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Strategies & Market Trends : Steve's Channelling Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bosco who wrote (8025)	11/21/2000 10:24:05 AM
From: SBHX	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 30051

ot:bosco There's probably a big difference in computer punch cards and the ones used in this election, even if they sort of look the same. If I understand them correctly, the 'boxes' are pre semi-perforated to make them easy to knock the chads out. Is that right? If so, this is different (and even more troublesome) from the computer cards of old, where a real puncher has to be used. My guess is that whether the chads can be knocked loose from bending or sharp impact within a box largely depends on how these impressions are made during the preforation step. Is that right? It also makes it very easy to stick a small stick through a whole stack of them to get some hanging chads and some dimpled chads no? If someone could hire a special operative that could sneak into the buldings where the ballot boxes were kept after the election before a recount (or in other big counties where a manual recount has not started) and poke a stick through a few stacks, I suspect many in either camp would not hesitate if the chance of getting caught is slim. I sure hope the boxes are kept in burglar-proof and tamper-proof vaults now. :) You wonder why tin-pot dictators are laughing and wondering about how they would do in the same situation. :) I'm only worried of the ST vs LT because of the current bearish sentiments, but you're right in that sometimes I sell at the wrong time only to buy back at a higher price. So far, it looks more like I sell, buy lower, sell lower, buy lower, sell lower for quite a few stocks, but NT could prove me wrong, so I think it all averages out to be so-so. Hard to come out ahead without shorting anything recently. If a bull mkt returns, I can be the best buy and hold guy again. Regards. edit: I give up, back in NT for about can$3 (us$2) above what I sold them for. Here's to another excursion into that cookie jar. :) SbH

To: Bosco who wrote (8025)	11/21/2000 2:21:54 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 30051

I here stories about chads on the floor, and that makes me roll on the floor laughing. Of course you should expect chads on the floors. These chads attach themselves (during the original punching) by electrostatic forces to some of the cards and when you shake them by handling, prepunched chads will loosen up. With 10,000 or more punch cards being handled, I am surprised they find only 100 or so loose chads on the floor (one percent of these cards having a chad attached from prior punching). These certainly should not be attributed to fraudulant punching with all the observers around, but should be attributed to pure electrostatic forces. Zeev