lt cap,

I'm sorry to hear the INTC -$17 bln news, but glad to know about it. It unpleasantly surprises me because A. Traditionally, when they've had such losses, it was in the form of a strategy to make a footprint in a given sector, and 2. They've been really good about perceiving early where dead-ends were in their initiatives, and cutting their losses (such as selling their set-top box business to someone - Verizon? whatever.)

I'm surprised, but glad to see them gaining ground, and back over $50, but I'm nervous about the holding. Until they get a new CEO, they're pretty much a rudder-less ship, policy-wise. Kraznich was a good CEO. Wish he had kept his pants zipped. What is it in male human nature that when one knows the cost of an affair, and how many times what seemed like a good relationship eventually turned into a public betrayal from seeing other powerful men have to confront it being made public, that men still go blindly into these relationships, figuring it will never happen to them. And if you're INTC, why not just pump a bunch of money into developing A.I. sex worker robots - a new form of 'protected sex.' As per Asimov - if a robot cannot be charged with a crime, neither would they have the right to sue you for maltreatment. Ah, the future is so bright.