[B Knotts]

Of course he is for the estate tax so who knows.

Oh, yeah...I forgot about that one.

You know, I don't necessarily agree with Dominic Harr on everything, but he made a very interesting observation: that there is a striking similarity between the way Democrats blindly defended Bill Clinton and the way many people here defend Bill Gates.

You can keep piling fact upon fact, but they will ignore it all, because they think he's their hero or something.

They will also repeatedly claim that Bill Gates created millions of jobs, pretending that the jobs wouldn't have been created had there been other software to choose from, and forgetting entirely about all the good people who Microsoft put out of work through their monopolistic tactics.

I'd just like to be able to buy a laptop, and not be forced to buy a copy of Windows with it. Something just doesn't smell right when one cannot do that in a supposedly "free" market.

[discostu]

I wind up defending Bill Gates a lot, which is wierd because I hate him. Problem is a lot of what he gets accused of is, in my book, good cut throat business. I know he's done a number of illegal things, but even some of that I question whether it should be wrong. One of the things MS gets nailed for is using it's monopoly in one area to leverage business in another; well went I took business classes they called that horizontal market expansion, I don't understand why that's a basic business strategy when you don't have a monopoly but suddenly it's illegal when you do. To pervert one of Harr's favorite phrases: I think that's the economic equivalent to outlawing the zone defense (I'm still mad at the NBA for that).

This is a wierd one, could be that Bill supports Jesse's stuff, could be he feels it's better to keep Jesse fat and happy without Jesse threatening boycots. Given the way Bill is I think it's a little bit of both. With his stance on the estate tax I think Bill has some serious liberal leanings. But one thing I know for sure about Bill is he doesn't take a dump without considering how it will effect his company; his company is his religion and takes precident over anything.