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1. Comment - America Online Launches 'Plus' Service

   (Apr 5, 2000 - 8:21 PM)

   Wow, you must be an executive at AOL or something! How did you know that? You should be a reported or something, you really dug deep on that one! I mean, at the Time Warner/AOL Merger press conferences, I didn't hear any talk of that! They never once mentioned Road Runner, or Time Warner Telecommunications, a venture in which Time Warner owns a controlling majority! Thanks for letting us in on the secret!

2. Comment - Apple Opens Darwin

   (Apr 5, 2000 - 8:15 PM)

   What was that?

3. Comment - Microsoft Ruling Announced

   (Apr 4, 2000 - 6:16 PM)

   Sorry buddy. You're woefully misinformed. I'm very sorry for your poor parents. You have already been set in your place by numerous others as far as Microsoft's monopoly power goes, but I'll take a little time to teach you about the stock market.
   
   Microsoft is a heavily traded stock. It has an average volume of around 50 million shares a day. People want the stock. That's why it keeps going up and up. Supply and Demand. When a stock is as popular as Microsoft is, it is not difficult at all to sell all your stock. Bill Gates has been unloading shares at a pretty brisk rate. Not nearly as fast as Paul Allen however. Take a looskie at Yahoo Insider Trading for Microsoft. Bill Gates has already sold off over half of his stake in Microsoft. He would have /NO/ trouble whatsoever selling off the rest. Bill holds about 857 million shares of Microsoft. If he were to sell off 3 million shares of Microsoft every other day for the next year, he would have sold off every share he owns. This would not affect Microsoft's share price in the slightest. After the news that Microsoft would not settle, Microsoft opened the day with 60 million sell orders. It only caused about an 8% decline in price (The rest came later in the day). So it's safe to assume that Bill Gates selling 3 million shares every other day would only account for a price difference of around -.3 to -.4 percent every other day. This could easily be absorbed by other buyers. Take a look at the Microsoft float. It's tight enough already for a company with that market cap. 850 million shares over the course of a year would not saturate the market. Now go take economics.

4. Comment - Be, Inc. Delivers as Promised

   (Mar 29, 2000 - 11:37 AM)

   There's a difference here between the sizes of Win2k, Millnium, and BeOS5. You BUY Windows, and it is delivered to you on a CD. The file size is irrelevant, and Microsoft packs as much as they can onto the CD. Online Help, the Resource Packs, video tours, etc. It would be very easy for MS to strip the file size down, but it would be stupid to do so. You're obviously a pirate. Youre an unethical, immoral turd.

5. Comment - Copy DVDs to VHS With Playstation2?

   (Mar 28, 2000 - 5:24 AM)

   Yeah. We shouldn't stop the MPAA. Only an idiot would say such a thing. I mean, it's absurd that people might worry that someday 95% of the music market would be controlled by 5 record companies. And no sane person would ever believe that the 5 record companies would enter into a defacto trade association of the likes the Sherman Antitrust Act was written to stop. Who would ever believe that the trade association's sole purpose would be to make sure all music is kept at the same outrageous prices, despite the demand for the music, essentially destroying the free market principles of supply and demand. That would never happen. Oh wait...IT ALREADY DID HAPPEN. The MPAA is the sole factor stopping songs from being sold individually at prices the market decides. Trade unions are completely illegal, as provided by the Sherman Act, and affirmed by key court decisions immediately after its passing in 1890. The ONLY reason the MPAA and RIAA have not been disbanded is because of theiur intense congressional lobbying.