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To: Ed Forrest who wrote (65783)	2/2/2000 12:06:00 AM
From: Uncle Frank	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 152472

>> Back from hiatus and taking shots already?Tsk,Tsk :)Voltaire must have burned you real bad. It seems perfectly clear that you are trying to provoke Rick, Ed. Do you feel we need to balance our good feelings about Q with some displays of anger? If you're looking for a fight, why don't you cruise on over to Yahoo? Prosperous rabblerousing, uf

To: Ed Forrest who wrote (65783)	2/2/2000 10:00:00 AM
From: waverider	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 152472

Ed... I wrote a little apology to you the other day when I returned. Perhaps you didn't see it. My comments to jmac are based on some history...before you arrived. It was dangerous when people started treating V like a God and began to act on his advice, and it still is. No one can predict the market. Jim does a good job, but he tones down is future seeing with strong warnings about his own misgivings. V didn't. People like to be told what to do because the market is filled with uncertainty. Gurus take advantage of that for ego. I once followed a Guru in my early, immature days of investing because he was so right so many times...until the last time...and yes, that cost me dearly. Several people here lost a good amount of change by being influenced by V's guru status. The problem is that folks start making more and more money based on such decisions and then take bigger and bigger chances convinced the predictions will continue to be right. When they go wrong, usually the neophyte has big money on the line...and loses it...cancelling all the previous gains. It should be clear to you that jmac needs more experience in the market based on his emotional statements about price movements and his constant need to ask what is going to happen to a stock tomorrow. For him, following a guru is a disaster waiting to happen. O.K. now that you have heard my perspective, let's cut out the thread baiting and be happy about our success. Again, in the spirit of thread peace, I apologize for anything in the past that may have upset you. Rick <H>