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  1. I have a modest collection of assault rifles and I miss it dearly. Once my teenage sister moved in with me, I decided to take them over to my uncles house to store in his safe. It really makes me sad. What's the point of owning assault rifles if you can't keep them on your lap while watching tv? cry.gif

  2. What Hippies are good for:

     

     

     

    Parking your car on them.

     

    Sending them to war so they get killed instead of real people.

     

    Medical testing (they're stupid like animals; just knock them out and give them a shot.. they won't know what happened)

     

    Using them for ammo. We should pack them into missiles and launch them over towards Iraq. The smell is potent enough to make any enemy surrender.

     

    Target practice.

     

    Hamburgers (They want to be in touch with nature, so what better way than to be digested and used as fertilizer? Hippy burgers anyone?)

     

    Hippies make great janitors (after all, they have the smell down).

     

    Decorations. Add color to your yard with a few hippies impaled on your fence (Dracula style).

     

    Hippies make great scapegoats. Bad day at work? Famine? Plague? Cancer? Blame it on hippies.

     

    Hippies are always good for kicking.

     

    Hippies are fun to tease (good for laughs when you're bored)

     

    Raw sewage storage (Hippies will eat anything).

     

    Hippies are flamable and make for great campfire fuel.

     

    Hippies will do free work to clean up the world (those suckers love earth).

     

    Hippies are great for mixing with cement and throwing off bridges.

     

    Hippies are perfect for running over (always sleeping on park benches and sidewalks).

     

     

  3. Alpinfox said:

    snaf.gif killers!!!

     

    Charlie said:

    "I can't wait for the fall of our shitty empire, although it's going to take a while"

     

    Are you implying that the above is a quote of mine?

     

     

    I call bullshit, big internet talker. Why don't you take a moment and think about the freedom and lifestyle you enjoy. I'll bet you realize you don't mind the results, but are quick to condemn the processes. Shut the fuck up.

     

    I have thought about the freedoms and luxuries that I enjoy and I DO mind the results (gross waste of resources, oppression and economic exploitation) and yes I DO condemn the processes (war and socio-economic imperialism).

    Actually, I was quoting and refering to Doctorball-less, the origional poster of this thread. I hadn't even noticed you were on this thread. But thanks for playing!

  4. "I can't wait for the fall of our shitty empire, although it's going to take a while"

     

    hellno3d.gif

     

    I call bullshit, big internet talker. Why don't you take a moment and think about the freedom and lifestyle you enjoy. I'll bet you realize you don't mind the results, but are quick to condemn the processes. Shut the fuck up.

  5. willstrickland said:

    If your worried about where the number will sit at year's end, you're in the wrong game my friend. I have no stress with my portfolio because I buy, and hold, and hold, and hold, and hold somemore. Something drastic has to be on the horizon before I make big changes. I'll dump an underperformer occasionally...I used to be hot on Alcoa, then with problems with their wet cathode smelting technology they were developing, decreasing worldwide demand, and high energy costs in an industry that is extremely heavily dependent on cheap energy...I dumped it, at a profit too. I got all my ducats out before the tech bubble collapsed...if you didn't see it coming, you were a fucking idiot...AskJeeves.com at $84? riiiiggghhttt. WebVan at $104? Uhhh, yeah. Once it bottomed out in the 7000s, I put it all right back in. Even today you've got what are essentially bastardized media companies...Yahoo, trading at far beyond their actual worth. Show me revenue, show me profit, show me assets. People are too focused on growth stocks, hoping to catch the next rising star...well it ain't a sprint kids, it's a marathon.

     

    On of the simplest things you can do is put more money in when the market goes south. It's bargain shopping. It's highly unlikely that an established blue chip will not recover and push to new heights. But again, which blue chips? People love Dell, and yeah Mike Dell is a phenomenally savy businessman, but at this point in time PCs are a commodity market. You can only outsource, resource, and streamline supply lines and production so much. After that, what happens? Nothing, you're sitting on an overvalued commodity because you expected it to keep growing. Study Buffet, study Dodd, study Graham. Read Siegel's Stocks for the Long Run. Learn to read a balance sheet. Know who the leading three firms are in the sectors you're invested in. Find the 10-50 year trends that will drive our future...i.e. aging baby boomer population, and exploit it. Whether the Dow's at 10k , 9k, or 11k is the big "so what". Short term fluctuations are a byproduct of brokers and analysts trying to make short term numbers and boost transaction costs.

    Nicely said. I've misjudge you- you might be cool after all.

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