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Think for a minute: Is there a technology right under our noses that will make many of our own environmental fears moot? Yes, there is. It's called the Internet. According to scores of studies, the dotcom revolution is already starting to have a profound impact on the way industry affects our world...
...press this weekend. The reported remedy introduces a new wrinkle to the whole matter: that Microsoft be strictly controlled during the appeals process. This follows talk that any remedy handed down by the court after the years it will take to sort our the appeals would be made moot by advances in technology. According to reports in three major newspapers Monday morning, the Justice Department and 19 states filing the antitrust suit against Microsoft will seek a breakup of the firm. But that's not the real news. The warning siren from Microsoft's standpoint is that Justice reportedly intends...
...FLORIDA PRIMARY HADN'T BEEN MOOT THIS YEAR, I WOULDA VOTED FOR: Bradley...
...anything to say about it. Right now, Clinton says he doesn't want a pardon if he faces criminal charges. And Al Gore has responded to the issue of pardoning his boss if elected president, a la Gerald Ford, by suggesting Clinton's response makes this a moot point. But the Slick One and the Inventor of the Internet have, at times, been a bit disingenuous. If Gore's tireless fundraising efforts ultimately land him the good office on Pennsylvania Ave, look for waffle number one to be the Clinton pardon...
...sprinkled Canuck-baiting ditty from the animated film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Oscar producers have yet to announce how they'll censor such lyrics as "Blame Canada with all their hockey hullabaloo/ and that b____ Anne Murray too," but Williams' history of antic unpredictability could make any decision moot. It may not erase the memories of Jakob the Liar or Bicentennial Man, but then what could...