On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:59:22 +0000, Mark McIntyre
<markmcintyre@spamcop.net> wrote in
<13og0ms886php4e@corp.supernews.com>:

>John Navas wrote:
>
>> They could instead put it up for sale, assuming they haven't been dumb
>> enough to overpay of course. ;)
>
>Which of course they were.
>
>> The free market does tend to punish stupidity and reward good business
>> judgement. ;)
>
>Reward good judgement, sure. Punish stupidity? Only when its in its
>interests.

All the time actually.

>Plenty of stupid company execs out there still getting paid
>big bucks to make stupid decisions day on day. Take a look at half of
>corporate America.

A minor blip on the radar. What matters are things like the stock price
and the ability to raise capital.

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