I have sent an email to Al Gore. I will post the response from the creator as soon as I receive it. Then we all shall know the "true spirit of the internet".
The corps that fund most of Congress LIKE the H1B visa system (it saves them money). We, the citizens of the USA, are not the 1st, 2nd or 3rd most important thing on Congress' mind.
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Three words: AOL Time Warner.
Two more words: Clear Channel.
Note that this occurred during the Clinton Administration. Along with the 3 largest ever Oil Company Mergers, other huge media mergers, Daimler/Chrysler, the list goes on and on.
And the Bush Administration, with all the scare tactics about how the Government would be sold off to powerful interests at the expense of the consumer blocks this Satellite merger.
People need to wake up, the Democrats are not, and never have been, for the little guy and anti big business. Because they have sold themselves as being anti-corporate to a stupid electorate, they can get away with a lot more of the selling out of America without serious scrutiny. Ever wonder why Democrats are so heavily supported by Corporate America when they want to raise Corporate taxes?
"Together, the proof of dominant market share and the existenve of a substantial barrier to effective entry create the presumption that Microsoft enjoys monopoly power"
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"In short, the proof of Microsoft's dominant, persistent market share protected by a substantial barrier to entry, together with Microsoft's failure to rebut the prima facie showing effectively and the additional indicia of monopoly power, have compelled the Court to find as fact that Microsoft enjoys monopoly power in the relevant market."
Looks to me like the court called them a Monopoly.
But you are overlooking one minor little detail. MSFT DOES NOT PAY ANY INCOME TAX! After all the credits, deductions and other tricks they have a net tax bill that is a negative amount.
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I currently live in a small ( 75,000 pop towns.
I rather enjoy my quality of life, what am I missing?
One last thing, please don't judge the rest of the USA by how CA does things
Calm down! It's not like the KDE people get upset when others change they look and feel of KDE. After all the code is GPLed.
Then how do you suggest people that live in small towns get to work and shop if they do not have a personal automobile/roads?
Mass transist does not work in a small town.
And some of those 'corrupt' politicians dismantled public transportation because it was/is a very large sinkhole for tax dollars.
I have sent an email to Al Gore. I will post the response from the creator as soon as I receive it. Then we all shall know the "true spirit of the internet".
You are most likely a troll, but what the hell.
The fact that the telcos business model may be outdated it not my concern.
If you use your Sony AIBO to mimic any positions used in an official Playstation / Playstation 2 skateboarding product you may be sued.
Well, considering that your site is more than likely in violation of several Fed/State obscenity laws...
How can a link be illegal? It is just a pointer to information.
So we solve rushhour by becoming corp. slaves?
How are things at NASA these days?
Also, if we had started earlier(before the collapse) then the USA would not have to be paying for the vast majority of the Russian cost.
You do understand that "corporate welfare" is one of the large reasons that congress continues to fund the IIS, don't you?
Spend a lot of tax payers money. Keep at lot of contractors in business.
I am very confused. I thought that /. disliked MPAA/DISNEY/REAL NETWORKS/WMA (you know companies that support laws like the DMCA)???
/. run stories about their newest products?
If what they are trying to do is so evil, why does
MPAA BAD!
MPAA BAD!!
MPAA BAD!!!
OH something shinny!!!
Then why are US companies keeping there H1B's while laying of US citizens?
Don't forget how they destroyed our ability to build any more Saturn 5 launch vehicles.
When NASA stops spending my money, I will stop "picking on NASA".
Until they do though they should be held to a higher standard then the private sector.
Funny! Very Funny!
The corps that fund most of Congress LIKE the H1B visa system (it saves them money). We, the citizens of the USA, are not the 1st, 2nd or 3rd most important thing on Congress' mind.
How much is one of these frontpage /. ads? Please contact me, I may be interested in buying one.
Your right, after all we don't want to take any time away from the /. editors that they could be using to spell check/grammar check/dup check stories.
Your right, after all we don't want to take any time away from the /. editors that they could be using to spell check/grammar check/dup check stories.
Repost of http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=43937&cid=4577 390
Three words: AOL Time Warner.
Two more words: Clear Channel.
Note that this occurred during the Clinton Administration. Along with the 3 largest ever Oil Company Mergers, other huge media mergers, Daimler/Chrysler, the list goes on and on.
And the Bush Administration, with all the scare tactics about how the Government would be sold off to powerful interests at the expense of the consumer blocks this Satellite merger.
People need to wake up, the Democrats are not, and never have been, for the little guy and anti big business. Because they have sold themselves as being anti-corporate to a stupid electorate, they can get away with a lot more of the selling out of America without serious scrutiny. Ever wonder why Democrats are so heavily supported by Corporate America when they want to raise Corporate taxes?
I was wrong. I could have sworn that I read that somewhere. I
Page 5 from the "Conclusions of Law and Order"
"Together, the proof of dominant market share and the existenve of a substantial barrier to effective entry create the presumption that Microsoft enjoys monopoly power"
Page 6-7
"In short, the proof of Microsoft's dominant, persistent market share protected by a substantial barrier to entry, together with Microsoft's failure to rebut the prima facie showing effectively and the additional indicia of monopoly power, have compelled the Court to find as fact that Microsoft enjoys monopoly power in the relevant market."
Looks to me like the court called them a Monopoly.
But you are overlooking one minor little detail. MSFT DOES NOT PAY ANY INCOME TAX! After all the credits, deductions and other tricks they have a net tax bill that is a negative amount.