The average was getting skewed upward and they had to be exported. Can't wreck a perfectly good stereo-type.

Is it possible that this is, already, the influence of Mark Hurd? If there are no $'s coming into a group, it gets cut. Show me

Yes, those insurance companies need to maintain their awesome 3-4% profit margin. Disconnect the consumer purchase decision from the product pricing and pricing becomes irrational.

No reason you can't dither your address a bit. Pick an address of someone 1/2 mile from you or so and choose a phony name. You district still gets the money and you didn't give away anything (except your taxes). Why do I get the feeling that this will be just as successful as the stimulus bill.

Actually if you look at who is paying the bulk of the taxes, this is mostly true already. The top 25% pay 85% of the taxes.

Well after reading the Southwest blog posting, it appears to me more of size rather than weight consideration.

http://www.blogsouthwest.com/blog/not-so-silent-bob

It more than total weight. Its weight AND balance in an airplane. As a private pilot I can understand the thought process that might have gone on in the captain's head. He needed to reduce weight(either total or from that part of the airplane). He could unload multiple lighter people or one bigger person. Since we have no idea where the weight of the luggage and the location of his seat it is unclear whether unloading luggage would have worked. In the ideal case the one person (and only his luggage) would cause less business damage than multiple people or just leaving people's luggage behind. Of course, in this case, he was wrong.

The key to having a pay-walled site is that you have content that people cannot live with. The Wall Street Journal is one such site that has been profitable almost from day one. The NYT already tried to pay-wall the editorials once and they nearly had the writers quit because they had lost their audience. This could be a serious mistake for the NYT.

Next, he'll invent a bomb that doesn't look like a science project.

My friends and I used to carry our BB guns around the suburban neighborhood. By today's standards we would be considered, if not terrorists, at least in serious needs of counseling and immediate suspension from school.

It is true that the lower end inkjets overwhelming make their profits via supplies and cost per page is not overly competitive (as in NOT). It is also true that the higher end business inkjet products are designed for low cost per page. They generally have longer life print heads and larger ink supplies. There have been some claims in the marketplace that these higher end products can have lower cost per page than equivalent color laserjets. However, if you just need monochrome there are some inexpensive laserjets that can't be beat when you look at overall cost of ownership.

Private peer-to-peer network...

http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/

...SAAS infrastructures. Geez my spelling stinks today.

Unless both network reliability AND latency can be guaranteed at a reasonable price, the risks of placing the whole business on the Cloud will be excessive. I work for a large fortune 500 company where we have all of our IT services centralized and even in this case where we control the intranet we have 2-3 short outages/mo and long latencies during certain hours and days.

Bottom line, I expect the Cloud to coexist with more traditional computing. Less critical services could go to the Cloud, essential services will remain in more conventional locations(or fully owned/controlled Clouds/SSAS infrastructures).

And I don't want to pay for all you people that keep breaking bones and such on your bikes. I have a deal. I'll pay for my health care and you pay for yours.

I can remember a time when there were a few companies like IBM, Honeywell, Sperry, and Univac which totally dominated computing. Mainframes were getting bigger and more expensive and only an "ivory tower" set of individuals truly had access these devices. Then these upstarts in the Silicon Valley came up with these new-fangled personal computer things/toys and the whole industry went on a 20 year restructuring where the likes of Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, etc. made fortunes. When I first saw an Apple II, I had no idea where personal computing would end up. It looks interesting, it was cool from a techie perspective, but who could imagine how it would change the world as we know it. Then you get things like the internet which took close to 20 years to ignite and another discontinuity occurred. The internet by itself would have been nothing. The personal computer by itself would have been relegated as a smart typewriter. The two together -- WOW!. We are definitely in a period of relative stability and huge growth is not happening. Globalization is depressing salaries. However, even that will equalize at some point. I work daily with people in Singapore and they used to be the "cheap" engineers. Now we both commiserate how China and India are getting more jobs.