Do you also have federal, state, and local income taxes, social security taxes, medicare taxes, payroll taxes, $14K/year property taxes for a modest 3 bedroom home, estate taxes, and capital gains taxes?
Why are you bitching about estate and capital gains taxes? Estate taxes don't affect you - the rich generally don't post to slashdot - and capital gains are a lower rate tax that replaces income tax. Anyway, if Chicago sucks so much (mostly due the morons in charge, I suppose), come to Seattle, where the total tax rate is much lower.
But I seriously doubt that the acquisition offer began with Ballmer and the other top dogs saying "let's screw with yahoo's mind, because we can, and by our machinations we could actually get yahoo to disintegrate and we'll snap up 5% of the online ad revenue market in the process".
Well why not? They can work out that yahoo will probably not go for the bait and that this will affect their ability to function. If they balk, use the instability to poach some talent (and don't spend the $44B). If they go for it, you've bought some of your competition, perhaps at a premium, but you now have a big chunk of the market. If it's low probability and you can take the hit, then go for it.
Yahoo's been losing market share so maintaining parity isn't a given. Yahoo's brand is stronger than MSN/Windows Live, but nowhere close to Google. And Yahoo has been on the decline. But the synergies can actually be made to work in this case.
This tends to validate my position - Yahoo says yes and you get your money back in a few years (if you do the right things), Yahoo says no and you get to maybe grab some senior guy who's pissed off his stock didn't spike.
Handling Yahoo's brand correctly and delicately is the part MS is most likely to fuck up. But they themselves must surely be aware that they are woefully bad in this department, and yahoo is light-years ahead of them, so it makes sense that they would defer to Yahoo and let them lead the way in this area (otherwise what's the point of this acquisition).
Well, they've been buying ad sellers - perhaps they're trying to do the old 'buy the market and squeeze out your competitor' thing they did in the 90s. Dunno if it'll work this time.
Bottom line: to suggest that the offer was nothing but a poker bluff intended to mentally disintegrate yahoo and magically pick up 5% when this happens is just nuts! It's a gross oversimplification, and puts too much stock in the "ms always has malicious intent" line of thought.
Not a bluff, but definitely poker. If you can exploit both possible responses, then it's a reasonable thing to try.
No, a 44B offer is absolutely a poker bet. Just because the numbers are big doesn't mean that the rules change. Poker is about psychology, and that doesn't vary with the stakes.
Nah, just have to get your iris on a random picture that you didn't take. Of course, this all depends on how it's being done - I kind of doubt this will be a big driver of extortion.
Most people who use canon stuff also have photoshop or something like it - should be interesting to see how the watermark fares after the image is processed. Likewise, it'll be interesting to see how the watermark affects the actual image.
You could argue that the monetary policies at the time worsened the great depression. You could also argue that the depression led to the creation of the theories that said we did the wrong thing then; hopefully that's the case, because I wouldn't want to go through something like that.
The point of studying the alternate methods of ethanol production is that they might actually be energy positive. It's not a bad idea to try and grow our oil, but it requies a process that works and can fill our demands without making food massively expensive.
That's a bit easier when you're starting from massive unemployment and still have the infrastucture mostly intact - employ half the unemployed and you get 12% growth from that (probably spread over 2 years). Try that trick in today's economy, where we don't have a massive hole to dig out of and it's harder. I'm sure the growth in postwar japan and germany was pretty decent, and they got bombed to hell.
Once 64bit has been common in the business workplace for a few years, Spreadsheets will burst in size. There are large companies who are frustrated because their spreadsheet are limited by a limitation built into them bacause of the memory addressing space issue.
There's this thing called a database - anything big enough to care about the 4G limit should be in one.
If it won't take an edge, then it isn't a katana. If it is a katana, then you grind the edge to sharpen it. It appears that any decent katana would be best served by professional sharpening, although they're still going to grind it.
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Do you also have federal, state, and local income taxes, social security taxes, medicare taxes, payroll taxes, $14K/year property taxes for a modest 3 bedroom home, estate taxes, and capital gains taxes?
Why are you bitching about estate and capital gains taxes? Estate taxes don't affect you - the rich generally don't post to slashdot - and capital gains are a lower rate tax that replaces income tax. Anyway, if Chicago sucks so much (mostly due the morons in charge, I suppose), come to Seattle, where the total tax rate is much lower.
That's got nothing to do with the NSA. The problem with them is that they sat on their problem for 9 years without doing anything.
But I seriously doubt that the acquisition offer began with Ballmer and the other top dogs saying "let's screw with yahoo's mind, because we can, and by our machinations we could actually get yahoo to disintegrate and we'll snap up 5% of the online ad revenue market in the process".
Well why not? They can work out that yahoo will probably not go for the bait and that this will affect their ability to function. If they balk, use the instability to poach some talent (and don't spend the $44B). If they go for it, you've bought some of your competition, perhaps at a premium, but you now have a big chunk of the market. If it's low probability and you can take the hit, then go for it.
Yahoo's been losing market share so maintaining parity isn't a given. Yahoo's brand is stronger than MSN/Windows Live, but nowhere close to Google. And Yahoo has been on the decline. But the synergies can actually be made to work in this case.
This tends to validate my position - Yahoo says yes and you get your money back in a few years (if you do the right things), Yahoo says no and you get to maybe grab some senior guy who's pissed off his stock didn't spike.
Handling Yahoo's brand correctly and delicately is the part MS is most likely to fuck up. But they themselves must surely be aware that they are woefully bad in this department, and yahoo is light-years ahead of them, so it makes sense that they would defer to Yahoo and let them lead the way in this area (otherwise what's the point of this acquisition).
Well, they've been buying ad sellers - perhaps they're trying to do the old 'buy the market and squeeze out your competitor' thing they did in the 90s. Dunno if it'll work this time.
Bottom line: to suggest that the offer was nothing but a poker bluff intended to mentally disintegrate yahoo and magically pick up 5% when this happens is just nuts! It's a gross oversimplification, and puts too much stock in the "ms always has malicious intent" line of thought.
Not a bluff, but definitely poker. If you can exploit both possible responses, then it's a reasonable thing to try.
No, a 44B offer is absolutely a poker bet. Just because the numbers are big doesn't mean that the rules change. Poker is about psychology, and that doesn't vary with the stakes.
Yeah right, like crappy cell phone speakers can produce ultrasonic sounds.
I'm sure you know this already, but the beatles aren't representative of most bands.
What if they don't want to tour
Snhouldn't have signed to a label. The point here is that bands don't get the royalties they deserve from their labels.
Nah, just have to get your iris on a random picture that you didn't take. Of course, this all depends on how it's being done - I kind of doubt this will be a big driver of extortion.
Most people who use canon stuff also have photoshop or something like it - should be interesting to see how the watermark fares after the image is processed. Likewise, it'll be interesting to see how the watermark affects the actual image.
Yeah, if you can do that, then I can do that. Report the extortion attempt and get on with your life.
And when you remove the content, you revoke those rights, so they can't distribute them anymore.
You could argue that the monetary policies at the time worsened the great depression. You could also argue that the depression led to the creation of the theories that said we did the wrong thing then; hopefully that's the case, because I wouldn't want to go through something like that.
The point of studying the alternate methods of ethanol production is that they might actually be energy positive. It's not a bad idea to try and grow our oil, but it requies a process that works and can fill our demands without making food massively expensive.
We can always use nuke plants (until we figure out fusion). Get some decent train infrastructure and see what that does to our oil usage.
That's a bit easier when you're starting from massive unemployment and still have the infrastucture mostly intact - employ half the unemployed and you get 12% growth from that (probably spread over 2 years). Try that trick in today's economy, where we don't have a massive hole to dig out of and it's harder. I'm sure the growth in postwar japan and germany was pretty decent, and they got bombed to hell.
if I were pissed off at a department in my town, I could just stroll in and request everything. Flood them with requests for information
I'd just throw it on a computer and tell you to knock yourself out.
Once 64bit has been common in the business workplace for a few years, Spreadsheets will burst in size. There are large companies who are frustrated because their spreadsheet are limited by a limitation built into them bacause of the memory addressing space issue.
There's this thing called a database - anything big enough to care about the 4G limit should be in one.
Could Marconi have invented the radio if he hadn't by pure chance spent years working at the problem?
I guess we'll never know, because he didn't, in fact, invent the radio.
Heh, you're mocking Gore for funding the internet as we know it, on the internet. That takes balls.
Or your map is incomplete. I would expect Sweden to have some undersea cables to the mainland.
Especially given NYC's recent history of being a prime target for terrorism,
You planning to fly a plane into an undersea cable?
You can put anything you like up as boilerplate. Doesn't mean it's true.
No they don't. They can't charge for superbowl parties, and they have to pay ASCAP fees if they have music.
What lawful charge? The most the NFL can do is sue.
If it won't take an edge, then it isn't a katana. If it is a katana, then you grind the edge to sharpen it. It appears that any decent katana would be best served by professional sharpening, although they're still going to grind it.