To: AC Flyer who wrote (27273 ) 1/10/2003 9:20:41 PM From: TobagoJack Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 74559 Hello ACF Mike, welcome back once again. Whoa, a party!?siliconinvestor.com Nothing like an attack on the benighted Maestro Greensputinkaput to get the juices of thread-mates ACF Mike and Maurice Mq going, going and going some more. But where is CB? I am trying to discern at the truth from the facts, and discuss what should be said, alerting folks to the possible end of the world as we think we know it, preparing to step through the time portal, possibly entering an age of probably new abracadabra. You are presumably carrying with you a fistful of gasping-blue chips, Maurice Mq is rumored to be grasping at a handful of spinning Q-tips and melting USD-fiat, having chosen to ignore Jay’s warning of not long ago:Message 16300985 September 5th, 2001 … statistics will not save the market, is not saving the market, and only but one more bump on the unstoppable ride downward in to the valley of doom… … while CB is content to not take the trip at all, surveying the scene as nothing conceivably dangerous is warranting the presumably inadvisable great journey for survival. You are now perhaps saying, ‘what on god’s green earth is Jay going on about?’ Tapping on my rudimentary database referenced by ACF here Message 18413452 , I do not have to repeat myself:Message 16317672 September 7th, 2001 <<worst scenario … now-present and worsening financial collapse? I mean realistically not to the unlikely extreme>> … and ACF Mike says, Message 18430435 <<>>as we drop past the 18th floor ledge, powered by gravity<< As to this, I have no idea where you get it - perhaps from the mind-bending effects of experiencing the mainland-ization of Hong Kong first hand.>> … to which I respond:siliconinvestor.com September 10th, 2001 … Hong Kong, for its small physical size, has been an unusually good thermometer and barometer on regional businesses. Given that the regional businesses are mostly export related, Hong Kong therefore has always been a good proxy and leading indicator to US conditions. Hong Kong, being one of four (NY, Tokyo, London, Hong Kong) financial centers of the world, and the one most directly plugged into Asian emerging markets, would necessarily feel the chill first … To put it slightly more succinctly, evaluating the facts as indicated by the Hong Kong thermometer up the behind of New York enables one to discern the truth that all is not well with the world as we know it, and the gold barometer is indicating a possible change in direction of graviton spin state as Maurice Mq thinks he knows it and energy level as ACF Mike supposes he knows it. Well, I do not know much about anything, I just like to write, and when I read back some of what I had written since the beginning of my SI time, I see … Message 18427474 … that I may have been perhaps more right than wrong;0) As to my grindingly oppressive pessimism, I cannot help it as I am a creature of my present and past environmentsachamchen.com Chugs, Jay