Obama Anti-Trust Chief on Google the Monopoly Threat

CWmike writes "The blogosphere regularly excoriates Microsoft for being a monopoly, but Google may be in the cross-hairs of the nation's next anti-trust chief for monopolistic behavior, writes Preston Gralla. Last June, Christine A. Varney, President Obama's nominee to be the next antitrust chief, warned that Google already had a monopoly in online advertising. 'For me, Microsoft is so last century. They are not the problem,' Varney said at a June 19 panel discussion sponsored by the American Antitrust Institute, according to a Bloomberg report. The US economy will 'continually see a problem — potentially with Google' because it already 'has acquired a monopoly in Internet online advertising.' Varney has yet to be confirmed as antitrust chief, and she said all this before she was nominated. Still, it spells potentially bad news for Google. It may be time for the company to start adding to its legal staff."

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Re:Linux

[Anonymous Coward]

This is too short, you need to start at the beginning with Jimmy going to a LUG then progress onto the anal sex later.

Also the name Jimmy is too obvious, have something common like Jim, or Bill. A manly name would be better because it shows that Linux turned the manly man into a fag.

Now that's covered you got to get people actually reading your piece of shit, so you should start off "I had a friend named Bill...". It makes it sound like you're actually telling an interesting story rather then trolling.

Last but not least, do this shit in a story about Linux. Having it in an unrelated story is pointless and makes you look stupid.

Signed Bob,
Senior ITO Executive
International Trolling Organisation ltd.

Re:here we go again..

[Uberbah]

What's frightening is the apparent lack of appreciation by the Obama Administration for capitalism as a force for economic growth. With a presidency that is socialist-leaning and big-government-oriented, it seems we are backsliding into a kind of pre-Reagan era where business is viewed as a necessary evil, the best and brightest should work for the Feds or community organizations, and we shouldn't even try to compete with our ultra-capitalistic competitors in East Asia and elsewhere.

You should see a nice doctor in Venezuela about that anal obstruction of yours. Once he's done removing your head from your ass, you can take a good look around and see what "socialism" really looks like.

And Reagan is going to come in just behind Bush in worst-president-ever lists. Reagan created the trillion dollar national debt, which has grown nicely to $10 trillion. Reagan pushed the deregulation-for-the-sake-of-deregulation culture into the mainstream, and now we are reaping the whirlwind. His sabre rattling against the U.S.S.R. prolonged its collapse, as threatening people just leads to an increase in patriotism and national unity (see: the U.S. after 911, or how support for Ahmadinejad increases in Iran every time a neocon threatens to bomb them).

Hoover didn't create the Great Depression; he just stood by and watched it happen. Reagan, however, started driving our country into the ground, and George W. Bush just gave it a nice shove down the stairs. We can only hope that the Democrats have the balls and the brains do undo 30 years of Republican damage to our country.

Re:Monopoly on online advertising is the least of

[vux984]

Go slit your fucking wrists fucktard
-spun

Aw, cute, chickenshit is afraid of the mods?

I'm very very sorry for this... (it's a bad joke)

[jonaskoelker]

Jimmy vowed never to try Linux again.

Are you saying that this linux can assrape a guy without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?

That sounds preposterous to me.

If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling buttplugs without a windows. This clearly is not^W happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the buttplug from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.

Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Goatse, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing BP/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.

Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire stimulation fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.

I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.