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To: TimF who wrote (465)	11/13/2002 7:53:50 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7936

Fujitsu admits 4.9 million (potentially) defective HDDs By Keith Warburton, PC Association Posted: 05/11/2002 at 09:16 GMT theregister.co.uk The papers lodged with the court in California, in the $50 million action between Cirrus Logic and Fujitsu (of Japan), confirm what observers had already guessed, that – contrary to the blasé denials of any notable problems - there is indeed an officially acknowledged problem with the MPG3xxx series of drives. And Fujitsu knew the massive scale and scope of the problem at least 18 months ago. Message 18225556

To: TimF who wrote (465)	11/14/2002 4:37:28 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7936

No they have the right of freedom of speech, they have less ability to exercise that right. I see. So you would say that if you were shut up in the traditional "hole" in prison, where you had no contact with anything or anybody but the jailor who slipped food through the slot in your door three times a day, you still had freedom of speech, just less ability to exercise it? I personally take a different view of freedom of speech. I think a democracy is healthier when ideas compete on their merits, not on the amount money their proponents have. And I think that when one person can shout another down by dint of enormous expenditure of money, there is a problem with freedom of speech.