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  • Time traveller busted for insider trading!

    Gotta love this one!

    Go to http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20030319/104808600007.html.
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  • #2
    "We don't believe this guy's story -- he's either a lunatic or a pathological liar," says an SEC insider.
    Damned, do these guys get special training, or what !!!
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    • #3
      What! You don't believe he could be geniune?

      Should've done a poll on it I guess.
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      • #4
        I'm intrigued as to the nature of the deals he capitalised on.

        To trade so successfully in several disparate companies requires a lot of inside contacts that I can't see an unknown having. I wonder if he somehow managed to bug offices or whether he is simply a very good computer hacker who intercepted many a confidential e-mail.
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        • #5
          Did he mumble something about "12 monkeys"?
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          • #6
            Originally posted by Big Crunch
            I'm intrigued as to the nature of the deals he capitalised on.

            To trade so successfully in several disparate companies requires a lot of inside contacts that I can't see an unknown having. I wonder if he somehow managed to bug offices or whether he is simply a very good computer hacker who intercepted many a confidential e-mail.
            Or he's a time traveller. The late 90's, early Millennium is a very popular vacation spot.

            Personally I prefer the Lesser Spiral Arm civilisation as a place to go but that's because time travel makes me queasy.
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            • #7
              April fools joke out too early.
              We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
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              • #8
                Since they don't have any substancial evidence, I don't see how could they put him in jail.
                urgh.NSFW

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Azazel
                  Since they don't have any substancial evidence, I don't see how could they put him in jail.
                  They have sufficient evidence to arrest him, he has confessed to market manipulation. At any rate, they also have substantial evidence for putting him in for psychiatric evaluation.

                  The whole story sounds suspect though.
                  One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                  • #10
                    It's a joke, everybody. The last line in the article sez it all:

                    "Weekly World News will continue to follow this story as it unfolds. Keep watching for further developments. "

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                    • #11
                      Oh, some of you might not know of the WWN.

                      It's a faux tabloid published here in the US. It's owned by the same people that run National Enquirer, and it sounds like a hell of a place to get a job. I remember reading an interview with an NE reporter who claimed that had he done it all over again, he'd work for the WWN (whose offices are next door to NE).

                      Why?

                      NE work environment: stressful, fear of lawsuits, too much fact-checking (really!)

                      WWN work environment. Fun, everybody laughing at their stupid stories, lots of good weed to be used for inspiration.

                      So he says..

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                      • #12
                        I was just about to post that myself.
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by SpencerH
                          April fools joke out too early.
                          Yeah probably now you mention it.;
                          (+1)

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                          • #14
                            Oh, It's the WWN!
                            urgh.NSFW

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                            • #15
                              I can come up with $800.
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