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> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> ____/ Brad on Friday 19 September 2008 16:18 : \____
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>>> "Jerry McBride" <jmcbride@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:91tcq5xpr6.ln2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Microsoft loses 90 Billion Dollars
>>>>>
>>>>> http://slated.org/microsoft_loses_90_billion_dollars
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How can you LOSE 90 Billion Dollars and stay in business or keep your
>>>> investors buying your stock??? Amazing!
>>>
>>> How can anyone be retarded enough to believe that Microsoft "lost" 90
>>> billion dollars.
>>>
>>> Hint for you retard - Microsoft has made billions in profit every single
>>> year for the last decade.
>>
>> False.
>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Microsoft, the world's most valuable company, declared a profit
>> | of $4.5 billion in 1998; when the cost of options awarded that year,
>> plus the
>> | change in the value of outstanding options, is deducted, the firm made a
>> loss
>> | of $18 billion, according to Smithers.
>> `----
>>
>> http://etheridge.ca/articles/economist-options.html
>>
>
> Big stinking deal. Some company that nobody has ever heard of (Smithers)
> uses some made-up accounting scheme that nobody in the world uses and
> concludes that 10 years ago they think that in theory and on paper MS lost
> some money. Just because some bunch of looneys want to use their own way of
> calculating profits doesn't mean they are right.
*LOL*
Smithers is "some company that nobody has ever heard of"?
> This ought to be a hint for you... if MS wasn't making money then explain
> how they've managed to stay in business for all this time. Ever see the
> Redmond campus? I doubt you have. There are hundreds of beautiful buildings
> that have all been bought and paid for. Hardly something that companies that
> lose billions of dollars can afford to do.
Enron has nice buildings too. And pension plans. Oh, the pensions!
> But go ahead and be the fool. Keep thinking that MS isn't making a profit.
> If you try hard enough perhaps you might also be able to fool yourself into
> believing Santa Claus into existence.
Live and watch (the system is now collapsing due to scandals and frauds being
discovered:
http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/09/18/07/14/53-thursday-reading
http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/09/18/13/41/05-one-more-take-on-the-wall-street
Better yet, learn about it now:
http://www.billparish.com/msftfraudfacts.html
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~~ Best of wishes
"The danger is that Microsoft is using strategic monopolistic pricing in the
education market, with the government’s assistance, to turn our state
university systems into private workforce training programs for Microsoft."
--Nathan Newman
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