Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 27 October 2007 09:49 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> ____/ Erik Funkenbusch on Friday 26 October 2007 17:03 : \____
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:38:24 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> By association, Erik is as criminal and corrupt as those whom he defends.
>>>>
>>>> You are going way too far there Roy. Calling people criminals is uncalled
>>>> for, and you should be ashamed of yourself. That is, if you had any shame.
>>>
>>> What a scummy man you are. Once again changing subject line to accuse
>>> people, eh...?
>>>
>>> Is bribery not a crime? Yes? Well, Microsoft bribed people for OOXML.
>>>
>>> To borrow a recent example, how about inside trading?
>>>
>>> Insider Trading Hasn't Affect Microsoft Stock - Yet
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| MarketWatch.com reports that Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's
>>>| Entertainment and Devices division, sold $6.2 million of Microsoft
>>>| stock just prior to announcing that Microsoft was going to have to
>>>| extend XBox 360 warranties to three years because of extensive
>>>| failures. The filings note that this was not part of any
>>>| scheduled diversification or selling program; this was a
>>>| conscious, unscheduled sale by the guy in charge of releasing
>>>| news that could affect the value of Microsoft stock.
>>>|
>>>| [...]
>>>|
>>>| Insider trading is a very serious violation of the law; just
>>>| ask Martha Stewart, who served five months in prison for
>>>| avoiding losses of $43,000 through trades that just had suspicious
>>>| timing (no insider trading was actually proven). This is $6.3
>>>| million that went straight into Robbie Bach's pocket.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070713/40947_id.html?.v=1
>>>
>>> That's a crime, Erik. If you defend this behaviour, then you endorse crime.
>>> Be careful.
>>>
>>
>> Roy - you're wasting your time with Erik. He sold his soul decades ago.
>> I doubt he'd even know how to behave ethically any more. He'll just yell and
>> shout and abuse, and then go running back to the troll-feeders here, to
>> continue to spout his off-topic and anti-charter corrupting diatribes.
>>
>> To look back at the allegorical Lord of the Rings, The One Ring is
>> ultimate power, and yet it steadily corrupts all who come into contact
>> with it. Erik is like a Gollum character, he's been in contact with the
>> ring for so many years now he's forgotten the young, happy, innocent,
>> ambitious and naive man he was so many years ago, he's now an embittered
>> sociopathic, owned creature, who's pimped out onto the virtual streets of
>> the internet to push a political position he probably once could've
>> analysed, but long ago lost any independence of thought as the
>> corruption eroded his ability to think.
>>
>> Killfile him.
>
> He already is, but notice the subject line, which elevates score more than
> plonks in KNode do (-50). I need to keep looking over the shoulder for slander
> like this. Even Erik has resorted to unsubstantiated accusations, just like
> the boss of his boss of his boss, Steve "I'm a nuclear bomb" Ballmer.
>
Ah, score such things down, then they won't work any more. He really
isn't worth the time. We have enough trollfeeders here who'll respond
to him, he doesn't need you.
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