Fun Stuff...Off Topic(O/T)

[antioch6]

In other news. Antioch6 has well represented the MrMarket community with his FIRST PLACE finish in the Lindzon $2k Challenge. With a measly $20 entry fee two weeks ago, he has manged to win $493.67. Wait a minute. Is that a 2,368.35% return in two weeks? Is that an annualized gain of... I don't know if such a large number exists. The S&P was up only 2.49% over the same period. Huge?

https://invoost.com/tournaments/4357

[Louetta]

Yankees are in town playing the Sox. Anyone else see Cano bunt the ball up the third base line past the bag (not necessarily an ideal bunt) and wind up on second? No mishandling of the ball by the Sox, just hustle on Cano's part.

[riverbabe]

Wow, Tim! Thank you for providing that link too. Eye-opening! Looks like Ohio is no slouch in there either. How does one become "active?"
Disclaimer: My oldest daughter is a Project Manager at NASA and has worked there for over 20 years and, before that, for the Dept. of Navy Finance. Note that, in one chart, federal salaries have been frozen at 2010 levels with no possible increases in sight. So she is doing her part. (P.S. If anyone tries to mess with my SS payments, look out!) You have made some good points.

[riverbabe]

In other news. Antioch6 has well represented the MrMarket community with his FIRST PLACE finish in the Lindzon $2k Challenge. With a measly $20 entry fee two weeks ago, he has manged to win $493.67. Wait a minute. Is that a 2,368.35% return in two weeks? Is that an annualized gain of... I don't know if such a large number exists. The S&P was up only 2.49% over the same period. Huge?

https://invoost.com/tournaments/4357

The HUGEST!!! (sorry Mr. M.) WOW! P.S., Love your avatar! LOL

[mimo_100]

Wow, Tim! Thank you for providing that link too. Eye-opening! Looks like Ohio is no slouch in there either. How does one become "active?" ....

We become active by getting involved in the discussion. I think that letters to the editor and emails to columnists have a subtle effect of planting a seed. The ultimate way is to control the purse strings. One would think that voters control the public money -when was the last time you voted on a gasoline tax or an insurance tax?

[mimo_100]

I have been curious about the number of guests online at this webisite at any given time. I found an interesting thing happening.


If you go to the top of any page, right under the $$$ Mr Market $$$ IS HUGE banner, there is a tab named "Quick Links." If you click on the drop down arrow, there is a link to "Who's Online".


The are many occurrences of web crawlers going thru all of the threads. The Baidu Spider and the Google Spider appear there often. Anyone notice this before?

[riverbabe]

There has always been a link on MrM to who is viewing. There have been spiders crawling around here for years and years. If you google search your user name you will find all your mimo_100 posts and links to them pop up in the google search. Haven't tried a baidu search yet. There ain't no privacy no where any more.

[IIC]

There has always been a link on MrM to who is viewing. There have been spiders crawling around here for years and years. If you google search your user name you will find all your mimo_100 posts and links to them pop up in the google search. Haven't tried a baidu search yet. There ain't no privacy no where any more.

Same thing with Scottrade's Private Forum

[riverbabe]

Actually, this is ON-TOPIC: "Today’s weekly initial unemployment claims report is expected to show a -18,000 decline to 340,000, adding to last week’s decline of -15,000 to 358,000. Meanwhile, today’s continuing claims report is expected to show a +11,000 increase to 2.870 million, reversing part of last week’s -43,000 decline to 2.859 million." (Barchart.com)

Well, yeah! That's because of all the furloughed Government workers who were told to apply for unemployment benefits and haven't yet canceled!

[riverbabe]

It's going to be a hard winter. I just found mouse droppings in my silverware drawer where I keep wrapped candy. (insert SCREAM here) They're coming in early. The first I've had in 17 years here.

Okay, it's not even Halloween yet and there is sleet frozen on my deck!

[mimo_100]

Actually, this is ON-TOPIC: "Today’s weekly initial unemployment claims report is expected to show a -18,000 decline to 340,000, adding to last week’s decline of -15,000 to 358,000. Meanwhile, today’s continuing claims report is expected to show a +11,000 increase to 2.870 million, reversing part of last week’s -43,000 decline to 2.859 million." (Barchart.com)

Well, yeah! That's because of all the furloughed Government workers who were told to apply for unemployment benefits and haven't yet canceled!

From Forbes last July, " ...But the “official” unemployment rate doesn’t count men and women ... — discouraged workers who have settled for part-time jobs or have given up looking altogether. Tracking those individuals, under what’s called the “U-6″ rate, gives a very different measure of the nation’s unemployment rate:14.3%.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dandiamond/2013/07/05/why-the-real-unemployment-rate-is-higher-than-you-think/

[billyjoe]

If you have any interest in WW11 history or aviation watch this. A nice Veteran's Day Tribute http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=ie3SrjLlcUY&sns=em


---------------------------billy

[jiesen]

Awesome video, Billyjoe!

[billyjoe]

Wow ! Watch this http://www.upworthy.com/whats-the-wo...ound-it?c=ufb2

------------------billy

[IIC]

There has always been a link on MrM to who is viewing. There have been spiders crawling around here for years and years. If you google search your user name you will find all your mimo_100 posts and links to them pop up in the google search. Haven't tried a baidu search yet. There ain't no privacy no where any more.

So far this month I have had 7,923 spider/robot visits