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Not sure what you're getting at, but Liberia is on the other side of Africa from Somalia.

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I bet. Good to know it wasn't something destructive.

Where did that coolant leak come from that you found at QS&L?

Congrats to Pittsburgh, was a hell of a series and some great hockey. Now I can go back to being a Rangers fan

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That is all.

I got the guy here to replace the springs, I'll be out in no time. Thanks for the snark though

Perhaps if I built a large wooden badger...

Tell me about it, I just walked into my garage to take the bike out all day, and the spring on the door broke last night. It might as well be a fortress in there now, I'm not getting that thing up by myself.

This is just too good not to post to the world: http://www.fmft.net/archives/001463.html

OK, you want to try and slap the cuffs on this guy? At least he'll be easy to catch.

I guess I should start filling the humidor with more CAO moontrance flavored cigars. Oh wait, they raised the tax more than a dollar a stick.

Agreed. Personal responsibility trumps all. I agree with not trusting others with your money' date=' and I wish I lived in a world where that was possible. However, this is in direct conflict with your earlier statement: My investment is not the entire business, I'm sure you know that. Can you reconcile this? Anyone who invests 100% in the market without shoring up their position elsewhere is (probably) either a day trader or a speculator. In either case, they need to be shot into the sun. I still have to bite, though. How can taxes (me being forced to give the government money under penalty of jail) be construed as a product? Govt doesn't produce the taxes, I do. Govt produces the IRS worker to arrest my ass if I stop paying them.

Google Pandemic 2. After you play it a few times you will realize Madagascar will close it's ports the second the disease starts to propagate, no matter how non-existant the symptoms are. Because of this, it's really, really hard to win.

yeah, I think we, um, established that. He loves the cock.

what what?

I've had it start only once in Madagascar. Ended up infecting the entire world.

By this statement, I have no rights as a shareholder, only obligations. What, exactly, am I obligated to do as a holder of common stock? If I do not carry out these "obligations", what part of the business suffers as a direct result of me holding said common stock? For what it's worth, I've lost about 17% of my total retirement fund. I was able to stop the bleeding by removing my money from the mutual funds that were sucking me dry. These same markets have behaved like they always have, cyclical. I agree with you on anyone who thinks this could have gone nowhere but up is a complete schmuck. However, the long-term alternative is much worse. More on that later. I agree that a certain level of self-sufficiency is necessary in any financial planning. No one is going to look out for you but you. I can only assume that "keep my dollars with me" in the context of your previous posts means that you have them in a savings account or CD, since you would not invest them in the market. In that case, allow me to introduce to you the concept of inflation, and how that will come to absolutely decimate your retirement over the next 30 years. It (especially now) is almost impossible to find a savings/money market account that will beat the current inflationary rate of ~3.5%. Therefore, you are GUARANTEED to lose money on a straight cash savings over a long-term period. This is the entire reason why pension fund managers and retirement fund managers were set up, to leverage the market forces to get a better rate of return on the investments. However, now you're buying third-party stock, and now have all the company risk and none of the "rights". Huh? Product is taxes? You involuntarily pay for services that you may or may not receive. This pay scale is something that you largely have no control over. Since the government is also in control of the money supply, it can "make" money whenever it wants.

I believe the proper term is Chinaman.

Yes, it is. A 7 percentage point spread (53% to 46%) is a hell of a lot more than 47.8% (Bush) vs. 48.3% (Gore).

Good to hear. After you left It started to come down in buckets, I was a little concerned. Then I had more of my free beer and got over it. Hope to see you two out again!