On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 17:33:16 -0500 David J Patrick <davidjpatrick-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:

That begs the question; are there any investment wizards in the group who know how to "short" a stock and, thus" reap the reward for predicting SCOs (and soon enough M$s) swan dive ? Should we get a group thing going ? hmmmm ?

IIRC, that came up before, on this very list. At first I was a little cold on the idea, being a bit of a pinko and all ;-), but hey, like Heinlein said, "of course the game is fixed, but if you don't bet, you can't win". Everyone go watch Trading Places, we'll be experts by tomorrow, then let the bloodletting begin! BTW, my ma was telling me she's already seen the IBM Linux ad, gave 'er chills and she doesn't even know what Linux is hardly. I don't have cable myself :-(. Anyone else seen it on TV? -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves.-- Howard Zinn -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml