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To: Bald Man from Mars who wrote (51947)	1/29/2006 11:29:17 AM
From: UncleBigs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

I wouldn't short Google. I think they have plans to rip apart Microsoft with open source code and very cheap network computers that won't require a Windows operating system and Microsoft Office. It's about time that someone take away a ridiculous $500 per computer for monopolized software. I think Mircrosoft will hit single digits before Google hits double digits.

To: Bald Man from Mars who wrote (51947)	1/29/2006 11:33:21 AM
From: shades	Respond to of 110194

Some guy is trying to tell me GOOGLE BASE is the future: billburnham.blogs.com This potential “hit list” includes: Homestore (HOMS) Description: Homestore.com’s main business is operating Realtor.com, the biggest real estate listing site on the Internet. Realtor.com is official site of the National Association of Realtors and has a direct connection into the NAR’s Multiple Listing Service (MLS) which has for some time been the database “of record” in the residential real estate industry. Homestore also operates sites with apartment and new home listings. Content Availability: Very high. Almost every real estate agent now operates their own site independent of Homestore/Realtor.com. What’s more, these sites tend to offer richer content with longer descriptions and more pictures than Homestore/Realtor.com. Index Affinity: Very high. Sell side realtor’s (and owners) want the widest possible distribution of their listings. Process Simplicity: Very high. Homestore/Realtor simply aggregates and displays listings and offers no real process other than basic search. Comments: Homestore/Realtor.com appears particularly vulnerable to attack. It is quite possible that search engines can create not just a similar but a superior site thanks the large amount of high quality content that is readily index-able and the crazy realtor-friendly data restrictions that Homestore abides by. Thanks to the NAR affiliation, search won’t put Reator.com out of business, but it will put tremendous pressure on its current business model. He also has the top 5 most shorted stocks in tech and software: billburnham.blogs.com Baldie I found a way for you to make some money - bald head advertising - hehe strange-ebayuk.blogspot.com auction-desk.com item 7526802115 (Ends 07-Jul-05 02:34:51 BST) - ADVERTISE ON MY HEAD 50% OF THE FINAL SALE PRICE DONATED TO CHARITY - starting bid £399.00 Postage costs: £3.75 ??

To: Bald Man from Mars who wrote (51947)	1/30/2006 7:14:17 PM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Book Release: "$200 Billion Broadband Scandal" Message 22115078 Baldie my old friend, they are ripping our farking baltz off and laughin all the way to da bank! $200 Billion Broadband Scandal New investigative ebook offers a micro-history of Verizon, SBC, Qwest, and BellSouth’s (the Bell companies) fiber optic broadband promises and the consequence harms to America’s economic growth because they never delivered and kept most of the money, about $200 billion. New York: This is one of the largest scandals in American history. America is 16th in the world in broadband and the US DSL current offerings are 100 times slower than other countries such has Japan and Korea. How did we go from Number 1 in the web to 16th in broadband and falling? But more importantly, are customers owed $2000 for a fiber optic service they paid for but never received? Did towns and cities, libraries and schools, government agencies, and every residential and business customer subsidize new networks that never showed up? And did America lose $5 trillion in economic growth, $500 billion annually, because of these missing networks? Broadband Scandals is a well-documented expose, 406 pages and 528 footnotes. Using the phone companies' own words (and well as other sources), the book outlines a massive nationwide scandal that affects every aspect of state of the Internet. Not only the web but broadband, municipalities laying fiber or building wifi networks, not to mention related issues such as such as VOIP, cable services, the cost of local phone service, net neutrality, the new digital divide, and even America's economic growth. The fiber optic infrastructure you paid for was never delivered. Starting in the early 1990's, with a push from the Clinton-Gore Administration’s "Information Superhighway", every Bell company — SBC, Verizon, BellSouth and Qwest — made commitments to rewire America, state by state. Fiber optic wires would replace the 100-year old copper wiring. The push caused techno-frenzy of major proportions. By 2006, 86 million households should have had a service capable of 45 Mbps in both directions, (to and from the customer) could handle over 500 channels of high quality video and be deployed in rural, urban and suburban areas equally. And these networks were open to ALL competition. In order to pay for these upgrades, in state after state, the public service commissions and state legislatures acquiesced to the Bells’ promises by removing the constraints on the Bells’ profits as well as gave other financial perks. They were able to print money — billions of dollars per state — all collected in the form of higher phone rates and tax perks. (Note: each state is different.)