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Or maybe, Legality of 'Deep Linking' Remains Deeply Complicated

BTW, anyone who reads this post owes me $20, that's my TOS.

Don't forget the earlier examples of footshooting involving WordPerfect. Novell paid $1 billion (or was it $850 million?) for WordPerfect Corporation and sold it to Corel for $186 million about 18 months later. That's a pity, because for $50 I could have told them that WordPerfect Corporation was not a good fit for Novell.

Little-discussed facts about WordPerfect for DOS: There were plenty of menus that were 7 levels deep. It was like a video game. There may have been a pot of gold in there somewhere that no one ever discovered.

It always seemed to me that the old WP Corp. was like a Ponzi scheme. They had excellent free technical support to tell you how to find things in the forest of menus. But that could only work if they had steadily increasing sales.

That was not the end of footshooting. Corel President Michael Cowpland (I once talked to him on the phone, briefly.) was married to a woman who had a habit of dressing seductively... some described it as going about in public half-naked. Here's a quote, one of many: (Sorry, I couldn't find any of the really seductive photos.)

Most Likely to Be Talked About Behind Her Back

Marlen Cowpland: The wife of former Corel Corp. CEO Michael Cowpland and the Marie Antoinette of the Canadian rich, she appeared at the computer software company's 1999 Ottawa gala draped in a million-dollar dress following a quarter when Corel stock had lost more than half its value and the firm had bled almost $15 million. She later hosted Talk TV's Celebrity Pets. A release for Cowpland's show gives no year of birth, but did say she was born in "Quebec, Canada." The release added, "Cowpland believes that to fully experience life, you must create your own party."

Now there is also State contributions to individual PBS affiliated public broadcast stations. I don't know what the aggregate State contribution to all of Public Broadcasting in the USA.

At one party, she wore a brestplate made of gold, with a diamond nipple.

Thusly.

she is hot

My original point still stands. PBS doesn't get all its funding from the government as the first poster originally implied. The figure you've chosen amounts to 14 percent of PBSs'overall budget.

On a side note, I actually think this Federal funding figure is even higher than you think since your figure is not taking into account the Federal money funneled through the Corporation of Public Broadcasters going back to PBS. And obviously, your figure doesn't include state money, nor does it include the original money outlay given to PBS for starting up, but in any case, my original point still stands, the original poster made a rash assumption about PBS and the kind of funding it received.