Bush Supreme Court Nominee Former Microsoft Lawyer

DaveM writes "Bush's most recent Supreme Court nominee, Harriet Miers, successfully argued that people who were sold defective software by Microsoft weren't "injured," and couldn't participate in a class action against the company. The case involved unstable compression features in MS DOS 6.0, which were corrected by a $9.95 update, MS DOS 6.2. Plaintiffs wanted Microsoft to offer the updates for free, but eventually lost to Miers' arguments."

Re:Nice flaming headline.

[saintp]

Uh, how is that a flame? It's a fact. Bush's latest nominee used to be a lawyer for Microsoft. Whoopty-doo. How would you prefer they put it? "Bush court nominee hugs fuzzy bunnies, gives flags to orphans"?

Re:Wrong process anyway

[deanj]

They shoot the judges that used to be there, and install new judges.

Re:Nice flaming headline.

[stupidfoo]

"Bush bans oil! All cars must run on skittles and drive on rainbows"

What could we add to his headline?

[ifwm]

Let's see

"Bush nominee Former microsoft lawyer..." Who once knew someone who represented SCO, while allowing her son to be friends with a kid whose parents had heard about Intelligent Design.

Oh, and she knows someone that thinks Linux isn't ready for the desktop.

Re:Wrong process anyway

[AvitarX]

Having the president appoint supreme court judges is wrong anyway. There should be a better process of selecting them. How's it done in other countries?


In soviet Russia supreme court selects you.

Re:Wrong process anyway

[leroybrown]

wouldn't it be, "In Soviet Russia, Supreme Court selects president"? oh, wait...

Re:Now I have to filter out Taco's posts..

[databyss]

Ummm... she eats babies too. Also she said that Apple stole windows code for their OS X and ummm.. she eats babies.

(To be honest, as far as I know she hasn't said anything about Apple)

Re:Now I have to filter out Taco's posts..

[Unski]

Oh my word! Eats babies _and_ said something not nice about Apple?

waah!

* falls out of pram *

In other news it was reported that Dick Cheney 'looked the wrong way' at a Mac Mini while out at his local Walmart and 'definately scratched his arse' near a StarOffice box.

Re:Nice flaming headline.

[arootbeer]

You probably don't want one. Do you have ANY idea how expensive a gallon of Skittles is?

Re:Wrong process anyway

[Reverend528]

I'd gladly let my tax dollars be used for that $9.95 update.

Re:Well...

[PaxTech]

The difference is that Democrats think Republicans are evil, and Republicans think Democrats are stupid.

Re:Nice flaming headline.

[Mr Guy]

I'm guessing a lot. Have you ever seen a preschooler after their second pack?