dep wrote:
> On Friday 13 July 2001 08:18 pm, Lee wrote:
>
> | Hide the cookie jar mother! The boobs and cockroaches are at it
> | again! Does this suit mean that I can sue the racetrack and other
> | horse owners if the horse I bet on lost even if it was a 100 to 1
> | shot? Unfortunately, they'll probably win. I believe there is a
> | section of the Endangered Species Act dealing with the protection
> | of the North American Greedy Lawyer Hirer who invest in the initial
> | offerings of companies like usedtoiletpaper.com
>
> this festering infection isn't, alas, unique to north america, as
> witness the equally ridiculous german adobe nonsense involving
> killustrator which, it appears, will be settled with no one injured
> and only about 10 orders of magnitude more work and fuss than there
> would have been had adobe merely approached the kde folk and stated
> their objections.
>
> but the u.s. situation is quite bad enough on its own, and without
> vast tort reform -- including, perhaps, the public execution of a
> plaintiff's lawyer chosen at random daily -- it will get worse. these
> parasitic arthropods are fully capable of collapsing the economy, and
> they see no reason not to do so if there's a nickel in it for them.
> (though from the looks of it -- the thread common to the linux-based
> investor lawsuits -- there are some people over at bear sterns who
> could profit from a good beating and maybe having their cocaine,
> cigars, and single-malt scotch taken away for a month or so.)
> --
> dep
>
It's not just the lawyers. Most honorable people have enough sense of integrity and
smell to
stay upwind of them. A few unkind words for the investors who hired the disreputable.
When day
trading became a big thing a lot of greedy people who normally would have thrown away
their
cash on lottery tickets and in Vegas suddenly took on the honorable (at least to them)
title of
day trader, a two bit gambler looking for the get rich quick scheme. A lot of them are
greedy
old folks who went through life chasing every fad and symbol of success they could,
i.e.
Mercedes Benz, BMWs, now SUVs, the overlarge house in an exclusive golf course
community
neighborhood right on 9th green, two working parents with an illegal alien to raise
their kids,
who grew up speaking Spanish as their first language because their parents didn't
spend enough
"quality time" (read guilt) with them. Now they've retired, sold the big house in
upstate New
York and moved into an apartment in Florida with enough left over to live out their
years. But,
the greed is still there. Now it's wrapped in nobility: to make one last killing to
build an
estate for the grandchildren. So what do they settle on - the stock market! Anyone who
has
spent two minutes looking at it knows that the stock market is a suckers bet. The
stock market
does not create wealth it just redistributes it from the stupid and greedy (.com
investors) to
the insiders, stock brokers, consultants, estate planners, lawyers, and five computer
programers in a room who incorporated themselves to raise $50 million on the stock
market, even
though they didn't have a product. When the bottom fell out of the usedtoiletpaper.com
craze,
the greedy and stupid lost a bundle, but that's not supposed to happen. They were
supposed to
get a 10,000% return on their investments in two weeks with a rock solid guarantee
that they
wouldn't lose money. They didn't get it. Somebody, other than themselves, must be at
fault!
While most of them never heard of the GPL or could explain what Linux is or how a
company that
is forced to give away it's work product can make money , they invested anyway. After
all they
did the research. They found out Linux had to do with computers and everybody knows
that
computer and .com stocks were going to continue rising forever. They asked their
friends what
was a good stock and for good measure logged in on all the best bulletin board sites.
No it
wasn't their fault. Time to hire a lawyer whose main concern isn't justice, the law, or
integrity, right or wrong, but where are the deep pockets and how a big a contingency
fee to
charge.
Still there is one question that the stupid and greedy and their lawyers should be
made to
answer: Would you be suing if Caldera stock was selling at $35 a share now?
Lee
>
> there's more to history than what's in books;
> that's why it took so long to happen.
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