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Prince Alwaleed to hold his Apple stock

updated 02:45 pm EDT, Tue September 18, 2001

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Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the Saudi Prince who owns $314 million worth of Apple's shares says he will hold on to the stock as he believes the American economy can withstand the "jitters." As of 3 PM EST, Apple's share price stood at 16.51, down almost a half point on the trading day.

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Now is a GREAT time to...

buy Apple stock. This is like the December before the iMac shipped. Things are Apple are going to be fantastic for 2002 as soon as January. America is head strong on getting back to business and making things happen. Buy while you can afford to and enjoy the ride back up to the top.

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I can't figure out...

...who in the world would be SELLING anything right now. Sheesh...

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Re: I can't figure out..

maybe the same idiots that were buying yahoo stocks at $240 and idosomethingstupid.com at $45

hehe, those damn stupid investors :)

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Those idiots...

are probably the same idiots in charge of your pension fund/superannuation fund/investment...

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so that is how..

those damn terrorist are supported !!

hmm.... fishy.

stupid news by the way macnn!!

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re: so that is how...

MacNN's news ain't near as stupid as some of the posts.

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Do you know...

why he isn't selling? Because he bought a ton of his shares pre-split for around $15/share. So he's still seen a 100% return on his initial investment in only 3 years. That's not too shabby.

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re: Now is a GREAT time

The December before the iMac shipped was in the middle of a long period of economic boom. January 2002 is most likely going to be characterised by recession. Only a fool would think there is anything remotely similar between now and December 1997.

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re: so that is how...

So even here on these boards we see bigots who want to link anyone with an Arab name to terrorism.

FYI, Prince Alwaleed is one of the world's best informed and most successful private investors. His passion for good products and worthwhile companies has given him his repution for bailing out companies that are just too good to face failure...

...and Apple was one of these. He put something like $100M into Apple back in the bad old days when even the Apple faithful thought they were close to going under.

Some people really are too stupid to own Macs, and Mr "so that is how..." is clearly one of them.

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Stupid Americans

I'm sickened almost to the point of renouncing my citizenship by the level of stupidity in this country. The Saudis are not our enemies. Our enemy actually dislikes them because they helped us out in the Gulf War. Pull your heads out of your asses.

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re: so that is how

I don't think he meant it as a real comment (i.e. nasty & bigoted).

It looks like it was a flippant comment, not meant to be taken seriously. Perhaps it's too soon for flippancy but I don't think he was seriously calling Prince Alwaleed bin Talal a terrorist or terrorist supporter.

Of course if I'm wrong, then perhaps the original poster could let us know. Then we can roast him.

Why am I always logged in as slash-zero?

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Re: Stupid Americans

Not only that, majinbutz, but the Saudis revoked Bin Ladin's citizenship and kicked him out of the country (too bad they didn't just jail him, but that's hindsight).

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Dumbasses

These redneck idiots who lump all Arabs together as being responsible for the recent terrorist attack are really starting to piss me off. It's these same fools who elected the lead fool of the country. A country of rednecks, by rednecks, for the rednecks. Pathetic. Makes me want to move to Europe.

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It might be safer

I'm hearing a lot of reports of people who are happy about what happened, living here in America. I hope the right people get wind of it with proof. If that many are happy here, how many are happy there?

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Ummm...

Hey narrow minded americans...

Who says he's american? Are you aware that the rest of the world has the internet too?

Sure, he COULD be, and probably is, but nowhere in his post does he refer to his nationality.

So who's jumping to conclusions?

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the grand dragon, mr.klan

it's nice to know cupertino, calif, or any of the mac conventions won't get bombed. Now I know where to hang out

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ill-informed

If you've decided you want to hate someone, it pays to figure out why. There's lots to read about bin Laden and his history on the net now. He's a murderous fanatic all right, but unfortunately a sane and erudite one who won't be easy to get rid of. It's not enough to kill him and make him an even more dangerous martyr - you've got to make all those little potential terrorists understand that his is not the way. The painful irony is that he didn't have a lot of respect in the Muslim world until the US tried to attack him with cruise missiles.

The Saudi family that this prince is from is precisely what bin Laden and his followers hate - the reason he issued a fatwah on the US is their continuing to prop up the (basically corrupt) regime and leaving non-Muslim US troops around the two places most sacred to Islam (Mecca and Medina - this was George HW Bush's biggest mistake, and he was advised against it in the US).

This kind of stuff is worth a read - 1.2 billion Muslim people aren't going to go away, and the less we piss off unnecessarily, the better for all of us.

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A Mac convention might not be the safest place - as I noted above, bin Laden hates the Saudi family almost as much as he does the West. That $314M Apple stock connection might be enough to make a few thousand Mac faithful a tempting target for some up-and-coming nutball. Even though I don't think bin Laden was directly connected to the WTC killings, he's pretty happy to finance this sort of stuff (and that's why he should be brought in and jailed, evidence or no).

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Stupid Americans??

wow, you should renounce your citizenship as you are obviously not looking at yourself as an american. you guys keep this up, i will call you silly as i am an canadian, and would give that up for nothing. and partner, if you think the us is stupid, then scat! your digging your own hole here.

Now-back on topic, i wonder if you can buy or import apple computers into that country. i thought that is was NOT allowed. but he has enough stock to prove his loyalty to good products......weird.

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If all Arabs are enemies

...then every American might as well change their name to "Timothy McVeigh." Don't paint with a broad brush, you simple minded dolt.

(reply to - so that is how)

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Re: Stupid Americans??

Digitalb, I wonder if you actually know what "that country" is? Perhaps you're not sure where a Saudi Prince comes from? Or were you just thinking that it was illegal to export G4 Macs to "Arab land"?

Someone who is Saudi is from Saudi Arabia, and the West has no trade sanctions or restrictions towards "that country".

"Weird"? Weird that you seem to think that all Middle Eastern countries are on the embargo list (which includes Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Syria, and the Sudan).

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What the fudge???

Definition of idiot: You

I just ordered a buy of aapl. Put your money where your mouth is.

And research the Saudi Arabian life.

But if you denounce your citizenship here, then that is what free will is about. Which many countries do not have....

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good god

so he says "so that is how those damn terrorist are supported !!"

and you start calling him a bigot stupid, idiot etc... all for a dumb off the cuff joke? are you this uptight at work? if you hear a joke about anything else do you freak and go off? i really dont understand how you can hate something so trivial and all go off on it. are you reading into it? does it personally offend you? i didnt even think anything of it. now the posts are filled with this c*** of ragging on this guy. GOD DAMN people wtf.

"I'm sickened almost to the point of renouncing my citizenship by the level of stupidity in this country."

why. cant take a shot? a simple joke? how do you function in the real world? are you a post office employee? uhoh cheap shot at that profession! dont flame guys! it was just a little joke!

hate the haters right? right.....

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re: good god

Berserkintosh is, as always, absolutely right!

Now is a great time to be joking about terrorists and Arabs,'cos hey, it was just so damned funny what happened last week! And what we really need right now are some good jokes about all Arabs being terrorists, right?

I'm sure you have some great twin towers jokes you can tell us too, Berserk.

No, I'm not this uptight about jokes about other stuff. However, if you can think of ANYTHING funny about the WTC attacks and the current world situation then do me a favour, and keep it to yourself.

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dbj digital B******* 1000

as usual you cant read worth a s***.

"I'm sure you have some great twin towers jokes you can tell us too, Berserk."

"However, if you can think of ANYTHING funny about the WTC attacks and the current world situation then do me a favour, and keep it to yourself."

1st when did i say it was funny? opps I DIDNT! WHAT WERE YOU READING?

THIS IS WHAT I SAID AND I QUOTE "does it personally offend you? i didnt even think anything of it. now the posts are filled with this c*** of ragging on this guy."

i did not think anything of it! i did not laugh. i passed right by it. i didnt let it get to me. and once again you go off on me accusing me of thinking its funny! you can read right? my point was he made a offbeat joke barely and the sharks swarm in and now all the posts are hatefull and off subject! its pricks like you that ruin these forums. its pricks like you that people see calling other people names and dont want to read this c***. wtg. but as usual you and your 6th grade reading lvl are right. after all your rightous fury knows no bounds.

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"I'm sickened almost to the point of renouncing my citizenship by the level of stupidity in this country."

good. go.

berserkintosh
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old news dbj1000

"So even here on these boards we see bigots who want to link anyone with an Arab name to terrorism."

what about linking whites to slavery indian killing and witch burning? this is old news. i didnt do any of that s***. but as i walk down the street and a couple gang bangers walk by and look like they want to kill me because there angry at the world and thier circumstance and its my fault? get off your horse. oh but thats right. your so clear headed. come on this is old news.

do you really have a problem with this guy? did what he said terribly upset you? to me it was just, whatever. i went on to read intelligent posts. even half of yours was inteligent. why not just post the good. why not just say "hey dood watch the comments about saudis." but no. your to big for that arent you?

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Re: old news dbj1000

OK. As requested, I'll keep it simple Berserk.

So it's "old news"? Do you think that this is old news for Arabs and Muslims living in the US? Do you think that being white and "blamed" for slavery somehow equates to the hatred felt for Muslims in the US right now?

And can I assume that by "gang bangers" who "look like" they want to kill you (but clearly don't) you mean black people?

Berserk, of all the people on these boards it is you who have over-reacted when I criticised one of your posts. Not the guy who made the "off beat" joke, nor anyone else - just you.

Oh, and if you're going to stoop to accusing me of 6th grade reading , perhaps you should fix your spelling?

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simple it is

"Do you think that being white and "blamed" for slavery somehow equates to the hatred felt for Muslims in the US right now?" theres hatred for muslims right now? not according to the news who have people on talking non stop about how these terrorists arent muslim there rogue "sickos". everyone knows muslim doesnt preach this hate retoric. muslim is a very tolerent religion that does nnot condone these acts comitted by terrorists. theres some idiots goin off on muslims but doesnt that happen with every incident? ive been listening to talk shows on the radio and watching the news and have not seen any outstanding acts of violence or hate against the muslim community. i feel for them, being misrepresented by sickos has to suck.

And can I assume that by "gang bangers" who "look like" they want to kill you (but clearly don't) you mean black people?

nope meant mexicans. next time ill clarify. but i was going for the people in gangs. not rascism. next time i will say "anti social troublesome children who never grew up and dont respect life or people who live it. just so you dont misread me.

"Berserk, of all the people on these boards it is you who have over-reacted when I criticised one of your posts."

sorry you didnt criticize one of my posts. im a artist and throughout my entire life have dealt with opinions and criticism. what set me off is you even insinuating that i would joke about this:

"I'm sure you have some great twin towers jokes you can tell us too, Berserk."

why would you say such a thing? why would you say such a hatefull thing? this is why.

Oh, and if you're going to stoop to accusing me of 6th grade reading , perhaps you should fix your spelling?"

you said that hate retoric because you misread my post. you cannot take action for your own account. maybe i should spell check everything with propa punct. because you seem to be misreading it. im sorry i blew up. i just couldnt believe you said that.

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