[Copenhagen-SmokeScreen OP gets stronger vs.] TOP 70 Most Interesting 'Power Structure' Companies and Institutions
[ewing2001 ; compiled August 2009] [sic: reTitled Jan 2010]
[http://ff.im/6Y1ZP nicopedia ; http://tinyurl.com/9-11top70] 1 EADS Astrium/EADS Defence Electronics/Eurockot Launch Services GmbH/incl. Matra Marconi Space, Infanterist der Zukunft etc. [see also EADS ["Muckety"-Consulting Structure] http://ff.im/6Xs76] 2 Thales Alenia Space [formerly Thomson-CSF plus Fabriek van Signaalapparaten]/Thales Australia (formerly ADI Limited)/ThalesRaytheonSystems 3 SES New Skies (Netherlands)/SES Americom/SES S.A. [incl. chronologically since 2000: NSS-11, NSS-7, NSS-6, NSS-8, NSS-9, NSS-12] 4 Jump Trading LLC/Jumptrading.com 5 GeoEye Inc. (formerly Orbital Imaging Corporation; run by ex-SDIO James Alan Abrahamson) http://friendfeed.com/search... ; http://friendfeed.com/search...
- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
6 European XFEL GmbH [German Free Electron Laser; launched in 2009 incl. DESY (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) and Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation/Beijing 2013] 7 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) [signed June 15, 2001] 8 DLR aka Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.[formerly Deutsche Forschungs- und Versuchsanstalt fur Luft- und Raumfahrt ] 9 RUAG Aerospace [Switzerland, Sweden] 10 Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (Boeing IDS)
- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
11 Krauss Maffei Wegmann (KMW) Training & Simulation™ 12 Rheinmetall Defence Electronics 13 EUREKA Prometheus Project (Daimler-Benz' driverless cars) 14 Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center aka ILS International Launch Services, Inc. 15 Alcatel/Lucent 16 Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) 17 Bechtel SAIC Company [incl. centers in Delhi and Bangalore, India ; see also my...
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20 Honeywell Technology Solutions [Bangalore (India)] (in 1999 taking over AlliedSignal) 21 L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. 22 Lockheed Martin [see also http://tinyurl.com/eurospa... ] /{The Cohen Group} 23 China Investment Corporation (CIC) 24 Credit Suisse Group [formerly Schweizerische Kreditanstalt] 25 Wolverine Trading LLC 26 Satellite Imaging Corporation (SIC) [Reseller...
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- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
31 SpaceX [see also http://ff.im/437jY Profiteers from 9/11 : Private Space-Flight (SDI '2009+Con Companies Overview plus http://ff.im/4g0NX best of ewing2001 research at ff)] 32 Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC)/SpaceDev 33 Virgin Galactic 34 Pfizer Inc/Wyeth 35 Aastra Technologies Limited [Canada; took over PBX division of Ericsson in 2008] 36 BNP Paribas 37 Gazprombank/OAO...
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- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
41 Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems/EuroHawk GmbH [developed by EADS] 42 CSC/DynCorp (2003) 43 DigitalGlobe/QuickBird [launched on October 18, 2001]/WorldView-1 [launched September 2007] 44 PanAmSat Corporation 45 Proactive Communications, Inc. (PCI)
- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
46 Novartis International AG 47 AstraZeneca plc 48 Anheuser-Busch InBev N.V. (AB InBev; Brazil) /Zhujiang Brewery [incl. # Budweiser # Bass # Natural Ice # Busch # Rolling Rock # Stella Artois # Beck's # Leffe # Hoegaarden # Löwenbräu etc...] 49 Anadolu Group/Efes Beverage Group [incl. Warsteiner, Sol and largest local shareholder of the Coca-Cola franchise in Turkey with current U.S....
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- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
51 Bharti Airtel (India) 52 Dole Food Company [formerly Standard Fruit Company] 53 JENOPTIK Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH aka Jenoptik AG aka VEB Zeiss Jena ["historical context" ; http://friendfeed.com/ewing20...] 54 Abbott Laboratories 55 Baxter International Inc. 56 Goldman Sachs 57 Swedish Space Corp. 58 General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems 59 Johnson & Johnson 60 Arianespace SA/Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG)/CNES
- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
61 ISRO aka Indian Space Research Organisation 62 Sikorsky Global Helicopters/Schweizer Aircraft [since 2004] 63 MTN Group/Belgacom International Carrier Services (BICS) 64 Rockwell Collins/Anzus, Inc. [since 2006] 65 Analytic Services aka ANSER 66 RAND Corporation (Research ANd Development) [until 1997 'run' by Albert Wohlstetter] 67 BAE Systems plc [UK] (sold most of its shares of...
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- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
...original list bumped back, as my final list and report for the 9/11 anniversary ; see also "Comedian Nico Haupt aka nicomedy2010 fired at Motorino Pizza" http://ff.im/6Uylv
- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
...thats all what u get from me on *this topic for now ; vR, aR, mR, tiR, antimatter and personal business next ;
- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
The list *here above*, though well promoted among noplaner snail-mail apparatus, was not mentioned *at all* on Jim Fetzer's recent radio show [http://thewebfairy.com/realdea... ], which was the usual mingle of unimportant or outdated semantics from 2 years ago plus occasional behaviorism-'analysis' from his very well spoken, but as usual unconclusive (and 'unresponsible') guest PCarter...
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- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
~ 75 min: ironically pCarter mentions *now nico [haupt's] "important" [sic] research on the 'related companies', which is then *again* ignored by fetzer ;
- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
see also ewing2001/nicopedia: best of research/reports etc.. at friendfeed http://ff.im/4g0NX ; plus The distraction psyOPs around the History of DEW + Co. [by ewing2001) http://ff.im/v9cN ; NASA confirms AntiMatter Experiments in Space for 2010 http://ff.im/7qgNS ; Free Electron Laser [FEL]-Conference opens in Liverpool, UK ; Antimatter weapon: CERN, Kazachstan and co. -the countdown...
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- ewing2001akaNicomedy2010
LG can you tell Loic to change his avatar? Me, Yama, Johann, and Kenny have all asked via Twitter - he just RTd and left it as is. It's SO CREEPY!! Hey, I'm included! Thanks, LG (late)
- Mona Nomura
Mona, I did already. I told him it looked like C-3PO getting goosed. :)
- Louis Gray
there is a "block loic until he changes his icon" movement currently going around.
- Allen Stern
He looks like Judge Doom from Roger Rabbit. We should totally start a movement. Omg that avatar is horrible.
- Mona Nomura
@IvI☺hаmmасI تنها چیزی که توش شاید مرتب باشم همین کیفمه!توی کیفم چند تا کیف لوازم آرایش دارم که اینا رو بسته به کاربردشون توی اونا جای میدم!تازه این 2تاشه!2تاشم نذاشتم...:دی
- shadi13se
@palang7 از اونجا که من بیشتر زمانم رو بیرون از خونم مجبورم مجهز برم...:))
- shadi13se
خلاصه اگر به یه نفر توی فرفر گفتم با تیر می زنمت تهدیدم رو جدی بگیره :دی
- Lord hozeh
حوزه جان من دیگه باهات بحث نمی کنم. علی هم شمشیرش را فقط برای دکور روی دیوار آویزون کرده بود. قوم بنی قریضه هم اصلن داستان علمی تخیلی بوده :دی
- Patrick
بابا شوخی کردم. تو چرا باور کردی. تو که اینقدر ساده نبودی قبلن ها. فکر کردی من دست از سرت بر می دارم به این راحتی؟ درسته از اون مسلمون هایی که جلوی دوربین سر می برند یا انتهاری می کنن نیستی ولی خوب مسلمون که هستی. خود این در جوامع متمدن یک گناه بزرگه :دی
- Patrick
If your goal is to make the most amount of money regardless of what you do as long as it is legal... What profession/business would you choose? e.g. - Goldman sachs finance professional, join a hot start-up hoping it will go IPO, write a FB app like Farmville etc...
Goldman Sachs Quantitative Analyst on Fleet Street in London
- Prolific Programmer
Are you trying to maximize expected money instead of expected utility? I think being a evil megalomaniac with a volcano lair has a low probability of success but if you're able to succeed in conquering the world, the monetary rewards are huge, so I think that might have a high expected value.
- Amit Patel
So you suggest "conquering the world"??
- Bindu Reddy
Ya sure... that would be a good way to make no money ;)
- Bindu Reddy
Sorry, I have a hard time being serious about the premise. Why would anyone want to make the most amount of money regardless of what you do? Money is great and useful, but it's not the best thing in this short life.
- Bruce Lewis
Well you will be surprised how many people I chat with how seem pretty serious about this sort of thing. In fact, I know people from school who made specific career choices based on how much money they would make.
- Bindu Reddy
But would they do anything, regardless of what it is, to maximize their income?
- Bruce Lewis
As long as it is not illegal / makes them look bad to their peers, I would say Yes...
- Bindu Reddy
I did *some* work today for the purpose of making money. But if maximizing money were the only priority I would have missed the chance to sled with my kids: http://friendfeed.com/brlewis...
- Bruce Lewis
At the same time, I do think it's a good idea to choose a career that makes good money. I wish I'd made money a bigger priority earlier in life. I didn't know how good Montessori school was or how much it cost, and now I'm unhappy about most likely not being able to keep sending my kids there.
- Bruce Lewis
Become a genetic engineer and build an exact replica of Warren Buffet that only you control. Ah hell, build a few more replicas of rich and powerful people while you're at it. :)
- Cristo
Scamming for high returns on investments will remain popular. You don't even have to bundle mortgages :-) Given the low return on treasuries I think all the people that plugged 7% annual return assumptions into the retirement calculations will be desperate for returns. So there you are.
- Todd Hoff
Bindu is right about some people making career choices based solely on the amount of money they would make, even completely ignoring the fact that they didn't enjoy the work they would be doing. My father would be an example of that. He was a programmer back in the 70's, only for the money. Living in a ghetto with a wife & 3 kids to support, it was a decision that made sense to him at...
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- April Russo (app103)
I would do exactly what I do now, except I'd be getting paid for it. For instance, I'd be a certified personal trainer already. I would have created a bunch of web apps by now, hoping for something to get popular. I would have more authority and experience as a marketing strategist and consult for companies. My blog would do more than just pay for itself. I'd have already released a couple of albums for purchase :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
>>If your goal is to make the most amount of money regardless of what you do as long as it is legal. isnt this question the same as asking what the highest paid profession in the world is?
- t toring
i would agree with some sort of scamming which is legal, although i am not familiar with this field
- t toring
Are you talking about short term or long term? If you look at something like the Forbes list of billionaires, I think you'll find very few of them took jobs at established companies, became doctors/lawyers/financiers, or joined quick-hit start-ups. They generally spent a lifetime building a business that provides real value to their customers. Bill Gates is about as close as you get to the "join a hot start-up" approach, and it took him 20+ years, and he didn't do it writing Facebook games...
- Ken Sheppardson
... OK, Paige, Brin, Bezos, Cuban, and Omidyar are probably closer than Gates to the hot start-up approach, but that's, what, five or six guys in the Forbes 100 who did it with quick-hit tech? The odds aren't good.
- Ken Sheppardson
But personally, I'd go the tried and true route used by countless people to get rich quick legally: marry for money.
- Ken Sheppardson
If money were the only goal, I would've gone into finance (banking, trading). You don't have to knock it out of the park to get substantial wealth. Your outcomes are more like affluent vs. super affluent rather than dirt poor vs. can buy the world.
- Dan Hsiao
from iPhone
Yeah, that's a good point... the whole "expected value" aspect, where you evaluate the choice based on the sum of all the possible outcomes x their probability. The probability that your little internet start-up will make you the next Jeff Bezos or you can open a little store and become the next Sam Walton is pretty low. Finance, Medicine, Law... all "lower" payoff but greater chance of that payoff.
- Ken Sheppardson
0.75 (926/1226) - still relatively new here
- mikepk
I only see my stats for the last week (17/14 = 1.21) Please tell me your 670 number is for more than just a week!
- Brian Johns
1.44 (566/391) for brianjohns (after week tally you should see a comma then 'all time' count - I can see it on your page)
- Micah Wittman
OK, sorry. I'm a total dumbass. I stopped reading after the weekly totals...
- Brian Johns
3.74, which seems way off of everybody else's. I wonder what that says. I comment a lot more than I like.
- Cyrus Lendvay
FFers use FF with their own strategy or simply default tendencies. The ratio is an interesting snapshot of behaviour. Thanks for joining in everyone, hope more keep flowing in.
- Micah Wittman
from twhirl
0.66 - I tend to 'like' things without needing to comment further, I guess, and I notice I usually like the things upon which I comment. Well, frequently.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
.39 (2457/6242) I guess I don't comment much. I do 'like' a lot of things, it would seem.
- Bren - Minister of Mayhem
0.62 then again i have over 11,000 comments
- Cee Bee
1.23 (5287/4229) - I am put to shame by Cee Bee's participation, good grief!
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
So far: Average: 1.27 | Median: 0.81 ... (if you average 1 comment per like, you'd be 1.0 ... if you're 0.xx you might herd content more than discuss ... if you're whole numbers above 1 you may not 'like' much or discuss plenty or both)
- Micah Wittman
InPerpetualMotion(Gina k), I really liked this 'Like' of yours (in a series of pics, so I flickr fav'd it): http://friendfeed.com/e... and commented. Thanks!
- Micah Wittman
.68 6986/10194 Someone wrote a great article on the comment-like ratio a few months ago. Search on FriendFeed is crashing on me... I'll try to get the link.
- Mitchell Tsai
Thanks Mitchell (btw, search crashing on me too - lots)
- Micah Wittman
1316 comments/20221 likes (0.06), according to Windows Calculator, although I probably screwed up.
- Tyson Key
A recent change in FF: now the comment count shows total number of comments (previously multiple comments in one thread only counted as one) http://friendfeed.com/e... so all the numbers above are from the old methodology....
- David HC Soul
My new ratio: 0.76 all time (old methodology .52).... this week 1.39
- David HC Soul
Looks like my ratio as flipped again (comments back to dominating again). Seems to match my own awareness I've lately been commenting without Liking (commenting is my inherent recognition of value to me and the additional Like is when it merits an extra bump to help discovery by others).
- Micah Wittman
Darn - 0.52. I guess I need to say why I like something a little more often :-) Liking this thread because I was wondering the same thing recently. Has anybody worked out the average from the numbers here? </islazy>
- Andy Bold
Andy, scroll upward and you'll see a couple calculations from before (January: Average: 1.27 | Median: 0.81)
- Micah Wittman
Rick, you mean that face with glasses I photoshopped tint into with an apparently disembodied arm which is actually very much attached to my eldest son? It's mostly just me :)
- Micah Wittman
Thanks, Michael. Yes, you have a rising tide of comment percentage (oh, wow, you were one of the originals from January - cool!)
- Micah Wittman
Yeah, that's a decent upward rise in comments, Nicholas.
- Micah Wittman
.6 (6,000/10,000) 3rd update - Now it's time to flip this on its head. My goal is to have (16,000/16,000) next time I post here. Regardless of what happens, I'm just looking forward to the next 10,000 comments, likes, posts, and new relationships I make here. It's all good!
- Michael Fidler
1.76 (7539/4290) My commenting habits haven't chanced much, but it felt like I clicked Like a lot less, and this ratio confirms that for me.
- Micah Wittman
.82 as of right now. edit: on January 8th it was 0.39 -- when I saw that, I decided to make more of an effort to comment. When I hit 10k "likes" I decided I wouldn't "like" anything else until I also had 10k comments.
- Bren - Minister of Mayhem
Jimminy, I'm copyrighting every single number. It's kind of a honeypot ;) Actually, it was curiosity mostly, but I also hope to build a sampling (small and self-selecting as it may be) for anyone who might want to analyze it.
- Micah Wittman
Wow I didn't realize I was so out of whack!! 12.23 that's got to be a record (and I don't even import my feeds with the summary as a comment)!!
- Chris Myles
Thanks JA, Chris (wow, 12+ is unusual :), Serkan and Nine!
- Micah Wittman
0.89 (17818/19913) (Somebody better make a cool ass graph of all this data!)
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Micah.. I told you I take my likes seriously; ). You *might* want to ask (in a separate post) what percentage of likes were used to "bookmark" a post or save it for later VS actually "liking it". I NEVER used like for that.. but I did use a private group that if filled with my own topics (and comments)..
- Chris Myles
OK, so statistically, what ratio results in better interaction on FF?
- Jason Huebel
I don't think I could argue that any particular kind of ratio is "best", because if Lurkers like to Lurk and cultivate (via Likes) and the Chatty-ites love to chat, to pump out much many more comments than Likes, each can be happy and make for a great social experience.
- Micah Wittman
So I'm fairly balanced, it appears. I would imagine it's because I try to comment on every post I like. That's not always true, obviously. But mostly it is.
- Jason Huebel
Just clicking "Like" seems too easy. I feel like I should say something, too.
- Jason Huebel
wow, what a difference time makes, when i 1st posted on this thread, 6.43%, now = 1.25%, for a 5.18% difference, :o (and this is the earliest post to date i've recovered of my activity on ff)
- chaz2b
chaz, I think there's been a big fluctuation for most people (maybe not that much). This is the oldest post on which you commented that you've recovered?
- Micah Wittman
that was my third post... It's interesting to see how the number has changed. of course, I manipulated the number to a degree, because I stopped "liking" things for a while...
- Bren - Minister of Mayhem
Bren, the other thing that can seriously throw off someone's stats is a feed that upon each item it imports adds a comment automatically.
- Micah Wittman
true. that can seriously inflate comment stats, of course. Then you have someone like RAPatton, who posts a gazillion comments, in part because of his playlist posts where he will list each song in a separate comment. I found, after this post in fact, that I tended to "like" things much more frequently than comment on them, that I was lurking instead of participating. I have changed the way I use ff rather considerably, and I think for the better.
- Bren - Minister of Mayhem
Thanks Paola, Michael, Artemko, J. and Daniel!
- Micah Wittman
1.09 (9990/9105) From and including: Saturday, April 26, 2008 To and including: Thursday, November 12, 2009 It is 566 days from the start date to the end date, end date included Or 1 year, 6 months, 18 days including the end date to reach 10,000 comments.
- Christopher Harley
In 4 days it will be 1 year since my first recorded stat here. My comments/like were almost a 1:1 ratio then. Now comments are almost double likes for me.
- Micah Wittman
75,415 comments/1,286 likes = 58.64 - i wish the auto inserted comments didn't get counted... the true number is probably much much close ot my number of likes
- Chris Heath
1.97%. thanks again micah, this has been a great metric to measure my first year here on ff. As the year went (this being the first record of me being here that i've found): , 6.43%:1.25%:1.97%
- chaz2b
Chris, Bren, thank you. And chaz2b, thank you too - glad it's a special marker for you. :)
- Micah Wittman
"The fluid dynamics of swimming jellyfish have provided a plausible mechanism for a once-wild notion: that marine animals, hidden from sight and ignored by geophysicists, may stir Earth’s oceans with as much force as its wind and tides."
- Spaceweaver
from Bookmarklet
somewhere in my storage area in the basement I have that box - remember buying it at the store. wow, those were fun days - CP/M being ousted by DOS, ousted by DR-DOS. Windows trying to oust GEM.
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
DJ Mehdi – Mehdi MixMas Everybody » In the spirit of the season, I prepared this little mix for your Christmas pleasure. It’s nothing too fancy, just some of those 09 tracks, mixed and recorded at home, while dancing with my CDJ’s. - http://ishotpix.com/2009...
That's nice...but nobody asked what you prefer and it's pretty rude to say something like that on a thread when someone is obviously on vacation in Jamaica.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Glad you weren't on the plane crash in Jamaica. Looks fun!
- Robert Scoble
Hey, What do you know. I was in your neck of the woods last week. In the Domenican Republic. Always wanted to get to Jamaica. While you're there, check out the Olympic Bobsled team :)
- Roberto Bonini
Sorry for biting your head off, Jeunelle. Your comment rubbed me the wrong way and I went off. My apologies.
- Alex Scoble
Wow. I own property in Negril, believe it or not. My uncle used to live there and left it to my brother and me. I've been there many times. What hotel are you staying at?
- Dave Winer
Dave, he said the name of the hotel in the comment directly above yours. :)
- Rochelle
Rochelle, oops. I know that place. The locals make fun of the white people running around naked. They disapprove. :-)
- Dave Winer