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The Sleaze We Crave (4/5/98)
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The following is not directly relevant to anything we're usually dealing with. In fact, it's not even indirectly relevant, really, but it's just too apt for our show to ignore. It appears that Paul Allen, Bill Gates' co-founder of Microsoft, is being sued for sexual harrassment by a woman who claims she was fired after she rebuffed his advances. There's more on this sordid affair available in a San Jose Mercury News article.
Abbie Phillips, a manager at Storyopolis Investment (a media company financially backed by Allen), charges that she was invited to Allen's Seattle home after a business meeting. Once there, she claims he harrassed her by "physically coercing her down and fondling her breasts." She "politely and appropriately rejected his intentions" even after he crawled into bed with her and "tried to have sex," after which she found herself fired from her job. For the record, Allen "strongly denies" all of this, and states that Ms. Phillips was in fact fired for embezzlement. Phillips' attorney counters that the charges of misappropriation of funds are "completely absurd" and were not made until after the harassment suit was filed. Sounds like a big ol' mess, hmmm?
The only way that this relates to AtAT's usual sphere is by Mr. Allen's connection to Microsoft. But let's face it-- we've yet to see a nice, juicy sexual harassment case, major embezzlement, or murder come out of Cupertino. Until that happens, AtAT will readily leap upon any such alleged impropriety involving anyone who can be associated in any way with the AtAT plot. I mean hey, what are we here for, anyway?
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 4/5/98 episode: April 5, 1998: The masses still wait and hope, but Apple may in fact enter the sub-$1000 market this summer. Meanwhile, PC chipmaker Cyrix plans to create a chip that will drive prices down still further, and a former co-founder of Microsoft finds himself embroiled in a particularly sleazy sexual harassment case...
Other scenes from that episode: 599: Ready For The Cheap Stuff (4/5/98) Okay, so Artemis finally got here and it's not the $1000 wonder many of us expected it to be. For those of you who still wonder about whether Apple is ever going to address the needs of the sub-$1000 computer market, you may be interested to know that Mac the Knife is discussing some very intriguing possibilities in the upcoming Mac lineup... 600: And Even Cheaper Still (4/5/98) We certainly hope that Apple's preparing to enter the sub-$1000 market before they miss the boat entirely, but it seems the competition in that arena is about to get even nastier. Cyrix, a producer of x86/Intel-compatible chips for low-cost PC's, plans to announce tomorrow that they are working on a new processor destined for sub-$500 computers...
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