Reuters can go f*k themselves. Our fund keeps our investors informed and happy. Don't like our rules? Or can't live with them because of regulations or judicial interference? Take your money and go home.
No, he does understand the justice system. Its a 'winner take all' contest where the referee's call is final. Each side makes their best effort and a (hopefully unbiased) judge or jury makes a decision. Its nothing like the scientific method.
I say; Go a head and enter the contest if you want. Better yet, go on Dancing With The Stars. The womens' costumes are hotter. Just don't expect the rest of us to take the outcome seriously.
Being involved with some VC myself, one of the things that we value highly is the proprietary nature of our operations. If we advertise our strategies, others will try to get in on the deals. This will drive prices up and dilute the potential return on our investment. In a market where survival means making a 60% return on one out of three startups and seeing the other two go bust, that would kill the VC business.
The alternative (which we practice) is to tell people with a duty to publicly disclose to kindly go f*k themselves when they try to buy in. There's plenty of money around and my heart wouldn't be broken if us wealthy people made 20% returns per year while the teachers union pension makes 0.1%
I can deal with the PHBs, the MBA metric BS, theory X, theory Y, all sorts of management types with no problems. What really gets under my skin is the manager with some sort of side deal going on. They say, "You've got to improve your communications skills". I reply with, "If you've got something to communicate, put it in a memo. E-mail me. Leave a voice mail."
"Insubordination!"
When they want something done, but they can't leave any evidence, things get tense. And its not just in IT, but the opportunities are more abundant when upper management doesn't "get" rapidly changing technology.
There's something to this. Corporations are sitting on huge piles of cash. Fixed income investments aren't paying diddly. Governments have huge outstanding debts and a motivation to inflate their way out.
So buy something. Anything*. As long as there is another sucker^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hinvestor in line to buy the asset for more down the line, you'll do fine. As long as you keep a close eye on the price of tulip bulbs.
*As long as you don't give it back to the owners as a dividend.
Here in the USA, what isn't explicitly regulated by some federal agency (as a result of legislation) and is sold to consumers falls under the jurisdiction of the states consumer protection laws.
If this is the case, Merck can send a cease and desist letter to that woman who copied my genome without permission and is now seeking child support payments.
I have the QuietComfort 15 model and wasn't aware it would through in the PA system audio.
Same model. You just plug them into the passenger entertainment headphone jack. All PA announcements are broadcast over this system and preempt the entertainment audio.
I have a set of Bose noise canceling headphones. These things are great for filtering out cabin noise. In addition, they make the entertainment system and the PA system much easier to hear over the screaming of nearby children.
However, I am required to turn them off during takeoff and landing. Not take them off, but turn their power off. They have a little green LED which gives away their powered status*. So now, I can't hear the PA system and safety instructions. How about allowing the use of these as long as they are plugged into the cabin entertainment system during takeoff and landing?
*I suppose I could just put a piece of electrical tape over the LED.
Back when Netscape ruled the Web and Microsoft still didn't 'get' the Internet, they (Microsoft) had to impersonate a Netscape identity to keep web sites from rejecting it. Looks like we've come full circle.
Slashdot Mirror
In this case, They == Reuters
Reuters can go f*k themselves. Our fund keeps our investors informed and happy. Don't like our rules? Or can't live with them because of regulations or judicial interference? Take your money and go home.
No, he does understand the justice system. Its a 'winner take all' contest where the referee's call is final. Each side makes their best effort and a (hopefully unbiased) judge or jury makes a decision. Its nothing like the scientific method.
I say; Go a head and enter the contest if you want. Better yet, go on Dancing With The Stars. The womens' costumes are hotter. Just don't expect the rest of us to take the outcome seriously.
Being involved with some VC myself, one of the things that we value highly is the proprietary nature of our operations. If we advertise our strategies, others will try to get in on the deals. This will drive prices up and dilute the potential return on our investment. In a market where survival means making a 60% return on one out of three startups and seeing the other two go bust, that would kill the VC business.
The alternative (which we practice) is to tell people with a duty to publicly disclose to kindly go f*k themselves when they try to buy in. There's plenty of money around and my heart wouldn't be broken if us wealthy people made 20% returns per year while the teachers union pension makes 0.1%
Sounds right.
I can deal with the PHBs, the MBA metric BS, theory X, theory Y, all sorts of management types with no problems. What really gets under my skin is the manager with some sort of side deal going on. They say, "You've got to improve your communications skills". I reply with, "If you've got something to communicate, put it in a memo. E-mail me. Leave a voice mail."
"Insubordination!"
When they want something done, but they can't leave any evidence, things get tense. And its not just in IT, but the opportunities are more abundant when upper management doesn't "get" rapidly changing technology.
Sounds about right. Usually we lose the lunch to afternoon coffee break nap.
From now on, I'm using Yahoo! to google things on the Internet.
It has been known for some time that when one wants to commit a crime, one leaves their mobile at home.
start sentencing people to 30 months for first offense drunk driving,
Fine by me. When do we start?
She violated the TOU when she broke the shrink wrap.
There's something to this. Corporations are sitting on huge piles of cash. Fixed income investments aren't paying diddly. Governments have huge outstanding debts and a motivation to inflate their way out.
So buy something. Anything*. As long as there is another sucker^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hinvestor in line to buy the asset for more down the line, you'll do fine. As long as you keep a close eye on the price of tulip bulbs.
*As long as you don't give it back to the owners as a dividend.
Add:
127.0.0.1 slashdot.org
Make us all happy.
Here in the USA, what isn't explicitly regulated by some federal agency (as a result of legislation) and is sold to consumers falls under the jurisdiction of the states consumer protection laws.
So, I'll see them in court. In Texas.
If this is the case, Merck can send a cease and desist letter to that woman who copied my genome without permission and is now seeking child support payments.
It probably was until Google made an issue out of it.
What's the phrase I'm looking for here? .......Like some performer that doesn't want her mansion photographed?
This will help the stoners find your front yard.
These multispectral images are a lot more useful for finding where you stoners are growing your pot.
[Thanks a lot, Nurse Ratched.]
I have the QuietComfort 15 model and wasn't aware it would through in the PA system audio.
Same model. You just plug them into the passenger entertainment headphone jack. All PA announcements are broadcast over this system and preempt the entertainment audio.
I have a set of Bose noise canceling headphones. These things are great for filtering out cabin noise. In addition, they make the entertainment system and the PA system much easier to hear over the screaming of nearby children.
However, I am required to turn them off during takeoff and landing. Not take them off, but turn their power off. They have a little green LED which gives away their powered status*. So now, I can't hear the PA system and safety instructions. How about allowing the use of these as long as they are plugged into the cabin entertainment system during takeoff and landing?
*I suppose I could just put a piece of electrical tape over the LED.
Grammar Nazi!
Back when Netscape ruled the Web and Microsoft still didn't 'get' the Internet, they (Microsoft) had to impersonate a Netscape identity to keep web sites from rejecting it. Looks like we've come full circle.
Keeping score much?
So, let them fly out here and confront me. Preferably on an airplane for which they wrote the avionics code.