Media impressions
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Are jobs at all in decline?
wolfbinary wrote:
Are jobs at all in decline?
Based on figures reported in the US, they are in decline in greater percentages than 2003, and some are beginning to speak in whispers about the possiblity of double-digit unemployment for the first time since the early '80s.
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All this stress over imaginary numbers. They should just freeze all the stock markets for a week. Sit back and watch the planet keep on turning. It's all just a bunch of kids playing with baseball cards with our faces on them. Seriously, a company makes millions in profit, but doesn't meet the expectations of a pretentious twat, so he lowers their ranking, causing the company's stock to fall.
Cheetah. Ferret. Gonads. What more can I say? - Pete O'Hanlon
Richard Jones wrote:
Seriously, a company makes millions in profit, but doesn't meet the expectations of a pretentious twat, so he lowers their ranking, causing the company's stock to fall.
It isn't the pretentious twat, it's the millions of lemmings who listen to him...hmmm, I like that alliteration :) FWIW, during the Internet boom, the company of which I was half the programming staff had trouble getting investors...we believed (a) it was because our business was a real brick-and-mortar with web enablement instead of Web-on-Web-for-Web (the cool thing), and (b) we were already making a 10% profit. Humans are not rational creatures, whatever their pretentions.
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Richard Jones wrote:
Seriously, a company makes millions in profit, but doesn't meet the expectations of a pretentious twat, so he lowers their ranking, causing the company's stock to fall.
It isn't the pretentious twat, it's the millions of lemmings who listen to him...hmmm, I like that alliteration :) FWIW, during the Internet boom, the company of which I was half the programming staff had trouble getting investors...we believed (a) it was because our business was a real brick-and-mortar with web enablement instead of Web-on-Web-for-Web (the cool thing), and (b) we were already making a 10% profit. Humans are not rational creatures, whatever their pretentions.
cpkilekofp wrote:
we were already making a 10% profit.
Yup, that was your problem, why would I want to invest in your company for a miserly 10% annual return when my Initrode stock is doubling in value every month. :wtf:
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
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All this stress over imaginary numbers. They should just freeze all the stock markets for a week. Sit back and watch the planet keep on turning. It's all just a bunch of kids playing with baseball cards with our faces on them. Seriously, a company makes millions in profit, but doesn't meet the expectations of a pretentious twat, so he lowers their ranking, causing the company's stock to fall.
Cheetah. Ferret. Gonads. What more can I say? - Pete O'Hanlon
The problem goes deeper: The profit is in the millions only because some pretentious twat thinks it is in the millions. Business 101.
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The problem goes deeper: The profit is in the millions only because some pretentious twat thinks it is in the millions. Business 101.
That is deep, man. I think, therefore I am rich. :-D
Cheetah. Ferret. Gonads. What more can I say? - Pete O'Hanlon
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If you whack a bell hard enough, it will ring for quite a while.
A lot of the media are whacking something else...
Software Zen:
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cpkilekofp wrote:
we were already making a 10% profit.
Yup, that was your problem, why would I want to invest in your company for a miserly 10% annual return when my Initrode stock is doubling in value every month. :wtf:
Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall
Most of the companies competing with us for venture cash at the time were dead two years later. We were private at the time; we needed capital to go public.
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That is deep, man. I think, therefore I am rich. :-D
Cheetah. Ferret. Gonads. What more can I say? - Pete O'Hanlon
:D Practically, you'd need someone else who thinks that, too AND is rich enough to back it up. But these are technical details that we can work out for sure. ;)
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A lot of the media are whacking something else...
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary Wheeler wrote:
A lot of the media are whacking something else...
Let me give you my address. I need a new keyboard. :-D
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Gary Wheeler wrote:
A lot of the media are whacking something else...
Let me give you my address. I need a new keyboard. :-D
:rim-shot: Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week. Try the veal, it's to die for.
Software Zen:
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