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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: NightOwl who wrote (48635)	8/1/2000 10:20:13 PM
From: Brian1970	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

"What kind of problem are we having here? Language barriers? Cultural isolation? Multiprocessing Error? Stunted growth rates? Historical determinism? You are what you eat? Anti competitive communist hold overs?" 1. What kind of problem are you having? (a) I understand the King's (and President's) English perfectly. (b) Cultural isolation unlikely. (c) Multiprocessing error? Since I'm not silicon-based, I don't understand that remark. (d) Stunted growth rates? I would think that as an individual, I would have a growth rate, not rates. (e) Historical determinism? Dusting off those sophomore year poli sci books again, are you? (f) You are what you eat? What does that refer to? An old post of mine, or some way way way inside joke that you share with yourself? (g) Anti competitive communist hold overs? That one, while seemingly impressive at first blush, leaves me scratching my head. Does this ask if I approve of antitrust violations, anti-democratic brands of government? What is a "hold over?" Is that a holdover? What I did not understand about your post, aside from everything, was specifically the following: "As far as Sony is concerned I wish them and their Home Entertainment Network System thingys all the luck in the world because they are going to need it." Are you referring to the Playstation 2? Why are they going to need luck? "This wouldn't of course be the case if INTC/RMBS had had free reign in the market place and didn't have to contend with AMD, JEDEC, AMI, and ADT. But for them we would now be experiencing a significant brain drain in this country as thousands of EEs took the easy way out and leaped to their deaths from the Golden Gate bridge rather than try to make the future of IS run on this RAMbus Line." Is this a convoluted way of saying that engineers would rather die than be associated with Rambus' technology? A provocative statement, but nonsensical. "Somebody ought to take up a collection to produce a monument to the loyal opposition who stood up and insisted on telling Emperor Intel to put on some clothes. God bless 'em all." While I certainly understand the allusion to the well-known fable, I don't understand your point. Who are the "loyal opposition?" What are FUD-spreading shorters loyal to, besides their own pocketbooks? Are they loyal to some higher "ideal" or dream of seeing Rambus fail?