[liquid!]

Originally Posted by ratman201

Record profit $ does not mean record profit margins. One, these aren't adjusted for inflation. Two, they haven't been adjusted for the huge increase in consumer base. Three, a sucessful company should have a record profit every year, because of the first two reasons.

Where can I send my cartitable donation?

Mobile has a reported 34 billion in cash on hand that they are using for some share buybacks. I don't mind them making an assload of money, just don't claim your in the poorhouse.

[hunto]

Oil is high and the dollar is low
We're fucked for now.....

[bacon]

Large companies leak money all over the fucking place. They're so slow to fix the holes, that they factor in their "inefficiencies" into their buisiness bids so it doesn't effect the bottom line.

The bigger a company gets, the more money it wastes. I'd imagine oil companies are even worse, seeing as how most of them are global.

[hunto]

Thelonius Monk is playing right now.....

[liquid!]

Originally Posted by hunto

Thelonius Monk is playing right now.....

What are you favorite jazz albums hunto?

I'm partial to Kind of Blue (although I've heard it too many times) and Love Supreme.

[hunto]

Originally Posted by liquid!

What are you favorite jazz albums hunto?

I'm partial to Kind of Blue (although I've heard it too many times) and Love Supreme.

Don't know the albums by name, currently this is off of 'Thelonius Monk The complete riverside recordings' - 15 discs.
Charlie Parker
Charles Mingus
Dave Brubeck
Stan Getz
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
on and on.....

And the blues
Robert Johnson
oh, too many to mention

[bacon]

From oil prices to jazz. Just like that. It's official, the pub is bipolar.

[ratman201]

Originally Posted by thethirddiaz

What huge increase? I'm not trying to be a dick, but don't Exxon/Mobil for example only deal with the US?

No, I'm pretty sure they are global company, that deals with many nations. Also we were talking of the oil industry at large, not one specific example. Like if we were to assume I'm good at crunching numbers, playing video games and eating rice because I'm asian, but in my case I don't particuarly care for rice, which does not prove whether asians as a whole do or do not like rice.

[Donut62]

Agenda for this weekend: Eat a lot, get drunk as hell.

[liquid!]

You like early Tom Waits?
"Small Change"
"Nighthaws at the Diner"
"Heart of Saturday Night"