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Microcap & Penny Stocks : THNS - Technest Holdings (Prev. FNTN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: don roberson who wrote (13381)	7/27/1999 9:25:00 AM
From: BHunt	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 15313

Have you heard the one about the guy who goes to Las Vegas for 3 days? He loves to shoot craps. He knows it can be an up and down experience. He arrives on Friday morning and his plan is to make a killing by 12 noon on Sunday. He plays a lot and watches the table very closely. He begins to think he can predict what the next roll will be. The 1 out of 36 times he's right convinces him that he is a visionary. He begins to feel more and more powerful. He feels he is in control. When things are going well, he scowls at the pit boss for changing the stickman, an act of a superstitious casino. Sunday morning, he is down about 40% of what he brought to play with. Things are not going well against his own deadline of 12 noon. He feels burdened by his losses. He sees the game as a rip off. He begins to feel the dice can only come up with loser 7's. He sees an obnoxious player at the other end and wishes he would just take his attitude elsewhere and let him have an enjoyable game. THIS IS HIS GAME! How can anything possibly be getting in the way of HIS GOAL? He begins to curse the dealers. He grits his teeth and moans. He's not going to meet his goal. He begins to feel the casino is purposefully making him lose. His paranoia feeds his disgust. As Noon arrives, he slinks away from the table, gets in the cab and heads to the airport feeling victimized because they kept him from winning big in the amount of time he himself had allotted. He sits at the gate waiting for his plane. He fumes. He is in anguish. He gives in to his urges and books a later flight. He jumps back in a cab and heads back to the same casino at the same table. He arrives at the table only to find it filled with a crowd gathered around. The obnoxious guy from before is still there playing. In fact, the guy is rolling the dice. People cheer with every roll! He walks over to pit boss and asks what's going on? The pit boss tells him the guy has been rolling for an hour and a half. The player complains that he had been playing for 3 days, and he couldn't understand why he didn't win the same way during that time. The pit boss replied, "Dice are funny. Nobody really controls them. In this game its up and down. The only real control the player has is whether to bet or not. The secret is to catch the hot roll. It may happen while you are at the table. It may not. But it will happen when the time is right." Moral to the story? In the absence of desired profit in the allotted time, a player can lose perspective. THE GAME ITSELF NEVER CHANGED. Only the player's ideals and sense of appropriate timing were violated by the games perspective. Folks, MS and MM have a potful of shares. They are players too! JT is a player with a winning reputation. Most of you are sensible players as well. The time tables have been violated. But again, THE GAME HAS NOT CHANGED! The fundamentals we invested in are still in place and even improved in their potential. The impatience of shareholders coupled with the ever present willingness of the market makers to swing the price wildly on low volume has every one in a tizzy! This is a common occurance in the BB arena. MS and MM have the company on the edge of being fully reporting. This effort has been huge for this short staffed company. They did it while wearing all the hats including the one where a zillion impatient players call them on the phone and bellyache about timetables. To crucify them for missing an estimated delivery date is just plain senseless. Venting frustration is useful, but to do it in such an accusing way is without merit. There are a lotta ways to make money. If this one isn't working for you then find another. At the core of this business, is the same great possibility I invested in in the first place. MS may have given in to the pressure of impatient shareholders a few times by stating dates for things to happen. These things were often not totally under his control. If you can't tolerate missing an estimated date, then perhaps MS is not your guy. Gosh, he is a human. He is in a pressure cooker trying to move the company ahead while acting as the IR department. That alone is a full time job! I run a business that has few employees. Wearing so many hats takes its toll. The dogged determination required to stick with it and fight to the goal meets up perfectly with what I admire in a business leader. I still believe our management has these attributes. These strengths beat the hound out of any 3 piece slickster armed with a smile and a dotcom on his business card. Do these dice have a guaranteed winner on every roll? Who cares! We're not throwing dice! We're waiting patiently??? for the cards to be played. I'm ready to see them. You are ready to see them. We are not the dealer. In time we will see them. Remember, we and management all get the same hand here. We have to trust them with how they play the hand or go find another table.