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Microsoft Wins Homeland Security Contract
syzme writes "According to The Register (as well as Reuters and News.com), 'The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has signed a deal for Microsoft software worth something in the region of $100 million, covering servers and over 140,000 desktops. This does not however mean that Microsoft and its hench-OEM Dell are poised to hoover up all of the Department's lovely IT budget, nor indeed that this is all new money for them; largely, it seems to be more a case of Microsoft holding onto business it's already got.'" This shouldn't be much of a surprise -- remember the Federal government is already Microsoft's biggest customer.
Uh, okay mister nationalist. Its too bad we spend less on education than most civilized nations percentage wise. Its too bad that 300 billion goes to corporate welfare while only 13 goes to social welfare. This is what I say: bolster social welfare to 50, cut corporate completely and give the other 250 back to the people. Think of it.
Good luck applying "logic" to the slashbot locals.
Outgoing Whitehouse Press Secretary Ari Fleischer's replacement has been selected. Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf, who was previously the Iraqi Information Minister, was handpicked by President George Bush after minimal deliberation.
Mr. al-Sahaf was quoted as saying, "The glorious Bush administration will utterly defeat and destroy the terrorists wherever they may hide. The perpetrators of Evil cannot stand against the brilliant light of the excellent, most worthy President Bush. Only fools, cowards, and terrorists would dare to speak out against his splendid agenda of creating a formidable government agency charged with investigating American citizens to determine their potentially wicked motives. And what better company than the gracious, innovative Microsoft Corporation to help this agency carry out its noble mission?"
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Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together.
-- Scott Meyer
hey fuckwit, I know your rabid hatred of Microsoft has blinded you from competent reasoning with respect to them, but I must point out this one.
They are not a "convicted monopolist", they were convicted of monopolistic and anti-competitive practices. There's nothing against the law with being a monopoly, per se.
It's not a subtle or insignificant difference. Your warped and distorted view of what actually happened shows what a zealot you are.
And if you think we're sliding into the USSR days, it shows you really haven't left the cozy confines of your parents' basement lately. You can reasonably argue against
the current actions in the US, but to say that this is worse than the one the most evil regimes of recent history shows you really have no sense of proportion.