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Microsoft To Invest Heavily In China
abb_road writes "As part of Chinese President Hu Jintao's recent visit to Redmond, Microsoft is announcing plans to invest $900 million dollars directly in software and hardware companies in China. The announced goal of this investment is to reduce software piracy and establish Windows-dominance in the region; what's not clear is if they expect the reduction to come from local business pressure or more direct government intervention." From the article: "To now, Microsoft's investment efforts have made little headway in reducing piracy. The company should be booking about $1 billion on annual sales of some 20 million PCs in China, says Paul DeGroot, an analyst at consultancy Directions on Microsoft. Instead, sales there are about $100 million, he says."
what's not clear is if they expect the reduction to come from local business pressure or more direct government intervention.
Of course its going to be "more direct government intervention" - does the submitter think local businesses are going to pressure someone so they can pay a tax to a large foreign corporation?
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
They announced earnings for the quarter and missed expectations.
I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.
The Ludwig Von Mises institute, and aything else like it, are loony bins. their mission? To "undermine statism in all its forms." Great! No army! No civil protection! No state run colleges! No public roads or education! Sounds feasible (see Somalia).
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Worse, the institute takes a "critical view of most US government activities, foreign and domestic, throughout American history" -- including, but not limited to, WWII, Abe Lincoln, child labor laws, the women's vote, and the Civil Rights movement.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has identified it as an anti-semetic, racist instutution.
The institute also promotes a type of Darwinian view of society in which elites are seen as naturally superior. The institute seems nostalgic for the days when, "because of selective mating, marriage, and the laws of civil and genetic inheritance, positions of natural authority [were] likely to be passed on within a few noble families."
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So, I won't concede a thing to those bastards.