What's so funny about this? Folks love IPOs. Wall Street loves them. The press get all excited, and pundit talking heads start squawking. Everybody thinks that they make money on an IPOs. Actually, probably the Wall Street folks end up making the most money on an IPO.
I think Dell will just ride out the current bad weather in the PC business, and wait for blue skies, when everyone has forgotten why it went private in the first place
Then do another juicy IPO. Most companies only do one money generating IPO in their lifetime. This could be the start of a new trend of companies having a series of IPOs.
Actually, the more I think of it, this is exactly what private equity firms do: take something private, loot and pillage, and then sell it again as something remotely close to profitable.
we have some strategically placed US listening stations out in the bush
Typical Obama apologist . . . blaming it on Bush again.
Actually, all this NSA spying on Angela Merkel was done because Obama was curious and wanted to find out if she has a "baldy" or a "wizard's beard" on her "wizard's sleeve."
So Obama can blame that on Bush, as well.
The NSA operation failed, though, because Angela Merkel doesn't talk about such things on the phone. Mr. Obama will just have to gather up the courage to call her up and ask her himself. However, the office of the Chancellor of Germany issued a statement saying that, concerning the chance of any contact with the President of the US right now, she's "up on blocks" for a while.
The funny thing is . . . if someone announced a space program to toss an astronaut down a black hole . . . there would be plenty of volunteers for the mission.
. . . meanwhile, Microsoft is building a giant wooden rabbit . . . once Apple takes the rabbit inside their spaceship, Ballmer will jump out and surprise . . .
. . . maybe Google will fall for a giant wooden badger . . . ?
Please don't give them ideas. They will "arrange" by lobbying for a "Keep Greenland Green" tax to be paid by the rest of the world to collect those billions.
Bring back chain-gangs! Use Oregon's prison population as free labor to clean and fix roads. Reward more productive gangs for a job well done. Let gangs bid for projects. Let them work like small businesses, with some autonomy.
Some folks in prison seem to be quite adept at managing criminal organizations. Let them try using that talent for something legal. At least it might be better than having them lifting weights, learning from other prisoners how to commit more crimes, tattooing each other and hand-crafting weapons.
Yes, just look at their biggest industrial coup, where France stole the best invention of the human race from another country: So-called "French" fries were actually invented by the Belgians!
But in the international automobile industry, there used to be an old saying, "The French copy from nobody . . . but nobody copies the French."
This situation could have resulted in violence (or worse) if this wasn't rectified quickly.
Food riots? The government Soylent Green People Scoopers will clean them up really fast. Which will increase the Soylent Green supply, so that it can be given away free to food stamp card holders.
Store Clerk: Sorry, our food stamp card system is down again, but you can have some Soylent Green for free, so you won't need to go hungry . ..
Is it just me, or is "sensible adult conversation" rather condescending?
I'm rather surprised that an experienced and savvy politician like her would let something condescending like that slip. Her staff must be cringing at that statement. That's something I would have expected to hear from Dick Cheney. I think she's showing her age and losing her shine a bit. A politician is allowed to think that they know better than the rest of us . . . but to go out and rub it in our faces is political harakiri.
Younger voters have been a traditional stronghold for the Democrats, but younger voters are more concerned than most about the government's spying hanky panky. And they certainly don't need anyone to tell them that they need a "sensible adult conversation". They might think twice about someone who reminds them of their cranky old grandmother.
"Yo, Hillary, you up for an Adult Swim in the Potomac? With an Adult Film afterwards?"
creeping on your ex-girlfriends, elected officials, and corporate CEOs.
Never mind "creeping". Booz Allen is a profit oriented consulting and services business. They know the value of information. What if they are tapping into the NSA data for commercial gain? Selling NSA data to other businesses . . . ?
Snowden got "caught" because he outed himself. Someone running a rogue business market for NSA data isn't going to go public about it.
It would be high time that the NSA take a look at the businesses that do their work for them.
It certainly makes a better programmer. Having a negative attitude makes you assume every statement is going to throw an exception sooner than later, so you become obsessive compulsive about handling exceptions. As opposed to other programmers who just toss them and let others deal with them. Or catch and swallow them with an empty TODO comment clause.
So you end up sitting in design meetings thinking about what can go wrong in a system instead of cheering on how great the design is with the other folks. Unfortunately, I'm the only person in the world who thinks that a new design should be scrubbed with a thorough wash of toxic pessimism.
Hey, what doesn't kill a design, makes it stronger.
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What's so funny about this? Folks love IPOs. Wall Street loves them. The press get all excited, and pundit talking heads start squawking. Everybody thinks that they make money on an IPOs. Actually, probably the Wall Street folks end up making the most money on an IPO.
I think Dell will just ride out the current bad weather in the PC business, and wait for blue skies, when everyone has forgotten why it went private in the first place
Then do another juicy IPO. Most companies only do one money generating IPO in their lifetime. This could be the start of a new trend of companies having a series of IPOs.
Actually, the more I think of it, this is exactly what private equity firms do: take something private, loot and pillage, and then sell it again as something remotely close to profitable.
On paper, at least.
Self-winding watches could also be "charged" very quickly, by wearing it while having a wank.
Which sort of provided an automatic alarm . . . if it ran down, you knew that it was time for another wank.
Second homes are insured under the National Flood Insurance programs, just like first homes.
I wonder how many second homes were suddenly declared first homes, after the storm?
. . . and how about that boardwalk? Rebuilt, only to be burned down again in an . . . "accident", in the Tony Soprano sense of the word.
When there's lots of federal money being handed out someone's going to find a way to take advantage of it.
we have some strategically placed US listening stations out in the bush
Typical Obama apologist . . . blaming it on Bush again.
Actually, all this NSA spying on Angela Merkel was done because Obama was curious and wanted to find out if she has a "baldy" or a "wizard's beard" on her "wizard's sleeve."
So Obama can blame that on Bush, as well.
The NSA operation failed, though, because Angela Merkel doesn't talk about such things on the phone. Mr. Obama will just have to gather up the courage to call her up and ask her himself. However, the office of the Chancellor of Germany issued a statement saying that, concerning the chance of any contact with the President of the US right now, she's "up on blocks" for a while.
. . . litigate!
. . . because the NSA has collected enough poop on every member of Congress and blackmailed them. J. Edgar Hoover did this back in his days, as well.
Congress is afraid of the NSA.
The funny thing is . . . if someone announced a space program to toss an astronaut down a black hole . . . there would be plenty of volunteers for the mission.
Do the Americans just not care?
Americans do care!
An umpire made a questionable call in the World Series last night.
Chris Brown got arrested.
Kim Kardashian is getting married.
. . . it's just a matter of what the common folks really care about . . .
. . . meanwhile, Microsoft is building a giant wooden rabbit . . . once Apple takes the rabbit inside their spaceship, Ballmer will jump out and surprise . . .
. . . maybe Google will fall for a giant wooden badger . . . ?
What makes you think you are special enough to deserve their attention?
Well, if you are the ex-girlfriend of an NSA analyst, you might be special. Although, I guess that doesn't apply to Slashdotters.
Maybe an NSA analyst has a grudge against you, dating back from High School times . . . ?
In Soviet NSA, everyone gets their attention . . .
Please don't give them ideas. They will "arrange" by lobbying for a "Keep Greenland Green" tax to be paid by the rest of the world to collect those billions.
cover the cost of road maintenance
Bring back chain-gangs! Use Oregon's prison population as free labor to clean and fix roads. Reward more productive gangs for a job well done. Let gangs bid for projects. Let them work like small businesses, with some autonomy.
Some folks in prison seem to be quite adept at managing criminal organizations. Let them try using that talent for something legal. At least it might be better than having them lifting weights, learning from other prisoners how to commit more crimes, tattooing each other and hand-crafting weapons.
Yes, just look at their biggest industrial coup, where France stole the best invention of the human race from another country: So-called "French" fries were actually invented by the Belgians!
But in the international automobile industry, there used to be an old saying, "The French copy from nobody . . . but nobody copies the French."
and ethics.
Ethics are important. Most MBA programs include courses on ethics. Most popular, is the course titled, "Ethics . . . and How to Avoid Them"
their kids are rotten little bastards
Or, possibly, the parents are big rotten little bastards.
That's what they used to say about Neandertal DNA.
I'm hoping that the mosquito bit a pig. Then we could all be dining really soon . . . on . . . Jurassic Pork!
We already have enough Neandertaler still walking the face of the planet today . . .
Actually, I read:
"no reasonable expectation of privacy"
. . . as . . .
"no reasonable expectation of healthcare"
well laden quadcopters
African or European quadcopters . . . ?
Oh, I think it's more of:
How long and how much effort will it take to fix it . . . ?
It depends. How much money do you have . . . ?
This situation could have resulted in violence (or worse) if this wasn't rectified quickly.
Food riots? The government Soylent Green People Scoopers will clean them up really fast. Which will increase the Soylent Green supply, so that it can be given away free to food stamp card holders.
Store Clerk: Sorry, our food stamp card system is down again, but you can have some Soylent Green for free, so you won't need to go hungry . . .
Is it just me, or is "sensible adult conversation" rather condescending?
I'm rather surprised that an experienced and savvy politician like her would let something condescending like that slip. Her staff must be cringing at that statement. That's something I would have expected to hear from Dick Cheney. I think she's showing her age and losing her shine a bit. A politician is allowed to think that they know better than the rest of us . . . but to go out and rub it in our faces is political harakiri.
Younger voters have been a traditional stronghold for the Democrats, but younger voters are more concerned than most about the government's spying hanky panky. And they certainly don't need anyone to tell them that they need a "sensible adult conversation". They might think twice about someone who reminds them of their cranky old grandmother.
"Yo, Hillary, you up for an Adult Swim in the Potomac? With an Adult Film afterwards?"
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creeping on your ex-girlfriends, elected officials, and corporate CEOs.
Never mind "creeping". Booz Allen is a profit oriented consulting and services business. They know the value of information. What if they are tapping into the NSA data for commercial gain? Selling NSA data to other businesses . . . ?
Snowden got "caught" because he outed himself. Someone running a rogue business market for NSA data isn't going to go public about it.
It would be high time that the NSA take a look at the businesses that do their work for them.
It certainly makes a better programmer. Having a negative attitude makes you assume every statement is going to throw an exception sooner than later, so you become obsessive compulsive about handling exceptions. As opposed to other programmers who just toss them and let others deal with them. Or catch and swallow them with an empty TODO comment clause.
So you end up sitting in design meetings thinking about what can go wrong in a system instead of cheering on how great the design is with the other folks. Unfortunately, I'm the only person in the world who thinks that a new design should be scrubbed with a thorough wash of toxic pessimism.
Hey, what doesn't kill a design, makes it stronger.
SAP car: Will refuse to go anywhere until you Send Another Payment.
IBM car: You will have to argue with Watson about where you want to go.
The classic student project used to be: "Design your own language, and write a compiler for it."
Now it's: "Take something that is not written in JavaScript, and write it in JavaScript."