RE: How Stupid Am I? PLayaa, I am not sure exactly how stupid you are(I'm sure you'll tell me)(I am surprised with your respectable post, I was expecting a typical dissident post) but if you have not been following SLI is in a legal war for controll of the company(99.99% of all competent CEO's would do almost anything to avoid the courts) (I agree; however, in this case the demands are impossible and include things like, "hand the company over without a fight" or " give us the real results" or "where is the money from the mining you never told us about" )know better and as such they are unabl to raise new funds.(Legal woes do have that affect) Given the current situation the company is on life support(Is this the same company that had around a $300,000,000 market cap and now has no money?)(That is exploration my friend, easy come easy go, prey that you find something before its all gone) and they have to preserve cash(Would imagine salaries have been slashed to keep the company afloat) (Who knows, I suspect salleries have not been slashed but rather non essential employees put on leave JMO) . Only a total moron would expect them to continue exploration with no cash on handI(Good Point- No Cash -Dead Company) (We agree on this one!) .If it takes the judge 7 mnths to make a ruleing(Factors to investigate before proceeding in any court case) (Agreed, but I view this as being forced by the dissidents. They were offered 2 board seats and rejected without negotiating further. How silly! ) then consider what is left of your investment gone I don;t think the company can survive 7 months with no cash injection. I could be wrong though. If the dissidents are worried about the longevity of the company they would try t end this madness rather then drag it out longer then needed.(Last I looked, there was another party beside the dissidents in court who can also put an end to this "madness") (Dissidents are the party taking SLI to court, the dissidents are the ones who can stop it. All managment can do is defend imo)