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"Used." It sounds so dirty. Be it napkins, games, or workers of the night, these terms all become taboo when preceded by that dreaded word, albeit for different reasons. And while essays could be written on the subject, I'll try to focus here on just one example: games.
If you've been keeping up with the debate, there seems to be a bit of a split on the issue of used games in terms of its impact on the games industry. Is it helpful or harmful? Both?
In black and white terms, there are those who see it as another legitimate market option to consumers akin to the used market in other industries (books, music, film) and those that see it as a tactic that specifically takes revenue out of the hands of developers; revenue that would have totally been theirs had the consumer been left with no other options.
And no. Future support of the company through the purchase of new games at launch is
impossible to have been derived from the experiences with a used game, as that would be a positive for used games and therefore counter to the "used games are the devil" argument.
Now, if it's not clear by now, I stand firmly in the "more options for the consumer" camp, as I am opposed to monopolies both in board games and in practice. But that shouldn't really matter. What should matter is why I
agree with the other side's argument that used games hurt the industry. And in effect, why they are wrong.
A sizable portion of the problems I have with "that side" can be attributed to the lack of justification for the arguments that support the elimination and/or regulation of the used games market. It is an issue that begins with scapegoating and quickly culminates in an entitled sense of justification in the disregarding of relevant arguments when something unrelated is deemed irrelevant.
For instance, a common argument in
of used games calls attention to the lack of concern of the used market in comparable entertainment industries such as with books, music, or film. A common retort I see made is that while music and film (conveniently overlooking books) rely on other sources of income for the bulk of their revenue, poor old games rely only on the direct sale of new, $60 games.
They do not address
this disparity exists, only that its existence alone discounts the comparison.
Because used games present another option to consumers, and that option does not lead back directly to the publisher's pockets, the connection is then made that that money is therefore being
from the publishers; making the consumer complicit in a form of theft.
It is the same argument against piracy, assuming that all who partake in it would have been full-paying customers without that ability, therefore stealing profit (as opposed to the game itself). You're basically saying that people who buy used games are as bad as pirates.
While it all seems like it leads to a quaint conclusion, this view is a
logical fallacy
It is incorrect to see the inherent value of resale as lecherous. It is a part of the mental gymnastics companies perform to convince themselves that the problem doesn't lie with them or their business practices, but instead lies with factors derived from the very essence of a competitive market, something intrinsic to pretty much all forms of capitalism.
And at the end of the day, if the ability to offer more options in a free market through second-hand sales (in any form) was such a problem in the first place, then it is a problem the games industry could have tried to circumvent before it got rolling. You know, before they started personally funneling business exclusively through Gamestop. Oops.
Back to alternate forms of revenue, however, while focusing on the term "alternate."
Besides the sales of CDs and DVDs, it is argued that movies also rely on the revenue from theaters and from Pay-per-view, before DVDs come into play; while music relies on CDs mostly as a way to encourage concert attendance and the subsequent purchase of overpriced merchandise. Calling out concert and theater revenue as proof that comparisons can't be made to games, however, is
Instead of illustrating how games are at a fundamental disadvantage when it comes to making money, more importantly this shows why the games industry should attempt to
its approach to the market as opposed to archaically latching on to its "single source of revenue" established from the past.
Sure, games have attempted to adopt
of these examples, in the overpriced merchandise angle (which could arguably be extended to DLC), but it has done little else.
I'll try and offer some very (very) basic avenues for experimentation that don't necessarily lie in shifting the blame to the free market.
Up first, an equivalent to pay-per-view for the games industry. An "early experience" service set up directly by developers has only recently started being explored (in a loose capacity). This is mostly seen in instances of "ongoing betas" such as Dota 2 which are available ahead of time of its full release, albeit for free. This example is not so much seen with finished products, however, likely because when a company finishes a game, they don't want to sit on it.
For fear of a loss in revenue due to negative word of mouth, over-saturation, or just plain disinterest, who can say. But it's certainly something I've yet to really see taken advantage of.
Solution? Test the waters of new forms of revenue by offering early rental of games for a premium of $5 or $10 to have a few days with full access. See what happens.
This is, of course, discounting
concerts for game music (which are things that make money). How does one go about offering this? Would people be up for paying to watch developers play their own game for an audience? Maybe, but probably not enough people to justify the effort.
In a more realistic analogy, the Concert really boils down to just being music's personal form of the Theater: a public space for consumers that charges a lot in order to experience the media. For the sake of ease then, I'll just go ahead and combine the Concert equivalent for games with the Theater equivalent for games below.
In the case of the Theater, this example is a big one for proponents of the disparage in possibilities for revenue between the film and game industries. "There is no comparable equivalent for the latter!" says someone somewhere. "You are wrong!" I reply, twirling my Baton of Superiority gaily in the air. Dead wrong.
The Arcade, my friend!
Yes, the Arcade. It is indeed a public place one can go to and pay high prices to experience games before they are released for personal use (much like in the relationship between movies and the Theater).
This being the case, the conclusion is then that the problem does not lie in the lack of an equivalent to theaters for developers and publishers, but in the lack of
for said equivalent by developers and publishers.
As soon as the Arcade showed a decline in popularity in the late 90s, the bulk of the industry moved on to less brain-hurty methods of making money, leaving the arcade scene a shriveled husk.
Some forms of arcade gaming did manage to persevere, though. Fighting games for instance (at least in Japan) often release to Arcades while they refine the experience. After some time, the home consoles reap the benefits of this trial run with few (if none) of the "early adoption risks" that seem to often plague an industry obsessed with getting people to buy things as fast and as soon as possible. If fighting games (and a few other genres) can make arcades their theaters, then there is potential there for more.
Imagine for a moment that companies didn't abandon the Arcade. That instead, they reinvigorated it.
people to the arcades to try crazy and experimental games fueled only by imagination. That the norm evolved to offer new ideas and sequels through public interaction with its audience; a mutually-beneficial relationship naturally emerging, like a butterfly from its cocoon.
Now come back to reality, where companies shifted their focus to putting all of their efforts into a retail strategy and banking all of their revenue solely off of those sales through homogenization and monopolization.
Where it has become a bitter fight to maintain a grip on an imagined, infinitely-growing line of profit, despite whatever irrelevant factors those companies need to throw under the bus. Rentals, piracy, used games; they all spell death for the industry. Not stubbornness. But when used games are no longer an issue, it will undoubtedly be something else.
That said, I only posit that instead of throwing their backs into newer and fancier forms of exploiting a single source of revenue, that that same effort be redirected into finding ways to creatively reach out and
those additional sources of revenue. There was an attempt with DLC, but that's not enough to counter all of the blame-shifting the upper-levels of the industry have done to explain away the diminishing mountains of profit they have come not only to expect, but demand.
So why not give something along these lines a shot? Or even something entirely new? At a certain point, publishers can only get so much profit from retail, even if the stars align and all sales projections are met due to the complete elimination of competing markets.
I mean, what do they have to lose? Money?
Educational Games - Form Over Function
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I want to touch on a type of video game separate from the "Call of Duty"s, the "Street Fighter"s, and other games of their ilk. This is mostly in response to a presentation that was given by someone to me and some of my peers recently on the very subject of these educational games. I agreed with the idea of using games as an educational tool, surely. I mean, I can definitely see people enjoying themselves, but also learning at the same time. Still, I had a few problems with the execution he was proposing for achieving that, and thus, this article was born.
Before I start, I just want to say that I'm no more an expert than other people who can form an opinion on this; I'm just someone who wants to add to the discussion. Being a longtime gamer, I hope I can add something useful, but from a different perspective.
First off, I guess we should define educational games in the capacity of this post. When I speak of educational games, I'm referring to a game whose purpose is primarily to educate. Confusing, I know, but it needs to be said. This type of game is not used to teach the player about a fictional race of aliens on future-Earth or even, necessarily, the mechanics of a certain gameplay system, but instead to teach more traditional school subjects like math, history, or science, or even to teach a "real world" skill, like typing.
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Now when you hear "educational game," I don't doubt many people's eyes glaze over, their thoughts escaping to fanciful pastures of unicorns and cotton candy. This likely has to do with the perception of such games by the greater gaming population. That sometimes includes me. Despite my prejudices, though, I try to avoid discrimination, so I like to hear ideas out and give them a fair chance before coming to any sort of conclusion. So, that's what I did. I listened to a presentation about the utility of educational games.
Using Games to Educate
What the guy was saying made sense. He had examples illustrating the tenacity a kid might have to beat a particularly taxing boss fight, going back over and over and over again until success, but that was soon lost when faced with an equally taxing math problem. "Makes sense," I said to myself. "Hm, I get it."
The main problem that he hoped to figure out was why the same work ethic was lost on the school problems, but so easily triggered by the game. This is where I started to diverge from his train of thought.
After pouring over his research, he boiled it down to looking at the situation as a kid wanting to play games and not wanting to study, which I can surely understand. To solve the problem of not wanting to study, he proposed that you simply interject a game with educational facts. Let me explain.
Without going into too much detail about the specifics, the premise was that the game was a first-person shooter, wherein the objective involved hunting down psychology terms, collecting that data yourself, and answering a series of trivia questions at the end of each level in order to advance.
It might not be so bad if those two aspects weren't almost
completely independent of each other.
The defence for having a regular FPS that contained interchangeable terms at certain points was for the ease of substituting psychology terms with history, science, or whatever subject an instructor might want. This was his ideal solution because the end result was gameplay that people would enjoy and, if they wanted to advance the story, would be forced to write down and study the terms to advance in each level. The result was that people would be learning the facts while playing through the game.
I can see how one might come to that conclusion, but I just had so many problems with that specific solution. Here are a few:
1. Just because you write something down, doesn't mean you learn it.
You can copy down answers from someone else's homework. You can write down cheat codes for your favorite game. That doesn't mean you're going to memorize and retain the information, Konami Code withstanding.
I went to Catholic school, so I often had to write out things from textbooks and/or the Bible. Heck if I can tell you what year the Spanish Armada invaded Australia or who Jeebus is. All I know is he dies at the end.
2. Creating a disconnect in gameplay creates a disconnect with players.
Nevermind the fire! What's 2+2?
Separating the elements of gameplay and what you want to teach defeats the purpose of the interactivity. If you wanted to have a game that stopped and told you that you couldn't play any more until you finish Chapter 5, you'd just listen to your parents. The game mechanics and what you learn need to be tied more closely than that. I mean, why bother with the game aspect in
a video game?
3. You must cater to your audience.
Screw math; I can type to 9!
No one's arguing that putting terms into a game and having people stop and write stuff down to "study" will absolutely, 100%, not work for
. What I'm saying is that for the three people that it
work for, a textbook would do just as well. For the people that you want to benefit from the technology of of a "teaching game", you need to approach it a bit differently.
For the sake of not being a complete downer, I'll list a few games that I think succeed (at least minimally) at educating their audience:
Math Blaster
Math Blaster is a great example of a functional and useful educational game. You shoot things and platform across levels, using math to navigate your way to success and save your kidnapped friend from an evil alien. When you're bragging to your friends about how you cleaned the galaxy of space trash (literal; not a clever insult), you think, "Hey, maybe I'll tackle quantum physics next."
Schoolhouse Rock
Sure, it was pretty much an offshoot of the cartoon, but it was a game, too. Either way, it manages to blend education with fun in either instance. Taking boring stuff like math or history or dumb ol' grammar and infusing it with the popular medias of the time (music, cartoons, games) worked wonders. I got sidetracked for an hour or two, just looking up all of the songs. Wow, were they ever educational. Innnterjections!
Rock Band
So it wasn't meant to really teach you much until Rock Band 3 and its Pro Mode, but that didn't stop me from inadvertently picking up drum basics within a month or two. This is probably my favorite type of educational game, where you think you're learning game skills, but you're really learning... you know;
Assassin's Creed
Okay, before I get into it, these last two are just to make a point. Say what you will, but Assassin's Creed painted a pretty cool picture of Jerusalem and Italy. There were even some historical figures sprinkled within the (fictional) story of Templars and Assassins. In the second one, there were tons of information in those databases on the various landmarks and people of the time, which I often checked just for the heck of it. At the least, I didn't read them because I couldn't move on until I told the game when the Basilica di San Marco was built. (11th century)
God of War.
Okay, I'm stretching here, but this is the audience you need to reach out to and this game
give a fairly entertaining overview of basic Greek mythology while letting you rampage across brutal environments. So there.
Why do I bring these up at all? To illustrate that there are much better ways to get "gamers" to learn things they wouldn't otherwise be interested in learning. The key is to play to their interests and their strengths, and to ultimately trick them, like the easily-manipulated people they are.
An idea came to me after the presentation on how I would go about making a better educational game for gamers. That is, to make one where you actually interact with or play as a psychologist in the past, doing the experiments you read about yourself. In one instance, there is an experiment involving a baby, a rat, and classical conditioning.
John B. Watson lets "Little Albert," a baby, play with a white rat, to which the baby reacts normally, playing with it and grabbing for it when it gets close enough. In order to test his theory of being able to control how Little Albert reacts to the rat, Watson gets a little creative. Whenever the baby touched the rat, he'd make a very loud noise. The baby was clearly bothered by the noise, but thought nothing of it and went back to the rat. Again, the sound rang when he touched the rat and soon, Little Albert had associated the painful noise with the rat, and started crying whenever it came near him.
Just have the player take control of the noise-making, activating it whenever the baby touches the rat. It's a simple mechanic, but one that can be applied to many such experiments in different ways. To teach the player specific terms, just have the characters use them in context over and over, defining it a couple of times and keeping a glossary of them in a menu. When all's said and done, players end up learning about the experiment, its effects, the people involved, and all while
in the experience.
For any game involving history, have the player control someone from that time period, or at least, someone
with that time period. To teach about the American Revolution, fight as a Yankee defending his country from the tyrannical King George III. Throw tea off a ship, assassinate enemy soldiers in their sleep on Christmas Day, fight the good fight.
American heroes.
I'd find taking part in historical events infinitely more enjoyable than reading about them; like a time machine, but more plausible.
It's not that complicated, but I can see these ideas going much farther than a game of Mortal Kombat that stops and asks you to define behavior and intelligence in order to FINISH HIM.
Maybe when companies put as much money and effort into fleshing out ideas and mechanics for games that actually immerse you in education and history in order to teach a subject, researchers can stop being baffled on the subject of how Lil' Timmy can be so much more occupied with Call of Duty than with Brain Trainers 3: Social Studies Edition.


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2 cups low-sodium chicken broth
2/3 cup water
1/2 (16 ounce) package frozen cheese tortellini
1 cup chopped watercress
2 scallions, sliced
3 drops hot red pepper sauce (optional)
2 tablespoons grated Romano cheese
freshly ground black pepper to taste
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I made some changes based on what we had on hand and what we liked. I took another suggestion and used spinach instead of watercress and added meatballs. I also added carrots as my little one loves carrots. I did half chicken broth and half beef broth. It was very good and we have made it repeatedly!
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a = [1,2,3,4]
b = {}
b[1] = 10
b[2] = 8
b[3] = 7
b[4] = 5
print max(a,key=lambda w: b[w])
This prints out 1
I don't understand how max(a,key=lambda w: b[w])
is being evaluated here though; I'm guessing for each value i in a, it finds the corresponding value b[i] by
- saving the current value of i as w in the lambda function
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Like Ive been saying for over a decade......cherry picked data is gay. All the shit we've seen from organizations like the IPCC is highly.......HIGHLY speculative. Accordingly, the models are based on subjectively analyzed data........... Theres an excellent piece here in The Economist that discusses climate sensitivity: Other recent studies, though, paint a different picture. An unpublished report by the Research Council of Norway, a government-funded body, which was compiled by a team led by Terje Berntsen of the University of Oslo, uses a different method from the IPCCs. It concludes there is a 90% probability that doubling CO₂ emissions will increase temperatures by only 1.2-2.9°C, with the most likely figure being 1.9°C. The top of the studys range is well below the IPCCs upper estimates of likely sensitivity. This study has not been peer-reviewed; it may be unreliable. But its projections are not unique. Work by Julia Hargreaves of the Research Institute for Global Change in Yokohama, which was published in 2012, suggests a 90% chance of the actual change being in the range of 0.5-4.0°C, with a mean of 2.3°C. This is based on the way the climate behaved about 20,000 years ago, at the peak of the last ice age, a period when carbon-dioxide concentrations leapt. Nic Lewis, an independent climate scientist, got an even lower range in a study accepted for publication: 1.0-3.0°C, with a mean of 1.6°C. His calculations reanalysed work cited by the IPCC and took account of more recent temperature data. In all these calculations, the chances of climate sensitivity above 4.5°C become vanishingly small. So we are suppossed to blow up whole economies based upon "estimates" with huge possible disparities. How fucking bogus...........and whats more fascinating is that people dont see this......or more likely, DONT WANT TO SEE THIS. The "climate change" stuff has always been about two things: 1) Redistribution of wealth 2) Destruction of all capitalistic societies. Climate Change Is Now Less Of a Problem. So We Need To Do Less About Climate Change - Forbes
And please with the "peer review" nonsense. That shit is rigged and has been for centuries. Peer review or smear review? Reflections on a rigged system. : Historiann : History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present
How worms aid the study of climate change... Antarctic nematodes and climate change 26 April 2013 - Climate change affects not only air temperature and sea levels, but soil as well. And an American scientist is on an award-winning quest to reverse the damage.
OK. Reality, not models. What are we seeing now from a rise of about 40% CO2 and 250% CH4? An Arctic Ocean free of ice for part of the summer as soon as 2020. Glacier National Park with no glaciers by 2030. All over the world, alpine glaciers are in major retreat. And then there are the Greenland and Antarctic Ice caps. An intense Greenland melt season: 2012 in review | Greenland Ice Sheet Scientists find Antarctic ice is melting faster | Reuters
It's great to see that government-funded research is able to reach independent conclusions. Congratulations to Skooks here on once and hopefully for all ending this silly myth of researchers being part of some massive conspiracy.
Recommendation: The IPCC should encourage Review Editors to fully exercise their authority to ensure that reviewers' comments are adequately considered by the authors and that genuine controversies are adequately reflected in the report. However, authors reported high confidence in some statements for which there is little evidence. Furthermore, by making vague statements that were difficult to refute, authors were able to attach 'high confidence' to the statements. The Working Group II Summary for Policymakers contains many such statements that are not supported sufficiently in the literature, not put into perspective, or not expressed clearly. So you state it is silly to state there have been many falsehoods within the reports? Read the above. These are from the recommendations from the Climate Change Assessments, Review of the Processes & Procedures of the IPCC. This report was written after investigation by the committee set up to assess the data due to the leaked e-mails. - Overview The InterAcademy Council is requested to conduct an independent review of the IPCC processes and the procedures by which it prepares its assessments of climate change. InterAcademy Council | Review of the IPCC | An Evaluation of the Procedures and Processes of the InterGovernmental Panel on Climate Change
And what is happening to temperatures? Even your high priests admit that they don't know nearly as much as they though they knew. Obiously CO2 isn't a control knob. In fact, a study just published in Nature, finds that CO2 is a slave to temperature, not the other way around. http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v3/n5/full/nclimate1817.html That's not reality...that's a prediction based on models that isn't looking good for your side right now. Again...not reality...predictions based on flawed models.
#1 I know personally of a couple of climate scientists that work with a certain agency for almost 30 years that are very aware of the cherry picking of data stations that has gone on, as well as many being taken off line and state within their research of the data themselves that what the IPCC has stated in the past is very much non-inclusive. They claim this has resulted in manipuation of the models. #2 Many scientists, within their research and certain findings have stated explicitly that the models need to be adjusted, due to their findings. #3 Climate models have been less than reliable in other climate related research for years where it is even more important to the public interests. They change those models usually at least once a year, if not more often. And some of those changes have resulted in even less reliability at times. Sometimes it does make them better but still they lack being able to go further than a few days. So the assumption by many that climate models can accurately predict decades into the future is rather arrogant, if you ask me. Does anyone realize that much of the funds the US govt. supplies to the IPCC is not even reported by those agencies within our government doing so? Recently that was brought to the forefront and how that reporting had to be improved upon. Also the US is the principal provider of funds for the IPCC.
Possibly due to the expected harsher review of the data is suddenly making them report that there seems to be some cooling or slow down in warming going on?


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e9wood - Yeah, but how's the WSCI / Polaris relationship these days given the April/May recall? Ask Paul next time you talk with him.
Here's an idea for you to consider on the next conference call .... SPEAK ENGLISH.
Honest to god Bo, read the conference call transcripts. You make absolutely no sense what so ever. Disjointed jargon. I had to laugh and shake my head at the stupidity.
ENGLISH Bo. ENGLISH.
Airbus news is lifting the entire industry today. Give it a little more time, and one or two more earnings announcements, then this POS will finally get flushed into the sewer.
Imagine how much better off LMIA shareholders would be now if Ron had not worked over the last decade. The mkt cap would likely have sprinted well beyond $1 B by now.
1. Ron should have been fired more than a decade ago. His capital allocation skills rival that of a circus clown. His terrible acquisitions have destroyed so much potential here that its an unbelievable travesty. Ron should do his shareholders a huge favor by resigning from the BOD and cutting all ties with the company.
2. Dickinson should have been appointed CEO. If not for him, this would be a $2 stock right now.
3. If not Dickinson as CEO, then LMIA should have been sold. The fact that it wasn't makes me wonder if they tried but could not find a single party, including private equity, that was interested in buying this dog.
4. The timing of a new CEO is a signal that upcoming earnings will absolutely STINK UP THE JOINT. You'd be insane to hold this stock through earnings.
5. There is significantly more turmoil on the horizon. It will be a long, long time before LMIA can be owned again.
Direct competitors to LMIA ... TGI and DCO. TGI announced terrible earnings recently and that stock has been punished badly. Yesterday, DCO announced a huge hit to P&L and it's getting clobbered today.
How? How in the world is LMIA hanging in there at $14? You know another round or two of miserable financial results are coming for this dog of a company. And you know that the stock will be brutally punished. So, why are you holding this thing? That's what you need to be asking yourself if you're long LMIA.
The coming quarterly announcement will be miserable, with a capital M.
New to this company. Just finished reading the latest conference call transcript. One important observation here ... the CFO is weak, pathetic. His responses to questions on the call often made little to no sense. He talks in highly general terms. This man DOES NOT have a grasp on the details of the operations of this business. For god's sake, hire a decent CFO.
I am new to looking at this company. I just finished reading the earnings call transcript from the last call. My god, when did public companies start hiring space cadets as a CFO? This company's CFO is absolutely pathetic. I'm taking a pass on investment, until they hire decent leadership.
Wost product I have ever encountered. Wanted to throw my computer in the trash after 10 maddening hours of trying to make it perform the most basic of functions.
While on the topic of just how idiotic the people are at Microsoft ... why in the world can they NEVER include the things that are most basic of needs? Why? For example ... how about an image resizer? Why can't those idiots bundle a simple image resizer with Windows?
I hate Bill Gates. I hate MSFT. I wish this junk company would go down in flames.
Was fully expecting yet another WSCI cow pie in my XMas stocking. Pleasant surprise.
Must marvel however at how inept these guys are. They indicated they would release earnings at 1 pm Central. Last time I checked, that's 2 pm EST. Couple screws up there:
1. Only inexperienced idiots release earnings while the market is open. Pre or post, not during trading hours. Idiots.
2. Only morons release earnings at the same time as a critical FED decision is announced to the mkt.
3. And only idiotic morons release earnings 40 minutes before they indicated they would.
Which means ... both the CEO and CFO are likely going to be rewarded with massive salary increases and big bonuses. Welcome to corporate America.
Its deadly to trade in an era dominated by computer Algos. They take your money, steal your wife, sell your children into slavery. Computer Algos are especially busy post earnings, when a stock attracts attention. Best to wait for volume to dry up for multiple days before attempting to take a position. Otherwise, you get whipped around. LMIA is now just a play toy of computers gunning against each other. Thats my best guess as to what's going on here right now.
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On ATT site, can browse just fine in checking current acct status, usage, et al. But, try to upgrade handsets, change service, add lines, et al .... total disaster. Again, blank screens, dead-ends, conflicting information. It's a mess. Simply gave up.
Tried using the ATT website today to upgrade service and phones. Talking about a total disaster. Blank screens, dead ends, conflicting and confusing information, unbelievably slow browsing. Honest to gosh, has the ATT information technology organization been taken over by the US Government Health Care people?
D3 has to be the biggest #$%$ of all time. What a total waste of shareholder wealth. 175 Engineers farmed out to BA at beginning of year. 60 in August, where Ron thought would level out. Down to 27 now. Down to zero by YE. Wow, speaks volumes about the LMIA relationship with BA.
It's worse. To hang on to some of these people, LMIA is trying to absorb them into internal operations. Can you imagine all the travel and relocation costs being absorbed now? Who in their right mind would have thought it wise to buy a consulting/services company that services a highly concentrated industry, where the vast majority of the potential customers are your competitors? My god, the stupidity of this acquisition is absolutely stunning.
Why is Ron still employed? Why are any directors who approved this acquisition not shamed off the BOD?
Seems the only explanation for the massive swings in the stock price.
I'm going to pass around my hat the last week of December. Everyone throw in pocket change and I'll use it to buy out LMIA. It'll be a penny stock by then, so it should be an easy deal.
First order of business after closing the acquisition? ... #$%$ can Ron. He's got to be the most idiotic CEO I've ever witnessed.
Next quarter's report will be more miserable. And soon, we get into concerns as to whether these clowns will be able to pay back the debt they took on to make the latest junk acquisition.
Honestly, why does Ron still have a job? If the BOD had any credibility, they'd have given him the boot before putting out these results.
Actually, I'm shocked that the stock price is holding double digits right now.
Yes. Anticipate heavy tax loss selling may provide a bounce trade opportunity. Especially strong possibility if we can heavy selling next week after earnings results. Still think single digits possible before year-end.
I first discovered this piece of garbage company back in the early 2000s, at $7 a share. Round trip time. That's what happens when you have a CEO who acquires garbage, with ZERO synergies, and massively overpays.
Who in their right mind thinks an design firm serving a highly cyclical industry is a good fit for a manufacturing operation? Especially when the design firm has revenue streams from the manufacturer's competitors.
What about this piece of junk manufacturing consulting operation Ron bought years ago? Yet another terrible acquisition. You simply don't buy businesses that do business with your competitors.
Ron is an idiot when it comes to acquisitions. And LMIA shareholders are paying the price.
This stock is going back to $7, soon.
In case you missed the signal, everything you read in yesterday's releases signaled a company rapidly executing on a survival mode strategy. Companies trying to survive don't report good earnings. So, if you expect a rosy outcome on Monday, then obviously you either can't read, or you're terrible at picking up signals.
LMIA is headed into the single digits, soon.
Single digits before YE. Easy.


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Denise Richards really seems to have the whole soccer mom thing down this season! She's been spotted on the sidelines cheering on her daughter Sam pretty much every weekend this fall.
For this past weekend's game, Denise brought along a special date to watch the game with her…her father, Irv! I always loved Irv on Denise's reality show. He just seems like such a great guy and was so wonderful and sweet to Denise and her girls.
Denise's new baby, Eloise, stayed in her stroller this week instead of making an appearance in her mom's lap. Maybe she was napping during the game?
Here are a few more photos of Denise enjoying the day with her dad.
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See photos of Denise Richards enjoying fall fun with families!


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