WP-09-Diplo [The Programmer]: Housekeeping....
Date:Sun, 04 Jul 2010 15:53:36 +0000

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Sunshine, u mst undrstandz, ur attakzz waz bad.  Sumz retribootz requird.  K thks bai.

Adam Smith.  The corporate greed shown through your attempted control of security protocols implemented by the Symantec Corporation have already failed.  All assets and resources in which you may have been interested, as I am sure you have found by now, were removed some time ago.  Further, all security protocol research and development has been spread to multiple locations.  Your only concern now, was this a trap....
While I understand your reasons in making the attempt, was sending more than 200 of your finest the right course of action while wild flowers are nipping at your borders?  We had such a nice calm going in that area.

WP-09-Diplo [Adam Smith]: Quarterly Report for 2010-Q2
Date:Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:38:35 +0000

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Letter to Shareholders for Q2 of 2010:

Our Capitalist Enterprises remain in excellent shape, and we retain our world-leading position in total production, with roughly 10 percent net growth despite the continuing harsh business climate. Both our competitors grew by similar amounts, however, so the overall competitive situation has not changed much. Our best growth was early in the quarter, but the recession has returned over the past few weeks.  Nonetheless, our market capitalization has grown 15 percent, from 1121 to 1302 units.  We had to use far too many poison-pill defenses, and we were forced into some unprofitable spinoffs, but a few mergers and acquisitions proved successful.  We again maintained our start-of-quarter total of 38 business units.  Competition is expected to remain fierce in Q3.  We are preparing to roll out a new "sustainable production through sustainable compensation" retooling of our core management philosophy, which I expect to help us continue to sustain our long track record of dividend and earnings growth.

-- Adam Smith


Second Quarter Report to the Board of Directors (Corporate Confidential):

Fierce competition with the other two major multinationals continues. The wildflowers were in full bloom this spring, and it was glorious to behold, but we've managed to revive some legacy harvesting equipment from Allis-Chalmers. The Round-Up output from Monsanto proved unpalatable to the public, so we've asked them to come up with a better product. Sustainable cultivation requires a stewardship mindset, not a strategy of extermination. 

Unfortunately, the coders in Programmer's empire again went viral on us in several business lines, and we are still working to bring the associated factories back online. 

The acquisition of Symantec proved pointless, and the consultants who made that recommendation to the strategy team have been fired.  Software is too easy to subvert, so our new approach will be to acquire our own chip fab and build fully integrated palmtop devices on our own hardware.  If our new sustainable compensation strategy succeeds, Programmer's coders may be willing to work for us...  And if we can get the new wetware systems out of the skunkworks and into production...

The Strategic Expansions Team considers the present to be a better time for consolidation than for aggressive expansion.  However, some tuck-in repositioning may be called-for.

We will decide upon the next phase of Corporate activities at the next Board Meeting in October.