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Pick Up A Piece of Enron
shintaro points out this massive collection of "gear from Enron on auction.
Amongst the more than 3,000 in this auction (1 of 10) are state and federal law books, and numerous notebooks sans hard drives. Might be a good opportunity to pick up a Sun Enterprise Server?
Office furniture is also on offer, Herman Miller and Knolls all over, not an IKEA item in sight. Interesting what Enron employees and shareholders must feel looking at this loot."
Yeah. We don't want to give money to people who don't *have* money. They obviously wouldn't know what to do with it.
Logically, we give money to the people with the most money, as they have a fucking clue.
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.
Every single thing in this country that we have is courtesy of business.
Incorrect, Sir. Everything we have in this country is courtesy of *people.* Many things have happened that have nothing to do with business; take, for instance, Linux and many other Free Software projects. Business has grown around them, but that is secondary to the original, non-commercial project. Or, there's the millions of people who volunteer in their community *every day,* whether providing help at school or cooking food for homeless shelters, or assisting at hospitals.
Self-righteous selfishness aside, we are all in this together. Very few people earn what they make; CEOs make more money than they deserve, in most cases. *I* make more money than I deserve. Businesses leach off the productivity of the people cooperating within the business framework. In that respect only, businesses are good: the provide a framework for organisation, and in most cases, I do not think the "leaching" is that undeserved.
In too many cases, though, businesses have abused their position to fuck over large portions of the citizens of this country, and of the world. Enron is just one case in which a company used their position to fleece billions of dollars. (Most companies don't have the resources to steal that much, of course.)
Plus, the government gives more welfare to corporations than to citizens. Seems to me without the billions of dollars the government spends every year propping up business, either through DoD contracts or directly as handouts, "business" wouldn't be doing much at all.
(And, yes, the $175B in corporate welfare kicks the ass of the $150B cost of social services.)
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.
this slashdotting effectively destroyed any opportunity to get a deal, as 100,000,000 greedy geeks will LIVE at dovebid til the auction is over.
116 pieces, to be exact, worth approx 6 cents each. If I sell now, it can be a tax deduction! :-D