That is a pretty common interpretation of Biblical prophecy, since the passage I believe you are refering to speaks of weeks, which at the time in the Hebrew language, could have refered to groups of seven anything, days, months, years. There are all sorts of interpretations of that passage of scripture, the modern pentecostal view is that there are 69 weeks (of years), which have passed ending with the first Palm Sunday, and ushered in the church age, which is of indeterminate length, which will be capped by the 50th week (of 7 years) or the Great Tribulation, and that the 1290 days (about 3.5 years) refers to the days in the first and second halves of the Tribulation, which are explained in great detail in the Revelation of John. The founder of the Jehovah's Whitnesses had an interpretation that called for the Rapture to occur in 1840 or 1841, I believe, it just depends on how you set your start date.
Sorta, the band's money comes from the bar, and the bar's money comes from covers and alcohol sales. Most of the money does come from alcohol sales. Bar owners know that too high a cover will keep too many people out, and that their customers are more likely to stay and drink more, increaseing earnings if they paid a resonable cover to see a good band. Think about the price of drinks and the cover charge at any clubs around you, vs. the price of a concert for the same band.
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I don't know for sure about the Pilot or the minivans, or any Japan only models, but I think that is a pretty save assumption, since their sports cars do not.
The current speculation is that the next generation of the NSX will be a hybrid. It won't be the 2003, still to heavy, perhaps by '06 or so.
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I think the hybrids come with a tax credit, meaning that you get to reduce your tax bill by $2000, not just take it off your income only worth about 1/3 of the stated value, assuming a 33% marginal rate.
I think the increasing size of cars has more to do with the exceedingly low price of gas, adjusted for inflation of course, than fleet fuel efficiency standards. Detroit has been selling their smaller fuel efficient cars at a loss in order to lower their overall average, so they can sell bigger cars at more of a profit. If it makes you feel better, everyone who drives one of those monsters, is subsidizing those who choose to drive Metro/Fiesta and other American companies' smaller cars.
I think the Canyonero is Rush's parody of SUV sizes, he is trying to mock the people who think we should have strict standards on fuel efficiency.
While RPN has been lodged in my brain over the past several years, I have to say that even more useful is the HP graphing series stacks. I can leave stuff up there to check my entry or use it to store several subtotals for later calcs, I'm sure that there are TI's that have stacks, but the HPs was the one that got me first.
I think its the end of the huge oversupply that came about a year or two ago. There were warehouses full of them in 2001 I think. I don't remember why they were in such large supply, but there was a story here about it at the time. They were predicting that prices would increase last year, but it looks like it took a little longer to bleed through the supply.
I consider myself to be pretty Libertarian, after economics where it was basically drummed into the ole noggin, and the only change I would make is that the government should pay for the lines. I dislike nationalizing anything, and they're all especially cheap now, the whole thing would cost less than $400 billion including debt repayment, or about $300 billion if you just transfer the debt to the assets. I would guess that it could be paid for in a few short years, and everyone would get telecom service like they get LD service today. Oddly enough, my supervisor is quite liberal, and he didn't like the idea, since it wouldn't promote investment in newer technologies well enough. Talk about role reversal. There are a ton of co-op phone companies in the rural regions of the West, the geeks should get together and buy one and then have high speed nirvana.
Its actually cable companies that benefit more from this that phone companies, cable was given a boon in the early eighties to encourage development so they rent power poles for about 1/4 of what the telephone companies or other potential users pay.
They do run it on the same line, its just that under the prior regulatory scheme, Covad could resell just the high frequency portion (DSL) of the line, and you could pick someone else to resell the low frequency portion (voice) of the line. The government just changed the rules, now you have to resell the whole line. It was a bone thrown to the Bells since their first desire no reselling of lines period was not chosen. If you live by government fiat, you die by government fiat.
Could Covad work to provide a bundled solution with MCI AT&T or Sprint? Or do their current plans also provide for DSL equiped bundles.
You aren't granted a natural monopoly, it just exists in some markets. Cable companies are granted a franchise, which is an exchange between an area and the cable company to lay lines to a large proportion of houses in exchange for being the only cable company allowed. Without this, there would be ten cable competitors for the central city area, and none in the burbs, because the more dense your customers are the less costly the infastructure. I think cable break even is something like 15-20 homes per mile, but that could be subs per mile. Back in the day, AT&T was granted something similar to this with regulated universal service traded for an exemption to anti-trust laws. The breakup occured when MCI and Sprint tried some pretty creative means to sell long distance services to businesses, who were paying dearly for their phone service under the regulatory scheme. One of them finally sued, and prior to the decision, AT&T settled with the government. Since they got to help write the settlement, it is odd that they kept the long distance part and computers, and gave a way the parts of the business that gave them any market power, and still hold most of the value in US telecomunications.
Two were pro degreg, two were pro reg, one was the fence sitter, who was slightly pro degreg, and the pro reg forces did enough giveaways to get the fence sitter to join them on consumer voice line switching, which is what the money in the whole decision was riding on. AT&T and MCI are eating SBC and Verizon's lunch in very densly populated areas with consumer switching. The LD companies aren't making money yet, due to marketing expenses, but the bells are losing a few million customers a year.
He was wispering in their ear enough to get them to abandon their newly developed airplane. However when the Wright brothers showed up an hour later, he had gone home.
Because it sort of works. The way these scams work is that the promoter sends a ticker of a small thinly traded stock (a stock that has a market capitalization, of less than say $5 million, and a to a large number of people, 1% of whom then might watch it, what they will see is an move upward, perhaps 25% from something on the order of $0.40 to $0.50, after seeing this pattern several times, the mark becomes convinced and invests a little money.
The scamster, holds a position in the stock which was built slowly, and it is sold as all the marks buy, at the new higher prices. Following the flurry of buying, the price works its way below the original $0.40, as everyone else sells out of the stock.
There are many similar scams out there, the holder could own the company through shell organizations, but most manipulation scams follow something similar to the above description.
The SEC. They rarely take a case to trial, unless it is extremely gratuitous. They usually settle with the defendant, for the profits, or a healthy chunk of them, and being barred from the securities industry for a period, I think in that guy's case it was like 5 years.
My point was that it is rare for a business to fail because of underspending. Many.coms could have been profitable, shipping 50 lb bags of dog food excluded, if they had not tried to get every eye on the internet in their first six months as a company. In most cases, it was their rush to get big so quickly that killed them.
Cash flow kills many a profitable company, profitable small businesses fail regularly becuase they don't realize how a cash cycle works, and why too much growth can be bad.
In this case, you have a company that knowing that it wasn't planning to offer much more than test models for the first year, remember when Amazon was one of the few companies allowed to test any, built capacity for thousands of sales in a week.
I picked Google, because unlike the other search engines, it didn't try to grow its userbase with expensive advertising, it just grew slowly through word of mouth, and is currently profitable, unlike just about every other search engine. Excite and AltaVista benefited from the same scalability as Google, but neither is anywhere near its former glory.
And with things like contract manufacturing getting new production on line takes less time than it used to, it is not instant, but as an example I think Microsoft went from first idea to production of the X-Box in less than one year.
Besides, keeping his products exclusive probably would do wonders for his brand name and pricing ability, and is a much better error state than sitting on 90% underutilized capacity.
Its funny, if he hadn't had such high expectations, he could have a small but profitable and growing company, it sounded like he had orders for 10 per week or 520 per year, if he had not leased a 70,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility, and planned to revolutionize the world selling thousands a week, which increased his fixed costs, and the numbers he needed to sell to be profitable, this would be a completely different story. Google did it right, grow at a sustainable rate, and do not try to get too big too fast.
Howler monkeys scream like banshees. You can hear them from their small cage most of the way across the Seattle Zoo. Other monkeys' noises sort of pale in comparison.
It seems like Boiler Room was a pretty accurate depiction of the some of the finance people I have met, while I don't work in retail brokerage, and that was not a common retail brokerage, it captured the feeling of greed that permeates almost all financial businesses that I have seen. I also liked how the kid was enterprising enough to have his own illegal casino in his college apartment. I am pretty sure that if you really wanted you could have many similar experiences to what were in that movie.
They have also survived under several owners to today, Cyrix cores, or one that they bought, I think IDT might be a bigger part of it are the basis for VIA's C3 and Eden low power chips. They aren't that fast, but only use about 10 W or less, and make a nice platform for silent computing.
Like you i got the NES in 89 and had the power pad, I enjoyed it quite a bit, even thought i only had the racing game that it came with. One of the more entertaining activities was getting the little guy to run 4 second 100 yd dashes by pounding madly on the pads with your hands. Never did find that obstacle course game. I think mine still works, its great for entertaining little kids, just make sure that you move the bigger kids back a little when they race, and they will waste all their energy running on that, then they are too tired to cause trouble around your house.
Yes, the new owners do expect to have a say in the running of the company. The problem is that for a very long period of time, at least the past decade, public owners have been overpaying for a stake in a company especially technology companies, so more companies have been filling the gap. It is my hypothesis that as more stock scandals and poor earnings reports drive the prices of public companies down, you will see more companies taken private again. Finally, just so you know the company doesn't lose or gain anything if the stock price moves up or down, owners of stock or options do. It may become more difficult to retain employees kept using options, or it could impact the company's investment portfolio, but that is about it.
I like surfing with little wait time
It's not much more expensive than a second phone line and dialup ISP
Some people get or got free cable
Low lag times for gaming
I like to grab the occasional trailer without a three hour wait
Enjoy the free ride while it lasts, but realize that you are getting a free ride and that it won't last forever. People who saturate a line cost their provider quite a bit more than their $50 per month, even running at 50% of a 1 mbps costs your ISP about $100 per month in bandwidth, and after Qwest gets their cut, my ISP only gets $20 of my $50. The company cannot stay in business indefinatly when they generate $20 in revenue for customers who use $100 or more in services.
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That is a pretty common interpretation of Biblical prophecy, since the passage I believe you are refering to speaks of weeks, which at the time in the Hebrew language, could have refered to groups of seven anything, days, months, years. There are all sorts of interpretations of that passage of scripture, the modern pentecostal view is that there are 69 weeks (of years), which have passed ending with the first Palm Sunday, and ushered in the church age, which is of indeterminate length, which will be capped by the 50th week (of 7 years) or the Great Tribulation, and that the 1290 days (about 3.5 years) refers to the days in the first and second halves of the Tribulation, which are explained in great detail in the Revelation of John. The founder of the Jehovah's Whitnesses had an interpretation that called for the Rapture to occur in 1840 or 1841, I believe, it just depends on how you set your start date.
Sorta, the band's money comes from the bar, and the bar's money comes from covers and alcohol sales. Most of the money does come from alcohol sales. Bar owners know that too high a cover will keep too many people out, and that their customers are more likely to stay and drink more, increaseing earnings if they paid a resonable cover to see a good band. Think about the price of drinks and the cover charge at any clubs around you, vs. the price of a concert for the same band.
I don't know for sure about the Pilot or the minivans, or any Japan only models, but I think that is a pretty save assumption, since their sports cars do not.
The current speculation is that the next generation of the NSX will be a hybrid. It won't be the 2003, still to heavy, perhaps by '06 or so.
I think the hybrids come with a tax credit, meaning that you get to reduce your tax bill by $2000, not just take it off your income only worth about 1/3 of the stated value, assuming a 33% marginal rate.
I think the increasing size of cars has more to do with the exceedingly low price of gas, adjusted for inflation of course, than fleet fuel efficiency standards. Detroit has been selling their smaller fuel efficient cars at a loss in order to lower their overall average, so they can sell bigger cars at more of a profit. If it makes you feel better, everyone who drives one of those monsters, is subsidizing those who choose to drive Metro/Fiesta and other American companies' smaller cars.
I think the Canyonero is Rush's parody of SUV sizes, he is trying to mock the people who think we should have strict standards on fuel efficiency.
While RPN has been lodged in my brain over the past several years, I have to say that even more useful is the HP graphing series stacks. I can leave stuff up there to check my entry or use it to store several subtotals for later calcs, I'm sure that there are TI's that have stacks, but the HPs was the one that got me first.
I think its the end of the huge oversupply that came about a year or two ago. There were warehouses full of them in 2001 I think. I don't remember why they were in such large supply, but there was a story here about it at the time. They were predicting that prices would increase last year, but it looks like it took a little longer to bleed through the supply.
I consider myself to be pretty Libertarian, after economics where it was basically drummed into the ole noggin, and the only change I would make is that the government should pay for the lines. I dislike nationalizing anything, and they're all especially cheap now, the whole thing would cost less than $400 billion including debt repayment, or about $300 billion if you just transfer the debt to the assets. I would guess that it could be paid for in a few short years, and everyone would get telecom service like they get LD service today. Oddly enough, my supervisor is quite liberal, and he didn't like the idea, since it wouldn't promote investment in newer technologies well enough. Talk about role reversal. There are a ton of co-op phone companies in the rural regions of the West, the geeks should get together and buy one and then have high speed nirvana.
Its actually cable companies that benefit more from this that phone companies, cable was given a boon in the early eighties to encourage development so they rent power poles for about 1/4 of what the telephone companies or other potential users pay.
They do run it on the same line, its just that under the prior regulatory scheme, Covad could resell just the high frequency portion (DSL) of the line, and you could pick someone else to resell the low frequency portion (voice) of the line. The government just changed the rules, now you have to resell the whole line. It was a bone thrown to the Bells since their first desire no reselling of lines period was not chosen. If you live by government fiat, you die by government fiat.
Could Covad work to provide a bundled solution with MCI AT&T or Sprint? Or do their current plans also provide for DSL equiped bundles.
You aren't granted a natural monopoly, it just exists in some markets. Cable companies are granted a franchise, which is an exchange between an area and the cable company to lay lines to a large proportion of houses in exchange for being the only cable company allowed. Without this, there would be ten cable competitors for the central city area, and none in the burbs, because the more dense your customers are the less costly the infastructure. I think cable break even is something like 15-20 homes per mile, but that could be subs per mile. Back in the day, AT&T was granted something similar to this with regulated universal service traded for an exemption to anti-trust laws. The breakup occured when MCI and Sprint tried some pretty creative means to sell long distance services to businesses, who were paying dearly for their phone service under the regulatory scheme. One of them finally sued, and prior to the decision, AT&T settled with the government. Since they got to help write the settlement, it is odd that they kept the long distance part and computers, and gave a way the parts of the business that gave them any market power, and still hold most of the value in US telecomunications.
Two were pro degreg, two were pro reg, one was the fence sitter, who was slightly pro degreg, and the pro reg forces did enough giveaways to get the fence sitter to join them on consumer voice line switching, which is what the money in the whole decision was riding on.
AT&T and MCI are eating SBC and Verizon's lunch in very densly populated areas with consumer switching. The LD companies aren't making money yet, due to marketing expenses, but the bells are losing a few million customers a year.
He was wispering in their ear enough to get them to abandon their newly developed airplane. However when the Wright brothers showed up an hour later, he had gone home.
Because it sort of works. The way these scams work is that the promoter sends a ticker of a small thinly traded stock (a stock that has a market capitalization, of less than say $5 million, and a to a large number of people, 1% of whom then might watch it, what they will see is an move upward, perhaps 25% from something on the order of $0.40 to $0.50, after seeing this pattern several times, the mark becomes convinced and invests a little money.
The scamster, holds a position in the stock which was built slowly, and it is sold as all the marks buy, at the new higher prices. Following the flurry of buying, the price works its way below the original $0.40, as everyone else sells out of the stock.
There are many similar scams out there, the holder could own the company through shell organizations, but most manipulation scams follow something similar to the above description.
The SEC. They rarely take a case to trial, unless it is extremely gratuitous. They usually settle with the defendant, for the profits, or a healthy chunk of them, and being barred from the securities industry for a period, I think in that guy's case it was like 5 years.
My point was that it is rare for a business to fail because of underspending. Many .coms could have been profitable, shipping 50 lb bags of dog food excluded, if they had not tried to get every eye on the internet in their first six months as a company. In most cases, it was their rush to get big so quickly that killed them.
Cash flow kills many a profitable company, profitable small businesses fail regularly becuase they don't realize how a cash cycle works, and why too much growth can be bad.
In this case, you have a company that knowing that it wasn't planning to offer much more than test models for the first year, remember when Amazon was one of the few companies allowed to test any, built capacity for thousands of sales in a week.
I picked Google, because unlike the other search engines, it didn't try to grow its userbase with expensive advertising, it just grew slowly through word of mouth, and is currently profitable, unlike just about every other search engine. Excite and AltaVista benefited from the same scalability as Google, but neither is anywhere near its former glory.
And with things like contract manufacturing getting new production on line takes less time than it used to, it is not instant, but as an example I think Microsoft went from first idea to production of the X-Box in less than one year.
Besides, keeping his products exclusive probably would do wonders for his brand name and pricing ability, and is a much better error state than sitting on 90% underutilized capacity.
Its funny, if he hadn't had such high expectations, he could have a small but profitable and growing company, it sounded like he had orders for 10 per week or 520 per year, if he had not leased a 70,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility, and planned to revolutionize the world selling thousands a week, which increased his fixed costs, and the numbers he needed to sell to be profitable, this would be a completely different story. Google did it right, grow at a sustainable rate, and do not try to get too big too fast.
Howler monkeys scream like banshees. You can hear them from their small cage most of the way across the Seattle Zoo. Other monkeys' noises sort of pale in comparison.
It seems like Boiler Room was a pretty accurate depiction of the some of the finance people I have met, while I don't work in retail brokerage, and that was not a common retail brokerage, it captured the feeling of greed that permeates almost all financial businesses that I have seen. I also liked how the kid was enterprising enough to have his own illegal casino in his college apartment. I am pretty sure that if you really wanted you could have many similar experiences to what were in that movie.
They have also survived under several owners to today, Cyrix cores, or one that they bought, I think IDT might be a bigger part of it are the basis for VIA's C3 and Eden low power chips. They aren't that fast, but only use about 10 W or less, and make a nice platform for silent computing.
You might try worming her, its rare for cats, or any other animal, to eat that much and not put on weight, unless it is very active.
Like you i got the NES in 89 and had the power pad, I enjoyed it quite a bit, even thought i only had the racing game that it came with. One of the more entertaining activities was getting the little guy to run 4 second 100 yd dashes by pounding madly on the pads with your hands. Never did find that obstacle course game. I think mine still works, its great for entertaining little kids, just make sure that you move the bigger kids back a little when they race, and they will waste all their energy running on that, then they are too tired to cause trouble around your house.
Yes, the new owners do expect to have a say in the running of the company. The problem is that for a very long period of time, at least the past decade, public owners have been overpaying for a stake in a company especially technology companies, so more companies have been filling the gap. It is my hypothesis that as more stock scandals and poor earnings reports drive the prices of public companies down, you will see more companies taken private again. Finally, just so you know the company doesn't lose or gain anything if the stock price moves up or down, owners of stock or options do. It may become more difficult to retain employees kept using options, or it could impact the company's investment portfolio, but that is about it.
I like surfing with little wait time
It's not much more expensive than a second phone line and dialup ISP
Some people get or got free cable
Low lag times for gaming
I like to grab the occasional trailer without a three hour wait
Enjoy the free ride while it lasts, but realize that you are getting a free ride and that it won't last forever. People who saturate a line cost their provider quite a bit more than their $50 per month, even running at 50% of a 1 mbps costs your ISP about $100 per month in bandwidth, and after Qwest gets their cut, my ISP only gets $20 of my $50. The company cannot stay in business indefinatly when they generate $20 in revenue for customers who use $100 or more in services.