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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 19, 2011 -> 09:03 AM) To be fair though, by the time an investor is in his or her late 40's/early 50's, then it's about time to be moving larger shares into things that are unlikely to lose value, like Treasuries, rather than keeping them in the volatile parts of the casino that are covered nightly on the news. Of course, that doesn't seem to happen very often. ^^ This. When you get into your 50's, you are supposed to start moving everything into lower risk investments, IE, don't keep it in funds/stocks. Those that didn't do this didn't do it right...so again, this goes back to people doing things backwards or wrong...which is their own fault.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 19, 2011 -> 09:20 AM) Mobile me is not in failure for one reason really: The police around here say they find 70 percent of stolen iphones that have that service. Well, that's like 1% of what mobileme was meant to be. And you can do that with all newer apple computers/products now. I can even use it to "find my iMac" It's part of iCloud now, since MobileMe is discontinued.

As bad as all of this seems, with the market being down -- you want this. Everyone that has a 401k actually WANTS this...in 20-30 years, let the market go up, in the mean time buy up these funds while they're low...you want to buy when things are LOW, not when they're f***ing high and everyone else wants them. This mentality in the market is baffling to me. Right now, every idiot is trying to buy gold...that ship sailed. You needed to be buying gold when nobody else wanted it and it was worth 300/oz...buying it now while it's high, because it's the thing to do is ass backwards thinking. The same applies to the stock market. You WANT to buy when nobody else does...you want stocks to be low when you're buying them...and high when you're selling them. When you invest, you do not follow the pack...the pack is mob mentality stupid. In 1998-2000, everyone was buying tech stocks...I was selling my tech options and buying the dirt cheap blue chips nobody wanted. For the last decade, those bluechips doubled/tripled in price AND paid dividends the entire time.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 18, 2011 -> 05:06 PM) Link I've been using iCloud for a while now, since I beta test iOS5, and I have to say that for all of these "cloud" services, Apple seems to have gotten this one right, in a way in which nobody else has. MobileMe was a complete failure, so Apple's not perfect in this area, either. I can now update my iPhone over the air for patches/updates, and if/when I get a new phone, I can restore it over the air, including restoring all application settings, phone preferences, pictures, emails, IM's, iTunes music, etc...all of it without having to plug it in and without a backup at home. All via their iCloud service, I can do a full wireless restore (Edge/3g or Wifi), it then installs all the applications back to where they were and all the settings/high scores or whatever else is still there. A complete restore. It works great. It also synchs to my itunes via wifi now, which has been a long time coming.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 18, 2011 -> 01:41 PM) It's going to be a long offseason and next spring training with the Sox saying how good Dunn looks and how this year was a fluke, etc., and he's expected to return to 40 plus homers. He ain't getting any younger. He's also not that old.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 16, 2011 -> 02:05 PM) Also don't forget to go to the main concourse at some point during the game. The customer service center down there will print you off a nice certificate to remember your kid's first game. It is cheesy, but free. See, this is cool to know. I didn't know that!

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 16, 2011 -> 10:54 AM) Yes, but couldnt they release an "Exclusive" version of the OS only for their phones? That's an iffy gamble...if they did that, they'd basically be telling all competitors that use Android to ditch Android and find an alternative since they won't be playing on a level playfield... They'd probably end up hurting their platform badly if they tried this.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 16, 2011 -> 10:45 AM) Management had ALOT to do with it. They were resting on their Razor laurels for awhile. I honestly think that the technology is there, it just has to be realized by someone other than the old guard at Motorola. If they focus on end user experience and competing with a package hardware/software platform I think they will be extremely viable and should start beating down some of their competitors. If Google can put out a semi-revolutionary hardware device with an EXCLUSIVE android OS, it will be a very successful move. They have no plans to do this and couldn't if they wanted too. Seeing as they licensed out Android for free to many manufacturers (some high powered ones), and have talked about 'open/free' thus setting legal precedent (their version of open/free anyway), for years about Android, they'd open themselves to an relentless barrage of lawsuits of which they'd lose all of. There is no way for them to go exclusive with Android now, they'd destroy themselves.

This will be my 6 mon old daughters first game ever...Floyd better not let us down!

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Aug 16, 2011 -> 10:40 AM) This is what happens when you say things like this to me! *PERFECTPLEX* You just lost...there is no kicking out of a perfect plex. /me spits his gum into the air and slaps it away.

QUOTE (SAVVY18 @ Aug 16, 2011 -> 10:39 AM) Make sure the baby is in the seat furthest from home plate and you are willing to get in front of anything coming your way to protect them. And make sure you are always watching the play when the ball is pitched. I know it sounds like a 1 in a million chance, but it does happen. Yea, I've thought about this. I'm in the club level to try to minimize the chances of this...and if the baby gets loud or something I can take her in so shes not bothering people.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Aug 16, 2011 -> 10:29 AM) Google essentially just started making their own phones and now have more control over quality. This is a good thing for Android users. However, Motorola hardware needs ALOT of work. They also need to clean alot of the old Motorola staff out of there. Terribly run company. Seeing as how Motorola Mobility lost money in an era of unprecedented profits in the specific industry they are in goes without saying. HTC is profiting, Apple is profiting wildly, etc...the fact that despite Androids success that Moto loses money says a lot.

I'm bringing my 6.x month old to a game today (with the wife tonight), and was wondering if there was anything I should know/do/bring...and or any rules that apply to me that I do not know of so I'm not caught off guard... Do I need to pay anything to get her in? I have club level seats.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 15, 2011 -> 09:13 PM) You are a trader. You trade what is happening now - you are not a buy and hold PM. By nature, your training and view are the current market. Whatever strategy you are using on EO's, this has to be true, as there are basically zero long term funds or strategies that use any significant amount of options (heck, virtually no one writes any out more than a little over a year). I've known dozens of traders in that field. Some are good at it, others not so much... but while almost all of them think they are also economists, none really are, and they are usually way off base on that type of long term view. Your experience as a trader makes you expert in market movements, technical analysis, trade ideas, and so forth. It does not make you an expert on long term market prediction - in fact I'd suggest it tends to make you worse at it. Most of the traders I know are. I also have to say, having worked at a shop that had many traders who do some version of what you do... they would have been none too happy to know one of their traders was spouting their PL numbers out on a public website (anonymous user handle or not). Are you with a firm, or on your own? I know/knew quite a few traders back in the .com boom -- predictions that the NASDAQ was going to bypass the DJ were all over the place. I'd also hear about how many hundreds of thousands they were up that week, or even millions in certain cases. Fast forward to 2001, almost all of them lost everything...because they're that good at long term outlooks. When times "appear bad", they're all margin shorts, when times are .com good, they're all day traders that buy on rumors and sell on news. Hell, they couldn't predict the .com crash months before it happened, but they know exactly where the S&P is going?! Yea, ok.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 16, 2011 -> 08:56 AM) Leave it to Y2HH to paint large swaths of people with a broad brush. I'd listen to what you have to say, but I don't like neocons or dumb people. Sorry. ^ No smiley this time, either.

http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/08...bile.os.choice/ They've found that Android users tend to be more conservative. I always knew BigSqwert was a closet neocon. This is my proof. Oh, and they're dumber...which makes sense.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Aug 15, 2011 -> 07:37 PM) I trade everyday sparky. Up 225000 since July 8th. So you can keep saying what you want about which you know little and I will keep doing my thing. 225k for someone that KNOWS where the market is going is nothing. This is my point. It's not to say anything about your skill in understanding short term movement/swings, obviously you are very good at that. But, if you actually knew, you'd have just as easily made 225 million, and if you can't figure out how, despite "knowing" exactly where the market is going -- well then -- you ain't very good. My point isn't to attack your success or failure...it's to attack your bulls*** claim that you KNOW where the market is going. You can guess, like we all can, but you don't actually know. So stop claiming you do. I can also make a claim that with the market being up -- that it will someday go down -- and when it happens pat myself on the back and say how brilliant I am. That's not brilliant. That's obvious since historically the market has gone up and down depending on many economic factors. Watch this bold prediction : Someday...gold will go down.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 15, 2011 -> 05:20 PM) A good chunk of the financial reaction seems to think that this is Google spending $10 billion to enhance their case in Apple's patent infringement lawsuits. There are a lot of conflicting reports about this, and while I think it does have something to do with it, as it will give Google some patents they can leverage to make deals with Apple/Microsoft, it's not really going to help them for most of the issues they're having. Most -- if not all -- of Motorola's patents are pre-smartphone, none of which are in question right now, and most of which no longer mean much...keep in mind this is the Motorola that was ONCE a big deal in phones, but never in smartphones. I'm sure if Microsoft or Apple ever steal the outdated RAZR design, Google may want to sue. But I don't see that happening. These patents will do nothing to defend them from the biggest claim against them, and that's Oracle who owns Java. Google, who arrogantly refused to license Java and then went ahead (internal communications prove this) with using Java anyway is the biggest claim against them and Androids extensive use of Java, and these patents will not help them in this case whatsoever. IMO, Google bought MotoMobility for a more simple reason that everyone's overlooking because of all of this patent garbage. Android is fragmenting -- anyone with two eyes can see this -- and despite Google's efforts to enforce upgrades and support from 3rd party vendors, it's not happening. While Google can try to "enforce" this, it's not legally enforceable. It's Samsung's choice to support or upgrade their phones...Google can put all the rules about forced upgrades in place they want, but nobody has to follow them. If Samsung wants to sully their name and not upgrade the software running on their phones, or supporting older hardware, Google can't say a damn thing about it in a legal sense, and everyone knows it, including Google. Thus, Google can now assert stricter control in a legal sense with Motorola/Google branded phones, driving competitors to upgrade in order to keep up. This will add assurance the software upgrades come faster, and keep supporting the devices even after newer models are available.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 15, 2011 -> 08:29 AM) How many years now have you been predicted the bolded nonsense, stating it as if it was fact? Market predictors are bold faced liars that say things like this because in this day/age you can get away with saying whatever you want, but none of them put their money where their mouths are...because 1) they don't really know, and 2) well, they're liars like I said, otherwise they'd leverage themselves to the hilt and become mega rich when it happened. If he's THAT sure that was going to happen, and he didn't leverage himself to the hilt borrowing money regardless of the interest rates -- I'm talking going all in here, every dime he has or can possibly borrow to short/buy puts -- then he's either an idiot or -- orrrrrrr -- he's just talking to hear his own voice/read his own posts. Fact is he's just talking, or he'd be buying 50000000 puts on massive margins...I mean, why wouldn't you make that gamble if you KNOW where the markets going?! If you are THAT sure about something, and it's a sure thing...you do it...otherwise you just admit you don't know like the rest of us.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Aug 15, 2011 -> 06:36 AM) Gladly sell them to you. Free money for me. The market is going to open up so if you sell them, you lose money...I'm not sure how this is free money for you...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 6, 2011 -> 03:01 PM) A number of articles I've read have said that the statutory rules for the Treasuries being counted as AAA assets are unchanged by having this S&P downgrade, is that correct? I.e. outside of a few obscure places, no one is "Forced" to dump these assets by rules? More than 1 of the 3 need to downgrade for it to actually matter. Also, the downgrades don't actually mean anything, they're more or less just "advise". Japan said they're not changing their policy with the USD regardless of the downgrade -- in other words - Japan said they're completely dismissing the S&P downgrade. What these usually do is cause interest rates to rise ever so slightly, if people listen to them.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Aug 6, 2011 -> 11:25 AM) So let me get this straight. S&P admit to making a two trillion dollar error in their assessment of the US creditworthiness, and cite Social Security as a debt driver in the next ten years when Social Security does not contribute to the deficit in any way shape or form. And we're supposed to listen why? Keep in mind they're the same people that gave default swap trash mortgages AAA ratings.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Aug 5, 2011 -> 10:59 AM) But isnt capital gains taxed at 15%? Short term cap gains is 30%. Long term is 15%. Long term = 1 year+.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 5, 2011 -> 10:49 PM) I wish I had cash laying around in 2008. You could've bought damn near any f***ing thing then and made like 300% off of it. You may get that opportunity again, but who knows what will happen. If cooler heads prevail, nothing will happen because the rating downgrade means almost nothing since the other major ratings remain at AAA.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 5, 2011 -> 10:23 PM) Boom goes the dynamite. All I can say is don't be a fool and panic this week, a lot of people are going to lose a lot by selling...wait it out, and if anything, buy in the aftermath (whatever that ends up being).