Your comments on grammar, usage, and idiom, are delightful to me. I do get so tired of being the only pedantic usage maven here.
the lack of public fundamentals leaves us with bald publicity as our only means of judging TGC's worth.
I disagree. I own no shares, but I do post the occasional link to TGC: http://8715605.thegoldcasino.com/
My thoughts on judging them are: look at their casino. It has thousands of users who have placed millions of bets, and the bets have paid off. What more do you really need to know?
Look at JP May's reports on the dividends. He's such a stinker, JP, he can't resist shouting every time he gets honking big dividends from these guys. Imagine how much happier he'll be when Gold Barter Holdings starts posting dividends. (GBH has posted profits each quarter this year. I think it is up $12.5K or so. Dividends at year end should be in the offing.)
If they pay dividends, what else do you need from them?
I wouldn't want to bet the farm on good publicity either.
I would urge you not to bet the farm ever. For example, you could have looked at the detailed financials, filings, 10Ks, annual reports, and audit documents for, say, Enron, or, say, Worldcom. With that kind of documentation, many people have apparently felt comfortable betting a lot of their future wealth. And gotten nowhere.
His example was the phrase "Have a seat." He speaks flawless English and he still thinks it sounds stupid. "You mean I can have it? Oh, you mean sit in the chair."
No, he's confusing usage with grammar. The idiomatic expression "have a seat" refers to the use of the chair, not the chair itself. It is equivalent to "be seated" which might be something he would find more...comfortable.
When he sits in the chair, he is taking a seat. He is also taking a seated position. He has that seat, for his use, for a time. It might be fun for some lady to sit on his lap, but she would have his lap for a seat, not the chair. The simultaneity principle as applied to buttocks is...frame dependent. <smile>
It just isn't possible for two sets of buttocks to be in the same seat at the same time. If there is room for two sets of buttocks, then one chair provides two seats. The seat in this idiom, then, is not the chair, but the position or location of the...base...fundament... posterior.
See also http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=seat especially usage #3.
Regards,
Jim http://www.ezez.com/
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