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To: Tommaso who wrote (54279)	10/15/2004 8:57:16 PM
From: Hugh A	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Tommaso: I, for one, value ACF Mike's contributions. They may not play well on BBR, but he has been making his points consistently while the rest of us have waited year after year for the Dow/Gold ratio to get to 1. I suspect he may also have added significantly to his net worth in the meantime. I am beginning to study real options. Although I may have it wrong, it seems to me that volatility is our friend, allowing the informed to make decisions about when to invest and when to cut and run. So in the end it doesn't matter which of Jay or ACF Mike is right - waiting for a singularity as the gold bugs would have us do, is not the point. Sensible picking of entry and exit points is a far better strategy, whatever the market conditions, than waiting for the deluge. My 2 cents... HA

To: Tommaso who wrote (54279)	10/15/2004 9:17:34 PM
From: AC Flyer	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74559

>>get lost, you ignorant jerk....."self-important ninny"<< Hi, Tommaso: One of the great and wonderful things about this (American) invention called the internet is that it allows us to indulge in behavior that just would not be acceptable in the 3D world. So.....enjoy! I have yet another pet theory, this one not too well thought out, that it is the internet itself that has caused (or primarily enabled) the current global antipathy towards the US. Forget 9/11. American movies have brought American culture to the world for decades, but it is only in the last ten years or so that the messy, ridiculous, glorious, creative, energetic daily play-by-play of American culture has been brought to the world's computer monitors in real time. So...just as the world soaked up Hollywood's products in the past, thanks to the internet the US itself has now become the world's daily reality show soap-opera. And because nothing much of interest happens anywhere else in the world (relax...hyperbole) everyone tunes in....to discover that Americans are not only wealthier, but also have far more interesting lives than they do. The natural human response? Envy and hostility. Throw a few head-hacking barbarians whose cultures keep them in the stone age into the mix and viola, global terrorism! (Here's a post script for anyone who may feel compelled to point this out - I know it's not viola, it's voila, a French word no less, but in the ongoing syntactic fender bender that is American English, voila becomes in common usage viola and every time I see it I chuckle and I just have to write it down because it is so quintessentially DUMB. But funny.)

To: Tommaso who wrote (54279)	10/15/2004 9:37:53 PM
From: Seeker of Truth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Good evening Tomasso, Let me say a word for AC Flyer, disagree with him as I do. He came to the US from England with essentially nothing in his pocket and in a short time has established a highly successful, flourishing business. This would never have been possible in the UK, he feels. He is overjoyed to be in the US and relishes everything. People who dislike the US government are therefore anathema to him. He embraces every optimistic explanation about how things in general will work out because he himself has been so successful. I'm the blind man who feels only the little rope of the tail of the elephant but he feels the great strength of a leg and the US is solid to him. That said, the internet in general and this U.S. capitalist enterprise, Siliconinvestor, are marvelous. How much money I've made in one week from your recommendation of OST.UN! Without SI I would never have been in contact with you!! I'm living here in Canada and I never heard of this wonderful opportunity. As far as I remember AC Flyer does not recommend individual stocks, so I can't say I owe him anything. But I share his delight in some of the capitalist scene. The management of the US are clearly corrupt and headed for the cliff, but that's not the way his individual experience points.