[Am-info] Dishonesty in ads]

[John Poltorak]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 01:24:11AM -0700, Mike Stephen wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John J. Urbaniak" <jjurban@attglobal.net>
> To: "Mike Stephen" <mikestp@telus.net>
> Cc: "Am-info" <am-info@venice.essential.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 5:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Am-info] Dishonesty in ads]
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> 
> > Well, it's hard to believe that the "Dell Dude" is focussed
> on business
> > rather than the consumer, yet we see similar glorification
> of dishonesty
> > in the Dell ads.
> >
> > Also, not all American companies are greedy and dishonest.
> 
> I agree not all corporations are greedy and dishonest.  I was
> referring more the the country called the United States.  In
> my opinion the USA government acts in a  greedy and dishonest
> manner. Similar in manner to the way Microsoft acts.

It seems to me that the Bush administration realised that retaining the 
Microsoft global monoply was in itself in America's best interests, that's 
why they gave up the Antitrust case.

> > John

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John