It could end up costing the employees their "expected" profits from the IPO mania though.
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She (Katie Tarbox) is, btw, answering to Emails sent to that address.
Just got a reply from her.
She seems to be in the opinion that she has no control over this, and it's Penguin Putnam who is at fault. Kinda of a cop out, if you ask me, and sidestepping the issue discussed in the article about her lawyer trying to intimidate Katie Jones to hand over katie.com for free.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill Big MultiNational Corporations
What would the DVD market be like, if every DVD players only worked with the manufacturer's owned (or endorsed) DVD store?
I applaude Apple for showing RIAA that there is another way to market music.
I applaude Real for taking the first step to end device lock-in. Device lock-in is bad for consumers. I do think they're going to lose against Apple, but by taking the first step, one can only hope some day iPods will no longer be exclusive to iTunes and vice versa.
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He DID contact the military, several times. They took no action. Read the info on the website.
"Repeated vandalism? You (or your IP address) can get a one-day ban by any of the administrators. A longer ban can be placed if needed."
It would take about half a day (with testing) to write a simple mass deleter app that would use rotating open proxies (slightly for zombies) to cause some major havoc in there.
You tell me on which broker you can make a $100 investment on a stock trade and not pay an outrageously high (percentagewise) transaction fee on that investment, and I will switch right away.
The lowest transaction fees I could find out with a quick Google search were on Brown|Co at $5.00 per trade + $0.01 per share. That's $10 for a buy and a sell (if you buy one $100 share).
Your stock's price would have to go up by 10% in order for you to break even. In order to make $10 or 10% in profit, the stock price would have to go up 20%.
"Actually, the P/E ratio sums this up nicely (Price Per Share/Earnings Per Share); a high P/E ratio would indicate a poor investment, a low P/E ratio would be a great return on your money."
True.
I'm a little sceptical about P/E ratios though. They lag...today's P/E ratio of 10 can turn into a tomorrow's P/E ratio of 1 as easily as 10 to 100, it seems.
Let's say you are thinking of investing in two stocks, one with P/E ratio of 10, and one with P/E ratio of 100. I don't think there's absolutely no way of knowing which one is the better investment in the future by their current P/E ratio alone.
"Is it deliberate to keep out smallish investors?"
Uh. You only meant to buy less than $100 wort of stock? Good luck getting any ROI on that investment with all the transaction fees.
The minimum investment on any stock, IMHO, should be no less than $2000. Anything less, and the transaction fees are digging too much into the profits to make it a worthwhile investment. The lower the transaction fees, the lower that figure can be, obviously.
For $2000 you can get almost 20 shares. Now, if the stock price was $2000, I would be bitching, too.
The price of a share is irrelevant. What is relevant is how much of the company you get for buying the share, and how much the total value of the company in question is.
All other things being equal, 10% ownership priced at $100 is a somewhat of a better deal than.00001% ownership priced at $100.
The laws in Europe would prevent Acxiom from ever doing what they're doing.
This company, according to reports elsewhere, knows everything about you, and sells that information to anyone it can. Credit card numbers, spending habits, SSN, current and past addresses, everything.
There is no reason to steal the data when you can just buy it, then resell it over and over and over and over again.
No wonder identity theft is such a big problem. Nobody freaking takes privacy seriously in this country.
"No joke. One of the reasons the wealthy are wealthy is that they know how to save"
That's just not correct. You will absolutely not, ever, become wealthy by saving.
The reason why the wealthy are wealthy is either, because:
1) they inherited a LOT of money. It's very hard to become poor when a mere 2% on interest would fund your expenses
2) they invested their money wisely. Investing is in no way the same as saving. A lot of the folks became very wealthy by investing in the Next Big Thing, whether it was railroads, automobiles, computers, real estate or the stock market.
3) they founded a business that succeeded
Then there are a few of the weird ones, who are so cheap with their money that they somehow manage to gather a fortune by the time they die. There are stories of old goobers dieing with millions stashed away on a savings or checking account, cause they never bought a thing in their lives and lived in a shack. I don't quite see the purpose of such life, though. Money is to be spent, I say.
"I am just waiting.... waiting.... for a tourist from Russia go to Washington, take a few innocuous pictures, and get picked up by Homeland Security."
It HAS already happened. Except the tourist was from Nepal, and he was taking pictures in New York. See the New York Times (registration required...) article on a buddhist from Nepal falsely arrested for MONTHS for taking tourist photos in New York.
That story so well demonstrates what is wrong with PATRIOT Act and similar increases in powers of the law enforcement agencies to detain people without proper judicial process.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill the PATRIOT Act
"For one thing, the Patriot Act, in a way, shows democracy in action. The American people wanted a swift and comprehensive law to fight terrorism, and they got it."
The fuck we did.
The FBI did, but then they don't really represent the American people at large, do they.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill absolute power
This is the bill that would technically outlaw VCRs, DVRs, mp3 players and everyone supplying parts for the manufacturers.
None of those companies would, of course, ever be sued, because they're bed buddies with the RIAA, but the slope is definitely slippery.
What if Tivo falls (completely) out of favor with the MPAA or some other entertainment industry group? What's to keep MPAA from suing (or "encouraging" the US Government to sue in their behalf) Tivo on the grounds of this proposed law? Nothing.
This bill HAS to be killed.
Proletariat of the world, unite to vote out corrupt politicians (that's Mr. Hatch, btw)
Looks like Mr. Rubinstein has only himself to blame for the lawsuit. There's some very interesting things about NAC's negotiating and business tactics in the affidavits.
I think the IP address issue, which btw is only one of UCI's issues with NAC, should have been resolvable, if NAC would've negotiated in good faith.
There's a fundamental problem in US politics. It's that there are only 2 parties.
Everything and anything is always black or white.
There is never anything that even remotely resembles honest exchange of ideas on the Senate or House floors, never mind the White House, because things are run through majority politics.
If Republicans rule, they steamroll their ideology down everyone's throat at all costs. If democrats rule, they'll do the same.
The same polarity on political issues is so prelevant on all mass media that you just can not get any independent research on any issues from any source, foreign sources excluded (BBC tends to be kinda ok, most of the time).
While we are on this subject, I find it extremely dishonest of George W. Bush to have claimed in his election campaign that he would unite the American people. The damn fool has done no such thing. Americans are more divided now than ever.
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Proletariat of the world, unite to kill ethically challenged multinationals
It could end up costing the employees their "expected" profits from the IPO mania though.
She (Katie Tarbox) is, btw, answering to Emails sent to that address.
Just got a reply from her.
She seems to be in the opinion that she has no control over this, and it's Penguin Putnam who is at fault. Kinda of a cop out, if you ask me, and sidestepping the issue discussed in the article about her lawyer trying to intimidate Katie Jones to hand over katie.com for free.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill Big MultiNational Corporations
What would the DVD market be like, if every DVD players only worked with the manufacturer's owned (or endorsed) DVD store?
I applaude Apple for showing RIAA that there is another way to market music.
I applaude Real for taking the first step to end device lock-in. Device lock-in is bad for consumers. I do think they're going to lose against Apple, but by taking the first step, one can only hope some day iPods will no longer be exclusive to iTunes and vice versa.
He DID contact the military, several times. They took no action. Read the info on the website.
"Repeated vandalism? You (or your IP address) can get a one-day ban by any of the administrators. A longer ban can be placed if needed."
It would take about half a day (with testing) to write a simple mass deleter app that would use rotating open proxies (slightly for zombies) to cause some major havoc in there.
You tell me on which broker you can make a $100 investment on a stock trade and not pay an outrageously high (percentagewise) transaction fee on that investment, and I will switch right away.
The lowest transaction fees I could find out with a quick Google search were on Brown|Co at $5.00 per trade + $0.01 per share. That's $10 for a buy and a sell (if you buy one $100 share).
Your stock's price would have to go up by 10% in order for you to break even. In order to make $10 or 10% in profit, the stock price would have to go up 20%.
Great deal!
"Actually, the P/E ratio sums this up nicely (Price Per Share/Earnings Per Share); a high P/E ratio would indicate a poor investment, a low P/E ratio would be a great return on your money."
True.
I'm a little sceptical about P/E ratios though. They lag...today's P/E ratio of 10 can turn into a tomorrow's P/E ratio of 1 as easily as 10 to 100, it seems.
Let's say you are thinking of investing in two stocks, one with P/E ratio of 10, and one with P/E ratio of 100. I don't think there's absolutely no way of knowing which one is the better investment in the future by their current P/E ratio alone.
"Is it deliberate to keep out smallish investors?"
Uh. You only meant to buy less than $100 wort of stock? Good luck getting any ROI on that investment with all the transaction fees.
The minimum investment on any stock, IMHO, should be no less than $2000. Anything less, and the transaction fees are digging too much into the profits to make it a worthwhile investment. The lower the transaction fees, the lower that figure can be, obviously.
For $2000 you can get almost 20 shares. Now, if the stock price was $2000, I would be bitching, too.
The quiet period doesn't mean you can't comment on any business activities. You just can't comment on anything relating to the IPO.
The price of a share is irrelevant. What is relevant is how much of the company you get for buying the share, and how much the total value of the company in question is.
.00001% ownership priced at $100.
All other things being equal, 10% ownership priced at $100 is a somewhat of a better deal than
The laws in Europe would prevent Acxiom from ever doing what they're doing.
This company, according to reports elsewhere, knows everything about you, and sells that information to anyone it can. Credit card numbers, spending habits, SSN, current and past addresses, everything.
There is no reason to steal the data when you can just buy it, then resell it over and over and over and over again.
No wonder identity theft is such a big problem. Nobody freaking takes privacy seriously in this country.
Acxiom is a f***ing joke.
They keep their most valuable business assets on a FTP server connected to the public Internet. Privacy sure is their top concern...
Furthermore Acxiom's business IS to ignore people's privacy. They sell YOUR information to whoever pays enough for it.
They also e-pend and allow their customers to spam you.
I hope the next person to hack into Acxiom cracks in real good and deletes not only the data on the FTP site, but all backups as well.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill Acxiom
"No joke. One of the reasons the wealthy are wealthy is that they know how to save"
That's just not correct. You will absolutely not, ever, become wealthy by saving.
The reason why the wealthy are wealthy is either, because:
1) they inherited a LOT of money. It's very hard to become poor when a mere 2% on interest would fund your expenses
2) they invested their money wisely. Investing is in no way the same as saving. A lot of the folks became very wealthy by investing in the Next Big Thing, whether it was railroads, automobiles, computers, real estate or the stock market.
3) they founded a business that succeeded
Then there are a few of the weird ones, who are so cheap with their money that they somehow manage to gather a fortune by the time they die. There are stories of old goobers dieing with millions stashed away on a savings or checking account, cause they never bought a thing in their lives and lived in a shack. I don't quite see the purpose of such life, though. Money is to be spent, I say.
"I am just waiting.... waiting.... for a tourist from Russia go to Washington, take a few innocuous pictures, and get picked up by Homeland Security."
It HAS already happened. Except the tourist was from Nepal, and he was taking pictures in New York. See the New York Times (registration required...) article on a buddhist from Nepal falsely arrested for MONTHS for taking tourist photos in New York.
That story so well demonstrates what is wrong with PATRIOT Act and similar increases in powers of the law enforcement agencies to detain people without proper judicial process.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill the PATRIOT Act
"For one thing, the Patriot Act, in a way, shows democracy in action. The American people wanted a swift and comprehensive law to fight terrorism, and they got it."
The fuck we did.
The FBI did, but then they don't really represent the American people at large, do they.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill absolute power
This is the bill that would technically outlaw VCRs, DVRs, mp3 players and everyone supplying parts for the manufacturers.
None of those companies would, of course, ever be sued, because they're bed buddies with the RIAA, but the slope is definitely slippery.
What if Tivo falls (completely) out of favor with the MPAA or some other entertainment industry group? What's to keep MPAA from suing (or "encouraging" the US Government to sue in their behalf) Tivo on the grounds of this proposed law? Nothing.
This bill HAS to be killed.
Proletariat of the world, unite to vote out corrupt politicians (that's Mr. Hatch, btw)
Boy, was I in trouble :(
Looks like Mr. Rubinstein has only himself to blame for the lawsuit. There's some very interesting things about NAC's negotiating and business tactics in the affidavits.
I think the IP address issue, which btw is only one of UCI's issues with NAC, should have been resolvable, if NAC would've negotiated in good faith.
"streamlined user interface"?? I wonder what that really means.
There's a fundamental problem in US politics. It's that there are only 2 parties.
Everything and anything is always black or white.
There is never anything that even remotely resembles honest exchange of ideas on the Senate or House floors, never mind the White House, because things are run through majority politics.
If Republicans rule, they steamroll their ideology down everyone's throat at all costs. If democrats rule, they'll do the same.
The same polarity on political issues is so prelevant on all mass media that you just can not get any independent research on any issues from any source, foreign sources excluded (BBC tends to be kinda ok, most of the time).
While we are on this subject, I find it extremely dishonest of George W. Bush to have claimed in his election campaign that he would unite the American people. The damn fool has done no such thing. Americans are more divided now than ever.
You wouldn't have a link to a review of Dvico Fusion III Gold QAM, would you?
Product info on manufacturer's website is pretty helpful, but I would love to see some independent reviews as well.
Thanks for the tip, btw.
A-f***ing-men.
That's not how, that's who.
I answered that HE could do it too, Dufus.
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill corrupt politicians
"Read the post Dufus! He's asking HOW to do that - he's not looking for a stupid,unhelpful comment like yours!"
Read the post Dufus, indeed. Please show me where in the original post did he ask how to spread awareness?
Proletariat of the world, unite to kill corrupt politicians