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By the way, what where Exxon and BP's reported profits last year?

Annual 2012 reports not out yet in most part so these are quarterlies.

* signifies Dow Jones Industrial Average component.

Apple's profit margin was 26.67%.
Google's was 22.20%.
*Intel's was 22.13%.
*JPMorgan Chase's was 21.97%.
*McDonald's was 19.85%.
*Coca-Cola's was 18.48%.
*Cisco's was 17.90%.
*American Express' was 17.12%.
*Pfizer's was 15.58%.
*IBM's was 15.53%.
*3M's was 14.89%
*Microsoft's was 14.21%.
*Walt Disney's was 13.44%.
Ford's 3rd quarter profit margin was 13.35%.
*Johnson & Johnson's was 12.90%.
*Proctor & Gamble's was 12.72%.
*Travelers' was 10.87%.
*Chevron's was 10.70%.
*Exxon's 3rd quarter profit margin was 10.40%.
*Catapillar's was 9.74%.
*GE's was 9.39%.
*United Technologies Corp's was 7.57%.
*Bank of America's was 6.75%.
*Merck's was 6.58%.
*DuPont's was 6.07%.
*Home Depot's was 5.91%.
*Boeing's 3rd quarter profit margin was 5.47%
*UnitedHealth Group's was 5.14%.
BP's 3rd quarter profit margin was 4.75%.
*Wal-Mart's was 3.57%.
Pulte Homes' was 3.57%.
*AT&T's was 3.49%.
*Verizon's was 2.70%.
*Alcoa's was 0.81%.
*Hewlett-Packards was -10.51%.

This a long line because for some reason SlashDot is saying that "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 20.4)" but I don't know the minimum and why is there a minimum require when a person may be wanting to report facts and I have to keep typing because now it's 25.7 per line which still isn't enough nor is 27.3 characters per line so I must keep typing yet more meaningless stuff here in an attempt to get even more characters per line because even 30.4 characters per line are not enough so even more typing typing typing (where are the infinite number of monkeys when you need them?) because 33.1 characters per line still isn't enough so row, row, row your boat while buying the stairway to heaven as 35.5 characters per line are still not enough and "you seem a decent fellow I hate to kill you" " you seem a decent fellow I hate to die" and 38.2 characters per line are still not enough "we'll never survive" "nonsense. you only say that because no one ever has" and finally

By the way, what where Exxon and BP's reported profits last year?

Annual 2012 reports not out yet in most part so these are quarterlies.

* signifies Dow Jones Industrial Average component.

Apple's profit margin was 26.67%.
Google's was 22.20%.
*Intel's was 22.13%.
*JPMorgan Chase's was 21.97%.
*McDonald's was 19.85%.
*Coca-Cola's was 18.48%.
*Cisco's was 17.90%.
*American Express' was 17.12%.
*Pfizer's was 15.58%.
*IBM's was 15.53%.
*3M's was 14.89%
*Microsoft's was 14.21%.
*Walt Disney's was 13.44%.
Ford's 3rd quarter profit margin was 13.35%.
*Johnson & Johnson's was 12.90%.
*Proctor & Gamble's was 12.72%.
*Travelers' was 10.87%.
*Chevron's was 10.70%.
*Exxon's 3rd quarter profit margin was 10.40%.
*Catapillar's was 9.74%.
*GE's was 9.39%.
*United Technologies Corp's was 7.57%.
*Bank of America's was 6.75%.
*Merck's was 6.58%.
*DuPont's was 6.07%.
*Home Depot's was 5.91%.
*Boeing's 3rd quarter profit margin was 5.47%
*UnitedHealth Group's was 5.14%.
BP's 3rd quarter profit margin was 4.75%.
*Wal-Mart's was 3.57%.
Pulte Homes' was 3.57%.
*AT&T's was 3.49%.
*Verizon's was 2.70%.
*Alcoa's was 0.81%.
*Hewlett-Packards was -10.51%.

This a long line because for some reason SlashDot is saying that "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 20.4)" but I don't know the minimum and why is there a minimum require when a person may be wanting to report facts and I have to keep typing because now it's 25.7 per line which still isn't enough nor is 27.3 characters per line so I must keep typing yet more meaningless stuff here in an attempt to get even more characters per line because even 30.4 characters per line are not enough so even more typing typing typing (where are the infinite number of monkeys when you need them?) because 33.1 characters per line still isn't enough so row, row, row your boat while buying the stairway to heaven as 35.5 characters per line are still not enough and "you seem a decent fellow I hate to kill you" " you seem a decent fellow I hate to die" and 38.2 characters per line are still not enough "we'll never survive" "nonsense. you only say that because no one ever has" and finally

By the way, what where Exxon and BP's reported profits last year?

Annual 2012 reports not out yet in most part so these are quarterlies.

* signifies Dow Jones Industrial Average component.

Apple's profit margin was 26.67%.
Google's was 22.20%.
*Intel's was 22.13%.
*JPMorgan Chase's was 21.97%.
*McDonald's was 19.85%.
*Coca-Cola's was 18.48%.
*Cisco's was 17.90%.
*American Express' was 17.12%.
*Pfizer's was 15.58%.
*IBM's was 15.53%.
*3M's was 14.89%
*Microsoft's was 14.21%.
*Walt Disney's was 13.44%.
Ford's 3rd quarter profit margin was 13.35%.
*Johnson & Johnson's was 12.90%.
*Proctor & Gamble's was 12.72%.
*Travelers' was 10.87%.
*Chevron's was 10.70%.
*Exxon's 3rd quarter profit margin was 10.40%.
*Catapillar's was 9.74%.
*GE's was 9.39%.
*United Technologies Corp's was 7.57%.
*Bank of America's was 6.75%.
*Merck's was 6.58%.
*DuPont's was 6.07%.
*Home Depot's was 5.91%.
*Boeing's 3rd quarter profit margin was 5.47%
*UnitedHealth Group's was 5.14%.
BP's 3rd quarter profit margin was 4.75%.
*Wal-Mart's was 3.57%.
Pulte Homes' was 3.57%.
*AT&T's was 3.49%.
*Verizon's was 2.70%.
*Alcoa's was 0.81%.
*Hewlett-Packards was -10.51%.

This a long line because for some reason SlashDot is saying that "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 20.4)" but I don't know the minimum and why is there a minimum require when a person may be wanting to report facts and I have to keep typing because now it's 25.7 per line which still isn't enough nor is 27.3 characters per line so I must keep typing yet more meaningless stuff here in an attempt to get even more characters per line because even 30.4 characters per line are not enough so even more typing typing typing (where are the infinite number of monkeys when you need them?) because 33.1 characters per line still isn't enough so row, row, row your boat while buying the stairway to heaven as 35.5 characters per line are still not enough and "you seem a decent fellow I hate to kill you" " you seem a decent fellow I hate to die" and 38.2 characters per line are still not enough "we'll never survive" "nonsense. you only say that because no one ever has" and finally

By the way, what where Exxon and BP's reported profits last year?

Annual 2012 reports not out yet in most part so these are quarterlies.

* signifies Dow Jones Industrial Average component.

Apple's profit margin was 26.67%.
Google's was 22.20%.
*Intel's was 22.13%.
*JPMorgan Chase's was 21.97%.
*McDonald's was 19.85%.
*Coca-Cola's was 18.48%.
*Cisco's was 17.90%.
*American Express' was 17.12%.
*Pfizer's was 15.58%.
*IBM's was 15.53%.
*3M's was 14.89%
*Microsoft's was 14.21%.
*Walt Disney's was 13.44%.
Ford's 3rd quarter profit margin was 13.35%.
*Johnson & Johnson's was 12.90%.
*Proctor & Gamble's was 12.72%.
*Travelers' was 10.87%.
*Chevron's was 10.70%.
*Exxon's 3rd quarter profit margin was 10.40%.
*Catapillar's was 9.74%.
*GE's was 9.39%.
*United Technologies Corp's was 7.57%.
*Bank of America's was 6.75%.
*Merck's was 6.58%.
*DuPont's was 6.07%.
*Home Depot's was 5.91%.
*Boeing's 3rd quarter profit margin was 5.47%
*UnitedHealth Group's was 5.14%.
BP's 3rd quarter profit margin was 4.75%.
*Wal-Mart's was 3.57%.
Pulte Homes' was 3.57%.
*AT&T's was 3.49%.
*Verizon's was 2.70%.
*Alcoa's was 0.81%.
*Hewlett-Packards was -10.51%.

This a long line because for some reason SlashDot is saying that "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 20.4)" but I don't know the minimum and why is there a minimum require when a person may be wanting to report facts and I have to keep typing because now it's 25.7 per line which still isn't enough nor is 27.3 characters per line so I must keep typing yet more meaningless stuff here in an attempt to get even more characters per line because even 30.4 characters per line are not enough so even more typing typing typing (where are the infinite number of monkeys when you need them?) because 33.1 characters per line still isn't enough so row, row, row your boat while buying the stairway to heaven as 35.5 characters per line are still not enough and "you seem a decent fellow I hate to kill you" " you seem a decent fellow I hate to die" and 38.2 characters per line are still not enough "we'll never survive" "nonsense. you only say that because no one ever has" and finally

By the way, what where Exxon and BP's reported profits last year?

Annual 2012 reports not out yet in most part so these are quarterlies.

* signifies Dow Jones Industrial Average component.

Apple's profit margin was 26.67%.
Google's was 22.20%.
*Intel's was 22.13%.
*JPMorgan Chase's was 21.97%.
*McDonald's was 19.85%.
*Coca-Cola's was 18.48%.
*Cisco's was 17.90%.
*American Express' was 17.12%.
*Pfizer's was 15.58%.
*IBM's was 15.53%.
*3M's was 14.89%
*Microsoft's was 14.21%.
*Walt Disney's was 13.44%.
Ford's 3rd quarter profit margin was 13.35%.
*Johnson & Johnson's was 12.90%.
*Proctor & Gamble's was 12.72%.
*Travelers' was 10.87%.
*Chevron's was 10.70%.
*Exxon's 3rd quarter profit margin was 10.40%.
*Catapillar's was 9.74%.
*GE's was 9.39%.
*United Technologies Corp's was 7.57%.
*Bank of America's was 6.75%.
*Merck's was 6.58%.
*DuPont's was 6.07%.
*Home Depot's was 5.91%.
*Boeing's 3rd quarter profit margin was 5.47%
*UnitedHealth Group's was 5.14%.
BP's 3rd quarter profit margin was 4.75%.
*Wal-Mart's was 3.57%.
Pulte Homes' was 3.57%.
*AT&T's was 3.49%.
*Verizon's was 2.70%.
*Alcoa's was 0.81%.
*Hewlett-Packards was -10.51%.

This a long line because for some reason SlashDot is saying that "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 20.4)" but I don't know the minimum and why is there a minimum require when a person may be wanting to report facts and I have to keep typing because now it's 25.7 per line which still isn't enough nor is 27.3 characters per line so I must keep typing yet more meaningless stuff here in an attempt to get even more characters per line because even 30.4 characters per line are not enough so even more typing typing typing (where are the infinite number of monkeys when you need them?) because 33.1 characters per line still isn't enough so row, row, row your boat while buying the stairway to heaven as 35.5 characters per line are still not enough and "you seem a decent fellow I hate to kill you" " you seem a decent fellow I hate to die" and 38.2 characters per line are still not enough "we'll never survive" "nonsense. you only say that because no one ever has" and finally

By the way, what where Exxon and BP's reported profits last year?

Annual 2012 reports not out yet in most part so these are quarterlies.

* signifies Dow Jones Industrial Average component.

Apple's profit margin was 26.67%.
Google's was 22.20%.
*Intel's was 22.13%.
*JPMorgan Chase's was 21.97%.
*McDonald's was 19.85%.
*Coca-Cola's was 18.48%.
*Cisco's was 17.90%.
*American Express' was 17.12%.
*Pfizer's was 15.58%.
*IBM's was 15.53%.
*3M's was 14.89%
*Microsoft's was 14.21%.
*Walt Disney's was 13.44%.
Ford's 3rd quarter profit margin was 13.35%.
*Johnson & Johnson's was 12.90%.
*Proctor & Gamble's was 12.72%.
*Travelers' was 10.87%.
*Chevron's was 10.70%.
*Exxon's 3rd quarter profit margin was 10.40%.
*Catapillar's was 9.74%.
*GE's was 9.39%.
*United Technologies Corp's was 7.57%.
*Bank of America's was 6.75%.
*Merck's was 6.58%.
*DuPont's was 6.07%.
*Home Depot's was 5.91%.
*Boeing's 3rd quarter profit margin was 5.47%
*UnitedHealth Group's was 5.14%.
BP's 3rd quarter profit margin was 4.75%.
*Wal-Mart's was 3.57%.
Pulte Homes' was 3.57%.
*AT&T's was 3.49%.
*Verizon's was 2.70%.
*Alcoa's was 0.81%.
*Hewlett-Packards was -10.51%.

This a long line because for some reason SlashDot is saying that "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 20.4)" but I don't know the minimum and why is there a minimum require when a person may be wanting to report facts and I have to keep typing because now it's 25.7 per line which still isn't enough nor is 27.3 characters per line so I must keep typing yet more meaningless stuff here in an attempt to get even more characters per line because even 30.4 characters per line are not enough so even more typing typing typing (where are the infinite number of monkeys when you need them?) because 33.1 characters per line still isn't enough so row, row, row your boat while buying the stairway to heaven as 35.5 characters per line are still not enough and "you seem a decent fellow I hate to kill you" " you seem a decent fellow I hate to die" and 38.2 characters per line are still not enough "we'll never survive" "nonsense. you only say that because no one ever has" and finally

By the way, what where Exxon and BP's reported profits last year?

Annual 2012 reports not out yet in most part so these are quarterlies.

* signifies Dow Jones Industrial Average component.

Apple's profit margin was 26.67%.
Google's was 22.20%.
*Intel's was 22.13%.
*JPMorgan Chase's was 21.97%.
*McDonald's was 19.85%.
*Coca-Cola's was 18.48%.
*Cisco's was 17.90%.
*American Express' was 17.12%.
*Pfizer's was 15.58%.
*IBM's was 15.53%.
*3M's was 14.89%
*Microsoft's was 14.21%.
*Walt Disney's was 13.44%.
Ford's 3rd quarter profit margin was 13.35%.
*Johnson & Johnson's was 12.90%.
*Proctor & Gamble's was 12.72%.
*Travelers' was 10.87%.
*Chevron's was 10.70%.
*Exxon's 3rd quarter profit margin was 10.40%.
*Catapillar's was 9.74%.
*GE's was 9.39%.
*United Technologies Corp's was 7.57%.
*Bank of America's was 6.75%.
*Merck's was 6.58%.
*DuPont's was 6.07%.
*Home Depot's was 5.91%.
*Boeing's 3rd quarter profit margin was 5.47%
*UnitedHealth Group's was 5.14%.
BP's 3rd quarter profit margin was 4.75%.
*Wal-Mart's was 3.57%.
Pulte Homes' was 3.57%.
*AT&T's was 3.49%.
*Verizon's was 2.70%.
*Alcoa's was 0.81%.
*Hewlett-Packards was -10.51%.

This a long line because for some reason SlashDot is saying that "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 20.4)" but I don't know the minimum and why is there a minimum require when a person may be wanting to report facts and I have to keep typing because now it's 25.7 per line which still isn't enough nor is 27.3 characters per line so I must keep typing yet more meaningless stuff here in an attempt to get even more characters per line because even 30.4 characters per line are not enough so even more typing typing typing (where are the infinite number of monkeys when you need them?) because 33.1 characters per line still isn't enough so row, row, row your boat while buying the stairway to heaven as 35.5 characters per line are still not enough and "you seem a decent fellow I hate to kill you" " you seem a decent fellow I hate to die" and 38.2 characters per line are still not enough "we'll never survive" "nonsense. you only say that because no one ever has" and finally

By the way, what where Exxon and BP's reported profits last year?

Annual 2012 reports not out yet in most part so these are quarterlies.

* signifies Dow Jones Industrial Average component.

Apple's profit margin was 26.67%.
Google's was 22.20%.
*Intel's was 22.13%.
*JPMorgan Chase's was 21.97%.
*McDonald's was 19.85%.
*Coca-Cola's was 18.48%.
*Cisco's was 17.90%.
*American Express' was 17.12%.
*Pfizer's was 15.58%.
*IBM's was 15.53%.
*3M's was 14.89%
*Microsoft's was 14.21%.
*Walt Disney's was 13.44%.
Ford's 3rd quarter profit margin was 13.35%.
*Johnson & Johnson's was 12.90%.
*Proctor & Gamble's was 12.72%.
*Travelers' was 10.87%.
*Chevron's was 10.70%.
*Exxon's 3rd quarter profit margin was 10.40%.
*Catapillar's was 9.74%.
*GE's was 9.39%.
*United Technologies Corp's was 7.57%.
*Bank of America's was 6.75%.
*Merck's was 6.58%.
*DuPont's was 6.07%.
*Home Depot's was 5.91%.
*Boeing's 3rd quarter profit margin was 5.47%
*UnitedHealth Group's was 5.14%.
BP's 3rd quarter profit margin was 4.75%.
*Wal-Mart's was 3.57%.
Pulte Homes' was 3.57%.
*AT&T's was 3.49%.
*Verizon's was 2.70%.
*Alcoa's was 0.81%.
*Hewlett-Packards was -10.51%.

This a long line because for some reason SlashDot is saying that "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 20.4)" but I don't know the minimum and why is there a minimum require when a person may be wanting to report facts and I have to keep typing because now it's 25.7 per line which still isn't enough nor is 27.3 characters per line so I must keep typing yet more meaningless stuff here in an attempt to get even more characters per line because even 30.4 characters per line are not enough so even more typing typing typing (where are the infinite number of monkeys when you need them?) because 33.1 characters per line still isn't enough so row, row, row your boat while buying the stairway to heaven as 35.5 characters per line are still not enough and "you seem a decent fellow I hate to kill you" " you seem a decent fellow I hate to die" and 38.2 characters per line are still not enough "we'll never survive" "nonsense. you only say that because no one ever has" and finally

By the way, what where Exxon and BP's reported profits last year?

Annual 2012 reports not out yet in most part so these are quarterlies.

* signifies Dow Jones Industrial Average component.

Apple's profit margin was 26.67%.
Google's was 22.20%.
*Intel's was 22.13%.
*JPMorgan Chase's was 21.97%.
*McDonald's was 19.85%.
*Coca-Cola's was 18.48%.
*Cisco's was 17.90%.
*American Express' was 17.12%.
*Pfizer's was 15.58%.
*IBM's was 15.53%.
*3M's was 14.89%
*Microsoft's was 14.21%.
*Walt Disney's was 13.44%.
Ford's 3rd quarter profit margin was 13.35%.
*Johnson & Johnson's was 12.90%.
*Proctor & Gamble's was 12.72%.
*Travelers' was 10.87%.
*Chevron's was 10.70%.
*Exxon's 3rd quarter profit margin was 10.40%.
*Catapillar's was 9.74%.
*GE's was 9.39%.
*United Technologies Corp's was 7.57%.
*Bank of America's was 6.75%.
*Merck's was 6.58%.
*DuPont's was 6.07%.
*Home Depot's was 5.91%.
*Boeing's 3rd quarter profit margin was 5.47%
*UnitedHealth Group's was 5.14%.
BP's 3rd quarter profit margin was 4.75%.
*Wal-Mart's was 3.57%.
Pulte Homes' was 3.57%.
*AT&T's was 3.49%.
*Verizon's was 2.70%.
*Alcoa's was 0.81%.
*Hewlett-Packards was -10.51%.

This a long line because for some reason SlashDot is saying that "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 20.4)" but I don't know the minimum and why is there a minimum require when a person may be wanting to report facts and I have to keep typing because now it's 25.7 per line which still isn't enough nor is 27.3 characters per line so I must keep typing yet more meaningless stuff here in an attempt to get even more characters per line because even 30.4 characters per line are not enough so even more typing typing typing (where are the infinite number of monkeys when you need them?) because 33.1 characters per line still isn't enough so row, row, row your boat while buying the stairway to heaven as 35.5 characters per line are still not enough and "you seem a decent fellow I hate to kill you" " you seem a decent fellow I hate to die" and 38.2 characters per line are still not enough "we'll never survive" "nonsense. you only say that because no one ever has" and finally

By the way, what where Exxon and BP's reported profits last year?

Annual 2012 reports not out yet in most part so these are quarterlies.

* signifies Dow Jones Industrial Average component.

Apple's profit margin was 26.67%.
Google's was 22.20%.
*Intel's was 22.13%.
*JPMorgan Chase's was 21.97%.
*McDonald's was 19.85%.
*Coca-Cola's was 18.48%.
*Cisco's was 17.90%.
*American Express' was 17.12%.
*Pfizer's was 15.58%.
*IBM's was 15.53%.
*3M's was 14.89%
*Microsoft's was 14.21%.
*Walt Disney's was 13.44%.
Ford's 3rd quarter profit margin was 13.35%.
*Johnson & Johnson's was 12.90%.
*Proctor & Gamble's was 12.72%.
*Travelers' was 10.87%.
*Chevron's was 10.70%.
*Exxon's 3rd quarter profit margin was 10.40%.
*Catapillar's was 9.74%.
*GE's was 9.39%.
*United Technologies Corp's was 7.57%.
*Bank of America's was 6.75%.
*Merck's was 6.58%.
*DuPont's was 6.07%.
*Home Depot's was 5.91%.
*Boeing's 3rd quarter profit margin was 5.47%
*UnitedHealth Group's was 5.14%.
BP's 3rd quarter profit margin was 4.75%.
*Wal-Mart's was 3.57%.
Pulte Homes' was 3.57%.
*AT&T's was 3.49%.
*Verizon's was 2.70%.
*Alcoa's was 0.81%.
*Hewlett-Packards was -10.51%.

This a long line because for some reason SlashDot is saying that "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 20.4)" but I don't know the minimum and why is there a minimum require when a person may be wanting to report facts and I have to keep typing because now it's 25.7 per line which still isn't enough nor is 27.3 characters per line so I must keep typing yet more meaningless stuff here in an attempt to get even more characters per line because even 30.4 characters per line are not enough so even more typing typing typing (where are the infinite number of monkeys when you need them?) because 33.1 characters per line still isn't enough so row, row, row your boat while buying the stairway to heaven as 35.5 characters per line are still not enough and "you seem a decent fellow I hate to kill you" " you seem a decent fellow I hate to die" and 38.2 characters per line are still not enough "we'll never survive" "nonsense. you only say that because no one ever has" and finally

By the way, what where Exxon and BP's reported profits last year?

Annual 2012 reports not out yet in most part so these are quarterlies.

* signifies Dow Jones Industrial Average component.

Apple's profit margin was 26.67%.
Google's was 22.20%.
*Intel's was 22.13%.
*JPMorgan Chase's was 21.97%.
*McDonald's was 19.85%.
*Coca-Cola's was 18.48%.
*Cisco's was 17.90%.
*American Express' was 17.12%.
*Pfizer's was 15.58%.
*IBM's was 15.53%.
*3M's was 14.89%
*Microsoft's was 14.21%.
*Walt Disney's was 13.44%.
Ford's 3rd quarter profit margin was 13.35%.
*Johnson & Johnson's was 12.90%.
*Proctor & Gamble's was 12.72%.
*Travelers' was 10.87%.
*Chevron's was 10.70%.
*Exxon's 3rd quarter profit margin was 10.40%.
*Catapillar's was 9.74%.
*GE's was 9.39%.
*United Technologies Corp's was 7.57%.
*Bank of America's was 6.75%.
*Merck's was 6.58%.
*DuPont's was 6.07%.
*Home Depot's was 5.91%.
*Boeing's 3rd quarter profit margin was 5.47%
*UnitedHealth Group's was 5.14%.
BP's 3rd quarter profit margin was 4.75%.
*Wal-Mart's was 3.57%.
Pulte Homes' was 3.57%.
*AT&T's was 3.49%.
*Verizon's was 2.70%.
*Alcoa's was 0.81%.
*Hewlett-Packards was -10.51%.

This a long line because for some reason SlashDot is saying that "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 20.4)" but I don't know the minimum and why is there a minimum require when a person may be wanting to report facts and I have to keep typing because now it's 25.7 per line which still isn't enough nor is 27.3 characters per line so I must keep typing yet more meaningless stuff here in an attempt to get even more characters per line because even 30.4 characters per line are not enough so even more typing typing typing (where are the infinite number of monkeys when you need them?) because 33.1 characters per line still isn't enough so row, row, row your boat while buying the stairway to heaven as 35.5 characters per line are still not enough and "you seem a decent fellow I hate to kill you" " you seem a decent fellow I hate to die" and 38.2 characters per line are still not enough "we'll never survive" "nonsense. you only say that because no one ever has" and finally

By the way, what where Exxon and BP's reported profits last year?

Annual 2012 reports not out yet in most part so these are quarterlies.

* signifies Dow Jones Industrial Average component.

Apple's profit margin was 26.67%.
Google's was 22.20%.
*Intel's was 22.13%.
*JPMorgan Chase's was 21.97%.
*McDonald's was 19.85%.
*Coca-Cola's was 18.48%.
*Cisco's was 17.90%.
*American Express' was 17.12%.
*Pfizer's was 15.58%.
*IBM's was 15.53%.
*3M's was 14.89%
*Microsoft's was 14.21%.
*Walt Disney's was 13.44%.
Ford's 3rd quarter profit margin was 13.35%.
*Johnson & Johnson's was 12.90%.
*Proctor & Gamble's was 12.72%.
*Travelers' was 10.87%.
*Chevron's was 10.70%.
*Exxon's 3rd quarter profit margin was 10.40%.
*Catapillar's was 9.74%.
*GE's was 9.39%.
*United Technologies Corp's was 7.57%.
*Bank of America's was 6.75%.
*Merck's was 6.58%.
*DuPont's was 6.07%.
*Home Depot's was 5.91%.
*Boeing's 3rd quarter profit margin was 5.47%
*UnitedHealth Group's was 5.14%.
BP's 3rd quarter profit margin was 4.75%.
*Wal-Mart's was 3.57%.
Pulte Homes' was 3.57%.
*AT&T's was 3.49%.
*Verizon's was 2.70%.
*Alcoa's was 0.81%.
*Hewlett-Packards was -10.51%.

This a long line because for some reason SlashDot is saying that "Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 20.4)" but I don't know the minimum and why is there a minimum require when a person may be wanting to report facts and I have to keep typing because now it's 25.7 per line which still isn't enough nor is 27.3 characters per line so I must keep typing yet more meaningless stuff here in an attempt to get even more characters per line because even 30.4 characters per line are not enough so even more typing typing typing (where are the infinite number of monkeys when you need them?) because 33.1 characters per line still isn't enough so row, row, row your boat while buying the stairway to heaven as 35.5 characters per line are still not enough and "you seem a decent fellow I hate to kill you" " you seem a decent fellow I hate to die" and 38.2 characters per line are still not enough "we'll never survive" "nonsense. you only say that because no one ever has" and finally

A stand up desk is great for your legs, back and heart. Sitting can kill you.

From the article: "Analyzing self-reported data from more than 222,000 people aged 45 and older, Australian researchers found that mortality risks spike after 11 hours of total daily sitting but are still 15 percent higher for those sitting between 8 and 11 hours compared to those sitting fewer than 4 hours per day."

My wild guess? Old people who slowly deteriorate because of old age quickly deteriorate once they reach the point they're confined to a wheel chair. It'd be about as much of a valuable study as noting that eating a significant amount of pureed food shows a mortality risk spike; because once you're at the state that all your food is and will always be pureed without any real hope of going back to solid food, you'll probably lose a lot of will to live, desire to eat, and be by the fact that you're eating puree-only food be in bad shape. By the same token, trying to force a person to stand or eat solid food probably won't do a lot since it's the physical deteriorating that needs fixed and while certain exercise and good food can help, I don't think it'll substantially influence the results.

Now, if all of this wasn't about a "mortality risk spike"... Besides, today most people *do* sit a lot more than people did two hundred years ago and life expectancy is a lot higher. Still, I do like the tagline, "Sitting: The Silent Killer".

I second this. A stand up desk is great for your legs, back and heart. Sitting can kill you. I use a 27" monitor with this arm, suspended from an overhead shelf. I can pivot it between a standing and sitting position. But as my legs and back have strengthened, I spend less and less time sitting. Now I usually only sit for meals and meetings.

Another advantage to standing, is that when people come into my office, they want to talk to me at eye-to-eye level. So they don't sit down either. This results in short-and-to-the-point conversations.

Granted, I've never even worked in a union myself

Nor have I but I'd dealt directly with them almost daily at times. I've had wrenches thrown at me because I dared to produce a stopwatch. (I'm an industrial engineer - that's what we do) I don't hate unions but I think they've forgotten their real purpose and have become far too adversarial with the companies.

But honestly, if a German union and all its workers were suddenly transported here, with all the time off and other benefits they receive, can you imagine anything but mortal conflict with US management?

The benefits any pay for workers in certain unions such as the UAW are second to none. I've seen guys with no college degree who make upwards of $80-100K+ for an assembly line job. Until very recently average wages of a GM worker was $39.69/hour and benefits tacked another $33.58/hour on top of that. We're not talking about specialty skilled labor here either. Guys with little to no special skills used to be able to get jobs that paid far better than the requirements of the job dictated. That has proven to be unsustainable.

Blue collar America has taken an incredible beating with a huge decline in standard of living over the last 30 years, today's auto workers are lucky to make half of what their fathers did.

Their fathers got a deal that was out of line with what could actually be sustained by the profits of the companies. Blue collar america is simply experiencing a reversion to the mean. They've had a good run for a while and now the bill has come due.

Watson is likely to be a liar...

http://voices.yahoo.com/are-potty-mouths-better-people-science-swearing-11939258.html

In China a week or two ago, a man attacked schoolchildren with a knife. He injured about 20 or so. No one died.

And in 2010, another man attacked schoolchildren with a knife, and killed 7. See, my anecdote is better than your anecdote.

In the meantime, Chinese are teaching kids to fight off attackers with brooms. I can totally see how successful that will be....

Ummmm, at least Christians would say you're idolizing the wrong J.C.

http://voices.yahoo.com/basic-cryptology-caesars-encryption-method-5295779.html

You need to brush up on your Old Testament:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth

just last week.

http://news.yahoo.com/idaho-senator-mike-crapo-admits-drunken-driving-virginia-174101503.html

Might be worth paying higher Vegas hotel rates to catch Malena Morgan though.

Ummmm, at least Christians would say you're idolizing the wrong J.C.

http://voices.yahoo.com/basic-cryptology-caesars-encryption-method-5295779.html

...3 meals, shelter, clothing, TV and other recreation...

And don't forget, cheaper medical care than you get on the outside.

The biodiesel 1985 Mercedes with 500,000 miles. If possible, a 1976 240D is the car to use. One taxi driver got 2.8 million miles out of his.

Since energy can be converted to mass, temperature is a measure of energy, and negative mass is required for implementing a Alcubierre drive, could this be an exotic state of matter necessary to make it happen?

It's still going to require a crazy amount of energy, but may not be impossible.

Nokia predicted to abandon mobile business, sell assets to Microsoft and Huawei in 2013

It seems you don't know what a catch-all inbox is.

As much as I hate referring someone to Yahoo answers: A pint's only a pound in the USA

Sure, just don't get in the way of my belief that evolution and the big bang are Lies Straight From the Pit Of Hell when I'm setting the agenda for the country.

Sorry but you are wrong and here is why: when looking at the numbers and comparing them to the previous year at the exact same period, which just FYI had an even worse economic outlook than we did this year, computer sales are down by more than 13% and I'm sorry but you don't have THAT big a drop, especially during the run up to Xmas, unless something is REALLY wrong or you have a product people don't want to buy. Even the OEMs are flat footed saying that Win 8 units just aren't selling which is why you see more and more places like Tiger showing Win 7 machines for sale, nobody wants Win 8.

So frankly it doesn't have a damned thing to do with ME or MY opinion, honestly if I wanted to i could put up with the bullshit or just hack the shell, i just don't see enough benefits to put up with bullshit like tying everything to a MSFT Live account or hacking the shell to make it worth fooling with. Nope what this is about is the simple fact that this is the typical user reaction to Windows 8 only she doesn't get frustrated as badly or curse like many of those trying it at the shop did. Hell I got people calling me I haven't heard from in years going "You still got that shop? Yeah see i went to look at Best Buy for a laptop and all they had was that 'weird new Windows' and I REALLY don't like it. Is there any way you can get me one with the 'good Windows' on it?"

It has NOTHING to do with opinion, or taste, it has to do with the fact MSFT put out a Frankenstein mess of an OS, designed for an interface that less than 2% of ALL computers made or even sold in stores even has, and which is NOT intuitive, or discoverable, or in any way easier or friendlier than the product that came before. I'm not the one writing articles like "Windows 8..Yes it is THAT bad" I'm simply pointing out the reasons WHY it is THAT bad, just as I did with Vista. Sadly by SP2 they had pretty much fixed the problems with Vista but people had already moved on, I honestly don't think they can fix Windows 8. Even if they kill the Metro UI you still have everything being tied to a MSFT account, ads in the OS, and a mish mash of ribbonized and non ribbonized programs. Not to mention there are SOME controls you can only get to through control panel in desktop mode and SOME that you can only get through metro so unlike some here I don't think they can just "patch metro away" as they moved too much crap into it already.

Like it or not there isn't gonna be a Windows anymore, you are gonna have Apple and ersatz Apple, MSFT is even announced they are building their own hardware and Surface was just the start, you'll have MSFTPhone and MSFTDesktop and MSFTLaptop, all probably priced even higher than Apple just to cement the fail like they did with Surface pricing compared to iPad.

So while you ARE correct that not as many are buying and NO its not that they are replacing them with cellphones like the press keeps harping about, or with tablets, but the average user just can't stress out even a first gen Core Duo or Phenom X4 you just don't have numbers drop THAT bad unless you have a product that the customer is turned off by, and that is Win 8 in a nutshell.

You always believe what you're told? That's completely wrong, and it takes 10 seconds of googling to find out.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=MSFT+Major+Holders

All MS insiders combined only own 10% of the stock, while 65% of the stock is owned by Hedge Funds and other institutions.

This is a useful overview, but it doesn't cover the details of the confusing part.

My take is that the whole DOJ angle is part of HP looking for a scapegoat to cover both their own mismanagement and lack of ability to due anything useful with Autonomy's IP. It's a fishing expedition to find one, but they have no hard evidence yet of who's to blame. Autonomy itself used aggressive accounting measures to inflate its sale price, as all companies being acquired will try to do. What HP really wants is to ignore the whole thing and write off the loss, since catching any accounting mess should have happened before the purchase. But they can't just do that due to class action lawsuits saying it's HP who is at fault. So they're going through the motions of prosecuting other people to shift the blame, but so far they don't have any hard evidence of that fraud. If they did, they'd be leading with that.

Here's how I sequenced all the events here to sort out what happened:

• August 22, 2012: earnings are terrible, and we're going to blame the Enterprise Services division.
• November 20, 2012: The scapegoat picked for the bad performance of Enterprise Services is the Autonomy aquisition. HP wants to write off a 8.8B loss right now for that. They can't admit "we fucked up", so they blame accounting issues at Autonomy.
• November 21, 2012: The U.S. Department of Justice is called in to help push blame toward Autonomy, along with the U.K. Serious Fraud Office (Autonomy was originally a British company) and the SEC.
• November 26, 2012: a class action lawsuit is filed by HP stockholders. That claims this is all bullshit, and HP itself is the source of fraud here. Similar class action lawsuits are filed against the accounting firms involved.
• December 28, 2012: Former Autonomy head Mike Lynch points out that HP hasn't actually given out any detailed accounting for where that 8.8B figure comes from. And the US Justice department hasn't actually gotten him involved in things yet.

It may be the case that HP's forensic accounting here finds something lawsuit worthy. It's telling that so far, all they've done is contact the DOJ. If they had a smoking gun, they'd have sued the responsible partly directly instead. That's why I suspect this is just fishing without solid evidence so far.

http://news.yahoo.com/comics/dilbert-slideshow/

Sure is easy to always hit the terrorists when "militant" is defined as a non-infant male killed by drone.

http://voices.yahoo.com/report-obama-redefines-militant-avoid-counting-11403806.html

Any other bullshit you want to shovel asshole? You have blood on your hands by virtue of your blind suckage of the lies. That makes you an accessory to evil and as such, you deserve loathing just as the people pulling the trigger on "dogs" (the childlike two legged variety) in drone attacks deserve.

http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2011/07/18/washingtons-untrue-claims-no-civilian-deaths-in-pakistan-drone-strikes/

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/pain-continues-after-war-for-american-drone-pilot-a-872726.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208307/Americas-deadly-double-tap-drone-attacks-killing-49-people-known-terrorist-Pakistan.html

Fuck you they have. You're just making shit up now. THEY HAVE NOT HAD A MEETING INT HE WHITE HOUSE FOR 7 WEEKS. Period. End of discussion.

WTF are you talking about? 7 weeks ago was Nov. 9. Get a grip and take some anger management therapy.

http://news.yahoo.com/timeline-fiscal-cliff-meetings-offers-counteroffers-123117665--politics.html

One in a billion people have something to actually fear about what they say getting them killed or otherwise harm, the rest just use is as a pathetic excuse to talk out their ass with no repercussions at all.

One in a Billion? More like 1 out of 7 methinks. i.e. http://news.yahoo.com/china-requires-internet-users-register-names-141101231--finance.html
Ask the the internet users of Syria, Iran, and Saudia Arabia about their online freedoms to say and post what they want? Why did the UN/ITU (Or at least Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Africa) try to to grab the internet this month?

Might want to look at the Win 8 figures again friend, Its clear that Windows 8 is a failure and sales are down more than 13% compred to this period last year and the OEMs are putting the blame squarely on win 8 and the new upscale marketing strategy. Also MSFT themselves are cutting surface orders in half because they can't move what they have. Is Ballmer gonna look at the numbers and wake the fuck up? Nope instead he is going full steam ahead in making their own PCs and phones proving that Ballmer is fully prepared to go full retard.

I'd say the numbers are clear as a bell and the consumer has spoken, given the choice of a $1000 Apple ripoff and the real thing they are gonna choose Apple, its better branding makes Windows a non starter in that market. Again its like slapping a coat of paint on a Pinto and expecting it to compete with Porsche, its just not gonna happen. Mark my words if they don't fire Ballmer and bring somebody in who has actual vision that consists of more than "What is Apple doing? We'll do that" then in 5 years MSFT is gonna be in the same boat as RIM, with a dwindling legacy base and no growth. The OEMs aren't gonna jump off a cliff to please MSFT, they'll crank out Chromebooks and Android units before closing the doors and Google will be more than happy to take that business. History will put Ballmer right next to the Pepsi guy as "worst CEOs ever" and MSFT will be just another footnote in history. Either you listen to your customers or you die, simple as that.

"An Internet virus attacked computers at industrial sites in southern Iran, in an apparent extension of a covert cyber war that initially targeted the country's nuclear facilities, an Iranian official said."

Would this "Internet virus" be Microsoft Windows only?

Oh look, I found an interesting discussion about that very post from John Christy of UAH, posted on notorious denier Roger Pielke Jr's blog. The great thing about blogs as compared to scientific journals is that you get to choose your "pal review"! Who will notice if you mis–represent the original data, and use a flawed dataset?

One comment really nails it, and I can't link to it individually, so I'll just include it here:

The first thing I noticed when looking at Christy’s graph was that Hansen’s scenario B had been replotted to make it appear that it tracks scenario A very closely. It doesn’t, it never has. The graph on Real Climate uses the original data http://www.realclimate.org/images/Hansen

The next thing that was obvious was that the RSS and UAH temperature graph shows very little warming. I thought this issue was supposed to have been rectified after Spencer and Christy corrected the errors relating to orbital drift (meaning the temps were taken at progressively later times each day).

After making the corrections (version 5.2) the data now correlates with other global temperature records such as those of NASA and the CRU (remember when the skeptics always relied on the RSS / UAH temperature records, until it came to light that it was wrong).
Detail - http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/fu
Summary - http://www.ssmi.com/msu/msu_data_descrip
UAH Data - http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/t2l
RSS Data - http://vortex.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/t2l
Comparison Data - http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temper
Hansen’s Data - http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/1988/1988

It appears that Christy has chosen to use the old data in his comparison. In effect, what he’s done is to exaggerate the warming predicted in Hansen’s Scenario B (the one Hansen always said was most likely) and then downplay the true amount of warming that has occurred.

When the real data are used it becomes apparent how accurate Hansen’s scenario B projections have actually been – not exact but pretty close. Considering Jim’s 1988 projections were based on single inputs then this is quite impressive.

Are you looking at how much actual RAM it is using? Or how much RAM is allocated by Windows? Because i have noticed that since Vista MSFT has switched the way they count RAM usage. Now personally I'm all for it, XP was completely retarded when it came to RAM and would begin hitting swap when 2/3rds of the RAM wasn't even being used but a side effect of the new way of doing things is the way RAM usage is reported in Windows usually itsn't how much RAM its actually using but how much Windows has allocated which can be two very different things. Windows watches over time how much RAM a program uses and since Steam is used as a game launcher if you have been playing games it will cache some of the DLLs for the most recent game and they get counted along with Steam. Use something like Process Explorer and you'll get a clearer picture of how much Steam is actually using. For example using Task Manager Windows reports that Steam is using 261Mb of RAM yet when I fire up Process Explorer what I find out is its actually using only 143Mb, the rest is Windows caching.

Now whether I think Steam uses too much memory for what it does? No I do not and here is why: In Steam you not only have a browser (the store) you also have an updating service, a chat client, and a file syncing service. When you realize it is doing all of that at the same time? I really don't think that the 261MB (actual usage 143MB) is too much to ask for. Personally I'd prefer programs to use my RAM and not make me wait for disk load, hell I have 8GB of RAM so why not use it to make thing work faster? I mean when you can buy 2GB of RAM for less than $20 and often see 4GB sticks of DDR 3 for less than $30, why not use some of that RAM to make things faster for the user? I mean sure you should try to be conservative when you are in a RAM starved environment but Steam's own hardware surveys show their average user has 4GB of RAM so being conservative on RAM at the cost of speed and snappy response? not worth it.

One final thing, it looks like Valve wasn't the only one that got bit this Xmas as Netflix was down too over a large part of the USA, Canada, and Latin America, the cause? Part of Amazon's cloud services went down and Netflix was using them so there ya go.

Precisely Bruce Willi's point when he wants to leave his music collection to his daughters (computerworld, cnn dailymail yahoo).

The NRA is demanding armed guards in every school in the nation. http://news.yahoo.com/nra-calls-armed-police-officer-every-school-162851713.html

But as experience in Afghanistan proves, you cannot always trust those armed guards. A bad guy with a desire to gain infamous immortality? Get a job as one of those "Good Guy" armed guards. Hang out for year or so, and set your own record.

So it is inevetible, we need to have children carry their own heat. This will be a big growth industry. I can forsee pink Hello Kitty semi auto rifles for the little girls, and a whole range of GI Joe action assault rifles for the little boys.

All black humor aside, do we really think that this is a path to go down? You really won't be able to stop a determined assailant with an assault rifle and one armed offecer. You would need multiple guards at every ingress/egress point. You would need windowless buildings with solid metal doors on all entrances and exits. A prison essentially. We would need to turn our schools into prisons.

And all this because some folks thing that banning assault weapons is somehow a bad thing? And that the answer is a gun version of the old Soviet-American arms race? Will thse folks support the inevetible tax increases?

Make no mistake, banning assault weapons will not put an end to school or other shootings. Probably nothing will, and certainly 1 armed officer at each school won't. What it would do is first, make it a little more difficult for the crazies to be so efficient, and then if you saw someone wallking down the street with their AR-15, you would know that are a bad guy, and not just on their way to a Tea Party rally.

As a gun owner, I think we must move past the knee jerk reaction whenever there is any mention of firearms of dubious public use being banned, of "Jack booted thugs" (the NRA's words, not mine) breaking into your house, confisticating your guns and ammo, and then sending you off to a FEMA concentration camp. It doesn't follow.

People should be able to own rifles and sidearms, and use them for hunting and self protection. A Bushmaster? Not quite as much.

Kathy Lloyd is more than an exception to the rule. You really let yourself down AC.

(Maybe Virginia Elizabeth Davis might have fired the arrow that hit you in the knee?)

If you want to end atrocities, get rid of governments.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091015102513AAVklLq

Event's like this are terrible, but they are nothing compared to rulers with guns, tanks, and men willing to follow orders.

...which is another way of saying: the GOOG shoots itself in the foot - ALL THE TIME!

I've read about gas pumps that can are smart enough to short change you on gas, unless you put in exactly 1 gallon or 5 gallons, the common measuring container volumes.

To check for pumps like this, listen for the pump speeding up as it nears these volumes and slowing down afterwards.

http://voices.yahoo.com/are-getting-scammed-gas-pump-369506.html

Ironically, while the initial problem and police warning got a lot of press coverage, neither the fact that Apple fixed their directions by the very next day nor the fact that Google Maps has had an ongoing similar issue (Australian police also issued a warning for Google Maps this week, since it's routing traffic, including buses, down a one-way dirt track through the wilderness) have been reported very much.

I know the saying is that a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can put on its shoes, but that applies to things like this as well, it would seem. Everyone is quick to latch onto issues with Apple Maps (which definitely do exist, don't get me wrong), while ignoring the fact that Google Maps had similar issues when it started and continues to have similar issues today. Google Maps is simply a more mature product that has less of these issues overall (which is why I still use it most of the time), but Apple Maps is already solid enough that none of the people I've talked to who use it on a regular basis have had any issues, nor can I remember having any problems, other than a few funky looking buildings when I tried out their 3D view on the day it launched.

Of course, the fact that Apple Maps strands people in the middle of nowhere may explain why I haven't been able to talk to the people who are having problems...

BA-DUM-tish

"I almost died in Australia, thank god this is out." - 5 stars from Reed Morse

Australian Police warn of safety concerns from Google Maps

Finally? Really? The title is pretty biased.

What happened to the conspiracy theories that Apple was holding the app hostage and wouldn't approve it even when Google said it hadn't been submitted? Where are those people admitting they were wrong? They've moved on to the next anti-Apple trolling meme like people 'dying' in Australia because the maps were so bad.

Google maps getting a similar warning in another part of Australia? *crickets*

Pardon my lack of login. Have you tried looking at more dimensional data? If flu propagation is graphed not just over time, but over area via a heat map, perhaps some correlation can be ascertained. As a simple example, if the spread was a slow wave from area to area and it hits where the populace are less likely to seek medical treatment (lower income/lower rate of insurance), there may be no additional observed cases despite the disease continuing to spread. Once the wave of propagation leaves this region (which in the heat map will be a blind spot in the data at best) the observed cases will return to normal levels.

I have not found any granular data that could help. Some people are trying to do this with twitter. Though I would hope you could get general demographic information of the area served by the hospitals you get the observation data from and map it out on a much more detailed level than Google flu trends or flu.gov powered by Healthmap. Just go ahead and look at that last one of global indications. It is clear that flu could be spreading through areas without adequate healthcare and no one would know it.

You're not witnessing the death of msft, for chrissake. They're going to be around, and making operating systems, for a very long time yet.

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=MSFT+Interactive#symbol=msft;range=my;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;