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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Mynok

Not worth any hard feelings. [:D]

I've been fortunate to only have to work for private companies. Much prefer that environment. Don't know what I would do if had to do otherwise. I'll deal with that pit if it ever shows up. [:D]

The line of corporations existing to make money for their shareholders might have been true in the past.

Today many a corporation is run by management which only cares in enriching itself. Many modern features of modern corporate life allows management to disregard the interests of their shareholders.

Which brings up another 'evil' of the whole public thing: most shareholders aren't people. They are other corporations, i.e. mutual fund and investment companies. Huge opportunity for a lot of evil and we had a recent perfect storm of it in the financial sector.

In a world run by messed up humanity, anything that reduces accountability is a bad thing and should be avoided.

People are comforted by being able to 'hand off' some of the inconvenient viscitudes of modern life to another set of hands so that they can do things that may be distasteful for the general public. Most people don't know how to invest or want to take the time and effort to do so, so they hand it over to a mutual fund investment company or buy an ETF that will do the same thing for 'em. They don't want to see the wizard behind the curtain, dude. Witness how few people want to know the gritty details about how food is produced for them as an example. They don't want to think about how, they only care about the bottom line mostly. Transparency isn't the same as accountability.

I'm OK with that duality / hypocracy.

I want the corporations in which I invest to be transparent in their financials, their annual statements, their quarterlys and their other dealings with shareholders. Everything else, including value judgements, is my domain. I don't care if Philip Morris produces and sells cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, so long as they're straightforward that that's exactly what they intend to do. And continue to give me a yummy 6.5% dividend yield return.

If I had a beef with what they do, then I wouldn't buy 'em. I also wouldn't claim the intellectual or moral high ground because I-by default or by design-chose not to do my homework and didn't know that my advisor bought some of 'em for Beta reduction in my portfolio.

For those that decry the curtain between mutual fund / money managers and their money, there's a simple solution: invest in non-public corporations or sit in cash. Anything else requires your acceptance of personal fault by either comission or omission.

And don't even get me started on 'living wage' or 'fair trade', please.

ORIGINAL: jeffk3510
Now it is time to go play trains at my parents house after supper.

ORIGINAL: Mynok


That's very strange. What type of Mac do you have?

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

I just found out from Apple that I have to use the 32 bit Windows 7. Ok, I can do that. [:D]

Why is that Mike?

No drivers for 64 bit Windows 7 version in Mac BootCamp?

BTW, you will have 3.2+ GB of RAM when suing Windows 7 32 bit (i.e. you will loose 700+ MBs - that that is not big deal since no programs actually use that much RAM anyway apart from specialized ones or the virtualization that I, for example, use regularly)...

Also, I always suggest Windows 7 32 bit to anyone with <= 4 GB RAM - less problems with 32 bit drivers compared to 64 bit Windows 7 drivers! [:)]


Leo "Apollo11"

ORIGINAL: Mynok

Hadn't heard about the 64 bit issue vs. 32 bit issue but then again the version of Win7 on my Core2 Duo "era" Mac uses the 32 bit version of 7 so it passed under my radar.

I have no troubles running 64-bit Windows 7 on my Macbook Pro with 4GB of memory. That's why I was curious what kind of Mac Mike had and what kind of RAM. RAM size could very well be an issue.

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: jeffk3510
Now it is time to go play trains at my parents house after supper.

You lucky, lucky bastard....[:D]

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

ORIGINAL: Mynok


That's very strange. What type of Mac do you have?

I have a Mac Mini. Not bad for the price. I got windows installed and then boot camp did it's thing. Still missing some drivers:

PCI Simple Communications Controller
SM Bus Controller
Ethernet Controller
Network Controller
Bluetooth USB Host Controller

I still can't get on the internet. When I try, it says it's missing the network adaptor driver.

I did get the driver installed for my monitor. It still wouldn't give me any option other than 800x600. I had to head out for an appointment. Going to reboot it now to see if that makes a difference.

ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Mynok

I didn't see T on today. Unusual for that massive spambot cluster. After his moaning yesterday, makes me a bit concerned.

Did see him pop up on Facebook earlier today though. Maybe just taking a break. [8D]

Kristian is using Facebook? [X(]


Leo "Apolllo11"

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

I'm using Lion.

Does this mean anything: Windows is using "Standard VGA Graphics Adapter". The resolution is greyed out at 800x600. Makes AE pretty worthless. I can't do anything because I see only about a third of the screen. [:@]