Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Proud Deplorable who wrote (22983)	8/6/2004 2:14:39 AM
From: Amy J	Respond to of 306849

OT Ralph, "So where is this generous hand? Please expand on that as I'd be interested in hearing" If a statement is in quotes, someone else made the statement. I didn't write the statement but was commenting on it. RE: "Lastly, to those who would censor me" You have a lot to offer, if you would just deliver the message with some level of politeness. A lot of people have asked if you could - it's not fun to be on the receiving end of something that hurts, when the same message could be given without the hurt. Kindly respect that people in the USA (esp NYC) are under stress. We have wackos who have specs on American buildings in NYC from prior to 9/11, as you've probably heard in the news. Even in Silicon Valley (and across America) we had our fair share of wackos - specifically, foreign "art" students (that were engineers) casing hightech buildings prior to 9/11 and asking how high the building is and what the layout of the buildings are, which is spooky to say the least. Something we had forgotten about because it seemed so trivial, was how the more aggressive one asked where the main street was and if that's what people took to get out of here, which didn't dawn on us to be an unusual question at all and probably that particular question wasn't, but in the context of the current news where CNN said Al Quaida would obtain the layout of the traffic flow, it gives you some pause since the other questions (and behavior) definitely were weird. Engineers pretending to be art students is a really dumb thing to do in Silicon Valley, when you think of it. The govt reportedly deported well more than 100 foreign "art" students across the country for immigration violation. The other day we had 3 guys selling Oakland sports tickets, and it gave me some small pause only because of our previous history with the foreign "art" students. I said to the employees that let them in, come on people remember the foreign "art" students that were casing hightech buildings, why did you let them in? Their comment: But this is different - they were selling sports tickets. Now that's an easy entry tactic into any company : ) I wonder if the CEO of Prudential didn't even know his building was being cased before it broke into the news. Did the govt leave him in the dark? How many hightech CEO's don't know about the foreign "art" students and what were they about? Regards, Amy J

To: Proud Deplorable who wrote (22983)	8/6/2004 2:52:20 AM
From: Tradelite	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

<<I am an American living in Canada. I am a dual citizen. I moved here in the '70s and haven't looked back. I've been here 35 years and certainly am qualified to speak as a Canadian and a representative one at that although I do live on the Left Coast. I grew up in 90212 and most of my friends are people you see nightly on TV. I spent my youth organizing anti-war demonstrations in the '60s >>> _______ That means you're about the same age I am. That also means you and I wouldn't have gotten along, philosophically, while we were college together. I remember one night, coming back to the apartment I shared with 3 roommates at a Midwestern state university, after working at a local establishment that evening to earn some extra spending money, and getting ready to buckle down to some homework. yet being angrily greeted by irate housemates for going to work and not participating in that day's rather violent protest against our university chancellor. The protest stemmed from his "failure to take a stand" against the shootings at Kent State University. We had many campus protests back then, over one thing or another. About 50 percent of the students were into protests (and many of them were on drugs, too). The remainder were into fraternity/sorority parties. Me, well, I sorta liked the parties and studied and worked the rest of the time. Doesn't mean I thought the Vietnam War was a good thing or that the U.S. should be there...just means I thought doing something productive was important, and I didn't have the luxury of indulging in protests against something I had no control over. If you had fun organizing those protests, good for you. Peace, brother....by the way, any chance you went to Canada to escape the draft?