Parsad Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 For those inquiring about what transpired on our old message board back in 2003 when Fairfax was attacked, you can read it all on the old MSN Board archive. Go to: http://msnbrkboardarchive.multiply.com/ Click "Blog" on the left hand side. Then click "Last" on the page numbers at the bottom. Work your way back up to Page 468...that's where it all started shortly after the U.S. listing on the NYSE. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uccmal Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 What a trip man.... Now I know when I started on the board - dec. 2004. On page 301 we were discussing the merits of Sino Forest - lol. I had no idea you had archived these. The whole shebang is an investment course in itself. A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dazel Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 I am afraid to get on it I will be there all night! What a ride! 9 years ago! Holy shit. Dazel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbitisrich Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 It's strange to read Parsad describing an empty Holiday Inn at the 2002 Berkshire Hathaway AGM. Interesting comments from the meeting: http://msnbrkboardarchive.multiply.com/journal/item/9709/BRK-AGM-Notes There was a question regarding bank stocks. WEB is surprised by how well banks have done. ROE's are beyond their expectations - partly due to high leverage. I'm not sure if I got this right? Maybe somebody can confirm! We had a $400M nominal put on the S&P 500 back in early 2000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gfp Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 Love Charlie's quote from that 2002 meeting - "growing float with extremely low cost is difficult. We intend to do it anyway." 2011 BRK Annual Report: "Though we are sure to have underwriting losses from time to time, we’ve now had nine consecutive years of underwriting profits, totaling about $17 billion. Over the same nine years our float increased from $41 billion to its current record of $70 billion." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ERICOPOLY Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 What's up with the multiply.com website? By "closed", do they mean like a bathroom break and they'll be right back? multiply.tiff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsad Posted April 4, 2013 Author Share Posted April 4, 2013 I think the son's of bitches killed it! That sucks. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berkshiremystery Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 What's up with the multiply.com website? By "closed", do they mean like a bathroom break and they'll be right back? Eric,... Your uploaded screenshot might only serve as a virtual gravestone. They closed the site completely! Sadly it seems that all content from old MSN Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Message Board is lost forever. ----- Multiply Announces Closure of Social Networking Sites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiply_(website)#Multiply_Announces_Closure_of_Social_Networking_Sites An official announcement by Multiply's CEO, Stefan Magdalinski, was made on August 9, 2012, that the social networking portion of Multiply would be discontinued, including hosted blogs, videos, photos and messaging, in order to focus solely on e-commerce. [18] Multiply International ceased its social network on 23 March 2013. The closing of the blogging and file-sharing services harvested lots of protests from Multiply users. The users felt betrayed, especially because Multiply's management previously guaranteed that the aforementioned services wouldn't be eliminated even with the change of focus into e-commerce ----- Multiply Shuts Down Blog and Content Sharing Service http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/consumertech/multiply-shuts-down-blog-and-content-sharing-service/536492 http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/social-networking-sites/483836-multiply-com-will-close-down-december-1st.html http://news.yahoo.com/stefan-magdalinski-speaks-multiply-blog-221017054.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liberty Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Unless I'm missing something, it doesn't look like Archive.org has crawled it properly: http://web.archive.org/web/20120407125808/http://msnbrkboardarchive.multiply.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nkp007 Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 I think the son's of bitches killed it! That sucks. Cheers! Such a travesty. On a happier note, I love how you end your posts with "Cheers!". It makes even bad situations slightly more optimistic :) E.g. Hey guys. Looks like the market is closed today. It turns out that an auto-immune disease is spreading throughout the population in the northeast United States. People are dying and then coming back to life as demonic monsters craving the flesh of others. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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