Some guy said...

Sep 19, 2001, 1:01 PM ET14 posts by 8 postersalt.tv.southpark
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teepeealt.tv.southpark

...that the adverts on Cartoon Network were in poor taste cos of the World Trade Centre. Anyone tell me what he was referring to?

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Howard Shubs↩ teepeealt.tv.southpark

In article , "teepee" wrote:

No idea, here.

Howard S Shubs "Run in circles, scream and shout!" "I hope you have good backups!"
Howard Shubs↩ Christophalt.tv.southpark

In article , "Christoph" wrote:

Because.

Howard S Shubs "Run in circles, scream and shout!" "I hope you have good backups!"
The.Central.Scrutinizer.nospam↩ Howard Shubsalt.tv.southpark

I'm not convinced 'christoph' is sentient or could pass the turing test.

I'm of the belief that 'christoph' is nothing but an eliza clone left running by a sadistic CS student. Arguing with it is pointless.

Ben Raines↩ teepeealt.tv.southpark

And this relates to South park how...?

On a related off-topic note, anyone catch the leftist editorial cartoon which implied we deserved this for bombing Vietnam? The cartoon in question came from CA (of course) and features that famous Vietnam photoof the nude girl running down the road, superimposed on the crumbling WTC towers.

D.G. Porter↩ Ben Rainesalt.tv.southpark

What the fuck does that mean, asshole? Did you know that CA has some of the most "conservative" ("fascist") areas in the West? Ever hear of Placer? Orange? San Diego? Fucking dick...

Ben Raines↩ D.G. Porteralt.tv.southpark

Read it again. Read it a third time if it doesn't sink in.

Yeah, right. California is a regular liberal paradise: GayBay, Berkley, L.A., HollyWeird*, you get the idea.

  • Not exactly a place, but it's there.
D.G. Porter↩ Ben Rainesalt.tv.southpark

What an ignorant twat. You named exactly three places out of -- HOW MANY counties?? Ever hear of Riverside? San Ber'dino? Obviously not, dick. We also send some of the most rightwing LOONS to Congress -- until 1996, Bob Dornan, but still sending Cox, Rohrabacher, Cunningham, Royce, Hunter, Horn, Lewis, and that's just this area. Get an education, fool. Oh, excuse me, education to people like you is like salt to a slug.

Willie Westwood↩ D.G. Porteralt.tv.southpark

"D.G. Porter" wrote in message news:[email]...

L.A.,

And they say we can't get along! :D Both statements are true: we have conservative counties like Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino, and liberal places like L.A. (just ask the conservatives who've fled from there), San Francisco and Berkeley (who hasn't seen videos from Haight-Ashbury?) And just remember, Hollywood produces as much pornography as action films or comedies, and it's far more influential than any conservative county. We have both extremes here in California. Deal with it.

Liam Devlin↩ D.G. Porteralt.tv.southpark

One of the former rock-ribbed conservative Republicon counties, Orange, recently become not so conservative & Democratic following their descent into bankruptcy when the county financial officer bet the wrong way with derivatives & lost the county's kitty.

LiamD

From: http://www.gsm.uci.edu/~jorion/oc/case.html

In December 1994, Orange County stunned the markets by announcing that its investment pool had suffered a loss of $1.6 billion. This was the largest loss ever recorded by a local government investment pool, and led to the bankruptcy of the county shortly thereafter.

This loss was the result of unsupervised investment activity of Bob Citron, the County Treasurer, who was entrusted with a $7.5 billion portfolio belonging to county schools, cities, special districts and the county itself. In times of fiscal restraints, Citron was viewed as a wizard who could painlessly deliver greater returns to investors. Indeed, Citron delivered returns about 2% higher than the comparable State pool. Plot Citron's track record (Figure 1).

Citron was able to increase returns on the pool by investing in derivatives securities and leveraging the portfolio to the hilt. The pool was in such demand due to its track record that Citron had to turn down investments by agencies outside Orange County. Some local school districts and cities even issued short-term taxable notes to reinvest in the pool (thereby increasing their leverage even further). This was in spite of repeated public warnings, notably by John Moorlach, who ran for Treasurer in 1994, that the pool was too risky. Unfortunately, he was widely ignored and Bob Citron was re-elected.

The investment strategy worked excellently until 1994, when the Fed started a series of interest rate hikes that caused severe losses to the pool. Initially, this was announced as a ``paper'' loss. Shortly thereafter, the county declared bankruptcy and decided to liquidate the portfolio, thereby realizing the paper loss. How could this disaster have been avoided?