Guest Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 LOS ANGELES, May 12 (Reuters) - Sony Corp. (Tokyo:6758.T - News) does not expect to make money on its new PlayStation Portable handheld games console at launch, due to the price of components and initial development costs, the head of Sony's U.S. games unit said on Wednesday http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040512/tech_sony_psp_1.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 People have changed so much. It's not necessarily for the bad or the good, there just isn't as much variation in temperment and personality. The bland leading the bland. Totally agree Threadbare. One has to go a long way to find a decent eccentric these days. My mother told me I'm in danger of becoming an one and I was thrilled, merely a beginner at this stage but I'm working on it :grin: A couple of anecdotes: In the small wheatbelt town I come from there was a farmer's wife who was a klepto. She would regularly appear at the draper's shop and slip items into her bag but she was so obvious the staff just noted what she took and sent the bill to her husband. The bill was always paid, no questions asked. These days she'd be dragged out in handcuffs and plonked before a magistrate causing embarrassment and trauma all round. I was telling the above story to an older woman friend and she told me another one. Apparently she is part of a group who regularly meet at each other's homes for afternoon teas. One of the members has a spoon fetish and she always pockets her coffee spoon so the others agreed that they would only provide one spoon and it is passed from person to person thus solving the problem. It was considered a minor aberration and not worth losing a friend over.. We used to have annual "prosh" parades which was the one day of the year when the uni students went feral and poked fun at politicians, wore outrageous costumes etc but I would have to say uni students are the blandest of the bland now. In fact the entire community motto seems to be "Don't Rock the Boat". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drano Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 Well, the bland don't last long around here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 Too right Drano. That's what makes Stoolville such a great place! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drano Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 Looks like Asia's climbing back up the cliff. U.S. futures looking like they did last night. So I guess tomorrow will be another boring "unchanged" day. EDIT: Aussie, here in Minnesota there are a lot of people of Scandinavian descent. So the joke here is that it's "the bland leading the blond." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 Lol Drano.. Yep same problem here with the market...sitting under a resistance level and going nowhere. Well guess I'd better go and do something eccentric or I'll lose points, catchya later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 LLD, Where have ya been? Brian was ready to sent the posse out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 Drano, Where at in Mn? I have a ranch up in Togo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Short'em High Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 If a goodly portion of that can be wiped out - and trust me there are geniouses on Wall Street who will do this ... HP, This is precisely what could happen, especially with GSEs. A keystoke and poof gone it is. Instant monetarty inflation. We thought Enron was a scam, just wait. Holding paper assets will very likely be very deadly. There is nothing backing them except present demand and book value (for stocks). SEH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellacia Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 Maybe what I'm picking up on is that so many people are on Prozac? Any thoughts about that one, Stoolies? The fishies that swim in our drinking water are on Prozac http://eces.org/articles/000238.php. Researchers at Baylor University have found fluoxetine hydrochloride, the active ingredient in the antidepressant Prozac, in in a Denton County, Texas creek, raising concerns about the welfare of the fish and the people who eat them, So even if you're not on Prozac, you're probably ingesting it anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stained jeans Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 What's the Buy/Sell ratio? It's a percentage of buy sell hold recomendations in the VectorVest system which I use as a stock picker. If the ratio of buys to sells is above 1 then the market is robust. Today the BSR is .19 which indicates that the market is in decline. Butt we knew that. Brian - I guess that others have realized that the squeeze was pure skud (my new favorite word for a vertical rapid assention that misses its target). Hope there is a chance to get short again! Tanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threadbare Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 Aussiebear, Hilarious stories. I grew up in small armed forces towns and cities. I recall the same thing you mention --people were allowed their eccentricities.Our neighbour across the street, an elderly woman, used to drink 50 cups of coffee a day. One day after a particular heavy day of drinking (caffeine) she was found lying in the middle of the road, staring up at the stars. This was barely commented on. Someone just picked her up and took her home. A married woman with 4 kids living up the street got drunk one night, borrowed her toddler's tricycle and peddled all around the neighbourhood, buck naked. Again, didn't draw more than a yawn. And highschool. That was rich. --had a home economics teacher who would lose it sometimes and chase kids while waving a knife in the air. A 400 pound, one eyed math teacher who would pick your desk up, with you in it, hold you up a few feet and then just drop you and your desk like a sack of potatos. Back then, life wasn't traumatizing, it was intriguing. Kids were a hell of a lot nicer to each other. The teachers and parents were the bullies, as it should be. Nowadays all weird behaviour is pathologized rather than enjoyed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threadbare Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 Aussiebear, Hilarious stories. I grew up in small armed forces towns and cities. I recall the same thing you mention --people were allowed their eccentricities. Our neighbour across the street, an elderly woman, used to drink 50 cups of coffee a day. One day after a particular heavy day of drinking (caffeine) she was found lying in the middle of the road, staring up at the stars. This was barely commented on. Someone just picked her up and took her home. A married woman with 4 kids living up the street got drunk one night, borrowed her toddler's tricycle and peddled all around the neighbourhood, buck naked. Again, didn't draw more than a yawn. And highschool. That was rich. --had a home economics teacher who would lose it sometimes and chase kids while waving a knife in the air.-- A 400 pound, one eyed math teacher who would pick your desk up, with you in it, hold you up a few feet and then just drop you and your desk like a sack of potatos. Back then, life wasn't traumatizing, it was intriguing. Kids were a hell of a lot nicer to each other. The teachers and parents were the bullies, as it should be. Nowadays all weird behaviour is pathologized rather than enjoyed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
threadbare Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 Woops, I accidentally posted same message twice. Very embarrassing. Better call my psychiatrist to work through my feelings about it! :grin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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