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The Preferential President
There is a fascinating essay over on the Guernica blog, where David Bromwich examines "how Obama became a publicist for his presidency (rather than the president)." In his first term Obama delivered 1,852 separate speeches, comments, or scheduled public remarks and granted 591 interviews. These exceptional numbers, explains Bromwich, were the result of "magical thinking" on the part of the Obama White House: if the American public heard the president often enough, they would see how sincere and bipartisan he was and accept his policies. An endless string of speeches, road trips, and town hall meetings thus came to serve as a stand-in for the decision-making and confrontation that true leadership requires, and genuine conviction demands. Argues Bromwich: "…The truth is that Obama's convictions were never strong. He did not find this out until his convictions were tested, and they were not tested until he became president.
Perhaps the thin connection between Obama's words and his actions does not support the use of the word "conviction" at all. Let us say instead that he mistook his preferences for convictions—and he can still be trusted to tell us what he would prefer to do. Review the record and it will show that his first statement on a given issue generally lays out what he would prefer. Later on, he resigns himself to supporting a lesser evil, which he tells us is temporary and necessary. The creation of a category of permanent prisoners in "this war we're in" (which he declines to call "the war on terror") was an early and characteristic instance. Such is Obama's belief in the power and significance of his own words that, as he judges his own case, saying the right thing is a decent second-best to doing the right thing."
Bromwich's reflections call to mind two classic statements of what might be called the nihilism of the modern age—the psychological state in which all values are relative and none may rise from preference to conviction. The first is a fragment from Friedrich Nietzsche's notebooks composed in 1881-1882. It reads:
…we call good someone who does his heart's bidding, but also the one who only tends to his duty;
we call good the meek and the reconciled, but also the courageous, unbending, severe;
we call good someone who employs no force against himself, but also the heroes of self-overcoming;
we call good the utterly loyal friend of the true, but also the man of piety, one who transfigures things;
we call good those who are obedient to themselves, but also the pious;
we call good those who are noble and exalted, but also those who do not despise and condescend;
we call good those of joyful spirit, the peaceable, but also those desirous of battle and victory;
we call good those who always want to be first, but also those who do not want to take precedence over anyone in any respect.
As Nietzsche writes elsewhere, "The most extreme form of nihilism would be: that every belief, every holding-as-true, is necessarily false: because there is no true world at all." To call the President a nihilist is nothing extreme; it is simply to say that he well represents the age in which he lives, an age that is extraordinarily uncomfortable with convictions of any kind. Some believe in God, but too strong a belief in God is unseemly, even fanatic. It is good to believe in democracy, but we recognize the need for stable tyrannies as well. The free market is the best system of economics, but only if it is not too free. We live in a pragmatic age and Obama is our pragmatic President. That is precisely what many like in him. And yet we also want him to lead. In other words, we want strong leadership of a convinced leader and at the same time we want the pragmatic and technocratic malleability of someone with preferences absent convictions.
There is no better expression of this fear basic psychological state of modernity than William Butler Yeats poem, "THE SECOND COMING"
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The problem with President Obama is not that he lacks convictions. It is that he doesn't know that he lacks convictions. And despite what Bromwich writes, the President hasn't learned this. He still believes that he has strong convictions that Syria cannot use chemical weapons in a civil war against its own people. He still believes that it is intolerable to allow Russia to annex part of a sovereign country. He stands up and makes his strong convictions clear. But then he sits down and refuses to fight for those convictions, proving them beliefs. The point is not that he should fight in Syria or in Ukraine. The point is that he should not be speaking loudly and issuing ultimatums when he lacks the conviction to back them up.
-RB (hat tip Anna Hadfield)
My girlfriend and I walked by a clothing storefront and noticed the print on some of the t-shirts at the lower right corner of the window and went in. She had mentioned this Imaginary Foundation (IF) before. They make print t-shirts.
I went to school at an expensive liberal arts college in the Hudson Valley—everyone there makes print t-shirts. It is like a business you start as a college sophomore as a way to convince yourself that you are a 'creative entrepreneur' before you enter the corporate world (or, alternatively, as a penance for inherited culture and comfort) the not-for-profit world.
Often, I cannot stand them —the print t-shirts. There is something out of shape about them, as if the juxtaposition of body/shirt/image, sets askew some intrinsic agreement in the marriage of fashion and identity. And yet, the IF designs spoke to me. There is something dreamy and yet sincere about these prints. If le petit prince was looking for a print t-shirt, he would buy one of these.
It just so happened that the owner of the company was visiting this Seattle distributor and was in the store. He was awkward, skittish and European. I liked him, and before we left I told him that I blog for a thinking and humanities institute out east and may want to write about his brand. That's how I got into the Imaginary Foundation.
The shirts are not exactly 'pretty,' or 'fashionable,' rather, their attraction is a gesture beyond themselves -- a rare feat in a culture that positions branding as the apex of success. I'll describe one shirt and if interested you can invest your own time in the Imaginary Foundation.
The "Being There" shirt has three anonymous human heads (one of the cloud suit, one of the water suit, and one of the fire suit). The heads are in peripheral view and are aligned, with a slight skew (allowing us the view of all three faces), as they break through a wall, the veil of the universe.
Other shirts handle concepts of psychosis and love "Love Science," science and discovery in a reach towards heaven "Reach," and other such concepts widely considered esoteric or cliché within the lens of our popular culture. But, we no longer understand what a 'cliché' is. I have long held the view that a cliché is a truth, or a point of interest and perspective insight, that has simply been worn out by overexposure. But who has worn it out? How have we taken the liberty and quiet pleasure of the private sphere (the realms of reflection, contemplation, meditation as it is thought of in the Greek terms), out of our living cycle, our consciousness, our daily existence? Why is the call for private contemplation no longer a necessity of existence? It seems we should have more time then ever for such practices. So many of our daily chores, our basic needs, are met through the economic matrix. I no longer have to chop wood for warmth, hunt a boar for food, trek down to the river for a water simply, etc... Why shouldn't I spend more time in private contemplation, or even public conversation on these more subtle topics of the human necessity? Why shouldn't I be making something in an effort to communicate those private necessities? The actualization of the humanist requires space for such a practice. And yet, anything that requires a slowing down of, a calling for the work of the mind and private reasoning, is now, quite often immediately, labeled a cliché.
In The Human Condition Arendt writes "The emancipation of labor and the concomitant emancipation of the laboring classes from oppression and exploitation certainly means progress in the direction of non-violence. It is much less certain that it was also progress in the direction of freedom." She is not saying that laboring classes should not have been emancipated. Rather, that the humanist goal has been blurred by some glitch. Instead of moving towards freedom from wasteful labor (a waste of human power -- physical, mental, spiritual) we instead have emancipated labor. Most of us have become imprisoned in a non-sustainable cycle that for the continuation of its forward motion requires an ever-increasing consumption and waste. This waste can be seen in terms of power. The core power of the human psyche originates in the liberty of free private thoughts—a psychological space for contemplation. A mapping of one's stillness that is only possible in the acquisition of free time. Free time is a result of freedom from labors necessity. What Arendt's thoughts gesture towards is that the set of basic necessities that we have been freed from, have been replaced by another, far more complicated and disguised set—the necessity to perpetuate a system that is moving much faster then us; a necessity to consume and continue consuming. To be 'a part of' is, today, to be a consumer—to take ones place in the labor of waste.
Oh right, I wanted to tell you about a product...
"IF" is a creative project. It gains the viewers attention and borrows the imagination. This is a beginning. It does not steal, it borrows. It suggests the prospect of resonance rather than ownership.
I checked out the company website. The "about" page describes the development of the Imaginary Foundation: "a think tank from Switzerland that does experimental research on new ways of thinking and the power of the imagination. They hold dear a belief in human potential and seek progress in all directions." The page is dotted with black and white images from the sixties, shaggy haired men and turtle-neck clad women engaged in contemplative, laissez-faire, light spirited dialogue. The imaginary director of the foundation is described as a "70-something uber-intellectual whose father founded the Dadaist movement." The foundation is imaginary. It is a base, a canvas, for the products (the t-shirts) and the ideas behind them.
The blog section of the site imagines a list of contributors: Isadore Muggll, Kamilla Rousseau, etc. These architects, as is the back story, are too imaginary. "IF" is a fictional foundation for the product. But the product is real and engaging.
What is captured here goes beyond the tangible properties of the product (t-shirts). It is about what the product delivers—the wonder of creativity and science, the archetypes of the IF. Imagination IS the foundation of this product.
The blog itself is a venue for artists who marry technology and art, as well as other thought provoking materials. The image I use at the head of this article is taken from the blog. Cloud, idea, light, community, play—IF: all these are represented in the Cloud installation. This art installation is a discovery I am brought to by the Imaginary Foundation.
I once taught a course on the development of contemporary advertising, heavily focused on Edward Bernays and the peripheral route of persuasion. Bernays was Sigmund Freud's nephew, Woodrow Wilson's image advisor, the father of the term "Public Relations," and the architect of the torches of freedom (Lucky Strikes) campaign, among many others. His theory, though terribly simplified here, was that the modern consumer does not purchase with his mind; rather, he defers to his emotions in most choices. The rational-actor is a fiction. If consumerism became god, branding became its religion.
Ad campaigns have become remarkably creative, and even, at times, beautiful. Have you ever felt the urge to cry during a Jeep commercial? Many have. I think I have. The central conceptual premise of the AMC show Mad Men, depends upon this tension: between art and consumption; the rendering from black and white, to color; the effective marketing and selling off of the human experience. In question is the art aspect of advertising. It is at the core of Don Draper's motivations, and the one that despite his many character failings keeps endearing him to us. Ultimately we are asking, will he reconcile his artistic urge (his private motivation) with his office at the homunculus of the consumerism model (his role in the corporate arena). Exposed is a manipulation, an incongruence, an infidelity in the marriage of advertising and art. Where as art points towards something beyond itself, beyond even the image and the medium, the ad campaign points only to one purpose—back into itself. No idea behind it. Nothing living. It consumes.
Advertising is like the Ouroboros, the dragon that swallows its own tail; having entirely swallowed itself, the modern advertising campaign defies the laws of balance, it is only the un-relentless, hungry serpent head of consumption -- devoid of the body of life. The only urge driving it is to possess.
It is the difference between the work of Egon Schiele and Penthouse, the writings of Georges Bataille and a godaddy.com super bowl campaign.
Seduce ->consume. This is the current mandate of the ad campaign. But this relationship is only sustainable through incompletion. It requires continual doses. Seduce -> consume -> feel a lack even in the possession of product (contract unfulfilled) -> be seduced again -> consume. Ad infinitum. A terrible loop.
How can consumerism and individual consciousness (the most private sector) be made sustainable? Is it possible for a product to speak beyond itself? To fulfill the promise of its persuasion? And if it could, what would that mean for us?
Here I position the word sustainability to face two directions. In part it refers to what Arendt terms as "worldly," the creation produced through work and not labor, something that has the potential to last beyond the productions of time, something that maneuvers into the arena of the eternal. I also want to posit the word in terms of its evolving contemporary potential. The one sector of the public, and political sphere that allows for the platform of this conversation is the environmental movement. It is where we have begun to contemplate the world beyond the shortsighted view of individual lifetimes. We speak of the sustainability of our planet; we are considering new ways to move our habits from wasteful and consumptive, towards lasting and sustainable power. It is a fairly new conversation and the word "sustainability" is evolving with each new perspective we bring to it.
Sustainability goes beyond consumer awareness. It is about the awareness of the product, how a brand gains consciousness. I need to explore here a definition of "consciousness."
I have come to understand definitions as ever evolving in accordance with society and the pressures put upon it by the conditions of the time, the fractals of our world (more simply put, the culture stew).
Consciousness is the expanding of space into which one can resonate. To learn of the world around us, to acknowledge it, to consider its multiple dimensions, is to become more conscious -- to create space into which we can move by the will of our imagination and invention.
The Imaginary Foundation is an example of this bridge. It acknowledges itself and its fiction. It allows for play. It is a small company that uses the fabrication of its narrative to bring the consumers attention to the mimetic principles behind its product. Revealing the architects conceit brings me (the consumer) into co-authorship of the story. It endears itself to me. We do not only consume the product. We consume the narrative of the product. Even if I do not purchase, if I am thinking about it, I am talking about it, I have bought in. If it generates new ideas and deeper order thoughts, then I have begun to take ownership of the product. I consume the myth, I begin to co-author it -- I don it in the neural network of culture. And thus the product has gained consciousness, has begun to be carried beyond the object -- it resonates.
My study of this product is limited. I am not encouraging anyone here to purchase a shirt. I have not purchased a shirt. What I think this opens up is a table for negotiations between the current consumerism model, and individual consciousness—an opportunity to examine sustainable consumerism in all implications.
-Nikita Nelin


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Tuition hike unlikelyBy LISA RATHKE
Associated Press | February 15,2014MONTPELIER A trustees committee of the Vermont State Colleges is recommending that tuition remain at current levels for Vermont undergraduate students in the next academic year.
The full board is to take up the recommendation Feb. 20.
The chancellor of the state colleges, which includes Castleton State College, Community College of Vermont, Johnson State College, Lyndon State College and Vermont Technical College, had recommended a 3 percent tuition hike through the next two years, but the committee voted 4-2 Wednesday against a hike.
Linda Milne, a member of the trustees Finance and Facilities Committee, said shes become concerned about the message being sent to students who are the first in their family to go to college. At the Vermont State Colleges, 53 percent of students are first generation college students and most 83 percent are from Vermont.
Im concerned about increasing prices causing sticker shock. And I want to send a message to Vermont students that they can afford college, and I think an important way to do that is not to raise the tuition prices, she said.
Tuition has been rising faster than the income of many Vermont families, who also may be faced with rising property, town and city taxes, she said.
But Committee Chairwoman Martha OConnor, who voted against the no-hike proposal and in favor of recommending the 3 percent increase, said she worries that programs might have to be cut to cover the costs.
Its tough for people to pay ... I understand that, but we have to keep the quality of the Vermont State College system as high as it is now, she said.
Jerome Diamond, who voted to keep the tuition at the current level, said the state appropriation for the operation of the Vermont State Colleges has fallen to a woefully low level in recent years causing the state colleges to increase tuition every year.
I want to be able to shift the burden from the student and back where it belongs to the state of Vermont. I know there are limitations, that we dont have money for everything, but education and higher education is key, he said.
He and Milne said they were concerned about the number of high school graduates who do not go on to higher education in Vermont. While Vermonts high-school graduation rate is among the highest in the country, only about 50 percent of graduates go on to college, and half of those complete their education in four years, officials said.
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Prague plans to exile its homeless
Is the planned camp on the Czech city's outskirts a ploy for more tourism?
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A college for the worldly student with big plans
The international make-up of the College of Europe represents a world of possibility.
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Vaclav Havel's human rights film festival has its biggest year yet.
Qatari prince sues Czech Republic
The case raises questions about separation of powers in the Czech judicial system.
Lessons from eastern Europe's flat tax
A theory in the US is reality in Bulgaria and elsewhere in the region. Does it work?
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Should Germany and the EU bail out Greece? It poses serious questions.
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Czech Republic and other, newer member countries worry that their security may fall by the wayside.
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MNEs and Industrial Structure in Host Countries:A Mean Variance Analysis of Ireland's Manufacturing Sector
We use mean-variance analysis to demonstrate the importance of a hitherto neglected benefit of enticing MNEs to locate in small and medium-sized countries. During the 25 years from 1974 to 1999, over 1000 foreign MNEs have located in Ireland, and they have raised their share of all manufacturing jobs in the country from one-third to one-half. The foreign MNEs tend to operate in high-technology sectors, and they grow faster with greater volatility than the traditional low-technology indigenous firms. Because they are imperfectly correlated with the indigenous sectors, however, the foreign MNEs have helped to create a more completely diversified manufacturing sector in the host country that can grow faster without a commensurate rise in volatility and risk.
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Paul Wick is a tech enthusiast's tech investor. He can rattle off at the drop of a hat the arcana of chip-manufacturing methods, such as "double patterning" and "three-dimensional transistors," and recite the history of corporate giants gone by, such as PeopleSoft, or Newbridge Networks. Wick, 50, has been the manager of the $3.25 billion Columbia Seligman Communications & Information fund (ticker: SLMCX) for 23 years. He recently spoke with Barron's about the broad trends that change markets and the value individual companies hold in their intellectual property. For his insights on today's undervalued tech stars—and flashes in the pan—read on.
Barron's: Let's get right into handicapping some tech trends. What are we to make of the Wall Street tech term du jour, Big Data? Is it significant, or just hype?
Wick: I think it's a big deal! There is so much information out there. Seeing trends and correlations in a graphical manner is remarkably helpful in making decisions. Big Data is a trend that has a lot further to go.
One company that is doing extremely well, and that we own, Qlik Technologies QLIK 0.0999000999000999% Qlik Technologies Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD30.06 0.03 0.0999000999000999% /Date(1469221200312-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 992815 AFTER HOURS USD30.06 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2315 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 2852633908.21182 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 251094 More quote details and news » [QLIK], seems like a logical takeover target for SAP [SAP] or Oracle ORCL 0.024348672997321647% Oracle Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD41.08 0.01 0.024348672997321647% /Date(1469221346950-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 10334214 AFTER HOURS USD41.08 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 92120 P/E Ratio 19.845410628019323 Market Cap 169361755146.6 Dividend Yield 1.4605647517039921% Rev. per Employee 272404 More quote details and news » [ORCL]. Based on where companies like Ariba and SuccessFactors got bought out [by SAP], there's room for the stock to appreciate. In a buyout, Qlik, now $24, could fetch $33 or $34, or six times enterprise value to 2013 projected revenue.
"Seeing trends and correlations in a graphical manner is remarkably helpful in making decisions. Big Data has a lot further to go." -- Paul Wick Martin Klimek for Barron's
Teradata tdc 0.6421691045308598% Teradata Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD28.21 0.18 0.6421691045308598% /Date(1469221321523-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1128021 AFTER HOURS USD28.21 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 10157 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 3667299880.98145 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 220619 More quote details and news » [TDC], which has its own proprietary storage system, has been around a long time. They have a very sticky installed base; they're still doing well. We have historically not liked the valuation on it in the past couple of years, but in the low $50s, it looks intriguing to us.
What other enterprise tech names do you like?
We've looked through a lot of survey data, and enterprise storage demand has remained resilient, which is at odds with the performance of both NetApp ntap 1.846864178530204% NetApp Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD26.47 0.48 1.846864178530204% /Date(1469221200486-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2665307 AFTER HOURS USD26.47 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 23232 P/E Ratio 33.93589743589744 Market Cap 7413717052.25221 Dividend Yield 2.871174914998111% Rev. per Employee 461097 More quote details and news » [NTAP] and EMC EMC 0.7089684509039348% EMC Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD28.41 0.2 0.7089684509039348% /Date(1469221232114-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 11046684 AFTER HOURS USD28.4 -0.01 -0.03519887363604365% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 178653 P/E Ratio 26.55140186915888 Market Cap 55532088949.7884 Dividend Yield 1.6191481872580078% Rev. per Employee 341208 More quote details and news » [EMC], in particular. NetApp has refreshed its entire product line over the past year. This is a cash-rich company, with $12 per share in net cash, an enterprise value of $8 billion, and $1 billion in trailing free cash flow. So at $35, this is a cheap stock. It has a pretty substantial maintenance revenue stream, and that maintenance is usually paid upfront. It's not implausible that NetApp could get back to near its 52-week high of $41.
And if you strip out a substantial cash position from EMC, you have the same kind of valuation as NetApp. I mean, it's crazy.
What other tech trends are you bullish on?
We've been pretty bullish about the increased complexity of semiconductors, the overall rise in transistor count, the whole system-on-a-chip phenomenon. Also, the higher bandwidth in mobile phones is leading to much more complex wireless devices with respect to the number of frequency bands that have to be supported.
How do you play all that?
The easiest way to play those trends is [semiconductor-design-software vendor] Synopsys SNPS 0.6611570247933884% Synopsys Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD54.81 0.36 0.6611570247933884% /Date(1469221200308-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 388783 AFTER HOURS USD54.799 -0.011 -0.020069330414158% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 6671 P/E Ratio 36.54 Market Cap 8321583489.29352 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 224795 More quote details and news » [SNPS], which we view as an inevitable winner as the arms provider to the system-on-a-chip industry. Virtually every large semi company in the world is a customer of theirs, as well as systems companies like Apple AAPL -0.7744141607160817% Apple Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD98.66 -0.77 -0.7744141607160817% /Date(1469221200063-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 28270202 AFTER HOURS USD98.38 -0.28 -0.28380295965943647% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 43467 P/E Ratio 10.974416017797553 Market Cap 540402751289.397 Dividend Yield 2.3109669572268396% Rev. per Employee 2050050 More quote details and news » [AAPL]. There are few companies in all of technology that are as predictable and well managed. Going into any given quarter, they have 90% of revenue coming from its backlog. The R&D tax credit helped them crush first-quarter earnings, but their confident tone on bookings implies to me that there's a lot more gas left in the tank. I think the numbers for this year end up at $2.45 a share, and next year at least $2.65. That's meaningfully ahead of consensus. If Synopsys sold for 17 times to 18 times calendar 2014 EPS, it would garner $46, versus a recent $35.
There's a battle starting to unfold between Qualcomm QCOM 2.0357083263807776% Qualcomm Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD61.15 1.22 2.0357083263807776% /Date(1469221200269-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 12406399 AFTER HOURS USD61.12 -0.03 -0.04905968928863451% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 99261 P/E Ratio 17.90891785034412 Market Cap 90113574343.3349 Dividend Yield 3.466884709730172% Rev. per Employee 691697 More quote details and news » and many others for the "baseband," the most valuable wireless chip, which Qualcomm currently dominates. How do you see that playing out?
Qualcomm [QCOM] has the best technology in the market in LTE [long-term evolution] modems. They are the only ones shipping an LTE-ready modem this year; the rest of the pack won't have anything to offer until next year. But Samsung Electronics [005930.Korea] and Apple can't rely on a sole supplier. Broadcom [BRCM] is taking that and running with it.
Samsung's unit growth, roughly 20% to 30% year-on-year, can benefit Broadcom. Also, Broadcom's average selling prices can increase with the move to more-expensive 802.11ac chips, and the higher prices on baseband chips for more-expensive phones. If you assume that Samsung doesn't want to be beholden to Qualcomm as a sole supplier, will it be Broadcom, or maybe Intel INTC 1.1380215932302304% Intel Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD34.66 0.39 1.1380215932302304% /Date(1469221200353-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 32457972 AFTER HOURS USD34.64 -0.02 -0.05770340450086555% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 575681 P/E Ratio 16.743961352657006 Market Cap 163664519279.48 Dividend Yield 3.000577034045009% Rev. per Employee 527624 More quote details and news » [INTC] as the secondary?
Tell me more about the wireless radio chips for mobile phones and tablets.
Avago avgo -0.4613178729505642% Broadcom Ltd. U.S.: Nasdaq USD159.67 -0.74 -0.4613178729505642% /Date(1469221200305-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1932703 AFTER HOURS USD159.21 -0.46 -0.2880941942756936% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 33684 P/E Ratio 266.1166666666667 Market Cap 63152519993.8617 Dividend Yield 1.252583453372581% Rev. per Employee 1083780 More quote details and news » [AVGO] is a pure play on LTE. You have upward of 40 different [frequency] bands. Some of this spectrum is hitting up right against WiFi. There's a need to be able to parse out one from the other. What this is doing is requiring the need for a bulk acoustic regulator. Avago is the only one selling them today. TriQuint is on the first or second generation, while Avago is on its seventh generation. We expect the Galaxy S4 will have Avago in it.
Earnings have plateaued at $2.70 per share here, because 40% to 45% of revenue is wireless; the remainder comes from broad-based industrial and networking. Their industrial business was doing $180 million per quarter; now it's down to $125 million per quarter. If we get any kind of bounce back, that part of the business will kick in. It's a $33 stock with a ton of cash. They've consistently raised the dividend, consistently bought back shares.
Avago could get to $43 based on 12 times 2014 earnings of $3.25 a share, plus $4 a share in net cash.
What's your view on the semiconductor capital-equipment makers?
One of the key trends is that migrating chips to leading-edge process nodes is getting even harder with new 3-D transistor architectures. There's an arms race between the major chip manufacturers, Samsung, Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor [TSM], who are all vying for the contract to make Apple's chips for the iPhone and iPad.
So how do you play that arms race?
The lack of spending the last few years is a very positive development for the group, and for Lam Research LRCX 0.8172861621137483% Lam Research Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD90.05 0.73 0.8172861621137483% /Date(1469221200392-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1147278 AFTER HOURS USD90.05 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 133017 P/E Ratio 20.011111111111113 Market Cap 14371801035.6079 Dividend Yield 1.3325930038867295% Rev. per Employee 797655 More quote details and news » [LRCX]. Lam has among the greatest exposure to memory capital expenditures of all the public semiconductor-equipment companies. As recently as 2011, Lam earned close to $6 per share.
Paul Wick's Picks...
|Qlik Technologies
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The past two years were challenging, as their key memory customers cut back spending, and Lam digested its acquisition of Novellus. The stock is $46, and the company has $7 in net cash per share. With EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography facing continuing delays, chip makers are increasingly forced to adopt dual- and quad-patterning techniques for leading-edge chips. Dual-patterning and 3-D transistors are etch- and deposition-intensive.
Lam has finally won Intel as an etch customer after many years of effort. While Intel is at most $100 million in etch revenue for Lam this year, it could grow to $400 million to $500 million a year over time.
KLA-Tencor KLAC 0.4224980195405334% KLA-Tencor Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD76.06 0.32 0.4224980195405334% /Date(1469221200248-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 441145 AFTER HOURS USD76.06 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4370 P/E Ratio 20.838356164383562 Market Cap 11843149533.4888 Dividend Yield 2.734683144885617% Rev. per Employee 479860 More quote details and news » [KLAC] also benefits as you move to double-patterning. The number of process-control steps in a wafer fab just keeps on increasing. KLA has remarkable pricing power and has managed to raise prices consistently for years with every new generation of tools.
Any other equipment names?
We're fans of Teradyne TER 0.5780346820809249% Teradyne Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD20.88 0.12 0.5780346820809249% /Date(1469221313661-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1109970 AFTER HOURS USD20.88 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 4927 P/E Ratio 19.755889866590973 Market Cap 4242377367.32719 Dividend Yield 1.1494252873563218% Rev. per Employee 421505 More quote details and news » [TER]. The bull case is, there are only two major semiconductor test-equipment companies left, these guys and Advantest 6857.to -0.900163666121113% Advantest Corp. Japan: Tokyo JPY1211 -11 -0.900163666121113% /Date(1469470053000-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 20m) : 815900 P/E Ratio 29.768928220255653 Market Cap 243870587593.75 Dividend Yield 1.6515276630883566% Rev. per Employee 36072800 More quote details and news » [6857.Japan] of Japan. Pricing has improved in the test industry. Teradyne is the leader in testing in mixed-signal and analog chips that go into mobile phones.
Teradyne bought a private handset-test company called LitePoint a few years ago, the leader in connectivity-testing, for Bluetooth and WiFi capabilities in phones. They've had the lowest-cost solution by far, and they've taken 70% share of the merchant market, including all of Apple. It has been a home run for Teradyne. We think this year will be another resounding success for LitePoint, driven by the new 802.11ac standard that's rolling out.
Let's talk about some things you're not as enthusiastic about.
Acuity Brands AYI -0.011321181931393637% Acuity Brands Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD264.96 -0.03 -0.011321181931393637% /Date(1469221321022-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 136888 AFTER HOURS USD264.96 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : P/E Ratio 43.223491027732464 Market Cap 11628299419.9109 Dividend Yield 0.196256038647343% Rev. per Employee 400692 More quote details and news » [AYI] is one. They are an industrial lighting supplier. They make light fixtures for commercial and residential applications. The sizzle in the story is that they are selling LED [light-emitting diode] lighting fixtures, and LEDs are growing at an over 100% rate. That business has grown to be about 15% of revenue. That's fine and dandy, except that the core business is not really growing. So you have this company that hypes itself on LEDs, growing maybe 4% per year with a 10% operating margin. And yet it trades at well over 20 times forward earnings. It should be more like 12 or 13 times earnings. The company is supposed to earn roughly $3.45 per share this year, and if you put a 13 multiple on that, you get a $45 stock, but it's at $73.
What do you make of the host of cloud-computing and software-as-a-service companies?
There's an awful lot of euphoria surrounding recently public SaaS firms. It seems likely that companies like Workday wday 2.2895881299565106% Workday Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD79.97 1.79 2.2895881299565106% /Date(1469221321780-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 728446 AFTER HOURS USD79.97 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 15754090240.4785 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 241675 More quote details and news » [WDAY] will have a very hard time justifying their current share prices. My analyst who follows Workday raves about the caliber of the software, but you're paying $10 billion for a company that's supposed to do about $400 million in sales this year and isn't supposed to be break-even until 2016. There are all these true believers in Workday, with this magical belief it's inevitable they'll be remarkably successful.
How about an Internet name?
One that's just jumping out at us as really off the rails, is Zillow [the online real-estate listings firm]. For one, the valuation is really nutty. At $57, Zillow [Z] has a $2 billion market cap, very modest cash flow; I think the trailing Ebitda [earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization] is $25 million. You get the sense that most of their brokers don't get anywhere near the conversion rate the company talks about. The conversations I've had with retail brokers—they are not particularly enamored of the service; they are more kind of experimenting with it. There's been a long line of Internet real-estate companies that have been obliterated, like ZipRealty, and Move.com—both of those have come and gone. Five years from now, this is a single-digit stock.
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Skip to comments.Long Island Man Arrested For Defending Home With AK-47 (Axe To Grind Alert!)
Posted on 09/07/2010 5:02:01 PM PDT by The Magical Mischief Tour
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Yeah I hear that. I had to be careful going to high school in Newark, NJ just a few years after the riots of '67. I know what a ''look'' is. I carried a knife. Did that when I worked in New York City and The Bronx in the late '70's and all through the '80s'. Bernie Goetz was a hero. I remember seeing grafetti on subway wall. "Bernie Goetz; Archie Bunker with a gun''.
I hear you. See my post to "No Grey Areas''. Thank God it didn't work out different for you that day.
Sorry it's "Zone''. Frightfully sorry old boy.
One, the parking lot slowed them down when they came to a small building built right adjacent to the street. lol Two, I popped open my glove compartment and pulled a .357 out and put it on the seat between my passenger and myself. Being a couple of feet above street level I think they could see down into my cab pretty easily. One or both of those things ended their pursuit.
It doesn't take much at all to become the target of thugs.
See, where you live you can own a pistol. Here in The Peoples Republic of New Jersey you can't. Not without a whole lot of hassle if you want to do it legally. Illegally of course it's another story. Nowadays for the thugs it's an instrument to facilitate ''social justice'' and ''income redistribution''.
I don't think I'd have the nerve to live there under those conditions. I'd have to become an outlaw. Restricting the law abiding from owning guns increases the number of thugs possessing guns and their boldness. The situation worsens exponentially.
You could actually do this before the law changed to favor more the self defense aspect of this issue...
It is called a "disparity of force"...
You do not need to see a weapon, all you need is a concern for your welfare and others in your vacinity, due to the threat imposed upon you by multiple suspects mearly displaying or communicating threatening mannerisms or words...
These suspects are extremely lucky to be alive...The Law Enforcement in that area should be exremely ashamed of themselves for doing what they did...
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I'm in South Korea at the moment and I think I'm being cyber stalked by the US military. Hinky things have been happening when I try to post on blogger. I remeber hearing somewhere that the SK government has some control over blogger accounts, but can't remember where I read that. Does anyone know where that's at?
I don't feel particularly comfortable having spooks read my personal communications, so I have more than a passing interest in security. For the record I don't intend to wage a terrorist war or even break any laws. It's a matter of principal.
I was planning to move over to WP when I got some tech issues sorted, but this just provided some impetous. How secure is a WP blog? I realise it probably wasn't designed to withstand attack by shadowy government agencies, but I'd be interested to know. I'm fairly computer illeterate - does the security of a blog depend mostly on the sever it's on? What things could I do to lessen the chance of the intelligence people screwing me about? I'm posting from an internet cafe (which probably doesn't help - I think the SK government has fairly far-reaching internet monitoring laws), but when I get a computer, should I be running Linux for example?
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7th Circuit Upholds Federal Child Porn Law
7th Circuit Upholds Federal Child Porn Law
Panel denies convicted felon's appeal, possession 'loophole'
Posted Jul 16th, 2008 02:07 PM by
Mark Kernes
A three-judge panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday denied the appeal of Gregory Blum, who'd been convicted in U.S. District Court on federal charges of manufacturing child pornography - namely a videotape that included segments of Blum abusing a 3-year-old girl, with Blum admitting to having abused a total of three girls between the ages of 3 and 5 during the summer of 2006.
Blum's argument was that he had manufactured the tape at his own home in Wisconsin, for his personal use, and except for the fact that the videotape itself had been manufactured outside the state, there was nothing to tie his actions to interstate commerce, and therefore the federal government had no basis to try him for the crime.
However, Judge Ilana Rovner, writing for the unanimous panel, noted that her Circuit had already upheld a similar Commerce Clause challenge, U.S. v. Angle, in 2000, relating to possession of child porn, on the basis that the feds could target intrastate possession because it was "necessary to close a loophole that was undermining its ability to regulate interstate child pornography," Judge Rovner wrote. "That reasoning is equally applicable to the intrastate production of child pornography."
Moreover, the Court cited the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in
Gonzales v. Raich
, which criminalized the intrastate growing and possession of marijuana, accepting the government's argument that Blum's "commerce" in (manufacture of) child porn even for his personal use was "part of an economic 'class of activities' that have a substantial effect on interstate commerce." Judge Rovner's opinion, however, emphasized that the quantity of the prohibited substance, whether marijuana or videotape, had little bearing on the illegality of its possession or manufacture.
"Moreover, the [Supreme] Court made it clear that the substantiality of an individual's own activities was not the relevant focus," Judge Rovner said of Raich. "Instead, the Court emphasized its earlier holdings that the
de minimis
character of an individual's actions under a statute is of no consequence because the proper focus is on the individual's contribution taken together with that of many others similarly situated. Nor was it dispositive that the marijuana growers were not engaged in commercial activity, but were merely growing it for their own, medically-approved use... Accordingly, it was not dispositive that the quantity of marijuana grown by an individual was not significant, nor that it was not being sold. Instead, the Court considered whether the regulation of the intrastate production and possession of marijuana was necessary to effectively regulate the interstate market."
When the
decision came down in 2005, it seemed clear that it would one day be applied to sexually explicit adult content, especially after Congress passed the Adam Walsh Act and included within it a section making it a crime to
produce obscene material
. We also covered the application of Raich in the Eleventh Circuit's decision in the
Justin Evans case
, where Evans' pimping, though done entirely within the state of Florida, was held to violate federal statutes because some of Evans' prostitutes' clients stayed at hotels, which were engaged in interstate commerce, and because Evans himself used cell phones, which were deemed to be "instrumentalities of interstate commerce."
Indeed, the Blum decision compares Raich and its relationship to the Controlled Substances Act with
U.S. v. Maxwell
, another child porn case challenged under the Commerce Clause, and its relation to the Child Pornography Prevention Act, noting that "Congress in enacting the [CPPA] statute recognized the danger posed by any child pornography regardless of origin, noting in essence that child pornography begets more child pornography, and therefore supporting the conclusion that the failure to regulate that class of activity would undermine the regulation of the interstate market in child pornography... As was the case in
, the high demand for child pornography in the interstate market presented the real danger that purely intrastate child pornography would find its way to that market."
And so now we have the Blum case adding to the increasing trend of the federal courts to prosecute some intrastate activities - marijuana and child porn production, and possibly production of adult porn - which have little or no interstate component. It's a situation that bears close watching.
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10/10 no problem using it regularly for the last 3 & 1/2 years "zero fault"i bought this speaker in september 2009 and i am a regular user using it around 4-5 hours min. daily. and i never get disappointed. but when i bought this speaker its price was much less. it cost me around 1500 - 1600 INR cant remm. exactly. after seeing my speakers performance 4 of my friends bought the same model. And after dat we were a one BIG TARANG family.
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■ Elvis Presley, "Young Man With The Big Beat." (RCA/Legacy) — These five CDs document Presley in 1956 — the year he became a full-blown phenomenon, selling 10 million singles, 3 million EPs and 800,000 albums. It's anchored by Presley's first two CDs — "Elvis Presley" and "Elvis" — but also includes songs recorded in 1956, but not released on album until later (including "Hound Dog" and "Heartbreak Hotel"), a disc of outtakes, performances from three 1956 concerts, and audio interviews. This is the sound of rock 'n' roll being revolutionized.
Rating: Four and a half stars.
■ Ray Charles: "Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles" (Concord) — Charles started out on Atlantic Records, but his career didn't really take off until he left Atlantic for a lucrative deal with ABC Records.
This five-CD set compiles Charles singles for ABC from 1960-1973. So it has hits like "Georgia On My Mind," "Hit The Road, Jack" and "I Can't Stop Loving You." But what this set really demonstrates is the consistent quality of Charles' work through this period
Rating: Four and a half stars
■ Howlin' Wolf: "Smokestack Lightning/Complete Chess Masters (1951 to 1960) (Hip-O Select) — This 97-song set features several classic songs that established Wolf as a towering figure in blues ("Spoonful, " "Sittin' On Top Of The World" and "Moanin' At Midnight"). There are also are plenty of alternate takes of songs and superior album tracks, making this a great document of Wolf's first decade. Now let's see a box like this covering Wolf's post-1960 work.
Rating: Four and a half stars
■ Various Artists: "The Best Of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum Live" (Time Life) — Over the past quarter century, the all-star performances at the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame ceremonies have been nothing short of historic. And 51 such performances from a who's who of music royalty are featured in this highly entertaining three-CD set.
Rating: Four stars
■ Johnny Cash: "From Memphis To Hollywood: Bootleg, Vol. III" (Columbia/Legacy) — This two-CD set collects 53 mostly unreleased live performances from 10 shows that span 1956 through 1979. Of special note is a 1970 White House concert with a gospel slant. Many of Cash's famous songs are included in the shows, but what "Live Around The World" really Illustrates is Cash's range and growth as a live performer.
Rating: Three and a half stars
■ Etta James: "Heart & Soul: A Retrospective" (Hip-O Select) — Aretha Franklin may be the "Queen of Soul," but James is a close second. Spanning 1955-2008, this four-CD set covers everything from the lush balladry of "At Last" to the rough and tumble sounds of "Pay Back" and "Tell Mama," Few artists — female or male — can match James' command of R&B and soul in its various varieties.
Rating: Four and a half stars
■ The Jimi Hendrix Experience: "Winterland" (Experience Hendrix/Legacy) — A year after these 1968 shows Hendrix disbanded his group, the Experience. But the trio of Hendrix, bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell is in fine form on this four-CD live set, as they take tracks like "Foxey Lady," "Purple Haze" and especially "Are You Experienced?" to fresh and adventurous new places.
Rating: Four stars
■ Miles Davis: "Miles Davis Quintet Live In Europe 1967" (Columbia Legacy) — This three CD/one DVD set features unreleased performances by what many consider Davis' greatest band, (Wayne Shorter on saxophone, Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on bass and Tony Williams on drums). Fans will love comparing multiple versions of songs like "Footprints," "Round Midnight" and "Mesquelero," while enjoying the classic Miles Davis Quintet in prime form.
Rating: Three and a half stars
■ The Temptations: "50th Anniversary Collection 1961-1971" (Hip-O Select)/The Supremes: "50th Anniversary Collection 1961-1969 (Hip-O Select) — These two three-disc collections are the first releases to include every A and B side released by these two legendary vocal groups. The hits from each group are here, but so are lots of intriguing lesser-known songs. And one can literally hear both the Temptations and Supremes develop their signature sounds as the sets move from early singles to prime material.
Ratings: Temptations: Four stars; Supremes: Four stars
■ Various Artists: "Live From The Old Town School Of Folk Music' (Old Town School Recordings) — More than 50 years of live performances from this famous Chicago venue's two locations are included on four CDs. The caliber of artists represented in this package says a lot about the talent that has passed through the Old Town School doors — Pete Seeger, Odetta, Jeff Tweedy (of Wilco), Taj Mahal, Donovan, Dave Von Ronk, Robbie Fulks — the list goes on. This is simply a treasure trove for fans of folk music – and its related forms.
Rating: Four stars
■ Pink Floyd: "Discovery Box" and other releases (EMI) — This was a great year for Pink Floyd fans. The "Discovery Box" collects remastered versions of all 14 of the group's studio CDs. Even more exciting for hard-core fans are reissues of three key albums — "Dark Side Of The Moon," "Wish You Were Here" and "The Wall" — in expanded "Experience" sets and massive multi-disc "Immersion" packages filled with outtakes, concert recordings and more.
Ratings: Four stars
■ Nirvana, "Nevermind" (Universal Music Enterprises) — A two-disc reissue features the original groundbreaking album plus unreleased early recordings and rehearsals of "Nevermind" songs and outtakes from the recording sessions. For those who want more, a "Super Deluxe" edition also includes a previously unreleased concert recording from Halloween 1991 and producer Butch Vig's previously unreleased mixes of "Nevermind." The sets provide a fitting in-depth look at a CD whose reverberations are still being felt today.
Rating: Four stars
■ Beach Boys: "The Smile Sessions" (Capitol/EMI) — Planned as the follow-up to the classic 1966 Beach Boys "Pet Sounds" CD, "Smile," remains pop music's most famous unfinished album. Wilson eventually re-created what "Smile" was supposed to be on a 2004 CD. Now "The Smile Sessions" collects the actual Beach Boys recordings that were intended for "Smile." Available as a two-CD set or as an outtakes-filled box set, "The Smile Sessions" includes the closest thing to the original "Smile" that we'll hear. It's understandably a bit disjointed, but there are many moments of brilliance in these tracks — as well as the outtakes in the box set. It's clear Wilson had the makings of a whimsical masterpiece in "Smile," and it's fascinating to hear Wilson as he tries to realize his vision for the album.
Rating: Three and a half stars
■ Rolling Stones: "Some Girls" (Universal Republic) — Along with the original 1978 "Some Girls" album, this two-disc reissue also has a dozen unreleased bonus tracks from the period. They include some genuinely worthy songs, like the swaggering rocker "So Young," the slinky blues of "Keep Up Blues," the frisky country-fied track, "Do You Think I Really Care," and a rollicking cover of "Tallahassee Lassie." These tracks make the "Some Girls" reissue an essential addition to any serious Stones fan's collection.
Rating: Four and a half stars


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Hello and welcome to part five of my XCOM GIO series...actually, that is not an apt description; this is OUR series, not mine. For those new to the series, I am playing through XCOM: Enemy Unknown and using GIO member names and personalities (with permission) to write a creative story based on the gaming experience. I pull no punches on what happens to the team in game and my mistakes are not removed from the final product. I add only story elements surrounding the GIO soldiers and context to the missions in a bigger story. If you want to catch up on the story from the beginning, I have posted links to episodes one through four at the end of the post.
Here it is, XCOM GIO Episode IV. Who will live and who will die, that is always the question. For those who are not familiar with this little project of mine, I will give you the rundown. In an effort to work on my creative writing (I do a lot of dull writing for work like memos and training manuals), I decided to play XCOM: Enemy Unknown using names and personalities of people here on GIO (always with their permission). I document the missions and turn the facts of what happened during combat into a creative story. I don't try to sugarcoat what happens in combat and XCOM can be, at best, unpredictable. So, my failings will find themselves on these pages, but that is half the fun.
As many of you know, I am embarking on a project to bring together the GIO crew and working on my skills at fiction writing. This is what has inspired XCOM Team GIO. What follows are the continuing exploits of that team. If you want to be featured on the team, please let me know. However, please be patient asd there are a lot of people involved and I am trying to keep them all alive...I swear I am.
What follows in this blog, and many blogs to come, are the actual stories of the missions of Team GIO in XCOM, as they were played by me, foolish mistakes and all. Check the end of the story for past episodes. If you enjoy the series and would like to see yourself as part of the team, let me know. Also, the adventures can be followed in real-time, though heavily watered down on twitter via @brianseavey and #XCOMGIO. What follows is Episode II: Meteor Falling.
I enjoy XCOM: Enemy Unknown and I enjoy the friendships I have built here on GIO. So, it seemed natural to put the two together and write about it. What better way than to ask some members to let me use their gamertags in a game of XCOM on normal difficulty with the Ironman setting turned on. We could see who would rise to the occasion and who would fall to Murphy's Law of XCOM.
Forgive me GIO, for I have not blogged. It has been two months since my opinions last graced this website. That's right, two months since my blog about why I love Lego video games. For the last couple of months, I have been focusing on physical fitness, my family, and work. A lot has happened in that time and I have a lot of opinions about them, but most of those are not things I would talk about much here.
It's funny, every year we all gather together with as much family as we can afford to, we gorge ourselves upon a turkey and sides until we are prepared to pass out, and express our gratitude for all of the things we have. Then, just hours later, we run to stores to replace all of that with new stuff we will be thankful for next year.
Last week, I sat in line with a hundred or so like-minded gamers awaiting the midnight release of Halo 4. As I sat at the front of the line with a fellow GameStop regular, we started conversing about games in general included the impending release of Call of Duty Black Ops 2. During this conversation, the regular stated that his eight year old son was extremely good at Modern Warfare and planned to buy it for his son. Naturally, I asked the only question I could think of: "You let your eight year old son play Call of Duty?" His response was that his son was going to learn about "this stuff" anyways, so why hold him back. I dropped the conversation before it beccame too uncomfortable and we moved on to other topics and I forgot about the conversation.
Dear Call of Duty John,
Today holds some degree of special significance for me. One year ago today, I posted my first blog that made its way onto the public pages. My dissection and destruction of the Modern Warfare 2 "story" remains one of my favorite blogs of my own, even if it wasn't written as I would write it now. Today, I would like to add to the significance of October 31st, at least on a personal level, by writing my 50th blog post.
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