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Microsoft, DoJ Reach Tentative Settlement
JeffMagnus writes: "MSNBC is reporting that the tentative settlement between Microsoft and the DoJ calls for a five-year consent decree between the government and Microsoft governing the company's conduct. A three person panel of independent experts will be created to review the companys' future activity." The New York Times appears to be the original source for the settlement stories; there's also an AP article.
...my rights to FOURTH POST?!?!?!?! I love nigger bitches!
Let's not forget Clinton's Lincoln Bedroom hotel. Let's not forget his last minute pardons.
Let's also remember that he's the stupidest man to lead a country since Ronald Reagan...no wait, Bush makes Reagan look like a Nobel Laureate.
-Ben
Linus
RMS
Steve Jobs
We'll take care of this monopoly business in no time.
Once again I am amazed by the number of cubicle workers and others who go on and on "Oh, he's SO stupid, oh blah blah blah"
Intellectual elitism at it's worst. If you're so smart and good, why aren't you president--wouldn't your vast and overwhelming intelligence be better for us all??
Scott
Elections can be fixed. Like the last one.
I thought the last election was broken, not fixed.
Personally, I don't care what the president does in his residence as long as he does his job. As for Bush, I have no confidence in the man and feel that he would sell us out in a minute.
Look at two facts:
Bush came into office and the first thing he did was cut taxes (this particular tax cut chiefly benefits those who make over 100K+ a year). Government makes money by taxing... the alternative is borrowing - i.e. to put us back in debt. Debt seems to be the Republican way of doing business.
Bush then, quickly, got rid of the massive available surplus by giving tax rebates to the people. Now the government is technically broke and must borrow money. All part of the grand plan.
Here is a scenario for you:
Say you are a rich man and Uncle Sam comes a knocking at your door. He wants money and you have a choice of payment - pay him taxes or buy his bonds. Which would you choose? Give him the money outright (taxes) or loan him money (debt/bonds). I'll bet you'd choose to loan the govt money.
Now, loaning the govt money is not BAD(tm) in it's own right but primarily financing govt with debt is. Debt should be an emergency measure to fill in the gaps caused by improper forecasting of govt money needs. Such debt should be retired in the short term rather than the long term.
btw... I'm from Texas and Bush isn't.
Oh, and lets not forget Reagan's, "I can't remember." lines. heh Let's not forget the massive borrowing that was required most years just to pay the interest on the nation debt accumulated during the Reagan and Bush years.
Codifex Maximus ~ In search of... a shorter sig.
If you're so smart and good, why aren't you president--wouldn't your vast and overwhelming intelligence be better for us all??
It is my considered opinion that the most desirable people to have in political life are people who have absolutely no interest or desire to be politicians.
In theory, politicians should run for office to serve the people and make things better, or at least as good as they can be.
In practice, most politicians run for office for power and ego-satisfaction. "I'm a big important man, and you aren't."
The "best" people to have in a position of power are the people who don't really want the power, as it were, and therefore they simply don't run for office. "Not interested, I don't need the headache thanks."
If you're a zombie and you know it, bite your friend!
What's going on? Clicked on the URL in /.'s new design (http://jobs.osdn.com/), wondered about all those .asp inside, finally went to netcraft.com and it tells me:
/.) how this is possible?
The site jobs.osdn.com is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000
Wow, this really sounds like "Open Source Development Network", the stats show of course constant rebooting, whatelse would be expected from this setup.
Moderators may mod my post down as they like, but I would really like to know (Rob or someone else from
Michael
and even animals have social rules...
I use Friend/Foe + mod-point modifiers as a karma/reputation system.