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To: Dinesh who wrote (68677)	9/16/2007 9:51:45 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

The next time you are apprehended thus, try telling the cop that unless ALL* speeders are caught, you HAVE TO BE LET GO. Do pay attention to what the officer says in reply.* How about this, lets say somebody buys a 300mph porsche and speeds up and down 280 consecutively for 2 years straight with no questioning by authorities. Then a year later somebody else decides to drive down the same road in a honda civic at 70mph which is technically speeding. People like you give the porsche a pass and think throwing the book at the honda is justice. I think you have a problem with priorities. As 3 separate indians told me in PMs "Microsoft is an ethical company and cleared this all up quickly"........... oh, and they also sponsored a lot of visas, being the benevolent company that they are.

To: Dinesh who wrote (68677)	9/21/2007 5:40:21 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Respond to of 213177

since you have said you have me on ignore (possibly true), you can assume this reply is a "ghost retort" as they say. You have no problem with jobs or backdating, but you don't denounce the horrible Reyes ruling, something to the effect of "life isn't fair". Cause and effect was something that was known to Aristotle. You might want to pick up a book on the subject A couple things have changed since April, when the SEC filed civil charges against Heinen and former Apple CFO Fred Anderson. Meanwhile, the stakes have been raised by the harsh penalties faced by another CEO caught in the government's backdating net. In August, a federal jury convicted Gregory Reyes, former chief executive of Brocade Communications Systems, for his role backdating stock options that weren't even for him. Reyes is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 21 and could face 20 years in prison. blogs.business2.com Heinen's lawyers are seeking to depose some 45 individuals, those involved in the process of granting options at Apple, as well as some of those who received options. The implications of the strategy are clear, as Larry Ribstein, law professor and author noted when writing about Jobs' self-described ignorance of what occurred relating to the options scandal. In this case, Jobs' "non-appreciation" defense is likely to get more tenuous if people like Heinen, and possibly Anderson, start talking. (Lizzie: anyway Reyes' non-accountant defense didn't work even with evidence the accountants thought there should be no accounting charge. Jobs is doomed) 45 people under oath makes for a lot of talk. arstechnica.com