What's interesting is that all of your responses to fact are opinions and conjecture. Instead of what you think, let's try and ram some more facts into you.
There are two very interesting facts about this buyback and dividend hike that are worth noting. First, while he does derive benefit from the buy back, he is putting his company's cash on the line for his employees and shareholders (i.e. those that made the company what it is today). He's not out artificially inflating company earnings with some accounting scandal that's going to put him on a private island and employee shareholders in the poor house. If you really want to complain about someone who immoral, go rant about Winnick of Global Crossing or the jokers and Worldcom, Adelphia, Parmalat and everyone's favorite, Enron.
Fact number 2. If the company is sitting on 50+ billion in cash and he's a power monger, why isn't he acquiring all of the businesses and second and third world nations that he can? Simple, because the power monger you claim this guy to be just isn't true. The guy may be market dominant, but world dominant is just a foolish statement. What's also disturbing is that with 50 billion in cash, he's having difficulty finding companies worth acquiring. And before you pin that on Gates single-handedly draining the creativity and innovativeness from the entire country or world, put some thought and fact into your response.
As mentioned, there are loopholes. I personally do not get nearly as many cold calls, but I do get some. If you do business with the company, they can call you. If you've done business w/ the company in the last 90 days (I think), they can call you. Politicians and charities are exempt as well.
With that said, I'd be willing to bet that less than half of these complaints are legitimate and of the millions of spam calls a day, this is a relatively low number of complaints when put into perspective. I'd say that the do not call list has been a success.
The only problem with doing it in IE security is that you have to ad sites manually.
One day after screaming "I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!", I went out and tried a bunch of programs that claim to kill pop ups. Only one that I tried seemed to do it right, it's called pop up killer. You can get it from http://software.xfx.net.
The other good thing is sometimes there are popups you want, such as a radio station I listen to. Their site throws a popup that includes the media player and I could tell popup killer to back off, so this beats turning off popups wholesale in the browser as well.
Oh ya, and the shotgun blast sound played everytime it blows away a popup sure gives you a warm and fuzzy feeling inside. I'm usually annoyed by applications that play sound and instinctively turned it off... but I turned it back on because it was much too gratifying to hear those pop up ads going to hell.
Given that companies like VA Linux are becoming quite profitable, goes to prove that selling solutions is the mentality of open source as opposed to selling software.
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What's interesting is that all of your responses to fact are opinions and conjecture. Instead of what you think, let's try and ram some more facts into you.
There are two very interesting facts about this buyback and dividend hike that are worth noting. First, while he does derive benefit from the buy back, he is putting his company's cash on the line for his employees and shareholders (i.e. those that made the company what it is today). He's not out artificially inflating company earnings with some accounting scandal that's going to put him on a private island and employee shareholders in the poor house. If you really want to complain about someone who immoral, go rant about Winnick of Global Crossing or the jokers and Worldcom, Adelphia, Parmalat and everyone's favorite, Enron.
Fact number 2. If the company is sitting on 50+ billion in cash and he's a power monger, why isn't he acquiring all of the businesses and second and third world nations that he can? Simple, because the power monger you claim this guy to be just isn't true. The guy may be market dominant, but world dominant is just a foolish statement. What's also disturbing is that with 50 billion in cash, he's having difficulty finding companies worth acquiring. And before you pin that on Gates single-handedly draining the creativity and innovativeness from the entire country or world, put some thought and fact into your response.
As mentioned, there are loopholes. I personally do not get nearly as many cold calls, but I do get some. If you do business with the company, they can call you. If you've done business w/ the company in the last 90 days (I think), they can call you. Politicians and charities are exempt as well.
With that said, I'd be willing to bet that less than half of these complaints are legitimate and of the millions of spam calls a day, this is a relatively low number of complaints when put into perspective. I'd say that the do not call list has been a success.
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Given that companies like VA Linux are becoming quite profitable, goes to prove that selling solutions is the mentality of open source as opposed to selling software.