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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (415491)	6/6/2011 6:37:21 AM
From: Jeff Jordan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

LOL..."accelerated privatizations." ....I seem to recall a sweet deal for a certain chicken thief?<g> Sweetheart fire sales lead to future garage sales and austerity...derivatives in action online.wsj.com LOL....what is good for the goose is Lubrizol for the gander? minyanville.com LOL....most traders like ourselves suffer from maladaptive information and are compounded by unrealistic perceptions of change<g> Panatipata veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami Jatarupa-rajata-patiggahana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami Paycheck to paycheck inside trading for billionaires is the key to understanding our modern heterodox economic system.<g> I recently was the only bidder a bank auction for a 2009 Skeeter bass boat....I opened the bidding at $20K, the bank bid $35K and I walked out....this was 2-3 wks ago....the bank is still trying to get their $35K...so much for fire sales and bankruptcy's? “Live Free or Die Hard” >>>Stranger. Next follows the whole class of learning and cognition; then comes trade, fighting, hunting. And since none of these produces anything, but is only engaged in conquering by word or deed, or in preventing others from conquering, things which exist and have been already produced-in each and all of these branches there appears to be an art which may be called acquisitive. Theaetetus. Yes, that is the proper name. Stranger. Seeing, then, that all arts are either acquisitive or creative, in which class shall we place the art of the angler? Theaetetus. Clearly in the acquisitive class. Stranger. And the acquisitive may be subdivided into two parts: there is exchange, which is voluntary and is effected by gifts, hire, purchase; and the other part of acquisitive, which takes by force of word or deed, may be termed conquest? Stranger. Then let us divide the hunting of tame animals into two parts. Theaetetus. How shall we make the division? Stranger. Let us define piracy, man-stealing, tyranny, the whole military art, by one name, as hunting with violence. Theaetetus. Very good. Stranger. But the art of the lawyer, of the popular orator, and the art of conversation may be called in one word the art of persuasion. Theaetetus. True. Stranger. And of persuasion, there may be said to be two kinds? Theaetetus. What are they? Str. One is private, and the other public. Theaetetus. Yes; each of them forms a class. Stranger. And of private hunting, one sort receives hire, and the other brings gifts. Theaetetus. I do not understand you. Stranger. You seem never to have observed the manner in which lovers hunt. Theaetetus. To what do you refer? Stranger. I mean that they lavish gifts on those whom they hunt in addition to other inducements.<<<