Ridiculous. There were no organized parties at that time, so they did not design with a two-party system in mind.
And Dubya is NOT any sort of moderate, though he was able to pretend to be one on TV in 2000. While Dubya himself is not as bad as Hitler, there is actually significant overlap between some of their supporters. In particular, some of the neocons' ambitions for American imperialism are hauntingly similar to the Nazi's ambitions for the Third Reich. Back in the 30s, no one knew where it would ultimately lead...
The previous one, "This Land", managed to be pretty fairly balanced and funny, but this one definitely spends most of the time on Kerry and let's Dubya off lightly. I don't think it was coincidental that this one had corporate sponsorship, and I'd like to know what degree of interference they got from their new owners.
"I, for one, welcome our new 'Tonight Show' overlords."
Small project? Private space travel? So they spent at least $20 million to win a prize worth $10 million. Ah... When you make an investment, aren't you supposed to get back more money than you spent on it? You know in the old days they gave prizes that were worth *more* than the costs of competing for the prize. What's really going on here?
Answer: A couple of really rich guys who want to discredit the idea of government-sponsored research are willing to blow a lot of money for the propaganda effect. They aren't going to talk about the REAL research costs--which were almost entirely for technologies developed for the real space program. Paid for by the government, remember? There's NO way private investors would have been able to develop rocket engines (just to pick an especially obvious example) in the first place.
The sad thing is how many foolish Americans think this is a real alternative instead of a flashy dead end. The American space program is probably dead now, and it was politics (mostly Nixon's) and propaganda (especially BushCo's) that killed it.
The original joke was "I don't worry about talking to myself. I don't even worry when I start arguing with myself. When I lose those arguments, then I worry."
Of course in Dubya's case, he'd never admit that he lost, and he's never had a real worry in his entire life. "Born on third base, thinks he hit a triple."
Actually, it isn't even funny. One of the themes that comes up frequently is that Dubya is not reflective, even to the point where he apparently can't think about the possibility of making a mistake. For example, in the book about Paul O'Neill, he specifically says that Dubya refuses to "negotiate with himself"--apparently expecting that if he thought about it he might realize that what he wanted was *gasp* impossible.
By the way, that also explains the problem with "Fool me once..." Dubya probably can't even admit to himself the abstract idea that he could be fooled--though it's obviously going on *ALL* the time.
A much more significant problem than the mechanics of voting itself is the increasingly pernicious influence of big money on the election system. My proposed question would be:
Both of you aggressively criticize each other for spending too much money on the campaign and for being owned by the major campaign donors. What are you going to do about it?
(Of course, this question is loaded against Bush, since he's already done nothing--except for setting amazing new records for campaign fund raising.)
P.S. Just in case it isn't obvious, I think freedom and democracy are good things. However, free people can choose to give up their freedoms (by voting for demagogues like Dubya), and democracy is just a competitive advantage. As America continues to become less and less democratic, other nations will surpass and eventually eclipse her.
P.P.S. Teddy Roosevelt and Ike were just two of the prominent Republican presidents who criticized it, but McCain is the only prominent GOP politician who really cares about the issue now (and you saw what the big-money candidate Dubya did to him in the primaries in 2000).
Project Censored regards them as censored if the story receives signficantly less public coverage than the importance of the story merits. They are especially interested in stories that the regular media drop because they expose the bias of the mass media themselves. Yes, anyone can publish anything on the Web, but lot's of it is effectively censored by being ignored, even when it's the ugly truth. Or especially when...
Just picking a random example off the list, Cheney's handling of the "national" energy policy is extremely important, but has received very little coverage. Even if you regard his behavior as reasonable, the degree of corporate influence is an important public concern.
However, I think that his "arguments" are fatally flawed. Cheney is supposed to be serving the public, and any "advice" that can only be provided if it's source is concealed from the public is surely NOT in the public interest. If it WAS in the public interest, the source would not be afraid of exposure in the first place.
In the extreme case, Cheney seems to be arguing that America is no longer a democratic republic or republican democracy, but a kind of sanctioned-by-50%-of-the-voters corporate-owned dictatorship. I'd wager you haven't seen much consideration of THAT story on Fox "News".
Well, I suppose it's an excuse to ask if anyone has a solution for a fading display on a Clie? Or to word it in terms of the official topic, a very good PDA should have a display that remains highly readable after several years, and the Sony is not doing so hot in that category, and I really wish there was something to be done.
However, the truth is that the color and photo and movie capabilities and all that fancy stuff has never been particularly useful for me. Same with the sound capability, though this model is kind of cumbersome in that category, and maybe I'd have used it for music more if it were implemented better. A lot of that relates to...
The battery should last more than a few hours. Actually, my current battery life is down to about two hours, but it doesn't seem to be directly related to the weak display, since it looks the same when it's in the charging cradle. In terms of seeking PDA nirvana, I'd gladly trade a cup of flashy colors for two eggs of display brightness and battery life.
Not sure whether to continue suffering, or bite the bullet and get a new one--but probably not a Sony, even though I use the Japanese model and they seem likely to stay in that market for a while. Sony really rattled me when they announced they were dropping Clie from the American market. Also, the Graffiti on new Clies seems to be inferior to what my Clie has now.
One more closing thought is that I am quite satisfied with the Palm OS in comparison to my previous strictly proprietary PDA. It really has invaded many aspects of my life, and I'd definitely prefer to continue using it. I mostly use the memo, address book, and calendar functions, and those dreaded games.
He was very skilled at concealing the missing finger. A negative souvenir of D-Day, though plenty of brave men lost a lot that day... There are supposed to be only two episodes where the missing finger can be spotted, but I haven't not noticed it in my copy of The Trouble with Tribbles. Or should that be something like "I haven't noticed where it is not"?
I still admire him tremendously and way ahead of Captain Kirk, though I was more afflicted by admiration of Mr. Spock. It seems like many of the TOS actors got tired of the public's fixation on that series. Anyone else read Nimoy's I am not Spock?
Just to clarify, I finally did get confirmation (if I understand the Japanese correctly) that the release date for Japanese is 9/1. However, I don't feel like "niche market" ia an appropriate description of the situation. I'd think Japanese is probably the second or third largest computer language after English. (I should dig up some stats, but too tired now...)
Might be related to my Japanese version of Windows XP, but I assure you that I was NOT able to find a way to download SP2 from the WindowsUpdate site as it displays on my computer here. I'm actually rather hesitant to install it, but I'm willing to risk one computer on it. My (Japanese) employer is reminding everyone NOT to install it at work on a daily basis.
If you are talking about the SP2 links I do see, NONE of the MANY I tried led to an actual installation option. Most of them led to instructions to turn on the auto-update, with or without the confirmation option (though I got the distinct impression Microsoft would find it more convenient to just forget about confirmation and simply install whatever they want to install on my machines whenever they want to install it). Some of the links provided irrelevant information, and others offered to sell me support or a CD with SP2.
I was not impressed. (But I admit that I've never liked Microsoft and my employer has frequently had negative experiences due to Microsoft.)
In today's episode, all I would like to do is install SP2 to bring them up to date with the state-of-the-wooly-art that is supposed to be XP. Crawled all over the WindowsUpdate site, and no can do. What is easy to do is turn on automatic update so Microsoft can install and run anything they want on my machines anytime they want. No, thanks.
Q1: Why isn't SP2 offered as a "normal" "critical" update?
Q2: Why are they hiding it?
<rhetorical> Q3: Do they think they own my computer? </rhetorical>
Obviously Microsoft does think they own my computer and they they they know better than I do where they want me to go today. In response, I would say where they can go, but this is supposed to be a Web site for the whole family, so with some difficulty I shall restrain my sharp tongue.
I think it depends on the SCOX stock price. Currently fluttering around $4. Kind of a race to see which bottoms out first, their market cap or their credibility. I rather suspect they'll be forced into bankruptcy if the stock drops much more.
Then Murphy would probably intervene, and the IBM lawsuit would be frozen as an "asset" for SCO's creditors.
Well, I was certainly shocked to search the comments and see nothing about that movie. I expected some of the Busheviks to jump to the obvious bait. Actually, I FINALLY got to see it yesterday, but I certainly don't think it was the worst movie I've seen. If you're curious, here's a link to my comments about the Japanese premier:
http://shanenj.tripod.com/blogger.html
On the actual topic of worst movie, that's really tough. There are so MANY really bad movies out there, and I think I've mostly managed to avoid the worst ones by benefiting from the reports of other people's mistakes. I'd tend to vote for "Plan 9 from Outer Space", and it really was awful, and apparently Ed Wood really believed it was not awful, but it's still a campy choice...
I think to be REALLY awful a movie has to tread a thin line. If it's bad enough, then you'll just turn it off and then you haven't really seen it. A REALLY bad movie has to suck you in and get you to waste your precious time, somehow believing it isn't really as bad as it seems--until the final moments, when you realize that you have been totally wasted.
I suppose in a worst case, you wouldn't realize you'd been wasted until you watched it the SECOND time.
Anyway, the moderation of this post shall be a metric of the number of Busheviks with mod points.;-)
You mean you haven't bought your shares of SCO stock yet? They're certainly priced reasonably. Since they broke through the $5 floor on short transactions, they've been sinking pretty nicely.
Oh, you mean you want to buy SCOX shares to sell at a profit? So sorry. That seems rather unlikely. Nothing to stop them from sinking to penny stock level now...
You're too late. I've already seen them on sale here. Includes a suitable mouse pad for the Mickey Mouse. I almost bought one for a [slightly sick?] friend... I can't recall for certain now, but I think that the ears were for left and right clicking.
On the other hand, I actually did buy a froggy mouse for our secretary.
From the same folks who did NOT bring you Fahrenheit 9/11.
Sounds to me like they really are losing touch. A computer is supposed to be a tool to encourage thinking, so they want to give it a lobotomy? Is this like kid's shoes that they grow out of in a couple of months? Well, if they can get the price down to the price of shoes, maybe they can sell a few...
Actually, on deeper thought, the real problem is that they have become so stifled in their own thinking precisely because they are hung up on defending old copyrights like Mickey Mouse. If they had any creativity left, they wouldn't be worried about an ancient mouse, and they would constantly be coming up with better things. Poor Walt must be spinning in his grave. Yeah, Walt was stealing ideas right and left, but he created NEW things out of them. (Did you know the basic idea of Steamboat Willie (Mickey's origin) was stolen? Under modern copyright law, Walt Disney would have gone directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200.)
P.S. I am NOT violating the copyright of Monopoly! I'm just reviewing the game with a fair-use brief quotation!
Kind of an interesting idea, but it should have more options. Yeah, I'm a little surprised that it says that Satan is statistically more evil than Darl, even though Satan had a head start. But there are lots of other concepts to check. For example, I'd bet that "stupid" is more often associated with Darl than with Satan.
Interesting to see that there's no mention of SCO's stock price in this discussion. Since they've gone below the $5 floor for shorting, it looks like there's no more interest there. Why would anyone play with SCO stock if you can't sell it short? Hey, but it's at least theoretically possible they could get back above $5 rather than sinking to the penny stock levels.
He didn't sell out. He was screwed by the RIAA and its predecessors. The idea of copyright was to benefit society by encouraging creative artists. Since then, the copyright law has been completely rewritten to solely benefit the publishers--and the heck with society and the artists. The primary purpose of modern copyright law is just to make the fat cat publishers richer.
I'm picking on Disney as an example just because they are probably the worst ones. Mickey Mouse should be in the public domain. What has Disney done lately that justifies a perpetual monopoly? In fact, they have become a censorious bunch of political hacks--as shown by their handling of Fahrenheit 9/11 (which has already outgrossed every other movie Disney saw fit to actually distribute this year).
Since the right to free assembly is granted in your constituition you would surely be allowed to do this and the cameras would protect your rights. In fact, having them there might stop the police state from cracking your skulls with their batons, not a bad deal for the Bush disidents.
Because BushCo would use the camera to prove that she deserved to be hit because she wasn't in the properly designated "free speech" zone. That's how they manage that nasty old First Amendment these days. It isn't "free assembly" if they hold the pseudo-public events in private venues. They can "invite" or "uninvite" whoever they like.
On reflection, just having the case thrown out is not NEARLY sufficient here. At the very least, SCO should have to pay for all of the legal costs incurred by the other side for this baseless lawsuit, but it should go beyond that to cover all the damaged reputations, harmful FUD, etc. It's time for the first installment on paying the piper.
However, in good news, it looks like this result has cracked the glass floor that was holding their stock price up. Or maybe the short options were finally absorbed, as someone else suggested? Anyway, if they move solidly below $5 (and they're at $4.59 now), there should be no stopping them until they hit the decorative origami from stock certificate level. In a couple of weeks there may not be anything left for IBM and the others to clean up.
If they were Americans they could be in Camp Xray already playing naked pile up with a hood over their head. Our 'Patriot' act would see to that. Did anyone else see that the Bush administration admitted the other day that the Patriot Act is being used for routine police investigations such as porn and kidnapping?
No, but I'm curious about the URL. On the actual topic of this thread, I think severe penalties are not appropriate, even though the school was embarrassed. However, it's more of a problem in that a university should be an open, trusting community, without a need for the kind of draconian security measures that would stop all hacking or exploration. This was not black hat phishing, but more of a learning experience, and learning is supposed to be the whole point of a university.
<You can't short stocks on the NASDAQ when they're below $5. So all the short sellers have dropped out of the market. Other than them, nobody cares about SCOX any more. SCOX volume is way down, running about a quarter of what it was a few months ago.
Well, that would explain what's keeping it from going up--as soon as it moves up the short sellers come back in betting for it to go down. But I still don't understand what's keeping it from going the rest of the way down. Or maybe this $5 limit on shorting is effectively acting as a floor price, precisely because the short sellers are eager to speculate on it above that level?
At some point it's going to crash through that "barrier", however. Decorative origami stock certificates, here we come.
I also liked that reply that compared their stock price to an EKG hitting the flatline state. Here's an example of what it looks like: 6 months of SCOX
What I still can't understand is what is holding their stock price up? It's just refusing to stay below the $5 point. Natural floor value, my @ss!
Seriously, are there some big boys playing games here to keep them alive at the $5 level? For someone like Microsoft the amount of money required would be negligible, but if SCOX hits it's natural penny stock level, the lawsuit and company will be gone.
...the first time one of these smarmy nerds gets his ass handed to him by a pissed-off criminal, I'll definitely be feeling the urge to laugh a bit...
It won't be a simple case of "his ass handed to him". Rather these scammers didn't invest a nickle in him unless they think they have a way to make a profit on the deal, and they are the experienced professionals in this business. Yes, they'd be glad if he was just another stupid sucker trying to get rich, but if he wants to play some other games, the 419ers have already played and rigged a bunch of them. The silly picture was valueless bait, but if they put any cash into the deal, they must think something else is going on here. What? Well, that's for the pros to know and the amateur to find out--the hard way.
These days the common secondary scam is some form of identity theft, and getting a valid name and address and maybe even a signature are all helpful step for the scammers--and you can never be sure what other kinds of information they may have collected or will collect. The thing about a "courier" even makes me wonder about a confederate with a camera copying the ID during the delivery. When the mystery bills start arriving, of course the scammers will be long gone, but in bad cases the victim will have to spend a lot of time cleaning up the mess.
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Ridiculous. There were no organized parties at that time, so they did not design with a two-party system in mind.
And Dubya is NOT any sort of moderate, though he was able to pretend to be one on TV in 2000. While Dubya himself is not as bad as Hitler, there is actually significant overlap between some of their supporters. In particular, some of the neocons' ambitions for American imperialism are hauntingly similar to the Nazi's ambitions for the Third Reich. Back in the 30s, no one knew where it would ultimately lead...
"I, for one, welcome our new 'Tonight Show' overlords."
Jon Stewart is much funnier.
Answer: A couple of really rich guys who want to discredit the idea of government-sponsored research are willing to blow a lot of money for the propaganda effect. They aren't going to talk about the REAL research costs--which were almost entirely for technologies developed for the real space program. Paid for by the government, remember? There's NO way private investors would have been able to develop rocket engines (just to pick an especially obvious example) in the first place.
The sad thing is how many foolish Americans think this is a real alternative instead of a flashy dead end. The American space program is probably dead now, and it was politics (mostly Nixon's) and propaganda (especially BushCo's) that killed it.
The original joke was "I don't worry about talking to myself. I don't even worry when I start arguing with myself. When I lose those arguments, then I worry."
Of course in Dubya's case, he'd never admit that he lost, and he's never had a real worry in his entire life. "Born on third base, thinks he hit a triple."
Actually, it isn't even funny. One of the themes that comes up frequently is that Dubya is not reflective, even to the point where he apparently can't think about the possibility of making a mistake. For example, in the book about Paul O'Neill, he specifically says that Dubya refuses to "negotiate with himself"--apparently expecting that if he thought about it he might realize that what he wanted was *gasp* impossible.
By the way, that also explains the problem with "Fool me once..." Dubya probably can't even admit to himself the abstract idea that he could be fooled--though it's obviously going on *ALL* the time.
Both of you aggressively criticize each other for spending too much money on the campaign and for being owned by the major campaign donors. What are you going to do about it?
(Of course, this question is loaded against Bush, since he's already done nothing--except for setting amazing new records for campaign fund raising.)
P.S. Just in case it isn't obvious, I think freedom and democracy are good things. However, free people can choose to give up their freedoms (by voting for demagogues like Dubya), and democracy is just a competitive advantage. As America continues to become less and less democratic, other nations will surpass and eventually eclipse her.
P.P.S. Teddy Roosevelt and Ike were just two of the prominent Republican presidents who criticized it, but McCain is the only prominent GOP politician who really cares about the issue now (and you saw what the big-money candidate Dubya did to him in the primaries in 2000).
Just picking a random example off the list, Cheney's handling of the "national" energy policy is extremely important, but has received very little coverage. Even if you regard his behavior as reasonable, the degree of corporate influence is an important public concern.
However, I think that his "arguments" are fatally flawed. Cheney is supposed to be serving the public, and any "advice" that can only be provided if it's source is concealed from the public is surely NOT in the public interest. If it WAS in the public interest, the source would not be afraid of exposure in the first place.
In the extreme case, Cheney seems to be arguing that America is no longer a democratic republic or republican democracy, but a kind of sanctioned-by-50%-of-the-voters corporate-owned dictatorship. I'd wager you haven't seen much consideration of THAT story on Fox "News".
Well, I suppose it's an excuse to ask if anyone has a solution for a fading display on a Clie? Or to word it in terms of the official topic, a very good PDA should have a display that remains highly readable after several years, and the Sony is not doing so hot in that category, and I really wish there was something to be done.
However, the truth is that the color and photo and movie capabilities and all that fancy stuff has never been particularly useful for me. Same with the sound capability, though this model is kind of cumbersome in that category, and maybe I'd have used it for music more if it were implemented better. A lot of that relates to...
The battery should last more than a few hours. Actually, my current battery life is down to about two hours, but it doesn't seem to be directly related to the weak display, since it looks the same when it's in the charging cradle. In terms of seeking PDA nirvana, I'd gladly trade a cup of flashy colors for two eggs of display brightness and battery life.
Not sure whether to continue suffering, or bite the bullet and get a new one--but probably not a Sony, even though I use the Japanese model and they seem likely to stay in that market for a while. Sony really rattled me when they announced they were dropping Clie from the American market. Also, the Graffiti on new Clies seems to be inferior to what my Clie has now.
One more closing thought is that I am quite satisfied with the Palm OS in comparison to my previous strictly proprietary PDA. It really has invaded many aspects of my life, and I'd definitely prefer to continue using it. I mostly use the memo, address book, and calendar functions, and those dreaded games.
I still admire him tremendously and way ahead of Captain Kirk, though I was more afflicted by admiration of Mr. Spock. It seems like many of the TOS actors got tired of the public's fixation on that series. Anyone else read Nimoy's I am not Spock ?
Just to clarify, I finally did get confirmation (if I understand the Japanese correctly) that the release date for Japanese is 9/1. However, I don't feel like "niche market" ia an appropriate description of the situation. I'd think Japanese is probably the second or third largest computer language after English. (I should dig up some stats, but too tired now...)
Might be related to my Japanese version of Windows XP, but I assure you that I was NOT able to find a way to download SP2 from the WindowsUpdate site as it displays on my computer here. I'm actually rather hesitant to install it, but I'm willing to risk one computer on it. My (Japanese) employer is reminding everyone NOT to install it at work on a daily basis.
If you are talking about the SP2 links I do see, NONE of the MANY I tried led to an actual installation option. Most of them led to instructions to turn on the auto-update, with or without the confirmation option (though I got the distinct impression Microsoft would find it more convenient to just forget about confirmation and simply install whatever they want to install on my machines whenever they want to install it). Some of the links provided irrelevant information, and others offered to sell me support or a CD with SP2.
I was not impressed. (But I admit that I've never liked Microsoft and my employer has frequently had negative experiences due to Microsoft.)
Okay, I also run two XP boxen. So sue me.
In today's episode, all I would like to do is install SP2 to bring them up to date with the state-of-the-wooly-art that is supposed to be XP. Crawled all over the WindowsUpdate site, and no can do. What is easy to do is turn on automatic update so Microsoft can install and run anything they want on my machines anytime they want. No, thanks.
Q1: Why isn't SP2 offered as a "normal" "critical" update?
Q2: Why are they hiding it?
<rhetorical>
Q3: Do they think they own my computer?
</rhetorical>
Obviously Microsoft does think they own my computer and they they they know better than I do where they want me to go today. In response, I would say where they can go, but this is supposed to be a Web site for the whole family, so with some difficulty I shall restrain my sharp tongue.
I think it depends on the SCOX stock price. Currently fluttering around $4. Kind of a race to see which bottoms out first, their market cap or their credibility. I rather suspect they'll be forced into bankruptcy if the stock drops much more.
Then Murphy would probably intervene, and the IBM lawsuit would be frozen as an "asset" for SCO's creditors.
Well, I was certainly shocked to search the comments and see nothing about that movie. I expected some of the Busheviks to jump to the obvious bait. Actually, I FINALLY got to see it yesterday, but I certainly don't think it was the worst movie I've seen. If you're curious, here's a link to my comments about the Japanese premier:
;-)
http://shanenj.tripod.com/blogger.html
On the actual topic of worst movie, that's really tough. There are so MANY really bad movies out there, and I think I've mostly managed to avoid the worst ones by benefiting from the reports of other people's mistakes. I'd tend to vote for "Plan 9 from Outer Space", and it really was awful, and apparently Ed Wood really believed it was not awful, but it's still a campy choice...
I think to be REALLY awful a movie has to tread a thin line. If it's bad enough, then you'll just turn it off and then you haven't really seen it. A REALLY bad movie has to suck you in and get you to waste your precious time, somehow believing it isn't really as bad as it seems--until the final moments, when you realize that you have been totally wasted.
I suppose in a worst case, you wouldn't realize you'd been wasted until you watched it the SECOND time.
Anyway, the moderation of this post shall be a metric of the number of Busheviks with mod points.
Oh, you mean you want to buy SCOX shares to sell at a profit ? So sorry. That seems rather unlikely. Nothing to stop them from sinking to penny stock level now...
I like the comparative views against IBM, their "favorite" target. This one shows the 6-month view, in which SCOX is about 70% below the starting point.
Here we have the 2-year view, which gives you a pretty good perspective of the entire lawsuit bubble.
Finally, here's a big-picture 5-year view which shows what really happened since the IPO bubble burst. On this one, the lawsuit price response looks like a rather trivial burp.
On the other hand, I actually did buy a froggy mouse for our secretary.
Sounds to me like they really are losing touch. A computer is supposed to be a tool to encourage thinking, so they want to give it a lobotomy? Is this like kid's shoes that they grow out of in a couple of months? Well, if they can get the price down to the price of shoes, maybe they can sell a few...
Actually, on deeper thought, the real problem is that they have become so stifled in their own thinking precisely because they are hung up on defending old copyrights like Mickey Mouse. If they had any creativity left, they wouldn't be worried about an ancient mouse, and they would constantly be coming up with better things. Poor Walt must be spinning in his grave. Yeah, Walt was stealing ideas right and left, but he created NEW things out of them. (Did you know the basic idea of Steamboat Willie (Mickey's origin) was stolen? Under modern copyright law, Walt Disney would have gone directly to jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200.)
P.S. I am NOT violating the copyright of Monopoly! I'm just reviewing the game with a fair-use brief quotation!
Kind of an interesting idea, but it should have more options. Yeah, I'm a little surprised that it says that Satan is statistically more evil than Darl, even though Satan had a head start. But there are lots of other concepts to check. For example, I'd bet that "stupid" is more often associated with Darl than with Satan.
Interesting to see that there's no mention of SCO's stock price in this discussion. Since they've gone below the $5 floor for shorting, it looks like there's no more interest there. Why would anyone play with SCO stock if you can't sell it short? Hey, but it's at least theoretically possible they could get back above $5 rather than sinking to the penny stock levels.
Okay, all you'se guys that ain't afeered of Microsoft hold up yer hands!
You? In the back? That's it?
Okay, the hit's off! Time to open a lemonade stand in Philly.
I'm picking on Disney as an example just because they are probably the worst ones. Mickey Mouse should be in the public domain. What has Disney done lately that justifies a perpetual monopoly? In fact, they have become a censorious bunch of political hacks--as shown by their handling of Fahrenheit 9/11 (which has already outgrossed every other movie Disney saw fit to actually distribute this year).
Poor Woody must be spinning in his grave.
Because BushCo would use the camera to prove that she deserved to be hit because she wasn't in the properly designated "free speech" zone. That's how they manage that nasty old First Amendment these days. It isn't "free assembly" if they hold the pseudo-public events in private venues. They can "invite" or "uninvite" whoever they like.
On reflection, just having the case thrown out is not NEARLY sufficient here. At the very least, SCO should have to pay for all of the legal costs incurred by the other side for this baseless lawsuit, but it should go beyond that to cover all the damaged reputations, harmful FUD, etc. It's time for the first installment on paying the piper.
However, in good news, it looks like this result has cracked the glass floor that was holding their stock price up. Or maybe the short options were finally absorbed, as someone else suggested? Anyway, if they move solidly below $5 (and they're at $4.59 now), there should be no stopping them until they hit the decorative origami from stock certificate level. In a couple of weeks there may not be anything left for IBM and the others to clean up.
At some point it's going to crash through that "barrier", however. Decorative origami stock certificates, here we come.
I also liked that reply that compared their stock price to an EKG hitting the flatline state. Here's an example of what it looks like: 6 months of SCOX
What I still can't understand is what is holding their stock price up? It's just refusing to stay below the $5 point. Natural floor value, my @ss!
Seriously, are there some big boys playing games here to keep them alive at the $5 level? For someone like Microsoft the amount of money required would be negligible, but if SCOX hits it's natural penny stock level, the lawsuit and company will be gone.
It won't be a simple case of "his ass handed to him". Rather these scammers didn't invest a nickle in him unless they think they have a way to make a profit on the deal, and they are the experienced professionals in this business. Yes, they'd be glad if he was just another stupid sucker trying to get rich, but if he wants to play some other games, the 419ers have already played and rigged a bunch of them. The silly picture was valueless bait, but if they put any cash into the deal, they must think something else is going on here. What? Well, that's for the pros to know and the amateur to find out--the hard way.
These days the common secondary scam is some form of identity theft, and getting a valid name and address and maybe even a signature are all helpful step for the scammers--and you can never be sure what other kinds of information they may have collected or will collect. The thing about a "courier" even makes me wonder about a confederate with a camera copying the ID during the delivery. When the mystery bills start arriving, of course the scammers will be long gone, but in bad cases the victim will have to spend a lot of time cleaning up the mess.