Microsoft's number of shares: 8.38 Billion
51% of MSFT: 4,273,800,000
Market Price per share: $25
Cost to buy 51% at Market Price: $181,845,000,000 (Roughly $182 Billion)
Apple's Net Income for Q2 2011: $7 to $8 billion
Conclusion: Apple would be better served doing a massive buy-back of their own stock. They would drive the value of their stock up (something people seem to covet). They wouldn't have to deal with a nasty and fruitless FCC investigation. And they wouldn't be purchasing a sinking ship (as many see MSFT).
That is the most ludicrously stupid response ever. Most people don't live in cities (the places with the good mass transit) because its fucking expensive out the yang. But I'm sure that doesn't occur to the average person. If everyone that worked in cities lived in cities the prices for renting/owning would be through the roof, and to compensate, everything in the city would be more expensive. Because that guy flipping burgers at one of the city's 10 McDonald's has to pay to live in his $2000 studio, because "zOmG, he has to live nearby or else he's stupid!!!".
Get real. Cities are expensive. Commuting is the solution to both expense and overcrowding. Mass transit further lowers both.
The extremely funny thing is there are no identifying characteristics to the cartoons at all. No names or anything of that nature are used. So you have to have a strong knowledge of the police department and what has happened there to even know it was Renton police department, not to mention the cartoons were obscure. Had they kept their mouths shut about the whole thing probably no more than a few hundred people would have ever known it was their police department. But because they came out and are actively fighting against it, countless more people know about it all over the country. And their are some harsh allegations in those cartoons that would be enough to get people fired and potentially prosecuted.
I was in a math class with a friend who was a bit lazy when it came to homework. One day we got tests back and he scored lower than me, and explained it away by saying "I prefer to fail so that I can learn from what I did wrong." I said to him "I prefer to practice, that way my failures are private and my victories are more meaningful."
I would say failing is valuable, but mostly when you are practicing.
Don't you know that if something is not popular or memorable people just claim to invent it, discovered it, or gave birth to it. This is exacerbated by the media not doing any kind of followup. This will probably be on the front page of the major tech blogs, or possibly my local news, with the "reporter" regurgitating the information they can skim from a single source. So I guess the rest of us have to act surprised when something is "invented" every few years.
Sorry for ranting. It is a neat device and kudos to the person for implementing it. It must have taken some decent skill to get it to work properly.
You're a fool. The classified material that he "took" (according to him he forgot it was in his filing cabinet) was declassified months after he took it. All he did with it was let it sit around. For further information read this wonderful article from the Wall Street Journal.
Despite their huffing and puffing it is not economically feasible or wise to shut down Texas air traffic. Houston is a major hub for several shipping companies and there are other large companies based in Texas. If they were to prevent air travel that would undermine the economic recovery they Feds have been chasing. Maybe not a lot, but a simple act like that would have rippling impacts and cost this country millions if not billions of dollars.
Texas should play their game and call their bluff.
Remember, there are other parties. And if those assholes aren't fulfilling your needs as a voter you have the option (nay, the responsibility) to vote for someone else.
I RTFA and this is pretty much what I got from it. A fellow developed a program to watch the flow of digital information on various networks. It was so darn good at what it did that it picked up American information too. So he built in a piece to encrypt and make the information anonymous. They decided not to use it. Then 9/11 happened and they took the powerful parts of his program, but left behind his safeguards. He suspects the government is using this bastardized software to not only spy on Americans, but watch ALL of them. Fearing this, he and others gathered together and tried to a bit of whistleblowing. As a result they became targets of the government. This surveying and whistleblower retribution essentially blows watergate out of the fucking water.
This is the most infuriating and horrifying thing I have read about the government Bureaucrats/Tyrants. The fellow suspects that every email sent in the USA is being saved in databases by the NSA. If you aren't encrypting, there really isn't an option anymore. It won't stop them, but it might slow them down.
Feel free, and obligated, to inform your representatives how terrible this is and that they won't get your vote unless they stand for American rights and privacy. Perhaps it will make a difference.
I use to pretend this wasn't true. But disappointment after disappointment has stacked up to point to one obvious fact. President Barack Obama is another lying politician that took my hopes for this country and dashed them on the rocks of Washington "change".
I can't afford a house, because western style pricing has moved it outside of my realm of buying power. Should I go ahead and steal it, then have other people explain how the housing industry should drop their prices because I couldn't afford to buy it?
Please explain to me how you would determine prior to release how you would know how many people would buy versus pirate the software? Or how someone whose software is being pirated can predict how many of those pirates would have bought the software if they couldn't pirate it?
Or is your argument just the flipside of the "Every pirate would have bought it" argument, assuming that not one would.
I know that Being Human was a British show first, but the American one that is showing on SciFi/SyFy is actually pretty good. It may not be original, but the content is there and worthwhile. I'm not saying they can carry a network on one show, but the ability for them to create shows that don't suck is still there. They just need to exercise it once in a while.
If I am a reasonable suspect, they can get a fucking warrant. Its not like its hard, and they can do it without compromising a damn thing on their part. So the only possible explanation they want to keep an eye on me is because they can't legally do anything. Which puts in squarely in the realm of the illegal.
Killing business before it even starts. The US is probably the most unfriendly country in the world to start a business in. Then you wonder why there's no growth.
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People tend to run the other direction when they hear gunshots. Regardless of who is firing them.
Microsoft's number of shares: 8.38 Billion 51% of MSFT: 4,273,800,000 Market Price per share: $25 Cost to buy 51% at Market Price: $181,845,000,000 (Roughly $182 Billion) Apple's Net Income for Q2 2011: $7 to $8 billion Conclusion: Apple would be better served doing a massive buy-back of their own stock. They would drive the value of their stock up (something people seem to covet). They wouldn't have to deal with a nasty and fruitless FCC investigation. And they wouldn't be purchasing a sinking ship (as many see MSFT).
That is the most ludicrously stupid response ever. Most people don't live in cities (the places with the good mass transit) because its fucking expensive out the yang. But I'm sure that doesn't occur to the average person. If everyone that worked in cities lived in cities the prices for renting/owning would be through the roof, and to compensate, everything in the city would be more expensive. Because that guy flipping burgers at one of the city's 10 McDonald's has to pay to live in his $2000 studio, because "zOmG, he has to live nearby or else he's stupid!!!".
Get real. Cities are expensive. Commuting is the solution to both expense and overcrowding. Mass transit further lowers both.
This. Nearly everyone would get most of what they want. The game would be playable in any circumstance thus widening their market.
The extremely funny thing is there are no identifying characteristics to the cartoons at all. No names or anything of that nature are used. So you have to have a strong knowledge of the police department and what has happened there to even know it was Renton police department, not to mention the cartoons were obscure. Had they kept their mouths shut about the whole thing probably no more than a few hundred people would have ever known it was their police department. But because they came out and are actively fighting against it, countless more people know about it all over the country. And their are some harsh allegations in those cartoons that would be enough to get people fired and potentially prosecuted.
Well played Renton.
I was in a math class with a friend who was a bit lazy when it came to homework. One day we got tests back and he scored lower than me, and explained it away by saying "I prefer to fail so that I can learn from what I did wrong." I said to him "I prefer to practice, that way my failures are private and my victories are more meaningful."
I would say failing is valuable, but mostly when you are practicing.
Nice.
Don't you know that if something is not popular or memorable people just claim to invent it, discovered it, or gave birth to it. This is exacerbated by the media not doing any kind of followup. This will probably be on the front page of the major tech blogs, or possibly my local news, with the "reporter" regurgitating the information they can skim from a single source. So I guess the rest of us have to act surprised when something is "invented" every few years.
Sorry for ranting. It is a neat device and kudos to the person for implementing it. It must have taken some decent skill to get it to work properly.
people of America. Not the government and corporations.
My bad, New Yorker.
You're a fool. The classified material that he "took" (according to him he forgot it was in his filing cabinet) was declassified months after he took it. All he did with it was let it sit around. For further information read this wonderful article from the Wall Street Journal.
Despite their huffing and puffing it is not economically feasible or wise to shut down Texas air traffic. Houston is a major hub for several shipping companies and there are other large companies based in Texas. If they were to prevent air travel that would undermine the economic recovery they Feds have been chasing. Maybe not a lot, but a simple act like that would have rippling impacts and cost this country millions if not billions of dollars.
Texas should play their game and call their bluff.
Vote for other people.
Remember, there are other parties. And if those assholes aren't fulfilling your needs as a voter you have the option (nay, the responsibility) to vote for someone else.
It is called the ACLU. Look into it. They've helped Americans a lot and the Patriot Act is one of their key issues.
America just wants to be Batman in country form.
Who the hell wouldn't?
I RTFA and this is pretty much what I got from it. A fellow developed a program to watch the flow of digital information on various networks. It was so darn good at what it did that it picked up American information too. So he built in a piece to encrypt and make the information anonymous. They decided not to use it. Then 9/11 happened and they took the powerful parts of his program, but left behind his safeguards. He suspects the government is using this bastardized software to not only spy on Americans, but watch ALL of them. Fearing this, he and others gathered together and tried to a bit of whistleblowing. As a result they became targets of the government. This surveying and whistleblower retribution essentially blows watergate out of the fucking water.
This is the most infuriating and horrifying thing I have read about the government Bureaucrats/Tyrants. The fellow suspects that every email sent in the USA is being saved in databases by the NSA. If you aren't encrypting, there really isn't an option anymore. It won't stop them, but it might slow them down.
Feel free, and obligated, to inform your representatives how terrible this is and that they won't get your vote unless they stand for American rights and privacy. Perhaps it will make a difference.
Barack Obama - best Republican president so far.
I use to pretend this wasn't true. But disappointment after disappointment has stacked up to point to one obvious fact. President Barack Obama is another lying politician that took my hopes for this country and dashed them on the rocks of Washington "change".
I can't afford a house, because western style pricing has moved it outside of my realm of buying power. Should I go ahead and steal it, then have other people explain how the housing industry should drop their prices because I couldn't afford to buy it?
Or is your argument just the flipside of the "Every pirate would have bought it" argument, assuming that not one would.
I know that Being Human was a British show first, but the American one that is showing on SciFi/SyFy is actually pretty good. It may not be original, but the content is there and worthwhile. I'm not saying they can carry a network on one show, but the ability for them to create shows that don't suck is still there. They just need to exercise it once in a while.
and what are you doing that would warrant the Thought Police's eye, and what are you doing that you do not want Big Brother to know?
Fixed that for you.
If I am a reasonable suspect, they can get a fucking warrant. Its not like its hard, and they can do it without compromising a damn thing on their part. So the only possible explanation they want to keep an eye on me is because they can't legally do anything. Which puts in squarely in the realm of the illegal.
Risk is required for gain.
Killing business before it even starts. The US is probably the most unfriendly country in the world to start a business in. Then you wonder why there's no growth.
Blatant falsehood. We're the third best country to start a business in.
Facts don't matter to trolls! Just sunlight and bridges.
Best. Reply. Ever.