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Do you index or day trade ?

I think each time you make the index a smaller portion—I'm talking about the indexes that are now out in the ETF field, which seem to get narrower and narrower—you're offering more choices. We know that the investor is his or her own worst enemy. In the last 10 years, the average mutual fund in the market grew at about 10 percent a year. And the average mutual fund investor putting money into the wrong funds at the top, getting out at the wrong time, putting nothing in at the beginning of the bull market and pouring money in at the end, had a return, believe this or not, of about 3 percent. So in the last 10 years, if you compound those two mutual fund numbers, that 10 percent grows to 125 percent of whatever the number is that is being compounded, and that 3 percent grows to 30 percent. And that has something to do, I think, with how we look at risk.

I look at the stock market, I think correctly, as in the long run having very, very low risk. Because my view of investing is that you own the business, it has the capital, and that capital will ultimately grow over an investment lifetime. And when the market went down 50 percent in 1973 and '74, and 50 percent in 2000 and 2002, it doesn't even matter. You've got all this money at the end of the period, and you just put blinders on and ignore these foolish fluctuations. What the stock market is, quoting Shakespeare I think, is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. And when you think about the daily machinations of the stock market … that's probably an understatement.

Quote by John Bogle in That Was Then, This Is Now from Journal of Indexes

The Day The Routers Died...

Lyrics

Featuring recording of the "The Day that Routers Died"

(Set to AMERICAN PIE, by Don McLean)

a long long time ago i can still remember when my laptop could connect elsewhere

and i tell you all there was a day the network card i threw away had a purpose - and worked for you and me.... But 18 years completely wasted with each address we've aggregated the tables overflowing the traffic just stopped flowing....

And now we're bearing all the scars and all my traceroutes showing stars... the packets would travel faster in cars... the day....the routers died

Chorus (ALL!!!!!)

So bye bye, folks at RIPE 55 Be persuaded to upgrade it or your network will die IPv6 just makes me let out a sigh But I spose we'd better give it a try I suppose we'd better give it a try

Now did you write an RFC That dictated how we all should be Did we listen like we should that day

Now were you back at RIPE fifty-four Where we heard the same things months before And the people knew they'd have to change their ways....

And we - knew that all the ISPs Could be - future proof for centuries

But that was then not now Spent too much time playing WoW

ooh there was time we sat on IRC Making jokes on how this day would be Now there's no more use for TCP The day the routers died... Chorus (chime in now)

So bye bye, folks at RIPE 55 Be persuaded to upgrade it or your network will die IPv6 just makes me let out a sigh But I spose we'd better give it a try I suppose we'd better give it a try

I remember those old days I mourn Sitting in my room, downloading porn Yeah that's how it used to be....

When the packets flowed from A to B via routers that could talk IP There was data..that could be exchanged between you and me....

Oh but - I could see you all ignore The fact - we'd fill up IPv4

But we all lost the nerve And we got what we deserved!

And while...we threw our network kit away And wished we'd heard the things they say Put all our lives in disarray

The day...the routers died... Chorus (those silent will be shot)

So bye bye, folks at RIPE 55 Be persuaded to upgrade it or your network will die IPv6 just makes me let out a sigh But I spose we'd better give it a try I suppose we'd better give it a try

Saw a man with whom I used to peer Asked him to rescue my career He just sighed and turned away..

I went down to the net cafe that I used to visit everyday But the man there said I might as well just leave...

And now we've all lost our purpose.. my cisco shares completely worthless...

No future meetings for me At the Hotel Krasnapolsky

and the men that make us push and push Like Geoff Huston and Randy Bush Should've listened to what they told us.... The day...the routers....died Chorus (time to lose your voice)

So bye bye, folks at RIPE 55 Be persuaded to upgrade it or your network will die IPv6 just makes me let out a sigh But I spose we'd better give it a try I suppose we'd better give it a try

Words and performance by Gary Feldman

100 Years of Engineering at USC

Vadodara shows cricket was never metro-dominated

From the article

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Vadodara [cricket] players have always rubbed shoulders with the country's best and given its cricketing lineage one can safely say that they have not come second best.
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So the next time someone says that players from small-town India can dream of making it to the national [cricket] team, just mention the name of Vadodara.
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Read the full article at here.

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