On Sep 6, 9:48 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 06 September 2007 12:56 : \____
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> > Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> >> Microsoft Paid Lobbyist $160,000
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> >> ,----[ Quote ]
> >>| Microsoft Paid Paid Bingham McCutchen $160,000 to Lobby Federal Gov't in
> >>| First Half of 2007
> >> `----
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> >>http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070905/microsoft_lobbying.html?.v=1
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> > And we still allow this to happen? This is outrageous, and has no place
> > in a real democracy, or, for that matter, a constitutional monarchy.
>
> Exactly! Finally, someone who agrees that this is a disgusting and
> anti-democratic practise (only made legal by those who lobby in favour of
> lobbying, or those paying lawmakers to write the law). It's shredding
> democracy to pieces. One must wonder how much of that $160,000 (for 6 months)
> Bingham McCutchen just tossed onto some senator's bank account. Heck. He may
> have bought Mr. Senator a session with a dozen hookers.
>
> As Ghost says, welcome to the New World Order.
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> >> Yesterday:
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> >> Why Microsoft deserved to lose the OOXML standards vote
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> >> ,----[ Quote ]
> >>| 1. Lobbying is legal. But certain lobbying tactics are not. Microsoft
> >>| officials admitted that one of the company?s employees behaved
> >>| inappropriately in Sweden,
> >> `----
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> >>http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=694
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> > And still nobody is concerned that OOXML might just be, well, more
> > levers for corruption?
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> The world is too busy making money. Never mind crime, unless some celebrity
> gets shot.
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> >> Related:
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> >> Microsoft Finds Legal Defender in Justice Dept.
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> >> ,----[ Quote ]
> >>| Nearly a decade after the government began its landmark effort to break
> >>| up Microsoft, the Bush administration has sharply changed course by
> >>| repeatedly defending the company both in the United States and abroad
> >>| against accusations of anticompetitive conduct, including the recent
> >>| rejection of a complaint by Google.
> >>|
> >>| [...]
> >>|
> >>| In the most striking recent example of the policy shift, the top
> >>| antitrust official at the Justice Department last month urged state
> >>| prosecutors to reject a confidential antitrust complaint filed by
> >>| Google that is tied to a consent decree that monitors Microsoft's
> >>| behavior. Google has accused Microsoft of designing its latest
> >>| operating system, Vista, to discourage the use of Google's desktop
> >>| search program, lawyers involved in the case said.
> >> `----
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/business/10microsoft.html?_r=1&hp&o...
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> >> Software rivals say Microsoft's Vista illegal in Europe
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> >> ,----[ Excerpt ]
> >>| Software manufacturers, citing 2004 European Commission finding,
> >>| contend the operating system violates server laws in Europe.
> >> `----
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> http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/26/news/international/bc.vista.microsoft...
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> >> US politicians go to bat for Microsoft
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> >>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/26/microsoft_eu_political_lobbying/
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> >> Report Says Nonprofits Sold Influence to Abramoff
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> >> ,----[ Quote ]
> >>| E-mails released by the committee show that Abramoff, often
> >>| with the knowledge of the groups' leaders, exploited the tax-exempt
> >>| status and leveraged the stature of the organizations to build
> >>| support among conservatives for legislation or government action
> >>| sought by clients including Microsoft Corp., mutual fund company
> >>| DH2 Inc., Primedia Inc.'s Channel One Network, and Brown-Forman,
> >>| maker of Jack Daniel's whiskey.
> >> `----
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> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR200...>>http://tinyurl.com/y2rbpu
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> >> Politicians in Microsoft's Pocket
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> >> ,----[ Quote ]
> >>| Continuing on the theme of which politicians are receiving money from
> >>| who. Here is a list of candidates who took money from MSFT.
> >> `----
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> http://www.fonz.net/blog/archives/2007/06/04/politicians-in-microsoft...
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> >> Politics and tech companies: follow the money
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> >> ,----[ Quote ]
> >>| Microsoft took first place with $651,100 given out, while
> >>| Hewlett-Packard gave only $185,550, and Gateway gave a paltry
> >>| $2,000. Microsoft's donations certainly illustrate well the true
> >>| size of the company and the extent of its political concerns.
> >> `----
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> >>http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061110-8194.html
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> ~~ Best of wishes
>
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You sound like a stark raving lunatic.
Further proof that Linux rots the brain.
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