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In Figure 4 you can see another excerpt of one of the registration forms found in the Senate lobbyist database. One would want to take care before calling them interlocking companies or alter-egos. Still, consider the fact that the BSA enforces licensing for Microsoft. Some allegations exist that say the BSA waives penalties for non-compliant companies if those companies buy upgrades from Microsoft.

We do not know if the BSA has that power. One would want to find out. To answer that, someone would have to inquire and examine the evidence and arrive at a factual determination. Understanding the relationships among the firms seems important in light of many unexplained situations.

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The next two Figures will provide some insight into reasons one might believe that the three companies need examination. While circumstantial, the close relationships and inner workings could make one believe that not everything fits. In Figure 5, one can see that the Chairman of the Senator Judiciary Committee received funds for re-election from Microsoft. This is the same Microsoft that the same the committee questioned with regard to the last Federal anti-trust settlement.

In Figure 6, we excerpted two contributions and moved them into view of the camera. These contributions came from an earlier Senate race. Difficulties exist in following Microsoft's money trail because of the many sources of data. Additionally, the registration forms of many candidates, lobbyists, assistant, staff, etc.

One cannot mine the data easily. One might consider this an ideal scenario for a monopolist whose compliance audits related to its settlement with the Department of Justice exist in secrecy. A Look to the Future", he states:. Considering the question Senator Leahy posed on December 12, , we should look again to the statement of the well-known consumer advocate we quoted at the start of this article.

He had a different slant when he wrote:.

Here's a list of the lobbyists, their firms and former positons for whom Microsoft has access:. Microsoft has unparalleled influence throughout the Federal government. On the cover of a recent edition of VarBusiness Magazine dated June 26, the editors presented a large headline which read: It's A Microsoft World. Five years after running afoul of the Feds, Microsoft is as powerful than ever. Pushing a platform instead of products could make it stronger still. Why nothing seems to stop it. Few people who have researched the company believe that Microsoft ran afoul of the Feds.

How could a company that owns the Feds run afoul of them? Microsoft wields more power than the Federal government.

Reading the following, you will notice just a single handful of people who have vested interests in making sure the Federal government stays out of Microsoft's business. Undersecretary of Commerce for Technology. Bond is the highest-ranking appointed official who deals with technology. He is the former top aide to U. Appointed deputy assistant attorney general for international enforcement for the Justice Department's antitrust division in October Kolasky was a lawyer for the Association for Competitive Technology, a group whose largest contributor is Microsoft, and wrote a friend of the court brief supporting Microsoft in its antitrust lawsuit.

Until recently, he headed the Republican National Committee. Gillespie helped build the Republican party and identified candidates for state and federal elections. Prior to becoming the head of the RNC he was a Microsoft lobbyist. Microsoft's associate general counsel chairs the American Bar Association's antitrust section. This group influences how much oversight federal judges have over antitrust settlements.

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In late June, a U. Many difficulties associated with examining Microsoft's business practices exist. Many people have attempted to catalog and chronicle the various tactics used. The amount of material seems overwhelming. When one looks at such data, the human perception mechanism begins to shut down. To defend itself, people become confused and go into states of denial or apathy.

While we can discuss much more evidence, I consider it a good approach to simply digest the material in smaller chunks. Hopefully we raised questions that people should examine. In the mean time, I will leave you with this quote I have seen frequently. That in it's [sic] essence, is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power. Login If you don't have an account yet, visit the registration page to sign up.

If you already have an account, you may login here: Today's Big Story Photography and Linux. Vienna is a guarded, secretive city, where people go about their business privately, and very often, quite literally, turn underground. Without even a chance to secede, for we were never admitted in the first place, we retire to the cellars beneath our city and keep our happy occupations among ourselves. Only, we ourselves have grown so much since we tentatively began meeting over a common interest in investigating the human form.

Our collective expands and changes, absorbing new members with their own priorities, and our sessions adapt organically, organisational responsibilities shift hands, emphases adjust. But our many faces reflect a common conviction that makes us something of a movement: On Thursday we put on our second group exhibition. Our familiar Keller was bursting at the seams, filled with the merry faces of our dear friends and families, of long-lost acquaintances; the walls were decked with the astonishingly diverse works of twenty artists—some amateurs, some professionals, some students, some in sister artistic fields, and at all stages in between.

Quick, gestural notations hung alongside careful, long-term studies; painted portraits beside pencilled figure drawings; shape-laden abstractions beside colour-drenched impressions of the figure; animated marker drawings next to fresh digital works. Our hunger for more visual material connects us with so many other circles—our friends include musicians and dancers and scientists who all submit to our voracious appetite for interesting faces.

It also means we are fortunate enough to be closely acquainted with exceptional musicians who enchanted us with Grieg and Debussy, performing with gravity and with spunk, showing us that finely-tuned expressive control over their auditory media which we search for in our own visual ones.

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Niemand kann Ihnen raten und helfen, niemand. Es gibt nur ein einziges Mittel. Gehen Sie in sich. Nobody can help and advise you, nobody. There is only one way. The glamorous, reticent yet ebullient Vienna of our dreams is alive and well, and eluding you just beneath the surface.

I peered into the disquieting world of Balthus last week. A collection of his works is gathered in Vienna , which seems particularly fitting to me, knowing him to be a lifelong favourite of and inspiration to Francis Giacco , who is a role model of mine and one-time inhabitant of fair Vienna.

Giacco paints dreamy still-lives dappled with fractured afternoon sunlight, layering patterns upon patterns in a quietly hypnotic fashion, the arrangements comprised of treasures gathered in Europe—musical instruments, luscious woven fabrics, curious marionettes, and globes that revolve and ache with Fernweh.

His predilection for Balthus filled me with extra keenness to discover some hidden secrets. And Balthus is shrouded in secrecy. I once encountered a book on him, a picture-heavy volume that began with an anecdote that Balthus preferred an artist statement along the lines of: No one knows anything about him. And when I finally met him face-to-face at this exhibition, I honoured his wishes and ignored the copious text printed on the walls of the Kunstforum.

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His paintings cloak the rooms in an overwhelmingly sinister atmosphere. This is surprising, given their apparent simplicity, their bold, clear, often flattened shapes, their often very plain subject matter: How can such simple imagery fill one with such a sense of dread, leave one so unsettled?

Perhaps it is the quiet implications: And the evil cats, perched like demons above melodramatically exuberant figures. One feels oppressed in these rooms, for Balthus alone is not to blame: I think it is something to do with how formally strong the paintings are. Shapes are pieced together firmly; arcs swing through figures and drive our gaze forcefully. People are reassuringly geometric: He shatters the picture plane with tables bent into conflicting perspectives; he plays with proportions and mocks our sense of sight, subduing it to his own dark purposes.

The drawing in the paintings is usually firm, calculated and assured. This confidence is beguiling. The apparent simplicity of the paintings is really supported by intelligent, knowledge-laden lines, surreptitiously used with purpose. We are enchanted by the result, but the structure beneath is carefully planned and artfully disguised. This is why the paintings strike us so forcefully. And then there is the paint. This rough manner of applying paint works its own quiet effect on the viewer in unison with the content of the image and with the careful construction of it. Balthus gives the paint itself a voice, and it is a coarse, goading one, just as provocative as the cats and the knives and the underage girls.

I think an important key to Balthus is the possibility of friendship with children. This is a very delicate subject, fraught with predatory dangers. And yet, on the flip side, there is some sort of violence we wreak on children when we oppress them for their rational deficiencies. Children are not fully rational, but nor are they completely ignorant, and certainly not innocent. Meeting children on a more level footing involves acknowledging their evils, and permitting them the space for self-determination.

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