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  1. Re:Conflict of Interest? by the+Man+in+Black · · Score: 1 · on Comcast Wants To Buy Disney For $66 Billion

    Yeah, we've already gotten rid of those nasty laws, buddy. This merger is just another company trying to take advantage, and learn from AOLTW's mistakes.

    I'm sure we as consumers will get used to the constant assrape eventually, and even begin to welcome it. I for one, welcome our new ass raping profiteering overlords.

  2. Re:Strange Bedfellows by jmv · · Score: 1 · on Companies Join Together to Maintain Open Internet

    The general population could not tell you the difference between a ISP and a content provider.

    You mean the difference between AOL and Time Warner?

  3. Re:Strange Bedfellows by jmv · · Score: 1 · on Companies Join Together to Maintain Open Internet

    The general population could not tell you the difference between a ISP and a content provider.

    You mean the difference between AOL and Time Warner?

  4. Prediction: Microsoft Buys AOL by skSlashDot · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Microsoft's New Hurdles
    My prediction: Microsoft uses some fraction of the $40 billion or so it has in the bank to buy AOL from Time Warner. Eventually, this is integrated with MSN, and some future version of Windows becomes a subscription-only service.

    If this sounds crazy, go to the AOLTW corporate site and look at their financials for the last couple of years. There is already talk about undoing the merger (see the recent article in Businesweek, for instance), and although some of the issues in re-splitting the company are tricky (in particular, how to split debt between the two companies) someone coming along with a giant pile of cash would solve may of those problems quite nicely.

    Now that you know, try to act surprised when it happens.

  5. Re:The RIAA isn't the REAL problem... by Snover · · Score: 1 · on Report From RIAA v. Verizon Case

    And you're not even blaming the real conglomerates either, like Viacom, AOL-Time Warner, and the three other major groups whose names I don't recall, that hold 99% of all the record labels, television networks, magazines, newspapers, et al.