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Comment on Considering CREE by MJ

MJ — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:41:36 +0000

The stock sounds very Buffet-esc. Simple product stucture, lots of cash flow, logical future plans and potential, what isn’t to like. The only disadvantage I see is that the stock is up.

Comment on What A Franken Win Really Means by mymoneyshrugged

mymoneyshrugged — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:14:40 +0000

Totally agree, nice insight into our political/voting system. On top of all this, we the American people need to take more interest into who we are voting for. People who vote without knowing the issues or the candidate can destroy this country if we do not watch out. People are way more concerned with hollywood than they are what is going on up in Washington and it is very upsetting to see.

Comment on Considering CREE by JR

JR — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:27:44 +0000

Besides the energy efficient / home use of CREE LEDs, I think many analysts are missing how the pico projector industry will effect CREE. I hear that many pico projector manufacturers are using CREE LEDs for their projectors.

For example the AAXA P1 pico

http://www.aaxatech.com/products/kp190.h... uses CREE LEDs.

Supposedly the next step will be integration into cell phones like the Iphone, Blackberry, etc - can you imagine walking into a meeting and blasting your presentation with your blackberry? How cool would that be? If apple put a CREE LED into every single one of their Ipods / Iphones and a few other phone makers jumped on board, isn’t htis a $1 billion + business?

Why isn’t there more talk of micro projector & pico cell phone / cree LED integration???

Comment on Considering CREE by Winston

Winston — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:42:07 +0000

if you like the stock, why not start buying it now and average down should it indeed falter?? use a plan of buying every $1.50 lower, or buying on a moving average, etc. just my thought, it stinks not being a part of a move if you truly like the fundamentals…

Comment on Thinking about LED’s by The Corner Office Blog - An entrepreneurs thoughts on business, personal finance and investing. » Considering CREE

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:33:23 +0000

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Comment on The power of options by The Corner Office Blog - An entrepreneurs thoughts on business, personal finance and investing. » The Battle for Wireless Data

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:54:06 +0000

[...] The only complaint I have is the cost of the service itself in relation to the features provided. For $59.99 per month (plus the $20 in taxes and fees) I get 550 minutes between my wife and I. As I’ve mentioned before, we don’t even come close to using those minutes. [...]

Comment on Tracking down a pesky misfire… by Grant

Grant — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:56:21 +0000

@MJ

Just remember, all you need is a ‘C’ to pass.

The old spark plug did look black at the tip, but it wasn’t loaded up with carbon like I’ve seen in others. Since it was black, it tells me the mixture wasn’t overly lean, which I guess is a good thing, and since it wasn’t loaded up with carbon it shouldn’t be too rich either.

I do wonder how you test a spark plug. Resistance values maybe?

Comment on Tracking down a pesky misfire… by MJ

MJ — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:27:16 +0000

Truck driving school looks like the bomb. I think I could only pass the intermediate drug usage class or Coke II if you will.

Did your old spark plug look black on the tip?

Comment on European Rail by MJ

MJ — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:38:18 +0000

Fascinating not fastenating…damn…

Comment on European Rail by MJ

MJ — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:32:06 +0000

Oh and you have to click play for it to start.

Comment on European Rail by MJ

MJ — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:31:37 +0000

Did you guys see this PBS special about Portland, it was fastenating. It makes me wonder why we couldn’t do it anywhere?

Excerpt:
http://www.pbs.org/e2/episodes/311_portland_a_sense_of_place_excerpt.html

Comment on Mama’s don’t let your babies grow up to be… plumbers. by The Corner Office Blog - An entrepreneurs thoughts on business, personal finance and investing. » Rental Property Update

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:44:46 +0000

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Comment on European Rail by Mike

Mike — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:43:43 +0000

Yes, they just opened the light rail system here in Phoenix in December and it’s doing much better than expected. But, personally I’ve never ridden it.

We have serious air pollution and traffic issues here in the Valley and I think the creation of the light rail had more to do with that than anything else. We pay for it through a 0.4 percent sales tax voted on in Phoenix back in 2000.

I guess it serves a purpose for those who live in the East Valley and work in Phoenix. But IMO, I think money would have been better spent creating a high speed rail line with service between Phoenix and Tucson. Now THAT would have been more valuable, and done a LOT to reduce pollution, save lives, and eliminate traffic congestion.

Comment on European Rail by Dave C.

Dave C. — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:39:28 +0000

I used the trains and subway (Underground) extensively during my trips to England. Having never been exposed to train travel in the US, I was in awe when I experienced the roar and rush of air as one of the London commuter trains blew past my station.

I think that we should make more use of trains in the US, but I wonder how much of the American idea of a car for every man, woman, and child - gets in the way of public sentiment and action towards revitalizing our railroad usage.

Comment on European Rail by Tom

Tom — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:43:19 +0000

The parent firm, for which I work, is a French High Speed Train/Rail designer and we are currently working on the California HSR. Cali’s success or failure will likely be the test case for the rest of the US for when it comes to design standards and application.

Overall I see HSR as a great thing to have but it comes with a huge price tag. In Europe, portions of the Infrastructure (rails) are usually subsidized by the gov’t (via taxes) but the rest is made up by revenues generated from users.

Of course, the difference in Europe vs the USA is the high gas prices. Higher gas prices do push people into mass transit more and I suspect we’ll have to hit $3.50/gal again before the cry for HSR gets louder.

Comment on An Appreciation for Where I’m From by Grant

Grant — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:34:56 +0000

@Mike
The waiter actually said that the scenario he described in Greece was common among several other central European countries.

@MJ
I agree with you whole heartedly. The problem is that while we assume that everyone here is a citizen, that’s now not always the case.

It still stands that we have immigration laws spelled out that we don’t enforce. That is no others fault but our own.

And contrary to the media, we don’t have an immigration problem. We have an illegal immigration problem.

Comment on An Appreciation for Where I’m From by Mike

Mike — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:35:11 +0000

When I read the waiter’s descriptions, it’s almost like he’s talking about Sicily.

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Comment on An Appreciation for Where I’m From by MJ

MJ — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:30:46 +0000

Did he have a ailing Nigerian business partner?

I have said it many times, but in the US when we see a imigrant, for the most part we assume that they are a US citizen first. Sure our country has a lot of prejudice and class issues, but in reality everybody has a chance here. We all are equal in the pursuit of happiness, besides maybe England and Canada, there really isn’t too many other countries out there in the world that can even try to say the same thing. That is why I think we all have high hopes for the US.

Comment on People Watching, Part II by Chris Leow

Chris Leow — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:36:16 +0000

Interesting ! Well, we in Malaysia seem to be doing well we have high growth and high inflation. An example of inflation would be the local desert “cendol” bought about a month ago at the price of $1.20 in local currency would now sell for $ 1.80 in local currency. Job growth is also strong as we have 2 jobs for every worker and Malaysia imports in foreign labour to do jobs that local workers do not want to do. Hence our problem in Malaysia is now high inflation and good news, high growth.. We do not understand why the Western Media keeps on saying we are in a Recession. Yes our economy slowed down in March 2009 but after that period our economy is now experiencing high growth and high inflation thanks to China’s strong buying of Malaysian goods and services, thank you China ! So please do not say Malaysia is in a Recession when it is not, only the US is in a Recession, the rest of the World is booming thanks to China !