Finally, the US government has its requested report on internet traffic. Of course, being that the study was requested seven years ago, I doubt the report is of any value now:

Lawmakers had demanded the $1 million study, ultimately called “Signposts in Cyberspace,” under a 1998 law. Passed almost at the dawn of what became the Internet boom, the law required the Commerce Department to seek a study about Web addresses and trademarks by the National Research Council and wrap up the report within nine months.

The council published its findings Thursday — two presidential administrations later and years after the implosion of what had been a bustling Internet economy.

“Singposts in Cyberspace?” Even the title is dated, and “dot-commish.” Though it appears the group actually realized this and clandistinely changed the name to the more current sounding “Internet Navigation and the Domain Name System: Technical Alternatives and Policy Implications.”

So, a corporation ends up in a power struggle, shady deals ensue, board members are ousted, and clearly executives have something in the books to hide. Sounds like another Enron, right? Well, this one has a twist: it’s a family affair, and the fracas has already racked up two suicides.

The Yahoo message board related to SCO’s stock wasn’t content with the initial report that Ms. Kriedel died of an “apparent heart attack” and placed calls to the coroner that tore away the protective euphemism.

Given Ms. Kriedel’s conservative Mormon roots, one can understand why the family might be giving it out that she died of natural causes.

To make things even more sinister, part of the odd transactions involved a stake in the SCO group, better known as the company out to kill the linux open source movement. Yummy.

This is what happens when dysfunctional families go corporate.

I guess feeding tubes are now a fashion accessory. The Pope now has one.

I noticed today an interesting parallel about today’s Boy Scouts and the Catholic priesthood. Both live off public donations, and then make it their job to tell others how to live their lives. Both are discriminatory of people they don’t feel are “morally straight” enough to be within their social stratum. And yet, they both have a serious pedophilia problem that they refuse to discuss or take responsibility for.

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