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Cost problem lacks bumper sticker solution

Cost problem lacks bumper sticker solutionThe problem isn't with the weath of Americans!What a crock of shyte! No the problem is multi-fold.1. Corporate greed is preventing solid reliable AND affordable health care for Americans.2. Lack of political fortitude to break the stranglehold on the American worker by corporate greed.3. Lack...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Insurance, American Worker, Medicare, Corporate Greed, health care

Discussion threads 2007-11-26

HP rejects compensation proposal

HP rejects compensation proposalSarbanes Oxley Section 305"The first proposal would have allowed HP's board of directors to recoup bonuses paid to executives in the event of a restatement of earnings "Doesn't Sarbanes Oxley cover this, I thought this was one of the reasons CEOs are campaining against it?"Section 305: Officer...

Tags: Benefits, Corporate governance, Corporate Greed, compensation, issuer, compensation proposal, board, Hewlett-Packard Co.

Discussion threads 2006-03-16

No more sequels in DVD hacking case

No more sequels in DVD hacking casethis was wrong as well" Napster, however, was successfully sued by the five largest record companies for copyright infringement, forcing it into bankruptcy."busting people misusing tools and not the tools themselves is the answer, there was legit uses for napster, but...lots of people were...

Tags: Sales strategy, Consumer electronics, Sales force management, P2P Pirates, Napster Inc., DVD, hard way, sales, movie, Corporate Greed

Discussion threads 2004-01-05

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The emergency room myth busted

ok Dana 1 troll 0 This is a real sucker punch that i never saw coming ....Dana you are getting nastier by each post what next chomsky on the reading list :)thx for they excellent link well its hurt Racism at the heart of healhcare reform opposition.Who are more likely...

Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, health care, emergency room myth, Odds Ratio

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

Survey: IT workers eyeing security certifications

No government healthcareIf the Gov goes with this socialist health_care scheme it will be the end of the free market.With Billions in waste from fraud in medicare/medicade and welfare running rampant with no checks in place.All we need is this community leader telling people we need to go TRILLIONS more...

Tags: security, security certification, survey

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Senior IBM exec among those charged in Wall Street insider trading sting

Greed on Wall Street has landed six people - including a long-time, high-level IBM executive - in handcuffs after the FBI charged them with being involved with "the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history." In all, the six netted illegal profits of more than $20...

Tags: Hedge Fund, FBI, Wall Street, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Chiesi, MOFFAT, Federal Government, Investment, Financial Services, Government, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Time for Palm to give up the iTunes sync nonsense!

Apple is leveraging the monopolyYou got your guys crossed1If M$ would do anything similar there would be a revolt.We need to be consistent and call out the bad guy: Apple.palm is wrongpalm could simply use the xml file of the itunes library apple has been providing for years for interoperability...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, palm, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Palm Inc., bad guy, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

EC ramps up PR war with Intel (by publishing 518 page decision)

Not a big surpriseThe EC is a protectionist tool extorting technology and money from the creative genius of the US and other countries outside the EU. If you are successful, you are a target.RE: EC ramps up PR war with Intel (by publishing 518 page decision)Well that says it...

Tags: Intel Chip, Intel Corp., page decision, PR War, public relations

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Microsoft to detail planned changes in its fiscal reporting structure

won't save themNo matter how much monkey boy tries to obfuscate this criminal enterprise, it will still go down in flames.Microsoft Cooks Bookshttp://www.aaxnet.com/news/M990112.htmlMicrosoft fills the "cookie jar" in good times and dips into it in bad to create an appearance of steady growth. FTC does not approve of this accounting...

Tags: Litigation, Vertical industries, Operational accounting, Financial accounting, Financial services, government, fraud, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

iPhone users strangling the AT&T network

Network BandwidthIn all fairness, I doubt that any carrier in the US would have been ready to handle the massive amount of data streaming across it's 3G network that iPhone users have generated. If a carrier like Verizon were to offer the iPhone, a lot of people would jump...

Tags: Smart phones, AT&T Corp., Apple iPhone, network, iPhone Users

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

Amazon gets bullied, pulls purchased e-books from Kindles

Amazon gets bullied, pulls purchased e-books from KindlesDTPALet's hope somebody decides to sue their butts off under a state's Deceptive Trade Practices Act -- claiming that an item sold has qualities, characteristics, source, certification, approval or etc., which in fact it does not have (e.g., claiming non-kosher products are kosher)....

Tags: E-books, Amazon.com Inc., e-book

Discussion threads 2009-07-17

To the Moon: Boeing, the Rocket Foundry

To the Moon: Boeing, the Rocket FoundryResourceAn excellent resource on the Saturn program is "Stages to Saturn", by Roger E. Bilstein. It is part of the NASA History Series (NASA catalog number SP-4206), and is still available (US$50, + shipping) from the US GPO (http://bookstore.gpo.gov/subjects/sb-222.jsp).While being somewhat dry as...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Rocket Foundry, Boeing Co., Saturn, F-1

Discussion threads 2009-07-11

Judge's idea to outlaw links won't save newspapers

Judge's idea to outlaw links won't save newspapersPerhaps a kindle like device?Get rid of paper, and sell a yearly subscription with a Kindle like reader. The yearly subscription would help offset the hardware costs.Get rid of the paper, or charge extra for it like cellular companies do for optionsTo...

Tags: news industry

Discussion threads 2009-07-02

High drama and low points in RIAA trial

High drama and low points in RIAA trialRichard, can you shed some light on a couple things.I don't know all the details of this trial so I'll talk in general terms about downloading files from a P2P or other source.Ask anyone in this forum and they will tell you I...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), RIAA, original work, P2P

Discussion threads 2009-06-17

Open letter to Microsoft: It's time for a single version of Windows

Open letter to Microsoft: It's time for a single version of WindowsOne Windows to rule them all........Jason, your suggestion is, in my opinion, an excellent and eminently sensible idea. It won't happen because of three things: profit, greed and Microsoft's concentration on what suits it best rather than the...

Tags: Operating systems, Tablets, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, single version, Microsoft Corp., Open Letter

Discussion threads 2009-06-12

H-1B legislation to watch - What it's really about

H-1B legislation to watch - What it's really aboutDICK DURBINYou link to his page right in that top paragraph... yet you still can't get his name right?RE: H-1B legislation to watch - What it's really aboutThere are thousands of highly skilled Americans that are unemployed that are willing to take...

Tags: Obama, H-1B, H-1B legislation, worker

Discussion threads 2009-06-05

Ballmer calls Obama taxes a moving issue

Ballmer calls Obama taxes a moving issueThe real problem...Is income taxes in general. Where did we get the idea that they are acceptable? The solution is to go to solely consumptive taxation -- thereby eliminating the entire income tax code -- and DO SEVERE CUTS TO SIZE OF...

Tags: Taxes, Personal finance, Operational accounting, payroll solutions, Outsourcing, Steve Ballmer, Obama tax, Microsoft Corp., income tax, income

Discussion threads 2009-06-05

Sergey Brin: Newspapers can still prosper but need time to "figure it out"

Sergey Brin: Newspapers can still prosper but need time to "figure it out"It boils down to Need or GreedI think newspapers by themselves are fine. Its the corporate newspapers that are hurting because of greed (much like the auto industry, the only difference is newspaper companies aren't able to receive...

Tags: Sergey Brin

Discussion threads 2009-05-28

Sony reports $1 billion annual loss, first in 14 years

Sony reports $1 billion annual loss, first in 14 yearsIs this accounting jugglery ?With Amazing products like1>Sony Ericsson mobiles2>Sonay PS33>BlueRay4>CyberShot digital cameras5>NoteBooksand several others.I guess something is fishy in Sony's balance sheet, Sony wants some reason to layoff several thousand employees and fill with young talent.They hurt themselvesIf you read...

Tags: Blu-ray, Consumer electronics, DVD, Sony Corp., annual loss

Discussion threads 2009-05-14

EU to levy huge fine on Intel, hearing set for Microsoft

EU to levy huge fine on Intel, hearing set for MicrosoftLet 'em have it.Because it won't change their behavior in any way. Instead of issuing a fine to the company, the EU should fine the shareholders. You want to see some quick action in a company's attitude change?...

Tags: Web browsers, Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp., huge fine

Discussion threads 2009-05-10