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To: Ex-INTCfan who wrote (22815)	9/28/2000 10:06:51 PM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 436258

<Just what kind of a bastard are you?> If you're wanting to help someone in need, blowing steam at others is hardly an effective way to go about it. If someone is going to jump off a bridge, do you chastize those yelling dithering about pointing... or go help?? DAK

To: Ex-INTCfan who wrote (22815)	9/28/2000 10:25:58 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 436258

Of course suicide isn't a laughing matter. But yelling on a Yahoo board, "I just lost $100,000, I think I am going to kill myself!" just isn't something I consider a serious suicide threat. It's black humor, venting, about the human condition, as Zorba the Greek called it, "the full catastrophe." His answer was to laugh at himself, and dance. Only a big man can lose $100,000 and laugh, so it's bragging, maybe, or showing you've got guts and you're still standing. Some days you eat the bear, some days the bear eats you. I see rrman said it better: "Anyone who can plop down a quarter of a million on a bet ain't really hurting...only their ego......" Message 14477552

To: Ex-INTCfan who wrote (22815)	9/28/2000 11:17:51 PM
From: AllansAlias	Respond to of 436258

INTCfan, Please do not lecture us on humanity. We are crude, but this will go down and all the empathy in the world will not change it. There is no way to convince these people to feel fear for the sort of speculating they have enjoyed. Having no fear is a very stupid thing. I feel very bad for the people who are suffering, but they have had the most ample of warning time and time again. The market is not in the habit of making millionaires out of part-time permabulls. I believe, in the normal course of affairs, that trading is a very hard job. When it is not so one should be very concerned. I love the Mac. So what. The stock was priced for perfection, or at least unfounded optimisism, as is most everything else out there. We may well rise to new heights for all I know. But I am sure that there will come a day when the price of stocks will be at a level that you have not ever considered.