Asta [AMP]looking at the epstein ballroom that Microsoft "donated" money to and thinking back on how they used to get salty at me, a lone engineer, when I took too long to do my annual "compliance" training which involved watching a video and taking a quiz about how it's wrong and against company policy to bribe public officials for preferential treatment in business.
obscurestar@aud Remember when the Bush administration dropped all charges in the anti-trust suit Microsoft lost. No? Not surprising. They did it less than a week after September 11th, 2001 while everyone was distracted. Weird, right?
UncleRico@obscurestar @aud Around the same time the recount showed that W actually lost Florida and thus the previous year election?
I told people at the time that the GOP was going to use Sept 11th as their start of forever fascism and was banned from a group of people I knew because, they'd never do that it and I (by paying attention) was ruining a moment of unity.
I told the I'd take no pleasure in saying, 'I told you so'. When I was unbanned and things were so much worse than even I'd predicted, I took no pleasure in telling the , 'I told you so.' :(