Comcast offers to buy Disney

Post #141,133 by admin 2/11/04 10:07:39 AM Reply	Comcast offers to buy Disney [link\|http://news.com.com/2100-1026_3-5157087.html?tag=nefd_top\|http://news.com.com/...html?tag=nefd_top] Comcast on Wednesday launched an unsolicited proposal to buy Walt Disney for more than $54 billion in stock to join the largest U.S. cable operator with one of the most storied U.S. media companies, known for its film studio and theme parks. If successful, the deal would vault Comcast into one of the world's largest media companies combining Disney's film studio, ABC television network, ESPN sports network and theme parks with Comcast's 21 million cable subscribers. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #141,135 by Arkadiy 2/11/04 10:20:53 AM Reply	My first reaction was Com who? A cable company buying Disney? It's like bottling company buying CocaCola. -- "...and pronounce all four E's in the word 'shit'"
Post #141,136 by admin 2/11/04 10:27:22 AM Reply	Comcast is pretty large. They bought AT&T's cable assets for $72B. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #141,140 by deSitter 2/11/04 11:04:48 AM Reply	Re: My first reaction was Добро пожаловать в капитализм. -drl
Post #141,143 by inthane-chan 2/11/04 11:16:54 AM Reply	"Good to grant into capitalism"? "I'll stop calling this crew 'Orwellian' when they stop using 1984 as an operations manual." - J. Bradford DeLong
Post #141,146 by deSitter 2/11/04 11:25:55 AM Reply	Re: "Good to grant into capitalism"? Я использую российского переводчика "Онлайн ПРОМТ". Я понятия не имею, работает ли это правильно! Это делает Кириллические зашифровывания, и это хорошо. -drl
Post #141,147 by Booboo 2/11/04 11:41:20 AM Reply	Re: "Good to grant into capitalism"? Comcast Cable \ufffd Leading cable and broadband communications provider serving more than 21 million customers in 41 states \ufffd 39 million homes passed \ufffd More than 7.2 million digital video customers \ufffd More than 4.8 million high-speed data customers \ufffd More than 1.3 million cable telephone customers \ufffd Market leader in 8 of the top 10 U.S. markets \ufffd 70% of subscribers in the top 20 U.S. markets Disney who? :)
Post #141,149 by inthane-chan 2/11/04 11:47:59 AM Reply	Left one out. Annoying fucking monopoly who I'd love to kick out of Seattle, that has decimated any possibility of real (symmetric) broadband in any neighborhoods I might possibly be able to afford to live in. "I'll stop calling this crew 'Orwellian' when they stop using 1984 as an operations manual." - J. Bradford DeLong
Post #141,194 by Arkadiy 2/11/04 4:13:15 PM Reply	Not bad, even got an idiom right Although "encoding" is more "kodirovka" than "zashifrovyvanie". -- "...and pronounce all four E's in the word 'shit'"
Post #141,211 by Ashton 2/11/04 5:25:41 PM Reply	Why not cut to chase Uncle Sam Consortium buys Fortune 500. How finance, one might ask? Simple - the way we finance all the really Important Stuff like wars, shooting or economic: Mortgage them all, add US [lowest 20% natch] taxpayer funding; there's bound to be A Way. It's worked so far. Gain: "efficiency" Reduce: costs (offshore the messy employees) Result: Repo Progress in its essence. Avoid these messy piece-by-peace disassemblies.. dynamite [the rest of] the foundation and start over, while learning to love Big Sam - Your Only Employer\ufffd The Market Will Correct cha cha cha cha
Post #141,215 by jb4 2/11/04 5:32:51 PM Reply	ObFiresign Theater "In other news, it was announced that the United States Government was bought today by TMZ General Corp...." jb4 shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub* + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating that facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf.* BULLSHIT

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