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Microsoft may have stirred some corporate spot light the sort it doesn’t want, in the vacuum of an economic slow down that will wipe out sales of “Windows 7″ new PCs and thus Office for Win7 sales where the meat is in the MS profit (for the shareholders).

hmm this could snowball, if the analyst figures come into play for Q1/Q2 2010 before the action goes to trial The proverbial would hit the FAN. Figures in public domain, spotlight in the computer and financial sectors media - BANG!

Deduced dividend leaks out predicting Q1/Q2 2010 profits, followed by punitive damages issued by the US Government with very little effort from the FOSS Community. This would then force the analysts and brokers into having to declare Microsoft a SELL until Q3/Q4 2010 figures come into being or some incredible good announcement to over look another set of appalling figures caused through this unusual economic downturn.

Again in Q3/Q4 2010 figures are going to be a blood bath because of the PC consumer slowdown is going to stop the market dead in it’s tracks. The market for PCs going to people who do not currently have a computer is practically ZERO for all intents and purposes.

1. What are the users going to be able to do in windows 7 that you cannot do with Windows XP that justifies $350 for a new computer?
2. When people cannot pay their mortgage because they lost their job, and they going to buy a new PC?
3. If you are retired, or about to retire you will be seeing your pension vapourising and stock market seriously affecting your long term financial prosperity - are you going to buy a new PC?

And the buggers are even starting to print money to prop up this whole charade, and remember what happened when somebody last tried that stunt… IE printed money out of thin air.

See quantitative easing.

Bummer we could almost turn it into a sad short selling sport, to “spot” stock in the correct sequence in order to do short selling roll overs with the profits from each sinking. Now all you need to do is think laterally about products and their associated industries, and for the industries that float into your mind, think about the suppliers lead times and inventory levels held for a particular line item or BOM. Scary or what?

They will have to switch the financial systems off in every single electronic settled market place if the hedge funds started doing this - which they will. Surely?

Because as I say to people, if you’ve just thought about it, the odds are if you Google around your thought meme. You’ll find a community of like minded thinking individuals, and this networking is being accelerated by del.icio.us and Mag.nol.ia and other folksonmy driven bookmarking systems in our 2.0 world.

Did somebody say wheel? (PS I had a drink this evening so it may not make much sense!

I think it could very well be, but the interesting observation is from the people who perceive the action is criminal on Microsoft’s part, would must surely hit the headlines from a Business Analyst point of view?

Submitted by asmiller-ke6seh on March 6, 2009 - 12:56 P.M.

It sounds like Microsoft is knowlingly counselling the violation of an existing contract which their patent licensees have previously committed to. This could put Microsoft in violation of such federal laws as Taft-Hartley. Microsoft may find that this ends up being a nuclear option, and not a good defense.

And the most interesting comment I found to be this one:

Time to Sue or Prosecute MS for racketeering
Submitted by Marty on March 6, 2009 - 5:38 P.M.

If M$ entered these deals with non-disclosure agreements, knowing that the non-disclosure is intended to hide their licensee’s violation of GPL licensing, then it sounds like Microsoft may be guilty of collusion and racketeering. Whoever is responsible for protecting the patents and licesning for GP licenses should sue MS and ask for a big-time punitive settlement. And the gov. ought to look into possible criminal implications.

http://blogs.computerworld.com/linux_companies_sign_microsoft_patent_protection_pacts

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http://digg.com/linux_unix/The_Real_Reason_for_Microsoft_s_TomTom_Lawsuit

Captive State by George Monbiot
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Captive-State-Corporate-Takeover-Britain/dp/0330369431
ISBN-13: 978-0330369435

Great book explaining:

How the NHS is being killed by PFI
Monsanto
Supermarkets
The Corporate Takeovers of Universities

P11
Corporates were originally non profit and charitable
1600s - By the Crown
The East India Company broke this in 1642 when it became profit making for it’s company of shareholders
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Dyn3oh06ue8C&pg=PA222&lpg=PA222&dq=1640+shareholders++east+india+company&source=web&ots=wigc1IHp03&sig=Y7ZaMqswzJ_pb7-2a78NmY09VaE&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result

P235
rBST works by forcing the cow to produce increased quantities of IGF-1. It crosses over in the gut wall and IGF-1 in milk could cause breast cancer and colon cancers in humans… Menopausal women with levels of IGF-1 in their blood stream were seven times more susceptible to breast cancer.

P264
Tory government allows the permitted level of glyphosate in soya beans for human consumption. Normally levels are lowered but for Monsanto’s Roundup - glyphosate it was raised 200 times or 20,000 per cent.

Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma is up 80% since the 1970’s and increased exposue to glyphosate was reported in 1999, in the Journal of American Cancer Society.

P342
Public Order Act 1986 - restricts right to demonstrate
Trade Union Act 1992 - criminalised previously legal union activity
Criminal Justice Act 1994 - the right to break up most protests
Security Services Act 1996
Police Act 1997 - “conduct by a large number of persons in pursuit of a common purpose”
Anit-stalking Act 1997 - could be used against non-violent demontrations

At a press conference held for the opening on the new DNA sequencing laboratory for New Scotland Yard, the Minister of Health, The Rt Hon C U Bollocks (Complete Utter Bollocks) said the government had thought long and hard about the decision, but in summary Microsoft Healthvault represents the best value to the tax payer.

Adobe CS could end up on Linux, the movie industry is dependent on Linux, and this would drive Linux uptake

Debian for OpenMoko for 2012 announced

Nokia helps port Firefox to Qt

http://identi.ca/markcross

If you can read this - it worked!

Where have we arrived in the course of human history?
Amazon Kindle is probably the start of the most insidious technologies ever created by man?

What is Amazon Kindle?

• It is a universally affordable $400 ebook reader
• Which uses Philips E-ink display
• Books or audio are delivered using EVDO, without a monthly contract

It’s creation will allow man to acquire what most people understand to be God like powers, why? Because the network will:

• Know who you are
• Where you are (via the mobile network)
• What you are reading, viewing and listening to, store and record it for you
• Suggest what you might read, view and listen to

The future editions and competitor products will be:

• Colour
• Play and distribute real time video
• Have touch screens
• Provide digital wallets

What makes the subsequent product types more evil that Amazon Kindle?

• They will come the new “mass media” delivery and recording devices on a global basis providing a one to many medium to replace television
• Each individual will have education individually tailored to their IQ and learning style and everything they have ever learnt via this will be stored in their profile, along with every book they have ever read, film and their movement on the planet
• Each human being will be monitored and profiled, in some way crimes will be predicted as portrayed in the Minority Report because AI will be run on people’s profiles to spot society’s deviants

Excerpt from an SWRDA press release titled the same:

In outlining his skills vision Lord Leitch set some ambitious goals which included:
- 95 per cent of working age adults to achieve functional literacy and numeracy - up from 85 per cent literacy and 80 per cent numeracy today. This means 680,000 basic skills attainment per year against 110,000 today.
- More than 90 per cent of workforce adults qualified to at least Level 2 (equivalent to 5 GCSEs - grades A-C)) - up from 70 per cent today. Ninety-five per cent means 1.7 million more adults with Level 2 and 500,000 people achieving Level 2 each year against 280,000 today.

• What a load of bollocks – define what literacy is?!
• What does it really mean to be literate to a level that is useful for an individual to be useful to a business?

These two whilst being school kid targeted, if you don’t know the subject matter you’ll find them pretty enlightening - without the gift of hindsight!

Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire
by Stephen Dalziel (Author)

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Kgb Cia
by Celina Bledowska (Author)

• Mozilla Weave the most important announcement for the (social?) web for 2008
• Providing you read history to choosen trusted parties, how disruptive will this become?
• Web directories are about to enter a new era
• Mainstream publishers be aware, the hub of the future is being a trend spotter

& http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/12/introducing-weave/

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