We already have that online caste system, if a rich kid want's to pay an employee to play the game and collect the items or level up the character, this would be a legal (but strange) transaction. I'm suddenly imagining the scene in Willy Wonka where all the nut sheller's are opening candybars clicking like mad trying to find the right full platemail.
Up here in Helena we passed a law banning smoking in any public building, including bars. It was pretty nice to pop in to any bar and get a drink without any sort of crowd, but the bar owners hated it. I remember one place that was packed had three groups of people playing pool and two people went to the bar for a drink on a Friday at 10:30. Considering that we already had two bars that were smoke free before the law, (microbrew resturant pubs) you would think that those who didn't want to be exposed to second hand smoke would just go to one of those places. Happily somewhere along the line it was reversed by the courts or the state.
I was about ready to start a private smoking club that happened to sell drinks. Members only, but membership would cost $40 bucks and come with two cartons of your brand.
When Mickey was created copyright law gave its creator their life plus 50 years?. When this time was approaching for Mickey, Disney pushed through the Sony Bono Copyright Extention Act which changed it to life plus 85 years. (I could well have hosed the additional length, but it increased). It is mostly about a social contract by which society agrees that content creators should reciceve protection for their ideas, for a limited period of time, but at the end of that time period they should no longer be protected and everyone should benefit from those ideas. It is less important with Mickey since he is a trademark and would still be protected, but there is a ton of content that should have entered the public domain but didn't and isn't really valuable enough for a business to sell. Think of all the old silent movies, jazz, and ragtime recordings, that could well have been reused in new content if it were public domain, but wont be now. It isn't critical in the same sense that people will die, but it is critical in the sense that all of us (society) are being ripped off by these companies by extending copyright terms.
Sun is only in trouble in the sense that their business is valued at about 2 times their $5.5 billion horde and for the past year or two their business has not indicated that it should be worth the extra $5 billion. I don't think anyone has been saying they will be bankrupt anytime soon. Think of it as a friendly warning that people might be overpaying for that older Lexus, the car will probably run really well for the better part of a decade, but it's not worth $20,000.
He's correct, while the short ratio is very low, the stock is mostly owned by insiders (42% or so) who are not going to loan their shares to shorts. Institutions only own about 2% or 3% of the stock. Most retail investors don't even know how to allow their shares to be loaned. For those that do it can be a nice little kicker, if their broker pays them to do it. IIRC the online brokers loan the shares and keep the proceeds, as a cost cutting measure.
The only possible way I can see how shorting a stock could enrich corporate leaders who are long would be a massive short squeeze, wouldn't that be rich. We purchased this bankrupt company, engineered this lawsuit just so that in the end we could create a short squeeze on all the people who shorted our stock after the first run up in price. I don't think the owners are quite smart enough to think that one up.
It's pretty easy, you would need a few thousand dollars in a brokerage account and decent credit. In SCO's case, the difficult part is finding people who are willing to loan their shares for short sellers. Most of the stock is owned by insiders who are pretty unlikely to loan their shares. Institutions, who are very likely to loan shares, only own a few percent of the stock. If there is a line to short the stock, then you would have to be an important enough client of your broker's company that they would allocate some to you (Think important enough to get IPO stock in 1999/2000). It might have picked up enough that options are now traded on SCO, puts would be another way to get that same short exposure, at the risk of losing your premium (investment) if your guess on timing is not right.
Since today is Tuesday they are not evil, but will return to being evil tomorrow, they will be good again on Friday.* They are considered evil for their pushing through the legislature a bill that tacked several years to the current copyright length so Mickey (is it actually Mortimer?) won't enter the public domain. The supreme court allowed the extention under the arguement that the constitiution requires that copyrights be time limited, but there was no prevention to the time limit changing.
*On rare weeks the studios are good on Thursdays or even occasionally Wednesdays.
A shared set of beliefs and stronger sense of belonging. It is a well known fact that communism works quite well as long as the members feel a strong enough sense of belonging to the group, if they don't you have too many incentives to enrich yourself at the expense of the group.
I know I saw a report that showed that music sales in college towns were down significantly in 1999 bucking the national trend. I know the effects of sharing are more complex than the RIAA or the file sharers would have us to believe, but I do thing the overall effect is slightly negative, although I would put it as a much smaller factor than things like the end of the vinyl repurchase cycle.
Of course this works the other way too, it always takes my about 10 good equation entries before I can get the hang of standard entry. I think that the preference of engineers toward HPs is changing. With TI ruling the high schools and most of the stuff that HP did better being done on computers at college, it was pretty rare to find another HP user at my engineering school.
I don't understand why the calc division stayed with HP, who shuttered development of new calcs for a few years shortly after Agilent was spun off. I'll agree with you on build quality, their old stuff could stand up to a tank. I have an old HP workstation, that was built of thicker sheet metal than my car.
It was a present, and looks a lot like the one in the other reply. I think you would have pretty good luck looking around the cash register at a hardware store, especially around the holidays. If you can't find one, you could make one with a 1/4" nut driver or small ratchet, you could magnitize it yourself and several bits in a small case.
Most colleges and universities will let those from the community "audit" a class for a very reduced rate, my college charged like 60 bucks a class, you didn't get a grade, but you could attend all the classes, and tests were optional, at the discression of the professor. If you can spare the time, it's probably going to be much more useful to hear the lectures than just reading a text.
I have this 6 socket nut driver that I pretty much always take with me, it comes with a large and small phillips, flat, and Torx bits, and has a little magnet in the middle that extends to grab those little fiddly screws that I always seem to drop in between to PCI cards. It has lights but I've never put batteries in it.
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I think part of the problem is that most drivers don't want a manual something like 5% of cars sold are manuals, and there are some funny rules about what happens if you don't meet emissions and the transmissions allowed in the US. I know Toyota wasn't allowed to sell the twin-turbo Supra with a manual (why they sold any is still amazing to me), for a year or so (around 1996) becasse of emmisions rules. These rules are also why the Lexus SC400 never got a manual option.
I'd be worried that the people most interested in their cars are the most knowledgable drivers and would know what they were worth, and want some pretty good deals.
Actually most of it is because GM got a bunch of people to take early retirement, and now the have better variable production costs (they have fewer worker hours per car) but much higher fixed (retired pensioners) so they are spending heavily on new designs and promotions to raise their sales. Ford and Chrysler will be trying to do the same thing when they get to their next big round of negotiations with the unions. All the US auto companies are basically banks that happen to make cars, I don't think any of them are making money on autos now. Oh and the new caddy look has really grown on me, love to see the 16 (even if it's just a 10 or 12 cylendar) actually make it to the showroom.
Execs come from Visteon, and AK Steel, I think they mentioned investments from Dana and others, those are some of the big names. They also have some pretty solid investment backers (CalPERS). Now that is certainly not everything (look at Newysis the Hammer server design company that had all the IBM execs and other big names and was finally sold to Sanmina) but it is a good start.
My amex card posts my charges since the prior statement that is only delayed by about the same number of days as my banks online recognition of charges (0-3 depending on the company and the location).
Standard Oil's offshoots have survived to this day and are doing just fine after the government breakup. Enron died for one reason, they were a bank, and at once everyone they did business with stopped accepting their credit, which triggered a liquidity crisis, and almost all of their bets were fundamentally backed by the company maintaining a stock that kept going up. Once it began to fall, it became a vicious cycle (Triggering new issuances, which led to a lower stock price, which triggered more issuances...)
I was measuring revenues and market cap, I didn't look at customer counts, which might make SBC larger. I was agreeing with your point that they were each much bigger than the music companies I hadn't seen that table thanks, thought the music business got more revenue (and roughly breaks even giving it market value of probably no more than sales) than that, but together the two RBOCs generate about that amount ($12 billion) in annual profits.
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We already have that online caste system, if a rich kid want's to pay an employee to play the game and collect the items or level up the character, this would be a legal (but strange) transaction. I'm suddenly imagining the scene in Willy Wonka where all the nut sheller's are opening candybars clicking like mad trying to find the right full platemail.
Up here in Helena we passed a law banning smoking in any public building, including bars. It was pretty nice to pop in to any bar and get a drink without any sort of crowd, but the bar owners hated it. I remember one place that was packed had three groups of people playing pool and two people went to the bar for a drink on a Friday at 10:30. Considering that we already had two bars that were smoke free before the law, (microbrew resturant pubs) you would think that those who didn't want to be exposed to second hand smoke would just go to one of those places. Happily somewhere along the line it was reversed by the courts or the state.
I was about ready to start a private smoking club that happened to sell drinks. Members only, but membership would cost $40 bucks and come with two cartons of your brand.
Pearls is one of the funniest new comics out there. That little rat is hilarious.
This morning officials from NetBSD has announced a port for the emulated AS/400 on PS2 hardware.
When Mickey was created copyright law gave its creator their life plus 50 years?. When this time was approaching for Mickey, Disney pushed through the Sony Bono Copyright Extention Act which changed it to life plus 85 years. (I could well have hosed the additional length, but it increased). It is mostly about a social contract by which society agrees that content creators should reciceve protection for their ideas, for a limited period of time, but at the end of that time period they should no longer be protected and everyone should benefit from those ideas. It is less important with Mickey since he is a trademark and would still be protected, but there is a ton of content that should have entered the public domain but didn't and isn't really valuable enough for a business to sell. Think of all the old silent movies, jazz, and ragtime recordings, that could well have been reused in new content if it were public domain, but wont be now. It isn't critical in the same sense that people will die, but it is critical in the sense that all of us (society) are being ripped off by these companies by extending copyright terms.
Sun is only in trouble in the sense that their business is valued at about 2 times their $5.5 billion horde and for the past year or two their business has not indicated that it should be worth the extra $5 billion. I don't think anyone has been saying they will be bankrupt anytime soon. Think of it as a friendly warning that people might be overpaying for that older Lexus, the car will probably run really well for the better part of a decade, but it's not worth $20,000.
He's correct, while the short ratio is very low, the stock is mostly owned by insiders (42% or so) who are not going to loan their shares to shorts. Institutions only own about 2% or 3% of the stock. Most retail investors don't even know how to allow their shares to be loaned. For those that do it can be a nice little kicker, if their broker pays them to do it. IIRC the online brokers loan the shares and keep the proceeds, as a cost cutting measure.
The only possible way I can see how shorting a stock could enrich corporate leaders who are long would be a massive short squeeze, wouldn't that be rich. We purchased this bankrupt company, engineered this lawsuit just so that in the end we could create a short squeeze on all the people who shorted our stock after the first run up in price. I don't think the owners are quite smart enough to think that one up.
It's pretty easy, you would need a few thousand dollars in a brokerage account and decent credit. In SCO's case, the difficult part is finding people who are willing to loan their shares for short sellers. Most of the stock is owned by insiders who are pretty unlikely to loan their shares. Institutions, who are very likely to loan shares, only own a few percent of the stock. If there is a line to short the stock, then you would have to be an important enough client of your broker's company that they would allocate some to you (Think important enough to get IPO stock in 1999/2000). It might have picked up enough that options are now traded on SCO, puts would be another way to get that same short exposure, at the risk of losing your premium (investment) if your guess on timing is not right.
Since today is Tuesday they are not evil, but will return to being evil tomorrow, they will be good again on Friday.* They are considered evil for their pushing through the legislature a bill that tacked several years to the current copyright length so Mickey (is it actually Mortimer?) won't enter the public domain. The supreme court allowed the extention under the arguement that the constitiution requires that copyrights be time limited, but there was no prevention to the time limit changing.
*On rare weeks the studios are good on Thursdays or even occasionally Wednesdays.
A shared set of beliefs and stronger sense of belonging. It is a well known fact that communism works quite well as long as the members feel a strong enough sense of belonging to the group, if they don't you have too many incentives to enrich yourself at the expense of the group.
Slang for a unit of currency, in his case pounds, in my case dollars, in your case possibly something else.
I know I saw a report that showed that music sales in college towns were down significantly in 1999 bucking the national trend. I know the effects of sharing are more complex than the RIAA or the file sharers would have us to believe, but I do thing the overall effect is slightly negative, although I would put it as a much smaller factor than things like the end of the vinyl repurchase cycle.
Of course this works the other way too, it always takes my about 10 good equation entries before I can get the hang of standard entry. I think that the preference of engineers toward HPs is changing. With TI ruling the high schools and most of the stuff that HP did better being done on computers at college, it was pretty rare to find another HP user at my engineering school.
I don't understand why the calc division stayed with HP, who shuttered development of new calcs for a few years shortly after Agilent was spun off. I'll agree with you on build quality, their old stuff could stand up to a tank. I have an old HP workstation, that was built of thicker sheet metal than my car.
I think I saw a big V8 that was slated to go in one, too. Personally, I'm hoping we get an Acura TSX type R.
It was a present, and looks a lot like the one in the other reply. I think you would have pretty good luck looking around the cash register at a hardware store, especially around the holidays. If you can't find one, you could make one with a 1/4" nut driver or small ratchet, you could magnitize it yourself and several bits in a small case.
Most colleges and universities will let those from the community "audit" a class for a very reduced rate, my college charged like 60 bucks a class, you didn't get a grade, but you could attend all the classes, and tests were optional, at the discression of the professor. If you can spare the time, it's probably going to be much more useful to hear the lectures than just reading a text.
I have this 6 socket nut driver that I pretty much always take with me, it comes with a large and small phillips, flat, and Torx bits, and has a little magnet in the middle that extends to grab those little fiddly screws that I always seem to drop in between to PCI cards. It has lights but I've never put batteries in it.
I think part of the problem is that most drivers don't want a manual something like 5% of cars sold are manuals, and there are some funny rules about what happens if you don't meet emissions and the transmissions allowed in the US. I know Toyota wasn't allowed to sell the twin-turbo Supra with a manual (why they sold any is still amazing to me), for a year or so (around 1996) becasse of emmisions rules. These rules are also why the Lexus SC400 never got a manual option.
I'd be worried that the people most interested in their cars are the most knowledgable drivers and would know what they were worth, and want some pretty good deals.
Actually most of it is because GM got a bunch of people to take early retirement, and now the have better variable production costs (they have fewer worker hours per car) but much higher fixed (retired pensioners) so they are spending heavily on new designs and promotions to raise their sales. Ford and Chrysler will be trying to do the same thing when they get to their next big round of negotiations with the unions. All the US auto companies are basically banks that happen to make cars, I don't think any of them are making money on autos now. Oh and the new caddy look has really grown on me, love to see the 16 (even if it's just a 10 or 12 cylendar) actually make it to the showroom.
Execs come from Visteon, and AK Steel, I think they mentioned investments from Dana and others, those are some of the big names. They also have some pretty solid investment backers (CalPERS). Now that is certainly not everything (look at Newysis the Hammer server design company that had all the IBM execs and other big names and was finally sold to Sanmina) but it is a good start.
My amex card posts my charges since the prior statement that is only delayed by about the same number of days as my banks online recognition of charges (0-3 depending on the company and the location).
Standard Oil's offshoots have survived to this day and are doing just fine after the government breakup. Enron died for one reason, they were a bank, and at once everyone they did business with stopped accepting their credit, which triggered a liquidity crisis, and almost all of their bets were fundamentally backed by the company maintaining a stock that kept going up. Once it began to fall, it became a vicious cycle (Triggering new issuances, which led to a lower stock price, which triggered more issuances...)
I was measuring revenues and market cap, I didn't look at customer counts, which might make SBC larger. I was agreeing with your point that they were each much bigger than the music companies I hadn't seen that table thanks, thought the music business got more revenue (and roughly breaks even giving it market value of probably no more than sales) than that, but together the two RBOCs generate about that amount ($12 billion) in annual profits.