the market's reaction is not only influenced by a piece of news, but of the piece of news plus the anticipation of it. thus it can for example happen that something quite bad about a certain stock comes out, yet the price goes up since the popular wisdom on it was worse still; conversely, a company can release very very good operating numbers and still get clobbered since expectations were running higher still.
this is not to say that msft will not drop. neither am i saying that it will. i have no basis for either statement. my point is to tell you that it is simplistic to take into account the piece of info by itself.
i live in one of the former "communist" countries and as such would like to contribute a thought.
marxist theory in its analytical part is still just about the best thing around for a general understanding of the capitalist system (don't fret, i'm a professional stockbroker running a sizable portfolio belonging to my family, so no Red! remarks please:)
however, the way it got extended into revolutions was deeply flawed with idiocy, as in bringing the industrial revolution into basically feudal societies which to this day, despite having shaken off *formal* communism, remain feudal - my own country being no exception.
what's my point. it is probably this: do not argue about whether OSS means communism or not before you've cleared up what you mean by "communism". its actual implementations have nothing to do with the context in which the term was created. if anything, the modern industrialized societies (substitutue: USA) are much closer to theoretical communism than the so-called communist countries ever were. and, yes, the open source thing actually is clearly recognizable as one of the stepping stones on the path to communism of early marx.
but, please, if you have not read any Marx, do not go around yelling Red menace. thanks.
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"we all know the drop is coming":
the market's reaction is not only influenced by
a piece of news, but of the piece of news plus
the anticipation of it. thus it can for example
happen that something quite bad about a certain
stock comes out, yet the price goes up since the
popular wisdom on it was worse still; conversely,
a company can release very very good operating
numbers and still get clobbered since expectations
were running higher still.
this is not to say that msft will not drop.
neither am i saying that it will. i have no
basis for either statement. my point is to
tell you that it is simplistic to take into
account the piece of info by itself.
i live in one of the former "communist" countries and as such would like to contribute a thought.
:)
marxist theory in its analytical part is still just about the best thing around for a general understanding of the capitalist system (don't fret, i'm a professional stockbroker running a sizable portfolio belonging to my family, so no Red! remarks please
however, the way it got extended into revolutions was deeply flawed with idiocy, as in bringing the industrial revolution into basically feudal societies which to this day, despite having shaken off *formal* communism, remain feudal - my own country being no exception.
what's my point. it is probably this: do not argue about whether OSS means communism or not before you've cleared up what you mean by "communism". its actual implementations have nothing to do with the context in which the term was created. if anything, the modern industrialized societies (substitutue: USA) are much closer to theoretical communism than the so-called communist countries ever were. and, yes, the open source thing actually is clearly recognizable as one of the stepping stones on the path to communism of early marx.
but, please, if you have not read any Marx, do not go around yelling Red menace. thanks.
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thanks, i needed this laugh.
one has to create internet censorship to win the vote of the independent? what are those guys independent of?
working for someone else is not the only way.