Verily I say unto thee, that Jerry McBride spake thusly:
> Is there something wrong with this picture? How do you justify
> loosing so much money on a "non-deal" ??
Welcome to the wacky world of trading, where a company's perceived value
is based on expectation, and that expectation can be manipulated with
bullshit like Vapourware; dumping; profit forecasts based on wildly
speculative (or downright dishonest) sales figures; buffering sales with
"channel" partners (in crime); just the merest hint of a takeover;
discrediting and sabotaging the competition; employing spin-doctors to
artificially "sell" the idea that the company is thriving, through the
use of marketing gobbledygook; or just plain old-fashioned lying through
one's teeth about a company's future direction.
That manipulation not only comes in many ways, but it comes from many
places too, like right here in COLA for example. Witness how frantically
DooFuS (in particular) flooded COLA with anti-Linux vitriol on the very
day that the final OOXML votes were being cast. Coincidence? I think
not. He may as well wear a badge that reads "Microsoft Shill", it's that
obvious. Make no mistake, to him this is nothing personal, he's merely
doing his job, which is why he's never discouraged, no matter how
ridiculous or suspicious his behaviour, nor how decisively his vitriol
is rebuked.
What other possible motive could someone have for spending *years*
sabotaging a group that exists to serve the purposes of an alternative
to his chosen operating system? Surely he should be extolling the
virtues of Windows in a /Windows/ group, not sleeping with the enemy.
But that's the way thugs and gangsters operate. They don't play by the
rules, they extort; threaten; bribe; manipulate; lie; attack and destroy
to "succeed", and then bray about it like a pack of hyenas, overwhelmed
with "pride" in their path of destruction, too busy slavering over the
spoils to worry about trivialities like morality. The Microsoft shills
in this group are merely another arm of the Microsoft crime syndicate.
And that's exactly what Sweaty the Impaler does to further Microsoft's
cause, which is of course greed, so what better place to manipulate
people than at the stock exchange, where greed blinds people against the
menacing advances of manipulators like Ballmer.
Basically the only difference between the stock market and the dog track
is that, generally speaking, down at the track the dogs don't trying to
win by lying or ripping each other's throats out.
Sweaty the Impaler tried to fscking kill Google by attempting to eat
(what he thought was) one of the weaker dogs in the race (cowards always
attack the weak, just like hyenas), to become bigger and stronger, and
eliminate some of the competition (typical of the "Embrace, Extend and
Extinguish" paradigm). The ravenous punters got too excited and bet
heavily on the Vole to win, but lost it all when Yahoo unexpectedly bit
back, and sent the Vole whimpering back to the kennels, leaving Google
to streak across the finish line. Poetic justice.
That won't stop the Vole, of course, much like the pesky lack of money
doesn't stop a drug addict from getting a fix. They'll just keep mugging
other innocent victims until they get what they want. The only way to
"cure" that rabid dog, is to put it down.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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