colin

nonsense. things don't and can't go to infinity. that doesn't happen, it can't happen. being short is not riskier than being long, it just isn't. wrt stocks and credit products, being long is riskier than short, the downward moves are faster and sharper (heard of put premiums, crash-o-phobia, and empirically it's easily observable). even based on your argument about my assumptions (which i'm not making, that's irrelevant, i only pointed out the cover price because it is simply a mark to market loss until covered) you are wrong. infinity minus some finite number is still infinity, the point is it's impossible in securities trading. the problem with the short infinite loss garbage is it makes people make the wrong assumptions about the risks of being long vs short. kelly, you are really reaching on this. where the hell does talking about bombs on a plane come from? what's your point, that there are bad times and places to say certain things? what the hell does that have to do with anything?

you ever hang aroud the locker room, after gym class?

i still maintain nothing is off limit to jokes. i didn't admit anything differently. what i pointed out is actually putting a burning cross on someone's lawn is wrong, not because it is a joke but because it is clearly a violation of someone else's property. joking about some violation of someone's property is fine tho. is this really that hard to understand? and what the hell makes you think the closest black guy hearing that joke will be hysterical? what if i'm 100 pounds bigger than he is? what if he is my friend and finds the joke funny? you make assumptions about the closest black guy that GG finds offensive, and thus you aren't even a person in the 21st century. honestly dude, one bills fan to another, get some work done on your face and teeth. you aren't gonna make it as a smart one, but you MIGHT be able to make it as a pretty one! work your core too!

lol do you like movies about gladiators?

nope. short selling an asset can only lose the value of the asset (less the entry point) when covered. that patently cannot be infinity. and it is no more risky than being long (squeeze and exchange rules might make it more cumbesom tho). in fact empirically being long a cash security (with the possible exceptions of UST) is much riskier. prices are more apt to drop than ralley suddenly and sharply. WE LIVE IN A WORLD OF LIES!!!!

yup. think i'll ever see an infinite bid to hit on my screens?

nearly every single book about investing (in stocks particularly) say that if you go short you can lose an infinite amount of money. this is wrong across the board. when a word arises from being an often commonly made mistake, IT DOES NOT MAKE IT CORRECT, EVEN IF IN THE DICTIONARY. laughing all the way to the bank was taken from something else entirely, so the irony is lost there. i could care less is one that makes me angry as well. and what the hell is your point about racism? i think racism can be really funny, doesn't make it ok to burn crosses in people lawns. i think someone punching someone else in the mouth can be funny, doesn't make it ok to do it. this isn't complicated. you honestly should think about being good looking, your mind chops aren't gonna win you any prizes.

OH I'M FAMILIAR WITH THE COMMON USAGE OF THESE "WORDS"!!!! that doesn't make it right! now that is something we can agree to be offended over! some **** makes a mistake saying disconnect instead of disconnection and every fag around copies him. eff that! the brits say orientated when they mean oriented. and people talk about unchartered waters when the mean uncharted waters. DON'T GET ME STARTED11!!

AND THEN I ASKED IF YOU ARE ON DRUGS. CAN YOU NOT UNDERSTAND SIMPLE SARCASM!?!?!?!? i went on for a paragraph explaining how a t shirt and a friggen burning cross on someone's lawn is very different. leverage is a noun. to have, via a lever, an advantage is to have leverage. people say "i will leverage my position" which means in their mind means to use leverage, but is in fact levering. disconnect is a verb, if two things have disconnected, there is a disconnection between them, not a disconnect. i hope you are good looking.

it's lever leverage is a noun. tell me about how laughing at a t shirt is the same as putting a burning cross on someone's lawn.

not buying it. like prideful or disconnect (as a noun) or leverage (as a verb) this is a incorrect word that has leaked into common usage.

THEY WON'T INCREASE PRODUCTION ON AN UNLIMITED BASIS!!! I'M SICK OF OTHER NATIONS NOT BEING OUR LAP DOGS AT EVERY SINGLE TURN!!!11 KILL THEM!!

because that's what i said!!!! honestly, what do you do for a living? you can prided yourself on it, go ahead, tell us.

i said "AFAIAK it's all fair game. racism can be wicked lulzy." it's all fair game means it's all fine to joke about. is this really that hard to understand? did you hurt your brain at some point? was it a prided related injury?

lol, of course it is!!! are you on drugs? did you prided yourself on those drugs? a tshirt is a tshirt that belongs to the person who owns it. they can do whatever they want to it. putting a burning cross on someone's lawn isn't exactly ok, it's their lawn for crying out loud. if someone is actually insane enough to attack a presidential candidate's (let's face it hilly is gonna lose) house like that then it would be ok to make jokes about it and laugh tho. catfeesh?

all good, but seriously, quinn is gay right? DID YOU SEE THOSE PICS!?!!? CASE CLOSED!!

it's making a racist joke about obama satiring the supporters of obama. if (as i'd say at least some are) obama's supporters are largely motivated by his race it is a very sharp satire of them. it could be way funnier obviously, but it's still satire, and not necessarily offensive. there was a great show about racism in the UK a few years ago. some indian/black/whatever mixed brit was going around showing what a bunch of sensitive pussies people are. some sissy cop in wales was all butt hurt over a funny welsh jokes this guy was ripping in front of him, and the usual suspects were super good guy badge offended (like the super heros in this thread are over people finding a joke funny) over every little thing. this guy running the show was an anti racism activist, and very much involved in some big battles in the 80s. his point was that he fought before to get admission to schools (or rather not excluded out of hand due to race) and to not get beaten in the street by skinheads or have paki shop written on his dad's store and have the police never investigate that or robberies. that was real racism he was fighting against. all the little stuff that people get sand in their vaj's about now is just stupid. being offended over jokes and people's natural preferances is wimpy soft weenie victim celebrating behavior.

nope, racist jokes can be funny. it's not racist to find racist jokes to be funny. and for the fourth time for the slow kids -- it is satirical to portray someone negatively in the form in which they are normally deified in. the subject of the satire is the supporters of the candidate. instead of worrying your pretty little goog guy heads over this, just understand that unless you hide under a rock and cry about every single joke that isn't said by your bestest friend like kelly the dog does, it's all fair game.

lol now you know why he smells and then licks his fingers after every snap!

are you a toll booth operator or something? it was a spoof on the grass roots support OF obama. of course i prided myself on racism, so i'm not a person in the 21st century.

what the hell are you on about with me priding myself on racism? is that even a word? i said it can be funny, falling down and hurting yourself can be funny, did i just prided myself on falling down and hurting myself? and you should put your own good guy badge away before you swallow it. are you saying no one can say anything bad about anyone who they don't know or aren't friends with for the sake of humor? is every single joke you've ever heard save those from the friends you prided yourself on offensive to you then? are you drunk right now?

of course there aren't, THAT'S CRAZY TALK. cereal tho, you think brady quinn is gay right?

yeah, i suspect that is GG's reasoning as well. except black people aren't actually brothers, and the acceptance isn't just on blacks making black jokes (while that is accepted of course) but on them making white jokes as well. AFAIAK it's all fair game. racism can be wicked lulzy.

it mocks him being black and spoofs grass roots support for him in general. it also mocks his likeness to the cartoon character. i'm not the one with the insane criteria, hell I'M NOT EVEN A PERSON IN THE 21ST CENTRY!!!!!!!!! [/good guy outrage]

to me this points to how a very minimal set of rules and enforcement principals should be employed. between the self serving politicians and the sub morons enforcing laws and regulations the trend towards uber government makes me feel as safe as an epileptic child with a box full of high explosives on a plane sitting beside me.