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[[caption-width-right:256: Assuming ViewersAreMorons, 1934-1968]]
'''''The Hays Code''''' (the informal name for The Motion Picture Production Code), adopted in 1930 but not seriously enforced until 1934, was a set of rules governing American filmmaking that shaped and in many ways stifled American cinema for over three decades. It also happened to completely overlap UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood.
During the later years of the SilentAgeOfHollywood and the UsefulNotes/RiseOfTheTalkies, Hollywood became inundated with public complaints about the perceived lewd content of films. Scandals centering on big stars (most infamously Creator/FattyArbuckle) and the ensuing media frenzy caused large sections of the public to call for ''something'' to be done to rein in Hollywood. As "luck" would have it, the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled in 1917 that film did '''not''' qualify for First Amendment protection[[note]] The ruling in the 1917 case, ''Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio'', said essentially that because film was a purely commercial endeavor, it therefore had no artistic merit, and thus could not count as free speech. [[DoubleStandard Live theatre operated under the same auspices, but DID have 1st Amendment protection. This was conveniently ignored by the Court]][[/note]]. This allowed Congress to begin seriously considering putting into place a national censorship board (which several states already had both before and after the ''Mutual'' Decision).
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Code_Hollywood The Pre-Code Era of Hollywood cinema,]] before censorship was actively enforced, stretched from around 1928-1933. The contrast between the films made before and after censorship shows the impact censorship had on American cinema. Films like the original ''[[{{Film/Scarface1932}} Scarface]]'' by Howard Hawks were far more brazen and upfront about DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster, lacking the DoNotDoThisCoolThing tacked-on correctives seen in films like ''Angels With Dirty Faces''. The landscape was also less politically correct with actors and actresses playing all kinds of roles. Much of the content is surprisingly feminist, with working women being regarded with sympathy and affection. A film like William A. Wellman's ''Heroes for Sale'' (1933) shows a ShellShockedVeteran returning from World War I falling into morphine addiction. Directors like Josef von Sternberg worked with Creator/MarleneDietrich to create provocative explorations of sexuality and power. The film ''Morocco'' (1930) famously features the first lesbian kiss in sound cinema.
Such films, and their relatively progressive content, inevitably [[BerserkButton provoked a conservative response]], ''[[{{Film/Scarface1932}} Scarface]]'' in particular. In order to stop the government from censoring or banning their product, Hollywood decided to censor films themselves instead. The Hays Code was a set of production directives, voluntarily adopted by all the major studios, designed to prove to Congress and the public that Hollywood had cleaned up its act. Will H. Hays, a former Postmaster General, did not ''create'' the Code, but was the first head of the office of its enforcement, so his name became more-or-less permanently attached to it. Among film-makers, Joseph Breen was the main man behind censorship, and the Hays Code was also known as the Breen Code. The Code placed a number of restrictions on all films to be produced, distributed or exhibited by the members of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), the organization today known as the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). These were:
* Crime and immorality may never be portrayed in a positive light. [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin If someone performs an immoral act, they must be punished on screen]].
** The ending of ''Literature/TheBadSeed'' was changed; in the novel and stage play, Christine gives an overdose of sleeping pills to her dangerous sociopathic daughter Rhoda, and Christine shoots herself, but Rhoda survives, with the implication [[TheBadGuyWins she will kill again]]. (Especially now that her mother, the only person aware of her true nature, is gone.) The film version sees Christine survive her suicide attempt, while Rhoda dies in a contrived and implausible KarmicDeath she goes to the lake to find the penmanship medal for which she killed a boy, and a tree is struck by lightning and falls on her.
** The Hays Office also made the ending of ''Film/TheBigSleep'' more violent and decisive than the one originally planned.
** TheReveal in ''{{Rebecca}}'' also suffered as a result of this. Originally [[spoiler: the cruel and faithless Rebecca is murdered by her husband Maxim]], but in Creator/AlfredHitchcock's 1940 film version [[spoiler:her death is accidental, but is covered up by Maxim because he feels nobody will believe he is innocent of the crime.]]
** In ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife'', Mr. Potter appears to go free after stealing $8,000 and generally living a life of greed and contempt for his fellow man. Rumor has it that the original screenplay contained an ending where Potter dies of a heart attack while Clarence stands idly by. This, apparently, was a little ''too'' cruel, so they were allowed to leave it out, which is why it's implied that Mr. Potter is a KarmaHoudini. The ''SaturdayNightLive'' parody of this ending (in season 12[[note]]The infamous Christmas episode where William Shatner tells ''Star Trek'' geeks to "Get a life!"[[/note]]) is considered a perfect example of [[WhatCouldHaveBeen what should have been]].
** Even having morally derelict characters DrivenToSuicide was often disallowed, which changed the originally planned ending of ''Film/AngelFace'' and the circumstances of Billy's death in ''Theatre/{{Carousel}}''.
** For this reason, ''TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'' portrayed [[TheWindInTheWillows Toad]] as being framed for theft, whereas in the book (and all future adaptations) he actually DOES steal the motorcar.
* "Correct standards of life" (for the times) must be presented, unless the plot called for something else. This had the strange repercussion that some directors avoided taking on films that centered on poverty, since it might conflict with the code.
* The law must be respected and upheld. Occasionally cartoons could get away with breaking the law, such as the WoodyWoodpecker cartoon "The Screwdriver" and Creator/TexAvery's "Thugs With Dirty Mugs" (which was [[BannedInChina banned in Manitoba, Canada]] because the censors there thought the cartoon made light of violent crime).
* Portrayals of nudity, and overt portrayals and references to sexual behavior were banned (even between consenting adults). Even the aftermath of sexual activity -- pregnancy and the resulting childbirth -- wasn't allowed. It was the reason why, in ''GoneWithTheWind'' when Melanie Hamilton Wilkes was giving birth, she and Scarlett and Prissy were ''literally'' shown only as shadows on a wall.
** The ban on anything that could be construed as sexual was what pretty much killed the ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'' cartoons. Conversely, the ban made Creator/MaeWest a star, as it made good use of her innuendo-laden humor.
** ''WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood'' pushed the limits of what was allowed for fanservice on the silver screen. A lot of the [[SomethingElseAlsoRises sexually-charged wild takes]] had to be removed from prints for general audiences, but were reinstated in copies made for American soldiers fighting overseas during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
** The Creator/WalterLantz shorts "Abou Ben Boogie" and "The Greatest Man In Siam" also got away with a surprising amount of fanservice, although this eventually kept them banned from TV airings in later years.
** The word "virgin" was banned for this reason, and it was {{Bowdlerise}}d out of the film versions of ''Theatre/{{Carousel}}'' and ''The Rose Tattoo''. It was mostly because of this word that ''Theatre/TheMoonIsBlue'' ended up being released without Hays Code approval.
* Religion was never to be depicted in a "mocking" manner. In some cases, this had the effect of preventing religion being depicted ''at all'', for fear of being deemed mocking after the fact.
** This was what almost got the CensoredEleven short "Clean Pastures" banned in the time it was released,[[note]] As opposed to now, where it's banned for [[UncleTomFoolery having crude, antiquated black stereotypes]][[/note]] because it showed a burlesque of religion with black people shown as angels and going to Heaven (not to mention glorifying gambling and jazz in the same mention as Heaven, both of which were considered taboo back then).
** This led to characters who had been [[SinisterMinister less than exemplary]] [[NunTooHoly members of the clergy]] getting new careers in secular fields: Three notable examples:
*** Frollo in the 1939 adaptation of ''Film/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', who became a judge (predating the Disney version by several decades)
*** Mr. Collins in the 1940 ''Film/PrideAndPrejudice'', who became a librarian.
*** Cardinal Richelieu became Prime Minister Richelieu when played by Creator/VincentPrice in the 1948 adaptation of ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers''.
* Drug use (including alcohol consumption) was banned unless the plot called for it. Under the first code, drug use was only allowed if the story was a cautionary tale against drug abuse or if the druggie gets what he or she deserved for doing it in the first place (it was the reason why ''Reefer Madness'' got to be shown, even if the message that drugs are bad was artificial and tacked-on). Illegal narcotics were strictly prohibited, no matter what the circumstances.
* All detailed (that is, [[DontTryThisAtHome imitable]]) depiction of crime must be removed, such as lockpicking, safe-cracking, or mixing of chemicals to make explosives.
* {{Revenge}} in modern times was not permitted as it might glorify violence (specifically murder). [[LoopholeAbuse Historical settings might allow it]] -- particularly where there was no law to punish the offender. This means that Westerns were the only movies allowed to have revenge as a theme or premise.
* Topics [[ValuesDissonance considered perverse]] were not to be discussed, including homosexuality, miscegenation (interracial relationships), bestiality, and venereal diseases. The explicitly racist ban on depicting "miscegenation" was used to justify the exclusion of non-white actors from employment, on the principle that the code was breached if ''either actor or character'' was of a differing race. Anna May Wong, the leading Chinese-American actress of the time, was rejected as female lead in ''Literature/TheGoodEarth'' because the male lead was white actor Paul Muni. The bestiality ban is also worthy of note, as it was part of the reason for changes to ''RedHotRidingHood'''s original ending [[note]]which showed the Wolf forced into marriage by [[DirtyOldWoman the Grandma]], then years later, taking his half-human, half-lupine children to the nightclub to see Red perform[[/note]] (though the original ending, much like the "erection takes", exist on a DirectorsCut that was sent to overseas soldiers).
* The sanctity of marriage was to be upheld.
** It is widely believed that the Code created the ComedyOfRemarriage genre, since it wouldn't count as infidelity if the leads were (temporarily) divorced. However, it existed before.
* Blasphemy, described as using "Oh my God!", "Jesus Christ!", or "Oh, Lord" (and any variants of those) were not allowed. Using the word "God" was allowed, but only if used in a reverent tone or meaning.
* Profanity of any kind was prohibited. Combined with the previous rule, this would lead to supposedly tough and gritty protagonists using mixtures of UnusualEuphemism and GoshDangItToHeck. Any word stronger than "damn" was completely disallowed, and any usage of profanity was likely to result in a hefty fine. (This is why Rhett's famous line in ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' was considered a big deal back then).
* [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And finally]], the United States flag was to be treated with utmost respect. [[DoubleStandard Not that this rule was applied to any other nation's flags.]]
These rules could be slightly skirted in film adaptations; for example, they managed to keep the famous line "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn" in ''GoneWithTheWind'' because the (mild) swearing was in the original novel (David O. Selznick was still fined $5000 for it, though). This was especially true for faithful adaptations of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's plays, which were probably considered too artistically significant to censor; ''{{Hamlet}}'', for instance, was filmed over a dozen times despite its main theme of revenge, something normally prohibited by the Office.
Since the Code did not apply to the stage, aspiring screenwriters could and did write plays about subjects too sexy or politically controversial for Hollywood. In New York (at least), stage censorship though not unheard of was far less of a threat than it had been in the 1920s, and comedies quite freely made fun of the movie censors. See also [[http://kirk.is/2009/09/06/ this pin-up image]] created specifically to see if it would be possible to break every single Code provision in a single still.
The code was in place until 1968, but its purpose to prevent government-sanctioned censorship of the film industry was undercut in 1952 with the "Miracle Decision". The Italian film, ''The Miracle'' by Roberto Rossellini had controversial use of religious imagery, and its American release provoked a severe outcry. The victory in court finally gave film in the United States First Amendment protection as an artistic medium, as well as with other US Supreme Court decisions that negated the threat of Federal censorship.
Even in the period of the worst censorship, however, several films and directors managed to [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar subvert censorship]]. The Creator/PrestonSturges comedy ''The Miracle of Morgan's Creek'' is a case in point. A film starring Betty Hutton, a good-time girl who gets impregnated by a GI Soldier [[RefugeInAudacity and gives birth to seven children]]. Creator/MartinScorsese, in his documentary on American movies of the same period, noted that some film-makers used cinematic means and subtlety to suggest complex themes (and even subvert censorship mandates). Naturally, this involved all kinds of subtext, MeaningfulBackgroundEvent, and StylisticSuck in the HappyEnding, which often made them very unconvincing to audiences, who sensed [[DownerEnding the real subtext]] underneath. He cites films like ''Johnny Guitar'', which was a major TakeThat to the WitchHunt and the RedScare, and cites directors like Samuel Fuller and Douglas Sirk who kept pushing the boundaries in terms of content. Fuller's ''The Steel Helmet'', made in 1950, was the first film that addressed the internment of Japanese-Americans in the Second World War, and he made anti-racist films through the decade. His FilmNoir, ''Film/PickupOnSouthStreet'', provoked the ire of J. Edgar Hoover himself, though Fuller had the friendship of 20th Century Fox boss Darryl F. Zanuck, who backed him through all this. Douglas Sirk's ''Imitation of Life'', made in 1959, was the most successful Universal film until ''Airport'', and it portrayed the reality of race relations in pre-Civil Rights era with a stark eye. Elia Kazan, meanwhile, kept pushing the boundaries in dealing with sexuality, with films like ''Baby Doll, A Face in the Crowd'', and ''Splendor in the Grass''.
Indeed, the mere fact that censorship had to be so rigorously enforced in the first place is a testament to the levels and frequency with which directors and screenwriters tried to resist it. Even a classic like ''RebelWithoutACause'' featured a barely concealed homosexual as a sympathetic character (while BuryYourGays is enforced, it's clearly treated as a tragedy). Genre films tended to fall BeneathSuspicion; as such, directors of FilmNoir or TheWestern tended to have a freer hand than, say, people who made OscarBait or the EpicMovie or TheMusical. Also, the BMovie tended not to be taken seriously by MoralGuardians, and films like ''The Big Combo, Detour, TouchOfEvil, Murder by Contract,'' and ''The Crimson Kimono'' tend to have more progressive and interesting content than the A-movies that they played with on a Double bill.
Furthermore, the ability of the MPAA to enforce the Code over all films shown in the US had essentially been neutered in 1948 with the US Supreme Court's "Paramount Decision" (read more about that in UsefulNotes/FallOfTheStudioSystem). Among many other things, this decision ended the ability of the major studios to practice "vertical integration": the ownership of movie production, distribution, and exhibition. All the majors chose to sell their theater chains, which meant they technically lost all say into what could be shown in those theaters. In the 1960s, a wave of European (particularly British and Italian films like ''Film/{{Alfie}}'' and ''Film/BicycleThieves'') films that were not subject to the Code started tackling gritty topics which American studios couldn't touch because of the Code. These films were able to be shown in American theaters without the MPAA's prior approval and when they tried to demand those films be censored, the effort often backfired and the Code ended up looking ridiculous.
There were also serious domestic challenges to the Code in the 1960s. ''Film/ThePawnbroker'' featured an artistically-essential topless scene and ''Theatre/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf'' featured equally-essential harsh language. Against the considerable critical acclaim of these films and overwhelming public sentiment, the Hays Code tried to bend with those films being made "special exceptions" -- but this "bending" opened the door for every daring filmmaker of the day to petition their own films for similar consideration. Furthermore, this change of criteria encouraged the film company executives to gradually lose their enthusiasm to cooperate with the Code themselves: it was one thing for the Code to object to specific content with an agreed-upon criteria, but it was quite another for those censors to be de facto film critics to arbitrarily determine whether their films were of good enough quality to allow them to be exceptions.
In 1966, MGM outright defied the Code and released the film ''{{Blowup}}'' (which failed to gain Hays approval due its relatively explicit erotic content). Because the MPAA and the Code could do ''nothing'' to stop MGM from distributing the critically-hailed film (which became a smash hit), and because it had been so long since the Code had been put in place (resulting in a difference in public opinion), other studios soon followed MGM's lead. Also in 1966, Jack Valenti was elected MPAA president with the specific promise to move from the Code to a ratings system, in theory based on the age-appropriate-ness of the film. The MPAA Film Rating System (which, while altered slightly over the years, is still in use to this day) to keep the public happy. The fall of the Hays Code marked the disappearance of the last relic of UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood, and the beginning of the "New Hollywood" era of the late '60s and [[TheSeventies the '70s]].
It's important to note that the MPAA rating system has itself been criticized by many people including film critic Creator/RogerEbert, as well as the filmmakers of ''Film/ThisFilmIsNotYetRated'' for giving films higher ratings for sex, homosexuality, or other controversial topics (and to a certain extent obscenity) than violence. There have also been complaints about the lack of transparency concerning exactly ''why'' certain films get the ratings they do; several films have been rated PG with "nothing offensive" as the whole MPAA description, for example.
Creator/StephenColbert's book ''Literature/IAmAmericaAndSoCanYou'' contains a parody "excerpt" from the Code, including rules such as "Characters may not walk and chew gum at the same time," "If a train is shown entering a tunnel, the tunnel shall not be portrayed as enjoying it," "Characters may not discuss the high suicide rate among dentists in a manner that implies they have it coming," and "For Christ's sake, somebody put a bra on Creator/JeanHarlow". The excerpt also [[NumberOfTheBeast deliberately omits rule #666]], and also #669 for good measure.
Another example of mocking the Hays Code goes all the way back to 1942 in a classic WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon directed by Bob Clampett, "A Tale of Two Kitties", in which the cats [[Creator/AbbottAndCostello Babitt and Catstello]] plot to devour the ever-prepared Tweety Bird. At one point, Catstello is on a ladder to Tweety's nest and struggling with his fear of heights, while from the ground, Babitt starts pushing his buttons by yelling, "Give me the Bird! Give me the Bird!" to which Catstello turns to the audience to say, "If the Hays Office would only let me, I'd [[FlippingTheBird give 'im the Boid all right]]". The really fun thing here is that animated shorts like this showed many different examples of breaking the Code such as excessive violence ([[BloodlessCarnage though completely bloodless, of course]]), and (what was then) harsh language simply because they were animated in ways that took everything to a level of pure parody; rules were subverted, but in as overt as way as possible. (A non-animation example of this sort of Hays Code subversion would be Film/TheThreeStooges shorts, which were able to be the first to satirize AdolfHitler in Hollywood.)
The full text of the code can be found [[http://www.artsreformation.com/a001/hays-code.html here]]. The Broadway musical ''A Day in Hollywood/A Night In The Ukraine'' takes the text of Production Code and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQqtmIrfUT8 has the cast dance to it]].
While many have criticized the code, critic Michael Medved makes a reasonable point: "While many of the specific rules in the old Production Code look thoroughly ludicrous by todays standards, it is instructive to recall that Creator/AlfredHitchcock and Creator/HowardHawks, Creator/JohnFord and Creator/BillyWilder, Creator/GeorgeCukor and Creator/FrankCapra and Creator/OrsonWelles all somehow managed to create their masterpieces under its auspices." However, several films by these directors were made, critics argued, in spite of the Code with ExecutiveMeddling responsible for flaws even in the greatest films of this time and which directors constantly had to fight against and struggle to even get the films in the shape that it exists today. Medved also makes the point that after the demise of the Code, motion picture attendance ''fell'' from ~44 million per week in 1965 to ~19 million per week in 1969 and that attendance has never reached the levels of the post-TV, pre-ratings age since, not even ignoring population growth[[note]]Some historians have tried to blame this disastrous decline on television, cable, or home video. However, broadcast television had been responsible for the previous disastrous drop, from ~90 million tickets sold per week to ~45 million between 1948-53, and attendance had leveled off for the previous decade. And neither cable nor home video would enter American homes until the late 70s.][[/note]].
Compare UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode, which enforced similar restrictions on the ComicBook medium.

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In Memoriam
Although it seems unlikely in the Washington of 2012, change can occur when one powerful individual like the late congressman Jack Brooks has a personal vision and is able to focus energy on it for many years. The Brooks Act was born in the mid-1960s, in the dark of night, in a deal between Brooks and President Lyndon Johnson, both of Texas. Once signed into law in 1972, the act was managed by the General Services Administration and was the primary rule for all federal computer acquisitions for 34 years.
Creating a U.S. computer industry made up of many companies instead of one or a few was the initial purpose of the Brooks Act. In the early days of the industry, the federal government was by far the most active buyer of computers in the country, and IBM was the dominant supplier. If the government had made all its purchases from IBM, as many agency officials wanted, there would have been very little opportunity for any competing providers to emerge.
IBM's competition included several companies then called "the dwarfs." The group included Burroughs, Control Data, General Electric, Honeywell, National Cash Register and Univac, now called Unisys. Given a chance under the Brooks Act, those firms were able to emerge and grow. IBM, meanwhile, adjusted to the new procurement rules and enjoyed continued success.
Thirty years after the government enacted the Brooks Act, I attended a Christmas party with Unisys and former Univac employees at their annual gathering to remember the good old days. Bob Beardall, a longtime Unisys employee, looked out over the room filled with his friends and former colleagues and said, "They owe a lot to Jack Brooks."
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"These guys were given an opportunity to sell to the government. The Brooks Act forced agencies to look at all suppliers, and Univac won its share," Bob said. "As a result, these guys bought houses, raised families and sent kids to college because of the opportunities delivered by the Brooks Act."
While industry generally liked the Brooks Act, agencies did not, especially because they were required to obtain a delegation of procurement authority from GSA. But the law has spurred innovation in both industry and government.
And the Brooks Act was not Brooks' only influence on federal procurement. In the mid-1980s, his staff member, Jim Lewin, convinced Brooks that the General Accounting Office (now the Government Accountability Office) ruled too frequently in favor of agencies in bid protests. As a result, Brooks introduced the Competition in Contracting Act, authorizing GSA's administrative law judges to hear bid protests by vendors. That is when the real troubles began because the bid protest process often delayed procurements for as long as 12 months and caused industry officials to become active foes of the Brooks Act and the Competition in Contracting Act. Jack Brooks lost his bid for a 22nd term in 1994 after supporting gun control at the behest of President Bill Clinton. He left office 10 years after authoring the Competition in Contracting Act and more than 30 years after authoring the Brooks Act.
With the fiery Brooks gone from the scene, lawmakers, policy-makers in the Office of Management and Budget, senior officials at federal agencies, and influential members of industry collaborated to scrap both bills and replace them with the Clinger-Cohen Act, which has ruled with mixed results for 16 years. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is one of many unhappy with the current state of procurement and IT management, and he is circulating new legislation to fix the situation.
That would begin the third cycle in almost 50 years of rethinking the procurement and management of major IT systems in the federal government. It might well be time for that, but it's unlikely to be a quick fix. One more lesson from Jack Brooks is that in Washington, important and intelligent people come and go, but to have long-term impact, one must stay for the long term.
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Frank - Wonderful description of the days when GSA was responsible for the Brooks Act. Others under your direction had the responsibility for delegation to the agencies and insuring the proper implementation. While I am sure you could mention a dozen's of other companies, I will not name them here even though. Jack with your support was tough, you too were tough but fair and open to discussion. Today I find it hard to locate many GSA individuals with your devotion. I enjoyed working with you over the years.
You have done a great job of describing the Brooks legacy, Frank. That's important because some of the younger folks don't remember the history you describe. Your comment about the "mixed results" of Clinger-Cohen is probably too charitable, however.
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What a day for underdogs!
Or weeks, I should say. Shares of Cisco Systems, CSCO 0.531524926686217% Cisco Systems Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD27.425 0.145 0.531524926686217% /Date(1417039200609-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 18869155 AFTER HOURS USD27.43 0.004999999999999 0.018231540565177756% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 597090 P/E Ratio 18.406040268456376 Market Cap 140240143999.033 Dividend Yield 2.771194165907019% Rev. per Employee 638854 More quote details and news » Intel, INTC 1.5969162995594715% Intel Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD36.9 0.58 1.5969162995594715% /Date(1417039200582-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 23387612 AFTER HOURS USD36.86 -0.0399999999999992 -0.10840108401084012% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 674413 P/E Ratio 17.083333333333332 Market Cap 178411507377.625 Dividend Yield 2.4390243902439024% Rev. per Employee 510994 More quote details and news » and Microsoft MSFT 0.5898462186644197% Microsoft Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD47.75 0.28 0.5898462186644197% /Date(1417039200531-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 26472937 AFTER HOURS USD47.79 0.0399999999999992 0.08376963350785341% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 691940 P/E Ratio 18.507751937984494 Market Cap 393596208740.234 Dividend Yield 2.5968586387434556% Rev. per Employee 714094 More quote details and news » have been making up for lost time. Laggards in 2012, the trio this year has notched solid gains—on a surprising turn in sentiment.
Cisco (ticker: CSCO), Intel (INTC), and Microsoft (MSFT) are up 18%, 10%, and 21%, respectively, in the past month. Investors have been casting aside the fact that each is generating only modest growth. Some of the gains simply reflect animal spirits, the rush of money into tech equities that I noted two weeks ago ("Technology Stocks Shake Off Weeks of Bad News," May 6). But investors are also giving these old-timers the benefit of the doubt and betting that the companies are evolving, despite the conventional wisdom that they are fading away.
Cisco's fiscal third-quarter report Wednesday slightly exceeded what Wall Street had expected. It was the company's 11th consecutive quarter of meeting or beating both revenue and profit forecasts. In the past, that ability to more or less deliver failed to impress the Street. But in the past year, Cisco has reset investors' growth expectations, doubled its dividend yield, and clarified its capital-allocation plans.
Most important, this latest report followed absolutely awful ones from all of the company's competitors. In fact, Cisco seems to be taking share from rivals. Following particularly poor numbers from wireless vendor Aruba Networks ARUN 0.6359300476947536% Aruba Networks Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD18.99 0.12 0.6359300476947536% /Date(1417039200226-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1572412 AFTER HOURS USD18.99 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 6573 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 2077221165.53078 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 442319 More quote details and news » (ARUN) Thursday, one sell-side analyst quipped that the company was "hit by Hurricane Cisco."
Cisco CEO John Chambers' goal is to be the No. 1 information-technology outfit. The lack of growth at IBM IBM 0.11745796241345202% International Business Machines Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD161.95 0.19 0.11745796241345202% /Date(1417039305326-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3843355 AFTER HOURS USD162.15 0.200000000000017 0.1234949058351343% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 123868 P/E Ratio 13.242027800490597 Market Cap 197865186741.902 Dividend Yield 2.716887928372955% Rev. per Employee 229711 More quote details and news » (IBM), the M&A war at Dell (DELL), and a long, long restructuring effort at Hewlett-Packard HPQ 4.065904863141111% Hewlett-Packard Co. U.S.: NYSE USD39.16 1.53 4.065904863141111% /Date(1417039244938-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 25404296 AFTER HOURS USD39.2 0.0400000000000062 0.10214504596527069% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 429680 P/E Ratio 14.721804511278195 Market Cap 73083329671.2837 Dividend Yield 1.634320735444331% Rev. per Employee 351036 More quote details and news » (HPQ) are certainly helping him.
Intel is also shining again. Its stock is up 16% this year. And the transition to a new chief executive, Brian Krzanich, who Thursday formally replaced Paul Otellini, is regarded as an intelligent one that will let the company focus on mobile-device markets, in which it is a laggard.
Intel finally seems to have the goods. Two weeks ago, it announced Silvermont, a new chip architecture for phones and tablets. Silvermont's arrival was hardly a surprise, but its tangible technical details were warmly received, even by the skeptics. The technology cuts power consumption, which most agree will make Intel more competitive with chip makers using technologies from ARM Holdings ARMH 1.535553980628396% ARM Holdings PLC ADS U.S.: Nasdaq USD42.98 0.65 1.535553980628396% /Date(1417039200115-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1136170 AFTER HOURS USD42.97 -0.00999999999999801 -0.023266635644485806% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 39244 P/E Ratio 68.61430395913155 Market Cap 19904685378.3184 Dividend Yield 0.5626523964634714% Rev. per Employee 444649 More quote details and news » (ARMH).
Now that Intel has a new team, and new parts, the only thing that divides the Street is whether PC sales will grow at all this year. Intel insists they will; bears say they won't.
As for Microsoft, it is benefiting from a newfound optimism about the three-quarters of its revenue that comes from outside the Windows division.
Things started to turn for the company before it issued its fiscal second-quarter report on April 18. Despite a disastrous first quarter for PCs, Microsoft's sales of the Windows operating system were flat year over year, removing some of the worst fears. And other things appear to really be working.
Among them: Microsoft's business software, such as the SharePoint collaboration program, the SQL Server database, Dynamics business applications, and Office productivity tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
Mark Moerdler, who follows the company for Bernstein Research, asserts that investors' attention is turning to Microsoft's progress in cloud computing, where it hosts software on its own or a third party's computers, and rents it to clients. That's a switch from the company's decades-old model of installing software on customers' computers.
Moerdler believes Microsoft is a close second in cloud-computing for enterprises, behind Salesforce.com CRM -0.18537243006403775% Salesforce.com Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD59.23 -0.11 -0.18537243006403775% /Date(1417039348109-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3149057 AFTER HOURS USD59.35 0.120000000000005 0.2026000337666723% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 108341 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 37374129711.1511 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 381520 More quote details and news » (CRM), the standard-bearer for the rent-a-program industry. Microsoft can gain $11 billion to $19 billion in incremental revenue over the next several years as it moves more and more of its apps into the cloud, he maintains.
How does Microsoft find new money merely by shifting programs it already sells?
A lot of companies upgrade software only once every seven to 10 years, Moerdler observes. By getting those companies to rent, instead of own, Microsoft can charge them more frequently to maintain use of the software and to receive updates more frequently.
Among the things that give Moerdler confidence is that conversations with IT types have elicited remarks about some companies seeing as much as a 70% return on investment by just paying a rental fee and letting Microsoft do the heavy lifting of running the stuff.
Given that Microsoft is on track to make only as much as $2.6 billion in cloud revenue in the next 12 months, does the next several billion come easier or harder? In fact, the first half-billion was hard for Microsoft to generate, Moerdler opines, given that it was trying to change the attitude of a customer base inured to purchasing software. But "no one has the kind of installed base that Microsoft has," he observes, meaning that no one else in cloud computing has customers who have been hooked on its products for decades.
Getting companies to switch to a rental model, in other words, seems more or less a matter of discussing payment terms for the software giant.
HOWEVER, INTEL'S AND MICROSOFT'S transformations seem more tenuous than Cisco's. The duo still hang a lot of their wealth on the personal-computer market. Intel's revenue declined last year after climbing 24% the year before, and Microsoft's revenue growth slowed from 12% to 5% in its last fiscal year, both reflecting the slowing of the PC market.
Should you buy Cisco stock now? Even after the run-up, the shares fetch just 11 times next year's expected earnings, not counting the company's sizable cash pile.
CEO Chambers told me last week that the Street was wrong to wager against him when Cisco's growth was slowing. "Usually, when things are toughest for us is when we work harder and surprise people," he said. "That's when they should be betting on us."
Cisco looks modestly priced for a company that seems to be successfully changing from a survivor to a winner focused more on software and services. Cisco isn't there yet, but it's starting the journey from a good place.
Tiernan Ray can be reached at email@example.com or at blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily or www.twitter.com/barronstechblog.


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Point – Counterpoint: The Basketball World Cup Is Pointless
By J-Dub and Ryan Meehan
Editor's Note: This article is a collaborative effort between J-Dub and Ryan Meehan from First Order Historians. Ryan also has his own blog, East End Philadelphia, which is featured in the Dubsism BlogRoll and it is well worth the read.
Every four years, the world governing body of soccer (FIFA) holds the pinnacle event in the sport; the World Cup. Just a few months back, we all saw what a spectacle it is; it is a global event second only to the Olympics. What many of you probably didn't know is that basketball has a similar organization. The Fédération de Internationale de Basketball (FIBA) does the same for hoops as FIFA does for soccer. Similarly, FIBA also hosts a World Cup, which it is trying to make as large of an event as its soccer counterpart.
The trouble is this event has gone largely unnoticed in the country which is the king of basketball. The average American never even heard of the Basketball World Cup, until a few weeks ago when the Indiana Pacers' Paul George did his best Barbaro impression during a Team USA scrimmage. The echo from his snapping leg bones hadn't even stopped yet when the debate started. On one side, there is a school of thought in America which believes the basketball World Cup is incredibly pointless. On the opposite side is a group who see great value in international competition.
In this installment of Point – Counterpoint, Meehan takes up the cause of the "America First" crowd, which collides head-on with J-Dubs' belief the growth potential of all sports, not just basketball, is in the global arena.
1) What Started All This: The Potential for Injuries
Sports Doppelgangers – Volume 65: Can Derrick Rose Go "All Night Long?"
Thanks to a suggestion from my usual partner-in-crime Ryan Meehan which sent me into a swirl of horrid 80's music flashbacks, you can sit back and brace yourself for a cavalcade of Lionel Richie jokes. Don't even try to tell us you don't see the resemblance; you have to make the mustache a bit "douchier," and you have to make the hair a bit more "bathroom-ruggish," but once you do that, Derrick Rose looks more like Lionel Richie than the statue the blind girl made of him in that video does.
We could be "Running With the Night" playing "Say You, Say Me" "All Night Long," but rather than do that, there's "Truly" some basketball news to discuss here. While Kevin "Endless" Love may be on his way to Cleveland, Derrick Rose is assuring us that his knees are as solid as a "Brick House." We'll believe that when we see him "Dancing on the Ceiling."
Now who is having horrid 80's music flashbacks? "You Are."
"Hello…Is it knees you're looking for?"
Sports Doppelgangers, Volume 64: Paul George's New Uniform Number Should Be 35W
I'm sure this will prove to be a test of the "Too Soon" rule, but as a guy who lived in Minneapolis when the 35W bridge went down, I couldn't help but notice how Paul George's leg suffered a similar epic collapse.
Let's be honest here. Now that I live in Indiana and while I wish George nothing but a speedy and complete recovery, the local media sooooo over-played this story. I get it; it really was a horrific injury, but the way they covered this story, you would think George had been felled by a second shooter on a grassy knoll.
First of all, Paul George is not a horse. Even if he never plays basketball again, he is going to recover from this and go on to a normal and productive life. In other words, this is NOT going to happen.
Secondly, before you write me some bullshit comment about being sensitive to the victims of that collapse, the guy who has won my fantasy football league two years in a row was one of them, so I have no sympathy for those people. Don't even try to say any shit to me until you know what it is like to keep losing to a guy with more metal in his head than a Ford F-150.
Could Donald Sterling Win A Lawsuit Against the NBA?
On Monday, NBA commissioner Adam Silver has handed Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling a lifetime ban from the NBA, along with issuing the maximum allowable fine of $2.5 million. Silver also said that we will ask the NBA owners to essentially kick Sterling out of the league. Since then, there have been lots of articles written proclaiming victory over the evil Sterling and celebrating the end of his reign.
Now, do not mistake this as defense of Sterling; I'm on record far too many times decrying what a colossal asshole he is (here, here, and here for starters). Nor is this a criticism of Silver's actions. His hand was forced by a "perfect storm" of circumstances; 30+ years of inaction by the NBA, a firestorm of public outrage, a threatened walk-out by the players, and sponsors bailing out meant Silver really had no choice. Rather, this is a "warts-and-all" assessment of what might happen, given the assumption that Sterling has a long and litigious history and given that, forcing him out of the league raises some very problematic legal issues.
This assessment is necessary because we all know there is a distinct possibility that Sterling will sue. Sterling is an attorney, which helps explain why he has a reputation as the most litigious owners in all of professional sports. Given what is at stake here, it would be a surprise if he doesn't file a lawsuit contesting his expulsion. Not only do we need to consider the possibility that he files such a suit, but we also need to look at the options under which he has to file a suit, and the viability of those possibilities.
RIP Dr. Jack Ramsay
To me, Jack Ramsay will always be the man who got me interested in basketball, and at the time he did it, that was a tall order. Those of you under 30 don't remember what a time of malaise the late 1970's were for the NBA. There was such parity in the league that the league was really hard to watch. The merger with the American Basketball Association had not produced the super-league like the NFL, and more importantly, there was no national television coverage to speak of, except for the playoffs.
As a kid in southern California, this meant to watch the NBA meant the Los Angeles Lakers on local television. That also meant watching a lot of bad teams; the western conference was stocked with hapless teams like the Phoenix Suns, Indiana Pacers, Milwaukee Bucks, and Seattle SuperSonics.
But then 1976 came. One night in November, the Portland TrailBlazers came to town, and they matched up with the Lakers like no other team in the West I had seen up to that time. They were coached by this bald guy who wore some seriously loud outfits, and his team played at a pace I'd never seen. That season saw the Portland TrailBlazers run over, around, and through the NBA, scoring over 110 points per game in an era that didn't have the three-point shot.
The TrailBlazers won the NBA Championship that season in an epic six-game series against the Philadelphia 76ers. Injuries, particularly to star center Bill Walton, meant the TrailBlazers would never claim another league title, but the style of play invented by Dr. Jack Ramsay would certainly live on, most notably with the "Showtime" Lakers of the 1980's.
John T. "Dr. Jack's" Ramsay's journey through life and basketball began with his birth on February 21, 1925 in Philadelphia. He enrolled at Saint Joseph's University in 1942, where he eventually became captain of the basketball team. Later, Ramsay earned a doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania, which is were the "Dr." tag came from.
Ramsay began coaching Saint Joseph's in 1955, where he enjoyed a great deal of success. He notched a record of of 234-72 and led the Hawks to the NCAA tournament seven times and the Final Four in 1961. Ramsay often said that his years at St. Joseph's were the most fulfilling of his life, largely because that was when he met his wife, and because he played a large role in the growth of the "Big 5," the annual Philadelphia basketball series involving Saint Joseph's, La Salle, Penn, Villanova and Temple.
In the professional ranks, Ramsay coached in the NBA for parts of 21 seasons. Ramsay became coach of the Philadelphia 76ers in 1968, joined the Buffalo Braves in 1972, and brought his craft to Portland in 1976. That TrailBlazer team featured stars such as Bill Walton, Lionel Hollins, and Maurice Lucas, and that team took the NBA championship in Ramsay's first season as coach. He finished his coaching career with the Indiana Pacers in 1989, but that was not the end of his career. Ramsay went from the sideline to the broadcast booth, where he spent 21 years as one of the best announcers in basketball.
Ramsay was 864-783 in his NBA career and in 1996 was honored as one of the league's all-time top 10 coaches, and he will be missed.
The Donald Sterling Situation Has Exposed Doc Rivers As Either An Idiot Or A Hypocrite
The other day, I did a podcast on this Donald Sterling situation, and one of the things I mentioned in that show is that when it hits the media, racism does a wonderful job of exposing stupidity, both for the jag-off who says the racist comment and invariably for somebody who gets their hand forced by it. Thanks to the 24-hour news cycle, we are all balls-deep in what Los Angeles Clippers' owner Donald Sterling said. But with all the attention being paid to that idiot, there's some others who are getting exposed as well.
The first of what I'm guessing will be several examples to come from this whole affair is Clippers' coach Doc Rivers. Here's a guy with a real problem on his hands. On one hand, whether he likes it or not, he is stuck in middle of this mess, and on the other hand, he has no way out. And he has nobody to blame but himself.
That fact was made clear when Rivers was questioned about whether or not he knew about Sterling's racist past. The quote is priceless.
"Didn't know a lot about it. Probably should have."
At first, I had no idea what the fuck that was supposed to mean. Then it hit me. Rivers is doing the exact opposite of what Samuel L. Jackson did after he got criticized for his role in the movie "Django."
Radio J-Dub, Volume 4 – Donald Sterling Strikes Again
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is a never-ending well-spring for bloggers because he just can't help sticking both feet in his mouth. Once again, he's done so, and once again, the issue is race. In this episode, J-Dub proposes a unique solution to the problem; one that would be awesome, but won't happen.
You can subscribe to and download the podcast here, as well as get information on how to participate when Radio J-Dub is being recorded live. Radio J-Dub can also be found on Itunes.
Yet Another Year Where My Brackets Call For a Disaster Analogy
Last year, the analogy I made to the disaster that is my bracket was to a crashing airliner. Last year was the first in all my years of this basketball-driven self-flagellation where I lost my champion in the first weekend. This year marks the worst bracket I've ever had while still keep all of my Final Four intact. Somehow, I managed to end up tied for ninth in a sixteen-team pool.
There's two weird part is that despite the fact that I've already lost three of my Elite 8, I am in a perfect position to make up some serious ground next weekend. Not only do I have all of my Final Four, but in the Schadenfreude portion of this blog, it's time to look not at how intact my bracket is, but how fucked the others are.
- Two brackets have already lost their champions – Syracuse, Wichita State, and Kansas took care of that.
- Two brackets have lost three of the Final Four – The aforementioned suspects figure in that crime, with the additions of Duke, North Carolina, Creighton and the guy who made the plaintive cry for help by picking UMass.
- Out of a 16-team pool, there are only two others with all of their Final four intact, and only one of those has the same champion.
Having said that, what realistically are my odds of winning? Roughly the same as that of my splitting a bottle of Dom Perignon with the Abominable Snowman on a non-missing Malaysian airliner. Why? Because I'm J-Dub.
West Region:
Obviously, the top half of this region for me features more red ink than bag of Twizzlers. And much like cheap, mass-produced candy, it's giving me a fair amount of gastrointestinal distress. To cure that, I will be a steady diet of Wisconsin beer and cheese for the next week.
South Region:
You would think after all this time, I would have learned my lesson about the fucking Kansas Jayhawks. They should all get rectal cancer.
East Region:
Between St. Joseph's and Villanova, Philadelphia basketball has phucked me once again. If Michigan State doesn't win this region, my chances of winning become very spartan.
Midwest Region:
Somehow, depending on Rick Pitino to save this region for me feels like trusting a dentist who sells miniature ivory figurines. Then again, Kentucky is not known for the stellar orthodontia of it's Skoal-sucking residents, so what the fuck?We'll let you know once the search party finds my hopes of winning on the bottom of the ocean.
The Dubsism 2014 NCAA All-"Tractor" Traylor Memorial Team
Raise your hand if you remember Robert "Tractor" Traylor. For those of you whose hands are at their sides, let me refresh you. Traylor was a McDonald's high-school All-American the same year as Kevin Garnett, Vince Carter and Paul Pierce. At the University of Michigan, Traylor's impressive size (6'8″, and north of 300 pounds) helped lead the Wolverines to the 1997 NIT title and was named the tournament's MVP. Traylor cemented his status as a big-time big body in his junior year when he averaged 16.2 points and 10 rebounds while leading his team to the inaugural Big Ten Tournament championship.
After his career at Michigan (which ended under some controversy and NCAA sanctions for the Wolverines) Traylor was drafted by the Dallas Mavericks with the sixth overall pick in the 1998 NBA Draft, after which he was promptly traded to the Milwaukee Bucks for one guy you never heard of (Pat Garrity), and one guy you may know (Dirk Nowitzki). Traylor's NBA career also included stints with the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Charlotte/New Orleans Hornets, and even a failed trade to the New Jersey Nets. The stat line showed Traylor as a 14.3 minutes, 47% from the field, and 3.7 total rebounds per game.
Traylor's planet-like girth also carried him tto the world of global hoops; teams like Antalya Kepez Belediyesi in the Turkish league, NSB Napoli in the Italian league, Halcones UV Xalapa in the Mexican league, and Cangrejeros de Santurce and Bayamon Cowboys in Puerto Rican league all got to have 5XL uniforms made to fit the "Tractor."
Sadly, the "Tractor" passed away in 2011, but the first weekend of this NCAA Basketball Tournament showed us several guys who could easily match up to Traylor's carriage. The trouble is that all of the guys we found in this yearr' tournament have already had their "March Madness come to an end. So, in case you missed them, here are the five starters on our All-"Tractor" Traylor Memorial team.
The Alanis Morrisette-level irony is that as heavy as this team is, it is also not-so-shockingly light on guards.