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To: Zoltan! who wrote (17893)	5/1/2000 5:05:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Another item from your citation: I will buy Milton's arguments over Bork's - on any subject - any day of the week. Rue the day Milton Friedman, the Nobel laureate in economics, teamed up with the National Taxpayers Union last week to denounce the Justice Department plan to break Microsoft in two. "Recent events dealing with the Microsoft suit certainly support the view I expressed a year ago ?that Silicon Valley is suicidal in calling government in to mediate in the disputes among some of the big companies in the area and Microsoft," Mr. Friedman said in a joint statement with the taxpayers group. "The money that has been spent on legal maneuvers would have been much more usefully spent on research in technology. The loss of the time spent in the courts by highly trained and skilled lawyers could certainly have been spent more fruitfully. Overall, the major effect has been a decline in the capital value of the computer industry, Microsoft in particular, but its competitors as well. They must rue the day that they set this incredible episode in operation." Bork in WSJ: There's No Choice: Dismember Microsoft By Robert H. Bork. Mr. Bork, a former federal judge, is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He has represented Netscape Corp. and currently is a consultant for ProComp, the Project to Promote Competition and Innovation in the Digital Age. The first thing conservatives need to remember is that Bill Gates is not Elian Gonzalez. Nor are Microsoft's executives the counterparts of Elian's rescuer, clutching their browser to their bosoms as armed federal agents break in to snatch the code in the middle of the night. Yet some of the most estimable conservative commentators teeter on the verge of hysteria over the government's case against Microsoft. They should pause for thought, learn the economics of antitrust and acknowledge that Joel Klein and his staff at the antitrust division of the Justice Department are honorable men who had a sound case, which they proved to the hilt before Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, a fine jurist who was, incidentally, appointed to the bench by Ronald Reagan. . . . interactive2.wsj.com

To: Zoltan! who wrote (17893)	5/1/2000 6:01:00 PM
From: Bill	Respond to of 769670

It's the ditto SI feature.

To: Zoltan! who wrote (17893)	5/1/2000 11:23:00 PM
From: lawdog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Zootan, you are the expert on whores, being of the SI variety. However, well-rounded is not the correct adjective.

To: Zoltan! who wrote (17893)	5/1/2000 11:44:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Attention deficit Speaking of deficit, George Bush Jr. was apparently sighted today. Apparently he is camped out behind a 24-hour laundry because he keeps peeing in his pants over the thought of having to make a public appearance while the Elian story is still live. He's berating the other republicans to make it go away before he has to actually say something that might show his thoughts (if any). Maybe he can start a chickens for junior movement, and some voters may line up like little duckings behind him. I can see the new bumper sticker "Quack for Bush". TP