After reviewing their website, it seems they have servers located worldwide and on every major backbone. I believe requests are routed to Sandpiper's home servers which provide real time network status that locates a server that is close and has available bandwidth for the client. From then on that server and client continue the transaction.
True capitalism is about value(ie. quality or higher quality=higher value). In an ideal capitalistic system, money or profits is supposed to be a physical and countable system to represent value. Unfortunately, money which is tied to consumer demand can only represent value if the consumer is an informed and logical-decision maker. Microsoft, like many companies, exploits the system through hype & advertising, lobbying government officials, and indirect pressuring tactics to limit consumer's choices and influence their desires toward their product. Thus, it matters no longer if they have a high quality product that matches the price they offer when they can force a vendor to pay for it. A vendor that will eventually push that cost onto the consumer. I mean truthfully, would anyone really hate microsoft if their product was better than linux and was worth whatever money they're charging now? No, we don't yell at Sun for their OS because it is spectacular at what it does.
The tax system is already too bloated and complicated. While I agree that we need taxes to support needed government programs, what we don't need is all these subversive taxes. How many tax burdens are there that aren't in some way pushed onto the consumer. Not many, the idea of all these subversive taxes, like sales tax is that the government doesn't want you to know that you really give 60-70% of what you earn to their overly enlarged and never-understood budget.
I believe in having just a sole income tax. It's the only tax that can't be dumped onto the consumer or anyone else and it directly gives you the amount you spend to support the government. It's simple system that fairly collects from everyone. And if the government can't live on a strict income tax budget, then we have to question what kind of fat government programs are being run and for who's benefit. I mean we can't expect an inefficiently run government, we must demand a streamlined organization.
Hopefully, the trends/expectations in the internet will protect the public from more exploitation, since it seems that trends govern public policy these days than intelligent thought or principles.
I have to say that Andover has a good focus and is a useful company for its targeted audience, but I'm very skeptical about how much return you can get on investing with them. I mean that there is only one thing that drives stocks consistently higher and that is growth. And I mean growth in their target market, which is advertising. Their only source of revenue is from advertisersers. So what are they going to do with all this money that they'll get from selling stocks. The only thing that will give a substantial return to investors is to 1)obtain more advertisers(grow in their market) 2)charge more to their current advertisers So I my question is how are they going to do this at a substantial enough growth so that investors see a big enough payoff? I mean if they put their capital into better equipment and services, to attract a larger viewer base then that is 2 steps away from getting more advertisers. Yes, it will attract more advertisers, but a lot slower than actively campaigning advertisers. Therefore slower increased revenue. My only suggestions might be a daily dynamic cost to advertisers based on daily site statistics(could already be implemented). And if they already have a large number of advertisers, will they have enough market to grow in? Can they reasonably fit a large number of advertisers on their sites?
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After reviewing their website, it seems they have servers located worldwide and on every major backbone. I believe requests are routed to Sandpiper's home servers which provide real time network status that locates a server that is close and has available bandwidth for the client. From then on that server and client continue the transaction.
True capitalism is about value(ie. quality or higher quality=higher value). In an ideal capitalistic system, money or profits is supposed to be a physical and countable system to represent value. Unfortunately, money which is tied to consumer demand can only represent value if the consumer is an informed and logical-decision maker. Microsoft, like many companies, exploits the system through hype & advertising, lobbying government officials, and indirect pressuring tactics to limit consumer's choices and influence their desires toward their product. Thus, it matters no longer if they have a high quality product that matches the price they offer when they can force a vendor to pay for it. A vendor that will eventually push that cost onto the consumer. I mean truthfully, would anyone really hate microsoft if their product was better than linux and was worth whatever money they're charging now? No, we don't yell at Sun for their OS because it is spectacular at what it does.
Taxes.
There are too many taxes.
The tax system is already too bloated and complicated. While I agree that we need taxes to support needed government programs, what we don't need is all these subversive taxes. How many tax burdens are there that aren't in some way pushed onto the consumer. Not many, the idea of all these subversive taxes, like sales tax is that the government doesn't want you to know that you really give 60-70% of what you earn to their overly enlarged and never-understood budget.
I believe in having just a sole income tax. It's the only tax that can't be dumped onto the consumer or anyone else and it directly gives you the amount you spend to support the government. It's simple system that fairly collects from everyone. And if the government can't live on a strict income tax budget, then we have to question what kind of fat government programs are being run and for who's benefit. I mean we can't expect an inefficiently run government, we must demand a streamlined organization.
Hopefully, the trends/expectations in the internet will protect the public from more exploitation, since it seems that trends govern public policy these days than intelligent thought or principles.
I have to say that Andover has a good focus and is a useful company for its targeted audience, but I'm very skeptical about how much return you can get on investing with them. I mean that there is only one thing that drives stocks consistently higher and that is growth. And I mean growth in their target market, which is advertising.
Their only source of revenue is from advertisersers. So what are they going to do with all this money that they'll get from selling stocks. The only thing that will give a substantial return to investors is to 1)obtain more advertisers(grow in their market) 2)charge more to their current advertisers So I my question is how are they going to do this at a substantial enough growth so that investors see a big enough payoff? I mean if they put their capital into better equipment and services, to attract a larger viewer base then that is 2 steps away from getting more advertisers. Yes, it will attract more advertisers, but a lot slower than actively campaigning advertisers. Therefore slower increased revenue.
My only suggestions might be a daily dynamic cost to advertisers based on daily site statistics(could already be implemented). And if they already have a large number of advertisers, will they have enough market to grow in? Can they reasonably fit a large number of advertisers on their sites?