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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (19614)	5/21/1998 2:38:00 PM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Normally I would not respond, but lets set the record straight. <You are the least respectable long term debater here. That's why you are the butt of all those jokes, Reg. > The only people on this forum who even bother to aim jokes are the MSFT basher, who coincidentally tend to be the most irrational. <I told you I wrote derivatives trading programs and products. Which I did. You, or anyone else here, can validate my previous employment in that position by calling human resources for the trading floor at Bank of America.> I could are less what your expeience is. You told me that you knew what you were talking about and that I didn't. When probed further, you spouted some non-sense which clearly displayed you didn't know what you were talking about. Writing a computer program at a bank does not enable you to honestly say that you know how to construct derivatives. The difference between the Chaz of that time and myself was that I posted my opinion, while you posted what you considered to be fact. <That would, by the way, be a better reference for competence in the field than that of some recent business school graduate who slapped together a financial advice website, which puts you on about the same level as 'The Ruff Times' in my view.> That's cute, but I hope you are not serious. How many derivative products have you made. How many have you marketed or valued. I created an entire captive reinsurer concept funded with medical inflation rate option embedded bonds before it became vogue. I personally organized and led a team consisting of two of the big six consulting firms, two alphabet brokers and arranged financing from one of the worlds largest financial institutions, all crunched on proprietary software which I had developed. Hands on experience means a lot more than writing code around someone elses instructions. Yet despite all of this, you have never heard me say that I was an "expert" on these matters (except for once in my defense of a credible statement Sal had made aginst NSCP for which all of you anti-MSFT jokesters jumped on him). For those lurking, I by no means intend to boast, but as I have said previously there were many fly by night financial gurus on this thread who, instead of proffering thier opinion (which is always welcome), decided to teach us with thier guru facts. <As far as we can tell, you were losing an argument about how the majority of the populace felt about Microsoft and their products, when you coined this term to indicate that you thought that the majority of people with money were on your side. That's not true either, AFAIK.> Judging from this statement, you can't tell much. Why don't you go back and actually read the posts you are fantasizing about.