Re: [OT] Deafening silence

On Sun, 2010-03-14 at 15:31 -0400, Marcel Rieux wrote:
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 23:56 -0500, Marcel Rieux wrote:
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 2010-03-13 at 15:26 -0800, Russell Miller wrote:

We are *not* irrelevant. I'm not, and neither is the OP, and the
attitude
that says we are is the *problem*.
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#1 - mentioning Red Hat or the NYSE on a Fedora list is irrelevant.

Before this becomes another occasion for a beat around the bush
diffrential discussion, I would like to correct what I wrote. Red Hat
is on NASDAQ.

No, they started on NASDAQ, but now (as of 12/12/06) they are on NYSE.

http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS4955650991.html

Thanks for the info. Ihad noticed that teh ticker name had changed
from RHAATto RHT but not that RHhad switched to the NYSE:that's not
where your eyes go on the page at finance.yahoo.com.

I don't understand this paragraph, though:

"In addition, businesses must now expense their stock options. Thus,
if you can better estimate the value of your stock options, you can
lower your option expenses. While options aren't as significant a
factor as they were in the dot com days in most companies' bottom
lines, they still are no small matter in determining many technology
companies' bottom lines"

I thought that stock options were no expense for companies, that they
only had to print them and give them away... thus diluting the
investors' actions value, of course. OTOH, anf that's the good part,
since they count as expense for accounting, they reduce the profits,
hence taxes.

So, I don't understand.

Well, that's now *really* OT for this list. Suffice it to say that tax
laws are highly fluid from year to year, and you should consult a tax
lawyer if you have questions that affect your own returns.

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Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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