It's really interesting to know about this because Diebold's Voting Systems are being considered for the next Presidential Election in Argentina, in 2011.
This only adds to the really creepy stuff that's going on these days, such as moving Legislative election's date (which violates Argentina's constitution) just to favor the current president.
Using flawed electronic voting systems just adds more uncertainty about how people really cast their votes.
Actually, Yahoo! has based its decisions on more than 5-min tips... Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Lehman Brothers y Moelis are Yahoo's financial advisors in this matter. Yahoo! is also legally advised by the Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom group, as well as Munger, Tolles and Olson (as external advisors). This means they've really thought about it (at least, Yahoo's advisors did) before rejecting the offer...
IMHO, they did right. Merging with M$ would have trashed Y!'s tools, making them unusable.
Here's a paper trying to explain (mathematically) the existence and behavior of phantom matter. http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0226 Quite an interesting article, even if you don't care about the formulae in there.
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It's really interesting to know about this because Diebold's Voting Systems are being considered for the next Presidential Election in Argentina, in 2011. This only adds to the really creepy stuff that's going on these days, such as moving Legislative election's date (which violates Argentina's constitution) just to favor the current president. Using flawed electronic voting systems just adds more uncertainty about how people really cast their votes.
Actually, Yahoo! has based its decisions on more than 5-min tips... Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Lehman Brothers y Moelis are Yahoo's financial advisors in this matter. Yahoo! is also legally advised by the Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom group, as well as Munger, Tolles and Olson (as external advisors). This means they've really thought about it (at least, Yahoo's advisors did) before rejecting the offer...
IMHO, they did right. Merging with M$ would have trashed Y!'s tools, making them unusable.
Here's a paper trying to explain (mathematically) the existence and behavior of phantom matter. http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0226 Quite an interesting article, even if you don't care about the formulae in there.