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YoshitoKikuchi
05/05/17 2:59:36 PM
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E32005
05/05/17 3:04:47 PM
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meingott
05/05/17 3:05:49 PM
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They should invest some of that into making products people are excited about. AFAIK the reception on their latest Macbook Pro wasn't that hot.
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Antifar
05/05/17 3:06:19 PM
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Fixing the water system in Flint would cost 300 million.
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chill02
05/05/17 3:07:15 PM
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they can probably afford to resurrect Steve Jobs now
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meingott
05/05/17 3:09:21 PM
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Antifar posted...
Fixing the water system in Flint would cost 300 million.


If they fix the water system in Flint, they'd have to fix the water system in every dilapidated city. Which means you'd quickly run out of money.

How do you decide who to help and who to ignore? It's not as easy as you think. If you take all the private wealth of the world and start using it to fix problems, you'll run out well before you've even put a dent into the problems. It's the same with taking in immigrants from 3rd world countries. America takes in 1 million per year as of late. Yet that hasn't put a dent into the over-all number of poor 3rd world occupants. They're reproducing too fast for us to help them, despite our immense relative wealth.

All this to say that yes, one city's problems seem simple to resolve when compared against an entire global conglomerate's vast wealth (accumulated over decades). But reality isn't that simple by any means. Even if someone wanted to use all the private wealth in the world to help the world, you wouldn't do anything but make it worse when all is said and done.
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Anarchy_Juiblex
05/05/17 3:12:15 PM
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. . . and they only paid 1.72% in dividends last time. lol
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MACisBack
05/05/17 3:12:19 PM
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E32005 posted...
Can get a dollar?


Me to and throw in an Ipad.
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meingott
05/05/17 3:12:41 PM
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...
. . . and they only paid 1.72% in dividends last time. lol


What is the average dividend payment from the top 100 dividend-paying companies?
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_BlueMonk
05/05/17 3:14:38 PM
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lol remember when they fired steve jobs and hired that Pepsi CEO

who then made this: http://www.1000bit.it/lista/a/apple/mac/tam/mac_anniversary.jpg

and then Steve Jobs went on to be CEO of Pixar

lololololololol
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FrenchCrunch
05/05/17 3:15:32 PM
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meingott posted...
Antifar posted...
Fixing the water system in Flint would cost 300 million.


If they fix the water system in Flint, they'd have to fix the water system in every dilapidated city. Which means you'd quickly run out of money.

How do you decide who to help and who to ignore? It's not as easy as you think. If you take all the private wealth of the world and start using it to fix problems, you'll run out well before you've even put a dent into the problems. It's the same with taking in immigrants from 3rd world countries. America takes in 1 million per year as of late. Yet that hasn't put a dent into the over-all number of poor 3rd world occupants. They're reproducing too fast for us to help them, despite our immense relative wealth.

All this to say that yes, one city's problems seem simple to resolve when compared against an entire global conglomerate's vast wealth (accumulated over decades). But reality isn't that simple by any means. Even if someone wanted to use all the private wealth in the world to help the world, you wouldn't do anything but make it worse when all is said and done.

i was under the impression he was putting things into perspective, not implying that apple should save flint
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protestTHEhero
05/05/17 3:15:59 PM
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I wish i hat that much :/
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John_Galt
05/05/17 3:17:52 PM
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meingott posted...
Anarchy_Juiblex posted...
. . . and they only paid 1.72% in dividends last time. lol


What is the average dividend payment from the top 100 dividend-paying companies?


Several of the top 10 don't pay a dividend at all
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meingott
05/05/17 3:19:29 PM
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FrenchCrunch posted...
meingott posted...
Antifar posted...
Fixing the water system in Flint would cost 300 million.


If they fix the water system in Flint, they'd have to fix the water system in every dilapidated city. Which means you'd quickly run out of money.

How do you decide who to help and who to ignore? It's not as easy as you think. If you take all the private wealth of the world and start using it to fix problems, you'll run out well before you've even put a dent into the problems. It's the same with taking in immigrants from 3rd world countries. America takes in 1 million per year as of late. Yet that hasn't put a dent into the over-all number of poor 3rd world occupants. They're reproducing too fast for us to help them, despite our immense relative wealth.

All this to say that yes, one city's problems seem simple to resolve when compared against an entire global conglomerate's vast wealth (accumulated over decades). But reality isn't that simple by any means. Even if someone wanted to use all the private wealth in the world to help the world, you wouldn't do anything but make it worse when all is said and done.

i was under the impression he was putting things into perspective, not implying that apple should save flint


If that wasn't his implication, then what useful perspective can be gleaned from his post?
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meingott
05/05/17 3:19:34 PM
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John_Galt posted...
meingott posted...
Anarchy_Juiblex posted...
. . . and they only paid 1.72% in dividends last time. lol


What is the average dividend payment from the top 100 dividend-paying companies?


Several of the top 10 don't pay a dividend at all


Exactly.
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E32005
05/05/17 3:19:57 PM
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MACisBack posted...
E32005 posted...
Can get a dollar?


Me to and throw in an Ipad.

Yup
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SK8T3R215
05/05/17 3:20:34 PM
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John_Galt posted...
meingott posted...
Anarchy_Juiblex posted...
. . . and they only paid 1.72% in dividends last time. lol


What is the average dividend payment from the top 100 dividend-paying companies?


Several of the top 10 don't pay a dividend at all


u wot
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Anarchy_Juiblex
05/05/17 3:21:30 PM
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meingott posted...
Anarchy_Juiblex posted...
. . . and they only paid 1.72% in dividends last time. lol


What is the average dividend payment from the top 100 dividend-paying companies?


"Do your own research"

The average in general appears to be 2%. Why exactly probably the best performing company pays out so low and instead hoards an absurd amount of cash is beyond me though. It really looks like they've been routinely fucking their stock holders.
What could the company possibly do with that money, start their own carrier fleet? Moon base?
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meingott
05/05/17 3:22:57 PM
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...
meingott posted...
Anarchy_Juiblex posted...
. . . and they only paid 1.72% in dividends last time. lol


What is the average dividend payment from the top 100 dividend-paying companies?


"Do your own research"

The average in general appears to be 2%. Why exactly probably the best performing company pays out so low and instead hoards an absurd amount of cash is beyond me though. It really looks like they've been routinely fucking their stock holders.
What could the company possibly do with that money, start their own carrier fleet? Moon base?


That's a good question. They're certainly not investing it into R&D, otherwise they'd have something to show for it by now. Time to send in @Antifar so he can redistribute all that wealth.
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sktgamer_13dude
05/05/17 3:24:37 PM
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And here we are in another topic where Proudclad is going full shitposter.
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meingott
05/05/17 3:25:30 PM
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sktgamer_13dude posted...
And here we are in another topic where Proudclad is going full shitposter.


Still butthurt that you got spanked in that topic about automation?
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Sativa_Rose
05/05/17 3:26:25 PM
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They have $256 billion in cash because they don't know of any investments to undertake that give them a better risk-adjusted return than holding their cash. That's not a good sign.
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sktgamer_13dude
05/05/17 3:27:49 PM
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meingott posted...
sktgamer_13dude posted...
And here we are in another topic where Proudclad is going full shitposter.


Still butthurt that you got spanked in that topic about automation?

Except I didn't so lol

You always "happen" to leave the conversation when I ask you where the UBI will come from.
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meingott
05/05/17 3:29:22 PM
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Sativa_Rose posted...
They have $256 billion in cash because they don't know of any investments to undertake that give them a better risk-adjusted return than holding their cash. That's not a good sign.


Time to team up and start a company so we can get some of that cash.

sktgamer_13dude posted...
meingott posted...
sktgamer_13dude posted...
And here we are in another topic where Proudclad is going full shitposter.


Still butthurt that you got spanked in that topic about automation?

Except I didn't so lol

You always "happen" to leave the conversation when I ask you where the UBI will come from.


I responded to your last point.
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Anarchy_Juiblex
05/05/17 3:30:36 PM
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meingott posted...
That's a good question. They're certainly not investing it into R&D, otherwise they'd have something to show for it by now. Time to send in @Antifar so he can redistribute all that wealth.


Are you really fucking comparing "hey, pay your investors" to "Communism!!!!!"
Whatever fucking economic koolaid you've been drinking, stop. That's not free market, that's fucking spiteful.


One thing Apple is investing in is self driving cars. Mercedes spends $10m/day on R&D.
That's only 3.5 billion a year. Much less than they're adding to their AVAILABLE CASH.
Do you think they're out spending Mercedes on r&d for fucking cars?!
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meingott
05/05/17 3:31:29 PM
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...
meingott posted...
That's a good question. They're certainly not investing it into R&D, otherwise they'd have something to show for it by now. Time to send in @Antifar so he can redistribute all that wealth.


Are you really fucking comparing "hey, pay your investors" to "Communism!!!!!"
Whatever fucking economic koolaid you've been drinking, stop. That's not free market, that's fucking spiteful.


One thing Apple is investing in is self driving cars. Mercedes spends $10m/day on R&D.
That's only 3.5 billion a year. Much less than they're adding to their AVAILABLE CASH.
Do you think they're out spending Mercedes on r&d for fucking cars?!


I don't know man, you should get Antifar to give you some of his stuff. It's good shit.
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Sativa_Rose
05/05/17 3:36:33 PM
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meingott posted...
Time to team up and start a company so we can get some of that cash.


lol, well I am serious about my idea for the hydrogen company. I think it is a multi-billion dollar opportunity. But I don't think Apple is going to be involved in that, if they were, they'd already be deploying some of that $256 bill into it. They sadly don't seem to be all that innovative anymore.
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Anarchy_Juiblex
05/05/17 3:37:04 PM
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Sativa_Rose posted...
lol, well I am serious about my idea for the hydrogen company.


What idea? (I missed the boat on CE what they told me on bitcoins at 10 cents each, they're now worth $1500 each. I could have been a billionaire. -_-)
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Sativa_Rose
05/05/17 3:38:40 PM
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...
Sativa_Rose posted...
lol, well I am serious about my idea for the hydrogen company.


What idea? (I missed the boat on CE what they told me on bitcoins at 10 cents each, they're now worth $1500 each. I could have been a billionaire. -_-)


https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/400-current-events/75304534

and lol at the bitcoins haha, that is true for a lot of people. No one believed it would last when it was tiny.
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MertensCW
05/05/17 3:40:04 PM
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Corporate tax Havens.. must be nice.
Too bad us regular people can't get such breaks.

Instead the news only ever covers poor people getting $200 or less a month of foodstamps and making the idiots mad at them instead.
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Samurontai
05/05/17 3:40:56 PM
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I liked Proudclad better when he used to be a zealous shill for Christianity
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meingott
05/05/17 3:45:24 PM
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Samurontai posted...
I liked Proudclad better when he used to be a zealous shill for Christianity


Guess who doesn't give a fuck? :D
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gamer167
05/05/17 3:53:23 PM
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They should give every black person in America $1 Billion dollars
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_BlueMonk
05/05/17 4:14:05 PM
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gamer167 posted...
They should give every black person in America $1 Billion dollars

do you think theres only 256 black people in the US?
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Gojak_v3
05/05/17 4:14:33 PM
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Antifar posted...
Fixing the water system in Flint would cost 300 million.


But it's not Apple's problem.
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Anarchy_Juiblex
05/05/17 4:16:14 PM
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_BlueMonk posted...
gamer167 posted...
They should give every black person in America $1 Billion dollars

do you think theres only 256 black people in the US?


1 more and the system would crash
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Sativa_Rose
05/05/17 4:17:28 PM
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Anarchy_Juiblex posted...
_BlueMonk posted...
gamer167 posted...
They should give every black person in America $1 Billion dollars

do you think theres only 256 black people in the US?


1 more and the system would crash


Thankfully it only increases by powers of 2. The day when that number suddenly doubles to 512 will be scary. I hope we can process it.
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Sativa_Rose
05/05/17 4:19:33 PM
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Also, did anyone else notice how 256 is 2^8, and Apple's first computers were 8-bit computers?
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Samurontai
05/05/17 4:43:50 PM
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meingott posted...
Samurontai posted...
I liked Proudclad better when he used to be a zealous shill for Christianity


Guess who doesn't give a fuck? :D


I mean you cared enough to respond, so obviously not you.

:D
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