No kidding, Christians you say? I'll never shop there again. What with their love thy neighbor and turn the other cheek. How can they face themselves?
And a business that's in it for the money. No wonder you hate them. And I thought all this Wal-mart bashing was irrational. Thanks for setting me straight.
How is not giving military aid bullying? The ICC is going to be used as a political weapon against the US. The US has every right to not give military aid to countries that are doing things against our interest.
In fact as a taxpayer I'd be upset if we didn't withdraw aid.
Of course foreign aid only meausers how much money the govenment gives not the people. Its not a very good measure of what the people of the US give to other countries.
>The ads causing a page to be non-function is a good >reason to a) stop using the site and b) send the >webmaster a poltite message telling them why you >will never visit their site again.
I had this problem and emailed WSJ about it simply telling them that their ads were broken not threatening to leave the cite and in 2 days the problem went away and has not resurfaced.
This is untrue and contradicted by empirical evidence. Net income and book value of equity explain a high proportion of stock price. If you regress price per share on earnings per share on book value per share you will get an R squared somewhere around 80%.
The dot coms were a small number of firms that are not representative of the population of publicly traded firms. And if you look around you will see that these firms have zero earnings, zero book value and zero price.
Frank Sinatra didn't play an instrument, didn't write his own music, was almost never seen in small clubs. When he was young girls thought he was very sexy, and he had to audition to get his first job. However many people think he was the greatest singer of all times.
Perhaps the real problem with pop music today is that it is marketed to people that are much younger than you.
You seem to misunderstand the economics of bringing new artists to market. If the recording companies could pick the winners up front they would be fabulously successful businesses. Over 95% of the new acts sell virtually zero records and the record companies lose hundreds of thousands of dollars on each of them.
Although the consensus around here seems to be that these record companies sign acts to long contracts but pay them nothing, the fact is that record companies pay an up front fee, living expenses, recording, advertising costs, travel expenses etc. for many acts before they sell a single record.
The idea that the record companies want acts to be washed up after a few years is misinformed. It's like suggesting that lottery winners want their annual payments to stop after a few years so they can play the lottery again. There was a good story in the Wall Street Journal yesterday about an woman who sold less than $5,000 (retail) in cd's after a major studio spent millions trying to develop her.
Out of the 6,455 albums produces last year by major studios, only 52 made money. That is over 99% lost money and the 1% of successful albums subsidized the rest of the industry.
This is a myth, although I'm sure anomaly is hard working and talented, social mobility is the norm not the excpetion.
I pulled the following from an article in the WSJ today.
According to an analysis of the University of Michigan's Panel Study of Income Dynamics, from 1975 to 1991 more than 80% of the families who started at the lowest one-fifth of the earning population had moved to middle-class incomes (earning an average in 1991 of $22,304) or above. About 30% had increased their income to become the top one-fifth of all earners.
Almost 1/3rd had moved from the bottom quintile to the top quintile over the course of the study. How many of us does this describe?
I don't mean this as criticism I just don't understand what this means. I don't know much about The anit-globalization groups but I thought they didn't think that Armerican's should be exploiting those in third world countries. By exploitation I thought they meant buying things from companies that pay thier employees too littel. The sanctions would make metels and shoes from the Ukrain too expensive to sell in the US which would prevent Americans from exploiting these workers. What am I missing?
I agree with your titel and nothing else. He doesn't want us to leave him alone. He wants to start a war in the middel east hoping that moderate middel eastern governments will be replaced with extreemest governments.
The Taleban has said thet they want to speak with us but they have also said that they are protectecting Bin Laden, they lost Bin Laden, will negotiate, won't negotiate. If you have every tried to get a 3 year old ready for bed you would recognize that this is stalling. The Taleban had 8 years to turn over Bin Laden and they still say they need more time and more evidence.
I am one of the "follwoing flock" who is proud of my country and wants My President to take action.
I wonder if the victom of the Anthrax event was your father if you would still call his death poetic. I'm am offended by your comments and can only hope that this man's friends and family do not read slashdot.
For no discernible reason, much of the press has unquestioningly accepted Microsoft's jubilation that the Court of Appeals vacated the trial court's order that Microsoft be broken into two independent companies. Nobody, including the government's lawyers, expected that order to stand up. Microsoft was denied even the most rudimentary hearing on the appropriate remedy. Now there is to be a hearing, and there are compelling reasons to take divestiture seriously.
It is really a great editorial but I can't link it because WSJ is a pay sight. I agree with you that this is an appeasment.
I believe their appeal almost completely failed. Robert Bork and Kenneth Starr wrote an editorial in the WSJ that showed how bad the ruling really was for Microsoft.
The article states
While trumpeting last week's "victory" in the Court of Appeals, Microsoft executives would do well to recall the words of King Pyrrhus after his famous battle with the Romans: "One more such victory and we are lost."
and
when the court addressed the charge of monopolization of the operating-system market, which was the core of the case, the news was all bad for Microsoft.
I don't know what it is like in your field, but in Accounting we offer stipends of between $25,000 and $30,000 if you speak English (you have to pass the Test of Spoken English before we can put you in the classroom). On top of that we pay tuition and health insurance. Don't put off getting your PhD because of money without first looking into the financial package that a good school will offer.
It is difficult to recruit native English speaking PhD students. However, I think this has more to do with opportunity costs than laziness. $25,000 stipends and 150,000 starting salaries is a lot of money to most top students in China, for example. But to an articulate MBA from a top US school, it sounds like a waste of 4 or 5 years.
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This is true. But they way that the accounting rules work is that they recognize a portion of the cost of these options over the time that they vest. That is if the options are worth $10 each when they are issued but only vest over 5 years then $2 is recognized as a cost each year.
Its a little strange that Red Hat recognizes stock compensation costs at all. Most firms do not. And the account rules let you avoid recognizing the costs as long as you are carful about how you structure the options.
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Just because a cost is a one time expense doesn't mean it is irrelevant.
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You are right but, the problem is not that options aren't part of the liabilites, its that the cost of these options are excluded in the calculation of net income. In fact follwing the table link you see that
These results "Exclude amortization of goodwill and intangibles, stock based compensation, and merger and acquisition costs"
I took FORTRAN on punch cards for my introductory programing class. I still use it. Almost every business school academic I know programs in FORTRAN. I got my PhD at a top school in 1996 and all my professors and all my classmates used FORTRAN. The big information providors (e.g. S&P) still send FORTRAN shells for accessing data. Of course most of us can't program very well but FORTRAN is very simple and, for many tasks, it gets the job done.
I absolutely agree with your comments. However, those of use who support Microsoft's right to provide whatever products that consumers will buy might want to consider the fact that together the two Microsoft bashing articles on the front page of/. have over 785 comments. While I doubt that even Jon Katz could agree with his own articles he sure knows what sells on Slashdot.
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No kidding, Christians you say? I'll never shop there again. What with their love thy neighbor and turn the other cheek. How can they face themselves?
And a business that's in it for the money. No wonder you hate them. And I thought all this Wal-mart bashing was irrational. Thanks for setting me straight.
Only a typical American would think that giving up a portion of our sovereignty is a bad idea. How silly of me.
How is not giving military aid bullying? The ICC is going to be used as a political weapon against the US. The US has every right to not give military aid to countries that are doing things against our interest.
In fact as a taxpayer I'd be upset if we didn't withdraw aid.
Of course foreign aid only meausers how much money the govenment gives not the people. Its not a very good measure of what the people of the US give to other countries.
of course you are probably not starving.
This sounds stingily familiar
Ninja's are funnier
As far as I can tell, X10 stopped using pop under adds the same day I replaced IE with Mozilla.
>The ads causing a page to be non-function is a good >reason to a) stop using the site and b) send the >webmaster a poltite message telling them why you >will never visit their site again.
I had this problem and emailed WSJ about it simply telling them that their ads were broken not threatening to leave the cite and in 2 days the problem went away and has not resurfaced.
"Sorry but the American military has a lot of trust to regain before we let the US military bring new toys to the party."
I don't believe the US military is going to ask for your permission.
This is untrue and contradicted by empirical evidence. Net income and book value of equity explain a high proportion of stock price. If you regress price per share on earnings per share on book value per share you will get an R squared somewhere around 80%.
The dot coms were a small number of firms that are not representative of the population of publicly traded firms. And if you look around you will see that these firms have zero earnings, zero book value and zero price.
So "piracy" is an emotionally laden term but "fair use" isn't?
Frank Sinatra didn't play an instrument, didn't write his own music, was almost never seen in small clubs. When he was young girls thought he was very sexy, and he had to audition to get his first job. However many people think he was the greatest singer of all times.
Perhaps the real problem with pop music today is that it is marketed to people that are much younger than you.
You seem to misunderstand the economics of bringing new artists to market. If the recording companies could pick the winners up front they would be fabulously successful businesses. Over 95% of the new acts sell virtually zero records and the record companies lose hundreds of thousands of dollars on each of them.
Although the consensus around here seems to be that these record companies sign acts to long contracts but pay them nothing, the fact is that record companies pay an up front fee, living expenses, recording, advertising costs, travel expenses etc. for many acts before they sell a single record.
The idea that the record companies want acts to be washed up after a few years is misinformed. It's like suggesting that lottery winners want their annual payments to stop after a few years so they can play the lottery again. There was a good story in the Wall Street Journal yesterday about an woman who sold less than $5,000 (retail) in cd's after a major studio spent millions trying to develop her.
Out of the 6,455 albums produces last year by major studios, only 52 made money. That is over 99% lost money and the 1% of successful albums subsidized the rest of the industry.
This is a myth, although I'm sure anomaly is hard working and talented, social mobility is the norm not the excpetion.
I pulled the following from an article in the WSJ today.
According to an analysis of the University of Michigan's Panel Study of Income Dynamics, from 1975 to 1991 more than 80% of the families who started at the lowest one-fifth of the earning population had moved to middle-class incomes (earning an average in 1991 of $22,304) or above. About 30% had increased their income to become the top one-fifth of all earners.
Almost 1/3rd had moved from the bottom quintile to the top quintile over the course of the study. How many of us does this describe?
I don't mean this as criticism I just don't understand what this means. I don't know much about The anit-globalization groups but I thought they didn't think that Armerican's should be exploiting those in third world countries. By exploitation I thought they meant buying things from companies that pay thier employees too littel. The sanctions would make metels and shoes from the Ukrain too expensive to sell in the US which would prevent Americans from exploiting these workers. What am I missing?
I agree with your titel and nothing else. He doesn't want us to leave him alone. He wants to start a war in the middel east hoping that moderate middel eastern governments will be replaced with extreemest governments.
The Taleban has said thet they want to speak with us but they have also said that they are protectecting Bin Laden, they lost Bin Laden, will negotiate, won't negotiate. If you have every tried to get a 3 year old ready for bed you would recognize that this is stalling. The Taleban had 8 years to turn over Bin Laden and they still say they need more time and more evidence.
I am one of the "follwoing flock" who is proud of my country and wants My President to take action.
I wonder if the victom of the Anthrax event was your father if you would still call his death poetic. I'm am offended by your comments and can only hope that this man's friends and family do not read slashdot.
The article addresses this. They state
For no discernible reason, much of the press has unquestioningly accepted Microsoft's jubilation that the Court of Appeals vacated the trial court's order that Microsoft be broken into two independent companies. Nobody, including the government's lawyers, expected that order to stand up. Microsoft was denied even the most rudimentary hearing on the appropriate remedy. Now there is to be a hearing, and there are compelling reasons to take divestiture seriously.
It is really a great editorial but I can't link it because WSJ is a pay sight. I agree with you that this is an appeasment.
I believe their appeal almost completely failed. Robert Bork and Kenneth Starr wrote an editorial in the WSJ that showed how bad the ruling really was for Microsoft.
The article states
While trumpeting last week's "victory" in the Court of Appeals, Microsoft executives would do well to recall the words of King Pyrrhus after his famous battle with the Romans: "One more such victory and we are lost."
and
when the court addressed the charge of monopolization of the operating-system market, which was the core of the case, the news was all bad for Microsoft.
I don't know what it is like in your field, but in Accounting we offer stipends of between $25,000 and $30,000 if you speak English (you have to pass the Test of Spoken English before we can put you in the classroom). On top of that we pay tuition and health insurance. Don't put off getting your PhD because of money without first looking into the financial package that a good school will offer.
It is difficult to recruit native English speaking PhD students. However, I think this has more to do with opportunity costs than laziness. $25,000 stipends and 150,000 starting salaries is a lot of money to most top students in China, for example. But to an articulate MBA from a top US school, it sounds like a waste of 4 or 5 years.
This is true. But they way that the accounting rules work is that they recognize a portion of the cost of these options over the time that they vest. That is if the options are worth $10 each when they are issued but only vest over 5 years then $2 is recognized as a cost each year. Its a little strange that Red Hat recognizes stock compensation costs at all. Most firms do not. And the account rules let you avoid recognizing the costs as long as you are carful about how you structure the options.
Just because a cost is a one time expense doesn't mean it is irrelevant.
You are right but, the problem is not that options aren't part of the liabilites, its that the cost of these options are excluded in the calculation of net income. In fact follwing the table link you see that These results "Exclude amortization of goodwill and intangibles, stock based compensation, and merger and acquisition costs"
I took FORTRAN on punch cards for my introductory programing class. I still use it. Almost every business school academic I know programs in FORTRAN. I got my PhD at a top school in 1996 and all my professors and all my classmates used FORTRAN. The big information providors (e.g. S&P) still send FORTRAN shells for accessing data. Of course most of us can't program very well but FORTRAN is very simple and, for many tasks, it gets the job done.
I absolutely agree with your comments. However, those of use who support Microsoft's right to provide whatever products that consumers will buy might want to consider the fact that together the two Microsoft bashing articles on the front page of /. have over 785 comments. While I doubt that even Jon Katz could agree with his own articles he sure knows what sells on Slashdot.