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Father of DVD Gets Bitter Reward

Posted by michael on from the what-have-you-done-for-us-lately dept.

Ant writes "MSNBC has a Newsweek article on Warren Lieberfarb, the father of DVD, transformed the movie business. And yet his reward was he was fired."

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  1. Galileo by Trent+Polack · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, the church wanted to oust Galileo for his views on the soliocentric universe. Being smart sucks.

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    Trent Polack
    www.polycat.net
    1. Re:Galileo by Trent+Polack · · Score: 5, Funny

      Man, I'm having such a dumb day. Heliocentric. You'd think I'd know that. I work in my uni's heliospheric space research division.

      Need more caffeine or something (at 8:45pm).

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      Trent Polack
      www.polycat.net
  2. He wasn't fired... by chunkwhite86 · · Score: 5, Funny

    they moved his job to India.

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    I'd rather be a conservative nutjob than a liberal with no nuts and no job.
    1. Re:He wasn't fired... by Epistax · · Score: 5, Funny

      That is no Haiku.
      Hakui's fit a form factor.
      That has no timing.

    2. Re:He wasn't fired... by asr_man · · Score: 5, Funny

      Apostrophe s
      makes possessive, not plural
      except it's (it is).

  3. Hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do you suppose he's that "cubicledrone" guy who was tearing up the career-related articles here yesterday with endless tales of being fired from job after job for his blatant superiority?

  4. He wasn't fired... by orangepeel · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...he was ejected.

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    Whoever designed level 61 in Frozen Bubble is a sadistic bastard.