____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 27 October 2007 09:49 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Erik Funkenbusch on Friday 26 October 2007 17:03 : \____
>>
>>> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:38:24 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> By association, Erik is as criminal and corrupt as those whom he defends.
>>>
>>> You are going way too far there Roy. Calling people criminals is uncalled
>>> for, and you should be ashamed of yourself. That is, if you had any shame.
>>
>> What a scummy man you are. Once again changing subject line to accuse
>> people, eh...?
>>
>> Is bribery not a crime? Yes? Well, Microsoft bribed people for OOXML.
>>
>> To borrow a recent example, how about inside trading?
>>
>> Insider Trading Hasn't Affect Microsoft Stock - Yet
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| MarketWatch.com reports that Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's
>>| Entertainment and Devices division, sold $6.2 million of Microsoft
>>| stock just prior to announcing that Microsoft was going to have to
>>| extend XBox 360 warranties to three years because of extensive
>>| failures. The filings note that this was not part of any
>>| scheduled diversification or selling program; this was a
>>| conscious, unscheduled sale by the guy in charge of releasing
>>| news that could affect the value of Microsoft stock.
>>|
>>| [...]
>>|
>>| Insider trading is a very serious violation of the law; just
>>| ask Martha Stewart, who served five months in prison for
>>| avoiding losses of $43,000 through trades that just had suspicious
>>| timing (no insider trading was actually proven). This is $6.3
>>| million that went straight into Robbie Bach's pocket.
>> `----
>>
>> http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070713/40947_id.html?.v=1
>>
>> That's a crime, Erik. If you defend this behaviour, then you endorse crime.
>> Be careful.
>>
>
> Roy - you're wasting your time with Erik. He sold his soul decades ago.
> I doubt he'd even know how to behave ethically any more. He'll just yell and
> shout and abuse, and then go running back to the troll-feeders here, to
> continue to spout his off-topic and anti-charter corrupting diatribes.
>
> To look back at the allegorical Lord of the Rings, The One Ring is
> ultimate power, and yet it steadily corrupts all who come into contact
> with it. Erik is like a Gollum character, he's been in contact with the
> ring for so many years now he's forgotten the young, happy, innocent,
> ambitious and naive man he was so many years ago, he's now an embittered
> sociopathic, owned creature, who's pimped out onto the virtual streets of
> the internet to push a political position he probably once could've
> analysed, but long ago lost any independence of thought as the
> corruption eroded his ability to think.
>
> Killfile him.
He already is, but notice the subject line, which elevates score more than
plonks in KNode do (-50). I need to keep looking over the shoulder for slander
like this. Even Erik has resorted to unsubstantiated accusations, just like
the boss of his boss of his boss, Steve "I'm a nuclear bomb" Ballmer.
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