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Your anecdotal evidence with a sample size of one is not sufficient to support your blanket statement: "The odds that you will catch a virus are actually much lower than the odds of experiencing problems with those programs"

Two points (1) You obviously just made the above up (2) When doing a risk/benefit analysis you not only have to look at the probability of each event but also the costs associated with each. Meaning I'd much rather have a problem with an anti-virus program then I would want to have my...

Best post in this thread and it applies to a lot of other technical stuff that gets posted in ET. Whether or not its technically possible for a virus to damage a hard-drive, I've never heard about one in the wild and there is little motivation for creating it - a virus that kills the hard...

Pentagon Federal has jumbos up to 2M. I just closed a jumbo refi with them 2 weeks ago...no problems. https://www.penfed.org/productsAndRates/mortgages/mortgageRatesListing.asp The issue here is documenting your income, not the loan amount. Where I live $417k is a townhouse...if you...

Unfortunately just you saying something does not make is so. I can provide a wealth of references to back my position, such as: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_scheme If you don't like wiki just google "ponzi pyramid" and you will find plenty of articles that agree with me. You are...

The lesser of two evils, apparently.

Yes, I saw your other thread, was not impressed with it either.

No, the flaw in your argument is assuming that the other side of the short trader is a long trader. The other side of the short trader could be a long-term investor not another trader. Also traders, by definition, aren't fully invested (long or short) in the market 100% of the time - those...

You seem to be confusing pyramid schemes and Ponzi scheme which are not the same thing. Amway is a pyramid ("multi-level marketing") scheme http://www.mlmwatch.org/11Legal/sec.html A Ponzi scheme requires fraud not just the structure of the payment flow you described.

There is no fraud with SS because where the money comes from and goes to is transparent. Without fraud you cannot call SS a Ponzi scheme; its just another half-baked, poorly conceived gov't program.

You started with a simple premise: that the average trader would see gains equal to the average market returns. When I pointed out that traders go short as well as long you changed from a your original mathematically based thesis to "Intuitively I feel". Frankly I don't care how you...

Do you have mapped drive connections that aren't always available? It could be something like that where its trying to do something that has to timeout before it proceeds. Download and fire up sysinternals process monitor - its free...

Most motherboards have one or more temperature sensors built-in. Install some software the monitors the temp continuously and displays the temp in your system tray. E.g: http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php

Apparently what you consider "the standard definition" is not held by everyone; your definition omits fraud which is a key component. http://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/ponzischeme.asp?viewed=1 http://www.answers.com/topic/ponzi-scheme SS satisfies neither definition.

That description applies very well to your posts.

What is your stop?

I disagree. I'm not sure what you are suggesting - that they suspected he was profiting on an illegal edge and choose to stick with him? That's hardly the same as what he was actually doing with their money. To say that they were "aware" is a huge stretch. Again, with SS there is no...

Its not a Ponzi scheme because what they are doing is open and transparent. You can argue that its insolvent, unworkable or a host of other things but all the facts are there for anyone that wants to educate themselves how SS works....unlike a Ponzi scheme where the promoter is lying about...

You stated that an equity trader would yield 8%/yr on average presumably because that is the average yearly market index gain. Based on your premise, the only way that someone would average gains equal to the market is if they were only long the market. Taking this to its logical...

Without responding to the rest of your original post, the above part stood out for me...you seem to be assuming that stock/equity futures traders only trade on the long side - an obvious false assumption. Did I misunderstand you?