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Rambus Destroyed Evidence In Anti-trust Trial
Marasmus writes "CNN is reporting that memory-chip maker Rambus has been found guilty of destroying evidence which was 'critical' to the anti-trust case brought by the U.S. government. Interestingly, the Judge has denied the FTC's request to move on to the penalty phase of the trial. Destruction of evidence in an anti-trust case normally yields a forfeiture of trial, but Rambus 'will have the burden of proving its innocence" instead.'
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It turns out they typed in all the documents at the campus computer center, and then their computer crashed. As most newbies do, they didn't make any backups. The computer center helpdesk said they couldn't help, so says Rambus.
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Oh well. Clinton would never lie to us.
Oh wait. He did.
Oh well. Clinton would have prevented the North Koreans from gettign nukes.
Oops. He didn't.
Well, Clinton would have solved the problems in the Middle East and given us peace between the Arabs and Isrealis.
Damn. You can't get anything right!
Well, Clinton would know what to do if he ever had a chance to capture Bin Laden.
Finally got one right!
Yep, Clinton would tell the Sudan after they offered us Bin Laden in 1996 after they were tired of his antics "Sorry, but no thanks"!
Good lord, understand much?
Enron, Adelphia, Worldcom, I forget that other liberal run sleazebag company that the news hardly reported on--all had bad apples at or near the top and did big, stupid, idiotic, unethical business numbers. And they got caught. Methodically albeit incredibly slowly punished. Hammered on financially. You know what? Damn straight and rightly so.
The problem is that there remains a perception that ALL businesses are bad. And that's just blatently untrue. Business are paying for it that had NOTHING to do with the Enron crap. People see a deal go sour and they think corruption. That's about the equivalent in terms of ignorance and stupidity as someone seeing a colored person on a street corner in an normally white affluent section of town and saying "there goes the neighborhood." wtf?
And folks like yourself have a vendetta--instead of pushing for better corporate disclosure, you want a "shakedown" and folks to be used as examples. Meanwhile, I bet you bitch and whine that the economy stinks.
Well, listen up.
Your comments and sentiments are exactly part (not all, only part) of the problem why the credibility of American business IS in the shitter--you can't get over it, you didn't fix the problem with effective disclosure rules, and you didn't bother with better enforcement and regulation.
I don't think you even realize that your prediction occurred, but not in 5 OR MORE (who are you? are you related to the sonny bono coypright extension people and can't comprehend realistic timeframes?)--it occurred in under 2 years. It's still going on but it's pretty much done. To which you and will probably agree--damn straight and they shoulda cleaned house.
Here's where we disagree--it's going overboard. The vast number of influential business people (check your financial news sections, Lou Dobb's Moneyline, etc. etc.) see that the shambles that was cautious trust in corporate and business dealings is not being restored, not because people believe another business is that stupid to have gotten hammered and do something utterly unethical if not illegal, but because
people are getting prosecuted, hammered, and used as examples that had REGULAR BUSINESS DEALINGS that went simply bad.
So they don't deal. And that's fine to the established core of business. Business isn't growing much, but it's not sliding.
So, besides the 'nervous like sheep in LA' investor, a lot of folks don't invest and a lot of business folk aren't doing businessy things because they don't want a deal to go sour, and their faces plastered on some news report, because folks like yourself, half a decade from now (or more, as you said) demand a shakedown.
Realize what you are asking. You want something to occur on the basis that something is occurring without any hard evidence except history that a handful of companies, out of thousands of similar size, and a far greater number in terms of general business, did something bad.
What a crock.
I normally don't say get over it esp. given the history of the current business environment and investor perception (the once burned and twice shy and all that equivalent in the financial/business world), but in your case, an exception is duly deserved.