You will reconsider when sites tell you to disable all ad blockers and hosts files that block ad sites or you will not be able to view the content.

No I won't. I'll just remove that site from my bookmarks file and never go back.

My understanding is they had to do a bit of exchange shopping before they found one to do the IPO. IMHO, it's a Chinese company with Chinese books, AKA probably cooked. The ownership is pretty muddled.

IMHO, if you read the ra ra stuff (sell direct from China, network effect, economy of scale, etc) it looks like a great stock. But if you're a nervous nellie like me the Chinese accounting and muddled ownership make me think of Monty Python's RUN AWAY RUN AWAY.

Cramer loves BABA, interesting to see where the stock is in 6 months, and if the stock tanks what the effect on Cramer will be.

I suggest TrooKrypt.

When I was young I was a night owl, even working the night shift for 4 years. Got a day job that kinda killed that, then in my mid-30s I decided I wanted sunlight when I got off work so I turned into a morning person. I'm up 5-6 AM every day with no alarm.

CSB

Back in the 80s my company had 2 VAX 11/750s. They got obsoleted and the company wanted to get rid of them. So one of our system admins, a kid going to UCSD, took one home, along with a hard drive (separate unit). He installed it in the laundry room of the condo he was renting and used it for a year before moving out. When he moved he just left the VAX behind.

what happens when you give a government agency all sorts of money and tells them to be creative.

No thanks, I'll stay in the private sector.

Qualcomm has a high end ARM attached to all sorts of radios, including 4G and GPS, and dozens if not hundreds of GPIOs. I can see lots of applications for autonomous robots (farmers checking fields or picking crops, the state checking trails, companies cleaning floors/windows, vending machines that phone home when they need a refill, etc etc etc).

Qualcomm isn't necessarily in the business of making cell phones, they're in the business of selling chips.

It got us a pretty cool cover of Space Oddity.

I'd be wanting to work at 110% of my ability 24/7, if I was forced to learn/use a device foreign to me I'd be pissed. I don't care if it's a surface, iPad, or chalkboard, let me work in a way that's most productive for me.

WTF does that even mean? Is there 1/3 of the expected lithium? Or something else?

I learned years ago to work in CD increments. As in, put on a CD, work, when the CD is over get up, pee, get coffee, and walk around a bit to get the kinks out. Repeat as needed.

else it might have been teenage me shooting off my home-made rockets.

/ yep, I'd be in gitmo nowdays for half the crap I did as a teen

True dat. I was in Jr High (grades 7-9) in the 70s and I spent a lot of time in chemistry class pushing mercury droplets around with my finger.

Don't care how many celebrities got their nude selfies exposed, nor various websites' responses, nor that at least 1 celebretard was underage when she took her pix.

If the person who coined 'fappening' comes to San Diego and drops me a line, you get 1 free beer.

Anything is better than the way I was taught history. In high school it was nothing but names and dates. No context, no motivation, nothing.

About 30 years ago there was a show called Our World on TV. It gave context, explained motivations, and in general made history pretty damned interesting. Too bad the show only lasted 1 season.

Then I had a college history class. Yep, back to names and dates and not much else.

History can be interesting, the way it's taught in school is a sham.