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April quotes - Tris - 04-02-2008
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Napoleon Bonaparte
April quotes - Occhidiangela - 04-02-2008
Quote:Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.Napoleon couldn't get it up with a crane.
Napoleon Bonaparte
~Empress Josephine~
April quotes - --Pete - 04-03-2008
Hi,
Quote:Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."On the other hand, I think I'll retire to Elba." -- Nappy the Bone
Napoleon Bonaparte
In other news:
"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." -- H.L. Mencken
--Pete
April quotes - Jim - 04-03-2008
Hello :w00t:
Quote:No matter how good you get you can always get better and that's the exciting part.ps: Why the HELL should I have to PRESS 1 for ENGLISH
-Tiger Woods
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April quotes - Urza-DSF - 04-03-2008
Quote:Hello :w00t:
ps: Why the HELL should I have to PRESS 1 for ENGLISH
Because you'd be even more pissed if you had to press 9?
April quotes - Jim - 04-03-2008
Hello :w00t:
Quote:Because you'd be even more pissed if you had to press 9?
Why the HELL should I have to PRESS 9 for ENGLISH :P
New Thread: Press "1" for English, Idiotic questions that repeatedly crop up.
April quotes - Urza-DSF - 04-04-2008
4/4/2008
We are terrible for each other, and, yes, we are a disaster.
But tell me your heart doesn't race like a hurricane or a burning building.
I'd rather die terrified than live forever.
- A Softer World
April quotes - Tris - 04-05-2008
4/5/2008 -- I'm back in FL after the trip to Pittsburgh/Youngstown.
Do I believe in luck? Yes, I believe in bad luck. I believe I will always have it. I plan accordingly.
-- Napoleon (Paraphrased)
April quotes - kandrathe - 04-06-2008
Quote:4/5/2008 -- I'm back in FL after the trip to Pittsburgh/Youngstown."Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." -- Seneca
Do I believe in luck? Yes, I believe in bad luck. I believe I will always have it. I plan accordingly.
-- Napoleon (Paraphrased)
April quotes - Tris - 04-08-2008
4/8/2008
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
-- Plato
April quotes - kandrathe - 04-09-2008
Quote:4/8/2008"It gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head." -- Warren Buffet on Gold
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
-- Plato
April quotes - eppie - 04-09-2008
Quote:"It gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head." -- Warren Buffet on Gold
Somebody that makes huge amounts of money just by buying 'air' cheap and selling it for more should not say these things.:)
April quotes - Tris - 04-09-2008
4/9/2008
No one has yet discovered the limitations of hte power of his own mind.
Napoleon Hill
April quotes - --Pete - 04-09-2008
Hi,
Quote:. . . It has no utility. . . .Spoken like the true ignorant money person he (Warren Buffet) is. Ask any engineer about gold's density, malleability, heat and current conductivity, etc., etc.. If it weren't so expensive, it would be the most used material after water.
--Pete
April quotes - ShadowHM - 04-09-2008
Quote:Hi,But but....
Spoken like the true ignorant money person he (Warren Buffet) is. Ask any engineer about gold's density, malleability, heat and current conductivity, etc., etc.. If it weren't so expensive, it would be the most used material after water.
--Pete
I had the impression that was his point. The monetary value of gold has no relationship to its utility. :unsure:
April quotes - --Pete - 04-09-2008
Hi,
Quote:. . . The monetary value of gold has no relationship to its utility.That is a true statement, but it is not at all what he said. A lot of things have little or no correlation between their cost and their value. Diamonds, for instance. Many gem size and quality uncut diamonds are crushed into industrial powder to keep the (inflated) value of gemstones up.
To a large extent, the cost of gold does effect it utility. As an example: if gold were as cheap as copper, it would completely replace copper for traces in circuit boards, but when all the design parameters are considered, gold loses because of its high cost. Of course, unlike diamonds which have few uses and are relatively plentiful, gold has many (potential) uses and is relatively rare. That alone is enough to drive the vale up, though perhaps not enough to match its cost.
--Pete
April quotes - kandrathe - 04-10-2008
Quote:Somebody that makes huge amounts of money just by buying 'air' cheap and selling it for more should not say these things.:)Are you talking about my little WOW auction house worker who is making a killing on Elementals, or Warren Buffet? :lol: We both do the same thing, establish a true value for a commodity then buy it when its under valued and sell it for much more. I do that with stocks as well, but Warren's been doing it better and longer.
April quotes - kandrathe - 04-10-2008
Quote:Hi,I still think the Martians would think it odd that we treat something so useful, so uselessly.
Spoken like the true ignorant money person he (Warren Buffet) is. Ask any engineer about gold's density, malleability, heat and current conductivity, etc., etc.. If it weren't so expensive, it would be the most used material after water.
--Pete
April quotes - kandrathe - 04-10-2008
Quote:4/9/2008Chess is mental torture. -- Garry Kasparov
No one has yet discovered the limitations of the power of his own mind.
Napoleon Hill
April quotes - Occhidiangela - 04-10-2008
Quote:4/8/2008Plato never met an easy lay.
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
-- Plato
~Aristotle~
Occhi