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Bill Joy For New National CTO Post?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yeah-that'll-happen dept.

jddeluxe writes "In an article in today's NY Times, John Doerr of Kleiner-Perkins proffered up Bill Joy's name when queried by Barack Obama for a recommendation for the position of Chief Technology Officer of the Unites States which Obama has promised to create and that the country is overdue to have. I think that's a brilliant idea, and while you're at it, have the FCC report to him as well, why don't you?" If Bill is unavailable, I'll throw my hat in the ring, although I'm holding out for Secretary of Tubes.

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  1. Re:I'd rather see someone involved in Free Softwar by CRCulver · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yep, anyone to use it, and anyone to hoard their improvements to it.

  2. Re:Thirteen Stripes by WK2 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Georgia was never represented by any of the stripes.

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  3. Re:Bill Joy's terrorist connection by Attila+Dimedici · · Score: 0, Troll

    Are you implying that there is context under which Bill Ayers saying that he didn't plant enough bombs is not very incendiary? It may be that there is context in which what he said does not imply that he wishes that the Weather Underground had killed more people, but if so, why didn't any of Obama's supporters bring it up during the campaign?

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  4. Re:No need by jcnnghm · · Score: 0, Troll

    Until the government decided that the financial industry needed to make "affordable housing" loans to poor people that couldn't afford them, it did.

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  5. Re:No need by jcnnghm · · Score: 1, Troll

    Huffington Post drivel isn't going to cut it. This would have never happened if the government didn't show up and start encouraging lenders to make bad loans, by buying the bad loans with Fannie and Freddy. Market manipulation will bite you.

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  6. Re:vi by Atzanteol · · Score: 0, Troll

    You sound like a moron. And I bet you eat kittens. So please don't tell the rest of us who to listen to.

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