On Sep 17, 2011 4:54 AM, "David W Noon" <dwn...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:49:03 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: > [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths: > > > On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:02:27 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > [snip] > > > The world of trading is 99% boredom, 1% terror... > > > > Tell that to UBS... > > Don't go there! I used to work for UBS, about 11 years ago. I (and > many others) was laid off when they lost a fortune on the dot-com > bubble. Then they were bankers to Enron. Then they were bankers to > Worldcom. [See a pattern here?] Then they bought sub-prime mortgage > portfolios -- as hedge instruments. Now they've been shafted by one of > their traders. > > Of course, all of the directors are business geniuses, as all senior > City folk are.
So, the moral of the story is: don't trust a banker. Unless he's well-versed in Gentoo :-) Rgds,
