Posts by ecofeco

Well, you're not connected to the right people with the right schools, now are you?

There's your problem!

Re: through the competition of the free market comes the prosperity and equal opportunity

And look at all the stans downvoting you.

The bad intent of every corporation is proven over and over, yet people still believe the fairy tale, on a website that shows examples of corporate malfeasance and jiggery pokery, every, single, day.

I wish the stans would find somewhere else to gaslight and astroturf.

They insist the benefits will trickle down. One day.

Re: Smoke and mirrors

"They have made mockery of capitalism"

No, it's always been that way.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/06/offshoring-wealth-capitalism-pandora-papers

Re: The title is no longer required.

They are in the good company of thousands of other corporations, aren't they.

Re: Victory! for a month

Every walled garden attempt of the Internet has eventually failed.

I'm loving each failure.

There's a lot of corporate stans that hang out here.

Re: 5% WTAF

Most Americans have no retirement fund.

Most Americans like to blame the worker, but the fact is, you can't save what you are not being paid.

Re: Not sure...

Wow. So not much has changed in the last 10 years. This was my experience as well.

One big circle jerk producing absolutely nothing.

Re: Forget the legalities a minute

Every single day, in fact.

Growing a corporation is so last century. Asset stripping and stock boosting is what all the cool kids are doing.

Re: Forget the legalities a minute

It will never make sense because psychopaths, sociopaths and narcissists are never logical.

Re: Gee what a surprsie

Did we read the same article? Or do you (and those other down-votes) work for cisco?

Thousands of failure point. Breaches already happened. Not even cisos's first few dozen times this has happened. I'm pretty sure I did not imagine those words. Oh wait, there they are right there in black and white.

Oh ho ha, you almost had me going there for about an... attosecond. Yep, right there in black and white.

Take the piss somewhere else. An admin worth their salt would not accept junk hardware not fit for purpose to begin with. Yet here we are.

Re: Thermodynamics

Uhm, just pop the cover off?

I find thinly veiled negligee capitalism titillating!

(apologies to Monty Python)

Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown.

Nobody in their right mind turns down large sums of money for a legal transaction. This is the world we live in and money makes the world go 'round.

Re: Sounds identical to the M&A approach

This is almost EVERY M&A playbook.

What most people don't know is that an M&A is mostly leveraged, i.e money was borrowed to buy the target company. Very Large sums of money. This is done for many reasons that would take an entire school semester to explain. But mostly accounting trickery. All quite legal of course. But Schrodinger and his cat often figure prominently.

So cutting expense to the bone is required after the purchase.

Most M&A are NOT about expanding their market and therefore sales, but more of asset stripping and elimination of competition, thus being able to raise prices in that market, forcing the former customers to either buy at the new rates or find some alternative. And let me tell you, customer inertia is a very real thing. It's comes under "Rate of Retention" is very coldly calculated.

I could on for hours, but you get the idea.

An oh how I LMAO when people talk about supply and demand and somehow benevolent self correcting market forces. Such naivete would be charming if it wasn't so prevalent.

Re: Stability inversion

I've watched biotech companies come and go for 20 years.

They seem the most volatile of all the tech bro companies.

Re: Stability inversion

Product improvement and innovation are SO last century.

Go vulture capitalist or go home!

(in case anyone forgot that El Reg's mascot is very appropriate in so many ways)

Re: After buying Activision Blizzard for $69bn...

Right? Those bad business decisions just don't pay for themselves, you know?! And certainly not from the executive board or shareholders! Why the nerve of such a thought!