Political/Political Humor
Friday, February 8, 2002[10:59:57 AM]
WASHINGTON DC (UPI) -- The Department of Justice will use the internet to publish public comments on the proposed Microsoft settlement. According to one DOJ lawyer, it would otherwise cost at least $6 million to print and distribute. "Under President Bush's budget, that $6 million is earmarked to be refunded to Enron, because they had to pay taxes one time, a few years ago."
When asked why the DOJ chose Microsoft Word format to distribute the comments, Smith got a dumb look on his face, and eventually said, "Well, I mean, everybody has Word. What other format could we use, anyway?"
Attorney's for the dissenting nine states and District of Columbia were standing right there: after thinking about it, they all agreed that made sense.
The DOJ is also required to reply to each comment. Smith said it was absolutely untrue that a Microsoft employee had written a Word macro to insert "Yeah, right...." or "Duh!" after each negative comment. Smith said a DOJ employee wrote the script with help from the Microsoft helpline set up especially for the DOJ, because "everyone knows normal customers can't get any actual help from Microsoft technical support".
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