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Life Insurance Companies' Tobacco Investments: Profits over Health

All this knowledge of hypocrisy without a single correct spelling. Sigh.
It seems to me that "capitalism" is really just a label for a natural process that will take place whether or not we label it as such. Two cave men fight for the best cave. A young Russian joins the Party and is a perfect socialist so that he can rise up and get the big car and caviar that party leadership endows. An executive works harder and better and gets the promotion. Isn't it all the same thing. The shareholders own the company and unless they fight the policies there is no incentive to change, so insurance companies will put their money where it makes the most profit, regardless.

What Will It Take for Embedded 3G Laptops To Take Off?

Consumer pressure to buy the PC that offers the best 3g plan will force providers to rethink charges and particularly roaming fees. I think roaming is soon to be a thing of the past.

Netbooks: Not if, But What Will Replace PCs

Microsoft is unfortunately so big and unwieldy it isn't able to respond quickly to these changes. I see MS unloading their unproductive divisions and shrinking markedly in the next 5 years.

Will Dell Buy Acer?

Hard to believe that Acer would make itself available to them.

On May 03 03:36 PM Hedged In wrote:

> Very interesting -- particularly given Acer's strong position in
> netbooks.