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Since I was wiped on the Wavx bord, I repost here...
I'm out of all stocks, 100% cash. The crap piling up in the mid-east is going to drive costs through the roof for everyone, severly damaging profits. I may have a look at some oil stocks, but with $125/bbl in the near horizon, I don't feel like leaving my money in...
Some people have problems with simple maths...
Interesting/amusing chat between Bush and Blair
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article1183388.ece
(Comments from The Independent)
'Yo, Blair!': Overheard at the G8
Published: 18 July 2006
Bush: Yo, Blair. How are you doing? (Does he regard Mr Blair as an equal? What about 'Yo, Tony'?)
Blair: I'm just...
Bush: You're leaving?
Blair: No, no, no not yet. On this trade thingy....(inaudible) (Mr Blair is getting anxious that the World Trade Organisation is falling apart because some nations, including the US, are putting domestic interests before a worldwide free trade agreement)
Bush: Yeah, I told that to the man.
Blair: Are you planning to say that here or not?
Bush: If you want me to.
Blair: Well, it's just that if the discussion arises...
Bush: I just want some movement.
Blair: Yeah.
Bush: Yesterday we didn't see much movement.
Blair: No, no, it may be that it's not, it may be that it's impossible.
Bush: I am prepared to say it.
Blair: But it's just I think what we need to be an opposition...
Bush: Who is introducing the trade?
Blair: Angela (The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, will lead the trade discussion. That is good for Mr Blair. She is on his side.)
Bush: Tell her to call 'em.
Blair: Yes.
Bush: Tell her to put him on, them on the spot. Thanks for the sweater it's awfully thoughtful of you.
Blair: It's a pleasure.
Bush: I know you picked it out yourself.
Blair: Oh, absolutely, in fact (inaudible)
Bush: What about Kofi? (inaudible) His attitude to ceasefire and everything else ... happens. (Change of subject. Now they are on to Lebanon and the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan)
Blair: Yeah, no I think the (inaudible) is really difficult. We can't stop this unless you get this international business agreed.
Bush: Yeah. (Mr Blair is trying to push the idea of a UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon. That 'yeah' does not sound like a wholehearted agreement)
Blair: I don't know what you guys have talked about, but as I say I am perfectly happy to try and see what the lie of the land is, but you need that done quickly because otherwise it will spiral. (Meaning: 'Please, George, let me go to the Middle East and be a world statesman')
Bush: I think Condi is going to go pretty soon. (Meaning: 'No')
Blair: But that's, that's, that's all that matters. But if you... you see it will take some time to get that together. (Meaning: 'Oh well, all right, if you don't want me to. Just a thought')
Bush: Yeah, yeah.
Blair: But at least it gives people...
Bush: It's a process, I agree. I told her your offer to... (Meaning: 'Drop it. You're not going.')
Blair: Well... it's only if I mean... you know. If she's got a..., or if she needs the ground prepared as it were... Because obviously if she goes out, she's got to succeed, if it were, whereas I can go out and just talk.
Bush: You see, the ... thing is what they need to do is to get Syria, to get Hizbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over. (Mr Bush is expressing his belief that Syria is pulling Hizbollah's strings, while Mr Blair is hinting the Syrians might be up to no good as well)
Blair: (inaudible)
Bush: (inaudible)
Blair: Syria.
Bush: Why?
Blair: Because I think this is all part of the same thing.
Bush: Yeah.
Blair: What does he think? He thinks if Lebanon turns out fine, if we get a solution in Israel and Palestine, Iraq goes in the right way... (Here they might be talking about Kofi Annan, or they may mean the Syrian President, Bashir Assad)
Bush: Yeah, yeah, he is sweet. (Mr Bush is probably being sarcastic)
Blair: He is honey. And that's what the whole thing is about. It's the same with Iraq.
Bush: I felt like telling Kofi to call, to get on the phone to Assad and make something happen.
Blair: Yeah.
Bush: (inaudible)
Blair:(inaudible)
Bush: We are not blaming the Lebanese government.
Blair: Is this...? (at this point Blair taps the microphone in front of him and the sound is cut.)
Bush: Yo, Blair. How are you doing? (Does he regard Mr Blair as an equal? What about 'Yo, Tony'?)
Blair: I'm just...
Bush: You're leaving?
Blair: No, no, no not yet. On this trade thingy....(inaudible) (Mr Blair is getting anxious that the World Trade Organisation is falling apart because some nations, including the US, are putting domestic interests before a worldwide free trade agreement)
Bush: Yeah, I told that to the man.
Blair: Are you planning to say that here or not?
Bush: If you want me to.
Blair: Well, it's just that if the discussion arises...
Bush: I just want some movement.
Blair: Yeah.
Bush: Yesterday we didn't see much movement.
Blair: No, no, it may be that it's not, it may be that it's impossible.
Bush: I am prepared to say it.
Blair: But it's just I think what we need to be an opposition...
Bush: Who is introducing the trade?
Blair: Angela (The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, will lead the trade discussion. That is good for Mr Blair. She is on his side.)
Bush: Tell her to call 'em.
Blair: Yes.
Bush: Tell her to put him on, them on the spot. Thanks for the sweater it's awfully thoughtful of you.
Blair: It's a pleasure.
Bush: I know you picked it out yourself.
Blair: Oh, absolutely, in fact (inaudible)
Bush: What about Kofi? (inaudible) His attitude to ceasefire and everything else ... happens. (Change of subject. Now they are on to Lebanon and the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan)
Blair: Yeah, no I think the (inaudible) is really difficult. We can't stop this unless you get this international business agreed.
Bush: Yeah. (Mr Blair is trying to push the idea of a UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon. That 'yeah' does not sound like a wholehearted agreement)
Blair: I don't know what you guys have talked about, but as I say I am perfectly happy to try and see what the lie of the land is, but you need that done quickly because otherwise it will spiral. (Meaning: 'Please, George, let me go to the Middle East and be a world statesman')
Bush: I think Condi is going to go pretty soon. (Meaning: 'No')
Blair: But that's, that's, that's all that matters. But if you... you see it will take some time to get that together. (Meaning: 'Oh well, all right, if you don't want me to. Just a thought')
Bush: Yeah, yeah.
Blair: But at least it gives people...
Bush: It's a process, I agree. I told her your offer to... (Meaning: 'Drop it. You're not going.')
Blair: Well... it's only if I mean... you know. If she's got a..., or if she needs the ground prepared as it were... Because obviously if she goes out, she's got to succeed, if it were, whereas I can go out and just talk.
Bush: You see, the ... thing is what they need to do is to get Syria, to get Hizbollah to stop doing this shit and it's over. (Mr Bush is expressing his belief that Syria is pulling Hizbollah's strings, while Mr Blair is hinting the Syrians might be up to no good as well)
Blair: (inaudible)
Bush: (inaudible)
Blair: Syria.
Bush: Why?
Blair: Because I think this is all part of the same thing.
Bush: Yeah.
Blair: What does he think? He thinks if Lebanon turns out fine, if we get a solution in Israel and Palestine, Iraq goes in the right way... (Here they might be talking about Kofi Annan, or they may mean the Syrian President, Bashir Assad)
Bush: Yeah, yeah, he is sweet. (Mr Bush is probably being sarcastic)
Blair: He is honey. And that's what the whole thing is about. It's the same with Iraq.
Bush: I felt like telling Kofi to call, to get on the phone to Assad and make something happen.
Blair: Yeah.
Bush: (inaudible)
Blair:(inaudible)
Bush: We are not blaming the Lebanese government.
Blair: Is this...? (at this point Blair taps the microphone in front of him and the sound is cut.)
If this all comes off I would like to put faces to names but does it really have to be Vegas?
The Gold Coast is nice -- especally this time of year...
She's got her full winter coat (seeing as it is in full winter here in Oz).
Previous owners showed her when she was younger. She's 7.
Under which walnut shell does the "current" Wave board hide?
Does anybody care?
Can someone explain to me why running from an undesirable situation is better than facing it head on?
Does anybody face anything head on any more?
Yo!
I "acquired" a Border Collie about 3 months ago. Wish I had discovered them a long long time a go -- it would have saved me the horrible Cocker Spaniel decade my wife put me through.
re:"acquired", a family in the Central Coast area of Australia decided, for whatever reason (the reason they gave was not rational) they couldn't keep her (Mynx).
We happened to be on the Border Collie Rescue Association website the very day they put her up for adoption...
How lucky can a person be? It cost us a 90 minute drive (which admittedly isn't cheap given the current cost of fuel, but definitely still value for money)
Oh yeah...she loves carrots.
There's been remarkably little comment on this...
I will stand corrected. FIFA does not decide the Golden Ball...
"The winner of the award is not decided by FIFA, but by an international commission of journalists," Blatter said in Wednesday's La Repubblica. "That said, FIFA's executive committee has the right, and the duty, to intervene when faced with behavior contrary to the ethic of the sport."
...and Zidane may lose it for his butt-headed head butt.
...FIFA president Sepp Blatter says Zinedine Zidane could be stripped of his Golden Ball award for the best player at the World Cup due to violent conduct.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/07/12/D8IQJLV82.html
diving, falling to ground holding your ankle when you were lightly bumped in the hip. Letting out a yell when you're stuck no harder than a slap that any reasonable person could shrug off. All in the name of trying to get a foul against the other team.
Shameful behaviour. My 11 year old son knows that if he ever starts that kind of crap I'll pull him from the team and sign him up for ballet.
...and while Blatter tells the refs to shape up, possibly he should insist, INSIST that any case of intentional diving (simulation, they call it) be dealt with harshly.
Cristiano Ronaldo (as an example, and pretty much every player on the Italian team) is a player with a trunk load full of skills, and a horrible habit of wailing like a two-year old and hitting the fround like a ton of bricks anytime he's feeling like it.
Watch a rugby game, and the pounding that goes on there, then watch the pitiful histronics some players go through in football for the sake of a penalty/free kick.
I've warned my son (who is so far not showing any prediliction for diving/wailing) that if he ever decides to start the acting I'm pulling him from the team and enrolling him in synchronised swimming, or ballet, or some other girly, sissified sport.
What the hell?
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world-cup-2006/goal-drought-gets-blatter-thinking/2006/07/07/115224048699...
Goal drought gets Blatter thinking
July 8, 2006
FIFA president Sepp Blatter is worried that this year's World Cup might end up the lowest-scoring ever - and he wants to figure out ways to "make football more attractive again".
The 2006 World Cup has had 2.27 goals scored per match so far - a shade above the record low of 2.21 from 1990. This year's average would dip below that if no goals are scored in Saturday's Germany-Portugal third-place game and the France-Italy final.
"The football isn't that bad, but there aren't enough goals - and when there are too few goals, the public isn't very enthusiastic," Blatter said.
Blatter wants to implement changes that will help attackers break through increasingly sophisticated defences, but ruled out one proposal of reducing teams to 10 men. "If it's an open game, there is enough room for 11 players," he said, "but with 11 defenders there is not enough space."
AP
Blatter needs to leave well enough alone.
The style of soccer changes with time. This year there was an increase of fast pace attacking football. Most of the teams practicing that were still 'young' (not much World Cup experience yet) but as they mature in their respective conferences they will bring more of it to the world game and this boring-assed defensive game will soon disappear with the soon to retire defensive players.
Blatter needs to spend his time sorting out the pathetic quality of refereeing. I won't stop watching if the games are defensive, but I certainly will if the state of officiating doesn't improve for South Africa in 2010. I see better tean-aged referees at my sons under-11 games.
There were good refs this year, but the bad ones were really bad. So bad that the focus was on them, which it never should be.
Graham Poll was an astonishing mess. I've watched him officiate EPL games, and he's the go-to guy for contentious matches. He completely stuffed this one up (Australia- Croatia). The russian ref whose name I can't remember that sent 4 players off and issued a total of something like 18 yellow cards should have been nailed in a box and shipped home.
So, Mr. Blatter, leave the game alone. Fix the refs. They're embarrassing you.
In my defense, I've purchase a small bottle and try some on toast every week or so. Eventually it will grow on me (and it's a great source of vitamine B!)
I also believe it's real this time, but the RS scares me. I'll wait to see it out.
Didn't miss it, and I don't miss it.
I think the idea of running when things gets hot blatantly unAmerican.
Of course, I'm Canadian.
And I'm living in Oz. (Vegemite sucks)
I've posted over there a few times, but dislike the interface (I can't read multiple messages at a time) and generally am growing bored with the continued repetitive discussions. Except for the RS (which I fear will weigh the price horribly and has the potential to sink the company) there is nothing really new to talk about.
I'm not invested in Wave right now (wireless infrastructure stocks interest me more) but when the fallout from the RS clears I'll no doubt jump right back in.
Cheers, and it's good to see you posting again.
Cheers,
meetingwho?
"Clearly" you are, once again, out of your depth.
ETS 5.1 does support Japanese.
"Clearly the product does not yet exist in Japanese, which means NTT-Data has more than likely not even run anything on a Japanese computer"
Again, "Clearly" you've never dealt with a Japanese company.
You're wasting your time, but I guess it's yours to waste.
Strangely I hadn't noticed this before:
"It’s such a horizontal market. We got called by Dell the other day and asked what’re our plans for distribution in Australia. It’s like, how about somebody calls us when there’s ten opportunities and we’ll send a guy on a plane to spend two weeks in Australia. That’s part of our challenge in the market place today. We also don’t want to completely leave somebody abandoned, because they’re shipping product in Australia. Somebody is going to step in to fill the gap the longer that I’m not there. "
What's SKS's number again? I gotta give him a call...
wow.
give it a rest.
you're wa-a-a-a-ay over your head.
eamonnshute has not been in this investment since early January.
I am very clear on the part Wave plays, and as soon as the financial threat is gone I will be back in with both feet.
yeakiaow (or however it is spelled) was being sarcastic. I believe that 'TREND1' is having difficulty grasping the technology.
What an ignominious way to exit the world cup.
Replays show that Lucas Neill had nothing to do with Grosso's drop in the penalty box. About the only thing that DID have something to do with his drop was gravity.
But I'm not going to complain about the ref. Overall, a tremendously better job than Graham Poll, or the Russian ref whose control was absent for much of the Portugal/Holland game.
Australians have much to be proud of, and now that Australia is in the Asian group, with some real skill to play against, the team should just get stronger. The ball play, crisp passing and dominance of the game against Italy belied the pre tournament sentiment that the Australians would be a thuggish team. Chipperfield (driving a bus to make ends meet just a few years ago), Bresciano, Aloisi, Sterjowski and the rest of the relative unknowns (to the rest of the world) of the Socceroos played beautiful football.
(Trivia -- in the lead up to the 2001 World Cup, Australia beat the Solomon Islands 31-0, with 13 goals to Archie Thompson. Clearly NOT the challenge a growing team needs)
Are you surprised by the (relative) strength after the RS announcement?
Matt, I've got a (1) beside my 'Mailbox' tag, but when I click on it I have no public or private messages and the counter changes to (-1).
It's annoying as hell. Can you reset it? Or tell me how to?
Thanks
The faulty IBM press release was not in fact released by Wave. The erroneous reporting, discussed ad nauseum, came from a Ms. Cheng, who was a lousy reporter and researcher.
And the lead law firm in the Class Action suits are in serious trouble for their activities.
You could do some fact checking yourself.
Clanger
http://www.thisislondon.com/sport/articles/PA_SPOA12883631151143331A?source=PA%20Feed
FIFA's referees committee have confirmed that Poll, England's most high-profile match official, booked Croatia's Josip Simunic three times, only sending him off on the third occasion, in Thursday match against Australia.
In addition, he missed a rugby style tackle against Viduka (by the same Simunic) while he was in the box in a position to score, and a blatent handball by Tomas (Croatia) again in the box.
And, to be perfectly fair, I believe Kewell was offside when he scored.
If Australia had lost, the "three cards and you're out" gaff would have justified a rematch.
ERICY wasn't a real reverse split. Shares didn't change -- ADRs did.
My personal opinion (not that my personal opinion should sway anyone) is that this stinks.
Adios
Un-freaking-believable.
Australia wins its FIRST World Cup final game, 3 - 1 against Japan (and i should have been a clean sheet -- the Japanese goal should have been disallowed; one of the Japanese players took out the Aussie keeper before he had a chance to get his mitts on the ball. Not cool)
Now bring on Brazil and Croatia and get this group stage out of the way!
arghhhhh.
edit mucked up link (truncated by ihub)
correct link for story
http://www.smh.com.au/news/security/spy-revealed-in-microsoft-security-tool/2006/06/09/1149815292076...
*sniff sniff*
I think I smell a load of male bovine excrement.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/security/spy-revealed-in-microsoft-security-tool/2006/06/09/1149815292076....
Microsoft has acknowledged that it needs to better inform users that its tool for determining whether a computer is running a pirated copy of Windows also quietly checks in daily with the software maker.
The company said the undisclosed daily check is a safety measure designed to allow the tool, called Windows Genuine Advantage, to quickly shut down in case of a malfunction.
For example, if the company suddenly started seeing a rash of reports that Windows copies were pirated, it might want to shut down the program to make sure it wasn't delivering false results.
Ri-i-i-ight
From the article you linked
"During the hearings, Nicholson pledged new initiatives to protect private information, saying he ordered that no personal laptop would be allowed to access the VA network. About 35,000 VA employees have that clearance, although not all have access to veterans' personal information."
It's frightening to think that the public company that I work far has far more stringent security policies than the VA.
There is no way in hell that a personal computer would be allowed to access our corporate network.
World Cup opening ceremonies tonight
and Team America playing their hearts out for 295 million people who couldn't care less
What **is** the sentiment in the states?
Damn, 251 more than I have.
But I've got 237,545 of Nokia and 333,333 of QCOM...and I've been in both for ovver 5 years
(yeah, right)
You watch porn?
It's the fucking parking lot, you fuck-wit.
zip it up. somebody's looking.
Oh, BTW, I can prove you're at least partially gay.