Just use same day sale, and pocket the profits and pay the tax on REAL profits. Don't get greedy, think that you could exercise, hang in for a year and pay capital gains tax at 20% (or 15%) instead of income tax of 33% (or 27%).
Paper profits on exericse trigger real taxes in AMT. If the tax loses more than 15% in one year, you have a loss. Watch out.
I know people who were working for FreeMarkets. The exercised their stock when it was selling at 190$ triggering paper profits of 180$ a share and AMT. Paid AMT and when they liquidated their holdings a year later, they made a LOSS after counting AMT.
We might find ordinary humdrum factory foremen managing all the country hicks flocking Detroit to get a shot at the incrdible 5$ a day wages for factory workers. These shop floor bosses might have been worth 40 grand those days when they hung their hard hats. Adjusted for inflation it might be close to half a mill of present dollars. How did it affect the culture in Ford those days?
I don't know what you guys are all talking about. I visit The google main page today and I see the same old logo. May be they see that I am using Firefox with NoScript and AdBlock and used that info to decide I am not likely to be some kind of liberal leftie whacko and decide not to offend me with all that soldier stuff on the logo?
Whats up with that ancient brick like thing with an antenna sticking out being used as an icon for cellphones in slashdot. Jeez can't they get a more recent pic? If not iPhone at least something from the stone age like razr or a clamshell? They are still using that fossil from Jurassic!
All the following popular people are hailing the idea and adding their full support to this project.
Parvez Musharaff
Abu Nidal
Muktada al-Sadr
Mahmood Ahmadinajad
Osama Bin Laden
In a joint statement they said, it will make their operations more efficient and because their limited access to capital this project will be a boon to them and they will be able to expand their operations more places to serve their customers better. The signatories form a loosely connected organization (ticker symbol ALQD) and this press release contains information based on forward looking projections and should not be considered investment advice. PRNewsWire.
The compromised computers are running malicious code installed by the bot boss. Anything doable by the user is doable by the bot boss. They probably run cron jobs to reset the router settings to disable all filtering and exposing all the ports etc. Most users of the compromised computers don't know, or they don't care their computer is running malicious software.
I mean, this is after all slashdot. Forget all the +5 interesting/informative/insightful mods. Just purely looking at flamebaits and trolls, I don't see any reason to read John Dvorak.
We can do better flamebaits and trolls than John. And we have a better handle on tech issues. I am sure even the most flamebait/troll modded asinine juvenile here has better grasp of tech issues than John. Given the pagerank of/. the flames here have wider readership than his articles. So why bother reading what he is blabbering about?
Because he did not get his proper cut. Let us not hang our hats on the Govt of Nigeria or Azerbaijan. The real battle is for the mind share of corporate America. That is the fountainhead of all the money MSFT is using to subvert ISO or bribe vendors in third world countries.
Just an hour back there was this story about MSFT including some game vendor's malformed copy protection driver for six year into every damn computer in the world. What percentage of them played that software? Why a corporate server that might end up in a blade rack without even have a dedicated monitor or mouse got this driver? Why are the corporations not demanding full disclosure of what dlls are needed and what are not? Why isn't there a third party service that will advice corporations which components of Windows could be safely removed by looking at the company policies and use patterns?
As long as the customers accept everything dished out by MSFT patiently, there is nothing we can do to make it change. Education of the customers is the most important thing if we are going to rescue computing from this monoculture.
This is complete lunacy. Almost all corporations prohibit their users from playing computer games on their PCs. The fastest safest thing for MSFT would be to tell its customers, "If you are not playing macrovision protected games in your computer, just rename this xxx.dll or yyy.sys file."
Why was it not disclosed to the corporate customers that a dll or a sys file, that is exclusively used to play games published by a particular vendor is bundled and installed on ALL their computers? What are the priorities
here? We have been pained enough by MS-Office suddenly demanding you to pop in the origial CD/DVD-ROM to get a
particular module. But they don't want their users to be hassled to fetch the original disc to get a driver
used only by a subset of users. How screwed up this set up can be? Why are not the corporate customers demanding
a full disclosure of what is being bundled, and why and what can be safely removed from their computers?
Does the total cost of ownership studies include the cost of keeping up with these security disclosures and applying patches to the holes?
Origami is the art of making figures by folding paper. They seem to have fabricated the sonar emitters in a
flat piece and folded it into a hexagon. That seems to be the key to get multiple views.
Please describe how many LOC (libraries of congress) the data center will store. Also give the area in football fields and heights in statue of liberty and the energy consumption in number of homes that could be lit up.
Some Nigerian officials personal bank account got fattened. Nigerian government might or might not have gotten Windows free. What is there to misunderstand?
Well, if we generate enough publicity for this deal, may be all the customers of MSFT will start demanding equal treatment with Nigerian Govt. The would demand MSFT to sell its product at the same price Mandriva wold have sold their products. MSFT will tell small companies to just go fly a kite and will quietly cave in to big corporations. Mid level ones will get the deal or not depending on how tightly they are integrated with MSFT tools. But everyone will learn one cold hard fact. The only way to extract a good deal from MSFT is to be less dependent on its products.
How much Fear Uncertainty, Confusion, Extortion, and Doubt will be needed to maintain the revenue growth? (Someone please give me a good K-word to make a good acronym to upgrade FUD).
Given the way Linux users look at the Vista users, Haughty Heron might be more appropriate.
Given the higher security of Linux, it could be Hardened Heron too.
Given the cryptic command lines preferred by the unixy people, it could be Hackneyed Heron.
Given the effect it is having on Redmond, it could be Haunting Heron.
The whole fiasco is an example of a class of situations I haven't found a name for but which is similar to the Tragedy of the Commons.
Tell me about it! I found this site where geeks congregate and make very insightful and informative comments. Then comes this dweeb who makes inane jokes and gets a funny moderation. Then everyone else is forced to make funny comments to stay in synch. And eventually it degenerates with everyone saying the same thing about welcoming the overlords and what happens in Soviet Russia when a beowulf cluster runs the linux of the year. This is how democracy dies. Tragedy of the commons, indeed!
Even if MSFT has bribed the officials and gave away Windows for free to erase Linux from the Classmate PC, once word gets around, that the best way to squeeze a nice deal from MSFT is to install Linux first. Then everybody and his brother and his dog will ask for the same deal.
Further businesses too will realize their negotiating power with MSFT will increase if they could bluff that they are switching to Linux. Again if MSFT calls their bluff and they could not switch, then they would be a deeper hole. So at least a few businesses would realize that the best way to negotiate a deal with MSFT is to reduce their
switching cost to Linux as low as possible. Those companies will eschew deep ties and multiple levels of dependency on MSFT tools. This is how monopolies crack in free markets. Illegal acts by the monopolists can prolong, sometime by very long time, the cracks. But if the monopoly the Church had over the affairs of Europe for 1000 years cracked, why not MSFT's control over businesses for just 2 decades?
People, please don't lay all the blame for lame presentations on the software. Sometimes, the material presented is so boring, there is nothing you can do about it. Sometimes the presenters are such morons, they
would have screwed up any software. Sometimes, it is NOT worth the effort to produce a dazzling presentation. Given all the possible causes for dull or lame talks, it is unfair to blame the software for all
of it. May be all presentations should not be dazzling. The purpose of lame and dull presentations are to make us sit up and take notice of really good ones. After all, we did not make all the courses of a dinner dessert right? So why should every presentation be eye candy?
Think about it, Churchill, FDR and Hitler mesmerized whole nations by simply talking alone, without any other fancy aids. Ross Perot had just a couple of printed pie charts and elected Clinton in 1992.
Even if you prove that they were together, it still does not mean they were hunting together. It is possible that they have just finished their end-sem examn and were hanging out together to relax with some beer around a camp fire. Or they were playing three a side basketball. Or just watching TV. Or they five of them were the chumps and the sixth one is the Amway salesraptor. There are so many possibilities, these guys are jumping to conclusion creating the image of vicious hunters and contaminating the jury pool.
The centrifugal force he is talking about is the force along the length of the rotor. You have seen most helicopter rotors droop down at rest. As it spins up, these blades straighten up and become rigid. The rotor is trying to wrench itself free form the hub and run radially away from the hub. That is the centrifugal force he is talking about.
I'm curious about your strong opinion because my brother-in-law worked on the Osprey project, but couldn't ever talk much about it due to the military angle...
Because it is such a pork barrel project. As the cold war ended and the military aviation companies went belly and got merged, there is no real competition for technologies. V22 project should have been canceled after the first prototype
and a new competitive bidding contract must have been awarded for new designs. V22 as the project was executed is white collar welfare.
I am really sick and tired of politicians, especially from Texas, who bad mouth Washington, the Federal Government, the taxes etc etc over and over
again, and then come first in line to divert billions of dollars from the very same federal government, from the very
same tax pool.
I doubt you really know what "sell short" means, though.
Yes, all I know about shorting is what I gathered from water-cooler talk. I don't go to the stock market to make money. My skills are elsewhere. All I want to do with my investments is NOT to lose it in the wall street. Just plain vanilla ETFs of indices. And, yes, I know my limitations and I don't trade in options.
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I know people who were working for FreeMarkets. The exercised their stock when it was selling at 190$ triggering paper profits of 180$ a share and AMT. Paid AMT and when they liquidated their holdings a year later, they made a LOSS after counting AMT.
We might find ordinary humdrum factory foremen managing all the country hicks flocking Detroit to get a shot at the incrdible 5$ a day wages for factory workers. These shop floor bosses might have been worth 40 grand those days when they hung their hard hats. Adjusted for inflation it might be close to half a mill of present dollars. How did it affect the culture in Ford those days?
Really? I always thought it was the Monday. Because that is when the banks are closed and the freeways are less crowded. Thanks for the clarif buddy.
I don't know what you guys are all talking about. I visit The google main page today and I see the same old logo. May be they see that I am using Firefox with NoScript and AdBlock and used that info to decide I am not likely to be some kind of liberal leftie whacko and decide not to offend me with all that soldier stuff on the logo?
Whats up with that ancient brick like thing with an antenna sticking out being used as an icon for cellphones in slashdot. Jeez can't they get a more recent pic? If not iPhone at least something from the stone age like razr or a clamshell? They are still using that fossil from Jurassic!
Parvez Musharaff
Abu Nidal
Muktada al-Sadr
Mahmood Ahmadinajad
Osama Bin Laden
In a joint statement they said, it will make their operations more efficient and because their limited access to capital this project will be a boon to them and they will be able to expand their operations more places to serve their customers better. The signatories form a loosely connected organization (ticker symbol ALQD) and this press release contains information based on forward looking projections and should not be considered investment advice. PRNewsWire.
The compromised computers are running malicious code installed by the bot boss. Anything doable by the user is doable by the bot boss. They probably run cron jobs to reset the router settings to disable all filtering and exposing all the ports etc. Most users of the compromised computers don't know, or they don't care their computer is running malicious software.
All packets originating from botnets must set the malicious bit to 1. That is all. Then the system is 100% foolproof.
We can do better flamebaits and trolls than John. And we have a better handle on tech issues. I am sure even the most flamebait/troll modded asinine juvenile here has better grasp of tech issues than John. Given the pagerank of /. the flames here have wider readership than his articles. So why bother reading what he is blabbering about?
Just an hour back there was this story about MSFT including some game vendor's malformed copy protection driver for six year into every damn computer in the world. What percentage of them played that software? Why a corporate server that might end up in a blade rack without even have a dedicated monitor or mouse got this driver? Why are the corporations not demanding full disclosure of what dlls are needed and what are not? Why isn't there a third party service that will advice corporations which components of Windows could be safely removed by looking at the company policies and use patterns?
As long as the customers accept everything dished out by MSFT patiently, there is nothing we can do to make it change. Education of the customers is the most important thing if we are going to rescue computing from this monoculture.
Why was it not disclosed to the corporate customers that a dll or a sys file, that is exclusively used to play games published by a particular vendor is bundled and installed on ALL their computers? What are the priorities here? We have been pained enough by MS-Office suddenly demanding you to pop in the origial CD/DVD-ROM to get a particular module. But they don't want their users to be hassled to fetch the original disc to get a driver used only by a subset of users. How screwed up this set up can be? Why are not the corporate customers demanding a full disclosure of what is being bundled, and why and what can be safely removed from their computers?
Does the total cost of ownership studies include the cost of keeping up with these security disclosures and applying patches to the holes?
Origami is the art of making figures by folding paper. They seem to have fabricated the sonar emitters in a flat piece and folded it into a hexagon. That seems to be the key to get multiple views.
Didn't Ellsworth Toohey sue Howard Roark? For designing a temple that did not look like a temple or what?
sternum cut... done. Pericardium incision ... done. Heart stop ... done. ....buffering.....
Please describe how many LOC (libraries of congress) the data center will store. Also give the area in football fields and heights in statue of liberty and the energy consumption in number of homes that could be lit up.
Some Nigerian officials personal bank account got fattened. Nigerian government might or might not have gotten Windows free. What is there to misunderstand?
How much Fear Uncertainty, Confusion, Extortion, and Doubt will be needed to maintain the revenue growth? (Someone please give me a good K-word to make a good acronym to upgrade FUD).
Given the way Linux users look at the Vista users, Haughty Heron might be more appropriate. Given the higher security of Linux, it could be Hardened Heron too. Given the cryptic command lines preferred by the unixy people, it could be Hackneyed Heron. Given the effect it is having on Redmond, it could be Haunting Heron.
Tell me about it! I found this site where geeks congregate and make very insightful and informative comments. Then comes this dweeb who makes inane jokes and gets a funny moderation. Then everyone else is forced to make funny comments to stay in synch. And eventually it degenerates with everyone saying the same thing about welcoming the overlords and what happens in Soviet Russia when a beowulf cluster runs the linux of the year. This is how democracy dies. Tragedy of the commons, indeed!
Further businesses too will realize their negotiating power with MSFT will increase if they could bluff that they are switching to Linux. Again if MSFT calls their bluff and they could not switch, then they would be a deeper hole. So at least a few businesses would realize that the best way to negotiate a deal with MSFT is to reduce their switching cost to Linux as low as possible. Those companies will eschew deep ties and multiple levels of dependency on MSFT tools. This is how monopolies crack in free markets. Illegal acts by the monopolists can prolong, sometime by very long time, the cracks. But if the monopoly the Church had over the affairs of Europe for 1000 years cracked, why not MSFT's control over businesses for just 2 decades?
Think about it, Churchill, FDR and Hitler mesmerized whole nations by simply talking alone, without any other fancy aids. Ross Perot had just a couple of printed pie charts and elected Clinton in 1992.
Even if you prove that they were together, it still does not mean they were hunting together. It is possible that they have just finished their end-sem examn and were hanging out together to relax with some beer around a camp fire. Or they were playing three a side basketball. Or just watching TV. Or they five of them were the chumps and the sixth one is the Amway salesraptor. There are so many possibilities, these guys are jumping to conclusion creating the image of vicious hunters and contaminating the jury pool.
The centrifugal force he is talking about is the force along the length of the rotor. You have seen most helicopter rotors droop down at rest. As it spins up, these blades straighten up and become rigid. The rotor is trying to wrench itself free form the hub and run radially away from the hub. That is the centrifugal force he is talking about.
Because it is such a pork barrel project. As the cold war ended and the military aviation companies went belly and got merged, there is no real competition for technologies. V22 project should have been canceled after the first prototype and a new competitive bidding contract must have been awarded for new designs. V22 as the project was executed is white collar welfare.
I am really sick and tired of politicians, especially from Texas, who bad mouth Washington, the Federal Government, the taxes etc etc over and over again, and then come first in line to divert billions of dollars from the very same federal government, from the very same tax pool.
Yes, all I know about shorting is what I gathered from water-cooler talk. I don't go to the stock market to make money. My skills are elsewhere. All I want to do with my investments is NOT to lose it in the wall street. Just plain vanilla ETFs of indices. And, yes, I know my limitations and I don't trade in options.