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What the article doesn't point out is that is that there is a strong possibility of a class-action lawsuit on the payouts of shares, as the Board of Directors of NETL did not properly hold the sales process and shop it out.

It seems that $50 for what was a $30 share a few days ago is quite generous, but there's a rather long legal history of boards that breach their fiduciary duties getting into serious legal trouble.

The fact that something like a dozen law firms are already trying to get involved the second this happened shows something is quite fishy about it. Some snippets from google news:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/harwood-feffer-llp-announces-investigation-of-netlogic-microsystems-inc-2011-09-12
http://www.pr-inside.com/netlogic-microsystems-inc-takeover-under-r2806236.htm
http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20110912006442/en/netlogic/NASDAQ%3A-NETL/netl

A federal court has held that an employee whose health is adversely affected by tobacco smoke residue has a cause of action under the Americans With Disabilities Act [ADA] against an employer who refused to reduce his exposure in his workplace, and a complaint by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) recently forced a university to protect a woman and her unborn child whose health was threatened by tobacco smoke residue on the clothing of an officemate who smoked outdoors.

In the latter situation one doctor stated that "her sensitivity is also to the tobacco smoke residue on the person or clothing of a smoker, not just the smoke in the air. Therefore, to protect her health, especially during her pregnancy, she should not be assigned to an office with someone who smokes during the work day.'

Another doctor said that "smoking and second hand smoke has known effects on the placenta that carries nourishment to the baby. Therefore, to protect her health and the health of her baby, she should not be assigned to an office with someone who smokes during the workday, even if that person doesn't smoke in that room.'

In addition to these two situations in which a nonsmoking man and woman (and her unborn child) were expressly protected from third hand smoke, several courts have recognized at least by implication the right of children to be protected from third hand smoke.

Apple can't sack employees for whinging so the only thing left to do to avoid the risk is to void the warranties. For all we know employees have complained and it's not just a case of Apple being super Nazis.

Have the pirates been killing anyone? Not to my knowledge ....

Sadly, this is incorrect:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21842522-1702,00.html
http://article.wn.com/view/2008/10/23/Pirates_to_kill_crew_on_arms_ship_if_NATO_ships_attack/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1572236/Somali-pirates-threaten-to-kill-tanker-crew.html

They can and do kill people. And if this is allowed to continue, more and more people are going to die. On both sides.

I'm merely saddened your plan doesn't involve fixing any of Somalia's real problems. Just killing offenders.

My plan only addresses the short term issue: The piracy. That has to be dealt with immediately. Unchecked piracy will only result in the loss of more lives and cause economic problems on a world-wide scale.

Dealing with the political issues in Somalia is a more complex issue that lacks an immediate solution. I wish I could venture a good plan, but I do not understand the dynamics of the situation well enough to produce one. It's not like Somalia hasn't been receiving foreign aid:

By some
reckonings, no other country save Israel has
received such high levels of military and
economic aid per capita; certainly no country
has less to show for it. Even before its collapse
into protracted civil war and anarchy in 1990,
Somalia had earned a reputation as a graveyard
of foreign aid, a land where aid projects were
notoriously unsuccessful, and where high levels
of foreign assistance helped to create an
entirely unsustainable, corrupt and repressive
state.

What do they do with our foreign aid workers? Why, they kidnap and kill them:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/06/world/africa/06briefs-6FOREIGNAIDW_BRF.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081105/wl_afp/somaliaunrestreliefkidnap_081105183945
http://www.patronusanalytical.com/files/Somali%20Aid%20Worker%20Murdered.php
http://www.pr-inside.com/somali-aid-worker-killed-witnesses-say-r904499.htm

What would you have us do? I'm all for finding a peaceful solution if one can be arrived at. But as of this moment, there is an immediate problem people are dying or being threatened with death.

Food for thought: Isn't it interesting how the pirates can't afford food, but can always afford assault rifles? Perhaps there is more to their Robin Hood image than meets the eye.

I think she'll go away once infringement has been settled. Having settled with Philips and Toyoda this doesn't look much like a troll to me.

*sigh* Let's migrate back to the real world for a second.

One of the central planks of American hegemony is our enormous GDP. And one of Congress's self-selected core objectives is protecting and promoting our GDP. Anything that even hints at reducing GDP must be really damn important to receive any support.

Guess what fraction of the US GDP is composed of intellectual property? 45%.

Moreover, consider who owns that IP, especially in the software front: IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Texas Instruments, Apple, Yahoo... and, yes, Google.

Now, seriously - what you think are the odds of Congress passing a law that tears out a large chunk of our GDP, produced by some of the U.S.'s largest, most profitable, and most successful high-tech companies (and, incidentally, also the strongest lobbyists?) Especially when we're on the verge of a recession, thanks to the completely unrelated greed and stupidity of mortgage lenders? Would that be anything but political suicide and gross stupidity courtesy of the U.S. Congress?

Now, I certainly don't Congress with many issues, *especially* protecting the privacy interests or civil rights of John Q. Public. But they *are* keenly attuned to perpetuating the welfare of large corporations - and whether or not you agree with that, it's really beyond debate where Congress as a whole would fall on this issue. So even if the CAFC gets it wrong and rips the guts out of State Street Bank, Congress will charge in and override them. Wait and see.

- David Stein

A company called Decision Sciences Co. is developing a product that uses natural cosmic rays in a similar manner. Since natural cosmic rays can penetrate about 7 meters of quartz, shielding is almost out of the question. See http://www.pr-inside.com/decision-sciences-corporation-announces-agreement-r113316.htm

Toshiba launched the same gadget - http://www.pr-inside.com/toshiba-launches-breakthrough-ct-system-r317005.htm

The most distuingishing feature of both is that they can do 256 slices, older tech could only do 64.

CC.

Rising unemployment will lead to the collapse of the mortgaged house of cards that is currently our banking situation

This is already being seen in the subprime mortgage industry.

Actually the lawyer who represented the supposedly raped woman is likely to be disbarred... > http://www.pr-inside.com/year-long-controversy-bas ed-on-faulty-accusation-r91234.htm