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I was almost horrified when I discovered myself to be in agreement with Nader (w/respect to MicroSloth)! As to his previous activities, his various "attacks" have usually been political power plays (the Corvair was much safer [even the pre-1965] than the VW; Dioxin, ALAR, were attacks that were not based upon scientific data). PCP was (and IS) the safest dielectric coolant for power transformers and is safer for the public and industry workers than anything in current use (see IEEE papers). Plutonium is NOT "the most dangerous substance known to man (sic)". Hazardous, yes but a far cry from a great many other substances!

I believe that it is precisely the likes of Saint Ralph that have led us down a road from which this nation may not recover. The cost of _everything_ is inflated (often by orders of magnitude) to pay the costs of unnecessary regulation and tort libility!

Who is Irving Kristol?

IE is not really free, either. Its cost is included in the price of Windows, which MS would have you upgrade for big bucks. Note also that the cost of Windows upgrade is deceptive, since most consumers will also need to upgrade their hardware and other apps to take advantage of the uppgrade.

And indeed, IE is free only to dislodge Netscape, without which company MS would not be in the Internet business at all, but would still be pushing their proprietary and more expensive solutions on us all. If it was a Japanese comnpany, we would have long embargoed them for dumping and unfair trade practices.

Lastly, let off on Ralph Nader. Do not forget that consumer products in the US are relatively safe largely due to the crusades launched by him. In my book, he does qualify as a Saint, no sarcasm intended.

lord nader may not know but most of us surfers if we crash will call uncle bill and pay the $35 to get back up.

Oh and is a world run by some one with and I.Q. a bad thing I seem to think we could use a few more people like uncle bill in congress.

Now they (Nader) want you to spend money,how else can he figure out how to get into every one's pocket

In order to appease Mr. Nader's concerns, I think that Microsoft should announce a price increase of at least 4 times the current cost of their IE browser.

Let's see now if I multiply $0.00 x 4 my final cost as a fair consumer would be ?

Hmm, I guess I can manage that cost quite easily without breaking my computing budget.

I'm outraged that only in the land of the free are corporations punished for being too successful, and incompetantly run organizations (the White House included) are paraded as poor innocents overwhelmed by the big, bad well-run, well-managed opposition.

The problem is not that MSIE is free, but that it is being used as a device for controlling the future and format of the Internet! MSIE 4.0 contains all sorts of goodies which only MICROSOFT can put in because it requires an "operating system update", something only Microsoft can provide. Could Netscape do what Microsoft did with its browser? No way, since they are not at liberty to change the system libraries!

Let's not be too hard on Ralph Nader. Maybe he is sticking his nose where it doesn't belong with regard to MS but that doesn't make his past accomplishments less significant.

I have always admired him for what he did to improve automobile safety.

I love the cynical humor you guys express at DO. Keep it up!!