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  1. Fight flat tax bigotry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Intuit considering Linux Quicken?
    The rich already take piles of deductions which the working class can't take. How much did you give to charity last year? Not much, eh? What percentage of your income did you pay last year? Or keep it in mind when you do taxes right now, and see if it's more or less than 20%.


    See the last two questions in the
    flattax.house.gov Q&A

  2. So DO something: Action and Info list by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Microsoft patents CSS?

    ACTION:

    MS Product and Corporate Questions: Waggener Edstrom at (503) 245-0905
    MS email contact info is at http://register.microsoft.com/regwiz/regwiz.asp

    The USPTO phone number is 800.786.9199 (800.PTO.9199). They say they are "not yet equipped to handle general email correspondence". What a shock.

    US Asst. Attorney General for Antitrust: Joel Klein.
    * "If your comments relate specifically to the Antitrust Division's suit against Microsoft Corporation, please direct your correspondence to Microsoft.atr@usdoj.gov". Seems like this qualifies, eh?
    * Other DOJ email contact info is at http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/contact/emails.htm
    * DOJ Antitrust phone contact info: http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/contact/phoneworks.htm

    Vice President Al Gore (cheerleader for hi-tech and, um, less distracted than others at the White House)
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/Mail/html/Mail_Vice_P resident.html
    Or email direct at vice.president@whitehouse.gov

    US Senate Commerce, Science, And Transportation Committee
    John McCain, chairman: John_McCain@McCain.senate.gov
    http://www.senate.gov/~commerce/
    508 Dirksen Senate Office Bldg
    Washington, DC 20510-6125
    (202) 224-5115
    http://www.senate.gov/committees/committee_detail. cfm?COMMITTEE_ID=419 -- lists all members, with links to their homepages.

    The House Committee on Commerce
    2125 Rayburn House Office Building
    Washington, DC 20515
    (202) 225-2927
    Commerce@mail.house.gov

    House Committee on Science
    2320 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20515
    (202) 225-6371

    Bogus Patent petition:
    http://ethepeople.com/affiliates/national/fullview .cfm?ETPID=0&PETID=98938 &ETPDIR=affiliates/national

    INFO:

    W3C copyright terms: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice

    W3C software license: http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-softw are.html

    "Microsoft Awarded Style Sheet Patent"
    Reprinted from The Bulletin: Seybold News & Views on Electronic Publishing, Vol. 4, No. 19, February 4, 1999
    http://webreview.com/wr/pub/1999/02/05/style/index .html
    This article apparently broke the story.

    Wired News: "MS Wins Patent for Web Standard" by Chris Oakes
    2:05 p.m. 4.Feb.99.PST
    http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/17 741.html

    WEB STANDARDS PROJECT CALLS FOR CLARIFICATION OF WHETHER PATENT GIVES MICROSOFT CONTROL OVER TWO KEY WEB STANDARDS
    (press release: Feb. 4, 1999)
    http://www.webstandards.org/patent.txt
    (Also discussed at http://webreview.com/wr/pub/1999/02/05/style/index 2.html)

    At this writing (11:30pm PST Feb. 5), nothing on this story has appeared in/on:
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    * CNN
    * NY Times, et al.
    * Seattle Times (www.seattletimes.com)