Either way Google doesn't have the nearly $400 billion needed to buy the MPAA companies anyway. It's also highly doubtful the shareholders of every company would even agree to the buyout in the first place even if they did.

Disney has a market cap of $104 billion. NBC Universal is owned by Comcast which is worth $109 billion. Your figures are off by quite a bit.

No.

Yeah because buying controlling stakes in huge public companies that have billions of shares of issued stock is soo easy to do. Oh wait it's not.

The "big boys" are worth $108, $104 and $71 billion. Google doesn't have the cash nor is their stock worth enough to buy them all in a stock swap. This is before the fact that Google isn't just able to purchase these companies because they say so.

To buy one of them would require shareholder approval. Google can't just decide on their own to buy them.

Bullshit. Disney's market cap is ~$104 billion. Comcast has a market cap of ~$108 billion. Viacom has market cap of ~$31 billion. News Corp has a market cap of ~$71 billion. Time Warner has a market cap of ~$54 billion. Finally Sony has a market cap of ~$17 billion. So to purchase all the MPAA member companies they would need ~$385 billion. They don't have that in cash. Let alone "several times over".

And that applies to my post how? What error did I supposedly make?

No I meant cogent. He doesn't make a very convincing or persuasive argument against education when he can't write any better than an elementary school kid.

It's always funny to hear your illiterate, anti-education rants. Maybe if you had taken some of those "fluff and filler" classes that maybe you could form cogent sentences?

It's a "joke".

So they've raised their standards? Maybe Dice is something right.

Sure, and where are the jokes, exactly?

You misunderstand his point. He is talking about people who are too risk-averse to allow their employees to try anything too radical or creative. Not that he is saying to weed out anyone but yes-men.