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Just returned from COMDEX and I am counting "My Moe Money".
Getting hooked on more margin again, so I am sporting a YTD gain of 61%. You may remember "my Alamo" last year, so I am moving toward a 65/35 equity to loan ratio to play it safe. That is of course if I can control the temptation of buying Moe stocks. I am making up for a lousy 6% loss last year, so game plan is back on track. Greed is good, and win we must to make it fun!
The keynote address by Intel was a total disaster, and Intel PR people and the Intel Board of Directors should look at the tape and learn something. Intel missed a golden opportunity and disappointed 90% of the people in attendance. I do not blame President and CEO Craig Barrett for the shameful performance. He tried to elevate the discussions to a higher level, but not with much success. Intel was caught in a bad situation. David Hakala in the attached write-up cleaned up the version of what was said by omitting “ many, many dirty words, as bad as they get!”
The rotten low down dirty language that took place belonged at a nightclub and no place else. Intel owes all attendees a public apology!
daily.zdevents.com
"Technically Incorrect" goes over the top
By David Hakala, The Daily
There's never been a keynote presentation like the one hosted by Intel President and CEO Craig Barrett on Tuesday afternoon. But there should be!
Bill Maher, acerbic curmudgeon and star of the TV talk show Politically Incorrect, opened Barrett's satire of his satire with a note on the geekhood of COMDEX attendees. "You people are this town's worst nightmare: guys who don't like girls and understand math."
It got worse – and funnier – from there. In addition to Barrett and Maher, panelists included Bill Nye ("The Science Guy"), leading IT industry pundit Esther Dyson, and science writer/comedian Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller, who delighted in bullying the other boys to "shut up and let Esther get a word in edgewise!"
The repartee skipped across many topics. Maher suggested that Intel has an "upgrade agenda" to build quickly obsolete computers. Barrett replied, "That (opinion) is kinda typical of middle-aged Americans. But 70 percent of homes with kids have computers."
"Yeah, white kids," retorted Maher, shifting discussion to the so-called Digital Divide between computer haves and have-nots. Nye avowed that computers will get "so cheap so fast you won't be able to avoid owning one if you buy a toaster." Dyson noted that low-income families are buying PCs at a faster rate than more affluent families, "because they see (technological literacy) as their best way out" of the trap of poverty.
Dyson focused on another gap in the Information Economy: "only four percent of Silicon Valley executives are women."
"So what if women just don't want to do computers," argued Maher. Nye argued that "technology made by people, and if it's not made by all kinds of people then it's not as good as it could be. I'm a geek, but we don't want to trust geeks to run society."
Inevitably, the topic turned to what drives the IT revolution. Jillette noted that "you gotta have sex and shopping early on in any technology or it's not going to take off." Maher, ever the killjoy, replied, "I had sex on a computer once, and I was sore for a week!"
But Dyson got in the last and arguably the best zinger. When Maher complained about the computer-controlled windows on his car sticking, Esther noted that "we also have computers whose Windows stick!"
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The Humble One sez: I am not a prude. I have been to nightclubs all over the world, but the setting for this kind of filth was totally wrong: We were stone sober! To “swallow” this smut a three drink minimum was definitely needed.
Piously smut-free humble carl
PS: What happened to the catalogs by Victoria's Secret? I am no longer getting my copy.
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