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November 29th 04, 02:36 PM

From: (Leland=A0C.=A0Scott)
"Twistedhed" wrote in message
... Large
corporations pay fines opposed to having their folks go to jail. The
obvious exceptions were the Michael Milkens.

You forgot about the savings and loan

scandals,

I did no such thing. Familiarize yourself with Michael Milken.

the Enron executives going to jail,

Martha Stewart etc.

Like I said,,the obvious exceptions are where there were victims in
their crimes and someone suffered a monetary loss. Martha Stewart
deserved her jail sentence. That cash she profited from was someone
else's loss,,most likely a smaller investor. The smaller investor lost
his investment from Martha's wrong doing. Although the courts did not
present a proper case involving insider trading, Stewart was convicted
of obstruction for lying, which she readily and most certainly did
commit in effort to conceal her illlegal deal borne of inside
information.
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That's not how it works with franchises.
Franchises are required to carry certain items.

But not all items.

Come again? When one opens a McDonalds franchise, yes, they are required
to carry of the items one finds on the traditional McDonald's menu. Ask
hot tempered Mayner about it..he has experience with Burger King,,he'll
tell you the same thing.

How many time have you heard, but never

really paid attention to, the statement at the

end of commercials etc. that states "At

participating stores"? Just because it is a

franchise doesn't automatically mean they

carry everything a company own store does.

What you speak of is an exception, and is referred to as a "promotion".

In fact I've been in many Pilot Travel centers

and I specifically check the two-way radio

section out just for fun.

Well, far be it from another to criticize how you find your "fun".

Funny how some of

them you don't see even one of those import

radios the FCC has fined Pilot over.

And even funnier still,,,I was on the road since ornithological dining
day and went to the Pilot
I sometimes stop at,,,,,,,,nothing changed.
Besides,,,it has nothing to do with the requirements. More
realistically, they sold out. Check them again next month after their
new deliveries are in.
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The fines are paid and its business as usual. These companies usually
don't fight these fines. In fact, there is no large corporation has
lodged such a court room battle (which you speak of concerning radio
gear, amps, etc) for the exact reason you mention...it is much easier
tand cheaper to pay the fine and continue,,,,,business-as-usual.

After they remove the offending product.

Not the corporations.

Look how skittish the TV stations are after the

Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction". It was

only a $550K fine to the network.

I'm sure it

didn't dent their bank account very much. It

wasn't much bigger than the fine that Pilot got.
The networks are running scared about what

they show on the air to the point where some

local stations wouldn't air the uncut movie

"Saving Private Ryan" for veterans day

because they were afraid they would get

slapped with another fine.

Umm, that's the first time I heard that. In fact, that was not even the
reason given by most media outlets for not showing that movie. The
stations aren't worried about the fines, they are worried about losing
their licenses. An article appeared in last Wednesday's Times affirming
this. Concerning the showing of PR, it was right before the election and
the decision to show a realistic movie portraying the realistic manner
in which war is conducted right before the election was a no-brainer. I
visited a website that illustrated,,,no,,PROVED that all the affiliates
that refused to show the movie were born of political agendas..IE:
republican controlled media outlet (such as R Murdoch). You may research
this yourself, but I am telling you that ALL the affiliates that refused
to conform (illustrating yet ANOTHER non-conservative trait) to the
regular scheduled broadcasting were of political agenda.

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Leland C. Scott

KC8LDO

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Those radios are still easily ordered from Pilot, even if they aren't on
the shelf.