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The Walking Dead of Silicon Valley

Posted by michael on from the shotgun-usually-effective-on-zombies dept.

Frisky070802 writes "CNN has a column about a liquidator who refers to thousands of Silicon Valley startups as the walking dead. It states: 'Pichinson, a self-described "doctor of reality" who helps liquidate companies, says he wouldn't have moved from Los Angeles to Palo Alto a few months ago had he not smelled more high-tech trouble looming.... "There's still another 6,500 to 7,500 companies out there who are among the walking dead."'"

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  1. Re:Managers taking hostages? by ThinWhiteDuke · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A hostage negotiator is largely a psychologist, and psychologists are fairly good with people in denial.

    Someone should assign one of those hostage negotiators to GWB's crew :)
    Sorry, I couldn't resist.

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    It would be nice to be sure of anything the way some people are of everything.
  2. Re:Eww by Dreadlord · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I, Dreadlord, shall put my curse upon you, and let my army of the undead have revenge, so you never post insults about us, the undead.

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    The IT section color scheme sucks.
  3. Re:Managers taking hostages? by deuce868 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    You guys can't spell and your all fat and you have no culture!

    You have to love this one. So would using your instead of you're count as a spelling mistake? Oops, don't feed the trolls.

  4. SCO! SCO! SCO! by Thud457 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Something I could never stand about Santa Cruz, all the goddamn living undead bloodsuckers!

    Whoops, they're in Utah these days, aren't they?AAA

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    the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

    1. Re:SCO! SCO! SCO! by ndrw · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I can't tell you how many geeks here in Santa Cruz are appalled at the behavior of a company that uses our cities name. I guess that would go double or triple for the ones who used to work there!

  5. "The Walking Dead" is a great concept by the0ther · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I hope to use that meme more frequently in my deepest moments of spacing out. I do believe there are so many walking dead amongst us that we subconsciously block them out of our perceptions. This line of thinking would justify my belief that the United States economy really is in the shitter, we just suffer from irrational exhuberance. Something has got to give.