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The Holland game was well contested by both sides... in the end, if you saw the penalty kicks, the best team (or goalie) won. Holland had a great tournament but they came up short.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: As for awarding Messi the Golden Boot? That was a joke.
Adidas pays for the golden ball, Messi wears Adidas.
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Life is all about share and care...
public class Life : ICareable,IShareable
{
// implements yours...
}
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ridoy wrote: Still feel sorry
Yeah, a man of constant sorrow, doubtless:
Earnings[^]
Significant Other[^]
And all he does is kick a ball around some grass. I'd weep an ocean of bitter salt tears in his situation.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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I agree, no one should have to exist under such inhumane conditions! 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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The humanity! 
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CEO's only get pay raises by increasing savings. For a CEO to get 10 million raise, 100 million needs to be made.
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Quote: increasing savings
But not laying off.
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When I make breakfast in the morning, I take the easy route and that involves a microwave and something from the freezer. I am sure that CEO's choose the easiest path to the goal not the hardest ... mostly.
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote: microwave and something from the freezer.
I'll take a move to Vancouver Canada and a side of no TMG-UAG with that.
...but they will have to get below 49 so as to not pay the ACA tax?
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CEO bonuses are generally tied to profits, not savings. And no, they aren't the same thing.
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EBITDA is a major contributor to CEO bonuses and is written into many CEO contracts. Also, lower expenses yields higher margins which has a positive correlation to stock price, which also is a portion of CEO compensation. No CEO worth his weight would take a contract driven solely on profits. That is too easy to lose. No, stock performance is a good one, EBITDA another, but not profits. Owner pay is driven by profits.
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I guess this means the US will be able to fill those tech jobs which it was supposed to have openings for.
This is terrible news. The DOJ investigation of Microsoft in 2000 really hurt the tech industry -- broke the bubble -- and this probably won't be good either. So much more competition for jobs now. Who needs that!?!
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Master.Man1980 wrote: This is very bad.
Meh! Unless you are one of those being laid-off - this is actually very good.
Microsoft (today) is too big, too slow and too set in their ways. According to insiders politics between divisions often stalls or kills good ideas.
In hindsight, it probably would have been better for end-users, stock-holders and employees if Microsoft would have been split up decades ago during the DOJ anti-trust case.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Quote: one of those being laid-off
I don't work for MS.Quote: this is actually very good
I think u r one of those getting the money.
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Master.Man1980 wrote: I think u r one of those getting the money.
Nope. I've never owned MSFT stock (unless it was grouped into a mutual fund  ).
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Perhaps they're laying off only those that use text speak.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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I think MS too big. That's the same Windows or office. Next version's alway bigger and slower version before. I think MS only add more to next version. I don't know how to jobs of other like HR, environment, worker. Are they going to lose job?
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That is what corporation do !!!
If they have money they hire people, if they loose money they fired people.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Looks like it's mainly the people they brought over from Nokia, they wanted to own the brand name but don't want anything to do with the employees
Maybe they don't consider the Nokia guys to be good/smart/talented enough?
modified 15-Jul-14 9:42am.
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Hopefully, it'll be the team that designed Windows 8 and the Ribbon...
Bet it isn't, though...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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More likely it will be all those who still think a keyboard is a handy device. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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As far as I'm concerned it's still the fastest input device around - try telling that to users though, who mostly want 'point and clicky' interfaces...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Typical post-takeover layoffs. It's probably the bulk of the Nokia developers. MS doesn't need them, it's got lots of its own.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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