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Re: GEEKS: AOL and Time Warner



Greg Sutter quoted:

>
>- ----- Forwarded message from "Rob Slade, doting grandpa of Ryan 
>and Trevor" <[email protected]> -----
>
>From: "Rob Slade, doting grandpa of Ryan and Trevor" <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 22:45:48 -0800
>Subject: GEEKS: AOL and Time Warner
>
>AOL today took control of Time Warner, in the process forming the publicly
>traded company with the world's largest market capitalization, exceeding
>Microsoft Corporation by a considerable margin.

Doesn't seem like this error should have been part of the joke... if 
current valuations hold, MSFT will still hold over twice the market 
value of AOL-TWX despite it being the largest (IIRC) merger in 
history.

On a similar subject, The Maytag Repairman may soon need to learn to 
deal with BSODs:
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2422409,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01

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Cornell University, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad name.
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