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Choice Votes   Percent
None, I'll wait until the stock splits 6 3.3%   
None, I don't have any money 32 17.7%   
None, I don't invest in the stock market 11 6.1%   
None, I want Magnus to become obscenely rich 21 11.6%   
None, I'm saving up for a new calculator 22 12.2%   
None, I don't want people to think I'm a nerd 6 3.3%   
All the shares...ticalc.org will be mine 83 45.9%   

Survey posted 2004-04-01 02:01 by Jon.

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Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
Jonathan Katz  Account Info
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Gotta love them stock options!

Reply to this comment    1 April 2004, 02:02 GMT

Re: Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
jrock7286  Account Info
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I voted all the shares, but that's because I'm going to go back to 1970 to "buy" them first. I wouldn't buy 1,000,000 shares at the $18.00 they cost as of this post. I'd rather get paid for buying 'em (who wouldn't?). ;)

Reply to this comment    1 April 2004, 04:20 GMT


Re: Re: Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
PlaidPhantom Account Info

I love time travel (sings Back to the Future theme)

Reply to this comment    1 April 2004, 19:35 GMT


Re: Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
KermMartian Account Info
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I will ownz ticalc.org! w00t! Great poll and April Fool's, guys.

Reply to this comment    1 April 2004, 22:28 GMT


Re: Re: Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
Tzazak Account Info

Wow! I'm not the only one who says w00t all the time. Anyway, I said all the shares, too. Who wouldn't?

Reply to this comment    2 April 2004, 16:08 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Yeah... since "w00t!" tends to me more of an expression used by nerds and such, it's not surprising that a lot of us use or have used it (at one time or another).

I wonder what would happen if this was real stock and it grew like that (at a consistent rate).

Reply to this comment    3 April 2004, 04:02 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
ti_guy  Account Info

Now why would you dis people who say "w00t"? Its not really such nerdy talk as it is gaming talk in my opinion. I use it all the time in warcraft 3. Ready for some somewhat good ascii art that I don't think will work on these forums? lol
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Reply to this comment    3 April 2004, 17:01 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
ti_guy  Account Info

Darn, it didnt work :(

Reply to this comment    3 April 2004, 17:02 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
nicklaszlo Account Info
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People who spent all their money on simiconductors, you insinsitive clod! [a la slashdot poll]

Reply to this comment    3 April 2004, 04:47 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

That's what I've spent my money on!!! :-)

Well, half of the money I've spent. The other half went for CDs.

Reply to this comment    3 April 2004, 14:58 GMT

Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
Justin McKinley  Account Info

Wow... lots of people want Mangus to be rich...

Reply to this comment    1 April 2004, 02:09 GMT

Re: Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
Geek_Productions Account Info
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Yep, a whole 4:7 ratio of people do.
But, after buying 10 shares at $1.20 from $up3r $t0cks 4 Ch33p I stand to make several thousand dollars. (Not really. Darn.)

Reply to this comment    1 April 2004, 02:21 GMT

Re: Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
molybdenum  Account Info

whoops, didn't read that one, but no money is accurate enough.

Reply to this comment    1 April 2004, 02:22 GMT

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burntfuse  Account Info

Including me, even though I voted "I don't invest".
My parents are the ones that do the investing-I'm only 14 (almost 15). :-p

Reply to this comment    1 April 2004, 22:05 GMT

Re: Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
anykey Account Info
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Lets hope he beats bill gates. I'm tired of hearing about him being so rich.

Reply to this comment    2 April 2004, 03:29 GMT

How?
nicklaszlo Account Info
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How can buying no stocks make Magnus rich? He could only get rich of stocks if people payed him a lot for them.

Reply to this comment    3 April 2004, 04:44 GMT


Re: Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
Magnus Hagander  Account Info
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I LIKE THESE GUYS!!

Reply to this comment    3 April 2004, 12:08 GMT

Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
Ayial  Account Info

***Buys 100 shares of TI stock, for the sole purpose of redeeming myself for falling for the joke***

Not really fell completely, until I clicked "read more and discuss" and saw the returns, I was like "waiiiit a minute"... which caused the stock price to change... which being after wallstreet hours and the market was not open....so i was like "waiiiit anoooother minute".... which caused the price to change again...which reminded me again that the market was not open....and i was like "waiiit a minute".…then I thought “well, maybe it’s futures”…. then I was like “this is supposed to be nonprofit”….and after reading a few replies saying things such as "good joke".etc.etc. I kinda felt cheapish. So I deduced myself out of completely falling for it… *runs away and hides*

Reply to this comment    1 April 2004, 03:46 GMT


Re: Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
Michael Vincent  Account Info
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The market is always open, thus why I said we are trading on an ECN.

Reply to this comment    1 April 2004, 03:49 GMT

Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
W Hibdon  Account Info
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MUAHAhaHAhaHAHAHAHAH!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHaHAHhahaHAHA!
HAHAH *coughs. a hell of a lot, too* HAHA!!!

ALL MINE!!!

-W-

Reply to this comment    1 April 2004, 04:19 GMT

Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
LonePhoenix  Account Info
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No, serious. don't let this be an april fool joke. do stocks for real and we will buy your stocks, ticalc. i love this company-to-be. ticalc's stocks can be worth maybe hundreds.

Reply to this comment    1 April 2004, 04:29 GMT


Re: Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
jrock7286  Account Info
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If they decided to have stocks, this site would be shut down, because this is a non-profit organization (hence the ".org" in the site name). Although, I believe it WOULD be legal to sell stocks just to pay strictly for the cost of maintaining the site, which, I can imagine is kind of a lot. How much DOES it cost to run this site? Does *cough* magnus *cough* anyone know?

Reply to this comment    1 April 2004, 05:39 GMT

Re: Re: Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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I read .org sites are free once... is this true?

Reply to this comment    1 April 2004, 23:27 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
Mattthew Ellsworth Account Info

THEY RUN THEIR OWN STINKING SERVER. Of course it's free. Everything but the electricity that is.

Reply to this comment    2 April 2004, 01:23 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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So if I wanted to right now, I could get my own .org website with server space etc., and that would be FREE!? *really surprised*

Reply to this comment    3 April 2004, 04:05 GMT


Well... kindof
nicklaszlo Account Info
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there have always been "free" web hosts. But I recomend you fork over ~$70 a year for the real thing. You get hundreds of hours of entertainment and an oportunity to benefit society. A lot cheeper than many other activities, if you compair cost to benefit.

Reply to this comment    3 April 2004, 04:39 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
jrock7286  Account Info
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Not ALWAYS free, but I guess he's right. They have their own server, so...but I'm pretty sure that not all .org's are free. I think the only requirement is that it be a non-profit ORGanization...

Reply to this comment    2 April 2004, 16:24 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
ti_is_good_++  Account Info

There is no requirement, as there is no way to prove your tax-exempt status to an ISP.

Reply to this comment    2 April 2004, 18:10 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
nicklaszlo Account Info
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Not true in the USA. You can contact a certain official in the executive branch of your state government to get forms so you can be officially incorperated as a 501 C3 nonprofit. Not much point in bothering if you don't expect donations of at lease a few hundred dollars annualy.

Reply to this comment    3 April 2004, 04:36 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
ti_is_good_++  Account Info

What I was saying was that you could be using anybody's forms-there's no way to verify your identity.

Reply to this comment    6 April 2004, 05:04 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
nicklaszlo Account Info
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Some groups offer free hosting for organizations incorperated as a 501C3 (a registered nonprofit in the USA). The cost of getting a domain named .org from a domain registrar is about $10/year on the free market. You also have to pay for a server, by either buying, building, or renting (buying hosting). I rent part of the server for my site, cesdep.org, for $5 a month. Usually, if you rent a server, you don't have to pay for a connection. TiCalc.org, because it has it's own server and beowolf cluster of TI-81s, must pay a bill for a fast internet connection, as well as the domain registration, electricity, any proprietary software, etc.

Funny, nerds who don't know how the internet works! And that's not the half of it.

Reply to this comment    3 April 2004, 04:31 GMT


Clarification
nicklaszlo Account Info
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Actually, that's more about how the World Wide Web works. The internet is actually not composed of web pages. It's simply a standard way for computers to send information (packets) to each other. This is called Internet Protocal. Please feel free to correct the details of my statements. Probably the best place to go to learn about how the internet works is Wikipedia.org.

Reply to this comment    3 April 2004, 04:34 GMT


Re: Re: Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
ti_is_good_++  Account Info

The ONLY thing that nonprofits CANNOT do to make money is sell stock. That is the legal definition of a nonprofit. If ticalc.org did that and had actual income it would be illegal because they aren't incorporated and are nonprofit. They would have to incorporate, notify the IRS (or the Swedish version thereof), and fill out a 38-page tax return every year. Not likely.

Reply to this comment    2 April 2004, 18:14 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
nicklaszlo Account Info
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Why would someone want stock from something that does not make a profit? I always thought that stocks that don't pay dividends were a fictional asset... not that I don't own any. As long as no one knows they aren't worth anything, they will be worth enough to get me through college.

Reply to this comment    3 April 2004, 04:42 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: How many shares of ticalc.org stock will you buy?
ti_is_good_++  Account Info

Nonprofits can make a profit. The ONLY thing they can't do is sell stock.

Reply to this comment    9 April 2004, 16:58 GMT

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