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From Andrew Sullivan's The Daily Dish. My comment: the Republican Party apparently is trying to incite the assassination of Barack Obama. No party has sunk this low into gutter politics in my memory. Sarah Palin has crossed a certain red line by a mile. - Sean McBride
Also: the style of incitement is reminiscent of the kind of rhetoric that was used against Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin in the months leading up to his assassination. McCain and Palin are trying to smear Obama as an anti-American terrorist and traitor. - Sean McBride
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At first, I was like -- why would anyone want to shoot autumn leaves, they're beautiful.... - Shey
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This is great, should be x-posted to DSLR room - JodyC
@Jody - just did shared it in the DSLR room... - JA Castillo
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If true, reports like this show the downward spiral of the GOP toward a distinctly American form of fascism. We're moving closer to violence. - Chris Baskind via Bookmarklet
"Kill him"???? - Lindsay Donaghe
I was already afraid for Obama. - Yolanda
What is Secret Service doing with that scumbag, is what I want to know. - JodyC
Yeah Lindsay. It's been documented. What is wrong with these people? There was a similar type of stupid at a Palin event the same day. - Mark VandenBerg
WTF is wrong with people? Sheesh. This is exactly why I have very little faith with the general public as a whole. - Michelle Martinez
The fundamental problem is that both Palin and McCain are endorsing this type of behavior. For diehard republicants, this activity may make them proud, but for any rational thinking people to still support these two candidates is beyond my comprehension. - JodyC
Or it could be Obama plants at the rallies... *adjusts tin foil hat* - Mark VandenBerg
What's wrong with these people? They're people blinded by partisanship, who have had their livelihoods stolen from them from the rich, but because most rich people look like them, they have to blame anyone who looks different. They're people who can't look in the mirror to find fault with their own problems to save their lives, and they're people schooled in the doctrine that the only successful discourse is to rob your opponent of his humanity which makes them easier to hate. In short, they're Republicans. - ☺ Cecily ☺
The human race is 50% morons. Most of those are the republicans that listen to these idiots. - Mathew Ballard
They like to dig their own hole. That's one good thing. - Stephan Miller
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congrats, I'm developing Flash and media rich web content right down the road from Cisco. - John Cozen
Congratulations - you work 5 miles from me now! - Steven Kaye
Well, once they get me a cube I'll be nearby. Meanwhile I'm working from Boulder Creek. - Jason Wehmhoener
Jason - what areas are you going to focus on? - Hutch Carpenter
I work for the Cisco User Experience Standards team. We publish UI guidelines for software development teams within the company, and also provide reusable components that implement those guidelines. Among other things I'm currently doing interaction design for dashboards, charts, network topology, etc. Our team is growing, so if you know IDs, visual designers, icon artists or frontend engineers that might be interested, I'm jasonw22 at gmail. - Jason Wehmhoener
Cool. Saw this tweet (http://twitter.com/amcafee/sta...) from Andrew McAfee: "Cisco says they've seen a tipping point in the past few months with E2.0." Looks like things are hopping there. - Hutch Carpenter
Welcome to Cisco Jason! - JodyC
Full steam ahead Hutch, I work every day promoting tools and concepts - JodyC
Love it Jody, love it! - Hutch Carpenter
Steven: Where are you working now? I am in the neighborhood as well, at Citrix off of 237 and 1st St. - Nadine Schaeffer
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“Kids at school call my son "Obama," kidding around because of his skin color and appearance. Yesterday, his history teacher asked my son "How many states are there?" When my son answered "50," the teacher replied, "Nope, he's SMARTER than Obama."”
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Appropriate for a teacher? This caused my son to ask me why Obama doesn't know how many states there are in the U.S. - Trish R
That's not cool. :( - AJ Batac ♘
where are you from? - Chris "Iceman" Hollander
teacher FAIL - JTF
Chris, I live in southeast Texas. - Trish R
the south terrifies me. :( this highlights one of the scariest components of the election that I've come to recognize: in many (not all, but many) cases, i've found that support for McCain is underwritten by racism. In some cases explicitly, in some cases subconsciously, in some cases societal... but racism is the true cultural divide in our country today, and this election is bringing it to the forefront. - Chris "Iceman" Hollander
HAHAHAHAHAHA.....I love your kid's Teacher....It might be upsetting to Obama supporters...but that was totally a ZIIING.....you HAVE to admit that was at least a LITTLE funny.... - Sean McGee
@Sean: I'm sorry... thats not a "zing". Tina Fey making "Pew, PEW!" gestures during a comedy routine, in order to make light of a current issue (gun control), for millions of viewers is a "zing". A teacher, in a learning environment, surrounded by impressionable children, openly supporting, and then joining in on clearly racist commentary is deplorable. - Chris "Iceman" Hollander
Oh, please, how in the world can you say that? Obama had one gaffe (we all know he's not lacking in knowledge) and you scream "racism" when someone makes an innocent joke about it, yet you think the day after day public humiliation of someone else is just a "zing"? Get a sense of proportion, people. - Glen Campbell
I don't think it's a teacher's place to give his or her political opinions to children in the classroom, regardless of which "side" they're on. It's touchy ground, but seems like the ideal situation would be to provide balanced (and age appropriate) information and let the children go to their parents (and/or other adults outside of school) for more. In a class like math or something, though, I don't see the need for *any* political discussions at all. The classroom should be as non-political as possible, in my opinion, with the exception of some governmental/history/civics classes where fair discussion is necessary with the teacher taking a neutral stance. - Rochelle
Children don't know about gaffes. The teacher's comment wasn't meant as witty political satire. The other kids weren't making fun of her son because he shares the same political views as Obama. This was racist. - Chris "Iceman" Hollander
Day after Day of public humiliation for *any* public figure, regrettably, is a staple of our society. There is an endless list of shows, including SNL, that depend on it. This thread isn't about that, though... - Chris "Iceman" Hollander
There's no such thing as an innocent "joke" about race. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble
I would contact the school board. There is no place for judgement or sarcasm in the classroom, thought that is a minor issue as compared with the racist overtones. - JodyC
This was a joke about RACE? WTF? "OMG, you made a joke about someone's intelligence, and they just so happen to be black, so you're a RACIST! OMG OMG OMG." You know, if the left used LOGIC more often, they'd win over more independents... - Sean McGee
I don't think it's a race issue. It always seems like if you make a joke like this you're deemed a racist. I personally think that teacher crossed the line for stating his political views and something has to be done. Politics should stay out of schools. - Molly, the Muse
So, based on the thread, I'm assuming everyone thinks all the people making fun of Sarah Palin hate women, right? - Alan Simpson
First off, if the kids were white and the kid being called Obama is black...that's racist. So that automatically makes the teacher's comments racist as well. The fact that the teachers are allowing the kids to call this kid Obama speaks to an institutional problem of racism in that school. Totally unacceptable. - Alex "Maverick" Scoble
So Alex....using that logic, Bill Ayers was a domestic terrorist, and Obama associated with him in his home, so that "automatically" makes Obama a domestic terrorist. Are you telling me that you're using the same logic as the wing-nuts out there? - Sean McGee
Just FYI, my son doesn't care that he's being called "Obama." I think he kinda likes it. I was just bothered by the teacher's comment, because I agree with Rochelle, I think teachers should avoid political commentary. However, the teacher DID explain why he said that, the mistake Obama made, but he did not provide examples of other candidates OR have a political discussion about ALL of the candidates. (Side note: This teacher is in the National Guard reserves.) - Trish R
The situation is different because it in a classroom. The teacher is a "person of influence" to a student. I assume the age of the child is around 7-9 years old based on the question. This is, of course, a very impressionable age range. The teacher may have intended to make a snarky comment without malice, but given the age of the audience and the teacher/student relationship this is not, in any way, acceptable. Got a name and a phone number, Trish? We'll take it from here... - Mark VandenBerg
Mark, this was a high school history class. My son is in the 9th grade. - Trish R
I would agree that it is not appropriate to make political statements in school. I would just like to know how many of you would be as angry if the teacher had said a student was smarter than Sarah Palin. - Alan Simpson
9th grade and they are being asked "how many states?" I learned that in 4th grade IN A DIFFERENT COUNTRY! Sorry for yelling... - Mark VandenBerg
+10 Alan....(Of course, some of them would say they'd be just as angry...but you know they wouldn't...they'd be laughing about it) - Sean McGee
The teacher is in a position of authority in the classroom and should stop racist or other inappropriate activity. The teacher absolutely should NOT be bringing his/her political leanings into the discussion (especially ignorant ones like this). @Sean would it be ok if there was an Asian kid in the class and the teacher said "You're lucky John McCain wasn't a better pilot or he would have bombed your family"? - Jason Carreira
Alan, as a diehard bleeding heart liberal, I would be just as upset about a teacher saying that about Sarah Palin or John McCain as I would about Barack Obama or Joe Biden. It would be inappropriate for the teacher to make those kinds of comments. - joshua m. neff
Maybe we should just have robots teach our children, because we don't have to worry about our robots having messy things like opinions, personal philosophies, religions, or perspectives. We can program our robots to teach our kids exactly what we want them to know and never deviate from that, so we never have to expose them to harmful things like opposing view points or, god forbid, other points of view. In fact, maybe we need to be subjugated by robots, so we all get along. - Brian Norwood
@Jason....Red Herring...The teacher didn't say anything equivalent to that....Obviously, though, the Teacher shouldn't have brought a biased view into the classroom...but the fact remains that it was still kind of funny, even though this Teacher's intelligence should also be brought into question. (The kids calling Trish's kid Obama, though, is NOT funny.) - Sean McGee
I seriously doubt that anyone would be offended if Trish's son were named George and the teacher replied, "Nope, he's SMARTER than the president." Shit, he might actually BE smarter than the president. Zing! - Christopher Harley
@Brian was that an opinion, or unjust mocking of a political figure to advance a particular political position? - Jason Carreira
personal politics in the public classroom is a no. when i was in school we followed elections, the teacher would bring in the tv so we could watch things on cspan, but not one of my teachers gave an inkling toward their leanings, despite the highly partisan views of my classmates. - Faboo Mama
Mark, that question only came up because the kids were calling my son "Obama" and commenting how much he looked like him (he really doesn't, he's just biracial). It wasn't part of the lesson. Christopher, my son's name is not Obama, it's Kyle. - Trish R
Not appropriate, no matter what your views are! - Amit Morson
This is a hilarious thread. Imagine if the kid spelled "potato" correctly and the teacher said, "Well done! You're smarter than Dan Quayle!" I'm assuming that we would all rightly conclude that that teacher hated white people and was subversively promoting a left wing political agenda in her classroom by undermining the Republican candidate for VP? Seriously, stop playing the race card every time someone sneezes. It belittles the real problems. - Ryan Kuder
@Trish - "Christopher, my son's name is not Obama, it's Kyle." Yeah, I gathered that. My point was that if the teacher made this aside about the current president, far fewer feathers would be ruffled. I think to many, the presence of several sacred cows rolled into one event make the big picture that much more difficult to scan. - Christopher Harley
Christopher, I agree that jokes are more acceptable when they follow the majority of public opinion. Either way, I think it's unacceptable in the classroom and inappropriate behavior for a teacher. - Trish R
@Ryan you're missing the part where her son is being called Obama because of his race. Race was in it from the beginning. - Jason Carreira
This actually reminds me of all the anti-Nixon jargon I'd parrot at the advanced age of 7. The schoolyard was a proving ground for everything we picked up at home. I'd imagine little has changed in 34 years. - Christopher Harley
@Jason....you're missing the part where the Teacher didn't call him Obama. Why do you have to be so inflammatory? RACE RACE RACE....Yes the kids were racist....now tell me, How does this make the Teacher racist as well? - Sean McGee
@Jason, Just to make sure I understand then...If a kid looks like Obama and the other kids call him Obama, they're all racist. And if the teacher knows it's the kid's nickname and references it in a classroom setting, she's racist too. It just seems to me that there are much less sinister motives that can be ascribed to this vignette without playing the race card so cavalierly. - Ryan Kuder
The teacher gave tacit, if not implicit, approval for the behavior. So, based on what Trish told me in the OP and her two subsequent posts, Yes, this is a racist act by a teacher. - Mark VandenBerg
@Mark - I can't resist. What does this mean? "Got a name and a phone number, Trish? We'll take it from here..." - Christopher Harley
I'm wondering with what intent the kids call your son "Obama"...is it meant as flattery or insult? In high school usually those are pet nicknames that are rarely meant in a truly negative manner (we all remember high school...a negative nickname is McFatty and the like). I think, as it seems your son perceives, it is a bit of a compliment as they are comparing him to a notable figure in society right now. Maybe your son has big ears and olive skin tone...so they call him Obama. Whatever. It's a physical resemblance, I wouldn't perceive it as negative in the least. For argument's sake, lets assume the kids are sneering and spitting when they call your son Obama. Is the teacher joining in the bashing, or is the teacher taking pressure off your son by building him up? If I'm a teacher observing kids being negative towards another kid based on some standard, I'd make an effort to distance the child from that standard so to ease the negativity. A smart teacher would know she couldn't change the minds of t - Heather
@alan,@ryan: were the students calling her son "palin"? would the students "tease" a young, white, brown haired girl with glasses by calling her "sarah palin"? Whether its funny or not doesn't matter: it was racist, because the initial teasing that the teacher supported was based on race. @Sean: the teacher's behavior encouraged the racial teasing, and added a political flavor. @heather: giving the kids a tremendous benefit of the doubt, and assuming that they meant to stereotype kyle as a "term of endearment", then the teachers actions are even worse- she has now negatively tainted their labeling. - Chris "Iceman" Hollander
@ryan: if a kid looks like Obama, and his classmates call him Obama, that’s not exactly racist. If a teacher uses a student’s nickname in class, there isn't anything intrinsically racist about that, either. However, to assume that any child of mixed racial background "looks like Obama"... that’s kinda racist. That the teacher asked a 9th grader how many states there are is inflammatory- he knew that the student knew the answer, and was only asking it to make an inappropriate political statement. He didn't "use the kid’s nickname" to refer to the student, he used the racist remarks of his students to support her own political opinions. - Chris "Iceman" Hollander
@sean: please explain exactly why its funny to say that a 9th grade student is smarter than Obama, based on the students ability to answer the question, "how many states are there". - Chris "Iceman" Hollander
lifehacker advice on "dealing with racist jokes at work": http://lifehacker.com/5059124/... - Chris "Iceman" Hollander
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"Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy." " - newsjunk.com
How sad that people can't grow up and at least act like adults. - Heidi Jeffers Thibodeau
"Sen. Lindsey Graham, a McCain confidant, told The Post's David Broder that the campaign would "go down in history as stupid if they don't unleash" Palin." Too late for that - the fate of this election is destined for the stupid column. The heavens help us if this woman ever serves a national public office. - JodyC
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YES. More than anything else. WAY more than WordPerfect - Nine (pedestrian wolf)
OMG I remember WordStar! WordPerfect totally kicked it's ass tho... then MS Word killed both despite the fact the WP was actually better than everything else out there - Susan Beebe
Meh on Wordstar. Wordperfect in the late '80's/'early 90's FTW! - Mavericks of Troy, NV!
You betcha. Wordstar was great. Once I moved over to PC and GUI, I used WP for many years. I guess everyone also remembers Function key keyboard templates? Never could use those things :) - JodyC
Yes! It was my first word processing software. - AJ Batac ♘
I still remember some of the commands. Ctrl K D to save? - Mike Doeff
That was "Save and exit" I believe. Ctrl K S was save? - JodyC
Here ya go, a walk down memory lane for nerds: http://www.comsc.ucok.edu/~mcd... - JodyC
It was better than a typewriter, and a billion times more intimidating to non-computer literate people. - Pete Delucchi
F5 Directory Listing F7 Print! OMG I still remember those Function keys & the templates! - Susan Beebe
+1 Peter - and that's why it was so great! :) - WorldofHiglet
It was a very tightly-written piece of software. It did a lot with not a whole lot of code. Better yet, there were patches floating around to customize and enhance Wordstar. - Morton Fox
WorldofHiglet, it pissed my mom off to no end. She was all Luddite and stuck to her typewriter afraid of the crazy Wordstar. Now, of course, you can't keep her off the email. - Pete Delucchi
I think I almost used wordstar once...serious - Rahsheen™
I still have a unopened, boxed Wordstar for Windows if you want it. - Eric @ CS Techcast
The one and only advanced editor for my tiny CP/M - Z80 box in the early 80'ies. Inspired me to write my own editor - in assembly... crazy days! - Bo Stern
Kedit or Xedit on IBM VM/SP on IBM 360/370, anyone? ;) - silpol
Wow! Thanks for the passion. I never used it - I went from nroff macros to a THEOS word processor to Microsoft Word for the Mac (with a brief detour to FullWrite Professional), to Word for Windows, skipping Wordstar altogether. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
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“I think it's funny how animals can sense when one is sick or upset. Wait, not funny. Awesome. :)”
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If people took the time to STFU sometimes, they would be able to sense these things too....lol - Rahsheen™
Haha, good point. :) - Jennifer Leggio
Awwww. My pooch always knew when momma needed a cuddle. He didn't even complain when I just wanted to cry and watch Forensic Files - Kaia is too young to die.
Aww! That is cute. My cat keeps putting her little paw out and patting my foot, then going back to sleep. She's done it about four times. So funny. She knows I'm having a frustrating night. :) - Jennifer Leggio
Pets FTW! - Christopher Welle
Definitely amazing how animals sense stuff, though. I mention the talking part because I've notice my kids, before they learn to start running their little mouths, know what I'm talking about without me saying stuff most times. They also sense agitation and stuff like that. - Rahsheen™
I've grown up with animals and they always seem to know when you're down...amazing! Even my horse would come along side and rub on my and sorta hug me against its body by wrapping his neck around me ...soo cool! My cat licked my tears when I was a child. Dog howled when I was mourning....they know - Susan Beebe
Now if they could sense the turns in economics... Though our cats sold all their stocks last year, so maybe that was a sign... - Jemm
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best Olbermann rant yet -) - Duncan Riley via Bookmarklet
Ooooo....Olbermann....I gotta watch this...you know how fair and balanced HE is. - Sean McGee
he makes some great points though. - Duncan Riley
Oh, this is good! - JodyC
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“Maryam made me give her the remote control upon threat of death. Or worse. Cause? Heroes. Sigh. Of course I handed over the remote control. When Maryam threatens Robert listens! :-)”
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Robert will live a long life. :) - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
You had the remote in your hand for a while? Mylene usually has it in an iron lock when I get downstairs. - Hutch Carpenter
A wise choice - Mo "Killer Bee" Kargas
What's a remote control? - Glen Campbell
Mine's deliberately complicated so that I'm the only one who can work everything. Daddy raised no dummy here! - JodyC
Now we know who really runs the Scoble house! Milan.. you listening?! :) - Susan Beebe
Wait. She wanted to watch Heros or stop you from watching? - mcwflint
She wanted to watch Heroes. I watched too. - Robert Scoble
it's funny, more than 20 people liked this "news" that is definitely useless for everyone... I'm missing something from Social Media... sorry Robert, 1) who bother?!? 2) is there something strange with the fact a wife orders something to her husband?!?:-) - luca Filigheddu
luca: I think the Likes come from the fact that other geeks understand and have had the same experience in their households. Not everything is news on FriendFeed. In fact, most of what comes through my FriendFeed is actually "noise." Hit hide and move on. :-) - Robert Scoble
luca, part of social media is getting to know people in their everyday lives as well. A lot of people, myself included, know Robert and his family pretty well. And even people that don't know him well know him in an extended way through his online personality. But that's why hide is so cool if you don't like it hide it. If you do like it like it. We all have those choices. - Thomas Hawk
Robert, Enjoyed your panel at BlogWorld Expo, heard youhave moved day job, congratulations, Sending BlogWorld Master videos to BW staff this week for further processing, Respectfully, Nicholas 'the video guy' @BWE2008 - Nicholas Chase
Ah man, that's unfortunate. Last night's Heroes was pretty good. - Jamelle
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not bad, ace - Josh Haley
oh yea, creepin' me out man! run!!!!! that EYEBALL is doin' me in! - Susan Beebe
You're like an extra from Fellini Satyricon. - Akiva Moskovitz
lol sheeny buns. - Monique via fftogo
that white above the eye is brilliant - anna
LOL, Akiva. And Rah, you're freaking me out, man. - Pete Delucchi
:\ - Mona N.
I think the scrunchy eye thing is the opposite of the eyebrow raise thing I do. This may be the only existing picture of it...pretty freaky looking...LOL - Rahsheen™
Akiva, no math could measure the points you just received. - Amber aka SDA
I like your new name much better, Kaia :) - Rahsheen™
"E.T. phone home..." - imabonehead
Haha - Majento™
'I am dangerous, *Ice* Man' - Bren
HA HA HA HA HA HA - Parth Awasthi
Excellent, I've seen this photo just below the McCain one, lol - Kol Tregaskes
LOL - Melissa
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“My 1980s Microsoft story. We used Microsoft Word for the Mac...”
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Back then, I used Wordstar on a PC. Also tried XyWrite. - Morton Fox
...but it offended our sense of Mac-ness because of its dot commands and other anti-Mac things. So we switched to FullWrite Professional, which had a true Mac interface... - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
...but was slow as a dog, so we switched back to Word. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Wordstar in CP/M 4 LYFE - Akiva Moskovitz
Until 1991, I didn't use any Microsoft operating system on a regular basis. From 1979-1991 I used UNIX (on a DEC PDP-11/70), Oasis/THEOS, and the Mac OS. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Never used CP/M. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
1980s? I was learning Excel and Word on the Mac in journalism class. DOS and Lotus in computer science. Probably explains why I chose journalism. - Robert Scoble
Heh. CP/M came with the Commodore 128. - Rodfather
80's Used Wordstar. - Christopher Welle
No modern applications in my college classes. My 1979-1980 physics lab included a quarter of Pascal programming. Never used Pascal professionally, though. My only paid programming was HyperTalk (for a HyperCard stack, a help/user manual). - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
I used Wordstar too Akiva. And Datastar/Report Star. Microsoft? MS-DOS straight to Windows 1.0. Quatro Pro (Borland) was the best spreadsheet for the PC in the early/mid 80s, and Wordperfect was the preferred word processing software, dBase IV for databases, . While sticking with Windows since the 1.0 version, it was years before I used MS Office applications to any great extent. - JodyC
The first wordprocessor I used with a GUI was the one that came with GEOS for the Commodore. It was slow as hell. - Rodfather
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“FF spot quiz! Shortly after IBM introduced the first ICM PC's, this company capitalized on it and soon became the fastest growing company in American history (No cheating) ..”
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Microsoft? - Pete Delucchi
Microsoft or Compaq. - JodyC
Shot in the dark. Lotus. - AJ Kohn
I'm going with Microsoft. - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart
Second guess: DuPont. There's a lot of plastic in them old-school computers. - Pete Delucchi
JodyC! - COMPAQ computer made a more rugged version and became the first large scale PC clone company. - Charlie Anzman
Xerox (the company M$ stole windows from) - Susan Beebe
Compaq - Michael Fidler
Oracle,or Microsoft - Michael Fidler
Cute Susan ! Michael and JodyC both got it (see above??) Compaq. Scary part is I remember it :) Nite you guys. Traveling tomorrow, maybe Wednesday .. (Maybe I'll take a picture of Wall St .... ) - Charlie Anzman
I used to have a Packard Bell, which I think got swallowed by Compaq...who then got swallowed by HP? - Rahsheen™
Oh gees Charlie, you're right! LOL at myself what a dumbass!! ha, ha!! Hey enjoy NYC!! lucky!! - Susan Beebe
and therein lies 'part' of what you're experiencing today .... There used to be one or two big deals a week. For the last decade and a half, Wall St has been outright counting on 'deals' to make money. While some were necessary to compete globally, many weren't. The outcome of each merger was a layoff or two, consolidation. and absolutely nothing contributed to the domestic economy. Anyone remember when Northrup bought Grumman and they promised never to leave Long Island? - Charlie Anzman
In the mid-80's my first PC (graduating from CP/M) was the IBM PS/2. I priced a 20mb HDD upgrade, the cost was $8k. As soon as the 80386 came out I bought the Compaq Deskpro, leaving IBM's proprietary hardware behind forever. Compaqs were tanks back then, and the best on the market. - JodyC
Last one - and then I really gotta get some zzz's. We talk about 'early adopters' today. (LG ... are you listening?) There's absolutely no doubt that my fascination with computers and sorta forcing both my daughter and my wife to learn early (my daughter was easy - they had cool games for 386's :) was part of their latter success in life. Food for thought. Nite!!! - Charlie Anzman
Nite Charlie! - Mo "Killer Bee" Kargas
My guess is Compaq. My second guess is Microsoft. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
The interesting lesson - for speed reasons, IBM deployed an open architecture, while significant parts of Apple computers were proprietary. Which company is still in the personal computer business? - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
I'll go with Lotus, it wasn't Microsoft. They didn't get their big growth until the mid-late 80s. - Dave "Maverick" Winer
@Ontario Emperor - Actually they both are. - xero
What made Microsoft take off - Word and Excel? - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Ontario, that and DOS and the mouse and the CP/M card for the Apple II, and the languages -- but it really exploded with Windows 3.x in the early 90s. - Dave "Maverick" Winer
Cool stuff Charlie. @Ontario: Windows made M$. The Office apps came later. - Susan Beebe
Ontario - Gates (and company) wrote DOS, the first operating system for the IBM PC, which IBM did not license exclusively. PC-DOS was the IBM version. Shortly thereafter, Microsoft was born and the Microsoft branded MS-DOS appeared. Agree with Dave on the latter explosion. - Charlie Anzman
Linus Torvalds? JK.... - Mike Reynolds
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“Straw poll: Do you think John McCain should retire from the Senate after he loses the general election?”
Straw poll: Do you think John McCain should retire from the Senate after he loses the general election?
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No. If you choose a job politics, don't quit just cause you failed at getting a promotion. People hired you to serve a full term. - John Worthington
Agree with John, it's a commitment to the country and constitutents first and foremost. - Mo "Killer Bee" Kargas
He shouldn't quit or anything, but he should definitely retire ASAP - Rahsheen™
At this point, his credibility's been shot. He needs to be turned loose. Even the Repubs at that initial bailout meeting with the Pres and Obama stated as such. - Mavericks of Troy, NV!
Why should he retire Rah? - Jasmin Smith
VAMPIRE! KILL IT! KILL IT! - Outsanity
He should retired because he is old as dirt and he should spend the years he has left chillin out on the beach somewhere. I seriously think he's losing it. - Rahsheen™
I agree, retire. He has exhausted all integrity, shied away from then cozied up to the Republican base only for critical gain, and lets face it, he really is "4 more years of Bush". There's not much left for him. - JodyC
So tired of hearing the "4 more years of Bush" mantra. *rolling eyes* and I'm also tired of the ageism. Maybe I'm sensitive because my dad is 83, strong, has all his wits about him, and could probably take on half of you guys here on FF... - Jasmin Smith
As long as he loses the Presidential election, I don't much care whether he does or not. - Jeff P. Henderson
I'm not hating on McCain simply because he's old. It's because of his behavior. You're right, though. Maybe he has always been slightly off. I shouldn't just assume it's cuz he was at Adam and Eve's wedding reception. - Rahsheen™
Jasmin - the 4 years thing is much easier, and takes up much less space, than listing each and every detail why he should crawl under a rock after a disgracefully run campaign that clearly failed to get people to buy into a plan that differs little from what we've seen the past 8 years. - JodyC
You should retire that scary ass picture, that's for damn sure. - ::Kristen::
I think he and Obama should have both resigned from the Senate as soon as they decided to run for president. At the very least, they both should have resigned when they won their parties' nominations. - Joey Gibson
I don't know why I allow myself to get pulled into these useless political conversations... I'm going to go hang out in the Canadian Politics Room where I belong. Good luck America! and goodnight! - Jasmin Smith
Rahsheen, he just "crashed" the reception :-) - JodyC
No. Hillary didn't. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
no why deny the AZ citizens the oppt to vote him out - Ruth Ferguson
Chris wtf! This image = Do Not Want!! - Mona N.
No, we need creepy grins in the senate. It's why I watch C-Span. - Metta (Kamath)
Make this go away, he nearly looks human in this shot, what's he a sexagenarian here? - Pete Delucchi
Look how glazed over his eyes are! CREEPY!! - Mona N.
This photo is going to give me nightmares. - ☺ Cecily ☺
Truth to tell, McCain is kinda young for a Senator... - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
I think the citizens of Arizona should decide that. - Christopher Welle
he should retire based on his loss of dignity and credibility over the last month in particular - Cee Bee
Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. - John McCrea
That picture is SCARY! - Lindsay Donaghe
I don't even dare to talk like this for fear of jinxing it. i'm so fucking paranoid and afraid at this point. - Anthony Citrano
I think he should retire from making scary photos. - Steven Perez
Steven, the photo merely reflects his essence :) - Hayk Hakobyan
No, he has his place as a Senator. After all, he is supposed to be a MAVERICK among Republicans. - Mike Reynolds
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This is the win. - Monique via fftogo
meh...LOL - Rahsheen™
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thanks for deciphering the LOL code! - Susan Beebe
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