"when someone you love, blah blah", I love it when a best seller writer writes like that, shows the true nature of why best selling stuff is not good for your mind.
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apparently, you didnt have a chance to watch Deep Space 9 (DS9). With Ronald Moore being the puppet master, he had all these elements. Money & greed, criticism by Commander Sisko against the sterility and ivory tower approach of federation, rebels against federation, secret sinister plots by federation. If you google a bit more, you would see that Moore was fired because of this. And he created what he wanted with Battlestar Galactica. Inappropriate situations, dirty startships, all sort of psyhcotic officers, and sex (yes threesomes)...
I would like to see what a previous post says, a war, with Riker at helm, a BSG like conflicts, 24 like suspense, and vivid girls,
from the article "in the end, all this surveillance gear and attendant hype becomes meaningless with simple precautions like encrypted VOIP, a good implementation of virtual private networks, and proxies and SSH for web surfing, IM, internet relay chat, webmail and the like" don't you ever watch Mr. Bauer ?
yes exactly, I'll do that with gmail, you create a gmail account, create various labeling rules, and then add another rule to forward all emails to your desktop email adresss, so at all times you have your archive on web, and you can delete your desktop client mails anytime you wish,
Here is a reuters instant view feed. The same old story when a CEO changes and you get used to it, but when you think of it, it makes you sick...
15:53 09Feb2005 RTRS-UPDATE 4-INSTANT VIEW-Stocks-Fiorina out as head of HP
NEW YORK, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co. on Wednesday said Chairman and Chief Executive Carly Fiorina resigned from those positions.
The news sent shares of HP, a component of the Dow Jones industrial average, immediately higher in premarket trading, and U.S. stock futures rose as well.
According to the latest data, HP shares were up 10.6 percent at $22.27 on Inet. They had closed Tuesday at $20.14.
Following are comments from analysts, fund managers and equity strategists about Fiorina's departure.
SHANNON CROSS, ANALYST AT CROSS RESEARCH
"This is a good move for the company. I would say there will be a boost to employee morale, because internally people had become frustrated, certainly within the printing division. "There is obviously going to be uncertainty which is never a positive as you wait to see who is going to be the new CEO, and that will add a level of uncertainty to the stock."The chance that they will split the company up just increased, but its not a given."The problem is that the Compaq merger failed to provide the results that people had expected... and the stock price languished. Competition from Dell is increasing, especially as Dell gets in the the printer business. The quarters have been mixed... one up quarter one down quarter."
JOHN PERSON, PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL FUTURES:
"This is big news. This is a good step forward for Hewlett-Packard. With her departure, the company will look forward to having new leadership and that is why futures are stronger. So the market is looking at this as a positive for stocks, especially the tech sector."
JOHN PATRICK, PRESIDENT OF CONSULTING FIRM ATTITUDE L.L.C. AND A FORMER IBM EXECUTIVE:
"Whenever there is a change of some significance, it always presents an opportunity for competitors to make inroads. Certainly, she was very visible, much more so than her predecessors. When a visible leader departs for unknown reasons, that always gives customers a reason to pause and provides an opportunity for its competitors to take advantage."
RICHARD CHU, ANALYST, SG COWEN:
"The fact that everything is back on the drawing board, with respect to partitioning the printer business makes the stock more attractive."
PETER SORRENTINO, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, BARTLETT & CO., CINCINNATI:
"This is a change in strategy because I think Carly very much personified the strategy that the company had embraced in the past several years. With her departure, it signals to me that they've elected to take a whole new course of action, and that they've decided that this was not a strategy she was in support of."The best possible use, our feeling was, for the company was that they focus on their imaging business and defend that turf and this move hopefully will move to something along those lines -- that they will hopefully rationalize the company and focus on their core franchise. "HP has never had a cost-effective model in terms of the PC business they've frittered away their lead in imaging, and their move to services never really panned out even with the addition of Compaq."This was a move that we had long hoped they would take -- we thought the stock just from the imaging business is worth $24 a share, and you were being impaired as a shareholder because of the other businesses."
MARC PADO, U.S. MARKET STRATEGIST, CANTOR FITZGERALD & CO.:
"It's not an event that has coattails such as Cisco's numbers, which are far more important than what's going on here. If the reaction is for such a big jump people felt she was taking some part of the business down a path that wasn't worthwhile. It will impact the Dow but on broader basis it won't do much to the market. I think there are much bigger factors today such as the semiconductor index above its 200-day moving average and it faces some cautious comments out of Merrill."
((Wall Street Newsdesk, 646 223-6110))
Wednesday, 09 February 2005 15:53:10RTRS
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but of course, Dirk Pitt, and Admiral Sandecker will be the most upset. Poor Hiram Yaeger will commit suicide...
"when someone you love, blah blah", I love it when a best seller writer writes like that, shows the true nature of why best selling stuff is not good for your mind. Important Stuff * Please try to keep posts on topic.
I would like to see what a previous post says, a war, with Riker at helm, a BSG like conflicts, 24 like suspense, and vivid girls,
oh please...
from the article "in the end, all this surveillance gear and attendant hype becomes meaningless with simple precautions like encrypted VOIP, a good implementation of virtual private networks, and proxies and SSH for web surfing, IM, internet relay chat, webmail and the like" don't you ever watch Mr. Bauer ?
oh ! I thought, I would be hooking up my i-pod and getting all the goodies instantly, one sec let me call my VC, this would work with pr0n. © 2006
thank god, 24 is finished !!
yes exactly, I'll do that with gmail, you create a gmail account, create various labeling rules, and then add another rule to forward all emails to your desktop email adresss, so at all times you have your archive on web, and you can delete your desktop client mails anytime you wish,
15:53 09Feb2005 RTRS-UPDATE 4-INSTANT VIEW-Stocks-Fiorina out as head of HP
NEW YORK, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co. on Wednesday said Chairman and Chief Executive Carly Fiorina resigned from those positions. The news sent shares of HP, a component of the Dow Jones industrial average, immediately higher in premarket trading, and U.S. stock futures rose as well. According to the latest data, HP shares were up 10.6 percent at $22.27 on Inet. They had closed Tuesday at $20.14. Following are comments from analysts, fund managers and equity strategists about Fiorina's departure.
SHANNON CROSS, ANALYST AT CROSS RESEARCH "This is a good move for the company. I would say there will be a boost to employee morale, because internally people had become frustrated, certainly within the printing division. "There is obviously going to be uncertainty which is never a positive as you wait to see who is going to be the new CEO, and that will add a level of uncertainty to the stock."The chance that they will split the company up just increased, but its not a given."The problem is that the Compaq merger failed to provide the results that people had expected ... and the stock price languished. Competition from Dell is increasing, especially as Dell gets in the the printer business. The quarters have been mixed ... one up quarter one down quarter."
JOHN PERSON, PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL FUTURES: "This is big news. This is a good step forward for Hewlett-Packard. With her departure, the company will look forward to having new leadership and that is why futures are stronger. So the market is looking at this as a positive for stocks, especially the tech sector."
JOHN PATRICK, PRESIDENT OF CONSULTING FIRM ATTITUDE L.L.C. AND A FORMER IBM EXECUTIVE: "Whenever there is a change of some significance, it always presents an opportunity for competitors to make inroads. Certainly, she was very visible, much more so than her predecessors. When a visible leader departs for unknown reasons, that always gives customers a reason to pause and provides an opportunity for its competitors to take advantage."
RICHARD CHU, ANALYST, SG COWEN: "The fact that everything is back on the drawing board, with respect to partitioning the printer business makes the stock more attractive."
PETER SORRENTINO, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER, BARTLETT & CO., CINCINNATI: "This is a change in strategy because I think Carly very much personified the strategy that the company had embraced in the past several years. With her departure, it signals to me that they've elected to take a whole new course of action, and that they've decided that this was not a strategy she was in support of."The best possible use, our feeling was, for the company was that they focus on their imaging business and defend that turf and this move hopefully will move to something along those lines -- that they will hopefully rationalize the company and focus on their core franchise. "HP has never had a cost-effective model in terms of the PC business they've frittered away their lead in imaging, and their move to services never really panned out even with the addition of Compaq."This was a move that we had long hoped they would take -- we thought the stock just from the imaging business is worth $24 a share, and you were being impaired as a shareholder because of the other businesses."
MARC PADO, U.S. MARKET STRATEGIST, CANTOR FITZGERALD & CO.: "It's not an event that has coattails such as Cisco's numbers, which are far more important than what's going on here. If the reaction is for such a big jump people felt she was taking some part of the business down a path that wasn't worthwhile. It will impact the Dow but on broader basis it won't do much to the market. I think there are much bigger factors today such as the semiconductor index above its 200-day moving average and it faces some cautious comments out of Merrill."
((Wall Street Newsdesk, 646 223-6110)) Wednesday, 09 February 2005 15:53:10RTRS