...it drives me crazy when they double-click everything, especially hyperlinks.

Google and it's founder and managers, like the notorious Limousine Liberal Stevie Jobs and Apple, are Lefties; so is it any surprise that these a-holes slurp up a company and layoff many of their hardworking original employees? NOT.

Hey Serg and crew ..... a-hole!

Frankly, the double clickers work for an annoying Adware company (oh sorry advertising serving company). The less of 'em the better!

Glad to see you're back from your vacation or was it you were busy casting your ISO yes ballots all over the world last weekend!!

Now he's into politics, not just Apple-bashing. Although, of course, there has to be a side-swipe at Apple, too.

The basic style is the same, though: Barely-coherent rantings "liberally" sprinkled with factoids and lies. And, I'll bet, a less-than-10% chance of actually replying to any criticisms.

The closest Trolls get to dialogue is "I'm gonna eat you if you try to cross this bridge!"

I've no idea what problem you have with executives of large companies, but whatever else they may be google is a business and hiring and firing is just business as usual.

Also your rant is malformed, you ask a rhetorical question and then put 'NOT', at the end. Normally you either just put the rhetorical question, or make a (patently) untrue statement and then declare 'NOT'. The combination of both is just gibberish.

For example;

Is there any question that webster freaky is an idiot?

This is rhetorical, we all know the answer.

And

Webster freaky loves Macintosh... NOT.

Patently untrue, hence the emphasis giving 'NOT'.

I hope that helps you with future rants.

What a shame. I can't remember the exact quote, but I imagine the ghost of Bill Hicks will smile a little smile. If you work for Doubleclick, you make a pact with Satan to suck his you-know-what. I'm sure they will have no trouble getting jobs elsewhere, e.g. in retail.

"Webster Freaky you're an idiot" - weak, as well. Weak and impotent. He supposedly added The Register to his "corporate firewall" a couple of days ago in protest at some story about freetards. My guess is that his "corporate firewall" encompasses him and no-one else.

weren't you supposed to get him a red herring?

the one with the monkey on the back please

Only a madman could possibly describe multi-billionaire capitalist tycoon managers of an international megacorporation as "lefty". Webster, you obviously don't know what the word means. Go look in a dictionary sometime - I think you'll find the definition is not "Anyone who Webster doesn't like".

a curious thing: every time there is a Comments section available, in an article that is not ecstatic, glowing praise for Ballmer & Company, one can play "Where's Webster?", and usually find him very quickly (just follow the foaming, fluorescent-green spittle tracks).

pity. it would be nice if he was harder to find, like Waldo. at least amfM is psychedelic, and thereby entertaining; Webster appears to be merely psychotic.

as for the takeover layoffs, if i had a dime for every time someone was let go after a corporate buyout or merger, i would be as wealthy as BillG. headcount cost reduction is SOP in IT, and in every other business i've ever heard of. in my opinion, this one barely merits a side note in another, more newsworthy story (say, one about the periodic Dell, HP or IBM redundancies, usually numbered in the thousands, usually related to earnings calls and not M&A activity).

Dunno if the figures in the US match those in the UK, but the "cost" of employing someone is in excess of double their gross salary here.

E.g. if your quoted salary is $100K, the cost to the company of employing you is closer to $200K, which makes $60million. Still not as good as investing the whole lot, but that's a saving in addition to any income from the company....

Still not as good as your investment example - but I'm sure you can fill in the rest yourself (start with whatever profit its making, then factor in the increased market share, and keep going).