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Bush Supreme Court Nominee Former Microsoft Lawyer

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-thats-one-way-to-get-at-this-story dept.

DaveM writes "Bush's most recent Supreme Court nominee, Harriet Miers, successfully argued that people who were sold defective software by Microsoft weren't "injured," and couldn't participate in a class action against the company. The case involved unstable compression features in MS DOS 6.0, which were corrected by a $9.95 update, MS DOS 6.2. Plaintiffs wanted Microsoft to offer the updates for free, but eventually lost to Miers' arguments."

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  1. Re:Nice flaming headline. by saintp · · Score: 5, Funny

    Uh, how is that a flame? It's a fact. Bush's latest nominee used to be a lawyer for Microsoft. Whoopty-doo. How would you prefer they put it? "Bush court nominee hugs fuzzy bunnies, gives flags to orphans"?

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  2. Re:Wrong process anyway by deanj · · Score: 4, Funny

    They shoot the judges that used to be there, and install new judges.

  3. Re:Nice flaming headline. by stupidfoo · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Bush bans oil! All cars must run on skittles and drive on rainbows"

  4. What could we add to his headline? by ifwm · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let's see

    "Bush nominee Former microsoft lawyer..." Who once knew someone who represented SCO, while allowing her son to be friends with a kid whose parents had heard about Intelligent Design.

    Oh, and she knows someone that thinks Linux isn't ready for the desktop.

  5. Re:Wrong process anyway by AvitarX · · Score: 5, Funny

    Having the president appoint supreme court judges is wrong anyway. There should be a better process of selecting them. How's it done in other countries?


    In soviet Russia supreme court selects you.

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  6. Re:Wrong process anyway by leroybrown · · Score: 5, Funny

    wouldn't it be, "In Soviet Russia, Supreme Court selects president"? oh, wait...

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  7. Re:Now I have to filter out Taco's posts.. by databyss · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ummm... she eats babies too. Also she said that Apple stole windows code for their OS X and ummm.. she eats babies.

    (To be honest, as far as I know she hasn't said anything about Apple)

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  8. Re:Now I have to filter out Taco's posts.. by Unski · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh my word! Eats babies _and_ said something not nice about Apple?

    waah!

    * falls out of pram *

    In other news it was reported that Dick Cheney 'looked the wrong way' at a Mac Mini while out at his local Walmart and 'definately scratched his arse' near a StarOffice box.

  9. Re:Nice flaming headline. by arootbeer · · Score: 2, Funny

    You probably don't want one. Do you have ANY idea how expensive a gallon of Skittles is?

  10. Re:Wrong process anyway by Reverend528 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd gladly let my tax dollars be used for that $9.95 update.

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  11. Re:Well... by PaxTech · · Score: 2, Funny

    The difference is that Democrats think Republicans are evil, and Republicans think Democrats are stupid.

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  12. Re:Nice flaming headline. by Mr+Guy · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm guessing a lot. Have you ever seen a preschooler after their second pack?

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