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You have a strange interpretation of Jim Crow since Occupy protestors clearly appeared involved these crimes:

1. NY: 10/1/2011 Police Arrest More Than 700 Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge
2. Madison, WI: 10-27-2011 Madison Occupiers Lose Permit Due to Public Masturbation
3. Phoenix: 10/28/2011 Flier at Occupy Phoenix Asks, “When Should You Shoot a Cop?”
4. NY: 10/18/2011 Thieves Preying on Fellow Protesters
5. NY: 10/9/2011 Stinking up Wall Street: Protesters Accused of Living in Filth as Shocking Pictures Show One Demonstrator Defecating on a POLICE CAR
6. NY: 10/7/2011 Occupiers Rush Police More
7. Cleveland: 10/18/2011 ‘Occupy Cleveland’ Protester Alleges She Was Raped
8. NY: 10/10/2011 ‘Increasingly Debauched’: Are Sex, Drugs & Poor Sanitation Eclipsing Occupy Wall Street?
9. Seattle: 10/18/2011 Man Accused of Exposing Self to Children Arrested
10. 10/12/2011 Iran Supports Occupy Wall Street
11. Portland: 10/16/2011 #OccupyPortland Protester Desecrates Memorial To U.S. War Dead
12. Portland: 10/15/2011 #OccupyPortland Protesters Sing “F*** The USA”
13. Chicago: 10/17/2011 COMMUNIST LEADER Cheered at Occupy Chicago
14. 10/15/2011 American Nazi Party Endorses Occupy Wall Street‘s ’Courage,‘ Tells Members to Support Protests and Fight ’Judeo-Capitalist Banksters’
15. Boston: 10/14/2011 Coast Guard member spit on near Occupy Boston tents
16. Boston: 10/11/2011 Boston Police Arrest Over 100 from Occupy Boston
17. New York: 10/11/2011 You Can Have Sex with Animals.
18. New York: 10/15/2011 Harassing Police with Accusations of Phony Injuries
19. New York: 10/9/2011 Occupy Wallstreet Protesters Steal from Local Businesses
20. New York: 10/25/2011 Three M

The Tarot cards say that within the month IBM will knock Microsoft out of the top five of the largest pubicly held corporations in America by market cap. They'll trade back and forth for a while, but the outcome is likely eventually permanent.

On the Real-time top 500 GOOG is number 6 and threatening to knock Microsoft out of the top five. Yeah, they're not growing as fast as they once did, but they bounced back from the recession nicely and people who bought the dip are doing fine. Microsoft, on the other hand, isn't.

Yeah, there are other stocks that are better to be in - HTC, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, AAPL. But Goog has great prospects too.

You know that $0.99 iPhone games still get pirated at ridiculous rate, rite? http://247wallst.com/2010/01/13/apple-app-store-has-lost-450-million-to-piracy/

Here's the closed internet search I could turn up in about ten minute for it:

Cite

Borders. Borders Group (NYSE:BGP) lost the online and brick-and-mortar bookstore war years ago to Barnes & Noble (NYSE:BKS) and Amazon.com (NYSE:BGP). The company’s stock is down to $1.20 from a 52-week high of $4.48 and its market value is less than $80 million. For the quarter ending in October, the company’s loss from continuing operations was $39.0 million,or $0.65 per share, compared to a loss of $39.0 million, or $0.64 per share, a year ago. Revenue was $595.5 million, down $86.6 million, or 12.7%. Border’s large Waldenbooks division has all but disappeared. That part of Border’s operations is down to 361 stores. With its debt net of cash at $375 million, a competitor like Barnes & Noble could buy $2 billion in annual revenue for a fraction of sales and cut general and administrative costs to improve margins. Borders has been dead for over two years, but no one has been able to dispose of the body.

FYI: green machine = Barnes and Nobel... Red = Borders... I realized not everyone may color associate like I do.

Market caps are almost the same.

They're both around 200 B and change.

http://www.everythingicafe.com/aapl-passes-msft-in-market-cap/2010/05/26/

http://247wallst.com/2010/05/27/apple-beats-microsoft-in-market-value-msft-aapl/

http://www.9to5mac.com/AAPL-MSFT-345345332

the internet is there anyway... why no use it in a secure way?

Simply put because there isn't really yet such a thing as a "secure" way. Our current systems are too new, too complex and put together too quickly to make them anything approaching what you would mean by "secure". First let's start by defining secure. I'll put it as "you would have to invest 10% of the cost of the network in order to destroy it". That's an arbitrary and quite low value. I should probably have used about 30% and talked about the value of the dependent systems, but it's still a good start. I can't find a good place to start, but given that wind power is projected at around 150 Billion, let's use a Trillion dollars as the value. So to be secure, you want to make a person invest at least 100Billion dollars to attack the system.

100Billion dollars buys you a whole load of programmers. The kind that can actually analyse a VPN system and work out how to get into it. The ones that can work out how to tell passively which VPN system you are using.

Another analysis would be "weakest link" analysis. In this case, you say "what would it cost to do a physical attack" and make sure that a "cyber" attack costs more. However, a cyber attack can give you almost guaranteed anonymity, so you have to factor in the reduced risk of discovery which makes the attack more valuable. You will still find that an anonymous, whole grid surprise physical attack is almost impossibly expensive and unreliable. Again, you are probably talking billions of dollars. Doing the same thing with an attack via a VPN is likely to be much cheaper.

Fundamentally, by the time you are making your system secure enough to work on the intenet, it's probably cheaper to just start off with dedicated interconnections anyway. This is especially true for people like power grids who own a whole load of fibre optic cable (twisted together with their power lines) in any case.

Overall, whats clear is that currently not enough redundancy, stability and security are being put into the electric (or other) infrastructiure. You can't treat an electric grid as something that can be run purely by private industry because that means optimal use of resources, which means lack of redundancy. For stability and security there needs to be serious state / self defence interest in keeping it stable.

Depends on what you are measuring. Apple is now the number 3 US company in terms of market cap. Only MS and Exxon are larger, and some are speculating they will surpass MS some time this year. http://247wallst.com/2010/04/06/apples-market-cap-may-pass-microsofts-soon/

And depending on who you read, they are getting between 7-10% of US computer sales now.

Given that I can find no information that it has yet passed, I really again fail to see your point.

Wow, really? The very first hit from Google?

To save you the trouble, "Cash for Clunkers" is the colloquial name for the Sutton Fleet Modernization Amendment.

do you really think they were pumping out more cars to meet the demand here? Also, check you facts again.

This is all I've been asking as well. To save you the trouble of searching again:

More importantly, the new projection is that this will sustain the increase in GDP in Q4 as production is hiked to refill some of those inventories. On the jobs front, the DOT said this will have created or saved roughly 42,000 jobs in the second half of 2009 as Ford, GM, and Honda have announced production hikes.

Jim Tobin named crappiest CEO that should be fired 2 years running. I hate getting stock awards as bonuses while this guy is in charge because they're worth half as much when they mature.

For good reasons. Sun may be the single worst-managed large company in America.

What this article so nobly doesn't mention is that it's Microsoft who's stirring up all of these lobbyist groups. Snatching a link off of Google (ahem), we find:

DoubleClick: Microsoft Loses, Then Whines - http://www.247wallst.com/2007/04/doubleclick_mic.h tml

Google buys DoubleClick, Microsoft protests - http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/12270

Google rivals urge scrutiny of DoubleClick deal - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18132983/

So, um, don't panic. The community hasn't decided Google is the antichrist; this is all astroturfing, and Yahoo and Microsoft were trying to buy DoubleClick too. ;)