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McCain Wants Ballmer For His Cabinet

Posted by kdawson on from the throwing-chairs-at-the-chinese dept.

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."

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  1. AND McCain's cluelessness on software patents by EccentricAnomaly · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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  2. Re:Both sides of the fence by sydsavage · · Score: 3, Informative

    You misspelled Apple.

  3. erris == twitter by dedazo · · Score: 4, Informative
    The person who posted this journal and somehow got kdawson to get it to the front page is the same person posting under the "Erris" account. twitter thinks it's cool to shill his own submissions, probably because moderators have wised up to his twitter account and just mod him down on sight.

    I think /.'ers need to see these stories, but kdawson needs to get a better source.

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  4. Re:Lies, not Truth, Appeal to the American Voter by The+One+and+Only · · Score: 4, Informative

    Name one colony that is now prosperous that was liberated during the twentieth century without going through socialism.

    Hong Kong. South Africa. Philippines. Canada, technically.

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  5. Re:Oh God by aurum42 · · Score: 3, Informative

    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...

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  6. Re:Oh so wrong! by Scudsucker · · Score: 3, Informative

    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?