HP's Dunn Stepping Down

XJHardware writes "Yahoo news is reporting that Patricia Dunn is stepping down from the chair of HP." From the article: "Hurd will retain his existing positions as chief executive and president and Dunn will remain as a director after she relinquishes the chair on Jan. 18. 'I am taking action to ensure that inappropriate investigative techniques will not be employed again. They have no place in HP,' Hurd said in a statement. Dunn apologized for the techniques used in the company's probe, which included 'pretexting' in which private investigators impersonated board members and journalists to acquire their phone records."

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I like nerds.

[Adolf Hitroll]

The slashdot store was selling them for five cents a piece. I thought that
odd since they were normally a couple thousand each. I decided not to
look a gift horse in the mouth. I bought 200. I like nerds.

I took my 200 nerds home. I have a big car. I let one drive. His
name was Taco. He was retarded. In fact, none of them were really
bright. They kept punching themselves in their genitals. I laughed.
Then they punched my genitals. I stopped laughing.

I herded them into my room. They didn't adapt very well to their new
environment. They would screech, hurl themselves off of the couch at
high speeds and slam into the wall. Although humorous at first, the
spectacle lost its novelty halfway into its third hour.

Two hours later I found out why all the nerds were so inexpensive:
they all died. No apparent reason. They all just sorta' dropped dead.
Kinda' like when you buy a goldfish and it dies five hours later. Damn
cheap nerds.

I didn't know what to do. There were 200 dead nerds lying all over my
room, on the bed, in the dresser, hanging from my bookcase. It looked
like I had 200 throw rugs.

I tried to flush one down the toilet. It didn't work. It got stuck.
Then I had one dead, wet nerd and 199 dead, dry nerds.

I tried pretending that they were just stuffed animals. That worked for
a while, that is until they began to decompose. It started to smell real
bad.

I had to pee but there was a dead nerd in the toilet and I didn't want
to call the plumber. I was embarrassed.

I tried to slow down the decomposition by freezing them. Unfortunately
there was only enough room for two nerds at a time so I had to change
them every 30 seconds. I also had to eat all the food in the freezer so
it didn't all go bad.

I tried burning them. Little did I know my bed was flammable. I had to
extinguish the fire.

Then I had one dead, wet nerd in my toilet, two dead, frozen nerds in
my freezer, and 197 dead, charred nerds in a pile on my bed. The odor
wasn't improving.

I became agitated at my inability to dispose of my nerds and to use the
bathroom. I severely beat one of my nerds. I felt better.

I tried throwing them way but the garbage man said that the city wasn't
allowed to dispose of charred geeks. I told him that I had a wet
one. He couldn't take that one either. I didn't bother asking about the
frozen ones.

I finally arrived at a solution. I gave them out as Christmas gifts. My
friends didn't know quite what to say. They pretended that they like
them but I could tell they were lying. Ingrates. So I punched them in
the genitals.

I like nerds.

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Re:Pretexting??

[Himring]

Actually, I'm prejudiced about just about anything and a rather bitter, negative person. It comes with age (almost 40), experiences (divorce) and I've "heard" (hopefully) being slightly intelligent....

Why do 10% of the people own and control 90%...

[aevans]

Why do 10% of the people own and control 90% of the resources?

Redistribution of wealth, pure and simple.

Less than 1% of the people are responsible for more than 99% of production. People like Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Linus Torvalds, and Bob from Account Temps should, by right, own and control their fair share of the resources. But the government robs them of their right.

Actually, part of the reason is benevolence. Ford wanted to pay his workers (he employed jews, also) a fair wage, and Torvalds wanted to spread his communist ideology to opiate the religionless masses, so they gave away more resources than they were required to by law (while still paying their required taxes.

The question of the inherited wealth controlled by the corporations founded by the likes of Ford and Edison is a different topic, though.