HarryWeezer

that's funny hahahaa Wall Street is a huge ponzi scheme Cavey. Allows the rich to gamble on companies performance. A company like Facebook goes public and has an initial price offering.. or a price for the stocks. Then when it goes public buyers get their shares and they have to pay the price of the demand of the stock. If it goes up demand is high.. if it goes down money is lost and shows demand is low. People that bought facebook at $38 dollars a share and now is $19 a share is a huge mount of money to lose. Talking about billions of dollars lost. He is considering placing a bet on Facebook as he is getting confidence that Facebooks stock will go up there winning that hand and cash in on Facebook profits. If facebook keeps going down which I am hoping then he will lose the difference from the price now to then. If it goes up he makes money from the price now to were it goes to. If you love the gamble.... this is your game. I think it is wrong... I don't like it and it's cancer in our system... much like the FEDS. You know what happens to a company that goes public? They constantly have to keep growing and they have to make increasing amounts of money or they can go under or get bought out as their stock price keep dropping. They cant just stay the same size or they will fail. This is why you see such large companies here in the US like Walmart that has killed small business and killed many jobs. Large business promote profound amounts of greed. This is why Wars are popular here. Big money to be made in Wars. Some errors: - "Wall Street is a huge ponzi scheme." Wrong: a ponzi scheme is a fraud destined to collapse; in the past 100 years, the stock market has increased in value about 7,000 percent. - "It's a cancer in our system." Wrong: It IS our system; it's called free enterprise - it's what makes the country work. - A company that goes public has to "keep growing... They can't just tay the same size or they will fail." Wrong: Shareholders like profits to keep growing and profits can grow even as a company stays the same size due to increased sales, higher profit margins, etc.

Lots of good advice but I'm here to tell ya, you'll save a HEAP of time, trouble and cursing by just reformatting/reinstalling. Been down this road many times.

Will admit that the batteries are failing, much to the wife's consternation (if you catch my drift...)

Welcome!!!

Yupper - growing leaps and bounds. You lose track of them. Often see new XI faces in game and can't remember when we voted them in - it's a constant check back to the member list to see if they are legit. (Then again, I often forget to read the little post-it notes I plaster all over the place and stick in my pocket to help me remember something. After 65 years, I think my hard drive is at disk full, and to add new data means older data must be deleted.)

System drag likely caused by years of garbage accumulation in the Registry. Much of the crap you clean off XP boxes leaves pieces of software here and there that are accessed by some process depending on the instruction you give the system. It's just not possible to get rid of it. Back up, format the drive, and reinstall.

Welcome Grizzly!!!!!

Welcome to XI!!!!

Welcome Cross!!!

Nice intro and delighted you took the time. Hope to see you in game.

Nice to meet you!!

Welcome Ghosty.

Outstanding selection. Edd has been around for a long time and a great guy! Congrats Edd. Remember, the newest addition to the XI admin team has to clean the shithouse at XI corporate with his personal toothbrush.

Thanks for the Intro.

Finally, somebody gets it. Big tits are just excess fat. And they're dangerous; I once damned near lost an eye to a wandering tit. Real men don't want big tits. They want big nipples, but on just a mouhtful of tit.

Kiwi: a flightless bird. Welcome, bird brain!!! Heh Heh

Welcome Vincent. Good to have you in our ranks!!!

Welcome Hellkid. Now, we send you back to Hell!!!!!!!

Welcome aboard Fearless. Come on in COD5 and we'll see just how fearless you really are!!

A dirty old bastard from Ohio is welcome here anytime!! Congrats.

Welcome. Hope to see you in game.

I reset DM at about that time. Showed three players in but a couple of folks came into MW and said they timed out trying to join it and so I tried with the same result.

Welcome Doktor though I must say that criticism - however slight - of our rules for membership from someone who wants to be a member, is not the best way of introducing yourself. Hope you enjoy our servers.

Welcome: come on in our COD5 servers and I'll show you what God and chaos really looks like

Welcome to XI. Hope to see you in some of the other servers as well.