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...randomness. Feinberg is probably correct that his compensation structure won't hurt these firms' ability to retain top talent. Wall Streeters love to let it ride. The question is whether more people hell-bent on boosting their stock price will produce a better outcome for the economy as a whole. What Feinberg is likely to find after five months of studying executive comp is that there is no great way to pay people gobs of money. The superrich have relatively less at stake and more reason to gamble than...
...that's just e-mail spam. The growth of sites like MySpace and Facebook has opened up a whole new subindustry for spammers, who trick users into surrendering their passwords and then use their accounts to plaster advertisements everywhere. Automated spam programs attack instant-messenger conversations too, randomly generating screen names and sending messages in the hopes they'll find someone on the other end. Bloggers aren't safe, either - makers of the spam-filtering tool Akismet estimate that 93% of comments on all blogs are spam; their software has caught more than 13 billion...
When I reported my failure to Lauren Weber, author of In Cheap We Trust, she told me my whole plan was faulty. "Stay away from Ikea, stay away from the mall, stay away from Costco," she said. "How often do you walk in and walk out with 50 pounds of M&Ms?" She said some other useful stuff after that, but I was already out the door to go to Costco to buy a 50-pound bag of M&Ms. (See 10 things to buy during the recession...
...their gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation are particularly heinous due to the fact that they intimidate and offend all members of those groups. But all crimes, by their very nature, intimidate and offend more than just the victims, for crimes are affronts to society as a whole. Does a burglar not intimidate and offend all residents of the neighborhood in which his victims dwell...
...success goes completely to the line,” Gordon said. “They open up a whole lot of opportunities as far as running’s concerned...