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Model Forum / General / Railroads / November 2009Sorta OT: Buffet buys BNSF
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  SignatureWho needs a junta or a dictatorship when you have a Congress blowing Wall Street, using the media as a condom? - harvested from Usenet >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 [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >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 . . . -- Ray > >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. >> >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 >>> >Article at >>> >http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/11/03/financial... [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > -- > 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 >>>> >Article at >>>> >http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/11/03/financial... [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >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 >>>>> >Article at >>>>> >http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/11/03/financial... [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > -- > 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 >>>>>> >Article at >>>>>> >http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/11/03/financial... [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > >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 >>>>> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:25:05 -0800 (PST), Twibil >>>>> <nowayjose6@gmail.com> [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > And you consider this little "Err" bit to be what? Funny? > Condescending? Negative? I label it as all three. 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 SignatureUsing Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ On 11/3/2009 1:37 PM Ray Haddad spake thus: >> 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. 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. SignatureWho needs a junta or a dictatorship when you have a Congress blowing Wall Street, using the media as a condom? - harvested from Usenet >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 On 11/3/2009 7:03 PM Ray Haddad spake thus: >> 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. Fair enough. SignatureWho needs a junta or a dictatorship when you have a Congress blowing Wall Street, using the media as a condom? - harvested from Usenet >> 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 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 >>> What tool thread did I "stomp", pray tell? >> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >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. -- Ray On 11/3/2009 12:33 PM Ray Haddad spake thus: >> Saw the headline today on my business page. Dunno what the >> consequences and repercussions of this are, but it seems like just [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > And let ye who never spams cast the first stone . . . Nice try. (Not really.) You obviously don't know what spam really is. This is not it. SignatureWho needs a junta or a dictatorship when you have a Congress blowing Wall Street, using the media as a condom? - harvested from Usenet >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. -- Ray Might also note that it is th big fish that have the money to keep things going through the lean times. -- Bob May rmay at nethere.com http: slash /nav.to slash bobmay http: slash /bobmay dot astronomy.net > 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". SignatureSteve >> Might also note that it is th big fish that have the money to keep >> things [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > 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 [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > 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 > 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. SignatureSteve >> Hang on there - it's the US's actions that have destabilized the World >> economy - [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > almost > as culpable, just not as big as Lehman, GS, and AIG. "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. > 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! ;-) |
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