Our country makes it too easy for nutcases to have guns. I, for one, would give up the right to bear arms for everyone, and not miss it.
Yes, lets pass even more laws that only sane people and non criminals would respect leaving only the insane and criminals free to ignore them. Problem solved. So well thought out.
Not sure how the 40% tax that goes into effect in 2018 on my employee's and my own "cadillac" plans count as freeloading. As for as the implications of the decision, a tax requires only a simple majority in the senate to be repealed. In addition, states can now sue over the hokey origination in the senate but deemed passed nonsense even before the election (which they will) and all this nonsense about using the commerce clause as justification for not engaging in commerce has at last been stopped. Roberts lowered the bar to repealing this thing significantly while simultaneously negating some of its supporters key election time arguments (like the supposedly conservative "Activist" court).
And you base this on? Republicans are in the business of keeping rich people rich only as much as Democrats are in the business of keeping poor people poor.
Stop the lying by omission please. Neither Limbaugh nor Republicans originated the term (as far as I know it was Spike Lee). In this context it was a parody in response to an op ed by a black writer : http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,3391015.story
FYI - Pointing out that Obama was exactly what he told us he was in his books is not racist.
Hmm, if by "fuck them over" you mean stop giving them free stuff pilfered from others then yes. Unemployment percentage is still higher in the black community than it was post crisis under Bush.
Blackberry in the BMW is easier (despite the horrible BMW UI). The only issue I have ever found was when they have more than 1000 contacts. At that point your only choice is to sync just the "hotlist" last 20 or so called numbers.
The same users that think the Iphone 4S supports 4G and wonder why they can't access that flash based website from their Ipad?
We have few iphones. Users who want them tend to be needier since they continually relive discovering the shortcoming of being unable to multitask AND having a pathetically slow network connection. Consequently you get lots of inquiries as to why their mail now fails to arrive "in the background" like they have been used to on their monochrome blackberries in 1998. In exchange for giving up the core functionality they get plenty of cool apps which aren't business related and it comes in white!
The presumption of guilt until proven innocent is absurd but I have no problem with hard line positions (and suddenly neither do the french). The slashdot community acts as if all the other denizens of the planet are other slashdotters. A lot of them see things as simply as any right wing nut job. Conservative = bad is just as inaccurate as flaming lefty = good. The group think here astonishes me.
God forbid someone conservative supports open source. The people on here who are against the war in Iraq act as if they have precognition and no for sure that it was the wrong thing to do. They don't know this and they cant grasp that their is a valid point of view other than theirs. You wan't to see intolerance? Look at yourselves.
Now I'm sure I'll get even more "bad karma" from disagreeing with the collective. People here are every bit as bad as the allege their "enemies" are.
Slashdot, agree with the majority or we will give you bad karma.
One thing people don't often mention is that Republicans beat Democrats in not only total amount raised but also total number of donators (by a lot). Democrats have fewer donators but they donate huge amounts of money to keep the numbers closer. In light of that who is closer to the people? You might argue that democrats have no money. Maybe. It seems the extremely rich are democrats (Kerry) as well as the extremely poor (who don't donate). The rest are Republicans. Does anyone have the statistics on this?
-I
I mostly agree with this. There are nothing wrong REAL Republican principles : pave the roads, keep what you kill, protect the country, maintain order. I feel that even if someone really did stick to the basics and actually did mean well the inevitable smear campaign will always break out - sometimes it is Kenneth Star and sometimes it is John Stewart. I there should be mandatory limits on all politicians (no more career politicians).
The thread asks the rhetorical question of what Republicans stand for. The fact is that the differences are right in front of you and they are really philosophical not moral. It has nothing to do with good versus evil though that is how most people here see it (though everyone thinks it is the neocons (every time I hear that I hear sneering autobots) that simplify everything.
Perception is everything. Most of the people on/. think that taking pictures of prisoners with leashes on (which by the way was unauthorized and punished) is just as bad as cutting off their heads for the home audience (which by the way was praised by the Al Qaeda leadership). We don't need more political parties, we need to clean out the ones we already have (all of them).
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You have a point. The lying democrats of the 90s have already let me down and the lying republicans have not followed suit. If you have a choice between two liars and you make more than minimum wage you should go with the one that taxes you less so you can at least afford to buy toys to distract you from the lying.
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The point with Clinton is that he actually did lie (unlike Bush where everyone says he lied yet no commission who had facts ever accussed him of anything). Bill lied under oath and to your face on national TV yet half the country still thinks he is some kind of god and wants to elect his wife. I'll bet 90% of the people here are obliviously ok with that yet continue to beat their Bush lied and people died drums. "It depends what is is" indeed. Don't complain when shady lawyers do shady things when you continue to defend and enpower some of the shadiest lawyers in history (Whitewater? Pardoning Rich? Just a blowjob? And Al Capone just forgot to pay taxes.
Try using some common sense. They were intercepting phone calls from people with known links to Al Quaeda. Your attitude is sophmoric and absurd and I'll bet it will take someone close to you to get hurt before you realize it (did YOU know anybody that got killed in 9/11?, I did).
The British police have far more power than the American police (even WITH the patriot act). They no longer need to get court orders and neither should we. And guess what, they are effective. Why? Because they already learned the lessons you refused to with 20 years of the IRA. Your way doesn't work. There are ample examples of its failure.
The real absurdity here is that the idiot judge in the lawsuit didn't even require that the accuser prove they had actually been tapped. The judge ruled on "feelings". A bunch of reporters and lawyers "felt" they were being wiretapped. That is ridiculous. Looking for a branch of government that abuses its power, look no further than the judicial.
Why don't you guys go and make life difficult for an actual bad guy and not people trying to protect you for once.
You had better hope so if you own any stock. Apple is the media darling so the sensationalist media has no motivation to do anything but rub apple's belly (just like Slashdot for the most part). The WSJ article was much more concerned over the irregularies since they apparently don't have to do with the options. The fact that they aren't defining the "other irregularies" encountered right away isn't good. If they lied to investors that is bad and the stock will suffer and so will management since investores can't trust what existing management says. If they are "just" incompetent that is also bad. CEO get fired all the time for things that the CFO was supposedly responsible for. The CEO is responsible for everything.
-R
Ok, how about the WSJ article from this morning. You guys who are defending him are crazy.
"Apple wouldn't say which grant to Mr. Jobs was at issue, though he received an option to purchase 10 million shares in January 2000 dated on the stock's lowest closing price of the month. Apple shares shot up in the following days. In yesterday's announcement, Apple didn't mention any grants to Mr. Jobs."
"Irregularities" is financial code for "soon to be prosecuted".
-R
Apple Spots More Options Missteps
Results Likely to Be Restated As Internal Probe UncoversAdditional 'Irregularities'
By CHARLES FORELLE and NICK WINGFIELD
August 4, 2006; Page A3
Apple Computer Inc. said a review of stock-option troubles turned up "additional evidence of irregularities" that will likely cause the computer maker to restate financial results.
The disclosure, made late yesterday, marked a noticeable shift in Apple's posture over its options problems. Two weeks ago, the Cupertino, Calif., company said it didn't believe it would need a "material adjustment" to its financials unless its investigation turned up something else.
Apple gave scant information in a news release issued yesterday, saying only that its anticipated restatement contemplates charges for compensation expense related to past options. Apple said it would delay filing its quarterly results. A company spokesman wouldn't detail the new findings, or even confirm that they directly related to option grants.
Also not clear is just what the "irregularities" are. Other companies reporting option-grant problems have commonly said they found that grant dates they used "differed" from what they should have been. "Irregularities" bears a more serious tone; Apple also used the word a month ago when it first disclosed problems with option grants. It said then it had found problems with grants between 1997-2001.
The computer maker is among the highest-profile names to be caught up in the stock-option scandal that is hitting many companies in Silicon Valley, and others across the country.
In a number of cases, probes initially focused on the timing of option grants have unfolded into other areas. Mercury Interactive Corp., of Mountain View, Calif., which restated several years of results last month, found in a probe that its executives had been given loans to exercise options that in some cases weren't fully paid back.
And Brooks Automation Inc., of Chelmsford, Mass., says an investigation found that two directors and its former chief executive signed a "false" document to allow the executive to exercise an expired option. The executive says his actions were appropriate.
Apple spokesman Steve Dowling declined to clarify whether the new irregularities involved the timing of option grants, or other issues, though the language of Apple's news release suggests that the irregularities are somehow related to options. "We're refraining from making any further comment until the independent investigation is concluded," Mr. Dowling said.
Apple said in its news release that it had filed a form with the Securities and Exchange Commission saying that certain of its past financial statements shouldn't be relied upon. An Apple spokeswoman said the company had filed the form yesterday. It wasn't available on the SEC's Web site yesterday evening, which the spokeswoman attributed to a time lag. Apple appears to have missed the 5:30 p.m. EDT filing deadline.
More than 80 companies are facing federal investigation over options matters, and two former executives have been charged criminally. The probes are focusing on the practice of backdating, by which the grant date of an option is retroactively moved to a time when the stock price is lower. That is important because options give their holders the right to buy stock at a fixed price, typically the market value on the date they were granted, meaning the holder makes money when the shares go up. Manipulating this date to lower the "exercise price" gives the recipient the potential for extra profit or creates profit where none would otherwise have been made.
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Oh, so you are rebelling against daddy. That makes more sense. "Neocon"? Yeah, nice try.
Keep reading your DNC talking points and maybe you can convince yourself they make sense.
Never done drugs? Yeah, neither did Clinton hippie. Bible thumping? Do you just make this up?
All the sudden is is all "neocon" and "bible thumping". Go back to your drumming circle until you sober up.
Benefit of the doubt? Not this doesn't go against ANY principle this country is founded on. Do you forget
that policemen are fellow citizens. I'm sorry you find you can't trust your cousin or father or whatever but you
trust a airline pilot in much the same way whenever you fly.
Besides, who is fighting to cover up the progam? Bush said he did it and will continue to do it. Get your facts
straight.
Let's remember, Clinton lied about sex UNDER OATH (and was also accussed of rape by numerous women). Bush SUPPOSEDLY
lied but neither the 911 commission or anyone else has indicted him despite being loaded with unfriendly. Nothing has stuck
but not for lack of trying (just ask Dan Rather). Perhaps these tidbit has escaped your third eye.
By the way, Bush isn't even that rich. Well, certainly not compared to Kerry the billionare who pays less than 5% in
taxes because he sponges off municiple bonds yet will raise your (foolish).
You make no sense. Your views about religion are also off base. Why are you so afraid of little old ladies going to church and
volunteering at soup kitchens?
Sounds like you are the one who is in need of research. Sadly you may seem smart to your little friends but are sophmoric
and lack the ability to think clearly. Good luck with that and lay off that pot.
-M
PS
I lived in Holland. They aren't racist, they just don't like cultures that make no attempt to integrate. Try visiting on your next pot run.
Uh, the balance of power is to prevent any one branch from running over the others. If you are so concerned about maintaining this supposed balance why aren't you instead complaining about judicial activism? It is far more rampant and destructive since the executive branch is at least elected by the people. You dodge the obvious point with generalities. They have not broken any laws by monitoring inbound calls from international terrorists. You put idealism ahead of common sense but fail to realize that the enemy hasn't bought into any of the pillars of society you take for granted (like civility or desire to stay alive or the ability to read). They will never play by the rules and the they can never be contained if law enforcement can't improvise. Stop running your DNC program for a minute and think. As long as people strap bombs to themselves for Allah some rules will need to be improvised if the goal is within the spirit of the law. You probably won't really understand until you or someone you know is affected.
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Another post spoken from complete ignorance of MS products. I have a file server with 135 GB of user files. I take shadow copies every ten minutes of the data pyramid. I have a separate drive which houses the VSS info and have allocated 30 GB for this task. It is currently using 3.29GB and I have never seen it use more than 10 GB. This is enough to get me 10 minute snapshots back 24 hours on the data pyramid (when regular backups take over). The best part is that users can pull the previous versions on the mapped drive with a simple right click and without bothing me.
Sorry anti-MS slashdotters. This is something MS got completely right.
-M
I love how you call Bush supporters (1 in 2 people at the last election) dim witted but fail to even look into their arguments or views. Your views assume everyone on planet earth is nice like you. Sorry, it is a big ugly world like that and just because you are too deteched from things to see the threat doesn't mean they won't kill you when they get the chance. That is fine.It isn't your job to protect yourself, it is the government's. You are basically complaining about the government doing its job and protecting you. Credit card number? receipts? The IRS gets all of this stuff anyway. They are screening inbound calls from terrorists into this country. Use some common sense. Sure they COULD do more with the information. A policeman can shoot you in the chest with his gun and not file a report. Should we disarm the police because this MIGHT happen?
You and the rest of the left seem quite paranoid and unable to recognize the differences that exist in human nature. You complain when the government is slow to act and complain when they are proactive. There is no pleasing you guys because you don't actually stand for anything but criticism and to continue an 8 year whine fest. Good luck with that.
>Have you ever been to another country ? Perhaps you should actually travel to places and talk to >people and turn off fucking fox news.
Actually I have and but don't worry, I've grown quite accustomed to the know it all sophmoric attitudes of people like you. I've been 9 foreign countries In fact, I lived in one for two years in order to learn Spanish. Perhaps it is YOU that should travel because then you would see that even if you supposedly "lose" the freedom to make calls to international terrorists you are still more unrestricted than any place else.
Who exactly is the "founding father" who "designed" this country. Last time I checked people elect representatives. We have division of labor so people can specialize. You have obvioulsy never dealt or spoke with a policeman or FBI agent (other than the ones apparently killed you cat when you were a child or more likely broke up your pot smoking drum circle). Their job is tough and would be impossible if we didn't grant them the benefit of the doubt in some cases. You trust them to carry a weapon but not to intercept phone calls from known terrorists? People like you are ignorant of the concept of the spirit of the law. You are the reason we need labels on children's costumes with useful information such as "cape does not enable wearer to fly".
I'm sorry you can't stand the fact that Fox news exists (and no I don't watch television). Perhaps you would prefer Al Jazeera where they refer to suicide bombers as "martyers". "Another martyr died for Allah today" is quite different than "a suicide bomber killed himself and a bus full of school children". You have no idea what you are up against (I do, my family was Muslim).
>Your willing to trust bush and his puppet masters because you believe in them. Imagine the shoe >ends up on the other foot with these laws still in place. Imagine an athiest liberal in the white >house, who instead of using his power to fight liberals, bash the media, and judges he bashed >christians, conservatives and the bible.
This is why you are so out of touch. The shoe IS on the other foot. Ann Coulter is correct when she says the only religion in America is the religion of liberalism. I'm sorry, if 75% of reporters are liberals the press is biased. Before there was fox news 85% percent of the reporters were liberal. You seem to fear that others may think differently than you. There are just as many biased stories on CNN or in the New York Times as there are on fox news. You seem to be the TV type so try this, watch Glenn Beck AND John Stewart for a while.
I'm much more likely to believe Bush because although you and other CLAIM he lied not even independent committies say that is the case. Clinton was easier. He lied under oath to my face (no need to determine what "is" is.
What freedoms have been taken away from you? They are monitoring incoming phonecalls from known terrorists and terrorist collaborators. If they WEREN"T monitoring these phone calls I'd be worried. Once again, make friends with a policeman and ask him about his job. Most people aren't like you and human nature hasn't changed much since the time of Rome either.
>They hate us because for the better part of 50 years we have been interfering with their lives in >one way or another. You talk of brute force controlling the middle east ? Guess who gave those >people their guns ? Their training and education ? Guess who put most of them in power ? Thats >right the good ole US government. How ? They had no supervision. They were fighting the "red >machine" so nobody questioned anything they did. What was the result ? We defeated an enemy that >turned out to be surprisingly weak, and in turn created an enemy that is surprisingly strong.
Yes, interfering. We won't let them completely murder eachother as Muslims have been doing for years. I've seen textbooks from Palestine where they are teaching 8 year olds that Jews EAT palestinian children. Sure, you are right. Stay out of their way and everything will perfect. Except that this region had issu
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Thank you for providing actual facts instead of all thie partisan ranting.
They don't get it. They think everyone is just like them.
Well said.
Funny, I can think of plenty of recent examples that prove that even a large well trained army can't occupy an armed country permanently.
Our country makes it too easy for nutcases to have guns. I, for one, would give up the right to bear arms for everyone, and not miss it.
Yes, lets pass even more laws that only sane people and non criminals would respect leaving only the insane and criminals free to ignore them. Problem solved. So well thought out.
Not sure how the 40% tax that goes into effect in 2018 on my employee's and my own "cadillac" plans count as freeloading. As for as the implications of the decision, a tax requires only a simple majority in the senate to be repealed. In addition, states can now sue over the hokey origination in the senate but deemed passed nonsense even before the election (which they will) and all this nonsense about using the commerce clause as justification for not engaging in commerce has at last been stopped. Roberts lowered the bar to repealing this thing significantly while simultaneously negating some of its supporters key election time arguments (like the supposedly conservative "Activist" court).
And you base this on? Republicans are in the business of keeping rich people rich only as much as Democrats are in the business of keeping poor people poor.
Stop the lying by omission please. Neither Limbaugh nor Republicans originated the term (as far as I know it was Spike Lee). In this context it was a parody in response to an op ed by a black writer : http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ehrenstein19mar19,0,3391015.story FYI - Pointing out that Obama was exactly what he told us he was in his books is not racist.
Hmm, if by "fuck them over" you mean stop giving them free stuff pilfered from others then yes. Unemployment percentage is still higher in the black community than it was post crisis under Bush.
Blackberry in the BMW is easier (despite the horrible BMW UI). The only issue I have ever found was when they have more than 1000 contacts. At that point your only choice is to sync just the "hotlist" last 20 or so called numbers.
The same users that think the Iphone 4S supports 4G and wonder why they can't access that flash based website from their Ipad? We have few iphones. Users who want them tend to be needier since they continually relive discovering the shortcoming of being unable to multitask AND having a pathetically slow network connection. Consequently you get lots of inquiries as to why their mail now fails to arrive "in the background" like they have been used to on their monochrome blackberries in 1998. In exchange for giving up the core functionality they get plenty of cool apps which aren't business related and it comes in white!
The presumption of guilt until proven innocent is absurd but I have no problem with hard line positions (and suddenly neither do the french). The slashdot community acts as if all the other denizens of the planet are other slashdotters. A lot of them see things as simply as any right wing nut job. Conservative = bad is just as inaccurate as flaming lefty = good. The group think here astonishes me.
God forbid someone conservative supports open source. The people on here who are against the war in Iraq act as if they have precognition and no for sure that it was the wrong thing to do. They don't know this and they cant grasp that their is a valid point of view other than theirs. You wan't to see intolerance? Look at yourselves. Now I'm sure I'll get even more "bad karma" from disagreeing with the collective. People here are every bit as bad as the allege their "enemies" are. Slashdot, agree with the majority or we will give you bad karma.
One thing people don't often mention is that Republicans beat Democrats in not only total amount raised but also total number of donators (by a lot). Democrats have fewer donators but they donate huge amounts of money to keep the numbers closer. In light of that who is closer to the people? You might argue that democrats have no money. Maybe. It seems the extremely rich are democrats (Kerry) as well as the extremely poor (who don't donate). The rest are Republicans. Does anyone have the statistics on this? -I
I mostly agree with this. There are nothing wrong REAL Republican principles : pave the roads, keep what you kill, protect the country, maintain order. I feel that even if someone really did stick to the basics and actually did mean well the inevitable smear campaign will always break out - sometimes it is Kenneth Star and sometimes it is John Stewart. I there should be mandatory limits on all politicians (no more career politicians). The thread asks the rhetorical question of what Republicans stand for. The fact is that the differences are right in front of you and they are really philosophical not moral. It has nothing to do with good versus evil though that is how most people here see it (though everyone thinks it is the neocons (every time I hear that I hear sneering autobots) that simplify everything. Perception is everything. Most of the people on /. think that taking pictures of prisoners with leashes on (which by the way was unauthorized and punished) is just as bad as cutting off their heads for the home audience (which by the way was praised by the Al Qaeda leadership). We don't need more political parties, we need to clean out the ones we already have (all of them).
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You have a point. The lying democrats of the 90s have already let me down and the lying republicans have not followed suit. If you have a choice between two liars and you make more than minimum wage you should go with the one that taxes you less so you can at least afford to buy toys to distract you from the lying. I
The point with Clinton is that he actually did lie (unlike Bush where everyone says he lied yet no commission who had facts ever accussed him of anything). Bill lied under oath and to your face on national TV yet half the country still thinks he is some kind of god and wants to elect his wife. I'll bet 90% of the people here are obliviously ok with that yet continue to beat their Bush lied and people died drums. "It depends what is is" indeed. Don't complain when shady lawyers do shady things when you continue to defend and enpower some of the shadiest lawyers in history (Whitewater? Pardoning Rich? Just a blowjob? And Al Capone just forgot to pay taxes.
Try using some common sense. They were intercepting phone calls from people with known links to Al Quaeda. Your attitude is sophmoric and absurd and I'll bet it will take someone close to you to get hurt before you realize it (did YOU know anybody that got killed in 9/11?, I did).
The British police have far more power than the American police (even WITH the patriot act). They no longer need to get court orders and neither should we. And guess what, they are effective. Why? Because they already learned the lessons you refused to with 20 years of the IRA. Your way doesn't work. There are ample examples of its failure.
The real absurdity here is that the idiot judge in the lawsuit didn't even require that the accuser prove they had actually been tapped. The judge ruled on "feelings". A bunch of reporters and lawyers "felt" they were being wiretapped. That is ridiculous. Looking for a branch of government that abuses its power, look no further than the judicial.
Why don't you guys go and make life difficult for an actual bad guy and not people trying to protect you for once.
-I
You had better hope so if you own any stock. Apple is the media darling so the sensationalist media has no motivation to do anything but rub apple's belly (just like Slashdot for the most part). The WSJ article was much more concerned over the irregularies since they apparently don't have to do with the options. The fact that they aren't defining the "other irregularies" encountered right away isn't good. If they lied to investors that is bad and the stock will suffer and so will management since investores can't trust what existing management says. If they are "just" incompetent that is also bad. CEO get fired all the time for things that the CFO was supposedly responsible for. The CEO is responsible for everything. -R
Ok, how about the WSJ article from this morning. You guys who are defending him are crazy. "Apple wouldn't say which grant to Mr. Jobs was at issue, though he received an option to purchase 10 million shares in January 2000 dated on the stock's lowest closing price of the month. Apple shares shot up in the following days. In yesterday's announcement, Apple didn't mention any grants to Mr. Jobs." "Irregularities" is financial code for "soon to be prosecuted". -R Apple Spots More Options Missteps Results Likely to Be Restated As Internal Probe UncoversAdditional 'Irregularities' By CHARLES FORELLE and NICK WINGFIELD August 4, 2006; Page A3 Apple Computer Inc. said a review of stock-option troubles turned up "additional evidence of irregularities" that will likely cause the computer maker to restate financial results. The disclosure, made late yesterday, marked a noticeable shift in Apple's posture over its options problems. Two weeks ago, the Cupertino, Calif., company said it didn't believe it would need a "material adjustment" to its financials unless its investigation turned up something else. Apple gave scant information in a news release issued yesterday, saying only that its anticipated restatement contemplates charges for compensation expense related to past options. Apple said it would delay filing its quarterly results. A company spokesman wouldn't detail the new findings, or even confirm that they directly related to option grants. Also not clear is just what the "irregularities" are. Other companies reporting option-grant problems have commonly said they found that grant dates they used "differed" from what they should have been. "Irregularities" bears a more serious tone; Apple also used the word a month ago when it first disclosed problems with option grants. It said then it had found problems with grants between 1997-2001. The computer maker is among the highest-profile names to be caught up in the stock-option scandal that is hitting many companies in Silicon Valley, and others across the country. In a number of cases, probes initially focused on the timing of option grants have unfolded into other areas. Mercury Interactive Corp., of Mountain View, Calif., which restated several years of results last month, found in a probe that its executives had been given loans to exercise options that in some cases weren't fully paid back. And Brooks Automation Inc., of Chelmsford, Mass., says an investigation found that two directors and its former chief executive signed a "false" document to allow the executive to exercise an expired option. The executive says his actions were appropriate. Apple spokesman Steve Dowling declined to clarify whether the new irregularities involved the timing of option grants, or other issues, though the language of Apple's news release suggests that the irregularities are somehow related to options. "We're refraining from making any further comment until the independent investigation is concluded," Mr. Dowling said. Apple said in its news release that it had filed a form with the Securities and Exchange Commission saying that certain of its past financial statements shouldn't be relied upon. An Apple spokeswoman said the company had filed the form yesterday. It wasn't available on the SEC's Web site yesterday evening, which the spokeswoman attributed to a time lag. Apple appears to have missed the 5:30 p.m. EDT filing deadline. More than 80 companies are facing federal investigation over options matters, and two former executives have been charged criminally. The probes are focusing on the practice of backdating, by which the grant date of an option is retroactively moved to a time when the stock price is lower. That is important because options give their holders the right to buy stock at a fixed price, typically the market value on the date they were granted, meaning the holder makes money when the shares go up. Manipulating this date to lower the "exercise price" gives the recipient the potential for extra profit or creates profit where none would otherwise have been made. Incor
Oh, so you are rebelling against daddy. That makes more sense. "Neocon"? Yeah, nice try. Keep reading your DNC talking points and maybe you can convince yourself they make sense. Never done drugs? Yeah, neither did Clinton hippie. Bible thumping? Do you just make this up? All the sudden is is all "neocon" and "bible thumping". Go back to your drumming circle until you sober up. Benefit of the doubt? Not this doesn't go against ANY principle this country is founded on. Do you forget that policemen are fellow citizens. I'm sorry you find you can't trust your cousin or father or whatever but you trust a airline pilot in much the same way whenever you fly. Besides, who is fighting to cover up the progam? Bush said he did it and will continue to do it. Get your facts straight. Let's remember, Clinton lied about sex UNDER OATH (and was also accussed of rape by numerous women). Bush SUPPOSEDLY lied but neither the 911 commission or anyone else has indicted him despite being loaded with unfriendly. Nothing has stuck but not for lack of trying (just ask Dan Rather). Perhaps these tidbit has escaped your third eye. By the way, Bush isn't even that rich. Well, certainly not compared to Kerry the billionare who pays less than 5% in taxes because he sponges off municiple bonds yet will raise your (foolish). You make no sense. Your views about religion are also off base. Why are you so afraid of little old ladies going to church and volunteering at soup kitchens? Sounds like you are the one who is in need of research. Sadly you may seem smart to your little friends but are sophmoric and lack the ability to think clearly. Good luck with that and lay off that pot. -M PS I lived in Holland. They aren't racist, they just don't like cultures that make no attempt to integrate. Try visiting on your next pot run.
Uh, the balance of power is to prevent any one branch from running over the others. If you are so concerned about maintaining this supposed balance why aren't you instead complaining about judicial activism? It is far more rampant and destructive since the executive branch is at least elected by the people. You dodge the obvious point with generalities. They have not broken any laws by monitoring inbound calls from international terrorists. You put idealism ahead of common sense but fail to realize that the enemy hasn't bought into any of the pillars of society you take for granted (like civility or desire to stay alive or the ability to read). They will never play by the rules and the they can never be contained if law enforcement can't improvise. Stop running your DNC program for a minute and think. As long as people strap bombs to themselves for Allah some rules will need to be improvised if the goal is within the spirit of the law. You probably won't really understand until you or someone you know is affected. R
Another post spoken from complete ignorance of MS products. I have a file server with 135 GB of user files. I take shadow copies every ten minutes of the data pyramid. I have a separate drive which houses the VSS info and have allocated 30 GB for this task. It is currently using 3.29GB and I have never seen it use more than 10 GB. This is enough to get me 10 minute snapshots back 24 hours on the data pyramid (when regular backups take over). The best part is that users can pull the previous versions on the mapped drive with a simple right click and without bothing me. Sorry anti-MS slashdotters. This is something MS got completely right. -M
I love how you call Bush supporters (1 in 2 people at the last election) dim witted but fail to even look into their arguments or views. Your views assume everyone on planet earth is nice like you. Sorry, it is a big ugly world like that and just because you are too deteched from things to see the threat doesn't mean they won't kill you when they get the chance. That is fine.It isn't your job to protect yourself, it is the government's. You are basically complaining about the government doing its job and protecting you. Credit card number? receipts? The IRS gets all of this stuff anyway. They are screening inbound calls from terrorists into this country. Use some common sense. Sure they COULD do more with the information. A policeman can shoot you in the chest with his gun and not file a report. Should we disarm the police because this MIGHT happen? You and the rest of the left seem quite paranoid and unable to recognize the differences that exist in human nature. You complain when the government is slow to act and complain when they are proactive. There is no pleasing you guys because you don't actually stand for anything but criticism and to continue an 8 year whine fest. Good luck with that.
>Have you ever been to another country ? Perhaps you should actually travel to places and talk to >people and turn off fucking fox news. Actually I have and but don't worry, I've grown quite accustomed to the know it all sophmoric attitudes of people like you. I've been 9 foreign countries In fact, I lived in one for two years in order to learn Spanish. Perhaps it is YOU that should travel because then you would see that even if you supposedly "lose" the freedom to make calls to international terrorists you are still more unrestricted than any place else. Who exactly is the "founding father" who "designed" this country. Last time I checked people elect representatives. We have division of labor so people can specialize. You have obvioulsy never dealt or spoke with a policeman or FBI agent (other than the ones apparently killed you cat when you were a child or more likely broke up your pot smoking drum circle). Their job is tough and would be impossible if we didn't grant them the benefit of the doubt in some cases. You trust them to carry a weapon but not to intercept phone calls from known terrorists? People like you are ignorant of the concept of the spirit of the law. You are the reason we need labels on children's costumes with useful information such as "cape does not enable wearer to fly". I'm sorry you can't stand the fact that Fox news exists (and no I don't watch television). Perhaps you would prefer Al Jazeera where they refer to suicide bombers as "martyers". "Another martyr died for Allah today" is quite different than "a suicide bomber killed himself and a bus full of school children". You have no idea what you are up against (I do, my family was Muslim). >Your willing to trust bush and his puppet masters because you believe in them. Imagine the shoe >ends up on the other foot with these laws still in place. Imagine an athiest liberal in the white >house, who instead of using his power to fight liberals, bash the media, and judges he bashed >christians, conservatives and the bible. This is why you are so out of touch. The shoe IS on the other foot. Ann Coulter is correct when she says the only religion in America is the religion of liberalism. I'm sorry, if 75% of reporters are liberals the press is biased. Before there was fox news 85% percent of the reporters were liberal. You seem to fear that others may think differently than you. There are just as many biased stories on CNN or in the New York Times as there are on fox news. You seem to be the TV type so try this, watch Glenn Beck AND John Stewart for a while. I'm much more likely to believe Bush because although you and other CLAIM he lied not even independent committies say that is the case. Clinton was easier. He lied under oath to my face (no need to determine what "is" is. What freedoms have been taken away from you? They are monitoring incoming phonecalls from known terrorists and terrorist collaborators. If they WEREN"T monitoring these phone calls I'd be worried. Once again, make friends with a policeman and ask him about his job. Most people aren't like you and human nature hasn't changed much since the time of Rome either. >They hate us because for the better part of 50 years we have been interfering with their lives in >one way or another. You talk of brute force controlling the middle east ? Guess who gave those >people their guns ? Their training and education ? Guess who put most of them in power ? Thats >right the good ole US government. How ? They had no supervision. They were fighting the "red >machine" so nobody questioned anything they did. What was the result ? We defeated an enemy that >turned out to be surprisingly weak, and in turn created an enemy that is surprisingly strong. Yes, interfering. We won't let them completely murder eachother as Muslims have been doing for years. I've seen textbooks from Palestine where they are teaching 8 year olds that Jews EAT palestinian children. Sure, you are right. Stay out of their way and everything will perfect. Except that this region had issu