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Re: Wavoids are simply unwilling to excel 

By: DigSpace in ALEA | Recommend this post (1)
Sun, 26 Aug 12 12:34 AM | 81 view(s)
Boardmark this board | The Trust Matrix 		Msg. 09538 of 54959
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That the term DD has supplanted technological curiosity and optimism is pretty well-established. I just do a read and replace on that. That which is DD in the rest of the world is scoffed off as "bean counting".

Fair enough.

As long as it is consistent, and it is, then I am o.k. with a group coming up with an in house definition of a term regardless of whether it is in many ways the antithesis of the meaning of the term to the rest of the world. DD means speculative technological optimistic projection. O.K. So be it. I don't think that is what they teach at Oxford or Harvard business or accounting, but hey, let them eat cake.

Seeing that awk has been fixated on olfactory GC characterizations of my content, I would like to suggest that he consider for a moment that his own conceit of transcendent knowledge of a particular wrench (TC) blinds him as it does many engineers of the fact that there are other things in the world, that his wrench-first and wrench-only view of the world spiraling into the notion that observing 6th grade grammar propels me into the stratosphere of being and "expert on everything" speaks more towards a more apparent fact that while some can actually eat AND wipe their ass (thus by his rule being an expert at two things) that many many many people not so self-absorbed with their unique wrench-vision are capable of what might broadly be considered (by debutantes, 5th graders and biologists alike) as casual human thought.

I am only left thinking that he is faking it, trying to trick me into thinking he is dumber than a tree-stump.


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Re: Wavoids are simply unwilling to excel
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Sun, 26 Aug 12 12:18 AM 		Msg. 09537 of 54959

Yes, dig. It is so.

But I'm thinking I don't care to that level of detail at the moment. Any more than I give a damn about what some people call DD. Due Diligence is not some exhaustive exercise in turning over every last technological stone. Or always supporting the company and excoriating those who observe its missteps. It involves expectations of revenues and timelines and cashflows and suchlike. That is what Due Diligence involves. Hey, I've been paid to do it and it was mostly a numbers and best assumptions game.

Snackman's board is not exactly replete with people interested in the kind of discussion that involves this sort of information. So for the most part, I think it may be wise to leave them gazing lovingly at their own navels. They want to live in a numberless fantasy. That's fine with me.

Of course, if nxt is correct about the motivations of some of the folks over there, then I am glad not to partake in the conversation and to operate within a forum in which sanity prevails.

Since Wave has no idea about what the future holds, I think we can presume that a cautious approach to forecasting makes sense. Hence my $34-8m for 2012. Beyond that, I am not sure it bears the ink.

Like doma says, it is just a sort of groundhog day.

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