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Now poison-pill plans and other scorched-earth strategies to frustrate takeovers--like the sale of valuable assets or the assumption of insane levels of debt--seem to violate the principle that those who own the company, the shareholders, should be able to decide what to do with it.
Gradually, spike one's guns came to mean `frustrate the enemy by blocking his intended plan of action.
The paper added, "The fundamental concern must be whether or not it is actually true that Microsoft can command this market in a fashion that will frustrate innovation."
The flaws in their reasoning are easily exposed, and I find that no matter how gently I state my case, I make compelling arguments that frustrate and intimidate my talking partners.
The cigarette-packaging thing reminds me, in an indirect way, of a larger issue I've always found interesting: the deliberate effort to frustrate or annoy the consumer.