The people hurt the most by this change are the middle mangers and below. The executives will continue to get stock options while everyone else does not.
As for people who think that stock options are ways of "lying" to investors, the problem is that there really isn't a way to expense them in a way that 100% of the people out there agree out there.
I personally think the formula they're using isn't correct, because it's designed for options trading, whose value varies from day-to-day. For companies that expense options at a higher rate, and then their stock goes down, do they get bonus revenue? Nope.
That's why this is so fool-hardy. Reminds me of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (I'm sure I misspelled that:-) It's too early in the morning)
1) If one news station calls an election, the others follow that call....
Sorry -- are you in the news media or are you just guessing that this might possibly be the case? What kind of proof do you have or is this simply conjecture?
2) Please, then - offer your explanation of why the "Felon Purge List" had over 20,000 African Americans...
Because, um, they were felons? Race had nothing to do with that list and Michael Moore knows it. That as much BS as I've ever seen.
3) In the method that the State supreme court had ordered, Gore indeed would have won...
But that isn't the case that the Gore supporters cite -- The U of C study is a red herring. The fact that REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE SUPREME COURT DID, the fact is that Gore would have lost the recount.
Period.
4a) Implying that Bush vacationed 42 percent of the time in his first six months -- That is completely true.
From what source? Hey, have you heard of telecommuting? Or are you stuck at your era-1970 biases?
The ranch at Crawford has the uber setup (video conference, hotlines to everyone, etc.) that would put any geek slashdot telecommute cable/dsl modem setup to shame.
4b) Of course he *can* do work. And I'm sure he's so much more effective without all those "relevant people" around him. Crawford, Texas, is so much more accessable for meetings than DC. I'm sure all of the brush-cutting photos, horseback riding, and talk about having fun was just a media ploy. (/sarcasm)
See above.
5) Regarding the briefing.
Uh, have you read the briefing or are you just reading other's interpretation of it? The fact is that the briefing HAD NO SPECIFIC THREATS LISTED IN IT. So, whether or not the white house had read the brief is SIMPLY IRRELEVANT.
1) Implying that Fox....
If one news station calls an election, the others follow that call. Call them lemmings, but no news station wants to be the last to call an election. I was watching CNN at the time, and was watching the florida count numbers coming in, was aware that it was incredibly obvious that Gore could still carry the state (and not even that difficult), and then had my jaw drop when I heard them say something to the effect of... "wait, we're getting the news that Florida has been called for Bush..."
2) Implying that a member of the Bush admin hired a company to turn away African American voters at the polls.
Please, then - offer your explanation of why the "Felon Purge List" had over 20,000 African Americans, but less than 50 hispanics (I assume you're talking about Database Technologies and the purge list).
3) Implying that Gore won the election no matter what.
In the method that the State supreme court had ordered, Gore indeed would have won, based on a University of Chicago study. The only case Bush would have won was the one Gore requested, or no recount - but that was not what the State supreme court ordered.
4a) Implying that Bush vacationed 42 percent of the time in his first six months
That is completely true.
4b) With the implication that Bush can't do work away from the White House.
Of course he *can* do work. And I'm sure he's so much more effective without all those "relevant people" around him. Crawford, Texas, is so much more accessable for meetings than DC. I'm sure all of the brush-cutting photos, horseback riding, and talk about having fun was just a media ploy. (/sarcasm)
One thing that sickened me, later, and unrelated to Moore, was watching Bush talk about killing in Iraq (shortly before the war began), while smiling and playing golf - actually answering a reporter's question in the middle of a swing. How sick...
5) Implying that Bush didn't read the briefing...
A) Tenet couldn't have given oral testimony about the PDB, as was implied, because A) Tenet was not in Texas that day, and B) Tenet testified that he did not speak to Bush during all of August: http://sl
Java is still too low level for the enterprise. As for encapsulating business logic, it requires too much programming to get any of it done.
That's why people are still using (today!) Cobol, and the most successful large enterprise vendors have gone to developing their own 4GL-like environment and develop in those toolsets rather than Java.
Molly Ivins? Give me a break. Her writing is complete and utter nonsense. And she's an idiot to boot. Her columns are nothing more than spite towards the Bush family. You almost could call her a Bush family stalker.
Besides, you live in California, and you spell program "programme?" What kind of pretentious self-important Bay Area liberal are you? Oh, sorry for the redundant comment. "Bay Area Liberal" includes all the preceding adjectives.
Just because you read something doesn't mean you know what you're talking about (typical Bay Area thing to do, though). And reading Molly Ivins pretty much sets your IQ back about 50 points (which might put you in the negative).
Living in the Bay Area is great -- it's too bad about the people here.
They're great from landlines, but as soon as you go on the road to use your mobile phone, it doesn't work that well.
Road noise from the car, the cell phone cutting in and out, etc. all screw-up the experience. The human ear (and brain) is great at piecing together something meaningful heard when someone is cutting in and out, but unfortunately, voice interfaces aren't there yet.
Until mobile phones become as reliable as landlines, I think voice interfaces will be handicapped. It's like trying to type SMS messages on a number keypad....
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CNN:
"James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise..."
He was burly in the movies, but I don't think he was burly in the series, was he?
How did a Duke basketball player from Alaska get on your computer?
An inflatable building to house my inflatable...er...friend.
Then why are they moving away from a TDMA interface to a CDMA for 3G?
:-))
Without American free markets, we would all be stuck with a dead-end technology like, say, France's Minitel.
(yeah yeah, wimax blah blah blah -- let me see you make a wimax call now
All fair game. You willing to share where you went to school so we can see who graduated from your alma mater?
More likely both, depending on the situation.
:-) It's too early in the morning)
The people hurt the most by this change are the middle mangers and below. The executives will continue to get stock options while everyone else does not.
As for people who think that stock options are ways of "lying" to investors, the problem is that there really isn't a way to expense them in a way that 100% of the people out there agree out there.
I personally think the formula they're using isn't correct, because it's designed for options trading, whose value varies from day-to-day. For companies that expense options at a higher rate, and then their stock goes down, do they get bonus revenue? Nope.
That's why this is so fool-hardy. Reminds me of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (I'm sure I misspelled that
It's called, uh, a toll road.
Just break up the road into multiple sections and have $$ deducted via your Fastrak.
1) If one news station calls an election, the others follow that call. ...
...
Sorry -- are you in the news media or are you just guessing that this might possibly be the case? What kind of proof do you have or is this simply conjecture?
2) Please, then - offer your explanation of why the "Felon Purge List" had over 20,000 African Americans...
Because, um, they were felons? Race had nothing to do with that list and Michael Moore knows it. That as much BS as I've ever seen.
3) In the method that the State supreme court had ordered, Gore indeed would have won...
But that isn't the case that the Gore supporters cite -- The U of C study is a red herring. The fact that REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE SUPREME COURT DID, the fact is that Gore would have lost the recount.
Period.
4a) Implying that Bush vacationed 42 percent of the time in his first six months -- That is completely true.
From what source? Hey, have you heard of telecommuting? Or are you stuck at your era-1970 biases?
The ranch at Crawford has the uber setup (video conference, hotlines to everyone, etc.) that would put any geek slashdot telecommute cable/dsl modem setup to shame.
4b) Of course he *can* do work. And I'm sure he's so much more effective without all those "relevant people" around him. Crawford, Texas, is so much more accessable for meetings than DC. I'm sure all of the brush-cutting photos, horseback riding, and talk about having fun was just a media ploy. (/sarcasm)
See above.
5) Regarding the briefing.
Uh, have you read the briefing or are you just reading other's interpretation of it? The fact is that the briefing HAD NO SPECIFIC THREATS LISTED IN IT. So, whether or not the white house had read the brief is SIMPLY IRRELEVANT.
1) Implying that Fox....
If one news station calls an election, the others follow that call. Call them lemmings, but no news station wants to be the last to call an election. I was watching CNN at the time, and was watching the florida count numbers coming in, was aware that it was incredibly obvious that Gore could still carry the state (and not even that difficult), and then had my jaw drop when I heard them say something to the effect of... "wait, we're getting the news that Florida has been called for Bush..."
2) Implying that a member of the Bush admin hired a company to turn away African American voters at the polls.
Please, then - offer your explanation of why the "Felon Purge List" had over 20,000 African Americans, but less than 50 hispanics (I assume you're talking about Database Technologies and the purge list).
3) Implying that Gore won the election no matter what.
In the method that the State supreme court had ordered, Gore indeed would have won, based on a University of Chicago study. The only case Bush would have won was the one Gore requested, or no recount - but that was not what the State supreme court ordered.
4a) Implying that Bush vacationed 42 percent of the time in his first six months
That is completely true.
4b) With the implication that Bush can't do work away from the White House.
Of course he *can* do work. And I'm sure he's so much more effective without all those "relevant people" around him. Crawford, Texas, is so much more accessable for meetings than DC. I'm sure all of the brush-cutting photos, horseback riding, and talk about having fun was just a media ploy. (/sarcasm)
One thing that sickened me, later, and unrelated to Moore, was watching Bush talk about killing in Iraq (shortly before the war began), while smiling and playing golf - actually answering a reporter's question in the middle of a swing. How sick...
5) Implying that Bush didn't read the briefing
A) Tenet couldn't have given oral testimony about the PDB, as was implied, because A) Tenet was not in Texas that day, and B) Tenet testified that he did not speak to Bush during all of August: http://sl
Java is still too low level for the enterprise. As for encapsulating business logic, it requires too much programming to get any of it done.
That's why people are still using (today!) Cobol, and the most successful large enterprise vendors have gone to developing their own 4GL-like environment and develop in those toolsets rather than Java.
For starters, wake up the fact that the Constitution no longer exists in America for ordinary citizens.
Quit your whining. If you want to see what real problems are, go to Sudan.
Because he isn't one of the people running one of these conglomerates
"It's about time Americans stopped calling themselves a democracy."
Yeah, I prefer the large number of choices I get in life from living under Taliban rule.
Molly Ivins? Give me a break. Her writing is complete and utter nonsense. And she's an idiot to boot. Her columns are nothing more than spite towards the Bush family. You almost could call her a Bush family stalker.
Besides, you live in California, and you spell program "programme?" What kind of pretentious self-important Bay Area liberal are you? Oh, sorry for the redundant comment. "Bay Area Liberal" includes all the preceding adjectives.
Just because you read something doesn't mean you know what you're talking about (typical Bay Area thing to do, though). And reading Molly Ivins pretty much sets your IQ back about 50 points (which might put you in the negative).
Living in the Bay Area is great -- it's too bad about the people here.
"all three owners of the companies who make these machines are donors to the Bush administration. Is this not corruption?"
Gore Vidal, just because this is something you would do if you were President and had these donors does not mean everyone will too.
Thank God I don't think like Gore Vidal.
Not even worth bringing up. He is simply speculating, and everyone jumps on it as proof. E-gad, it's just some old guy expressing an opinion.
Sure. It's BSD -- you can do whatever you want. The BSD license gives you more freedom than GPL.
(ducking)
That's ok. This is slashdot, where the pockets are bigger.
Please don't buy a combo drive! Then someone would come out with a new format that would become the standard and we would all be screwed.
And testing is done on DB2 first.
"How is skipping commercials fair use? "
What's next? Ripping ads out of magazines so you don't have to see them while reading going to be the next thing that's illegal?
Same analogy. I'm just wondering what's different.
There's an inverse relationship between website animation and reality.
Look like a Journey album cover? Is Journey going to be on the soundtrack?!
As long as people continue to buy obliviously, these guys can do whatever they want.
The only want to make them hear anything is to hit them in the pocketbook. This means:
1. Stop going to movies and concerts.
2. Stop buying DVDs and CDs.
3. Stop renting.
While it would suck to not have all that, it's the only way to get these groups to stop trying to control the content in this manner.
What they need to learn is that if they make it so people are inconvenienced by the whole thing, people will just stop buying.
Mensa members come cheap. Only $200 for building a custom case and putting it together, configuring the damn thing.
I knew these Mensa members were a dime-a-dozen. Looks like we have our proof.
or maybe
Long Live the Amiga of PDAs
They're great from landlines, but as soon as you go on the road to use your mobile phone, it doesn't work that well.
Road noise from the car, the cell phone cutting in and out, etc. all screw-up the experience. The human ear (and brain) is great at piecing together something meaningful heard when someone is cutting in and out, but unfortunately, voice interfaces aren't there yet.
Until mobile phones become as reliable as landlines, I think voice interfaces will be handicapped. It's like trying to type SMS messages on a number keypad....