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  1. Re:Data on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    There are many possible reasons to 'lie with statistics'. Profit is certainly one, power is another.

  2. Re:We're so screwed. on China's Tencent Breaks Through $500bn Stock Market Capitalisation (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Commodity business that will generate commodity returns, optimistically. More likely will always remain too competitive to monetize. Where is the 20x growth in earnings going to come from?

    I don't have a penny in Amazon either. But that's a much better bet. At least their financials are somewhat audited.

  3. Re:Click bait title. on 'The Death of the MBA' (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not dead until they (MBAs) are all half hung, drawn, quartered, the parts burned and the ashes buried under crossroads.

  4. Re:Should I get my MBA? on 'The Death of the MBA' (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    The lobotomy will hurt, I wouldn't do it.

  5. Re:Fuck the universities on 'The Death of the MBA' (axios.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Don't assume 18 year olds make rational decisions.

    There are many popular degrees that have never had a positive ROI.

    Many kids aren't planning at all, they are just there for the party.

  6. Re:The only Turkey at my house is 101 proof... on Turkeys Are Twice as Big as They Were in 1960 (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    Your statement stands on its own just fine. Nothing to refute.

  7. Re:The only Turkey at my house is 101 proof... on Turkeys Are Twice as Big as They Were in 1960 (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    5 hours work and you still get Turkey (spit) at the end of the process. Just no.

    For only a little more time, I could smoke some baby backs.

  8. Re:Excel has made IT Consultants a fortune on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Access the database engine is useless. In a league with MySQL. But it's defaulted to a SQL server backend for decades.

    Access the frontend isn't great, but you can attach it to SQL views and let the accountants use it as a reporting tool. The smart ones will end up building queries in Access than using those as sources for Excel sheets with live data.

  9. Re:Data on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Not if 'better' is defined as 'answer you want'. Then you have to 'torture' the data.

  10. Re:Spreadsheets are not a database on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    A quick read makes it sound like they are reinventing functional programming.

    If so: Lisp for accountants? Really?

  11. Re: At least we know what our post-Facebook worl on China's Tencent Breaks Through $500bn Stock Market Capitalisation (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    You correctly identified him as a troll, and yet you post a wall of text?

  12. Re:The only Turkey at my house is 101 proof... on Turkeys Are Twice as Big as They Were in 1960 (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    ^^ Ironic small minded pretentious asshole.

  13. Re:We're so screwed. on China's Tencent Breaks Through $500bn Stock Market Capitalisation (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    1 billion current users.

  14. Re:We're so screwed. on China's Tencent Breaks Through $500bn Stock Market Capitalisation (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's their earnings with 1 billion users.

    So your right, to get down to a fair PE ratio all you have to do is assume they will grow to have about 20 billion users, while maintaining the same profits! I wish them luck.

    Take your profits and RUN!

  15. Re:Bigger not better! on Turkeys Are Twice as Big as They Were in 1960 (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Deep frying is the best way. But deep fried turkey leftovers aren't good and even fresh, it's still Turkey.

    Deep fry a Duckhen. That's good eating.

  16. Re:The only Turkey at my house is 101 proof... on Turkeys Are Twice as Big as They Were in 1960 (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Stop making shit up. We spend many millions/year treating obesity related health issues in poor people. They get free electric scooters, so they don't have to exercise at all.

    The reason to cuss the GP is for overcooking great meat. Low and slow is for cheap cuts. For Prime rib, just shine a flashlight on both sides...it's cooked.

  17. Bigger not better! on Turkeys Are Twice as Big as They Were in 1960 (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd rather eat chicken. Turkey is the _worst_ of the domesticated birds.

    Also: Duckhen is much much better than TurDuckHen.

  18. Re:Communism? on China's Tencent Breaks Through $500bn Stock Market Capitalisation (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's just stupid to claim to be from such a murderous bunch.

    If they don't kill at least a few million soon, they're going to have to change party names.

  19. Re:We're so screwed. on China's Tencent Breaks Through $500bn Stock Market Capitalisation (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Tencent's latest earnings (I can find) are 2.7 billion.

    PE ratio of 185!

    Who is screwed? Tencent's investors are screwed!

    If that's you, take your profits and RUN.

  20. Re:Data on Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    If you torture the data long enough, you can make it tell you anything...

  21. Re:Not EDS on HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman To Step Down (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    My opinion of Whitman just went up 10000%

    What do you do with EDS? Sell that pigfuck for whatever you can get for it!

  22. Re:Who would be your "dream CEO" for HP? on HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman To Step Down (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Who the fuck thought of that? You have to have a support contract, WITH EDS to get their servers? That should reduce their sales to zero in a second.

  23. Re:Who would be your "dream CEO" for HP? on HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman To Step Down (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    HPE? The only thing EDS has ever known how to do is market (read 'blowjobs') to government and Fortune 500, while delivering absolute shit, late and over budget. They can't die quick enough.

    HP? Low grade desktop and laptop vendor. Decent servers. Nothing special. Makes its money selling ink for gold prices. They can't die quick enough.

    The 'good HP' is now Keysight, via Agilent. Conglomerates generally suck at everything.

  24. Re:Bad news for investors on HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman To Step Down (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Also remember. HPE is basically EDS.

    There's only so much you can do with a _steaming_pile_of_shit_.

  25. /. is antisocial media, you cunt. I'm reporting your post for not being abusive enough. We'll both get the same traction.