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by condor 17y ago
Agreed, it looks like the breakdown for '49-07 is $53B military $30B economic. I have no idea how that was committed etc., but it shouldn't be discounted the unique position Israel has been on the US Aid side, and what affect that could ha
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by condor 17y ago
"Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II. From 1976-2004, Israel was the largest annual recipient of U.S. foreign assistance, having recently been supplanted by Iraq. Since 1985, the United S
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by condor 17y ago
the way I look at it, ambition is your own personal goal/view/desire (directed inward) . . . arrogance is when you push your ambitions on others (directed outward).
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by condor 17y ago
The actual staff report linked in that article is well worth the read. These companies are basically running shady private tax schemes. No value-added. I'm glad the senate report provides a list of the 'partner' commerce companies that hav
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by condor 17y ago
"The last 3 years was a process you had to go through to get to where you eventually want to be. A very efficient process that not too many others ever get a chance for." Why not actually try to be what you 'eventually want to be', now . .
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by condor 17y ago
"Do you have any idea what the current financial situation would have looked like if the government had just let the banks collapse?" No, and neither do you. That's why its called a free-market. It's free to do anything. It's not a free-mar
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by condor 17y ago
Goldman's business was subsidized by the Government, in the form of funding Goldman's transaction partners, so that they could pay Goldman what was owed. In normal business if my customer goes bankrupt, even if I made the sale and was owed
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Google Comparison Ads: Mortgages(google.com)
1 points by condor 17y ago|1 comments
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Microsoft opens an Apple Store [video](youtube.com)
1 points by condor 17y ago|0 comments
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by condor 17y ago
couldn't agree more . . . just because something exists in a market doesn't mean it should. Capitalism is a system/strategy, how you apply that depends on your values (or what you value).
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by condor 17y ago
and again those are decided numbers, someone was convinced of those figures.
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by condor 17y ago
Only if you CHOOSE to ACCEPT outside investors, and CHOOSE a board that doesn't have the same vision for the company as you do. I'm no lawyer, but I'm guessing if you own your own business, your fiduciary responsibility is to yourself.
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by condor 17y ago
I think what Jason's getting at is to look beyond the offer/fiduciary responsibility mindset and to think bigger, to be motivated by passion and have grander ambitions than looking at one's business as "company + product + customer = offer/
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by condor 17y ago
I found it curious that there's an ad unit on the onenote product page http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/default.aspx .
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by condor 17y ago
based on what? we have a sense of prices, but how is the underlying value measured?
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by condor 17y ago
it sounds like they they raised a little over $30M, and the last $14M of that was @ a $140M valuation.
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by condor 17y ago
What a great resource. I wonder why steve jobs hasn't spoken at ted? most other great tech leaders appear to have held court there.
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by condor 17y ago
does it have to be a choice? why not create value with art, and exchange that value for money.
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Why There Are No Girls In San Francisco(whytherearenogirls.blogspot.com)
100 points by condor 17y ago|106 comments
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by condor 17y ago
I think it's mentioned that part of his company was sold to brad greenspan of euniverse/intermix(myspace) fame. I don't know how much this reflects on Andrew and/or mailbits, but brad greenspan and euniverse are know for, among other thing
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News Corp Sees Big Drop in MySpace Ad Revenue(clickz.com)
4 points by condor 17y ago|2 comments
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by condor 17y ago
If I had to guess I'd say vc oversight is part of a larger 'lets watch all the money in the system' initiative. Seeing as how the govt has pledged upwards of $12 trillion to bridge parts of the us financial system, I can understand why the
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by condor 17y ago
its not an aversion to making money, there's no way to survive without making it. I will never understand the glorification of making money as an end, its so obvious, it should go without saying, yet here we are with yet another big bucks l
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by condor 17y ago
really? I wasn't there, but it sounds more like running ads would ruin the product to them so it wouldn't be something they loved anymore. I'm amazed that the idea one should make money is so novel . . . it's like breathing, it should be
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by condor 17y ago
“'You don’t understand,' he told me. 'If I ran ads in it, it would taint my work.' There were a bunch of email newsletter guys who felt that way. In their stupidity, I found an opportunity." Amazing, they're stupid because they care more ab
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by condor 17y ago
we already knew that J.F. likes to approach anything to do with 37S from the angle of highest exposure and maximum cheese, that is disappointing, but I wouldn't let the messenger taint the message, those features of get satisfaction are 100
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by condor 17y ago
another great quote . . he even got the timing right ''I think we will look back in 10 years' time and say we should not have done this but we did because we forgot the lessons of the past, and that that which is true in the 1930's is true
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by condor 18y ago
I love it, everybody has an opinion because in theory everybody is a part owner . . . AIG will be a great case study on why companies are best managed as dictatorships and constrained by a marketplace. It'll be interesting to see what happ
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by condor 18y ago
I understand their deal, I just don't think manipulating your customers into making a purchase is a good longterm strategy, even if some of the customers get the joke . . . time will tell I guess. Also, props usually means proper recognitio
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by condor 18y ago
yes props for making each and every one of those customers feel like suckers, brilliant marketing move that's sure to pay off handsomely over the long term . . . although something tells me t-shirt hell's customers don't have a problem with

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