it? Sandy: Sorry, but that seemed the most natural way to say it. Pat: Anyway, this test sounds pretty interesting. But how do you know that it will get at the essence of thinking? Maybe it's testing for the wrong things. Maybe...

Pat: And so, as usual in philosophy, it's all just a question of words! Sandy: Maybe, but they're emotionally charged words, and so it's important, it seems to me, to explore the issues and try to map out the meanings of the crucial words. The issues are fundamental to our concept of...

A Coffeehouse Conversation on the Turing Test May, 1981 Douglas R. Hofstadter Participants in the dialog: Chris, a physics student; Pat, a biology student; Sandy, a philosophy student. Chris: Sandy, I want to thank you for suggesting that I read Alan Turing's article "Computing...

Amores Perros was a ridiculously well done flick! Unfortunately I can't say I enjoyed his new effort "21-Grams" (w/ Del Toree and Penn) as much. It was still solid, but I was let down after Amores Perros. In regards to Kurosawa -- Are you referring to "Dreams", the one where Scorcesse plays...

Anybody see "City of God" yet? Grimiest movie I have seen in a long time! I'd give it 9 out of 10 easily... http://imdb.com/title/tt0317248/

8 1/2 was a masterpiece. Kurosawa is simply the man, everything he touched was gold imo... And if you have never read Cortazar's short story "Blow-Up" then you are doing yourself a great injustice! Nice List :)

How come no one has mentioned that Colin Powell's son is the chairman of the FCC?

I'm all for capatalism, but 970 more than closest competitor is simply too many, especialy when they are in the "media" biz...

I made this thread awhile ago -- it contains my fav movie from the 50's to 90's... http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=219957&highlight=se7en#post219957

I think Mamet is just getting better and better. I truly think this is his finest dialogue yet -- even better than GGR and House of Cards... Jimmy: So, this Joe, is he cool? Pinky: My motherfucker is so cool, when he goes to bed, sheep count him...

Mamet is the man when it comes to dialogue. My all-time fav of his was the play American Buffalo with Franz and Hoffman. He also has split writing credits on Ronin, another fav of mine. "Sam: Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt. That's the first thing they teach you. Vincent...

I didn't intend to come off like a "pompous loudmouth" -- I just really can't understand anything you posted on here. As for my own grammar mistakes - I trade all day, write fast, and don't always have the time to click the checkspell button or worry about a comma in the right place -- BUT I AM...