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To: Terry Maloney who wrote (42)	10/9/2011 11:37:03 AM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	5 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 46

Very true. And I still have a high regard for you, if you're wondering. I want to thank Lucretius and Brad for this most interesting experience. It is a first, as far as I remember, on this web site. After spending many hours reading backward through hundreds of emails exchanged between myself and lucreitus/lewis and going back over the years on the CFZ message board and remembering the many evolutions from the first internet broker to the crashing of the Thai Baht in 1998 through to today's latest variation of crises, it has been a very long, challenging and complicated journey inside a mere short length in time. Many here received an education they could not have imagined when they first arrived. The internet, self-directed investment via electronic brokers both freed and challenged the so called "retail" investor from the chains of expensive client/brokers and broke the seal on the almost vault enclosed data. There is still, a great divide between the two, but perhaps only 1/10th the size it once was. The other side still looks down its nose from its ivory tower, but its about power and some strange sense of prestige, that's really only a made up thing. Another topic maybe. When I look at all the egoism contained in all of it, it is nauseating to see. I clearly owned my fair share of the egoism long after it served any good purpose. In this experiment, the alias life becomes merged with real life both public and private with many different audiences, none of whom co-exist in the same time and space. Truth becomes half truth, falsehood seems true, and the journey to fact stays intricately convoluted, either intentionally obscured, wilfully obscured, or naturally so. Pretty much a reflection of how the entire society is behaving at the moment, and the journey mirrored, at least for me, every part of that evolution too. It is a thunderously noisey and raucous trip walking through the pile of emails and board postings. I have a record, and I have already offered, when asked, the basis for any opinion I have offered. I stand by the opinions. If in some future time I do once again disagree with someone's conclusion, either here, or "out there" on some other web site, newspaper, television etc, I will never again assume anyone who reads it, already knows the context of my thought or the implicit direction/intent/color it has contained within it. The quip no longer works, let alone the sly remark, or even the seemingly bold challenge. One cannot tell the difference between it and all the background noise. This was not always so. It used to be a great deal of fun, when it worked, and very satisfying when it worked well. I greatly erred by not realizing this until now. Rhetoric is so, yesterday. Thanks again Brad!! Your pointed questions opened the door. Box