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OT: Guess I underestimated MSTR.....:)
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OT: Good Night, Alan, wherever you are.
Dr. Smith and Dr. Jones
Two doctors opened offices in a small town and put up a sign reading "Dr, Smith and Dr Jones, Psychiatry and Proctology".
The town fathers were not too happy with the sign and they proposed "Hysterias and Posteriors".
The Doctors didn't like that idea, and suggested "Schizoids and Hemorrhoids".
The town didn't like that one either and countered with "Catatonics and High Colonics".
Thumbs down again. By now the story was in the papers and suggestions began rolling in:
"Manic-depressives and Anal-retentives."
"Minds and Behinds".
"Freaks and Cheeks"
"Loons and Moons".
None of these satisfied one side or the other, but they finally settled on "Dr Smith & Dr Jones, Odds & Ends"
OT: MSTR beats consensus by 0.29.
Reuters
MicroStrategy swings to profit, stock rises
Thursday January 30, 5:41 pm ET
MCLEAN, Va., Jan 30 (Reuters) - Business software maker MicroStrategy Inc.(Nasdaq:MSTRD - News) on Thursday said it swung to a fourth-quarter profit from the year-earlier loss, on higher key software sales and a 27 percent expense reduction.
The company, which did a 1-for-10 reverse stock split last year, saw its shares rise 8 percent to $17.50 in after-hours trade on Instinet following the results.
The McLean, Virginia-based maker of software that scours business data for valuable trends, said its net income was $4.6 million, or 33 cents per diluted share. The result included restructuring, impairment and amortization charges of $2.9 million and a $2 million gain from the early, partial repayment of debt.
A year earlier, MicroStrategy had a fourth-quarter net loss of $24 million, or $2.61 per share.
Revenues fell to $42 million from $43.7 million last year, as a decline in services revenues more than offset a 9 percent increase in software license sales.
Looking ahead, the company forecast first-quarter revenue of $33 million to $37 million. It said its per-share results could be between a loss of 2 cents and a profit of 4 cents.
The company in March 2000 was forced to restate three years of profits as losses. Its stock plunged 62 percent in one day from its all-time high of $333.
MicroStrategy eventually paid $11 million to settle restatement-related charges with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. It also handed over $10 million in stock to shareholders to settle a private lawsuit.
Tin, in the past, some posters have shared ' private ' communiques from management, but none recently. Yes, I have written Alan and there has been no response ( expected ).
The Q&A generated no real discussion, because there was no real new information. Just the same old blah, blah, blah!!!
I sincerely hope that my concerns about HRCT are misplaced and that the company pulls it off. I would truly welcome a call from Hawaii telling me " See, I told you so!" I will provide you with my home number to do so.
Until then relax and watch your caffeine intake. LOL
There has been no response to the latest Q&A. I wonder if anyone here has heard from anyone in the company? How about it, you few ' insiders ' who seem to have a direct line to management and info before most of us here, what's the word???
Is it possible then that HRCT's management is NOT Chinese since they seem to do this repeatedly???
Understand, but weren't we to get NEWS of this pending BIG deal prior to our NEW YEAR???
Possibly a good day for HRCT to release some positive NEWS!
CBS MarketWatch
Stock futures pick up momentum as data comes in
Thursday January 30, 9:02 am ET
By Allen Wan
NEW YORK (CBS.MW) - Stock futures swung around Thursday on data showing that economy grew as expected in the fourth quarter, while jobless claims and employment costs remained down.
AOL Time Warner's (NYSE:AOL - News) massive $45 billion quarterly loss in the fourth quarter is expected to dominate market talk. It announced a massive charge to account for the declining value of the America Online flagship property. The media group also said Vice Chair Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, was leaving.
After a sluggish start, futures picked up momentum on news that the U.S. economy grew at a 0.7 percent pace in the fourth quarter of the year - bringing growth at a respectable 2.4 percent for the year.
OT: MSTR reports after the markets close today. Average consensus, for quarter ending 12/02, is 0.13. If numbers are better than this, look for it to break the 19.00 mark again.
OT: TFN - G/M! Glad to see that you are starting your day in a positive way! LOL
Tin - Do you have any concrete evidence to support your statement that " Hrct sits at the threshold of a new beginning with an acquisition that will put them into the center of the playing field." TIA
OT: Cisco vs. Major Chinese Company:
http://biz.yahoo.com/ibd/030129/tech_1.html
OT: LIFE, cont.
Fill the empty mayonnaise jar with beer first, and nothing else will really matter!!!
OT: When I see individuals like this, most of whom are ( fortunately ) not holding caches of weapons of mass destruction, I cannot help but wonder what went wrong with the " divine " formula for creating a human being! I will link my prayers with yours.
OT: That's interesting, being Italian, my family had the same advice! lol
OT: MSTR continues to move. Like the promise here. eom
OT: EZ, I know, he sniped me....ugh!!!
OT: If you're fortunate enough to be, say in AZ, you haven't even gotten up yet!
OT: TFN, I disagree. Individuals like this do not seek out asylum and obscurity. Can you picture any of the notoriously maniacal personalities in history growing old, peacefully and in obscurity? I think not. Therefore, IMO, the best possible scenario is termination; preferably by assassination or by a lucky early hit ( before the ground war begins )during a coalition air strike.
EZ - I thought "anticipation is 98% of the event" !! only referred to weekends! lol
Another day of languishing in Limbo. Even " negative " news would be better than nothing. It would afford all the optimists, on board, another buying opportunity. Heck, what's another few ( two? ) weeks!
OT: Coverage initiated on MicroStrategy ( MSTR ) by Pacific Growth Equities to " Over Weight "
What, No News??? eom
Is HRCT's volume and pps increase in Germany today the result of it's move here last Friday or are we to see a late day move here, too???
OT: Iman, it is impossible for me to forget about Pearl Harbor since my birthday is December 7th! You are well versed in military hx and I believe know to what my England, more specifically Churchill, comment referred.
I saw andi's post and will respect his wish to refrain from further public posting on this subject.
OT: EZ, and WHAT IF Hitler had listened to his military experts ( admirals/generals )? I am not so certain that our entering the war would have assured victory. Thank heaven he didn't because that, too, might have resulted in only andi's board! Off to the gym...
OT: I have never thought much about France and that nation's opinion/position of the US and our policies. However, very few conflicts have been as clear as that which resulted in WWII. Interestingly, the US was not inclined to take part in it until manipulated by others ( i.e. England ).
OT: tempaussie, G/M! My intent was not to ruin your or anybody else's morning, honestly. lol Thanks for taking the time to present another side of the debate. As for which will be deemed " evil/black " or " good/white " we will need to wait upon history.
OT: The following was sent to me by an individual who became a special friend, over 30 years ago, when circumstances placed us together nearly daily for two years. His brief comments follow the text of Dr. Sullivan's speech. I apologize for the length of this post, but believe it well worth the space.
Opening Remarks--Martin Luther King Day Chapel Service
Daniel F. Sullivan--January 20, 2003
There are two things I want to say to you today. The first is to urge you to read carefully as much as you can of the January/February 2003 issue of The Other Side Chaplain Kathleen Buckley and Director of Multicultural Affairs Rance Davis have provided for each of you in attendance today. In it the complicated, imperfect, dynamic and powerfully transforming leader we are here to remember and honor today comes alive in honest portraits where none look through rose-colored glasses but all find good reasons for the attention we give Martin Luther King, Jr. this day. You will find things like this, from the introduction by Dee Dee Risher:
Our exploration of King's life reminds us that we must be willing to let our heroes be flawed and struggling, at our sides and not over our heads. The various chronicles of King's life are candid about his humanness. King and others in the movement were traditional in their views of women and often dismissive of their contributions. His sexual infidelities have been widely reported. He talked candidly about his own cowardice. We need to let him be human. When we do, we might discover in him some of the struggles, failures, and losses of our own lives.
Let me also quote to you from the article by Vincent Harding:
"With the approach of another national holiday in his honor, the predominant public image of Martin Luther King, Jr. will again be the 1963 March on Washington. We will be inundated with the iconic scene: The Black Baptist preacher announces to the nation and the world, in unparalleled, magnificent oratory, "I Have a Dream!"
Truly, that hot August day in the nation's capital almost forty years ago is hallowed historical ground in the slow unfolding of the promise of American democracy. Both the man and that moment merit celebration. But our manner of celebrating reveals a deeply flawed and distorted understanding of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Brother Martin spent a fair amount of time in jail, but his worst imprisonment may be how his own nation has frozen him in that moment in 1963. Our national memory wants that triumphant, sun-drenched hero to stay right there, static, bound to the podium before the adoring crowds. We want to be lulled into contentment by his beautiful words, his familiar cadences. We want to keep him safely, unthreateningly, on a pedestal.
Our fixation on Martin's "Dream" is symptomatic of a dangerous collective amnesia. We insist on approaching King in a way that makes him easy to handle; we want King to fit our agendas. Increasingly, the nation wants to package him, market him--and thereby ignore him. The poet, Carl Wendell Himes, Jr. who was only in his twenties when Martin was assassinated, articulated this domestication of King eloquently: Now that he is safely dead / Let us praise him / build monuments to his glory / sing hosannas to his name. / Dead men make / such convenient heroes: They cannot rise / to challenge the images / we would fashion from their lives. / And besides, / it is easier to build monuments / than to make a better world."
I hope those snippets will indeed entice you into the whole.
The second thing I want to say to you is that it is indeed "easier to build monuments than to make a better world." I have been struggling a great deal, most painfully, in recent months with the question of what I am going to do personally to try to stop our nation, under the leadership of our president, from going down roads that I believe are disastrous for pursuit and attainment of the kind of just and humane world to which Martin Luther King, Jr., no matter his personal imperfections, devoted his life. What I have decided is that I must at least speak publicly--for myself, and not on behalf of St. Lawrence University. Not to do so on this of all occasions--devoted as it is to the memory and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. would, I have concluded, be an act of cowardice. That decision leads me to the following brief and agonized cry of concern.
I believe it will be a colossal, perhaps unforgivable, error to undertake a war against Iraq for the reasons our president is presenting us. I am not a pacifist, though I do believe that the kind of non-violent revolution that King struggled to initiate can be very effective when undertaken in a country that has a conscience, and he believed America has a conscience. I am in awe of the moral and political genius that led Gandhi and King to use non-violent political action to such powerful effect but do not believe it is a strategy for all politics and all situations. America should, in my view, deliver sharp, focused counterforce against terrorists who attack us, because a response that is non-violent in principle will not appeal to the consciences of those responsible for terrorism.
But such a response is no long-term solution. In the long-term, as a nation, we protect ourselves best against terrorism by behaving in the world in a way that inspires respect, even affection. To earn that respect, we must first respect others, and we must seek to be true to our own highest national values, first at home where poverty and inequality are growing and hope for more an more Americans is diminishing, and then also in our dealings with other nations. To become an international bully, barging ahead with a narrow and convoluted view of our interests, while being insensitive to the legitimate interests and aspirations of the people of other nations, makes America itself a highly dangerous international weapon of mass destruction.
I have heard no arguments from the Bush administration that come even close to convincing me that a war now with Iraq would be a just war. The public opinion polls make clear that Americans see Saddam Hussein as a bad person. But they also make clear that, even if Iraq does possess weapons of mass destruction, a strong majority of Americans cannot see justice in the expenditure of American and other lives to unseat him in a pre-emptive way. Political moderates among us must speak out loudly and persistently, so that the administration cannot cast opposition to such a war as in any way a politically extreme position. We should make it clear that continued pursuit of the policies on which our president has embarked, in light of such strong and broad-based popular opposition, is political suicide. I pray that the president does not have to learn that lesson directly because, if he does, thousands of Americans and perhaps hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and others will have died for no just reason.
In addition, by undertaking huge and unnecessary expenditures to finance a war with Iraq which must necessarily divert federal funds from critical social and educational programs, by introducing a proposal for a further highly regressive federal tax cut that will force even larger cuts in our federal social safety net, by weighing in as it has in the affirmative action case against the University of Michigan currently before the Supreme Court, and by attacking head on the hard won rights of women to reproductive freedom, this administration shows a hard fist instead of the compassion and commitment to justice, inclusion, and fairness of its political rhetoric. Where indeed would the president be today, as Frank Rich suggested in Saturday's New York Times, without the affirmative action policy at Yale that favors admission of the children of wealthy alumni? I do not believe the president is remotely in tune with mainstream America on these issues. His war posture and his tax policy are bad, not good, for business, and the St. Lawrence alumni I talk to around the country--especially those involved in international business--believe he is making a huge mistake. If he persists, we must turn him out of office.
Make no mistake. We live in very dangerous times. But a great deal of the danger we are in is because we--that is you, I and hundreds of thousands of others--are not standing up to the political machine our president has put in place. Martin Luther King, Jr. worried that he was a coward, but there is absolutely no doubt that he had the courage to speak truth to power. Each of us in our own way, guided by our own consciences, must do the same.
It is with a heavy heart that I feel I have to speak to you on these matters. They require far more development than I have been able to accomplish in these short remarks. None of this is simple. But I pray for a change of direction, and I wanted to share my growing worry about our country. I could not do otherwise on this day. I thank you for listening.
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Dr. Sullivan, I want you to know that I was very interested in the text of your Martin Luther King speech and have forwarded it to about 50 of my
family members and military buddies. I think it is so important for people like you to speak out on important topics. I realize that you must have contemplated long and hard before sending it to the media, and I realize that you might lose a
few alumni dollars, but more importantly, you might just save a few of your
students lives by avoiding having them go to an unjust war. I work in an
elementary school where the children say a non-violent pledge everyday. You
made the right decision. I wish more in your position would have the
fortitude to do the same.
I am not a pacifist either. I am a disabled veteran, injured in Vietnam,
and believe in fighting for what I think is right. I have been in a wheel
chair for over 30 years. I am a registered Republican and I thank St.
Lawrence University for my education often.
Keep up the good work and keep speaking out the truth on what you think
is right for our country. It is like my father used to say, "we may live
in the back woods up here in the N. Country, but that doesn't mean we are
backwards." You are an educated man and I know you are right by "thinking
first". Sincerely, XXXX XXXXXXX XXXXX, N.Y.
What's that saying? As January goes, so goes the year!!! DOUBLE UGH
OT: TFN, that makes you, in wwwilly's words, " FREAK-PROOF!"
TGIF - Ugh!!! eom
OT: Remember, I am in NY, the only thing hot here these last 8 sub-zero days is my oven! Looking for something to break with IMDS soon. Been climbing with good volume for a few days now.
EZ, helpful information. Appreciate your efforts. eom
Hrct is thinking of touching up the web site a bit...They would like some suggestions from the Ihub gang...What are some nice features that you would like to have included..
1. Current shareprice on the front page...Maybe even EZ's list of China favorites..
2. Current...Monthly - OS and Float data
3. Include a FAQ section for folks that don't get to the message boards.
4. A chart or diagram that depicts Hartcourt's business plan in an easy to understand way.
5. A timeline ticker that reveals when HRCT last updated their shareholders (days, hours and minutes from last update).
6. Something that reveals exactly what HRCT is focused on becoming and WHO they plan on using as a teammate.
7. A table displaying the various ( international ) exchanges the company's stock is traded on as well as it's spinoffs.
OT: Chinese Company Has Nothing to Say...
http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/030124/0522000159_1.html
OT: I am sure that someone will take offense, just give it a little time! lol
Is this accurate for BOTH ETLK and HRCT; Volume ZERO???
OT: Cisco Sues Chinese Company
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/030123/cisco_lawsuit_1.html