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Re: Google Wave crashes on beach of overhype

llboyd — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:40:17 -0000

My question is this: did google ask for this much hype and promote it? Or did a wave of nerds like yourself just do what you usually do and get yourself all excited over the next thing that comes out from hot company X? I honestly don't know bc I don't waste my time reading the daily headlines or blogs. Nonetheless, thanks for your insight. i'm sure I'll give it a go at some point regardless. cheers.

Re: Natural Gassssssssss

llboyd — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:47:29 -0000

money

Re: Natural Gassssssssss

llboyd — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:46:56 -0000

and that's why you're the man aiki.

Re: Natural Gassssssssss

llboyd — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:46:02 -0000

thx bru

Re: Natural Gassssssssss

llboyd — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:45:38 -0000

good one. thanks Upside. another one that I should have mentioned, that I myself am long right now is PGH. Despite it's healthy foreign tax divy, it's pretty moNEY way to play oil/nat gas AND the USD/CAD.

Re: Worst…acquisition…EVER

llboyd — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:14:32 -0000

you're correct. thanks Terence. Editing this now.

Re: The Biofuel Prayer

llboyd — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:17:48 -0000

Gregor: great posts as usual. your article seems to make sense to me but wanted to pass along to my dad as he is in the alternative energy field and has a lot of expertise here. wanted to share with you his response and get your reaction:

"Thanks for asking. I disagree. Could the auto industry or the oil industry ever have become strong or stayed afloat without massive government subsidies. No. And the same is true for many other industries. So, investing tax dollars in biofuels that demand more accountability with regard to the life cycle analysis of GHG emissions....meaning that biofuels have to significantly outperform fossil fuels to be eligible for incentives...........makes sense to me. The energy intensive ethanol plants are already on the ropes. The plants that are not drying their wet distillers grains, are sequestering their CO2 and using it for enhanced oil recovery or some other application and are using milo as an alternative feedstock are producing a pretty green/sustainable fuel and that is what we need to move forward. If we just say ixnay to biofuel no big deal for the next few decades likely. Time for the naysayers to die off. But what happens to those that will have to pay $10/gallon when oil supply is so constrained that our fossil fuel economy is in peril. And do you feel good enriching nations that hate America and fund terrorists? Let's spend our money to fuel the economy in the USA.

So, long story short is I am somewhere in between. Don't abandon oil and it's huge energy advantage over plant based fuel but let''s invest in biofuels and work towards transitioning."

Re: The Restructuring of Global Oil Demand

llboyd — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:02:07 -0000

excellent post as usual Gregor. nothing to add here.

Re: A Second Market Is Emerging

llboyd — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:13:39 -0000

hopefully it'll ultimately provide the IPO market some healthy competition (that it's already getting from foreign markets) and whip the regulators with some reality - scale back on some of the costly oversight.

Re: the GOOG 411

llboyd — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:37:18 -0000

this must be added from @firstadopter :

Can $GOOG shareholders re-price employee options now that the stock is up?

http://stocktwits.com/u/fir...

Re: the GOOG 411

llboyd — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:13:07 -0000

noted! thx Upside

Re: Texas

llboyd — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 09:08:16 -0000

yeah, i'm pretty sure i would've moved to austin already if there were more salty water around/near it.

Re: EVERYBODY’s Model is Wrong…Some Just MORE than Others

llboyd — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:02:18 -0000

bravo. agree on all points. we need a LOT LESS gov't at all levels; best thing they could do is make statement showing full support of the capitalistic enterprise and hand over the reigns - then go radio silent for the foreseeable future. gov't produces nothing, rather all it does is apportion. all this does is create one more uncertainty that industry has to worry about.

Re: New York

llboyd — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:25:21 -0000

was just reading a bizweek article on wealthiest towns in America.

http://images.businessweek....

SOOO much wealth in NY and Cali; both facing similar problems - ridiculously high % of taxes paid by so few. they are also both continually ranked highly as very unfriendly to business for a variety of reasons. (most coming at the hand of gov't, not surprisingly).

it'll be interesting to see how the wealth shifts around the US in the coming decades with many Southern and Midwestern states working aggressively to attract new businesses. ...and then there's that whole cost of living thing.

as a southerner, i'm excited for the future as most of the current wealth in the south is concentrated in old money and while many are well intentioned, it doesn't necessarily flow through the system like it perhaps could.

...only drawback will be having to deal with even more of them damn yankees.

Re: StockTwits users all over it…again

llboyd — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:44:11 -0000

right on bru.

Re: UK Update: Credit and Oil

llboyd — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:56:01 -0000

wow. why is my country (US) not buying obscene amounts of oil? how can we be so shortsighted? i guess I'll have to do it myself. thx for this Gregor

Re: Tax Policy: A Tool for Good or a Weapon of Mass Destruction

llboyd — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:37:19 -0000

100% agree; and there is no better consumption tax plan out there than the FairTax. The most researched tax plan ever created. Would do wonders. www.fairtax.org

Re: Makers and diet, with a dash of macroeconomic pontification, please

llboyd — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:50:46 -0000

ha - great article; also makes me feel better about the amount of time i have spent in the bars myself - all research, all the time

Re: Rules in stone

llboyd — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:48:30 -0000

I like that basketball analogy - very good point.

Re: StockTwits Brunch Transcript Sat Morn Feb 28, 2009

llboyd — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:42:18 -0000

welcome

Re: Chill Pill…Deep Breath…Serenity Now…FIRE!

llboyd — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:24:28 -0000

Re: Don’t trust Robinhood.

llboyd — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:40:53 -0000

+1 sir. couldn't agree more. -- fairtax.org will take us straight to that world

Re: Welcome the New Interns

llboyd — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:42:27 -0000

a-thank-you

Re: LindzonPalooza Decides to Open to The Public?

llboyd — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:38:28 -0000

totally in on the cage fight. MMA FTW

Re: Welcome the New Interns

llboyd — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:14:26 -0000

thx bru. i was telling phil and seth how spx jumped right after the announcement.