Archive for September, 2006

But there are such sweet ass cars out there!

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006 Audi released its new super-sportscar, the R8, at the Paris Autoshow today. With cars like the R8 and the Bugatti Veyron at the top end and the Toyota, Volkswagen or Lexus, there's lots of neat stuff going on in the automotive world...just not from GM, Ford or Chrysler. Maybe it's just me, but pumping out crap like this may be part of the reason. Just guessing.

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SGI: We’re not dead yet!

Wednesday, September 20th, 2006 What happens to the value of a company's stock when they declare banckruptcy and then exit bankruptcy? I used to work for Silicon Graphics. I bought a few shares of stock. The, last May, SGI declared bankruptcy. Now, they're exiting bankruptcy, whatever that means. What happens to my stock? Did it disappear when they declared bankruptcy? I have an Etrade account, but haven't accessed it in years, and don't remember when I last got any mail from them.

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Paying Credit Cards More Important than Tithing

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 The United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of New York has recently held that those going though Chapter 13 bankruptcy must pay off their credit cards and other creditors before they tithe to their church or make other charitable donations. This wasn’t the case before the new bankuptcy law went into effect last year. [...]

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