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YAY! Party at my place everyone! Champange for all! :)

You will be when they have no real consequences from this whole sordid episode. When they are back at it again spweing out the FUD and dragging people through court having learned no lessons since the system is pretty much in their favor. They can drag this out another ten years and still come out with capital and the exectuives will never have to pay the people they are hurting by doing all this.

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Just look at all they have learned by going through the courts with no evidence and being laughed at by the people who review the case and get the facts instead of reading their press releases. They are literally filing for bankruptcy and assuring their customers that they are fine and can rely on them at the same time... AT THE SAME TIME! No reasonable company would be so immune to shame, so ignorant of the mocking thats going on right in front of them, and still be able to tell people that everythings OK. That these bottomdwellers are still making a living, still giving themselves bonuses and trying to protect their stock is a slap in the face for american justice. This is another Enron, this is another corporation exec scandle happening right now, at this very moment. They are telling us that they don't care that they are wrong and have taken the courts time and our money and threatened people, intimidated customers, extorted from innocent and ignorant law abiding citicens and companies who only wanted to avoid doing the wrong thing and pay whatever license fees to whoever owned the code they were using. They have either planned this and acted accordingly to draw it out, or they employ the most ignorant legal councel out there to advise them. No proof, no problem, No evidence, no problem, No case, no problem. Lets all make a bunch of money! Dirty rat bastards. And we will as a nation let another one get away with it. The people who made these decisions will walk away with millions. We'll complain and let them walk. Accomplices to the raping of this country. /Rant

According to Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] the English term is epicaricacy.

From the point of view of SCO's execs, this has been a pump-and-dump scheme: they filed the IBM (and Novell) lawsuits, got the stock to soar on the hype and in the years since have been quietly selling their stock. But there are others with a stake here (remember all the cash infusions MS arranged?), who probably want the lawsuits to continue. I wonder what the judge thinks now about Novell's motion for a constructive trust?

Too late. Your stock price feed most likely has a time delay built in. Trading will have been halted as soon as the news comes out. This is the insiders dumping their stock before the news gets out.

No, it's not. Chapter 11 is reorganization of credit, usually done by businesses or individuals with large assets. It's in no way a preamble to chapter 7. If you can't prove that you will be able to reorganize your credit / business and keep your financial obligations, you cannot file chapter 11. It's not like you pick chapter 11, give it a shot, and when you fail, liquidate. It's one or the other. The only thing you said that makes any sense is the word protection - chapter 11 is commonly referred to as protection because you are being protected from involuntary bankruptcy (i.e. your creditor initiated the proceedings after non-payment) while you determine a strategy for payment / growth.

This is because Novell recently claimed that it should recieve 100% of the Sun & MSFT Sco Source deals plus 7% interest. The APA SCOX loves so much says Novell recieves 100% with Novell refunding 5% back as adminstrative fees.

Either way 95% is roughly 5 million dollars more than all of SCO's value Liquidated. I wonder if the bankruptcy trustee can declare Darl Mcbride's million dollar bonus for those two sales as invalid and ask for it back? I do hope so.

Just two weeks ago:
Sberbank (Savings Bank Of The Russian Federation) Chooses SCO's OpenServer 6 to Upgrade Thousands of Servers [yahoo.com].
They must be feeling really good about that decision now.

But since Bart is male, shouldn't it be "der Bart, der"?

Unless he's talking about several Barts, but then you'd have to conjugate the noun as well and it'd become something like "die Barten, die". Or "die Bärte, die"?

Actually Bärte means "beards" in German, with the singular "Bart" which is masculine. So my best guess is that the tattoo was a badly written German version of "the beards, the".

So what's Sideshow Bob's interest in beards anyway? As possibilities we have Jasper Beardly, the Sea Captain, but most interestingly, Krusty's father: Rabbi Hyman Krustofski.

My guess is that Sideshow Bob is either a latent Nazi with a hatred for Hyman, or he is one of these wusses who cannot grow a decent beard and is taking it out on Krusty.

An alternate theory is that I have too much time on my hands.