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You might want to tell us what type of research. I do research as well as software development & engineering, but my work also requires 3D graphics and number crunching.

The laptops I presently have are a Dell M60 and M70. I am looking at replacing the M60 with a Dell M6300 or M4300. These are not cheap machines and are probably overkill for what you may be doing. Please… ‘need more input’…

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You might want to tell us what type of research. I do research as well as software development & engineering, but my work also requires 3D graphics and number crunching.

The laptops I presently have are a Dell M60 and M70. I am looking at replacing the M60 with a Dell M6300 or M4300. These are not cheap machines and are probably overkill for what you may be doing. Please… ‘need more input’…

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You might want to tell us what type of research. I do research as well as software development & engineering, but my work also requires 3D graphics and number crunching.

The laptops I presently have are a Dell M60 and M70. I am looking at replacing the M60 with a Dell M6300 or M4300. These are not cheap machines and are probably overkill for what you may be doing. Please… ‘need more input’…

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And here, watch Paulson fumble his way through questions from Sen Bunning.

Paulson tries to do a tap dance.. nice!! It helps if you avoid the stuttering and repeating of the start of a words.

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And here, watch Paulson fumble his way through questions from Sen Bunning.

Paulson tries to do a tap dance.. nice!! It helps if you avoid the stuttering and repeating of the start of a words.

[ucodegen]

And here, watch Paulson fumble his way through questions from Sen Bunning.

Paulson tries to do a tap dance.. nice!! It helps if you avoid the stuttering and repeating of the start of a words.

[ucodegen]

And here, watch Paulson fumble his way through questions from Sen Bunning.

Paulson tries to do a tap dance.. nice!! It helps if you avoid the stuttering and repeating of the start of a words.

[ucodegen]

And here, watch Paulson fumble his way through questions from Sen Bunning.

Paulson tries to do a tap dance.. nice!! It helps if you avoid the stuttering and repeating of the start of a words.

[ucodegen]

for a discussion on naked shorting and its consequence – Failure to deliver. It is like you have a machine or circuit and suddenly the laws of conservation (of energy, matter, current etc.,) were repealed. Obviously, the engine or circuit may blow up due to accumulation at sink (or deficit at source).

Actually, the consequences on failure to deliver are not as bad as made out in the article. There are two big problems though with naked shorting.
1) Voting rights. Shares from a naked short have no voting rights.
2) Making sure that the naked short can financially cover their position and any dividends that the stock declares.

Personally, as an investor, I don’t care if the stock I buy is from a naked short unless I want to make sure I have a right to vote for board of directors etc (not that they pay much attention to the stockholders anymore – something that I think should change). Just so long as when I sell, I get the delta between purchase and sale. Dividends are what really hurt naked shorts, and having them around may reduce the speculative prices in many stocks — grounding the price of the share back to basics, what the company earns and can pay in terms of dividends.

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for a discussion on naked shorting and its consequence – Failure to deliver. It is like you have a machine or circuit and suddenly the laws of conservation (of energy, matter, current etc.,) were repealed. Obviously, the engine or circuit may blow up due to accumulation at sink (or deficit at source).

Actually, the consequences on failure to deliver are not as bad as made out in the article. There are two big problems though with naked shorting.
1) Voting rights. Shares from a naked short have no voting rights.
2) Making sure that the naked short can financially cover their position and any dividends that the stock declares.

Personally, as an investor, I don’t care if the stock I buy is from a naked short unless I want to make sure I have a right to vote for board of directors etc (not that they pay much attention to the stockholders anymore – something that I think should change). Just so long as when I sell, I get the delta between purchase and sale. Dividends are what really hurt naked shorts, and having them around may reduce the speculative prices in many stocks — grounding the price of the share back to basics, what the company earns and can pay in terms of dividends.

[ucodegen]

for a discussion on naked shorting and its consequence – Failure to deliver. It is like you have a machine or circuit and suddenly the laws of conservation (of energy, matter, current etc.,) were repealed. Obviously, the engine or circuit may blow up due to accumulation at sink (or deficit at source).

Actually, the consequences on failure to deliver are not as bad as made out in the article. There are two big problems though with naked shorting.
1) Voting rights. Shares from a naked short have no voting rights.
2) Making sure that the naked short can financially cover their position and any dividends that the stock declares.

Personally, as an investor, I don’t care if the stock I buy is from a naked short unless I want to make sure I have a right to vote for board of directors etc (not that they pay much attention to the stockholders anymore – something that I think should change). Just so long as when I sell, I get the delta between purchase and sale. Dividends are what really hurt naked shorts, and having them around may reduce the speculative prices in many stocks — grounding the price of the share back to basics, what the company earns and can pay in terms of dividends.

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for a discussion on naked shorting and its consequence – Failure to deliver. It is like you have a machine or circuit and suddenly the laws of conservation (of energy, matter, current etc.,) were repealed. Obviously, the engine or circuit may blow up due to accumulation at sink (or deficit at source).

Actually, the consequences on failure to deliver are not as bad as made out in the article. There are two big problems though with naked shorting.
1) Voting rights. Shares from a naked short have no voting rights.
2) Making sure that the naked short can financially cover their position and any dividends that the stock declares.

Personally, as an investor, I don’t care if the stock I buy is from a naked short unless I want to make sure I have a right to vote for board of directors etc (not that they pay much attention to the stockholders anymore – something that I think should change). Just so long as when I sell, I get the delta between purchase and sale. Dividends are what really hurt naked shorts, and having them around may reduce the speculative prices in many stocks — grounding the price of the share back to basics, what the company earns and can pay in terms of dividends.

[ucodegen]

for a discussion on naked shorting and its consequence – Failure to deliver. It is like you have a machine or circuit and suddenly the laws of conservation (of energy, matter, current etc.,) were repealed. Obviously, the engine or circuit may blow up due to accumulation at sink (or deficit at source).

Actually, the consequences on failure to deliver are not as bad as made out in the article. There are two big problems though with naked shorting.
1) Voting rights. Shares from a naked short have no voting rights.
2) Making sure that the naked short can financially cover their position and any dividends that the stock declares.

Personally, as an investor, I don’t care if the stock I buy is from a naked short unless I want to make sure I have a right to vote for board of directors etc (not that they pay much attention to the stockholders anymore – something that I think should change). Just so long as when I sell, I get the delta between purchase and sale. Dividends are what really hurt naked shorts, and having them around may reduce the speculative prices in many stocks — grounding the price of the share back to basics, what the company earns and can pay in terms of dividends.

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Former San Diegan, I spent more time trying to figure out a way to put the oil thing in here than anything else because they are sort of related. But congress is busy; I agree the letter is probably more powerful if I leave the oil thing out.

Just a FYI on the oil thing. It is all about supply and demand.. so a few questions to think of:
1) When was the last time we did any large oil exploration or exploitation of resources in the US, and more specifically California?
2) When was the last time any major refining capacity was added (new refineries built) in US, and more specifically California?
3) Since the last drilling for oil, adding oil rigs and adding refining capacity.. has the consumption of fossil fuels increased in the US and more specifically California?

Presently we are importing refined product(ie Gasoline) from Mexico because of lack of refining capacity. The lack of spare capacity is the reason why the price of oil and gasoline jumps anytime the supply line is threatened (ie by Iran’s saber rattling), and Iran knows this. This is one of the reasons Iran was reiterating its threats when oil drops in price. It will be interesting to see if Iran does another ‘threat’ after this drop, particularly considering the Photoshop work done on their last ‘announcements’.

The only real fixes on the oil front is reduced consumption or increased production. Speculators have to sell the oil they bought on speculation. If there is no-one there to buy it at their price (because there is more than people need at the specified delivery date).. the speculators really get shafted because speculation on the commodities markets is highly leveraged (both up and down).

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Former San Diegan, I spent more time trying to figure out a way to put the oil thing in here than anything else because they are sort of related. But congress is busy; I agree the letter is probably more powerful if I leave the oil thing out.

Just a FYI on the oil thing. It is all about supply and demand.. so a few questions to think of:
1) When was the last time we did any large oil exploration or exploitation of resources in the US, and more specifically California?
2) When was the last time any major refining capacity was added (new refineries built) in US, and more specifically California?
3) Since the last drilling for oil, adding oil rigs and adding refining capacity.. has the consumption of fossil fuels increased in the US and more specifically California?

Presently we are importing refined product(ie Gasoline) from Mexico because of lack of refining capacity. The lack of spare capacity is the reason why the price of oil and gasoline jumps anytime the supply line is threatened (ie by Iran’s saber rattling), and Iran knows this. This is one of the reasons Iran was reiterating its threats when oil drops in price. It will be interesting to see if Iran does another ‘threat’ after this drop, particularly considering the Photoshop work done on their last ‘announcements’.

The only real fixes on the oil front is reduced consumption or increased production. Speculators have to sell the oil they bought on speculation. If there is no-one there to buy it at their price (because there is more than people need at the specified delivery date).. the speculators really get shafted because speculation on the commodities markets is highly leveraged (both up and down).

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