Google Tries To Silence IPO Rumours

egoff writes "Google has put off an IPO for now, saying "Thus far, laziness has always won out. There are so many better things to do." The New York Post suggests that Google's focus on R&D doesn't really mesh with the financial accountability of a publicly traded company. However, many analysts believe a successfully Google IPO could rejuvenate Internet-company investments."

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Re:I'd like some

[zeoslap]

Nah the fp was me :)

Special Providence

[Anonymous Coward]

Probably as a result of frontier warfare, Jacksonian opinion came
to believe that it was the spirit of the enemy nation, rather than
the fighting power of the enemy's armies, that was the chief object
of warfare. It was not enough to defeat a tribe in battle; one had to
"pacify" the tribe, to convince it utterly and totally that resistance
was and always would be destructive and futile. For this to happen,
the war had to go to the enemy's home: The villages had to be burned,
food supplies destroyed, civilians killed. From the tiniest child to
to the most revered of the elderly sages, everyone in the enemy nation
had to understand that further armed resistence to the will of the
American people, whatever that might be, was simply not an option.
The tribal leadership had to maintain an iron discipline over its
hotheaded young men; half a dozen teenagers banding together on a
raiding party would bring instant, terrible, and implacable retribution
on the entire community, and perhaps endanger the very existence of
the people.

- Walter Russel Mead, "Special Providence"

Re:Troll Tuesday and April Fools MERGER

[Anonymous Coward]

Want the perfect troll?

Take a karma whoring account, submit a story that points to something like a geocities page (you control) about something dumb like modding a refridgerator into a computer. Then, after its posted for a minute, switch the page to auto-forward someplace like goatse (or, even better, put the pic into the geocities page as the final product pic).

Perfect troll!

Re:I'd like some

[lindsayt]

Yup. You beat me by just a few seconds - I would have typed faster if I hadn't cut my finger yesterday. So near, yet so far. :-P