I don't know if you've read the news lately, but it looks like Microsoft is in trouble again. This is just ridiculous as far as I can tell. So Brussels got the EU to impose a fine on Microsoft for not allowing companies to compete with them and so Microsoft should pay 500 million Euros as a fine. The argument for Microsoft is whining and saying that such a fine will seriously affect the American economy and cost jobs. I find both sides of this argument to be ridiculous, but I blame the EU more for causing all this trouble so I'll start with them. I guess their main complaint there is because Microsoft gives away so much stuff for free in their operating system, other companies can't charge for their software to compete. My answer to that is, software like Media Player is too common a thing to pay for anyways. You can find lots of player software and browsers online for free anyways. If that's your business, your market is saturated, and you deserve to go out of business. Either that, or make features for your product that Microsoft doesn't offer. There are many, take VCR controls for example. Sorry if you can't beat the software giant, thus you lose in competition. Get over it, you deserve nothing.

On the other side, Microsoft won't be hurt a bit by such a fine. The company has $50 billion in cash and no debt. By business standards, this is a killer company that can't be stopped. You can think of some very top companies and they don't have even close to that kind of cash on hand. Here's an example: The retail powerhouse, Walmart, has only $5 billion in cash and is $26 billion in debt. So are there really jobs at stake? Will this hurt the economy? I doubt it. It won't make a dent into Microsoft's cash flow. So why would anyone get laid off over it? But back to the flip side, this is a foreign country requesting money from us. What if we just said, "Ha ha, sorry, no." Or how about, "We bailed you out of WWII, and we didn't get a penny from you for it, why don't we subtract your fine from what you owe us?" Or if Brussels has such a problem with Microsoft, don't buy it. Make your own stinking operating system and see how well you keep up with the rest of modern technology. Or the best way, "Why don't you come and get it?", ha ha. We definitely live in modern times where one country can fine another country and that other country just happens to be stronger militarily and yet it still deliberates on whether it should pay or not. I hope the White House gets involved and then I hope they say, "No...suck on that!". What you going to do then, EU? You gonna cry?

On a sidenote: I wonder why we are considered the richest nation when our debt is super huge. Shouldn't we be the poorest nation? I mean if I had a million dollars, but I owed 10 million dollars, would I really be rich? Cuz my net worth would be 9 million dollars in the hole. That's really poor. That is 9 million dollars worse than being broke. Somehow, you're still rich though. I don't get it. Finances definitely aren't logical. There must be some secret kind of sublogic that you learn when you get an MBA or something.

Anyways, Microsoft receives 30% of their business from Europe so they are probably going to go along with it as diplomatically as possible. Man, I'm getting tired of Europe sticking it to us. If they want it all to be fair and equal, I think we should start here.