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"Apparently Warren Buffett only took a 200 million writedown on the puts he sold betting that the price of the S&P would be above, whereas he pays off if below." Versus: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123575572935295811.html "Separately, Berkshire took a loss of $5.1 billion in the...

You mean like the community college you attend? Sorry to hear that you're having trouble. Maybe you can start pulling double-shifts at McDonalds to cover it?

I don't have one but I have users that do and it works fine in inside buildings - basically the same issues as cell phone reception. If you have doubts make sure you can return it during the first X days in case it doesn't work out for you. If you want to monitor/manage your monthly...

Or that could just mean that the other countries are even weaker than the US.

Having trouble finding relevent recent articles right now but those figures sound way-off. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123565300722281697.html

Yes, its enough.

So you spent 5+ years developing this "breakthrough software" and after running it for 2 weeks live here you suddenly discover that it needs improvements & optimizations? Maybe you need to re-read something that you posted in your first post: "My goal here is to provide proof that my...

The fact that you still call it a fake crisis shows that you are either blind or in serious denial.

Don't open Excel attachments from people you don't know (including ET)! http://www.infoworld.com/article/09/02/24/Attackers_targeting_unpatched_vulnerability_in_Excel_2007_1.html Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet program has a zero-day vulnerability that attackers are exploiting on the...

Its even worse than that - not only will it not have any positive effect but long term it will have negative effect. Sometimes doing nothing is the right course. Of course since the public is clamoring for the gov't to do something, it must oblige.

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Doug, I have not sent you a PM but I look forward to reading this thread.

I thought this desperate option play was plan B with the original plan being buy and hold stocks which also failed miserably. Anyway, here's hoping that your next plan involves saving money by canceling your ISP service. The sweetest part of this is that at one point you were actually...

This thread is a year old ... what makes people spontaneously start replying to a thread that hasn't been touched in 5 months?

The solution is simple - You made $100k+ trading options? Brokers don't report option activity to the IRS. I'll let you connect the dots on what you should do...

That presumes the dividend does not get cut - unlikely.

Option 3 - do nothing and let the market work itself out. By the way "that money" is your money.

Thanks for posting that correction loufah. I was actually considering testing the theory out on an old drive because I didn't believe it to be true but I didn't get around to it.

I must have really gotten under MohdSalleh's skin cause he's running around posting idiotic one-liners to all of my previous posts now. There there little princess - you need to be less sensitive, especially when you post moronic trash like the first post in this thread.

Awwwwww, did someone hurt your feelings? Poor baby...now go run along and play in chit chat where you belong.