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peanut vacuum tubes were made in 1922 and onward. They used a tenth of an ampere and were astoundingly good rf amplifiers. It could have been a walkie talkie... I don't see an antenna but it could have been a wire just hanging down and obscured by the clothing...

Obama can retire and write an endless stream of books about what a great president he was same as Jimmy Carter. Carter has about 25 books out since being kicked upstairs... I don't know anybody that has read one but whatever..

they probably said you were a person of interest and you thought it meant interesting person

A letter from somebody in "People United Means Action", wow, people united and wrote the Declaration of Independence, won a war and Wrote the Constitution, who needs all the rest of the shit like PUMA?

Bob Hope on Flying: "I've been to nearly as many places as my luggage"

I was getting bullied by some leftist twat neighbor, so I bided my time and investigated... she honored no deal at all! That was the main characteristic I discovered about her personality! So eventually I had a stack of conflicting documents with her signature on them and I made her pay me to go...

Homo"phobia", what a misnomer... so we're supposed to condone and encourage sex addicted men that like to f%^k each other in their hairy stinking @ssholes, have a horribly diseased subculture, etc... it's not even "gay" to encourage them, it's insane.. all these morons on the left are convinced...

When my Pool game slumps I tend to take revenge shots, and they rarely are a good idea... when I miss a shot now I go through the list of very fundamental things involved in shooting a pool ball: plan, get the bridge settled, stance right, breathe in, breathe out and let the weight of the cue do...

Geithner and them don't give a rat's ass about the economy, their bailout policies allow Trillions to flow through their sticky little fingers to their friends with more sticky fingers... they know they can bullshit the voters to keep on voting for their policies so they do what they do...

Karl Marx had it right... "The guy with the machines makes all the money". That was more than 150 years ago and you guys are just trying to come to grips with it? Get a life, learn to write some software, enjoy...

sure, NPR is fact based therefore not biased nor against free speech... the way they slant their news is by not covering things that don't promote the Left's views... that is harder to detect than it is to analyze some biased wording... the funny thing about all these leftists that censor by...

Agreed, I get data from Barchart.com through SC and it's cheap and reliable... I get some bad volume data at the open on some stocks occasionally but otherwise, very nice to work with.

Charts are analog computers... if you point to one axis you read the solution to the equation for that point by looking at the other axis... a French Mathematician name Descartes invented the idea while staring at a ceiling it's said... that would apply to trading if you used a line chart and...

Most of us are

Gabfly wasn't spanked as a child obviously, nor as an adult, recently at least...

instruments can suddenly become correlated and further, finding uncorrelated instruments is just an exercise in using Excel maybe but knowing when they become correlated in times of non-crisis, soon enough to do the right thing with your account, wow, that's a whole 'nother universe of...

I don't know if people need loans for stuff, I'm just reporting on the effect of the new banking laws... this would be useful if somebody got stuck somewhere and needed to know how best to allocate funds, they could take all but a few bucks out of the checking at an ATM for dining then fill the...

Jeez, why go through some bullshit charity that you aren't sure of, find some needy people where you are and hand them $100 bill...

well, I will always value your opinion, you know that don't you? It's worth about what I pay for it, maybe not quite that much... Meanwhile, back at the pumps, it's more adventures in working the system, stay tuned...

if somebody is burdened by debt my advice is to default now and avoid the rush... the stimulus taxes are creating a second wave of unemployment, why fight the trend. Use your time and resources to learn to trade... WIN stands for Work Is Nonprofit!!