Here's the problem: Wall Street doesn't like companies that make a profit and pay a dividend.
Sorry, but you're completely wrong. Hint: "Wall Street" is not one entity: it's millions of investors. Lots of them want/need income instead of growth. With a little googling, you can discover dozens of multi-billion-dollar retirement funds that invest in income stocks instead of growth stocks. You can also discover millions of individual investors who want tax-free dividend income over taxable capital gains. Hot growth stocks will always have higher P/Es than income stocks but it's been that way for 100 years and yet big companies continue to thrive.
There are actually companies whose capitalization is less than their cash on hand.
Yeah, wow, that's so amazing, because it hasn't happened thousands of times in history. You might want to read up on balance sheets a bit more so you understand them.
I know your coursepack had a photocopy of an old Ron Paul rant and you feel very sophisticated commenting on the market, but you really don't know what you're talking about.
Wow, is that a class with a *single* teacher? I've never heard of such a class with the obvious exception of university lectures. My classes were around 20 students when I was a kid and I think on average it's lower now, and the politicians are still talking about large class sizes...
Is this common in the US? In public schools only or private schools too?
1946-1960 - very common. They were called the baby boomer years. Everyone now says that schools back then were better.
or there aren't enough teaching jobs, tbh once the ratio's get down to 1:5 teachers to students, then we can start worrying about if the number of jobs is right. You forget this isn't a normal job market, or revenue system and you must not have kids.
Because, of course, all those baby boomers were completely uneducated. Their classrooms were routinely 40-50 kids to one teacher from the late 40s to the early 60s.
the REAL key to eduction (teachers, DUH!) are underpaid,
What are you talking about? Average salary for an LA teacher is $57,000 a year + cadillac benefits. In the private sector, people often assume that an employee costs salary + ~50% once you add in all benefits, while for public sector it could easily be salary + 100% (and no one has better benefits than teachers). Let's be very conservative and say $57,000 in teacher salary is $70,000 in private sector. And remember we're talking average, not median.
But wait...that $70,000 is for working only 9 months a year. So it's really $93,000 on an annualized basis (and of course there is nothing preventing those teachers from working the other three months of the year).
$93,000 + great benefits + you have to be caught raping a child on film to actually be fired + zero performance reviews + great job security + union COLA increases and oh yeah, a Bachelor or Master of Education is without a doubt the easiest college degree one can get...my heart is just bleeding.
I don't know about you, but when someone spends half a billion on a school building, I'd say that as long as we pay taxes here, that falls under Stuff That Matters.
Every single problem he mentions would be the same problem if he was building a "non-green" house. Lack of controls convinces him that he's suffering something out of the ordinary.
Lack of controls also tells me that after an eclipse, the reason the sun returns is that we beat tom-toms.
This is a petition to the U.S. Government's FCC (Federal Communication Commission) to mandate an unlock of all iPhones.
No it's not. It's a Facebook page. I hate to be the one to tell you this, but even if you get 10,000,000 people, the FCC still won't care because, well, it's just a Facebook page.
The 'accuser' has backed off things quite a bit, including saying they never had a sexual relationship... all this after she received a settlement. That's why they call it 'hush money'.
I think you're mischaracterizing things. She never said they had a sexual relationship and Hurd never said they did. She said he harassed her. HP fired Hurd because he fraudulently expense'd $20,000 in gifts, visits, etc. to pursue the relationship.
Two points:
The fact that he spent $20,000 on trips, visits, and gifts for a woman and lied about it is pretty much proof that he was pursuing her. If it had all been legitimate business meetings, he wouldn't have had to lie.
More importantly, fraudently expensing money is a sure way to get fired at any level. Hurd was just dumb. In every big company I've worked in, the culture has always been that if you steal, you're out, and the amount doesn't really matter.
The group provides a service by which people can automatically email their MP on certain issues
A friend who worked in a U.S. congressman's office said that these sorts of "constituent contacts" are a complete waste of time. Ditto for "send this postcard to your lawmaker", form letters, online petitions (of the "we have a voice!" type, not the legal process type), etc. Any kind of preprinted form contact (whether electronic or written) is generally ignored because the lobbying groups who generate them can do so at will. e.g., Right to Life or NARAL can at any time run a campaign and get thousands of postcards or form emails sent to the congressman. The lower the barrier to send (with email form letters being the lowest), the more likely to end up being completely ignored. These types of contacts are also very easy to fake.
On the other hand, a personally written letter or phone call is given whatever miniscule attention the congressman's office usually gives to constituent contacts...i.e., very little unless you are a major contributor, but at least it's not automatically routed to trash.
While leaving here is impractical NOW, it does not follow that it will ALWAYS remain that way.
For the cost of the war in Iraq, we could easily have bootstrapped a long-term presence in space. A high launch rate would significantly reduce launch costs, and with the use of asteroids or lunar materials we could build anything we want up there.
We've had a "long-term presence" in space for decades - space stations, etc. A long-term presence in space that supported billions of people (or even millions) could not have been bought with what has been spent in Iraq.
Space itself is not a sustainable environment. If we truly want to "get off this rock," we will either need terraforming technology that is pure fantasy at this point or faster than light travel, which is also pure fantasy. Neither of these things may ever be possible (though of course we should research them).
Even my YMCA isn't cheap and is like 7 miles away. In Germany, a schwimmbad, hallenbad, etc are somewhat ubiquitous and cheap (5 euros entrance).
Paying ~$7.00 per entrance is not my definition of cheap. Swimming 3x a week would mean $84 a month. Lots of places in the US where you can get all-you-can-swim for a lot cheaper than that.
None of this means anything if you can't get to it, but again, Germany has massive transit especially rail, and bus, and it doesn't take hours to get anywhere like the bus systems I know from Seattle or Philadelphia. Also, there are sidewalks and bikepaths everywhere, on the side of the road.
89% of Americans own a car and the average cars per household is 2.28. We have a lot less need for mass transit.
The most worthless part of my college education was the discussions, Socratic method, etc. I just don't care what my fellow students have to say, because it's just a bunch of uninformed, uneducated opinions. I go to college to hear what the professors have to say. The mental masturbation of my fellow students was always tedious. But it was a nice crutch for profs - farm out big chunks of a class to "discussion sections" run by grad students.
AOL's bumbling foray into "social media" was their acquisition of Bebo. They paid $850 million in 2008 and sold it in 2010 (26 months later) for $10 million.
A GM plant is one that has received genes that came from other plants the wild. What Monsanto does is what living beings have been doing ever since sex came about, only in a purposeful way rather than at random.
Thank you. It endlessly amuses me how people on Slashdot can be so pro-science when it comes to subjects (religion, compuers) and so neo-Luddite in others ("OMG GM food will killz you!")
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The police report was leaked.
My irony meter is pegged.
Alternatively, spend more time on your personal relationships and home life than maintaining your email archives.
Here's the problem: Wall Street doesn't like companies that make a profit and pay a dividend.
Sorry, but you're completely wrong. Hint: "Wall Street" is not one entity: it's millions of investors. Lots of them want/need income instead of growth. With a little googling, you can discover dozens of multi-billion-dollar retirement funds that invest in income stocks instead of growth stocks. You can also discover millions of individual investors who want tax-free dividend income over taxable capital gains. Hot growth stocks will always have higher P/Es than income stocks but it's been that way for 100 years and yet big companies continue to thrive.
There are actually companies whose capitalization is less than their cash on hand.
Yeah, wow, that's so amazing, because it hasn't happened thousands of times in history. You might want to read up on balance sheets a bit more so you understand them.
I know your coursepack had a photocopy of an old Ron Paul rant and you feel very sophisticated commenting on the market, but you really don't know what you're talking about.
My point is this; parents that care will make sure their children are well educated.
...while still paying high taxes for crappy teachers and school systems.
I still see those idiotic peacetard bumper stickers: "It'll be a great day when the air force has to hold a bake sale to pay for its bombers!"
Wow, is that a class with a *single* teacher? I've never heard of such a class with the obvious exception of university lectures. My classes were around 20 students when I was a kid and I think on average it's lower now, and the politicians are still talking about large class sizes... Is this common in the US? In public schools only or private schools too?
1946-1960 - very common. They were called the baby boomer years. Everyone now says that schools back then were better.
or there aren't enough teaching jobs, tbh once the ratio's get down to 1:5 teachers to students, then we can start worrying about if the number of jobs is right. You forget this isn't a normal job market, or revenue system and you must not have kids.
Because, of course, all those baby boomers were completely uneducated. Their classrooms were routinely 40-50 kids to one teacher from the late 40s to the early 60s.
the REAL key to eduction (teachers, DUH!) are underpaid,
What are you talking about? Average salary for an LA teacher is $57,000 a year + cadillac benefits. In the private sector, people often assume that an employee costs salary + ~50% once you add in all benefits, while for public sector it could easily be salary + 100% (and no one has better benefits than teachers). Let's be very conservative and say $57,000 in teacher salary is $70,000 in private sector. And remember we're talking average, not median.
But wait...that $70,000 is for working only 9 months a year. So it's really $93,000 on an annualized basis (and of course there is nothing preventing those teachers from working the other three months of the year).
$93,000 + great benefits + you have to be caught raping a child on film to actually be fired + zero performance reviews + great job security + union COLA increases and oh yeah, a Bachelor or Master of Education is without a doubt the easiest college degree one can get...my heart is just bleeding.
I think not. Why is this on slashdot?
I don't know about you, but when someone spends half a billion on a school building, I'd say that as long as we pay taxes here, that falls under Stuff That Matters.
Especially since we all live in California.
Every single problem he mentions would be the same problem if he was building a "non-green" house. Lack of controls convinces him that he's suffering something out of the ordinary.
Lack of controls also tells me that after an eclipse, the reason the sun returns is that we beat tom-toms.
That's one of the funniest things I've read here. I'm getting image of 100 Peter Parker type guys working themselves up into a minor tizzy.
Good God, let's not bring the Spiderman clone saga into this...
citation please.
Welcome to Slashdot. We're discussing here. You might find that it's a different than, say, Wikipedia.
This is a petition to the U.S. Government's FCC (Federal Communication Commission) to mandate an unlock of all iPhones.
No it's not. It's a Facebook page. I hate to be the one to tell you this, but even if you get 10,000,000 people, the FCC still won't care because, well, it's just a Facebook page.
It is really sad. I want to like Obama,
Why? He's a scumbag politician. Politicians are meant to be reviled, limited, and controlled.
Frankly, I'd be delighted if he and his family came down with Dengue Fever. And yes, I'd say the same about any politician.
Only sheep "like" the people who seek to control their lives.
The 'accuser' has backed off things quite a bit, including saying they never had a sexual relationship ... all this after she received a settlement. That's why they call it 'hush money'.
I think you're mischaracterizing things. She never said they had a sexual relationship and Hurd never said they did. She said he harassed her. HP fired Hurd because he fraudulently expense'd $20,000 in gifts, visits, etc. to pursue the relationship.
Two points:
The group provides a service by which people can automatically email their MP on certain issues
A friend who worked in a U.S. congressman's office said that these sorts of "constituent contacts" are a complete waste of time. Ditto for "send this postcard to your lawmaker", form letters, online petitions (of the "we have a voice!" type, not the legal process type), etc. Any kind of preprinted form contact (whether electronic or written) is generally ignored because the lobbying groups who generate them can do so at will. e.g., Right to Life or NARAL can at any time run a campaign and get thousands of postcards or form emails sent to the congressman. The lower the barrier to send (with email form letters being the lowest), the more likely to end up being completely ignored. These types of contacts are also very easy to fake.
On the other hand, a personally written letter or phone call is given whatever miniscule attention the congressman's office usually gives to constituent contacts...i.e., very little unless you are a major contributor, but at least it's not automatically routed to trash.
I think we should all email "Bennett" and tell him that his mommy wants him to take out the trash now and stop wasting all his time on Slashdot.
While leaving here is impractical NOW, it does not follow that it will ALWAYS remain that way.
For the cost of the war in Iraq, we could easily have bootstrapped a long-term presence in space. A high launch rate would significantly reduce launch costs, and with the use of asteroids or lunar materials we could build anything we want up there.
We've had a "long-term presence" in space for decades - space stations, etc. A long-term presence in space that supported billions of people (or even millions) could not have been bought with what has been spent in Iraq.
Space itself is not a sustainable environment. If we truly want to "get off this rock," we will either need terraforming technology that is pure fantasy at this point or faster than light travel, which is also pure fantasy. Neither of these things may ever be possible (though of course we should research them).
Because HP does not deserve it.
Even my YMCA isn't cheap and is like 7 miles away. In Germany, a schwimmbad, hallenbad, etc are somewhat ubiquitous and cheap (5 euros entrance).
Paying ~$7.00 per entrance is not my definition of cheap. Swimming 3x a week would mean $84 a month. Lots of places in the US where you can get all-you-can-swim for a lot cheaper than that.
None of this means anything if you can't get to it, but again, Germany has massive transit especially rail, and bus, and it doesn't take hours to get anywhere like the bus systems I know from Seattle or Philadelphia. Also, there are sidewalks and bikepaths everywhere, on the side of the road.
89% of Americans own a car and the average cars per household is 2.28. We have a lot less need for mass transit.
The most worthless part of my college education was the discussions, Socratic method, etc. I just don't care what my fellow students have to say, because it's just a bunch of uninformed, uneducated opinions. I go to college to hear what the professors have to say. The mental masturbation of my fellow students was always tedious. But it was a nice crutch for profs - farm out big chunks of a class to "discussion sections" run by grad students.
I'd switch over to Compuserve if they still used PDP-10s
AOL's bumbling foray into "social media" was their acquisition of Bebo. They paid $850 million in 2008 and sold it in 2010 (26 months later) for $10 million.
A GM plant is one that has received genes that came from other plants the wild. What Monsanto does is what living beings have been doing ever since sex came about, only in a purposeful way rather than at random.
Thank you. It endlessly amuses me how people on Slashdot can be so pro-science when it comes to subjects (religion, compuers) and so neo-Luddite in others ("OMG GM food will killz you!")
I assure you it's very difficult to say no to Jobs or Ive within Apple.
Do you/did you work at Apple? Otherwise your "assurances" are not very convincing or important.