Sorta OT: Buffet buys BNSF
David Nebenzahl
and repercussions of this are, but it seems like just another one of
those things that capitalism is so good at: big fish getting eaten by
even bigger fish.
Article at
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/11/03/financial/f044555S64.DTL
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Ray Haddad
<nob...@but.us.chickens> wrote:
>Saw the headline today on my business page. Dunno what the consequences
>and repercussions of this are, but it seems like just another one of
>those things that capitalism is so good at: big fish getting eaten by
>even bigger fish.
>
>Article at
>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/11/03/financial/f044555S64.DTL
And let ye who never spams cast the first stone . . .
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Bob May
going through the lean times.
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Twibil
>
>
> >Article at
> >http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/11/03/financial...
>
> And let ye who never spams cast the first stone . . .
Idiot, David's not advertising or promoting anything; nor was anyone
else. Therefore it's not spam; merely a business news item that's of
interest to railroad buffs: and he *did* label the thread "Sorta OT".
Of course, being Ray Haddad you no doubt have your own private meaning
for "spam" as you seem to have for so many other words, and will
insist in the face of all evidence that anything you don't like (or
for that matter anything you *do* like but which was posted by the
wrong Netzian) is actually "spam".
What a maroon.
Steve Caple
> Might also note that it is th big fish that have the money to keep things
> going through the lean times.
Uh, like you and me and the rest of the folks who are going to pay back the
cost of saving Goldman-Sach's and others' bacon? Not to mention the
benefit to people like Warren Buffet when we keep the international big
money system from collapsing in a shambles. But now the GOP who were
perfectly happy to have big finance bailed out (let alone provide 80% or
more of the vaunted 2000 tax breaks to themselves and their friends or
sponsors, or pour tons of money down a rathole of a war that only a bunch
of NeoCon wanlers wanted) are suddenly leery of spending enough money to
save all the little bacon stashes of folks left out of work by the rich
foilks' panic. When a bank teeters on the verge of collapse, it's a
tragedy. When millions of poor and middle class people are out of work,
it's an "economic adjustment".
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Ray Haddad
wrote:
>On Nov 3, 12:33�pm, Ray Haddad <r...@perthmagic.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> >Article at
>> >http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/11/03/financial...
>>
>> And let ye who never spams cast the first stone . . .
>
>Idiot, David's not advertising or promoting anything
Bzzzzt! Wrong answer. It's not at all about MODEL railroading. Take
your stupid theories and stuff them. Tools are used for model
railroading and he shouldn't have tried to stomp the thread like he
did. Now grow up and play nice, mate.
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Greg.Procter
<steve...@commoncast.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 12:47:24 -0800, Bob May wrote:
>
>> Might also note that it is th big fish that have the money to keep
>> things
>> going through the lean times.
>
> Uh, like you and me and the rest of the folks who are going to pay back
> the
> cost of saving Goldman-Sach's and others' bacon? Not to mention the
> benefit to people like Warren Buffet when we keep the international big
> money system from collapsing in a shambles.
Hang on there - it's the US's actions that have destabilized the World
economy -
don't go claiming credit for saving the life of someone you just shot!
> But now the GOP who were
> perfectly happy to have big finance bailed out (let alone provide 80% or
> more of the vaunted 2000 tax breaks to themselves and their friends or
> sponsors, or pour tons of money down a rathole of a war that only a bunch
> of NeoCon wanlers wanted) are suddenly leery of spending enough money to
> save all the little bacon stashes of folks left out of work by the rich
> foilks' panic. When a bank teeters on the verge of collapse, it's a
> tragedy. When millions of poor and middle class people are out of work,
> it's an "economic adjustment".
>
Totally agree, with that one exception.
Greg.P.
NZ
Greg.Procter
> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:25:05 -0800 (PST), Twibil <noway...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Nov 3, 12:33ï¿œpm, Ray Haddad <r...@perthmagic.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> >Article at
>>> >http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/11/03/financial...
>>>
>>> And let ye who never spams cast the first stone . . .
>>
>> Idiot, David's not advertising or promoting anything
>
> Bzzzzt! Wrong answer. It's not at all about MODEL railroading. Take
> your stupid theories and stuff them. Tools are used for model
> railroading and he shouldn't have tried to stomp the thread like he
> did. Now grow up and play nice, mate.
> --
> Ray
Railway modelling generally has as it's theme prototype railways.
Therefore, anything that's liable to change the appearance of our
prototypes is on topic.
Regards,
Greg.P.
NZ
Ray Haddad
<pro...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:37:14 +1300, Ray Haddad <r...@perthmagic.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:25:05 -0800 (PST), Twibil <noway...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Nov 3, 12:33�pm, Ray Haddad <r...@perthmagic.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> >Article at
>>>> >http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/11/03/financial...
>>>>
>>>> And let ye who never spams cast the first stone . . .
>>>
>>> Idiot, David's not advertising or promoting anything
>>
>> Bzzzzt! Wrong answer. It's not at all about MODEL railroading. Take
>> your stupid theories and stuff them. Tools are used for model
>> railroading and he shouldn't have tried to stomp the thread like he
>> did. Now grow up and play nice, mate.
>
>Railway modelling generally has as it's theme prototype railways.
>Therefore, anything that's liable to change the appearance of our
>prototypes is on topic.
Thank you. Case closed. You see, tools are also used by model
railroaders. When's the last time you gnawed through a piece of flex
track? Or cut some MDF with your fingernail?
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Ray
Greg.Procter
> On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:07:33 +1300, "Greg.Procter"
> <pro...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:37:14 +1300, Ray Haddad <r...@perthmagic.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:25:05 -0800 (PST), Twibil <noway...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Nov 3, 12:33ï¿œpm, Ray Haddad <r...@perthmagic.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> >Article at
>>>>> >http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/11/03/financial...
>>>>>
>>>>> And let ye who never spams cast the first stone . . .
>>>>
>>>> Idiot, David's not advertising or promoting anything
>>>
>>> Bzzzzt! Wrong answer. It's not at all about MODEL railroading. Take
>>> your stupid theories and stuff them. Tools are used for model
>>> railroading and he shouldn't have tried to stomp the thread like he
>>> did. Now grow up and play nice, mate.
>>
>> Railway modelling generally has as it's theme prototype railways.
>> Therefore, anything that's liable to change the appearance of our
>> prototypes is on topic.
>
> Thank you. Case closed. You see, tools are also used by model
> railroaders. When's the last time you gnawed through a piece of flex
> track? Or cut some MDF with your fingernail?
> --
> Ray
Err Ray, your post seems almost negative in attitude!
I'm a hobby engineer, so if I don't have the right tool I either make it
or buy it.
The last time my tool collection was in a state where I needed to chew
through flex-track or scrape my way through MDF was around 1969.
IMHO tools are on topic if the intent is to make/alter something for a
model railway, whether you're asking how hard you should bite flextrack
or what is the best way to trim your nails so you can best score MDF.
Regards,
Greg.P.
NZ
Ray Haddad
<pro...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:14:09 +1300, Ray Haddad <r...@perthmagic.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:07:33 +1300, "Greg.Procter"
>> <pro...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 10:37:14 +1300, Ray Haddad <r...@perthmagic.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:25:05 -0800 (PST), Twibil <noway...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 3, 12:33�pm, Ray Haddad <r...@perthmagic.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> >Article at
>>>>>> >http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/11/03/financial...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And let ye who never spams cast the first stone . . .
>>>>>
>>>>> Idiot, David's not advertising or promoting anything
>>>>
>>>> Bzzzzt! Wrong answer. It's not at all about MODEL railroading. Take
>>>> your stupid theories and stuff them. Tools are used for model
>>>> railroading and he shouldn't have tried to stomp the thread like he
>>>> did. Now grow up and play nice, mate.
>>>
>>> Railway modelling generally has as it's theme prototype railways.
>>> Therefore, anything that's liable to change the appearance of our
>>> prototypes is on topic.
>>
>> Thank you. Case closed. You see, tools are also used by model
>> railroaders. When's the last time you gnawed through a piece of flex
>> track? Or cut some MDF with your fingernail?
>
>Err Ray, your post seems almost negative in attitude!
And you consider this little "Err" bit to be what? Funny?
Condescending? Negative? I label it as all three.
>I'm a hobby engineer, so if I don't have the right tool I either make it
>or buy it.
>The last time my tool collection was in a state where I needed to chew
>through flex-track or scrape my way through MDF was around 1969.
So then, you make your own table saws, band saws and pliers?
>IMHO tools are on topic if the intent is to make/alter something for a
>model railway, whether you're asking how hard you should bite flextrack
>or what is the best way to trim your nails so you can best score MDF.
Tools are tools. We use them in our hobby. End of discussion.
--
Ray
Greg.Procter
It's an indication that I consider your comments to be in error -
somewhat like your commonly used "Bzzzzt" but not as outrightly dismissive.
I wouldn't have thought of it as "funny".
>
>> I'm a hobby engineer, so if I don't have the right tool I either make it
>> or buy it.
>> The last time my tool collection was in a state where I needed to chew
>> through flex-track or scrape my way through MDF was around 1969.
>
> So then, you make your own table saws, band saws and pliers?
>
Hmmm, (that's a thinking pause) I have made my own miniature table saw
for very fine work, and a pair of pliers which are 1/4" long, although
that was to improve my skill with the milling machine.
>> IMHO tools are on topic if the intent is to make/alter something for a
>> model railway, whether you're asking how hard you should bite flextrack
>> or what is the best way to trim your nails so you can best score MDF.
>
> Tools are tools. We use them in our hobby. End of discussion.
I hope it's not the end of tool discussions! I'm sure there are people
on this ng who have knowledge and/or experience which is greater than
mine, even if you know everything!
Greg.P.
NZ
> --
> Ray
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Steve Caple
> Hang on there - it's the US's actions that have destabilized the World
> economy -
> don't go claiming credit for saving the life of someone you just shot!
To a large degree, I agree; hwever, other entities such as RBS were almost
as culpable, just not as big as Lehman, GS, and AIG.
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David Nebenzahl
Nice try. (Not really.)
You obviously don't know what spam really is. This is not it.
David Nebenzahl
What tool thread did I "stomp", pray tell?
I *did* stomp a *spam* thread (read it and study it to understand just
what spam is). The only tool thread I participated in was the recent one
where I forwarded a humorous (and also off-topic) post to a couple other
newsgroups; hardly "stomping" on it.
Greg.Procter
"US actions" as in a government that maintains so little control over your
banking sector that it allows such incompetence and greed!
Sorry, sort of getting off topic here.
Greg.P.
Ray Haddad
<nob...@but.us.chickens> wrote:
>I *did* stomp a *spam* thread
No. You stomped a tool thread.
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Ray Haddad
<nob...@but.us.chickens> wrote:
>You obviously don't know what spam really is. This is not it.
That's right. But neither did you when you stomped on the tool thread.
Grow up, David. This is NOT your own personal newsgroup. Get over
yourself, mate.
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Ray Haddad
<nob...@but.us.chickens> wrote:
>What tool thread did I "stomp", pray tell?
David, you are correct. I misread your post which was a single line.
It's my fault and I apologize.
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D. Stussy
news:4af0856d$0$11298$8226...@news.adtechcomputers.com...
> Saw the headline today on my business page. Dunno what the consequences
> and repercussions of this are, but it seems like just another one of
> those things that capitalism is so good at: big fish getting eaten by
> even bigger fish.
>
> Article at
>
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/11/03/financial/f044555S64.DTL
Now you have to repaint all your models to say BHRR! ;-)
David Nebenzahl
Fair enough.
Greg.Procter
Ray old buddy, when you jump on and insult someone, you have to apologise
twice as hard when you finally figure you boobooed.
We can all make mistakes and most people will give a little leaway when
somebody admits their mistakes. You on the other hand jump so quickly
and heavily that you're liable to get very little.
Regards,
Greg.P.
NZ
Ray Haddad
<pro...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:03:29 +1300, Ray Haddad <r...@perthmagic.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:47:53 -0800, David Nebenzahl
>> <nob...@but.us.chickens> wrote:
>>
>>> What tool thread did I "stomp", pray tell?
>>
>> David, you are correct. I misread your post which was a single line.
>> It's my fault and I apologize.
>
>Ray old buddy, when you jump on and insult someone, you have to apologise
>twice as hard when you finally figure you boobooed.
>We can all make mistakes and most people will give a little leaway when
>somebody admits their mistakes. You on the other hand jump so quickly
>and heavily that you're liable to get very little.
I bow to your experience, Greg.
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Ray