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Discussion of sexual exploits, gay or straight, is never appropriate in a professional context. And requesting that someone refrain from discussing personal issues is always reasonable, in or out of the office. This is a question of basic etiquette. It is not a civil rights issue. Martin

More than anything, this reveals the type of women you hang out with. What you describe is common among women who grew up in broken homes, with alcoholic parents, or were victims of sexual abuse. Behavior like this has much more to do with a woman's father than her husband. No, I think it has...

I'm a Democrat, and a liberal, and I would love to see McCain win the Republican nomination. I respect McCain and his politics, and I believe he would make a good president, even if I don't agree with him on every issue. And Democrat who can beat McCain would probably make a good president...

Sure it's a technicality. You made a factual observation that was factually incorrect. What woman want sexually is a powerful man. Doesn't mean that gay men are no good to women; for the most part women love to hang around with gay men, because they understand that sex is not all that a woman...

I'm not saying you can't. Think what you want! However, in my experience, people who speak positively about the '50s did not live through them, and those who did live through the '50s don't have a lot of nostalgia for that era. Talk to some elderly folks and ask them which decade in their...

You can think what you want about gay people, but when you call homosexuality a medical condition that is a factual error. The mental health professions define disorders by their negative effect on the patient. By the '70s it was becoming quite clear that homosexuality alone was not...

I'm curious, is that personal experience? I wasn't alive in the 1950s. But my dad liked to say that "People who are nostalgic for the '50s didn't live through them." From him and others of his generation, I have the impression of a time of national paranoia, oppressive conformity, and despite...

But, spect8or, you <i>are</i> a homophobe, and you <i>do</i> discriminate, by your own admission. So, I really don't think you have a heck of a lot of credibility making this accusation. For what it's worth, I think Crash won on merit. Martin

And that is exactly why Hollywood movies do not generally explore themes of male companionship. American audiences just do not like it. Even for California liberals like me, it doesn't feel right. Europeans and Middle Easterners have much less deeply ingrained homophobia, even in socially...

One recent counterexample - the Lord of the Rings trilogy. One of Tolkien's major themes is the strong bonds that form between men, which came out of his experiences in the trenches in WWI. The movies didn't flinch from this theme of male companionship. Martin

If you want to call it Google OS you can. But it's not an operating system; it's almost all user space. The only part that is arguably system software is the filesystem, and distributed filesystems aren't exactly a new idea. If you told Larry & Sergei that their filesystem is their big...

They're not running a custom OS, they are running Linux. Their custom software is the search application. That means the scalability is specific to the problem domain. Google has a huge competitive advantage in search, no question about it. But you are saying that's not really the Google...

In 1990 Microsoft had a market cap less than $10 billion. They had a lot more room to grow than Google does today - hence Google's CFO talking about the law of large numbers. If you really want to compare Google with Microsoft, compare with 9 years ago, in 1997, when Microsoft had a market...

That's utter BS. What you call their "competitive advantage" uses dead simple commodity hardware running open source system software. That's not a competitive advantage. Anyone can replicate it. Zero moat. Google has built their success on the fact that they don't want or need a competitive...

Ever heard of romantic comedies? Virtually an entire industry devoted to making us feel good about being hetero. Martin

There revenue 8 years ago was zero, so their average growth rate for the first 8 years has been infinite. GOOG would need 70% annual revenue growth rate to reach 100B in 5 years. That is not a significant slowdown. It does not reflect anything the CFO was talking about - organic growth, law...

What he actually said was, "I'll leave it to you to judge whether that is $100 billion in market capitalization or revenue." This can only be a joke. He was ribbing the analysts by giving them a number without specifying the units. There is no way he really meant $100B revenue, that's bigger...

I had a similar problem, I wanted to use a regular limit order but I wanted to be certain it would participate in the opening cross. To do this, you have to use a directed order to the primary exchange. The key thing is to make sure "Regular trading hours only" is NOT checked, or you will miss...

City of Lost Children Like Terry Gilliam but French. My favorite movie. Cold Blooded Jason Priestly as reluctant hitman. Fun, oddball, indie.

And I'm saying, he probably did. I don't think it was a mistake, and I don't think it was against the interests of shareholders either. In any case, we'll find out soon enough. Martin