Quote Originally Posted by CitizenCain View Post
No, this right here is exactly what I'm talking about. You *clearly* don't even understand the meaning of the jargon involved in this discussion (as you've been using it wrong all thread), but there's absolutely no chance that you'll admit you may have been mistaken, and anyone who disagrees with you or provides a source that disagrees with you is being a whiny ass, or contentious, or histrionic, and so on. No citation, no refutation, not even an attempt at explanation or logic - just "you disagree, so you're being histrionic."

It's pathetic. You don't see me jumping into threads and insisting that the proper way to operate on a colon is to go in through the throat, because I don't know a fucking thing about surgery. But you, you don't even have an intro college level understanding of economics or finances (or understand what a corporation means when they say "software engineer," or seem to grasp even the concept behind fractional-second trading and so on and so on), yet you jump into every thread about the economy or the stock market with unparalleled zeal about what's wrong and how to fix it, and despite being proven misinformed or flat out wrong, by any number of posters, you won't admit you're wrong or unknowledgeable on the topic, and probably wouldn't even if you had a gun to your head. And then, like nothing's happened, you trot out the same fallacious, refuted drivel in the next page or thread. Gah.

And you won't shut up about it either. Page after page (in thread after thread) of you spouting obviously incorrect information about the economy, finances, the stock market, and no matter who's correcting you, you won't just listen or change the opinions you have, (or even stop repeating the obviously false information and incorrect opinions) which are based on completely faulty information. And it's like the possibility that you could be wrong about this thing you're completely uninformed/misinformed on doesn't even occur to you. It's just... painful.
Then join the crowd, you're a pain in the ass as well.

In case it escaped your brilliant mind, I started this thread specifically to take it out of other ones. Because (well just slap me) I thought it might be interesting to discuss behavior as we watch it in real time....the panic, the purge, the patience....as it's connected to rapid internet response. None of this would be possible without the nerds and geeks who programmed this stuff.

The underlying philosophies are important, and I'm more than willing to give kudos to those who make technology available so we can discuss this shit. The math quants, the engineers, the geeks and nerds, they're all amazing and I love them. Admire and appreciate them.

That doesn't mean I can't bitch about the guys who take such a great special knowledge and exploit it, or use it in bad ways just because it makes them millions.

Like I can love and admire scientists who discover genomes or pathogens. But instead of using their discoveries to make vaccines or cures, some turn their knowledge into biological weapons. There are middle men along the way. I don't have to be a triple PhD to observe these things. In fact, it's often "regular people" outside the elite academic structures that can give the best feedback.

But don't let that stop you from being hostile and contentious toward me, Cain. And by all means, keep being a prick about your method of educating me, all of us---we, the peons who don't really understand things, the ones you love to bash and belittle, because it's really more about you puffing your chest to inflate your ego than anything else.

Does it mean more if I demure? Fine then, I don't know a damn thing about a damn thing. I am wrong, misguided, ignorant, uneducated. Pretty much everyone here fits that description, and perhaps you only like talking to your intellectual "peers". That works great for small academic circles, but not for forums.

Way to go.