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McCain Wants Ballmer For His Cabinet
While many people jumped all over presidential hopeful John McCain's wrong-headed view on network neutrality, few noticed his infuriating love for Microsoft. "[T]he 70 year old presidential hopeful also said that he would ask Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to serve on his cabinet to deal with technology issues if elected. He did not however say what position Ballmer might be hired in, but did joke that he might consider him for a diplomatic position, such as ambassador to China."
John McCain's wretched bad taste in singing 'Bomb! Bomb! Bomb! Bomb bomb Iran...' to the tune of the the old Beach Boys hit shows he is completely unsuitable for high office. It was disrespectful to those who have given their lives in these misguided wars.
Very few Americans seem to realize that the terrorists in Northern Ireland were not bombed out of existence by the RUC and British Government, but that an American called George Mitchell brought the different parties together and negotiated a power-sharing settlement that was satisfactory to all.
-- "It's not stalking if you're married!" My Wife.
Watch the beginning of the video on this link. Mossberg asks him if the debate on frivolous software patents is anywhere on his radar and McCain says "No" in a manner that is very dissmissive of Mossberg's nerd question. I was a McCain supporter before, but after watching this interview he comes off as totally clueless about technology. You'd think he'd get someone to at least brief him before going to this event.
There are 10 types of people in this world, those who can count in binary and those who can't.
No, it has nothing to do with wanting to sound "leet" or insightful. It's a slightly amusing way to express hatred for a company. It does not make the user look retarded, unless they use it in a formal setting, which this isn't. Getting your panties in a wad when someone makes fun of a corporation on a "News for Nerds" website by altering its name makes YOU look like an idiot.
And if you're waiting for it to go away, give up. "Radio$hack" hasn't, and it's been around longer.
I see little mention here about Gore's close ties to Microsoft, who is on the board I believe and has made numerous visits to the campus...
Microsoft doesn't care who is in power. They just like power.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I think /.'ers need to see these stories, but kdawson needs to get a better source.
Web2.0: I love when people Flickr my cuil and digg my boingboing until my google is reddit and I start to yahoo
Hong Kong. South Africa. Philippines. Canada, technically.
In Repressive Burma, it's not just your connection that dies. slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=314547&cid=20819199
Hong Kong. South Africa. Philippines. Canada, technically.
Hong Kong is rich and peaceful, but has no democracy. The Philippines is dirt poor and its politics is corrupt, violent and inefficient. I know less about South Africa, but it doesn't have a shining reputation. Canada "liberated"? It was granted independence in a completely peaceful and orderly process. No shock and awe required.
You sir, are a fucking idiot. The grandparent's post was a joke, and the hunting incident is the least of the problems "liberals" (well really, anyone with a modicum of sense) have with the likes of Dick Cheney. How about 2 DUIs (so between GWB and Cheney, we have a team with 3 DUIs), draft evasion, Halliburton's ties to Iran when Cheney was at the helm, pressuring intelligence agencies to jazz up reports to fit your own world view (see the Downing street memo), and so many others? Not that I expect a rational reply...
"The slave who knows his master's will and does not get ready...will be be beaten with many blows."Luke 12:47-48
Tell me, what did the USA do to the Islamic world that was as bad as what the USA did to Japan during World War II?
Propped up Saddam when he fought Iran, bombed "economic targets" in Iraq, Abu Garib, Haditha, disbanded their military, and created instability leading to a civil war and the deaths of more than 600,000 Iraqis. As a percentage of population, that's about the same as 7 million Americans dying for someone else's arrogance and incompetence.
Has the Islamic world ever been firebombed, or nuked, or completely surrounded and starved?
Yes, no, yes and yes. Any more stupid questions you'd like answered?
"Nevermind the fact that Thompson has spent more time in elected office than Clinton or Obama"
Ignoring that you're just a flaming troll, it's important to consider THAT YOU'RE WRONG.
Thompson spent 8 years as a Senator. 1994 to 2002. Obama was elected in Illinois in 1996, and has held elected office contiguously since then. That's 8 years for Thompson, 11 for Obama. And, for what it's worth, 7 for Clinton.
Sorry. Try Again.
Like I said a lot of people predicted this. I know I was a little vague but I thought everyone knew about the complexities of Iraq with the Sunnis the Shi`ite and the Kurds, apparently not. How could this not be a recipe for disaster? The Kurds were once protected from the rest of Iraq. The minority Sunnis were in charge, although the government was secular. The Shi`ite were obviously under represented and given their new found power of majority rule revenge was inevitable and with that retaliation was also inevitable. Throw in the influence of Shi`ite controlled Iran next door, and a reason and a place to breed Islamic fundamentalism and any sane person would realize the probable downfalls of such an invasion. Don't think for a second that the Bush administration didn't realize the impending civil war either, they just couldn't use that prediction to sell the war to the public.
Time makes more converts than reason