A break from saving the planet.
Tis really big. Well the reason I state that the proposed stupid idea of Mykroschopht buying Yaywhore is actually close to reality is because where I first heard it. I heard it, a full minute report, on a media station which didn't report the Virginia Tech Massacre until it was six hours old and then only one line of script. Yes I heard it over the all sports station theFAN 590.
This is BIG. OH very BIG.
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And here is the stupid thing about the deal. People who use Yaywhore positively, absolutely and to the grave, detest Mykroschopht and the Bush loving swinging gates. It only means that most of these alienated customers migrate to join Goooogull. So the winner of the merger will only help the last named company. When the purchase is made it is Gooooooogull that will win the bulk of those clients.
I don't think any government will interfere since such a transaction will mean the disruption of so many liberal types. Its a done deal. Except if the people at Mykroschopht realize that this is a monumental brain fart and a complete waste of an enormous amount of cash.
In one way I hope this deal does enter the next phase. I wanted an answer to whether any executive is really all that stupid. We are about to witness such an event.
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I noticed today there are reports MicroShaft and Yahwehoo have changed their minds and they aren't going to do it.
Then again, that report might just be lawyerspeak, which means the opposite is probably closer to the truth.
Let's wait and see, shall we?
Yes they read my blog. And changed their mind. IMPACT... That's IMPACT.
Hey man, it's our blog and we should all take credit! Did you notice the uproar on Digg last week?
In case you didn't see it yet, someone blogged the key code needed to crack the AACS copy protection on movies. Then Digg got one of those famous threatening lawyer letters and immediately censored the number. Then all Hell broke loose.
Thousands of people put hundreds of stories about the number on the front page of Digg and they kept doing it, faster than Digg could censor them.
After many hours of "post and censor", Digg finally gave up and sided with the user bloggers. I guess Digg knows who's in charge at Digg now!
Here's a quote from another blog: "AACS is not claiming that "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0" is copyrighted. They're claiming that it's an anti-circumvention tool, and thus illegal under the American DMCA. This is odd since they're the ones who initially distributed the number."
Too bad you couldn't do that with The Star or The Globe and Mail.
So yes, we do have IMPACT!
Thanks for the blog, Gord.
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