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To: Dayuhan who wrote (17759)7/18/2002 1:03:07 PM
From: Bill  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 21057
 
<< Repeat this to yourself, three times: when a connected insider sells stock just before a negative announcement is made, privileged information has been acted upon. >>

Repeat this to yourself three times: he sold two months before earnings were announced and weeks before the writeoffs were considered. That's what the professional investigators found. The fact that you imagine something happened doesn't mean it happened. I put my trust in professional investigators ahead of a bunch of agenda driven cynics.



To: Dayuhan who wrote (17759)7/18/2002 1:15:33 PM
From: Bill  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 21057
 
<< The rest of us don't have to be that rigorous; if we see bird poop on the windshield we can assume that there's been a bird in the vicinity. >>

And that is a perfect example of your flawed thinking. If you thought outside the box for once, you'd probably realize there's a good chance that car was driven to the vicinity with the bird poop already on it.

When you "assume" ...