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   Winklevii

   

   quickbrownfox, Jul 22nd, 2011 @ 4:37pm

   
   

   Hey, at least they're creating more jobs -- for lawyers!

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   GREED knows no bounds.

   

   out_of_the_blue, Jul 22nd, 2011 @ 4:38pm

   
   

   But their "reward" is about proportional for effort to Zuckerberg's!
   
   The ONLY method that works to limit such obscene "rewards" is to tax THE HELL out of The Rich. And no, I don't care if it "punishes" them. -- That's a stupid notion when each and every day Zuckerberg, Gates, Brinn, and way too many others get more than working people will EARN in a lifetime of hard work.

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   Anonymous Coward, Jul 22nd, 2011 @ 4:55pm

   
   

   "Instead, they'd just have to take the approximately $200 million worth of cash and stock they got in the original settlement and deal with only being fantastically more wealthy than pretty much everyone for having failed to build a compelling company or product."
   
   It's really sad that America can give so much money to such useless failures.
   
   Then again, the whole existence of IP pretty much gives tons of money to useless failures.

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   Anonymous Coward, Jul 22nd, 2011 @ 4:55pm

   
   

   (the existence of IP and all the other many government established monopolies).

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   Pixelation, Jul 22nd, 2011 @ 5:01pm

   
   

   Yet another Winkveloss.

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   Let them keep going

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jul 22nd, 2011 @ 6:47pm

   
   

   Im sure they are spending top dollar on lawyers for all these lawsuits. I imagine eventually all that money they got originally will no longer exist and they won't be able to keep going. The problem will solve itself :)

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   If at first you don't succeed

   

   Prashanth (profile), Jul 22nd, 2011 @ 7:51pm

   
   

   "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again... Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it." ~Mark Twain

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   Positively Winklevossian

   

   Jon Lawrence (profile), Jul 22nd, 2011 @ 10:51pm

   
   

   Got to use that term today to describe an entitled dbag action by someone. Gonna start using it a lot.

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   Michael (profile), Jul 22nd, 2011 @ 11:22pm

   
   

   What harm do their failing lawsuits do to us? It seems more like a boon, in that they're spending so much of their own time and (their?) money cementing good actions in court. Isn't it all at their expense now?

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    Re: Winklevii

    

    Anonymous Coward, Jul 22nd, 2011 @ 11:40pm

    
    

    these Winkiis should get nothing. How did they even get 200 mil?

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    Re: GREED knows no bounds.

    

    NotMyRealName (profile), Jul 23rd, 2011 @ 3:29am

    
    

    This is stupid. I regularly have to decide between gas and food (if I walk to work I can eat today yay!) and even I can see that this is a horrible idea that reeks of communism, punishes success, and really in no way relates to the lawsuits at hand.

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    Re: If at first you don't succeed

    

    DannyB (profile), Jul 23rd, 2011 @ 9:03am

    
    

    If at first you don't succeed, use a shorter bungee.

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    Re: Re: Winklevii

    

    taoareyou (profile), Jul 23rd, 2011 @ 9:37am

    
    

    Don't worry, it will soon be gone as they continue to pay lawyers large sums for no returns.

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    Anonymous Coward, Jul 23rd, 2011 @ 5:25pm

    
    

    If the Winklevii had work as hard on their facebook idea as they are working on suing Facebook ... they would be the Billionairs right now.

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    Should Be More Vegas

    

    Derek Kerton (profile), Jul 25th, 2011 @ 10:11pm

    
    

    This could be fun for all, if only the system required them to put that first $200 mil on the line for future rolls of the dice in court.
    
    Double or nothing, Winkevii?

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