April quotes

[Tris]

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Napoleon Bonaparte

[Occhidiangela]

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon couldn't get it up with a crane.

~Empress Josephine~

[--Pete]

Hi,

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Napoleon Bonaparte

"On the other hand, I think I'll retire to Elba." -- Nappy the Bone

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

[Jim]

Hello :w00t:

No matter how good you get you can always get better and that's the exciting part.

-Tiger Woods

ps: Why the HELL should I have to PRESS 1 for ENGLISH

[Urza-DSF]

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?

[Jim]

Hello :w00t:

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.

[Urza-DSF]

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

[Tris]

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)

[kandrathe]

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)

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." -- Seneca

[Tris]

4/8/2008

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
-- Plato

[kandrathe]

4/8/2008

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
-- Plato

"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

[eppie]

"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.:)

[Tris]

4/9/2008

No one has yet discovered the limitations of hte power of his own mind.

Napoleon Hill

[--Pete]

Hi,

. . . 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

[ShadowHM]

Hi,
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

But but....

I had the impression that was his point. The monetary value of gold has no relationship to its utility. :unsure:

[--Pete]

Hi,

. . . 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

[kandrathe]

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.

[kandrathe]

Hi,
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 still think the Martians would think it odd that we treat something so useful, so uselessly.

[kandrathe]

4/9/2008

No one has yet discovered the limitations of the power of his own mind.

Napoleon Hill

Chess is mental torture. -- Garry Kasparov

[Occhidiangela]

4/8/2008

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
-- Plato

Plato never met an easy lay.

~Aristotle~

Occhi