____/ waterskidoo on Tuesday 10 July 2007 20:16 : \____
> On 2007-07-10, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Try to blame Gates for dumping his MSFT shares as well. Who would police
>> Gates? He has pals in Parliament and governments wordwide. Remember: the
>> least we can do is point it out and pass on the information. The truth is
>> otherwise suppressed. USENET is not moderated, so it can't be acquired and
>> censored (unless USENET is somehow equated to Google Groups now). Either
>> way, I keep local copies of my posts.
>
> Yea right. There is a better chance of the Pope being Jewish than Gates
> getting prosecuted. FWIW IBM's Lou Gerstner did a similar thing, right
> before IBM's announcement that it did not meet Wall Streets expectations.
> This was a few years ago and absolutely stank (stunk?) of insider
> trading.
> This article tells the basics. There is much more to it though.
> http://www.djurdjevic.com/Bulletins/ibm-corporate/99-28.htm
> It's all the "good old boys club" and it applies to everything
> that is going on around us from Iraq, to oil prices to Bush to
> Blair and to all of their ilk.
>
> Also I remember something about Gates visiting FSU or maybe China
> some years ago, right before Windows XP was released and somehow
> 'losing' a few copies of Windows XP during his travels.
> I can't find any information on it though so maybe I am
> imagining it.
Keyword (term): good-old-boys-club
I think we ought to identify those "clubs" and just have them exposed. With
search engines gaining popularity, information can more easily be found by
those who do research on a topic. The more transparency we achieve, the less
corrupt society will/can become.
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