Posts by Field Marshal Von Krakenfart 1735 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jun 2009
If crApple are so desperate that they are comparing the Samsung Tab 10.1 to a harmful mis-branded drug, then the fruity firm can treat all their own fruity products as suppositories, good thing they have patented round corners (c) (tm).
Icon: thumbs up, guess what's on the end of it. . . .
Why is it an investors failure?
Weren't Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, the underwriters for the IPO, also running roadshows for the IPO as well, telling everybody that FarceBook was well worth $38 a share. I'm sure that was good advice for such reputable and upright firms.
Oh Hang on, Goldman Sachs, aren't they the same people that helped Greece cook the books when they joined the EU and shorted their own (sub-prime) mortgage backed financial derivative products into the market?
I think I see what the problem may have been....
Sir,
you can't short a stock within 30 days of its IPO.
Yes you can, it's only the underwriters of an IPO that can't engage in short selling for 30 days after the IPO.
Stocks aren't marginable within 30 days of their IPO either i.e. you can't use then as security against a potential margin call as the Fed and brokers consider then too risky an investment. Funny that, brokers have rules that protect themselves but not the investor.
There are plenty of ways to short trade a stock with out ever having to borrow the stock, contracts for difference is one that comes to mind
Sooooo....... according to the Reuters article "Options volume skyrocketed with bets ranging from a sharp rebound to a sustained selloff"
The speculation continues, it is no coincidence that this happening 14 days after the IPO, all those bloodsuckers traders that shorted FarceBook in the market will have completed their trades, and thrown away any naked short sells that didn't make money. Now that some of the bloodsuckers traders have a stock position on FarceBook stock, they are now trying to talk up the stock so that they can now sell the stock to suck more wealth out of the financial systems.
Morgan Stanley sitting on FarceBooks' reduced growth until the last minute of the IPO, Goldman Sachs shorting its own products in the market, JPMorgan Chase concealing a $2 billion loss on one of their hedge funds for a month.
The make the mafia look like the Girl Guides.
A pox on all their houses.
When it comes to odd spelling, blame the so called scholars from the middle ages who decided that the old english and old french words should have a spelling that reflected their latin roots.
Hence the OE/OF word "dette", to owe money, gets a 'b' from it's latin root "debitum" (or is it debitia???).
Not that this idiotic practice has stopped, don't split infinites, why? because in latin infinitives are not split, they're one word (that’s one theory). As for ending a sentence preposition, that is one rule up which I will not put.
Oh! One more thing, the correct spelling is "colour".
The Sweedish authorities have no jurisdiction to interview in the UK
<ring> <ring> "Hello Mr Assange, is it OK with you if we come to the UK and ask you a few questions?" No different from having a plod call to your front door requesting that you help them with their enquiries.
As for him fleeing Sweden, maybe the Swedes were hoping he'd go somewhere where they didn't have an extradition agreement
Quote: "based on both UK and EU law saying there's not enough to extradite him on."
Yes a lack of logic, but you are confusing two different things, law and justice.
I'm not going to evoke Godwin's law, but It's an easy exercise to find laws in most countries that are neither fair, equitable or just.
Would it not have been cheaper and quicker for a few swedish plods to come to the UK to interview him?????
I think Assange's big fear is that once he gets to sweeden he will be then extradited to the amerikan reich.
Meanwhile Abu Qatada cannot be extradited to Jordan in case he is tortured.
Wow! I’m suppressed at the number of people that don’t actually understand the concept of what freedom of speech actually is. The phrase about shouting fire comes form the case Schenck v. United State, look it up in Wikipedia if you want.
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. [...] The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent
If Paul Chambers had tweeted twatted that the airport was a dump, or that his employers were idiots then that could be construed as expressing an opinion.
However scrubber does raise an interesting point, if since there was no response and no danger of a response, and no danger of any harm, where do you draw the line?
For example if you saw an anonymous tweet saying “I’m going to rape somebody’s sister tonight” would you be worried, would you respond? Is there any danger of harm? There might be if the tweeter were a mentally disturbed person with a history of sexual violence.
I think the golden rule should be if you can’t say something sensible, don’t say anything at all. There is no such thing as privacy on the internet
Unfortunately, the right to free speech does not include the right to shout "FIRE" in a crowed theater.
3 lashes of the birch for being a dumb twat, 10 lashes of the birch for the even dumber twats who brought it to court.
This in a country that is quite happy to see it's own citizens extradited to 'merkin-land but can't send Abu Qatada back to Jordan.
What! The copyright mafiaa wouldn't overestimate copyright infringement would they???? They don’t exaggerate claims do they???????
The same way the Recording Industry Ass of Amerika and 13 record companies are suing Limewire, a company that has not existed for 2 years, for 72 TRILLION [1] dollars for sharing 11,000 pieces of music, or if you prefer, about 20% more than the estimated 60 Trillion dollars net worth of the planet , or about 6 ½ billion per song.
I’ve told them a gazillion times, don’t exaggerate!
[1] Short scale trillion = 1 x 10^12
Pity it's 616... because......
ASCII code for B = 66
ASCII code for I = 73
ASCII code for L = 76
ASCII code for L = 76
ASCII code for G = 71
ASCII code for A = 65
ASCII code for T = 84
ASCII code for E = 69
ASCII code for S = 83
Add them and you get 663, and add the 3 for bill gates the turd third
@Sean Timarco Baggaley
Corporations are OBLIGED to defend their IP
No they're not, they CHOOSE to patent every little shitty half baked idea so that they can do their up-most to screw other companies.
Glad to hear that lawyers have no idea how "obvious" a technique may be, I'm off to patent an idea that if lawyers brief doesn't fit on a single page of paper then it can be split up and put on multiple pages of paper. Does anybody know the name of the estate agent who sold Richard Branson Necker Island?
I'll bet Galileo's descendants are raging that he never patented the telescope.
I would have thought that would only apply to the older aluminum foil dielectric soaked paper high voltage capacitor, the sort you find in PSUs. But then you could remove the power supplies from the servers and mount them externally.
IMHO I don't think it would apply to the sealed tantalum bead or surface mounting types.
Just curious, does the oil in the "coolers" get hot enough to deep fry mars bars?
Paris, because like electrolytic capacitors, her capacity is usually prefixed with 'micro'
did you mean:-
The watchdog said it was unhappy with Google's initial response to 69 questions
OR
The watchdog said it was unhappy with Google's initial response to a 69 question
Paris, see previous comment line, Fnaar, Fnaar.
Kaspersky’s theory is that states will create handles on social networks that initially post information about illegal (dodgy OSs or Apple), amoral (AV peddlers) or forbidden products (AV on iOS) in order to attract an audience. Once followers or friends have been won, the feeds will turn to dispensing propaganda. Messages of this sort won’t be explicit, Kaspersky said, but will instead represent an attempt at mass manipulation.
“A post could say ‘Eugene Kaspersky frustrated by Apple’s iOS AV ban’ he said. The cumulative effect of such posts, he feels, could demoralise or agitate a population in ways that advance the agendas of AV sellers..
“You poison them, and little by little and you will have a huge conflict between manufacturers of fruity hardware and fanbois” he says.
You beat me to it Liz...
I also wonder was the late revised forecast from Morgan Stanley just an arse covering exercise. JPMorgan and those pinnacles of financial probity Goldman Sachs also updated their predictions about FarceBook.
What would be interesting to see is if any of these market makers have gone short on the FarceBook stock. I mean, what are the chances of a company like Goldman Sachs taking a short position on their own financial products, that would never happen, would it?????????
Only numpties get viruses
No, my son's PC was totally screwed up by a drive-by trojan that he got on a legitimate site. You don't have to be a numptie to get hit by a trojan/virus.
As Rune Moberg has asked, if you are not running any AV product, how do you know you don't have a virus?
I use 2 AV products, only 1 is 'installed' running all the time and I use the other to run occasional scans. Several times in the past year my AV has detected incoming intrusions and blocked them. My firewall log also makes for horrendous reading, and apart from 'blocked intrusions' the number of port scans is also quite high.
Yes, all these AV products slow down the boot time of my PC and they slow down the PC a bit, but I wouldn’t dare go online without them.
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