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    Colon... Oh Colon... Google is worth $200 billion

    About 4x what you bet it would be 2 years ago. Now, I would never have guessed Google would be worth this much right now, but the spoils of the bet still go to the victor by a country mile... me.

    The company turned in another great quarter. Y-Y quarterly revenue growth of 57% to $4.23 billion. The company had capital expenditures of $553 million during the quarter.

    Page Not Found (404) | USA TODAY
    http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/earnings/2007-10-18-google_N.htm


    Interesting that Google is climbing the ladder pretty quickly toward Microsoft. Google is worth $200 billion versus Microsoft's $290 billion.
    I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891
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    Re: Colon... Oh Colon... Google is worth $200 billion

    Originally posted by DanS
    About 4x what you bet it would be 2 years ago. Now, I would never have guessed Google would be worth this much right now, but the spoils of the bet still go to the victor by a country mile... me.
    What were the stakes?
    "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
    "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

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    • #3
      Avatar choice.
      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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      • #4
        Excellent.

        How long?

        I'm waiting to collect TWO avatars. :desire:
        "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
        "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

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        • #5
          Could somebody with a bit of graphics skills make Colon an "Irrational Non-Exuberant" avatar?
          I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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          • #6
            Re: Colon... Oh Colon... Google is worth $200 billion

            Originally posted by DanS
            About 4x what you bet it would be 2 years ago. Now, I would never have guessed Google would be worth this much right now, but the spoils of the bet still go to the victor by a country mile... me.

            The company turned in another great quarter. Y-Y quarterly revenue growth of 57% to $4.23 billion. The company had capital expenditures of $553 million during the quarter.

            Page Not Found (404) | USA TODAY
            http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/earnings/2007-10-18-google_N.htm


            Interesting that Google is climbing the ladder pretty quickly toward Microsoft. Google is worth $200 billion versus Microsoft's $290 billion.
            Not quite the worst tech stock prediction in Apolyton history.
            Only feebs vote.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Wezil
              Excellent.

              How long?
              Don't recall that we specified. A month?
              I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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              • #8
                Very impressive performance from Google. Can't wait for Google OS and the Great Struggle with Microsoft. Good thing those two don't have nukes, so we'll live to tell our grandkids about it

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                • #9
                  If Harper (Con) beats Dion (Lib) in the next election I gain two avatars for 6 months. I'm thinking a ferret brigade would probably emerge...
                  "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow
                  "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by VetLegion
                    Very impressive performance from Google. Can't wait for Google OS and the Great Struggle with Microsoft. Good thing those two don't have nukes, so we'll live to tell our grandkids about it
                    You're aware that the damage that could be done by crashing the world's (or even one large nation's) computer infrastructure would be far, far worse than a (medium) nuclear attack, right? I'm not sure if the death toll would be as high - but it would be up there, even today - and if things keep heading the way they're heading, a lot more will be computer controlled in ten or twenty years.

                    Could you imagine Microsoft or Google hiring someone to take out some major server run by the other team to show their "vulnerability" and then that someone overstepping, accidentally or intentionally, and taking down something important that takes down the whole infrastructure?

                    Charles Stross' "Halting State" is a good read if you haven't read it already, by the way
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                    • #11
                      The Great Struggle Against Microsoft
                      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                      • #12
                        You're actually going to collect on a bet this time, Dan?!?
                        I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                        For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                        • #13
                          Well, my Photoshop skills don't allow for it, but if some of the creative folks on Poly can come through...
                          I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                          • #14
                            I want to make an avatar bet with someone too
                            THEY!!111 OMG WTF LOL LET DA NOMADS AND TEH S3D3NTARY PEOPLA BOTH MAEK BITER AXP3REINCES
                            AND TEH GRAAT SINS OF THERE [DOCTRINAL] INOVATIONS BQU3ATH3D SMAL
                            AND!!1!11!!! LOL JUST IN CAES A DISPUTANT CALS U 2 DISPUT3 ABOUT THEYRE CLAMES
                            DO NOT THAN DISPUT3 ON THEM 3XCAPT BY WAY OF AN 3XTARNAL DISPUTA!!!!11!! WTF

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by LordShiva
                              I want to make an avatar bet with someone too
                              What about?
                              I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                              For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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