Posted on 11/21/2010 11:46:30 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!” Samuel Adams
A man like Soros has thousands of investments, all he cares about is that they each show a profit, or cut a loss short.
It all adds up, especially when you're talking about that kind of money.
Also, once a technology like that is apparently around to stay for a while (e.g. invision), the co. would be likely to be bought out by larger conglomerate (GE bought Invision).
If that were to happen, his stock would skyrocket, no?
But that really wasn't the point of my post, was it?
Your defense of him is sickening and becoming all too obvious.
WTF?
Soros butt sniffing troll here.
Perhaps, but I’d bet Soros keeps tighter rein on some of his money than you think. Some of it is apparently used not as a direct revenue productive investment but toward a specific set of political goals to make other plans come to fruition.
Anyone who doesn’t understand that Soros is pure unadulterated Evil with a capital E is a moral cripple.
IOW he “invests” in more than just monetary profit.
your fr name is that of a person I ran into years ago with irrational troll-like declamations. I don’t care what you think. You clearly don’t have a clue about how major fund-size funds are run.
I assume you could go through FR posts from 2006 or before and find the issue, I am pretty sure you were calling me a nazi and I had your post deleted.
“If that were to happen, his stock would skyrocket, no?”
Idiot you are, or ignorant, aside from troll.
Chart Invision (old ticker INVN) to see how they did until the GE buyout. Clue (free) - it wasn’t 10000%.)
I don’t know the answer to this. Obviously he must be very involved in his overt efforts to influence the american political reality.
If a specific small-size investment in one of how many companies screwing with US public opinion is of the same caliber, I truly doubt it. I cannot imagine he has time for a 5-digit affair.
IMHO, Soros is banking on the trend that once the genie is out of the bottle, it can't be put back in and that available technology will be used, and eventually accepted.
The proliferation of gadgetry and its insinuation into the very fabric of our lives in the past three decades has not only diminished resistance to technological change, but also what we consider to be 'privacy' (along with psychological conditioning from the media, schools, and shrinks to strip off any clothing on our persona, and eventually our bodies, in self-disclosure).
This not only brings more ready acceptance to being scanned and the technology to do so, but less resistance to the idea of being displayed sans garments.
Those of us who have had the moral upbringing to decry this are the holdouts, but even we as a group appear to be on the decline.
The weakness, of course, is the use of 'molestation' and 'harassment' charges to put our business and social culture in disarray, which now beg the question of why the current TSA protocols aren't molestation and harassment, especially when applied to the very children the Left has claimed they were fighting for.
Even dumbed-down bread-and-circuses Americans are still protective of their children.
If this isn't stopped at the airports, it will only be a matter of time before there are roadside checkpoints. That is when the real lockdown will begin if the Anti-American pogrom continues.
You might not remember how much you spent on a steak, but you will recall putting a quarter in a parking meter. It is the purpose of the investment, not the amount which makes it significant.
I agree 100%. And it’s not just nekkid pictures and molesting per se - it’s the docile acceptance of humiliation and groveling and submission to Authority no matter what.
Reminds me precisely of what the Jews in Germany accepted in the 1930s bit by bit - took their cars away, then bicycles, then they couldn’t own stores, then manage them, then work in them, then they could shop only at limited times, then they had to wear the yellow star, and on and on. Of course I’m not getting it all exactly correct, but finally they wound up in cattle cars, barricaded in the Warsaw ghetto, and in the ovens.
“You might not remember how much you spent on a steak, but you will recall putting a quarter in a parking meter. It is the purpose of the investment, not the amount which makes it significant.”
Fair point. I would counter in this form - he may not have even known he owned it until the media covered it. He has money with multiple managers. I think if he wanted to get ideological about it he would at least be a 13D/G filer (5% owner). His investment in this company was less than a rounding error in his net worth under the most magical profit scenario.
Drive safely! :) don’t blame you one bit!
If this were a NASDAQ pharmaceutical or a stock not related so intimately to what appears to be his agenda, I might agree. That would be a quarter in the jar, though, not one in the parking meter...
I've never called anyone a nazi here in my 13,200+ posts.
LOL, you're the one here defending Soros, not me.
Soros's investments are not always about an immediate return of profit, many times they are about the destruction of America (Tides, Media Matters, etc.)
Chaos is what these people need, these machines have gone a long way in providing it.
Soros has nothing on his mind but our destruction, he is indefensible.
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