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Facebook shares fell 9% yesterday.  And things are set to get even worse:

Reuters and the Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook's advisers may have revised their financial forecasts for the social networking company, but that only selected investors were told.

Mary Schapiro, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, said "there are issues that we need to look at".

Richard Ketchum, chief executive of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), said there were "matters of regulatory concern".

But in a statement, Morgan Stanley spokesman, Pen Pendleton, said the bank had "followed the same procedures for the Facebook offering that it follows for all initial public offerings".

I've heard via slashdot that the two main players were goldman sachs and jp morgan... had internally downgraded their outlook but didn't let on about it very much... they are being "looked at".

Here, refill your rage gland. Or the Kool-Aid. whatever.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304743704577382371561326132.html?mod=googlenews_wsj#articleTabs%3Dcomments

"...you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the Bank. ... You are a den of vipers and thieves."
—Andrew Jackson in 1834

If you think politics is hard, try religion. I suspect its for the same reasons no less. If you can find a way to harness those reasons within humanity, you could accomplish amazing things.

But I'm not holding my breath.
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Just reading the linked article and comments in that thread is a great way to raise ones blood pressure without the use of caffeine. "Won't somebody think of the children?"

Yeah, "totalitarian" is pushing it just a tiny little bit.

Are you living in a semi-authoritarian, paramilitarized state where rule of law is inconsistently and selectively applied and surveillance is endemic?  Sure.

On the other hand, you are still living.  And not in a concentration camp.

Thank you for making my POINT. as in, ppl need to calm down a bit

Youa are correct.  Everything is fine.

I like your black-and-white world. Everything is so simple! I can shut my radiator off!

True, dat. Logic fail on my part. I'm not at all familiar with the UK, my main sources are BBC and The Register.

I still maintain that the US figures are BS not to be trusted at all. For the same reason that the US employment figures are BS. Don't be fooled by what the gov't measures and reports on. The "growth" is illusory.The official figures are only a small and selective subset of what is really happening.

http://politics.slashdot.org/story/12/04/26/0352242/tsa-defends-pat-down-of-4-year-old-girl

Done had enough of certain behaviors

On the other hand, the US didn't decide that "cut ALL the things" was a serious economic policy and as such, has growth on a level that would ensure reelection over here.

It may ensure er-election, yes, but IMHO it would also guarantee fiscal death. The US is out of its collective tree. Reading the comments in the El Reg article brings to mind a zillion of the exact same complaints I've been hearing for the last 12 yrs or so. Even tho they may be hurting, I appplaud our UK cousins for taking tha sane path (in the long run)

Official: Britain staggers into double-dip recession
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/25/another_british_recession

Not that things are much different in the US. Directly after the "dot-bust" I noticed much of the same over this side of the pond... the bubble during the middle of the decade was just papering over the cracks... The issues (effects on the populace) are remarkably similar.

WTF is a "vindaloo" anyhow? Is it a vindictive loo? Must be some british-ism. All I know is that I tries Indian food once, just to be polite. Everytime I see that word, it makes me think of explosive diarrhea. Dunno, you tell me.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/04/25/arizona-immigration-law-battle-arrives-at-supreme-court/?test=latestnews

Goddamn, what a Hail Eris moment. Thousands of people thought they were fired for a whole morning.....

http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/04/23/2245250/company-accidentally-fires-entire-staff-via-email

it makes me want to buy stock in toilet paper companies  :sniffle: "It's so beautiful!"

Leaving the paranoia aside for a bit, just for the sake of the usual debate. What the hell makes idiots think that cutting off *all* immigtration would give them a job? It won't. It won't make a damn bit of difference because you aren't cheap enough.

This is Merka. Merkins don't like no fancy talk in their answers. Yew gotta keep the answer simple! Simple answers fer everything! If you ain't sayin' that the Mexy-kins are taking our jobs, yer not talking simple enough!

Besides, Meskins is brown and brown peeple is terrarists! Like them dothead Moozlums!

Meskins are terrists? Daym. And hurr I thought thems was comin over to take our money.

They is! All our tax munny goes for welfare for them and their anker baybees! The guvmint buys em cars and shit!

Anker baybees! Wull that tears it. Ah ghiss Ahm in favur of aborshin afturall. Whut's an anker baybee need with a car? Ah don't want my munny triffled with.

Oh say can you sEEEEEEEE