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Re: [News] Dell Launches GNU/Linux Sub-notebooks Shortly, Expands Offers

On 2008-08-13, Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
> * Ezekiel peremptorily fired off this memo:
>
>> "Tim Smith" <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 

>>> Fiscal Year   Revenue        Expenses             Net
>>> -----------   -------        --------           -----
>>> 1997            11936            7065            3454
>>> 1998            15262            8677            4490
>>> 1999            19747           19737            7785
>>>
>>> Did you think if you made up stuff from 10 years ago, no one would be
>>> able to check you, or what?
>>
>> Absolutely incredible. If anyone still thinks that Roy Schestowitz has the 
>> slightest clue of what he's writing about then this ought to set the record 
>> straight....

> What do you make of this, then?
>
>    http://etheridge.ca/articles/economist-options.html
>
>    FASB  did, however, manage to make firms include a footnote in their
>    accounts detailing the share options awarded during the year.
>    Smithers & Co., a research firm in London, calculated the cost of
>    these footnoted options and concluded that the American companies
>    granting them overstated their profits by as much as half in the
>    financial year ending in 1998. In some cases, particularly that of
>    high-tech firms (which tend to be generous with options), the
>    disparity is even greater. For instance, Microsoft, the world's
>    most valuable company, declared a profit of $4.5 billion in 1998;
>    when the cost of options awarded that year, plus the change in the
>    value of outstanding options, is deducted, the firm made a loss of
>    $18 billion, according to Smithers. 
>
>>> --Tim Smith 
>
> He should change his name to Adam.

Poor Timmy and RoadKill. They think they can use MICROS~1's numbers as
though they were real ones. I bet they try to spend Monopoly© money at
the toy store, too.

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