No, I'm saying the founding father recognized "the rules" you imagine as being ridiculously restrictive, and never imposed them on the government.

1) Because the Constitution is not nearly as restrictive as Ron Paul would have us believe. It does enumerate a number of specific powers, but adds "To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers" which allows for much latitude to what is allowed to do.

2a) because there is no violation.
2b) because requiring an amendment (which requires several years at a minimum to pass) for the normal day-to-day actions of the Congress, which so gridlock the national government, as to force to destruction. (IOW, Why do you hate America?)
 

That's much like say, "we don't need firefighters; we'll just put the arsonists in jail"

ahem... Profit is the CAUSE of most malware....

>> It's the same with women. If the girl didn't have some fun when she was a teenager, she will regret it later and try it when shes 30-40 years old, and usually married. Interesting that you apply that only to women.... Do you: a) find it inconceivable that a man NOT screw around as a teenager or b) feel that such a man would nevertheless NOT regret it later or c) Think it's OK for a married 40 yo man to play around ??

Um... It's Verizon's job to advertise the products IT IS SELLING! The hardware manufacturers & the carriers (thru long-term contracts) are make way more off WP7 sales than MS is.

It's more than just NDA. Pretty much all writers (Magazine, newspaper, Ad copywriter etc) sign over their copyright to their employers. That's pretty much what the contract is asking. A key difference is that the writers are being paid, while the doctor is merely offering to perform a service (for which the patient still has to pay)

how refusing NEW activations is screwing over EXISTING customers?

Bank close at 3PM, because, in the pre-computer days, there was several hours worth of counting & bookkeeping that had to be done between kicking the last customer out & close for the night. Why they STILL close at 3PM, is... well... tradition, I guess.

I was just about to say "Can't argue with that logic".... Then I remembered that this was /. We can argue with any logic....

Hey, Anonymous .... I post ONE COMMENT is the last 8 years, and this is deemed a pathetic "fixation" on MS? (Oh, Yeah.... And the one from 8 years ago wasn't about MS). But thanks for reminding me why a deemed this message board a waste of time 8 years ago.

Let's say, for example, that Microsoft had: 1) Taken an existing web standard and made proprietary changes to it (promising to make the changes open-source, "in the future"), and 2) Implemented those changes in IE and MSN/Bing/Live.Com making those sites faster when using IE. Wouldn't everyone here being screaming "Anti-trust" and demanding an SEC investigation?

However, the plain fact is that the doctrine of premption is an EXPLICIT STATEMENT of intent to act WITHOUT an imminent threat. That is it's POINT.

And you say that like it's a good thing.

Just because you give a fancy name ("doctrine of premption") to an unprovoke act of aggression, doesn't make it moral or legal. This exact same "doctrine of premption" could be used to justify Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, the USSR's invasion of Afghanastan, the Japanese's bombing of Pearl Harbor, al Quida's attack on the World Trade Center, and pretty much every other act of war ever committed.