____/ Jerry McBride on Sunday 03 February 2008 14:43 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> Uh oh!
>>
>> Was Vista a disaster for Microsoft?
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Recently Microsoft posted their profits for 2007. Despite Vista being
>> | one of the worst disasters to hit the computer systems markets since
>> | Windows ME, Microsoft seemed to come out way ahead... or did they?
>> |
>> | Profits don't always tell the full story about how a company performs,
>> | and I'm not talking about Enron. The case in point is to be found in
>> | both K-mart and Disney Corporation. If your primary source of news is
>> | ABC, CNN, Reuters, Associated Press, NBC, CBS, or such, you may not have
>> | been aware that both K-mart and Disney corporation were under boycott
>> | from conservative groups led by the likes of Focus on the Family for
>> | years. In fact, if you listed to the liberal media, you probably thought
>> | that K-Mart's retail problems in past years were due to anything else
>> | other than a boycott.
>> |
>> | [...]
>
> I did some reading about this and I'm quite surprised how far bug business
> will go to spite themselves in the name of political correctness. If I was
> an investor in those businesses I would be worried about where my money was
> being spent and what R.O.I. I was getting in the exchange.
Well, it's quite complicated. Just look at the weird economics of war, whereby
wealthy bankers lend money to a government that is in heavy debt (*cough* GW
*cough*) and encourage war so that more stuff gets destructed and rebuilt
while Erik Price and the warmongering gang makes a nice stash. Meanwhile,
taxpayers think the government puts the money to good use, but they actually
cover those high interest rates imposed by loans (or do some (tax) money
laundering with Microsoft in the case of MSBBC). As some of the world's leader
secretly said, if only people knew how the system (mal)functioned, there would
be chaos (revolt).
But hey! Microsoft has investors... and buybacks... and dividends... and the
Gates Foundation which is 'protected' from tax and is used to bribe
politicians... and then there are the bank accounts in Ireland... and scum
like Bill Weisgerber to spin the whole fiasco in USENET and make that hypnotic
exercise, having people believe that "Mr. Softie" is in great shape... *cough
cough* yeah, like the Mighty America... which, well... is entering what some
call a depression. Watch the Soros talk from Davos... and it's not just
America, mind you. The world ruins itself. Soon enough, with Exxon's global
warming shills, it won't be just a matter of economics, either. :-)
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