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leohat

Political Rant/Repost of a reply

Jul 04, 2007 11:25

I don't particularly like Hillary but not because she's a woman or because of her husband. I don't like her personality (bitch) or the way she carpetbagged to NY to set up a presidential run. Frankly, I'm not real impressed that she didn't divorce Bill's ass over the whole Monica thing. I'm willing to bet that north of 85% of women in America would ( Read more... )

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Re: What you want from a Prez, part 1 leohat August 5 2007, 03:31:51 UTC

AT&T and Time-Warner are not monopolies. Yes, they're very large, but there's alternates - Verizon and T-Mobile in the first case, Murdoch (ick) for publishing; various independent and large ISPs for AOL; and Business Week or other similar magazines for entertainment.

Microsoft is a dead case. While there's a few things the government COULD step in and do (stop the OS bundling limitations in OEM computers; require unlimited installation discs with all OS and application installations), there's really nothing left on this one.

Furthermore, it's a DoJ situation, not the President - the executive branch has already brought MS to trial, and is now out of it.The DOJ could actually enforce the consent decree imposed on MS for a start. AT&T and Time-Warner have been engaged in all sorts of restraint of trade and anti-competitive practises for a long time. The whole 'net neutrality' issue is one big attempt to squeeze out the last competitors ( ... )