Well, actually News Corp, which also owns MySpace, offered an unsolicited bid of US$5B for Dow Jones & Co. That’s a cost of $60/share for a company that was in the low $30s/share.
Rupert Murdock runs News Corp and is a brilliant businessman and evil media magnate. I won’t be surprised when this happens (if this was not a family owned business, they would have to accept such a ludicrous offer).
I have no great love for the WSJ or it’s company and think there’s little left to sully. As with MySpace he’s getting a flawed product that he can sell to the masses and make them think they want it.
source: WSJ online
May 4th, 2007
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The day’s gasoline prices are displayed at a service station Friday, March 26, 2004, in Chicago. Rising fuel prices affect Illinoins’ business large and small, from Bloomington-based State Farm, whose nationwide fleet burned 12.5 million gallons of gasoline last year, to pizza delivery drivers like college sophmore Dan Okrasinski, who figures he spends an hour delivering pizzas every week just to cover the extra cost of filling his tank. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
I think gas should cost more. It would make people make more appropriate transportation decisions. I would raise state-wide gasoline taxes to actually pay for road construction (and fund public transportation).
March 29th, 2004
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I bought an antenna from Gilman Subaru I-45 something like 3-5 months ago. They were to mail it to me. I called them 2 months ago, they said “we don’t do that”. I called my credit card a month ago, they were outraged, and asked me to write it down and they’d take care of it (USAA rocks). I never wrote it down (it’s still on the list, though). I get home today and a box with the antenna is sitting on the porch.
Apparently, they Airborn Expressed it to me, those 20 miles. I guess they were trying to close out 2003, and it bothered someone.
At least I’ve got my antenna, my AM reception has been a little annoying.
-b
February 4th, 2004
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So, I had planned on going to the Big Top and prepping the bartop trim. But I also recalled that I had promised to replace a kitchen sink dispose-all for a friend this week and had been horribly otherwise busy.
So I called J. Nunnally to see what was up about 11am. “I’m at Ikea. I have $400 in gift certificates and I’m buying stuff for his house.” Bobby Mac being out of town, and J. Nunnally, his eX-but-still-friend house sitting for him. “I’m not sure how I’m gonna get the stuff back, though.”
I, of course, had dozens of things to do at the house, and had mentioned to Yo-yo, that I was planning on working at the CC/Big Top (but had made no specific plans or promises), so I offered “I’ll come help you”.
Number One. Ikea on a weekend should be avoided at all cost. O.K. that’s the only number that’s relevant. (more…)
January 26th, 2004
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“Of the $1.6 billion the Corps of Engineers had allocated as of Oct. 17 to rebuild Iraq’s oil infrastructure, some $762.4 million had been spent to import fuel and repair Iraq’s fuel distribution network. Halliburton is permitted to earn a profit of anywhere from 2 to 7 percent on the cost of the assignment.”
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“Given the extraordinarily high prices that Halliburton has been charging to import gasoline, this action could save American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars,” Rep. Henry Waxman,
We only get 2-7% on the cost it takes us to do the job? How will we make more money? Any Economics 101 student will tell you, “run up the cost”.
-b
November 6th, 2003
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I just saw the VW/ipod commerrcial with Polyphonic Spree (turn the music off on the main site, then try the polyphonic player). Once again showing that VW Bug’s and Apple’s advertising are on the cutting edge. They were one of the most amazing shows I saw at 2002 SXSW and had to see again this year. By the end, you’re not sure if they are aping a cult or are trying to get you to join, but you don’t really care. This 20-plus-piece band is one to see if you can get the chance!
They’ll be in NYC/Boston rsn, then europe for a bit, back in texas briefly in Sept (but not Houston), then sweeping about the usa.
-b
August 5th, 2003
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