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by nekojima 15y ago
This is the concern I have for one of my planned sites I will launch soon that will have ad-content. I am searching for viable alternatives to integrate into the page with AdSense (or have ready for quick addition or on secondary pages), be
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by nekojima 15y ago
The site owner is rather lucky he has the option to go to a council like this and that it only took four months. Many site owners are without that protection, option or the social network to make enough fuss to have Google overturn the deci
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by nekojima 15y ago
"It appears they would still be profitable without Zynga." That assumes many of those Zynga users would still be on, or use Facebook as often, if it wasn't for Zynga or other games on the platform. The significant amounts of time spent on F
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by nekojima 15y ago
Using GAAP or HUAP? (Hollywood's Unacceptable Accounting Practices) :-/
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Please see my explanation to the other comment. Thanks. Edit below in response to your edits. In the US, options can be written from the day of an IPO and in the case of the Facebook IPO would likely be from existing retail (employees) and
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by nekojima 15y ago
I was suggesting an investor could use call-options and put-options to hedge against up or down price movement from the IPO price. Options are derivatives which gives the owner the right, but not the obligation, to sell or buy a stock. If a
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by nekojima 15y ago
I'd suggest a sophisticated investor would hedge with derivatives in anticipation of the substantial downside risk. At the $100bn valuation there would likely be far more downside risk than upside, despite the likely initial upside buying.
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"One looks at the spread between Apple's COGS and Apple's list prices and wonders how it can be reasonable that Apple captures that whole spread." Because COGS is what Apple pays Foxconn (and other manufacturers) to produce those items. Fox
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by nekojima 15y ago
Usually its the 3TF list, of Tibet, Taiwan, Tiananmen and Falun Gong. There are other occasional topical words that are added, such as early last year Jasmine, including Jasmine tea being banned and just before that in late 2010, references
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I dislike Timeline for three reasons. - When some of my friends' Timelines open, it takes ages for it to load and then every other program I might have open on my laptop drags, if I leave that tab open - It is far more difficult to follow t
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by nekojima 15y ago
A few years ago I walked along an ocean beach and digging down into the 'sand' found that it was actually very small fragments & grains of plastic that had accumulated to a depth of at least six inches on this particular beach. Having r
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Accumulating 'microplastic' threat to shores(bbc.co.uk)
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My mother, who is almost 70, received four of these calls last year. The first time she initially panicked, but wrote down a lot of information, including a callback number and they number they were calling from, during the thirty minutes s
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by nekojima 15y ago
I'd have hoped branding was a skill taught at "Western" and their top-notch Business School could have helped them avoid this disaster. Given I am in the same province as this university, I actually had to look up which school he was talkin
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Targets can be laser painted/marked by a drone or more usually a secondary source and followed by a drone on the specific signature. This is currently actively being done in several combat theatres. It is highly likely to be already happeni
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Considering I spend most of the year travelling around or living in East Asia, my best choice is just to avoid the US completely, including transit flights (as we now have our passports checked). I know the chances of being asked anything,
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Except at two shows a day, that's $60 in a month. Already more than my current cable bill with 200+ channels. If you count what you watch, or more likely an average US TV viewer watches, per day, that could be ten or fifteen half hour or ho
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"You have 5th amendment rights against self incrimination." My concern is while that is often stated, those people aren't sitting in the detention centre with you for hours while your digital devices and the material on them is being search
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by nekojima 15y ago
If you are asked if you have "pirated" material on your laptop or various external media devices, and you do, how to respond? "Not to my knowledge." or "I'm sorry, but I cannot answer that question."? Which would then likely raise the alarm
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The way to "destroy" Hollywood is to encourage decentralization, as has been occurring for the past twenty or thirty years. With film & TV production moving outside of southern California to Canada and other US states, the localized pro
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by nekojima 15y ago
The average RoR of big-budget movies is less than the average RoR of low-budget movies, as well as a higher risk for potentially lower reward. There are financial very successful (in terms of $100k's/a rather than millions of dollars) movie
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by nekojima 15y ago
I am happy to be called a geek, nerd or expert. Thank you for the complement. :-)
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Finally the DOJ is launching a case against someone in the top 1%!! Perhaps they didn't buy (aka donate to) enough Congressmen & Senators to protect themselves... :-)
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Zahra Kazemi, an Iranian-Canadian dual citizen, was severely abused and murdered in an Iranian prison in 2003. There was little the Canadian government could do but to send a very angry letter. This issue still highly affects Iranian-Canadi
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by nekojima 15y ago
"Corporatism" as a concept has existed since the 19th century (identified by that term) and so did exist in the 1920s for Mussolini. Corporatism has similar aims as corporativismo, which is the Italian for corporatism.
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I'd much rather use Google than the "medical" alternatives that were available a hundred years ago or are still widely used in developing countries. These can result in increased pain, suffering and deaths because of poor diagnosis or idiot
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I can not imagine anyway in which Ron Paul could ever "represent" me.
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In some markets WalMart is losing market share or decreased revenue growth because it has priced itself above what the 'lower class' can afford. This is largely why dollar (or less) stores have done so well in recent years in North America.
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I met with the CEO of a small software company a few weeks ago and we discussed this. Operational security is a topic I've long been curious how software companies deal with. They have just thirty programming staff, so the operations are di
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None of these books will help for the major issues or challenges confronting investors in 2012. Any one of the half-dozen plus major issues would or could in any other normal year result in a major financial crisis and/or recession. The boo

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