Pirates Of The Arabian

When Gülçin and I, in May of 2006, opened the Karia Princess for the first meeting of the Property and Freedom Society (PFS), many questions, organizational as well as substantive, had been still unresolved in our minds. It took years of experimenting and learning: of defining, refining and fine-tuning the very product that now is the PFS and its […]

Detroit Police Chief Targets Officers Allegedly Coordinating With ICE Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison said Thursday that officers purportedly collaborating with federal immigration agents will be held “accountable,” as the city defends its so-called “welcoming” status. Bettison made the comments during a hearing with the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners regarding two incidents, one on Dec. 16 and another on Feb. 9, according to the Detroit Free Press. “Of our officers, 98-99 percent do it the right way each and every day,” Bettison claimed. “But I do have one or...

SaaSpocalypse Is Back: IBM Crashes Most Since 1987 As Customers Abruptly "Shift CapEx Spending" IBM shares plunged almost 20% in premarket trading, putting the stock on track for its worst intra-day collapse since Oct. 19, 1987. Worse than the Dot Com crash... The catalyst for the selloff was IBM CEO Arvind Krishna's letter to investors outlining preliminary second-quarter results. Here is what's key: IBM CEO: DID NOT ANTICIPATE MAGNITUDE OF CAPEX REPRIORITIZATION Traders were likely caught off guard by a 7% decline in infrastructure revenue, raising new concerns about demand across one of IBM's key...