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From: "samhsloan"
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Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 6:35 AM
Subject: [fide-chess] "half-truths, unsupported rumors and paranoid
fantasies"
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Originally Posted by rfeditor
1) Bill Goichberg and Mike Nolan have both told you
that those numbers are tentative, unreliable and probably incorrect.
But an excessive respect for truth has never been one of your
weaknesses. Why don't you use the figures from six months ago and
claim they are definitive. Oh, I forgot, you did. 2) I'm not sure
there's anything on which Jerry Hanken and I agree in this election
other than the need to get rid of you.
And Sam, learn to spell.
John Hillary
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Bill Hall did not provide these financial figures six months ago. He
provided them on Monday, three days ago.
**Sam Sloan blithely ignores any answers to his 'questions' by continuing to
say that these figures are from 3 days ago. They are the same as 3 months
ago. Now, whether he choses to ignore this response, which was posted
directly to him yesterday, and admit that he is sponsoring more
"half-truths, unsupported rumors and paranoid fantasies", is entirely up to
him.
Bill Goichberg naturally disputes these figures because Goichberg has
been saying that we are in the black. However, others are saying that
when the audited figures come out in August, we will be much deeper in
the red.
**In terms of operations, there would appear to be a loss similar to last
year. Trading activities in cash businesses often depend on last year's
expenditure, and annual figures alone are less significant than a
/consistent pattern/ of loss, coupled with a shrinking market sector
penetration. Larger still are other factors, such as the worth of assets in
real-market terms, and the worth of these assets compared to the 'risk'
factors of long-term fixed investment in them. It doesn't matter a whit who
agrees or disagrees with these statements, except denying their validity who
be to expose oneself as naive. In short, these are not matters of
personality - but of objective standards of measurement of a business. To
politicise them by personality politiking, is to avoid being responsible to
any standard at all.
Meanwhile, John Hillary is here quoted as saying that the financial
figures provided by USCF Executive Director Bill Hall are
"half-truths, unsupported rumors and paranoid fantasies".
**Only a duffer could render his sense that way. It seems to me that Hillary
made the same point as myself yesterday, and others before us: that /for
anyone/ to present figures which are so flip-floppy, is of very little worth
compared with, say, what a CPA might produce for the nice folks at the IRS.
Phil Innes
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Sam Sloan