Nonetheless, the stock price is actually a bit lower than before the 5c/5s announcement.

This is normal. Almost all Apple announcements have been followed by a drop in the stock prices:

• 2001: Introduction of original iPod. AAPL fell 5%
• 2002: Macworld Expo keynote: AAPL fell 4%
• 2003: Macworld Expo keynote: AAPL fell
• 2004: Macworld Expo keynote, introduction of iPod Mini. AAPL fell
• 2005: Macworld Expo keynote: AAPL fell >6%.
• 2008: Macworld Expo keynote, introduction of Macbook Air. AAPL fell >5%.
• 2008: WWDC keynote, introduction of iPhone 3G. AAPL fell 2%
• 2010: Introduction of original iPad. AAPL fell after second day.
• 2010: Introduction of iPhone 4. AAPL fell 3%.

 

stock prices for high-tech companies are not a valid way to measure the company's success in the marketplace

Precisely.

not everyone knows this, because it's bullshit. Bureaucracy isn't adding to the cost. Most of the time the cost is in line with private interests. It's just that when the gov't loses money it's just lost, but when the big corps lose money the gov't bails them out.

The most common reason you see gov't "waste" money is when they're pumping money into the economy to keep it going because too much of the wealth has concentrated at the top. You're not seeing waste, you're seeing socialism in the only way Americans can stand it after decades of anti-socialist propaganda from our corporate masters...

I keep hearing this. The paper work adds little or nothing. If you've ever worked with any large organization they always have large paper work requirements. It's necessary to keep employees from embezzling and/or giving juicy contracts to family.

The 30% comes from the fact that gov't contracts usually require higher paid union workers because a lot of the time the contracts are social programs designed to spread wealth in disguise. Think they old public works projects but without the stigma.

... his obviously satiric post ...

Thanks for that. I thought it was obvious. But these guys nearly had me providing an interlinear translations along the lines of ...

But then again perhaps an ironic statement is not itself the clearest way to alert the slower reader to the presence of irony.

The committee members that push it through will get swanky positions with the industries that benefit from DRM. And since the world economy is crashing and only a few are going to live the good life I suppose I can't blame them...

[Y]ou're a grade A asshole- I'll give you that.

Grade A? Why thank you. One does try one's hardest. I'm relieved that you failed to mention the nicht I carelessly omitted from the second German sentence ... you're too kind. And if I might repay your compliment ... however much you may lack of it yourself, you are at least able to acknowledge talent in others.

... your assberger's ...

Talk about bringing a knife to a gun fight. Seriously, if you can't do wit, don't even try. Go away and read some Oscar Wilde first, or watch a Woody Allen movie or two, or take lessons, or something ...

Is this practice meant to discourage regulatory capture, replacing it with some sort of regulatory "catch & release?"

From the details you provided, it sounds like you neglected to order a pizza before calling the fire department — is that what happened?

Do you mean to say that nuclear engineers are incapable of procreation?

Maybe you're right.

That would usually be the case, yes. As far as your clinical diagnosis is concerned, here's my advice: Don't give up your day job.

First off, don't [sic] me, boy. You misspelled it first.

Sorry granddad, I neither misspelled his name (you did), nor sicced you. Look! I sicced myself (which is to say I'm spelling it this way knowingly). Und es ist doch ganz klar wie dass buchstabiert ist, oder? Ich meine es ist mit einem 'ei' ausgesprochen. ... Mann!

... spouting off his ideas which is just as bad.

So terribly sorry there chief censor. I had no idea his works were on your Index Librorum Prohibitorum. But why do I have this feeling that you are still not quite getting it?

Seriously though, I will continue to quote Nietzsche where doing so illuminates some point, the sensitivities of the unread notwithstanding.

This made me laugh, thanks!

Which was the intent of the original post, glad you finally got there. And your most welcome.

did you bother reading your own link? "A Modest Proposal" was satire

Hold that thought for a while.