>>>Actually, my issue with Chik-Fil-A is not with the personal views of its owner. Chik-Fil-A, as a corporation, donates millions of dollars to foundations that promote snake-oil 'cures' for homosexuality, among other things. Chik-Fil-A, as a corporation, has forced a homosexual store owner to sell - not because it wasn't profitable, it was - but because it was discovered he was gay.
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>>>I do not agree with what Chik-Fil-A does as a corporation and do not want my money going to these 'causes'.
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>>I did not know much of this and if that is indeed the case I completely agree anything that supports this company is giving money or support to practices I find wrong. ( I am, however, considering getting into the snake oil gay cure business as there seems to be a lot of gay and an even bigger lot of fools who might be relieved of their money <g> )
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>I was under the impression that Knightmare on Wallstreet might have paid rather well for a colleague of yours -
>executed nicely on the tails of FB. Meaning skills used before going into programming for money -
>and/or using such later skills for an operation of former type.
>Can't sell any more truckloads of 50K$ toilets, go directly for the money ?
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>Any personal windfalls you can tell just to clutter up the narrative ?
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Wow, that's even a little too cryptic and elliptical for me <bg> I do know some people from long ago who figured out how to get very rich using skills and people they had picked up along the way, but I was never one of them. i get bored too easy and when I gave up cocaine and bipolar women money became less important.

Now I get to sit at home and play with (and in some cases write ) the toys they use at Dow Jones and S&P to figure out what money is doing and not care terribly much about the outcome as I don't have a lot of skin in the game.

Never knew much about the military procurement guys who sold the $50k toilet seats - military didn't trust us much. Did learn a little about the world of self-funding operations, fuzzy budget items and a whole world completely off the books. But it's a young man's game. Stansfield Turner and that idiot Deutsch screwed up a lot of things and while life off the books with Casey was fun I think Iraq and Afghanistan just made the risk reward ratio go out of whack.

Never knew a lot of Andropov/Putin's guys - someday someone is going to write some interesting stuff about what Chechnya and Abkhazia were really all about. That was where some serious money was made ...