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Is that you Amway?

Or maybe Quixtar?

I had a girlfriend trick me into going to a quixtar meeting when they first started it up (forget the ploy she used, but she definitely wasn't up front about where we were going). Part way into the opening pitch I click, "WTF, you brought me to a amway meeting?!"

Her: "No, it's quixtar. It's totally different."

Me: "Ah.... no. It's not."

She was an english major so I forgave her for being tricked into joining a MLM scam.

Is that you Amway?

I thought the largest pyramid in the world was in Ada, Michigan

Yes, it is atually 1/3 larger than the largest currently known pyramid found here.

It's probably not every corporation their after. Just a few.

The NY Times is really "out-there" on this one. Did Jason Blair file this report?

I live in the Salt Lake area and I have heard of efforts to connect discrete locations with high traffic (i.e. schools and hospitals). The costs associated with the "last mile" for connecting each and every residence is something completely different. Those costs would face substantial opposition from the status quo (cable and telco). This article amounts to simple cheerleading for Utopia. This is not a "done deal" by any stretch of the imagination.

Also, notice Utopia's business plan follows a bootstrap model. It works if enough people sign up. Wait a minute, works perfectly for Utah.

The company I work for used to have a Chicago address, just because nobody would believe that a large, international, reputable organization would be based in Salt Lake City.
That's odd, nobody seems to have a problem believing that a large, international, reputable organization would be based in Ada, Michigan.

When I found Parish's analysis some time ago, that's what I thought: If this is all true, than just letting people know about it can kill Microsoft. Because if some potential Microsoft stockholders know about it, they will wait before they buy the stock, if they don't buy the stock, the value of other stock won't increase so fast any more, the existing stockholders would notice that and some of them will start selling their stock, if finally so many people starts selling the stock that its value starts decreasing, then even more of stockholders will start to sell, but no one will want to buy it at that point (those who will want to buy it, would want to wait until it's even cheaper), etc.

The only condition needed for such scenerio is the critical mass of people reading Parish's Microsoft Financial Pyramid. I assume that Microsoft stockholders are smart people, not the kind investing in other pyramids.

If I was Bill G. & Co. I would hire Bill Parish for $100M/year as a financial consultant working at home and doing nothing, if he only agrees to stop publishing his reports. And if I was Bill Parish I would accept this offer...

Bill Parish's Microsoft Financial Pyramid is now on the first place in Google results when searching for Microsoft fraud. Just imagine if we all started linking to his article and it will became the first place when searching Google for Microsoft, just like the Anti-DMCA website is the first hit searching for DMCA. Something to think about. If this is true and if Microsoft is the greatest financial pyramid scheme and the greatest financial fraud of 20th and 21st century, then it would be really interesting to see it finally collapsing. Our granchildren will read books and watch movies about it.

Your affecting such a incredibly small percentage of kids, how are they going to spread the knowledge that they gained at a 2 day seminar...

easy...
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