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They screw over the little guy in hopes no one will notice that they’re stark, raving mad (and possibly mentally retarded - no offense to mentally retarded people). As of August 2008 they’re shutting down their music service which will effectively screw over anyone who bought music via their PlayForSure services .. which obviously isn’t going to play for sure.

Goodness Bill .. what are you thinking in your multi-million dollar breeches?! Obviously it is about how many billions you’re worth to the industry …

Here is a snippet from a good article:

It was the Dark Ages, around 2004 or so. The iTunes Store was new and booming. Microsoft, in its bid to be the center of everything without having to deal with pesky “end users”, decided that the way to fight Apple was to create a developer platform. This developer platform would handle all the technical details of ensuring that people could “purchase” music files from a variety of online vendors, and play these music files on their (Windows) PC or on a variety of handheld music players. This developer platform would also ensure that such “purchased” music files could not be copied. This involves a lot of fancy math (encryption) which Microsoft was happy to license to companies running online music stores and companies making handheld music players, as well as including by default in all modern versions of Windows.

READ IT ALL

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http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/24/economic.stimulus/index.html

Ok, please read the above … and then read the Tadd comments..

Ready?

I’m all about getting $1600. If the government wants to throw money around, hey - I’ll catch all I can! They tax the snot out of us as it is. However, the federal debt is what … $250 billion dollars? Is this a WISE move? Why not just lower the taxes rather than throwing billions of more money out there? And while I’m not going to sneeze at $1600, would it really make a huge dent in the economic crisis that the US is currently facing? Not likely. It makes the government look good .. for the moment. But I promise this - they’ll start complaining about the debt again. It will be Bush’s fault (though both polical parties are all on board). Taxes will go up.

And for you conspiracy theorists: Who does the US owe all this cash to? Answer: Banks. So, what ‘collateral’, I wonder, have they placed for all this debt and loans and such? Think any of the politicians are signing their homes, cars and everything else away so you can get extra returns on your taxes? Psh no. I really do wonder … is this how the US falls apart? Not with war, but with debt? Does the UN ’swoop’ in and take over the USA - not with bombs but with contracts and banking deals? Really .. I wonder.

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