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"Several Microsoft Corp employees on Friday demanded that the company cancel a $480 million hardware contract with the U.S. Army and stop developing “any and al
by malvosenior 8y ago
"Several Microsoft Corp employees on Friday demanded that the company cancel a $480 million hardware contract with the U.S. Army and stop developing “any and all weapons technologies.”"
Apparently "several" means three. How and why is this news? Microsoft has thousands of employees.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Apparently "several" means three. “Several” has long meant three or more, but the article says that three workers described the effort to Reuters, not that the three constituted the entire effort.
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- partiallypro 8y agoSeveral is usually not used in that context, the word in the headline should be "a few."
- darkpuma 8y ago> How and why is this news? "Described to Reuters by three Microsoft workers" doesn't necessarily mean only three workers are involved in this protest. However I would be interested to see the actual numbers. If the number of employees signing the petition were impressive, I'd expect it to be prominently reported. Since it's not, that leads me to suspect it's not very much more than three.
- nhebb 8y agoAgreed, but they got both of us to click, didn't they?
- Varcht 8y agoBut is it worthy of a click? I can find "several" people of any opinion.
- tom_ 8y agoThis is the wrong question. Did you click, or did you not? I did - and more fool me, perhaps. But I clicked. And that's all that counts.
- Varcht 8y agoI'd like to think you are right, I am much more comfortable with greed than ideology from the press.
- nhebb 8y agoLet's just say that Reuters got more value out of the click than I did.