God you just failed so hard. The amount of arrogance you show when you post so aggressively when you do it makes it all the more funny. If you didn't always post like such an ass then you could at least get away with it just being an honest mistake, we all make them, but the way you blah blah blah blah The way you desperately try and salvage with the chairman thing whilst still demonstrating you don't know what powers a chairman has
To paraphrase Churchill: at the end of the night, I fucked up on a date. At the end of the week, you're a fuckup who can't read and has no idea what power a chairman has. I'll speak slowly and use small words:
To start with, Gates was Ballmer's boss. You do know that the CEO answers to the board of directors, yes? You also know that Microsoft hasn't lost their dominance because Ballmer picked the wrong release date for Office 2010 or hired a slacker for Marketing, yes?
They've been left behind by their lack of vision. Vision can come from the CEO - but it can also come from the Board. You know, the people in charge of the overall welfare of the company, not just day to day operations? At any number of times, Gates could have called up Ballmer to talk about how to get ahead of this iPod thing. Or this Amazon thing. Or this iPhone thing. Or this Facebook thing - which at one point Microsoft could have bought for a couple billion, couch money for them. Acquisitions that would be approved by.....the Board of Directors. Chaired by Bill.
But none of that happened, because Gates has no more vision than Ballmer, not because he no longer had a powerful position at the company.
Which was my point from the beginning.
leaves you such a massive laughing stock when you get it so badly wrong as you frequently do
So frequently, eh? Can you even name the last time? I like to know what I'm talking about, as I don't suffer fools gladly, and there are a lot of fools around here. Like people who don't bother to take two seconds to read that Gate's retirement was already mentioned, and have no idea WTF they're talking about when it comes to corporate executives.
So how about you, Xest? Still writing third rate propaganda demanding harsh action on Iran, when the NPT allows them to enrich uranium at any level they choose, and for the nuclear weapons program that even Mossad says they don't have?
Not precisely. You need to work on your history. First of all, this was the result of policies implemented in the 90s - when Clinton was in office.
You need to work on your projection, the conservative tendency to ignore real facts for favored talking points. Case in point:
I remember in the 90s the parade of corporate execs being called before congress (and Mr Frank specifically) to be publicly pilloried for 'racism' of 'redlining' districts - ie, calling out low-income areas as not-worth-the-risk-of-loaning to.
You mean calling out racism. Ending redlining had jack to do with subprime loans, but stopped banks from redlining applications because of a person's race. And you do know that Frank was in the minority all the way from the 1994 midterms to the 2006 midterms, yes? Which means if you want to throw stones at Congress, that necessitates throwing them at Republicans first, yes?
But no, you'd rather repeat stupid BS about Dems rather than hit them for things they've actually done. Like Clinton repealing Glass-Steagall, or pushing the sales of $500,000 to be free of capital gains - a one-two combo that encouraged subprime loans and house-flipping. That actually happened, and actually had a great deal to do with the subprime mess.
But the Bush White House for 6 years
The six years he had a Republican Congress?
there were problems on the horizon without significant structure reform of GSEs like Fannie Mae
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and their subprime loans...when you were in charge of the relevant committee
Private banks were pushing subprime loans, not Freddie or Fannie. And Republicans controlled Congress until 2007 and the White House until 2009. But do go on beating the dead horse of Barney Frank, while ignoring Obama's bank bailouts right under your nose.
On the left you've got a choice between Hillary and Bernie
Hillary is a nightmare right-wing freakshow. If she's on the left, Che Guevara and Fidel Castro were conservative, pro-business Republicans on the right.
Saying being fond of Nazi swastikas and rebel flags are inclusive of each other is like saying flying a gay pride flag means you back militant black power guerillas.
The only connection between those dots is the crap in your brains.
slavery was enshrined in the US constitution from day one
Annnnnd? Why was it enshrined in the Constitution? To make the South happy.
maybe the US flag is also racist?
The U.S. was built on racism - just ask all the native tribes massacred to make those 50 states. But what was the Confederate Flag about? The Confederacy. What was the Confederacy about? A group of states leaving the union. Why did they want to leave the union? Slavery.
The one is rather more explicit than the other.
instead of spewing hate at a third of the nation, maybe you should pause to think on what you say.
And I'm sure there are some Germans, who get all pissy when someone objects to flying a big swastika flag next to their house. "It's about heritage, not hate! It's not a symbol of war and oppression, because the autobahn is pretty sweet, right?"
WTF are you talking about. Denying that the racist Dixicrats moved, en mass, to the Republican party is as pointless as denying that water is wet. Just ask Zombie Thurmond. Just ask Zombie Reagan.
. I don't work for Yahoo or ever have, but I'm a fan of Marissa Mayer. Silicon Valley needs more women like Marissa, and less like Ellen.
Mayer ended work-from-home for Yahoo employees at the same time she built a private day care for her own kids next to her office. She also got all pissy when a man complimented her looks, then did a "come fuck me spread" for Vogue. She might not be a dooshcannon like Pao, but she's at least a dooshpistol.
I'm not a big fan of punitive damages payable to the victim.
Uh, why? Comcast wasn't harassing the people of the state, it was harassing this specific individual.
. I'm also not a big fan of people landing a huge payday because of a small "jackpot"
So you want the fine to be utterly meaningless as a deterrent to future action by Comcast? Let me guess: you also don't like class action lawsuits, to rule out many people getting smaller amounts of money, on the other end of the scale.
YouTube is filled with talented impressionists who can do these voices.
Yeah. Just ask Vance and Coy Duke. Anyone can drive a Charger, anyone at all.
Or....not. You can find any old impression on Youtube, but it's much harder to find an actual replacement of the real thing. And that's for just one voice....how about for the dozen+ that Harry does?
It's the most expensive power source ever invented by man. Billions to develop, billions to construct, billions to maintain and insure, and thousands of years to store the waste. And that's aside from the risk of another Fukishima/Chernobyl.
This was despite that many of the obvious reforms Europe wanted hadn't been done.
They slashed their public spending and pensions, driving their country into a state worse than the Great Depression - but that fact is invariably left out of the anti-Greek storyline. As is the move to block Greece from cutting their military spending - you think that would be a clue that this is a farce to begin with.
But - they voted for Syriza instead. Syriza immediately started undoing the reforms of the previous government and, guess what, pushed Greece further under water.
Yes, nevermind both the IMF and the Germans admitting that the terms forced on Greece are completely unsustainable. WTF was Syrzia thinking, trying to negotiate a sustainable deal?
not getting anything for free? how about one of the lowest retirement ages in the western worlds which then qualifies you for a pension? this alone was a boon as retiring employees opened up jobs for younger workers
Explain us how Greece will now find someone willing to lend them more money at better conditions than the dead deal?
What's the difference? No one is going to lend Greece money because all of Greece's money is being taken by the Troika. Greece will be able to borrow more money once they leave the Euro for the same reason a person who declares bankruptcy is able to run out and get far more credit than before they wiped out their debts, though at a high interest rate. Once all their income isn't being sucked into paying off bad debt, they have more money to pay off new debt.
Besides, the near and long-term consequences of a Grexit are insignificant next to being forced into worse-than-the-Great-Depression poverty for the next few decades.
However seems a little silly to say you want the kind of financial consideration that happened in wartime, but none of the rest of what came with it.
Silly if you're a fascist. Anyone else, it would seem rather odd that you can destroy a continent, getting tens of millions killed in the process, and most of it is financially forgiven in less than a decade. Mind your own business but get taken in by loan sharks? You are sentenced to Oliver Twist poverty for the next 30+ years.
Had the Allies not saddled Germany with crushing debts post WWI (a war which Germany did not start mind you), there could have been no rise to power of the Nazi party, and would probably not have been a second world war.
Yet you want to saddle Greece with similar crushing debt when they have a fascist party, Golden Dawn. So your plan is to.....repeat that mistake a second time?
Greeces debts are the result of internal mismanagement.
And external loan sharks - funny how that part gets left out. Oh, and being forbidden from cutting military spending, rather than pensions and health care.
Germanyâ(TM)s debts were unjustly forced upon them as a result of loosing a war for which they had only marginally more responsibility than any other nation.
And what about their post-WWII debt, which was largely forgiven? By countries like Greece? So, to recap: Germany destroys the continent and all is forgiven. Greece got taken in for loan sharks, so they deserve to be pushed into national poverty worse than the Great Depression, for decades.
This is classic conservativism: more interested in being punitive than being just or effective.
You are correct, sir. First info I Googled was bad. He was still chairman until spring of 2014, so that part still stands. Gates may have retired as CEO in the Clinton Administration, but he didn't retire from a powerful position at Microsoft until Obama's second term.
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To paraphrase Churchill: at the end of the night, I fucked up on a date. At the end of the week, you're a fuckup who can't read and has no idea what power a chairman has. I'll speak slowly and use small words:
To start with, Gates was Ballmer's boss. You do know that the CEO answers to the board of directors, yes? You also know that Microsoft hasn't lost their dominance because Ballmer picked the wrong release date for Office 2010 or hired a slacker for Marketing, yes?
They've been left behind by their lack of vision. Vision can come from the CEO - but it can also come from the Board. You know, the people in charge of the overall welfare of the company, not just day to day operations? At any number of times, Gates could have called up Ballmer to talk about how to get ahead of this iPod thing. Or this Amazon thing. Or this iPhone thing. Or this Facebook thing - which at one point Microsoft could have bought for a couple billion, couch money for them. Acquisitions that would be approved by.....the Board of Directors. Chaired by Bill.
But none of that happened, because Gates has no more vision than Ballmer, not because he no longer had a powerful position at the company.
Which was my point from the beginning.
So frequently, eh? Can you even name the last time? I like to know what I'm talking about, as I don't suffer fools gladly, and there are a lot of fools around here. Like people who don't bother to take two seconds to read that Gate's retirement was already mentioned, and have no idea WTF they're talking about when it comes to corporate executives.
So how about you, Xest? Still writing third rate propaganda demanding harsh action on Iran, when the NPT allows them to enrich uranium at any level they choose, and for the nuclear weapons program that even Mossad says they don't have?
You need to work on your projection, the conservative tendency to ignore real facts for favored talking points. Case in point:
You mean calling out racism. Ending redlining had jack to do with subprime loans, but stopped banks from redlining applications because of a person's race. And you do know that Frank was in the minority all the way from the 1994 midterms to the 2006 midterms, yes? Which means if you want to throw stones at Congress, that necessitates throwing them at Republicans first, yes?
But no, you'd rather repeat stupid BS about Dems rather than hit them for things they've actually done. Like Clinton repealing Glass-Steagall, or pushing the sales of $500,000 to be free of capital gains - a one-two combo that encouraged subprime loans and house-flipping. That actually happened, and actually had a great deal to do with the subprime mess.
The six years he had a Republican Congress?
Fannie And Freddie weren't pushing subprime loans. Private banks were. Again.
Private banks were pushing subprime loans, not Freddie or Fannie. And Republicans controlled Congress until 2007 and the White House until 2009. But do go on beating the dead horse of Barney Frank, while ignoring Obama's bank bailouts right under your nose.
Hillary is a nightmare right-wing freakshow. If she's on the left, Che Guevara and Fidel Castro were conservative, pro-business Republicans on the right.
The only connection between those dots is the crap in your brains.
Annnnnd? Why was it enshrined in the Constitution? To make the South happy.
The U.S. was built on racism - just ask all the native tribes massacred to make those 50 states. But what was the Confederate Flag about? The Confederacy. What was the Confederacy about? A group of states leaving the union. Why did they want to leave the union? Slavery.
The one is rather more explicit than the other.
And I'm sure there are some Germans, who get all pissy when someone objects to flying a big swastika flag next to their house. "It's about heritage, not hate! It's not a symbol of war and oppression, because the autobahn is pretty sweet, right?"
They'd be full of crap, too.
WTF are you talking about. Denying that the racist Dixicrats moved, en mass, to the Republican party is as pointless as denying that water is wet. Just ask Zombie Thurmond. Just ask Zombie Reagan.
Mayer ended work-from-home for Yahoo employees at the same time she built a private day care for her own kids next to her office. She also got all pissy when a man complimented her looks, then did a "come fuck me spread" for Vogue. She might not be a dooshcannon like Pao, but she's at least a dooshpistol.
You misspelled allegations. It doesn't help Pao's case that she gave horrible reviews to other female employees of the firm.
"The bad reviews I received were horrible sexism, but the bad reviews I gave to other women were totally deserved! Totally!"
Any second grader can tell you that's painfully facile.
Uh, why? Comcast wasn't harassing the people of the state, it was harassing this specific individual.
So you want the fine to be utterly meaningless as a deterrent to future action by Comcast? Let me guess: you also don't like class action lawsuits, to rule out many people getting smaller amounts of money, on the other end of the scale.
Facile, as prices are already set to maximize revenue, and this sum is pocket money for a corporation this size.
Repeating this fascist crap over and over doesn't make it true.
Your projection is noted, as is your self-contradiction:
Except that's the very conflation he was talking about. Mitt Romney has free speech rights under the Constitution. Bain Capitol does not.
Yeah. Just ask Vance and Coy Duke. Anyone can drive a Charger, anyone at all.
Or....not. You can find any old impression on Youtube, but it's much harder to find an actual replacement of the real thing. And that's for just one voice....how about for the dozen+ that Harry does?
It's the most expensive power source ever invented by man. Billions to develop, billions to construct, billions to maintain and insure, and thousands of years to store the waste. And that's aside from the risk of another Fukishima/Chernobyl.
Not when some COINTELPRO alumn gets a royalty every time some right wing Dem utters the terms "white privilege" or "mansplaining", they don't.
A lotta Hatorade there, zero legit questions.
Do you
A) hate civilization
B) want to freeload off of everyone else that pays for it?
They slashed their public spending and pensions, driving their country into a state worse than the Great Depression - but that fact is invariably left out of the anti-Greek storyline. As is the move to block Greece from cutting their military spending - you think that would be a clue that this is a farce to begin with.
Yes, nevermind both the IMF and the Germans admitting that the terms forced on Greece are completely unsustainable. WTF was Syrzia thinking, trying to negotiate a sustainable deal?
FTFY
What's the difference? No one is going to lend Greece money because all of Greece's money is being taken by the Troika. Greece will be able to borrow more money once they leave the Euro for the same reason a person who declares bankruptcy is able to run out and get far more credit than before they wiped out their debts, though at a high interest rate. Once all their income isn't being sucked into paying off bad debt, they have more money to pay off new debt.
Besides, the near and long-term consequences of a Grexit are insignificant next to being forced into worse-than-the-Great-Depression poverty for the next few decades.
Silly if you're a fascist. Anyone else, it would seem rather odd that you can destroy a continent, getting tens of millions killed in the process, and most of it is financially forgiven in less than a decade. Mind your own business but get taken in by loan sharks? You are sentenced to Oliver Twist poverty for the next 30+ years.
Yet you want to saddle Greece with similar crushing debt when they have a fascist party, Golden Dawn. So your plan is to.....repeat that mistake a second time?
And external loan sharks - funny how that part gets left out. Oh, and being forbidden from cutting military spending, rather than pensions and health care.
And what about their post-WWII debt, which was largely forgiven? By countries like Greece? So, to recap: Germany destroys the continent and all is forgiven. Greece got taken in for loan sharks, so they deserve to be pushed into national poverty worse than the Great Depression, for decades.
This is classic conservativism: more interested in being punitive than being just or effective.
You are correct, sir. First info I Googled was bad. He was still chairman until spring of 2014, so that part still stands. Gates may have retired as CEO in the Clinton Administration, but he didn't retire from a powerful position at Microsoft until Obama's second term.