I would like to applaud Apple

No Macluv, there are no (legal) ways for a company to own it's own shares. I used to work in Corporate Finance in the City (London's Wall St.) so please don't try and tell me how structured finance works.
 
Believe it or not London is (still) a major financial centre. Thankfully my work never took me to Wall St.

I imagine the NYSE is at 111 Wall St in which case that'd make you an ex trader... in which case you wouldn't know as much as the brains behind Wall St i.e. Corporate Financiers.

It's OK to be wrong you know - so long as you learn from it.

If a company tried to buy its own stock (through an intermediary for example) it'd be manipulating the market - which is illegal. If a company buys its own stock direct, it's a buy back. Which is legal. So any company which somehow owns it's own stock has committed an illegal act.

Now if you want to show me how a company can legally buy it's stock, I'm all ears - perhaps I can learn something.
 
For anyone wondering, the above post is in reponse to a post whare MacLuv claimed he had worked on Wall St. Apparently he was so successful he has been able to retire to New Zealand at the tender age of 33. That post has now been edited/removed.
 
two things - first lay off the personal slander. i get really angry really fast when this starts up. accounts get lost quickly. reread the site rules if you have questions about this.

second - you guys want to argue stock trading, start a thread in the cafe. normally i would allow this during slower periods, but mwsf is really busy here and this is the best titled thread in this whole forum so i hate to see anybody screw it up by taking it this far off course.
 
macluv - i've edited out his questioning of your integrity. but i won't take out his explanation of what you said. if you put it out there and somebody else sees it, its public. apparently it's a good thing i wasn't the one who saw it first. i'd be happy with that if i were you ;)

now you guys can take this outside or we'll split the thread and take it outside for you.
 
Ed just so I know, could you PM me with what I said about MacLuv? I just don't want to make the same mistake again.
 
this thread is about applauding apple. and i do.

the keynote has been a thrill for me, although i've only been able to see it two hours after it first aired (or webbed, but i have airport, so...).

The PowerBooks - Great. Just great. I don't know why they're still selling 15" 867 models, but I'd certainly grab one of both new models if I had the money.

Safari - Great entry. Great source code choice. This will be my browser.

iLife - Great. As I'm not creating DVDs, I can get most of it for free (all I really need). And I wouldn't mind the 50$ for what iDVD 3 is worth (much, much more...).

Yet, Apple has to (and will) upgrade the desktops soon. But rather silently, I guess, as they _want_ to make us buy portables, which I think is great, too, as I'm a mobile professional, anyway.

And then: Mac OS X booting only. Finally. I'm in heaven. :)

Applause!
 
fakeyboy - i didn't save copies and i don't remember details. besides i'm tired and i want to go to bed, not deal with this sh*t. the point is to not question each other's integrity. everyone here has the right ot be wrong. please reread the site rules if you still have questions. i think they say it pretty clearly.
 
Okay Ed, I'm cool

Fine, for the record, I'm not 33, I'm not in New Zealand, I'm not retired. I've never worked on Wall Street. I'm very poor, and always have been. I live in my parents basement and eat cold cereal all day long in my underpants. When I'm not surfing here I surf for porn, because I'm not married, either.

Sorry for all the trouble. I just wanted to feel good about myself. Is that so wrong?
 
tired of this argument...

I too want to applaud Apple for the way they handled the iApps thing. We get them for free, plus we get a new browser!

I found myself jumping in front of my Mac applauding a webcasted Steve yesterday a few times!

Thanks for staying "Apple"! The .mac incident is ALMOST forgotten...
 
Okay. This thread is _not_ about WallStreet. This is Macintosh News & Rumors, this thread is about applauding Apple (or not, if you don't want to). Please keep the thread on track.
 
Well, I for one am #$@% impressed with the keynote. I made the mistake of not staying up to watch it (I am in Australia) figuring it would just be a few speed bumps, a few changes to the iApps, and maybe some new device or other. When I went to the Apple site to see what I'd missed, it was actually more than they could fit on their main page format! Airport Extreme, two brand new PowerBooks, Safari, X11 Server, FireWire 800, and they're not charging for the iApps either ... Maybe it wasn't everything the whiners wanted, but I'd find it hard to think of any company that could create so much WOW-ocity in two hours.
 
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