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hydroazuanacaine

hydroazuanacaine

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do you look at things you're not supposed to at work? what?


i do. can hardly believe it. don't know how it got started. never would have at my previous job. but i don't think anyone knows or cares at my current job. i could be horribly, horribly mistaken about that. i mostly mean browsing bluelight. i'll even click through the drug forums. i'm down for anything except tumblr and porn. still browse tumblr through their wifi on my phone. i manage our twitter account and will click any link that catches my attention. so stupid. it'd be really embarrassing and a huge career splotch to get fired for internet misuse. we have an IT firm/consultant, but i don't think anyone is looking. i don't spend any real amount of time off task, but if it is being recorded they could decide to look for any number of reasons and the pages would be damning. oh well.
 
At my old job I used to look up everything. I'd browse Bluelight, Google medical issues I think I may have, shop....only things I didn't look at were obviously sexually explicit material. I nonchalantly asked the IT team one day if things were monitored, and he told me they were not.
 
The history on my work laptop isn't too bad. Just really, really full. I browse tons of sites all day at work. Bluelight, a couple other forums, news sites, stock sites, sports sites, etc. I also watch a lot of porn on it at home, but I use Incognito mode in chrome so it doesn't save the history.

It's funny because IT does log our web use and management also has the ability to remotely take over your PC screen to see what you're doing, but as long as you're getting your work done they don't really care about your browsing history.
 
Already did. Made some money when it bounced off its lows. Would do it again if WTI Crude sinks down to around $50 a barrel again, but not while it hovers around $60.
 
right on. i'm still holding USO. i bought when WTI was at about $50. if i was smart i'd sell every time USO licks $21 and reenter at low $18. but the first time i decide to make that play, i'll never see my reentry.

a family member went a different route and bought BP. as i sit for months, i'm growing jealous of that dividend.
 
Yeah I bought some SDRL when oil tanked because they had a juicy dividend. Literally 3 weeks later they suspended the whole dividend lol. Just my luck. BUT, SDRL has been whipping up and down so violently with oil(I'm talking like 5%-8% moves up or down when oil has a big move) so I was able to bank some money playing those pops and dips.

After my latest SDRL trade I was sitting in cash waiting for it to have another big down day so I could re-enter, but then Twitter reported their Q3 earnings and dropped 28% in 2 days so I bought into that. It has a habit of vastly overreacting to earnings(it jumped like 17% the day Q2 earnings were released) so I'm just gonna sit in it until the next earnings or buyout rumor sends it pointlessly soaring.
 
mine's not too bad. I work for a small company that distributes bongs, rolling papers, etc to head shops - so they don't really give a fuck. it's not like we have an IT dept or anything

only thing is I share an office with the owner of the company. I can fuck around online, but to show respect, gotta keep it minimal. if I'm posting heavily during business hours it means the boss man is gone for the day ;)
 
hydroazuanacaine said:
do you look at things you're not supposed to at work? what?


i do. can hardly believe it. don't know how it got started. never would have at my previous job. but i don't think anyone knows or cares at my current job. i could be horribly, horribly mistaken about that. i mostly mean browsing bluelight. i'll even click through the drug forums. i'm down for anything except tumblr and porn. still browse tumblr through their wifi on my phone. i manage our twitter account and will click any link that catches my attention. so stupid. it'd be really embarrassing and a huge career splotch to get fired for internet misuse. we have an IT firm/consultant, but i don't think anyone is looking. i don't spend any real amount of time off task, but if it is being recorded they could decide to look for any number of reasons and the pages would be damning. oh well.
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if they outsourced IT, it's likely nobody cares (because there's no money in it). most nets don't give a hoot about any http/https traffic but if i can't get an SSH connection through port 443 (the default HTTPS port) then it's a sign they care enough to do packet inspection and not a net i would consider connecting to BL from without a proxy.

and my 2c about the stocks is that crude is a poor choice. The fundamentals simply don't support the current rally, there's adequate supply in the market and alternative fuels are a growing threat in the transportation sector. Personally, I'm putting my energy money on uranium. Japan is close to restarting its reactors and the rest of Asia is building nuclear plants like crazy. The fundamentals support a strong future for uranium and there is virtually no risk of the price going lower in mid to long term.
 
uranium, huh. is there an etf you're using to trade that uranium, or are you trading futures?

oh man, SDRL got rocked at the end of 2014. i owned HERO for that. so silly. i still do own HERO, because it's hardly worth selling. best of luck with TWT. i think you made the right choice over SDRL.
 
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I'm buying into Cameco stock now because it's a local corp I know well, holds some of the best mines globally, has contracts to supply the bulk of Asia's reactor fuel requirements for the next many years, and as the defacto leader of the Canadian nuclear industry (second in the world, by annual production) is politically untouchable. I prefer the safety of ETFs but in this case I feel strongly enough that there's low enough risk in this stock to be worth the greater growth potential.
 
cool. that's a wild investment. best of luck to you. doesn't seem very low risk though. they posted a net loss on their last earnings report, 4/29/15. they've fallen 8.5 percent just this week. 6 percent of that was overnight. they did post a significant revenue increase over their 2014 Q1, but 2014 didn't set the bar very high.

i meant an etf tracking the commodity through futures. but i can only find URA, which tracks an index focused on uranium.
 
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dunno, Canadian ETFs aren't as diverse as U.S. I mainly bought Cameco because I know the corp's history and potential well, I'm not very bullish on Canadian investments now but I made an exception for this because I can keep it outside a sheltered account and still see a good tax break on cap gains.
 
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