Not to burst your bubble, but Bell is a publicly owned company. It trades on the TSX/NYSE under ticket "BCE" and is 45% institutional owned. This means the majority of the holders are not large institutions.
Perhaps you are thinking of the failed attempt to take them public years ago?
PS: I'm an "owner" of BCE as I've held a position for many years.
Nice conspiracy theory, next time spend a minute or two to validate.
Can the slashdot guys put together some sort of scheduled job to post a "Voyager has left the solar system" every few days? Might save the editors a few minutes posting the article.
Don't forget to include a number of AC's posting the "Obligatory XKCD" link
doesn't have a good control framework like Cigarettes/alcohol which are legal and profitable for the government, especially here (Canada) with the "SIN TAXES".
Not to troll, but i wonder what would happen in the "IP" era of the US economy? If Ford tried this today would he still win or would the "patent holders"?
If that were true, they would lower the price on their own chargers so people didnt feel a need to buy knockoffs. They make enough on the phones, they dont need to do this with the cables. Its funny as most companies learned and went with standard USB jacks some time ago.
If i could mod you up i would... I've always thought this way, but its funny when you talk to some people. They are fast to tell you something like "that's just propaganda from..." but they seem to feel their own country doesn't have an active propaganda program.
see my post:
My kids were sent to school in China for a few years.
While China may have the largest primary class size (37.1 per class) the kids found it much much easier when they came back to Canada.
Class size wasn't the issue, the work was challenging and the environment was strict.
Do you have any empirical evidence smaller class sizes pays off? Here (Ontario) they state 90.1% of classes have 20 or fewer students.
When the kids came back to school here they found it a joke. What they were teaching in Ontario was at least one year behind what they were studying when they were in China.
Not sure how its done in other areas of the world, but in Ontario (Canada) we started doing this. My daughter is in such a program and loves it whereas when she was in the "mainstream" program she was miserable.
The main concern we had was your point about bullying. She was somewhat of an "outcast" in the mainstream program and it made going to school difficult (she was only 10 at the time). Once she was tested and transferred to the gifted program her life changed dramatically (both socially and academically). Without the program i'm not sure what would have happened to her but we are thankful for the program and opportunities it presents.
We do the same thing here (Canada). Year after year we are told part of the problem is "large class sizes" and how we need to hire more teachers and reduce this.
My kids were sent to school in China for a few years. While China may have the largest primary class size (37.1 per class) the kids found it much much easier when they came back to Canada.
Class size wasn't the issue, the work was challenging and the environment was strict.
Put a Chinese student up against any other and measure the results for yourself.
Sometimes the "counterfeit" item is made in the exact same factory. "Famous brand" outsources manufacture to some Chinese factory. Factory now has the plans, materials, etc and makes a lot more then was requested. These are sold out the back door.
They all do this. It helps protect markets. Here in Canada almost everything costs more then the US. Some (actually a lot) go buy in the US and find the canadian version will NOT accept the warrenty. You list Nikon, but Canon does the same thing.
its funny watching a made-in-china product sold in the USA have its warranty expired once it enters Canada. If it went from china->canada it would have a warranty ? is the product differnt for the canadian market?
same for "gray market". if "large corp" can outsource work to China, why cant i re-import thing from a cheaper market? Its a very unfair one way street. Large corp gets to take advantage of lower labour costs, but we cant?
Not that i disagree with you, but you miss one point. TV shows supposedly are paid for by commercials (that is how they covered their expenses). One has to wonder why they are also some of the most expensive "blurays" available for purchase.
I didn't say it was "Difficulty: Moderate" Ifixit did, which you listed as providing instructions. Since they do these sort of repairs i'd think they would have pretty accurate ratings. Regardless, it looks somewhat "risky"as in you can break things if you are not careful. Replacing a battery is normally something which is trivial for many other devices.
I picked up a super-cheap Samsung Discovery for my daughter (they are now sellling for $68) and sure enough, user replaceable battery. WHy cant a >$500 device do this?
I tend to agree with the parent, doing this helps with market churn.
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So after buying a "high performance graphics workstation" one should also buy a high performance NAS?
Is that the apple model?
Can you outline on the box where it lists these limitations?
Seriously that is your comment, that i am cheap?
I guess its a good use of your time and really contributed to the thread.
My bad, "take them private..."
Not to burst your bubble, but Bell is a publicly owned company. It trades on the TSX/NYSE under ticket "BCE" and is 45% institutional owned. This means the majority of the holders are not large institutions.
As for Teachers pension plan their holdings are now below $100MM (well, they dont show up on their reports for positions > 100MM http://www.otpp.com/investments/essentials/major-investments)
Perhaps you are thinking of the failed attempt to take them public years ago?
PS: I'm an "owner" of BCE as I've held a position for many years.
Nice conspiracy theory, next time spend a minute or two to validate.
You have a budget which you "blow" when you realize you have an extra $5 BLN?
Must be nice when $5 BLN isnt a big deal...
Isn't this whole thing over affordable healthcare? Would $5 BLN have covered it?
Can the slashdot guys put together some sort of scheduled job to post a "Voyager has left the solar system" every few days? Might save the editors a few minutes posting the article. Don't forget to include a number of AC's posting the "Obligatory XKCD" link
doesn't have a good control framework like Cigarettes/alcohol which are legal and profitable for the government, especially here (Canada) with the "SIN TAXES".
Not to troll, but i wonder what would happen in the "IP" era of the US economy? If Ford tried this today would he still win or would the "patent holders"?
He's now -1 and ignored by more people.
So what you are saying is forced updates are wonderful? I personally dont like it when apple force-updates my AppleTV breaking my XBMC install.
If that were true, they would lower the price on their own chargers so people didnt feel a need to buy knockoffs. They make enough on the phones, they dont need to do this with the cables. Its funny as most companies learned and went with standard USB jacks some time ago.
Increases the quality of apple's profit margins...
If i could mod you up i would... I've always thought this way, but its funny when you talk to some people. They are fast to tell you something like "that's just propaganda from ..." but they seem to feel their own country doesn't have an active propaganda program.
When it comes to posts about China, most of the comments are utter nonsense/untrue.
Propaganda at its finest written by people who most likely dont even own a passport, never mind have any first hand experience to back what they say.
One would think Canada would be most similar to the US except it has a near total gun ban.
I'm not going to pretend Canada is some sort of crime-free nation but the crime index is interesting:
US:53.44
Canada: 34.98
Are you sure?
see my post:
My kids were sent to school in China for a few years.
While China may have the largest primary class size (37.1 per class) the kids found it much much easier when they came back to Canada.
Class size wasn't the issue, the work was challenging and the environment was strict.
Do you have any empirical evidence smaller class sizes pays off? Here (Ontario) they state 90.1% of classes have 20 or fewer students.
When the kids came back to school here they found it a joke. What they were teaching in Ontario was at least one year behind what they were studying when they were in China.
Not sure how its done in other areas of the world, but in Ontario (Canada) we started doing this. My daughter is in such a program and loves it whereas when she was in the "mainstream" program she was miserable.
The main concern we had was your point about bullying. She was somewhat of an "outcast" in the mainstream program and it made going to school difficult (she was only 10 at the time). Once she was tested and transferred to the gifted program her life changed dramatically (both socially and academically). Without the program i'm not sure what would have happened to her but we are thankful for the program and opportunities it presents.
We do the same thing here (Canada). Year after year we are told part of the problem is "large class sizes" and how we need to hire more teachers and reduce this.
My kids were sent to school in China for a few years.
While China may have the largest primary class size (37.1 per class) the kids found it much much easier when they came back to Canada.
Class size wasn't the issue, the work was challenging and the environment was strict.
Put a Chinese student up against any other and measure the results for yourself.
British culture seems to be doing fine when the hollywood is looking for "new" shows (the office, shameless come to mind).
watch shameless UK season 1 EP 1 then the US version. Do the same with the office. Same opening theme, same jokes...
Just saying...
Sometimes the "counterfeit" item is made in the exact same factory. "Famous brand" outsources manufacture to some Chinese factory. Factory now has the plans, materials, etc and makes a lot more then was requested. These are sold out the back door.
They all do this. It helps protect markets. Here in Canada almost everything costs more then the US. Some (actually a lot) go buy in the US and find the canadian version will NOT accept the warrenty. You list Nikon, but Canon does the same thing.
its funny watching a made-in-china product sold in the USA have its warranty expired once it enters Canada. If it went from china->canada it would have a warranty ? is the product differnt for the canadian market?
same for "gray market". if "large corp" can outsource work to China, why cant i re-import thing from a cheaper market? Its a very unfair one way street. Large corp gets to take advantage of lower labour costs, but we cant?
see costco vs omega: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_S.A._v._Costco_Wholesale_Corp.
Not that i disagree with you, but you miss one point. TV shows supposedly are paid for by commercials (that is how they covered their expenses). One has to wonder why they are also some of the most expensive "blurays" available for purchase.
I didn't say it was "Difficulty: Moderate" Ifixit did, which you listed as providing instructions. Since they do these sort of repairs i'd think they would have pretty accurate ratings. Regardless, it looks somewhat "risky"as in you can break things if you are not careful. Replacing a battery is normally something which is trivial for many other devices.
I picked up a super-cheap Samsung Discovery for my daughter (they are now sellling for $68) and sure enough, user replaceable battery. WHy cant a >$500 device do this?
I tend to agree with the parent, doing this helps with market churn.
Just like that, three screws? I replaced the battery in many phones i've owned. I pop the back off with a pressure latch (no screws) and replace it.
Oddly enough Ifixit lists this as: Difficulty: Moderate