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Forum: Brick and Mortar 11-28-2007, 11:56 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 400
Posted By iversonian
Re: Poker is a necessary annoyance for casino executives.

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And I don't begrudge businesses making a profit, not at all. I do begrudge businesses who screw both their customers and employees alike, motivated only by profits. These companies have...
Forum: Brick and Mortar 11-28-2007, 08:24 PM
Replies: 29
Views: 400
Posted By iversonian
Re: Poker is a necessary annoyance for casino executives.

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That's the underlying problem with these disneyland corporations, they want ALL their customers money. They're not satisfied with a tidy profit, they want ridiculously enourmous profits.
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Forum: EDF 11-25-2007, 01:30 AM
Replies: 77
Views: 544
Posted By iversonian
Re: Quick rock paper scissors question

How is this not obviously paper? Another situation I've had. I threw scissors using my thumb and index finger. Big argument ensued (stakes were very high). How can this possibly be anything but...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-24-2007, 10:57 PM
Replies: 48
Views: 1,004
Posted By iversonian
Re: Is This Insider Trading?

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1. Favorable clinical trials at my company haven't been announced yet. So I can't buy the stock. But I short a competitor's stock.

2. I'm at a pay phone and I overhear the...
Forum: Other Other Topics 11-21-2007, 11:32 PM
Replies: 138
Views: 1,585
Posted By iversonian
Re: getting fast cars in automatic....

lol at people who think stick = being a REAL man. This psychological complex needs a name of its own.
Forum: Politics 11-20-2007, 02:16 AM
Replies: 32
Views: 226
Posted By iversonian
Re: if you were the last person on earth

Hmm, I think I'd mandate myself free health care.
Forum: Science, Math, and Philosophy 11-20-2007, 01:52 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 270
Posted By iversonian
Re: Even Cooler Problem Involving e

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enticements in your pocket

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O.o
Forum: Beginners Questions 11-16-2007, 11:08 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 129
Posted By iversonian
Re: 7 card stud games

What in the world were you staying in with? It was a $521 pot, so it's not like it didn't get bet.
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-15-2007, 08:30 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 63
Posted By iversonian
Re: Leaving for around a year - stock safe?

Stocks aren't like children. They're not safe or at risk depending on whether or not you're doting over them.
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-09-2007, 03:48 AM
Replies: 33
Views: 546
Posted By iversonian
Re: so i\'ll have a law degree soon...

I hear from many varied sources that law school is pretty much only good for being a lawyer. Unless you're really energized by the prospect of studying and practicing the law, I would suggest, based...
Forum: High Stakes Limit 11-09-2007, 02:41 AM
Replies: 52
Views: 1,396
Posted By iversonian
Re: How is the 100-200 game in Bellagio?

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30/60, on the other hand, I don't know.

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i think if you can beat 1/2 online you can beat 30/60 at bellagio.

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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-09-2007, 02:25 AM
Replies: 70
Views: 407
Posted By iversonian
Re: Ask me about the CFA program

Any sense that the designation is being cheapened with the tremendous growth in the number of charterholders?

http://www.cfainstitute.org/cfaprog/overview/facts.html

78k charterholders and 140k...
Forum: Other Other Topics 11-07-2007, 09:48 PM
Replies: 52
Views: 854
Posted By iversonian
Airplane crashes

I just had this weird thought and couldn't get it out of my head.

Have any of you been at an airport when a flight that was supposed to land there crashed en route? Do the monitors (where it...
Forum: EDF 10-29-2007, 10:51 PM
Replies: 83
Views: 448
Posted By iversonian
Re: LASIK Vision Correction

How do you judge competence, though? Go with the smooth talker? The one with the plush office and presume that it means he's higher end, as we all do with most other types of services? No, I'm not...
Forum: Other Other Topics 10-29-2007, 09:58 PM
Replies: 143
Views: 1,061
Posted By iversonian
Re: Line cutting scenario (long + polls + MSPaint)

Do you say anything in the first place? No.

Does the awesome version of you being played out in your head say anything? Yes.
Forum: EDF 10-17-2007, 02:43 AM
Replies: 111
Views: 890
Posted By iversonian
Re: Suggest a new name for EDF

How bout just changing it to the letters EDF that don't mean anything, like a lot of companies do for some damn reason or other (e.g. BP, UBS). Later, when the newbies ask what EDF stands for, we...
Forum: Beginners Questions 10-02-2007, 10:04 PM
Replies: 20
Views: 496
Posted By iversonian
Re: Ways to Defeat the Live Straddle

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Play like a kitten and let him take all your blinds.

If someone ALWAYS straddles can I please sit next to him.

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Stradding is a bad play, but it benefits others at the...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 10-01-2007, 04:55 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 76
Posted By iversonian
Re: Question about US/china relations

The US would find it very hard to finance its debt (govt bonds continually mature and they have to keep rolling it over, along with issuing new debt), so the interest we would have to pay would go...
Forum: BBV4Life 09-29-2007, 09:47 PM
Replies: 35
Views: 384
Posted By iversonian
Re: BBV4L, how smart is you brain?

White people all look the same /images/graemlins/frown.gif
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 09-27-2007, 05:42 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 201
Posted By iversonian
Re: Know when to hold...and when to fold

Wow, datamining ftl.

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Buying the top funds in June or October worked better than buying and selling in February.

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Good Lord, are you kidding me?
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 09-27-2007, 05:41 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 82
Posted By iversonian
Re: What else can you do to counteract the weakening dollar?

Just hold your wealth in real assets, not a fiat currency that's tanking (if that's what's you predict will happen). This includes US stocks as well. Check their balance sheets. Avoid the ones...
Forum: Politics 09-27-2007, 01:48 AM
Replies: 66
Views: 615
Posted By iversonian
Re: Big strike at GM

I thought Iron was leveling. Now I'm confused. /images/graemlins/confused.gif
Forum: Politics 09-27-2007, 12:00 AM
Replies: 45
Views: 364
Posted By iversonian
Re: Keep The Swastika- Save Some Lives

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There are quite a few Navajo rugs and sand paintings that have a "rolling log" figure, which is a reverse swastika.

Link...
Forum: News, Views, and Gossip 09-26-2007, 11:49 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 298
Posted By iversonian
Re: Gone for the weekend -- What happened to all the AP posts?

These types of threads really annoy me where 1 out of 14 people actually try to answer his question and everyone else acts as though anything but a joke response betrays not "having a good sense of...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 09-26-2007, 09:31 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 183
Posted By iversonian
Re: why are you not massively shorting the dollar?

I'm still bearish on the US$, but to answer your question:

Because every fifth post on the investing section of a poker forum is talking about how people should short the dollar? Exrates can be...
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