clearly you dont understand the equity marketsl. Rember when facebook did its IPO (Initial public offering)? The second word there is key.
I would never invest in facebook, and it is time for a reform program to avoid all this restricted voting, superclass share nonsense.. but fundamentally, it isnt his company anymore... he took public funds, and kept all the voting rights too.
I'm with you.. I've been stopping here every day for a long time. Remember when it had great stories, and relevant comments? When a link on slashdot generated so much traffic sites woud post they had the 'slashdot effect'?
Now it is just full of trolls and morons who waste so much of their own time entering the captcha just to post useless crap.
Given that youâ(TM)ve never read Appleâ(TM)s financials,
That is a terrible assumption on your part...
You mean stuff like this:
Apple reported that its App Store generated over $26.5 billion in revenue for developers in 2017, which was up about 30% year-over-year. This means that the App Store created approximately $11.5 billion in revenue for the company. Growth of services revenue is one of the major positive points for investors since it is growing faster than the rest of the company with higher margins
Canada entered WW2 on Sept 1939.. US entered in Dec 1941.
Sure.. you " mostly contributed by the US.".. except when you didnt as you were not even participating.
Next. when was his village liberated? if it was prior to 1941...
Lastly, Canada entered as a british ally... because again, the US wasnt involved until later in the game... so clearly Canada wasnt a "US ally" in 1939.
Until relatively recently, the US dollar was the only currency that could be directly converted to/from Chinese currency.
Citation? I remember bringing Canadian Cash and Canadian Dollar cheques drawn on Canadiian banks to the Bank of China (actually in China) and buying RMB like 15 years ago.
why not have any potential purchaser sign some sort of agreement which specifies terms and conditions.
these could include limited access to examination under very specfic conditions. this protects the buyer and if the situation warrents, allows further access.
I didn't defend it. I said that is their choice. If they wish to overthrow, leave, etc they can do so (not easily, but my 22 year girlfriend left as did a number of her friends). Heck, I have a friend staying with me right now, her family left China for the states when she was only 12.
I don't get why people are so worked up over china. They are probably 10-12k miles from most on slashdot.
PS. If you are ever there hit me up. I own a home in guilin, not far from elephant trunk hill.. so I might have more insight then some on slashdot who post yet have never even been there.
This is 100% incorrect. Stealing trade secrets was agasint british laws at the time. High ranking US officials still encouraged its citizens to steal them, knowing it violated british laws.
And this pretty much sums up why the scale is weird and hard to use. Many people can relate to the temperature water freezes (0c) and the temp it boils at (100c). you can use this to infer that 20C is probably cool, 40 is getting hot, etc.
It is hard to reference the winter in Danzig in 1708. I guess if you grew up with it, the references would be easier, and it would make sense that 68F would be cool. But again, the entire imperial system is based on oddities (fractions of an inch, arbitrary units like feet in a mile)...
As a Canadian who spent several years in the US i found the imperial system messed up, and the fact many americans are "proud" of it weird. It is almost like metric suffers from "not invented here" syndrome.
Several Americans i worked with would ask me stupid questions about the metric system (how many metres in a kilometre?) What i found far more humourous was when i asked a simple question like "What is zero fahrenheit?" They were unable to answer. This is a system they were tought in school and seemed odd they dont know.
Canada went metric, the US was scheduled to go as well but did not. This has left Canada in a weird state as well.. Many things here are still imperial, for example you buy 2x4's and 4x8's. On top of this, my generation still measures their weight in pounds?
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"It's his company, "
clearly you dont understand the equity marketsl. Rember when facebook did its IPO (Initial public offering)? The second word there is key.
I would never invest in facebook, and it is time for a reform program to avoid all this restricted voting, superclass share nonsense.. but fundamentally, it isnt his company anymore... he took public funds, and kept all the voting rights too.
So.. what about all the words you cant say on TV? The US govt seemed ok having the FCC fine people for saying specific words.
There was also Prohibition, where due to "social standards" liquor was "banned".
Then the Gold law, where you were forced to sell all gold to the US GVT at set prices.
Nothing wrong with the current system when you have almost 24,000 patents on a car?
Do they have a patent on their patent generation system?
I'm with you.. I've been stopping here every day for a long time. Remember when it had great stories, and relevant comments? When a link on slashdot generated so much traffic sites woud post they had the 'slashdot effect'?
Now it is just full of trolls and morons who waste so much of their own time entering the captcha just to post useless crap.
Why dont you keep doing everything you can to avoid paying taxes.. while asking the government to do more for you?
grab a reasearch report on AAPL.. take a read..
let us know why apple is moving more and more to "serivces" if it isnt profitable?
Apple doesn't post profit by line, the same as they are trying to move away from publishing units sold.
Do explain want you think this line means "with higher margins"
Given that youâ(TM)ve never read Appleâ(TM)s financials,
That is a terrible assumption on your part...
You mean stuff like this:
Apple reported that its App Store generated over $26.5 billion in revenue for developers in 2017, which was up about 30% year-over-year. This means that the App Store created approximately $11.5 billion in revenue for the company. Growth of services revenue is one of the major positive points for investors since it is growing faster than the rest of the company with higher margins
GIven apple's enormous profit margins.. i think it costs less then you think.
Oh please..
Canada entered WW2 on Sept 1939.. US entered in Dec 1941.
Sure.. you " mostly contributed by the US.".. except when you didnt as you were not even participating.
Next. when was his village liberated? if it was prior to 1941...
Lastly, Canada entered as a british ally... because again, the US wasnt involved until later in the game... so clearly Canada wasnt a "US ally" in 1939.
Until relatively recently, the US dollar was the only currency that could be directly converted to/from Chinese currency.
Citation? I remember bringing Canadian Cash and Canadian Dollar cheques drawn on Canadiian banks to the Bank of China (actually in China) and buying RMB like 15 years ago.
Worse.. when they charge $40 for a TV series which should have been funded via the enormous amount of commercials played during the show.
the markup on TV series on DVD/Blu-ray must be amazing.
why not have any potential purchaser sign some sort of agreement which specifies terms and conditions.
these could include limited access to examination under very specfic conditions. this protects the buyer and if the situation warrents, allows further access.
Agreed. for any given museum, what percentage is actually availble for public viewing vs what is in boxes in a warehouse somewhere?
Let the scientists do their work, create a plaster copy, and allow private ownership to fund additional research.
I didn't defend it. I said that is their choice. If they wish to overthrow, leave, etc they can do so (not easily, but my 22 year girlfriend left as did a number of her friends). Heck, I have a friend staying with me right now, her family left China for the states when she was only 12.
I don't get why people are so worked up over china. They are probably 10-12k miles from most on slashdot.
PS. If you are ever there hit me up. I own a home in guilin, not far from elephant trunk hill.. so I might have more insight then some on slashdot who post yet have never even been there.
Thanks for the time you wasted responding. Your post really contributed to the conversation and is a key reason Slashdot is what it is today.
Nothing impresses others more then someone sending angry rants full of profanity... Well done.
Do show me your passport and all the Chinese entrance visa stamps you have. Clearly you speak for all 1.3 billion Chinese.
And yes, your government encouraged textile theft to jump start the US economic engine. This is a rack, regardless if you believe it or not.
Have a great day.
Not sure your comments are dirrected to me or not:
"If they choose to have a Totalitarian, Communist Dictatorship so whats it to you? "
Agreed. They are 13,000 miles away, i really dont care if they are communist, or whatever. That is their choice and has very little to do with me.
This is 100% incorrect. Stealing trade secrets was agasint british laws at the time. High ranking US officials still encouraged its citizens to steal them, knowing it violated british laws.
Their approach seems familiar. Many years ago your nation use to go to England, visit the plants, and steal textile manufacturing trade secrets.
https://www.ipwatchdog.com/201...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2012...
you forgot to find a way to include a reference to tiananmen square in your rant.
Hi kettle, i'm the pot?
https://www.pri.org/stories/20...
Care to count the number of times the US had been caught stealing british technology?
And this pretty much sums up why the scale is weird and hard to use. Many people can relate to the temperature water freezes (0c) and the temp it boils at (100c).
you can use this to infer that 20C is probably cool, 40 is getting hot, etc.
It is hard to reference the winter in Danzig in 1708. I guess if you grew up with it, the references would be easier, and it would make sense that 68F would be cool.
But again, the entire imperial system is based on oddities (fractions of an inch, arbitrary units like feet in a mile)...
If you dont get what i am asking, there is little point in being rude about it.
i mean what does "zero" indicate?
In C, it is the temperature water freezes...
As a Canadian who spent several years in the US i found the imperial system messed up, and the fact many americans are "proud" of it weird. It is almost like metric suffers from "not invented here" syndrome.
Several Americans i worked with would ask me stupid questions about the metric system (how many metres in a kilometre?)
What i found far more humourous was when i asked a simple question like "What is zero fahrenheit?" They were unable to answer. This is a system they were tought in school and seemed odd they dont know.
Canada went metric, the US was scheduled to go as well but did not. This has left Canada in a weird state as well.. Many things here are still imperial, for example you buy 2x4's and 4x8's. On top of this, my generation still measures their weight in pounds?
if you are a canadian citizen, you are invested in BCE.
CPP IB has almost a hundred million invested : http://www.cppib.com/documents...