On Saturday 14 July 2001 13:45, Lee wrote:
> 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
Ok, I hear all that... now tell us what you really think... :o)
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+ Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 07/14/01 14:07 +
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"The meek may inherit the Earth,"
"but they won't get the mineral rights." John D. Rockefeller
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