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The simple answer is if you're a pharmaceutical company and your gross profit margin is 75% (typical for a pharm) owning an electronic retailer that's making a profit margin of 3-5% (typical) drags down your PE ratio. That, in turn drags down your stock price and the net value of your company...

The only correction I ever used is XT32. Is it perfect? No. Did it beat the heck out of white noise signals and an SPL meter followed by months of fine adjustment? A resoundingly Yes! It put me right in the ballpark and gave me a fine starting place to tweak to my own preferences.

I'm a little late to the conversation, but I'll jump in here. I'm sure Masimo expects a minimum profit margin. Medical it typically earns the highest with semiconductors/chips coming in behind them. My time at Xilinx, Intel, Philips, and others is they would close or sell off divisions not...

I found both seasons enjoyable. However, I'm surprised people are liking season 2 better. I liked S1 better. I thought the plot(s) got too bifurcated. Which reduced screen time for the main players. There was next to zero interesting dialog. For what dialog there was. Then again, you don't need...

I finished the series. I liked it and I'll definitely be watching the next season. I thought the last two episode were good too and I like where it left off. If you're looking for as sci-fi action series, like Halo (which I enjoyed too), this is surely the polar opposite.

....now I'm preparing for big letdown. o_O I really like the cast of actors.

I'm only a few episodes in, but I'm enjoying it so far.

Keep in mind, ships this size can take miles to stop on their own. Even at relatively low speeds. Their maneuvering ability isn't that great either. Hence the need for tugs.

Do you use YPAO? I have no direct experience with it. However, I accidently got the terminals mixed when wiring speakers and Audyssey caught it. It gave me a message telling me which speaker was out of phase and to swap the wires. I would think YPAO would do the same thing.

I can't comment on this movie. But I have noticed some movies I've seen in IMAX theaters being slightly out of focus. It's happened enough the only Imax movies I go see are at the museum. Could it be they're not truly Imax movies, 70mm, and don't have enough resolution or they just can't focus...

Carter? We could argue it started with the lines at the gas pump during the Nixon/Ford years. Volcker stepped in and raised interest rates to slow inflation, which worked, but also stifled the economy. Then a little too late for the Carter presidency he lowered interest rates. Which prompted the...

To be fair, Amazon is a very low margin business. They make their money on volume, and lots of it. They feel inflation too. FedEx/UPS for example had a GRI of 5.9% this past Dec/Jan. Several places where I buy things online have raised the minimum you have to spend before you get free...

At least at the grocery store I'm paying more for the same product. With streaming I seem to be paying more for less.

We, the US, waste so much money on so many things from both sides of the aisle it's almost unfathomable. My head spins with politician saying if we cut this we could do that. It's never worked that way. This type of argument is sold to us to us to pacify us or to push forward an agenda. You also...

Well, the good Christian states put them in a bus and send them elsewhere. While I get immigration is an issue, what surprises me is how it's become the forefront of issues? It's like it's really effecting how we live our lives on a daily basis (not!). It's being used as an opiate for the...

But the question is what is good? What is he being compared against? For me, relative to the presidents in my lifetime, I give him a passing grade. I wasn't 100% enamored by any president in my nearly 60 years of life. They all have pluses and minuses and have to deal with the current members...

Politics now feel like we've taken attack ads and negative campaigning to an extreme level. Moreover, news isn't about news, it's about ratings. Thus, if your Fox you'll rarely say JB did anything good. When they do, they quickly mention it and morph it into something bad about him that has...

I enjoyed this series. Like the others, it was too bad it ended without a proper ending to the story line. Or did it? In a strange way.

A song that's basically strumming two chords and it's the bass which makes it so interesting.

Yes, my GF is Philippina and has a lot of shoes.... I call her Imelda all the time. My audio setup is king of in the plug and forget place now. I haven't had a need, or strong enough desire, to upgrade anything recently. Except an 85" tv which I dragged her around to go look at before...