still LMAO! as former military i do admire the creative use of profanity.

the words "co" and "chief" are mutually exclusive when applied to "executive." that's their first problem.

missing: belt. from largest planet in outlying solar system. please return, no questions asked. planet of raging primates discovered loss and might come to investigate. we can't let that happen. reward if you act soon.

boeing moved to chicago because it wanted the best politicians money could buy after the death of scoop jackson and warren magnusun.

you (and we) do not have a democracy. never did. it's called a "republic."

is there some reason you used an s corp? why not a pass through LLC? no need for minutes, etc, much simpler administration.

agreed. i keep wondering if this got started under diana? although i'm not a fan, it WAS impossible to not notice her, and she was very interested in figuring out a way to do something about this problem. and it is a grave problem. hopefully as time goes on this, or something like this, will provide a cheap, effective solution.

how about "surreal"? sometimes i think the whole world is one big secret handshake and i'm not in on it. who could have made this up? it's positively...orwellian.

i couldn't agree more. that's why i voted other. my surgeon told me last winter, that the only kind of claim they couldn't deny is on life insurance. it's hard to dispute that the guy is dead.

stainless steel thermos mug keeps it hot and no icky paper glue taste :)

i put viking horns on mine.

ibm cell processor, into which they've dumped buttloads of dough, plus sun's development prowess in parallel processing.

i've worked at two publicly traded tech companies in the sales department. it is way worse than this article describes. besides the larger trends described, there are opposite effects that drive innovation out of the google type firms the author says are centralizing technology. the revenue recognition requirements on newly innovated technology for a publicly traded firm is so onerous that publicly traded companies simply get out of certain lines of business rather than go through this. for those of us keeping score at home: a small company can't do it for reasons described in the article, and large companies can't do it for reasons i describe. the whole SOX debacle is revenge of the bean counters. THEY were at fault for not calling enron on their bullshit, and now THEY are punishing US to "ensure" it will never happen again. had they been doing their jobs honestly to begin with, enron, et al would never have happened. now bean counters are enriching themselves by being the "expert" that can get ordinary transactions approved by the auditors. forget the complicated stuff. we REALLY need to throw off the yoke of excessive regulation if silicon valley is ever going to take off again.