This makes sense, but you may be leaving out two relevant (ASIC Mining gear) market segments:
1) New Bitcoin investors that prefer to mine their coins instead of buying them (there are different reasons for this that have been discussed somewhere else)
2) "Corporate Miners" that need to stay on top of the game

Also, you should be very cautious when declaring the whole mining industry "not profitable at current difficulty levels" - as long as Bitcoin prices keep moving they have, it will be extremely difficult to prove this assertion. Looking at ROI in BTC alone can be an extremely misleading simplification.

Hey,
What about a nice round of dividend predictions, just to remind us of the good old days?

Xmax,

Não queres marcar uma data e sitio e andar para a frente com isto, de vez?
Quem está, está, quem não está vem à próxima...!
A única coisa importante é dar tempo suficiente para q a malta se organize, e passe a palavra...

You can always buy some puts at BTC-TC to hedge your investment.
(you can find them in the Options tab, under ASICMINER-PT, there are some at 4.6xx strikes)

Nice, really good looking! And it seems very complete.
Congrats BL!

I understand that what you are doing is generaly known as trolling; I am just wondering what rational purpose could that serve.
Seriously, how do you benefit from this?
And why do you use that funny "..thanks" signature?

Maybe this is a naïve question, but I really got curious.

Please make an effort to answer in English, will you?

Hey,
No news of dividends yet, anyone?
(my shares are humble PTs, I wouldn't know, yet!)

nope,  kinda cute!

Well, they are well below the estimated 20%!
I'm not sure how to prove it statistically, but it surely looks like variance is not the sole responsible for the deviation...

There's a nice concept!
May I ask how you intended to do your due diligence on ASICMINER?
I confess I tried and did not succeed: from what I know there is no shred of guarantee last week's dividends were not the last.

All I could find is that the hardware exists - it has been bought and used by too many (apparently) independent people, and that there seems to be a good number of folks that have already got much more in dividends then they have put in... Now, this certainly tells a story, but should it justify the incredible valuation of the stock?

(interested to hear your opinion, though it may be *way* off-topic here  )

I am interested too.

Interesting question, indeed.
For me, it was a newspaper title at some street booth (I did't buy the newspaper, btw!)...

What the hell is that?

You can read anything, you're not limited to the newbies section...
On the other hand, in order to avoid making a full of yourself in your "first day at school", it may be good to try to read a bit of the threads you are posting on, and say something a bit smarter than "Hello World!" 

I tend to agree with daemonfox's argument.

In fact, they:
1. Didn't run in the most appropriate time for them (after cashing in all the pre-orders), but instead stayed around to get all the blame on their face and even return money to people

2. Have shown evidence of technical progress, by shipping some units to well known folks - why do this if you're mining in stealth mode with your secretly available hw?

On the other hand, pouring money into a project while in the R&D phase is quite common, even in the "dangerous" BTC-World (How was ASICMINER funded?). Everybody knows it is risky - very risky, in fact - but that's a different story.

Stay firm, daemonfox!

retretit, I believe links are automatically removed (read it before somewhere, while I was a miserable lurker...) !

Good day!
Nice to see other people stretching their legs too