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re: A Friday Afternoon Tale of Two Computers

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Dell To Restate Between $50M and $150M For 2003-2007 Results

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Hewlett-Packard Widens Lead As Top PC-Maker With Sterling Third Quarter Sales

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Dell Restates Up To $150M For Results Spanning Four Years

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A Friday Afternoon Tale of Two Computers

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Everyone Out For Class Warfare!

I've said it before, I'll say it again: It's the inequality, stupid. This story in the Times got a lot of Web traffic and should have been on the front page instead of in the business section (mental note: I should charge for these Olympian pronouncements).

The growth in total incomes was concentrated among those making more than $1 million. The number of such taxpayers grew by more than 26 percent, to 303,817 in 2005, from 239,685 in 2000.

These individuals, who constitute less than a quarter of 1 percent of all taxpayers, reaped almost 47 percent of the total income gains in 2005, compared with 2000.

People with incomes of more than a million dollars also received 62 percent of the savings from the reduced tax rates on long-term capital gains and dividends that President Bush signed into law in 2003, according to a separate analysis by Citizens for Tax Justice, a group that points out policies that it says favor the rich.

The group's calculations showed that 28 percent of the investment tax cut savings went to just 11,433 of the 134 million taxpayers, those who made $10 million or more, saving them almost $1.9 million each. Over all, this small number of wealthy Americans saved $21.7 billion in taxes on their investment income as a result of the tax-cut law.

The nearly 90 percent of Americans who make less than $100,000 a year saved on average $318 each on their investments. They collected 5.3 percent of the total savings from reduced tax rates on investment income.

Our government tracks this stuff.

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Atheist Sam Harris is upset with the journal Nature.

At a time when Muslim doctors and engineers stand accused of attempting atrocities in the expectation of supernatural reward, when the Catholic Church still preaches the sinfulness of condom use in villages devastated by AIDS, when the president of the United States repeatedly vetoes the most promising medical research for religious reasons, much depends on the scientific community presenting a united front against the forces of unreason.

There are bridges and there are gangplanks, and it is the business of journals such as Nature to know the difference.

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Via Jay Rosen (and now I see Howie also linked to this) we see this piece in the L.A. Times , by Michael Skube. Rosen really didn't like it. And Josh Marshall exposes Skube in this post. Skube's column fails to give even the slightest nod to the various scoops by bloggers over the past few years, as Rosen has documented. But I agree with this last graph (echoing my Outlook piece published the same day):

"The more important the story, the more incidental our opinions become. Something larger is needed: the patient sifting of fact, the acknowledgment that assertion is not evidence and, as the best writers understand, the depiction of real life. Reasoned argument, as well as top-of-the-head comment on the blogosphere, will follow soon enough, and it should. But what lodges in the memory, and sometimes knifes us in the heart, is the fidelity with which a writer observes and tells. The word has lost its luster, but we once called that reporting."

Bottom line: Get the facts and the world will beat a path to your door.

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Meanwhile, via Howie's Media Notes, we see this piece in "American Thinker" by a certain James Lewis. It reads like something written by a man in an ecstatic, hallucinatory trance:

"Mass killers make up the most famous names in history: Attila the Hun, Caligula, Hitler, Napoleon. But few of the famous can claim to have saved lives. Perhaps Louis Pasteur, and of course many unknown scientists and inventors in medicine, agriculture and engineering. But who is celebrated by the Media Mob? Paris Hilton. Dan Rather. Hillary Clinton. The next Democrat for president. None of them have real achievements to their credit. None of them come within miles of Norman Borlaug.

"The Big Media just aren't interested in stories of profound human significance. Life-saving scientists are boring, and besides, don't we have too many people walking on the planet already? That's the vaunted "editorial judgment." It reflects the snobbish values of the vulgar Media Mob, and it's utterly subjective and selfish. Mobs don't think. They just hyperventilate at pseudo-scientific superstitions, like Global Warming."

I fear I can't make head or tail of it.

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Speaking of Jay Rosen: Some months back we mentioned his experiment in crowdsourced journalism. Apparently it didn't go terribly smoothly. Here's the write-up at wired.com:

Citizen media initiatives are a hot topic in the media, and the new project, christened Assignment Zero, was widely reported. The New York Times gave it a lengthy, if skeptical, treatment. Would the crowd prove too tough to manage, the reporter asked?

Six months later, the jury is in, and the answer is mostly yes... In the 12 weeks the project was open to the public, it suffered from haphazard planning, technological glitches and a general sense of confusion among participants... And yet for all this, it might best be considered a highly satisfying failure.

The Washington Monthly is into the college ranking game.

Apparently it has a completely different methodology than [from?] U.S. News. Like, instead of average SAT scores of incoming freshmen, it tracks how many go on to join the Peace Corps, or become Greenpeace activists, or recycle conscientiously, or use compact flourescent bulbs, etc. (I skimmed).

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T.rex could have caught and eaten David Beckham:

"Our research, which used the minimum leg-muscle mass T. rex required for movement, suggests that while not incredibly fast, this carnivore was certainly capable of running and would have little difficulty in chasing down footballer David Beckham for instance."

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Tip for the Orioles pitchers: Next time try throwing overhand.

3rd Circuit Rules Prison Time 'Reasonable' for Tax Cheat

White-collar criminals will find it much more difficult to avoid prison now that the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has declared that a sentence of probation and house arrest for a confessed tax cheat was not "reasonable" despite his extensive charity work. The appellate judges' disagreement illustrates the difficulties lower courts are facing in sorting out how to apply the federal sentencing guidelines now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled they are merely advisory.

$1 Million Malpractice Award Against Gunster Yoakley Upheld

A unanimous Florida appeals court panel on Wednesday upheld a $1 million legal malpractice judgment against Gunster Yoakley & Stewart awarded to the heirs of the Gannett newspaper fortune. The case arose from a dispute over the estate of Charles V. McAdam Jr., who was married to the daughter of the newspaper chain's founder. McAdam's two sons sued Gunster, shareholder Daniel A. Hanley and JPMorgan for breach of fiduciary duty, constructive fraud, civil conspiracy and unjust enrichment.

Mayer Brown, Others Sued for More Than $2 Billion in Refco Case

A court-appointed trustee responsible for retrieving funds for Refco creditors filed a suit Tuesday seeking more than $2 billion in damages from Chicago-based law firm Mayer Brown, three major accounting firms and several investment banks that played a role in Refco's $583 million initial public offering in 2005. The IPO, trustee Marc S. Kirschner said in an interview, was the "cashing-out portion" of a long-running fraud built on an illusion that Refco was a successful brokerage.

Ex-Law Firm Leaders Get Back in the Groove

At most law firms, management isn't a career track. Barry Levin was quick to trade the boardroom for the courtroom after his six-year tenure as Heller Ehrman's chairman. "When I finished, I was not yet into my 50s," says Levin, who led 700-lawyer Heller from 1999 to 2005. "For better or worse, that was a little young to ride off into the sunset." With the exception of a handful of firm chieftains, most lawyers-cum-managers eventually face a choice: Return to practice or move on to something else.

Lawyers 'Fly Blind' on Options Penalties

The stock options backdating scandal has produced some very nervous white-collar criminal defense attorneys because backdating leaves wide open questions for the end game -- what to advise clients who may face a potential jail sentence if convicted. "The first question a client asks is: What happens if I'm convicted?," said Peter Henning, a law professor at Wayne State University Law School. "If you say it could be probation or 10 years, that's not helpful. Lawyers are flying blind and lawyers hate that."

Some Law Firms Keep the Lid on Partner Pay Info

As law firms expand, they tend to go more corporate. Yet despite the race for talent and push for higher profits per partner, the majority of firms use open compensation systems rooted in a bygone era when law was more a gentleman's profession and less a cutthroat business. And leaders of closed-system firms say knowing about the books fractures relationships and produces rifts within a partnership that show that not all owners are equal. Is the open pay system used by most firms an antiquated relic?

Anti-Casino Groups Call for Probe of Cozen O'Connor Attorneys

A group of private citizens have asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's Disciplinary Board to investigate the conduct of former Gaming Control Board Chairman Tad Decker and members of his current firm, Cozen O'Connor. The letter suggests that Decker's board role was in conflict with Stephen A. Cozen and Patrick J. O'Connor and other Cozen O'Connor attorneys who represented a winning slot license applicant. Decker spent four years at Cozen O'Connor before joining the Gaming Control Board.

Lawyers Learn From HomeBanc's Demise

Although a bankruptcy judge has saved real estate attorneys from financial ruin, they said they learned a lesson from HomeBanc's collapse: Never accept anything but a wire transfer at closing. Before HomeBanc filed for Chapter 11, at least a dozen Atlanta-area firms received from the company bounced checks worth some $18 million to $28 million. On Tuesday, a judge transferred ownership of the loans to the closing attorneys, enabling them to recover their money by selling the loans to banks or other lenders.

Attorney Charged With Federal Contempt in Hurricane Katrina Dispute

Special prosecutors charged prominent attorney Richard F. Scruggs and his firm with criminal contempt Tuesday in a Hurricane Katrina insurance dispute. Judge William Acker ruled in June that Scruggs "willfully violated" a preliminary injunction that required him to deliver "all documents" about State Farm Insurance that two whistleblowers copied after Katrina. Instead, Acker said Scruggs sent the documents to the Mississippi AG's office to ensure "noncompliance with or avoidance" of the injunction.

Insurer Fights Judge's Claim for Additional Libel Damages

The 's insurance company is suing Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Ernest B. Murphy for demanding an additional $6.8 million on top of $3.4 million he collected from a libel lawsuit judgment against the newspaper. The dispute stems from the 's publication of stories on Murphy. A story that quoted unnamed courthouse sources regarding Murphy's alleged comments that a teenage rape victim needed to "get over it" led to widespread criticism of the judge.

Lawyer Sues Rove, Former Texas Officials Over Firing

Three days after Karl Rove, White House deputy chief of staff, announced he will resign at the end of August, a former staff attorney for the Texas Office of the Secretary of State filed a suit in Texas state court, alleging that she was fired for making comments to a reporter that embarrassed Rove and other Republicans. Elizabeth Reyes claims that she didn't know she was speaking to a reporter when she discussed whether Rove's ownership of rental cottages in Texas' Kerr County allowed him to vote there.

Cooley Godward Adds Two Partners, Loses One

Cooley Godward Kronish has welcomed two new partners to its New York office but has also lost one to a rival. Joining the firm are Laura Grossfield Birger, the former chief of the general crimes unit at the Southern District U.S. Attorney's Office, and Jennifer B. Coplan, a former counsel at Debevoise & Plimpton. The additions come at the same time as the departure of veteran executive compensation specialist Paul M. Ritter, who will head that practice at Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel.