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joe817 wrote: I learn something every day.

Don't kick yourself over that one. Businessweek had been published by McGraw Hill since 1929...and had nothing whatsoever to do with TAM's favorite mayor until just six months ago. Like many print-media news sources, the Internet combined with the Great Recession forced Businessweek profit to all-time lows, and around July 2009 they put themselves on the block and began looking for a buyer. Bloomberg (pattooie!) LLP bought the magazine October 2009 for an estimated $5 million.

So if Businessweek had been Businessweek to you for umpteen years, you aren't alone.

Ah! OK that explains part of my confusion also. Still, thanks to all for correcting my bad info. That's what I get for not thoroughly updating my internal database.

sjfcontrol wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:I can't stand the guy.

Gee, and yet you speak so glowingly of him....

Skiprr wrote:...and had nothing whatsoever to do with TAM's favorite mayor until just six months ago...

Sorry if I wasn't more clear about how I felt about him.

Bloomberg as a company has decent market research, though I find Investor's Business Daily to be a far superior resource. Bloomberg does have a great iPhone app for tracking the market and charting as well as reading relevant news. It even follows commodities and currencies.

I'd read the mag. I wouldn't drink the kool-aid.

gigag04 wrote:Bloomberg as a company has decent market research, though I find Investor's Business Daily to be a far superior resource. Bloomberg does have a great iPhone app for tracking the market and charting as well as reading relevant news. It even follows commodities and currencies.

I'd read the mag. I wouldn't drink the kool-aid.

Gigag, I'm getting this image of you sitting in your patrol car checking your stocks on your iPhone as Aggie sophomores speed down Highway 6 unbeknownst to you





ah just messin' with you again

Gotta stop pokin the resident forum po-po with a stick - he's gonna smack me soon

The Annoyed Man wrote:He is an unprincipled feudal oligarch in the same mold as George Soros who thinks that his privileged wealth gives him the right to defraud Americans of their constitutional inheritance.

I can't stand the guy.

Well written, sir especially the last two sentences quoted above

austinrealtor wrote:

gigag04 wrote:Bloomberg as a company has decent market research, though I find Investor's Business Daily to be a far superior resource. Bloomberg does have a great iPhone app for tracking the market and charting as well as reading relevant news. It even follows commodities and currencies.

I'd read the mag. I wouldn't drink the kool-aid.

Gigag, I'm getting this image of you sitting in your patrol car checking your stocks on your iPhone as Aggie sophomores speed down Highway 6 unbeknownst to you





ah just messin' with you again

Gotta stop pokin the resident forum po-po with a stick - he's gonna smack me soon

Don't you have some liberal think tank austin tree-huggin associates to hang out with? :)

The Aggies belong to a neighboring agency. We deal with a more diverse group of clients. I like my clients better.

gigag04 wrote:Don't you have some liberal think tank austin tree-huggin associates to hang out with? :)

No, I live in Williamson County and we're almost as conservative as you Brazos County folks

WAY OFF TOPIC: I've always been fascinated by the social/political differences between neighboring counties Williamson and Travis. About as different as night and day. For years when I was in the newspaper business (long before the current crash-n-burn downfall of print media) I thought that if someone had the desire and the money, they could open their own daily newspaper in Williamson County (combine Round Rock, Cedar Park, Leander, Georgetown, Taylor, and the Wilco parts of far north Austin and you have probably close to 500,000 population now - or will soon) with a decidedly conservative slant and it would sell gangbusters and put a serious hurtin' on the Austin Statesman. You will not find two more different local governments in all of Texas than Georgetown and Austin.

austinrealtor wrote:

gigag04 wrote:Don't you have some liberal think tank austin tree-huggin associates to hang out with? :)

No, I live in Williamson County and we're almost as conservative as you Brazos County folks

WAY OFF TOPIC: I've always been fascinated by the social/political differences between neighboring counties Williamson and Travis. About as different as night and day. For years when I was in the newspaper business (long before the current crash-n-burn downfall of print media) I thought that if someone had the desire and the money, they could open their own daily newspaper in Williamson County (combine Round Rock, Cedar Park, Leander, Georgetown, Taylor, and the Wilco parts of far north Austin and you have probably close to 500,000 population now - or will soon) with a decidedly conservative slant and it would sell gangbusters and put a serious hurtin' on the Austin Statesman. You will not find two more different local governments in all of Texas than Georgetown and Austin.

Further off topic...

I love ATX. I love that city. I love live music. I love good food. I love rock climbing. I love kayaking. I love camping. I love running trails. I love drier weather. I love the culture. I love trendy bars and clubs. I love outdoorsy people. I love an active society.

I should SOOOOO be in austin. Maybe soon. I'd suffer under the Travis County prosecutors to have an LEO gig up there. The money is good, and the area is so worth it.


</jealous rant>

sjfcontrol wrote:Picked up my mail on Friday. I found an unfamiliar magazine in the stack of mail. "Bloomberg Businessweek"!!

I presume this is the "Bloomberg" who is mayor of NYC? I certainly wouldn't have subscribed to such a rag.

Its addressed to me personally. According to the subscription cards in the mag -- 100 issues for $100. I'd much rather whoever subscribed me had just mailed me the "C" note!

. . .

Anybody else receive this magazine out of the blue?

Have you done something to warrant being punked? In that expensive manner? It may also be that you'll get mail soon saying something on the order of "We hope you enjoy your complementary subscription and decide to stay with us by resubscribing . . .

My first wife passed away 17 years ago, and over the intervening years I have received a variety of punking stuff addressed to her. Subscriptions to magazines that I didn't order, followed by a bill later, business propositions, advertising, etc. I am pretty sure I know the source, I just have never figured out the motive.

gigag04 wrote:

austinrealtor wrote:

gigag04 wrote:Don't you have some liberal think tank austin tree-huggin associates to hang out with? :)

No, I live in Williamson County and we're almost as conservative as you Brazos County folks

WAY OFF TOPIC: I've always been fascinated by the social/political differences between neighboring counties Williamson and Travis. About as different as night and day. For years when I was in the newspaper business (long before the current crash-n-burn downfall of print media) I thought that if someone had the desire and the money, they could open their own daily newspaper in Williamson County (combine Round Rock, Cedar Park, Leander, Georgetown, Taylor, and the Wilco parts of far north Austin and you have probably close to 500,000 population now - or will soon) with a decidedly conservative slant and it would sell gangbusters and put a serious hurtin' on the Austin Statesman. You will not find two more different local governments in all of Texas than Georgetown and Austin.

Further off topic...

I love ATX. I love that city. I love live music. I love good food. I love rock climbing. I love kayaking. I love camping. I love running trails. I love drier weather. I love the culture. I love trendy bars and clubs. I love outdoorsy people. I love an active society.

I should SOOOOO be in austin. Maybe soon. I'd suffer under the Travis County prosecutors to have an LEO gig up there. The money is good, and the area is so worth it.


</jealous rant>

APD is apparently hiring

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But you'd be better off up here with us "regular folks' in WilCo anyway Close enough to all the Austin fun, but don't have live/work amongst the Kalifornia types

gigag04 wrote:

austinrealtor wrote:

gigag04 wrote:Don't you have some liberal think tank austin tree-huggin associates to hang out with? :)

No, I live in Williamson County and we're almost as conservative as you Brazos County folks

WAY OFF TOPIC: I've always been fascinated by the social/political differences between neighboring counties Williamson and Travis. About as different as night and day. For years when I was in the newspaper business (long before the current crash-n-burn downfall of print media) I thought that if someone had the desire and the money, they could open their own daily newspaper in Williamson County (combine Round Rock, Cedar Park, Leander, Georgetown, Taylor, and the Wilco parts of far north Austin and you have probably close to 500,000 population now - or will soon) with a decidedly conservative slant and it would sell gangbusters and put a serious hurtin' on the Austin Statesman. You will not find two more different local governments in all of Texas than Georgetown and Austin.

Further off topic...

I love ATX. I love that city. I love live music. I love good food. I love rock climbing. I love kayaking. I love camping. I love running trails. I love drier weather. I love the culture. I love trendy bars and clubs. I love outdoorsy people. I love an active society.

I should SOOOOO be in austin. Maybe soon. I'd suffer under the Travis County prosecutors to have an LEO gig up there. The money is good, and the area is so worth it.


</jealous rant>

You might be able to get hired by a city in the SF Bay Area....

Can I have your old job if you lateral?

gigag04 wrote:Further off topic...

I love ATX. I love that city. I love live music. I love good food. I love rock climbing. I love kayaking. I love camping. I love running trails. I love drier weather. I love the culture. I love trendy bars and clubs. I love outdoorsy people. I love an active society.

I should SOOOOO be in austin. Maybe soon. I'd suffer under the Travis County prosecutors to have an LEO gig up there. The money is good, and the area is so worth it.


</jealous rant>

Sounds like a good reason to live in Bastrop: you can enjoy everything Austin has to offer, then escape to reality when you're done.

sjfcontrol wrote: Democrat, Republican & Independent. He's a "Serial Politician"!

Best "Punk'd" I ever did was back in my LEO days. I had a friend who was campus police for a local university. I always gave him grief about being "Barney Fife" and not a real cop.

Back then, Sally Struthers had commercials for some mail order university to "get your Associate's degree" in, among other things, law enforcement.

I called the 800 number and told them I was interested in being a cop and gave my friend's name and address.

One Saturday afternoon I was at his house watching college football when the phone rang. After about 5 seconds on the phone I heard him say "I've already told you people, I'm already a cop! I don't need your associate's degree!" He hung up and told me someone signed him up for that Sally Struther's school commercial and if he ever found out who it was.....

It was everything I could do to not pass out laughing.