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Re: [News] [Homour] Chinese Stock Market Tries Vidta and Gets Punished

BearItAll <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Mark Kent wrote:
> 
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> [Humour] Chinese stock market regrets switching to Windows Vista
>>> 
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| "I knew switching to Vista was a bad idea," said day trader Hong Leng.
>>>| "We could have had another 'Black Wednesday' on our hands, like with
>>>| Windows Millennium Edition."
>>> `----
>>> 
>>>
> http://www.chaser.com.au/world/chinese-stock-market-regrets-switching-to-windows-vista.html?Itemid=97
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> I love the quote "Vista will be secure for hours to come..."
>> 
> 
> 
> I thought that was funny too.
> 
> This also means of cause that if MS do now somehow come up with a KillerOS,
> that does everything brilliently, they shares wont budge untill the
> marketeers are 100% certain it will be a success. No more pre-release
> bonus's for MS methinks.
> 

That is a /very/ piquant observation... I really hadn't considered that
at all, but I suspect that you're quite right.  City traders do not
allow any kind of emotion to cloud their judgement at all - once things
start to go wrong, well, that's that - usually there is no recovery.

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