__/ [ BearItAll ] on Monday 05 June 2006 10:13 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Microsoft Plays Politics
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>> | Members of Congress and their staff members took about 23,000 trips
>> | worth $48.9 million paid for by private interests between January 1,
>> | 2000, through June 30, 2005... "Always on these trips, the question is,
>> | who else is along for the ride? A lobbyist for Microsoft? Executives
>> | from the company?... Travel almost always is a means for contact," he
>> | said.
>> `----
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20060605/tc_pcworld/125963
>
> Starbucks? What are Starbucks doing in this? It's just a cafe. Would be the
> equivelant of our 'Joe's Greasy Spoon' taking a few MPs out to lunch.
Starbucks brew coffee.
Java brew success.
MS brew corruption.
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