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Microsoft Fights to Weaken Washington Anti-Spam Law

Posted by michael on from the self-serving dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to the Seattle Times, Microsoft (probably their MSN arm) is pushing for a change in at least Washington's anti-spam law. Some analysts claim that the changes contain holes that will allow Microsoft to be exempt from the law." Odd that Microsoft is simultaneously trying to stop spam sent to Hotmail users, and to make sure that it can send unsolicited commercial email without penalties.

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  1. Microsoft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Microsoft: NIGGER in the truest sense of the word

  2. Re:sigh.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    [sigh]

    Do some people even read the article to understand the context before moderating posts? Jesus, the guy was only trying to say "hypocrites" in his own strange way...

  3. fuck the US by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'll be glad when it's a smoking creater in the ground.

    1. Re:fuck the US by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Either the US or China should declare war on the other, already. I'm sick of this crap.

      It used to be that countries would declare war on each other because of petty rivalries between dukes and princes. Now, it sometimes takes an act of god to get them to go at it. How stupid is that?!?!

      We're spending billions of dollars (a big chunk of our GDP) on national defense. And we never even use it! We shuffle our troops from base to base, sure, and we log our mileage and tally our days in service and hang our medals. But do we ever do anything productive? Do we ever kill anyone? Of course not.

      Is it because we can't anymore? Bullshit. It's because we're afraid to. It's because we've let ourselves get castrated by the liberal media and their doomsday predictions about what might happen if one nation accidentally steps on the toes of the other.

      Are we the world's largest superpower or what?!?! Is Bush to big a chump or is he just a pansy?!?!

      If we don't start declaring open war on countries that disrespect our sovereignty, then foreign countries will think they can get away with pissing us off. Can you imagine FDR or Eisenhower letting the Chinese hold our American soldiers hostage like this? We haven't seen crap like this since Jimmy Carter, and let me tell you, those were some pretty sad days.

      We must settle for no less than outright war. They think they have the upper hand now, but wait until we give it to them old-fashioned American style. They probably don't even have all those nukes they keep whispering about. Have we ever seen them detonate one? Well have we? NO! They don't exist.

      Once open war is declared, our economy will boom. It'll be the answer to our recent economic downturn. Look at how WW2 pulled us out of the Depression. And look at how much more expensive modern equipment is. More expenses mean more contribution to our economy and our GDP. That means more funding for the military. It's a positive feedback loop.

      And when we're done with China, we should go back to the USSR and show those guys what we're made of. We never bombed them for the U2 incident all those years ago, so it's time we showed them what for. That's what distinguishes the men from the Canadians.