Word: legality
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Internet router maker emerged as the most valuable company in the world, with a market capitalization of $555 billion, more than $13 billion ahead of the reigning cap king, Microsoft. This shifting of the tech-tonic plates represents more than just Cisco's success and uncertainty over Microsoft's legal problems. In fact, it provides a pretty good road map of the post-PC landscape into which our economy and volatile stock market are heading...
...owned by Microsoft, so discount anything I say accordingly as you please. But having lived and worked among them for four years, I have found the attitude of folks inside the company pretty interesting, and maybe you will too. Not people like Bill Gates, or those who write the legal briefs and press releases, but the ordinary software developer in the cafeteria. Call him the Man in the Plaid Flannel Shirt...
Nevertheless, it surely counts for something that the typical 'Softy truly doesn't recognize himself or his work in the description of Microsoft promulgated by the company's critics. He probably hasn't read the legal documents in the case, and is unqualified to judge the legal issues anyway. Even hardened criminals may concoct some innocent rationale for their crimes and believe it themselves. So the fact that my colleagues feel innocent doesn't mean they are innocent. But it surely complicates the issue. These people honestly believe they are promoting innovation, and they genuinely sense rivals at every turn...
...touching. Physical contact of the sort that parents have with their children--the tickling and other affectionate horseplay--is inappropriate when dealing with other people's children. Some standards may seem overly careful or even ridiculous, but the Nonprofit Risk Management Center, an organization that counsels nonprofit groups on legal liabilities, says everyone who works with children--whether as a Sunday-school teacher or school-dance chaperone--should be vigilant in checking his behavior...
...there a way to prevent this catastrophe? Probably not within the next 30 years, but perhaps some day. No plans to stop a quake in Northern California are seriously being considered, and even if researchers had one they would like to try, enormous scientific and legal barriers would stand in the way. But new science, some accidental observations and a novel "microscope" to study the spawning grounds of earthquakes have for the first time made quake prevention something worth considering...