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Bill Gates Fined $800,000 Over Stock Purchases

Bronz writes "CNN Money is reporting that Bill Gates has been fined $800,000 for violating antitrust waiting period for stock purchases. The department alleged that Gates bought more than $50 million worth of stock in ICOS Corp. through his personal investment trust and failed to notify antitrust officials about the purchase, as required." It's also clarified: "The technical incident has nothing to do with the government's massive antitrust battles with Microsoft."

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  1. You never know by SpyPlane · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Once they start throwing white women in jail (Martha), nobody is safe, even rich white men!

    Once they ruled against Martha, I knew that Michael Jackson and Kobe were screwed.

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  2. Re:So what? by XMyth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Shouldn't your sig be "life IS a repetitve stress injury" ?

  3. Investing in pharmaceutical companies? by JebuZ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm not usually much of a conspiracy theorist, but this is a little odd.

  4. Re:MS, Martha and Drugs... by Koatdus · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    On the other hand, MS Drugs !?!?


    Did anyone else see the Cialia link at the top of the page? (insert micro soft joke here) hehehe

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  5. Re:who gives a flying fuck by Duhavid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If it is so irrelevant, why did you read it?

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  6. Re:So what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Lindows Steals Copyrighted Art and Promotes Porn
    For one, his sig has nothing to do with porn...he put that there as FUD to lure in the Trolls.

    Also it was the story posted last week about how "Linspire 'stole' images for it's flash intro" for some poor starving independant KDE artist that copyrighted his artwork after he found out about the use.

    His sig is nothing but a Troll unto itself, consider yourself lucky that you have it turned off...
  7. Re:So what? by The_K4 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What we really need now is sig moderation followed with a healthy does of sig meta-moderation!

  8. Re:Big surprise... by Lord+Kano · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I got the first post, bitch! My second in about 6 years of Slashdotting.

    You fail it.

    LK

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