raghus

Earlier, it was Google's % share of searches vs Yahoo's: a rather stark and quantitative loss every quarter and every year. Now, I'm not quite sure what it is but at the very least it is not that.

The park next to where I live (next door Sunnyvale) occasionally has Segway Polo matches. I wonder what folks will say to that.

How can you tell for sure if the owner/CEO has in fact taken a pay-cut or missed a pay period or two? I am sure they all say they've have gone without pay for 3 months already. I am asking this in all seriousness.

chime - why would it be easier to get a GC in NY as opposed to FL? How then is FL at a disadvantage because of the salary rules?

The best I can do is "We write software that helps restaurants become more profitable by controlling costs"

Until the early 1990s, the import of gold into India was restricted by the government and there was a large delta in the price of gold within India compared to the rest of the world. As a result smuggling of gold was very profitable and most of the Bombay underworld dons were gold smugglers.

One fine day the government lifted this restriction bringing the price delta to near zero and rendering the smuggling of gold, rather a waste of time. You'd think all the baddies would now be dis-empowered. No, they just switched to extortion and whatnot and are just as powerful and rich today as they were before - just doing different things.

It's like the Willie Sutton story. Q: Why do you rob banks? A: Because that's where the money is.

These drug lords are not in the drug business because they have a particular fondness for the trade but because that's where presumably the easiest money is. If that avenue is gone, they'll try and do other things - extortion, smuggling, counterfeiting etc.

Are Adsense and Adwords not just two sides of the same coin? One could not exist without the other.

I know knowledge is power and all that, but I almost wish I hadn't found out about this.