"Considering that Facebook is arguably the world's biggest marketing service, it actually is sort of important."

There you go. Fixed that for you.

and it only amounts to 30% of Q3 revenue. If extrapolation holds roughly 7.5% of annual revenue and I am sure a payment plan could be sorted out. Apple could even sell stock to cover it.

And before you start screaming "gross not net" consider if you as a real actual live person is fined you pay it out of your net income, not your gross. If I get fined more than my annual income *I* do NOT get off of the hook.. Why shouldn't a corporation be held to a similar rule?

In fact they sound like first names. Very unprofessional.

And there lies the fallacy of trying to act as if corporations are people. They cannot be imprisioned and they can theoretically live forever. They CAN be put to death but I have never heard of it happening.

piercing the corporate view is very hard. You have to try very hard esp. since RICO was struck down (thanks Scalia!).

And how many got away with it? Piercing the corporate view is very hard. Only the very stupid get caught. Most of the management are really good at being weasels.

Budget cuts.

But I saw it come back as VGER!

yes

then whine about not being able to find talent.....

Just wait until EDS+CSC , a black hole of IT despair.

Film at 11.

so you like talking to people who are paid to be polite to you.

And those are actually optimistic episode. How about "We want everyone to use the system without logging in but we have to track their identity".

you wish