Bill removed himself from any useful role in MS years ago to devote himself full time to his foundation. His view at this point, about technology, let alone MS technology has to be taken with a degree of skepticism. Jobs on the other hand has an active executive role in Apple. He may be worth a lot less cash but that's just the way things work out sometimes. I'm sure he won't go hungry.

At its peak, MS was and is a company the uses its sheer size to its advantage. It is in some ways a successful company that just happens to sell software that it, for the most part produces itself. MS has never and will never post itself on the edge of what's new and interesting. It's a bread and butter company. And where it needs technology such as antivirus, security, online services, gaming, it generally buys it or buys a company outright and rebrands the product. Apple takes a different tack and fully specs out a functional design that they give to a manufacturer to produce. Like the iPod and iPhone. At least on the hardware side with MS doesn't play in, or play in very successfully. They claim to have sold a million Zunes but no one can verify that.

In either case who really cares if they like one another?

zippity doo dah, dudes.

You sound terribly disturbed and projecting all over the place, guy. Seek help.

There are whole industries built about MS's failures, shortcoming, nearsightedness and poor quality control. It's a kind of ecology built on sloppiness and arrogance. And I for one couldn't be happier. Keep up the bad work, Redmond, I've got house payments.

when Hong Kong'rs wanted to leave the Canadian government stipulated you had to deposit ~$460,000 Canadian as an escrow to establishing a business in Canada and citizenship would be fast pathed.

BTW I have three passports. All legal. It's not hard at all especially among English speaking former crown colonies.

Well that was an interesting cut-n-paste

But you didn't actually demonstrate that anyone here in fact disagrees on anything. You merely assert it and then fling insults at me and anyone else who dares question it.

But again, nice paste up job though. Good formatting. I give it a B+.

Was there something else?

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Winnow down the noise and dross and what you're left with is "Faith is ignorant and we are smart." Everything else is college sophomore filler.

No just the dumb ones, the zealots and the children. I get it really. I mean this is Salon. Religion evil. Gotcha. No need to repeat yourselves so much.

The PRC considers Soros a criminal for instigating the Asian financial crash in the mid 90's. There's a publication from the PLA (army of the PLC) called 'Unrestricted Warfare' (available for free online) which states that.

For instance, with typical delays, the short haul from DFW to Austin is barely faster than driving. There's little point in keeping it in the schedule. I'm sure there are other dumb short hauls that we and the airlines could do without.

Followed by a sinecure on K street in one of the lobby/think tank firms. That's pretty standard stuff.

A late middle aged woman. In silver skin and green hair. With a trident. In a wheelchair. With any luck she's gay and an abuse survivor and we can hit all the Salon poster child points right out of the park.

The airlines have to stuff them in like the last train to Sobibor. But few people regularly travel in large numbers to West Gopher Nut, Wyoming so the airlines decide for our 'benefit' to have maybe one flight a day. You miss it, or more often's the case, they do, you are terribly unable to be helped by them until tomorrow thank you for flying West Gopher Nut Air now sit down before we have to call security, sir!!

Again, what's the point. Between delays, cancellations, the generalized inability to pull their pin heads out of their asses, etc. It's close to a break even in time in many parts of the country. In others of course in the west the large distances make it a necessity but for most I would suggest you really don't need the West Gopher Nut shuttle at all. It's probably a net waste of time. So scrub it permanently. There is no need for the WGN Shuttle and there is little need for the whole WGN airport. It's probably a lot more expensive to fly into anyway. I supposed if you really really have to go then you can work out a system of on the spot charters or something or, in the case of corporate travel pull a ticket down from a pre purchased block of tickets bought at one time at the beginning of the fiscal year. Otherwise, we could probably eliminate half the high cost low travel flights in the country in one swoop and barely anyone would notice.

I mean it's air travel for god's sake. It's getting your fat ass from one place to another. It's not some high class thing.