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 Send to email | John Adams on MSFT-YHOO: Accept Offer, Jerry, or Go To Bunker Hill on Arse in General |  By Silicon
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 John Adams fans will be pleased to know that the the second president is now blogging from the grave, ostensibly to correct "the preponderance of mistruths and inaccuracies [about him] that have spread across the people by virtue of biographical books and television series."
Mr. Adams' first target? Microsoft-Yahoo. He's seen it all before:
I have watched with interest how the former Empire, Microsoft, has
conducted it's [sic] imperialist assault on the wounded Yahoo estate. It
seems ego has replaced reason and the battle is evolving. The latest
tactic on the part of the Empire hails from China and is over 1000
years old. In this Chinese form of negotiation, the pursuing side
tells the pursued that the offer will be reduced over time if the
pursued does not accept. This tactic is quite effective during times
of recession, expected recession, possible recession or when the
pursued has no alternatives but to slowly sink into a tar pit. I can
tell you that the pressure from this tactic is intense. If the board
of Yahoo fails to accept the higher offer, the shareholders could go
Bunker Hill on their ass.
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| Acceptance speech watch parties and the Obama ground game | | Tonight, Barack Obama will formally accept the Presidential nomination of the Democratic Party. This should be good times. Next week John McCain will accept his, and the campaigns will start in earnest.
Up 'til now, the campaigns have basically been laying the groundwork for the real fight. People who've been tuning out until now will start to try to figure out what all the fuss is a [..] Read complete article | | Published 28-Aug-2008 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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