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Lance_Boyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 12:34 PM Original message |
Wow. Apparently Steve Jobs was an overprivileged asshole. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
1. Yeah, the man had a hell of a lot of warts and one of them contributed to his death |
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HappyMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 12:38 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Yeah, but we really don't need |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 12:55 PM Response to Reply #2 |
14. Yeah, no shit. |
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HappyMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 01:07 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. lol! |
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adigal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 01:42 PM Response to Reply #14 |
30. When I was growing up, we didn't have ipod and iphones and wow!!! |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 02:22 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. Yeah, I had a great childhood too! |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 02:28 PM Response to Reply #33 |
39. You gotta laugh at posters railing about frivolous technology... |
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ChadwickHenryWard (692 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:38 PM Response to Reply #39 |
70. The Internet is not frivolous. |
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Stuckinthebush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 02:23 PM Response to Reply #30 |
34. Yeah, I remember those days |
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MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 02:49 PM Response to Reply #30 |
45. Speaking as someone with limited mobility in my arms and hands ... |
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Amonester (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 11:09 PM Response to Reply #45 |
90. Yep. It would be nice if the new model wasn't made to break 18 months later |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 03:35 PM Response to Reply #30 |
58. Bah! What's this "fire" thing? |
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apocalypsehow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 02:07 PM Response to Reply #2 |
32. Speak for yourself: I couldn't materially function without my iPad. Or my phone, for that matter. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 02:25 PM Response to Reply #2 |
37. Well, I certainly don't |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 12:44 PM Response to Reply #1 |
9. Xerox designed the gui. He marketed it. nt |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 01:10 PM Response to Reply #9 |
19. So without Jobs, you'd still be typing commands on a DOS line? |
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jayfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 01:18 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. I was fond of DOSSHELL myself. -NT- |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 01:22 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. Good for you. Jump on our there. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 02:54 PM Response to Reply #23 |
48. Dosshell was the shit! |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 01:32 PM Response to Reply #19 |
27. No. |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 02:24 PM Response to Reply #27 |
35. I didn't say Jobs invented it. |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 03:10 PM Response to Reply #35 |
55. This is revisionist. |
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DirkGently (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 04:29 PM Response to Reply #55 |
61. And the airplane was going to happen, with our without the Wright Brothers. Sad, petty Jobs hating. |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:12 PM Response to Reply #61 |
66. Note hate, just reality. |
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DirkGently (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:35 PM Response to Reply #66 |
68. No, what' silly is the preposterous idea the things Apple created "would have" come from elsewhere. |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 06:59 PM Response to Reply #68 |
82. Your history is inaccurate. |
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DirkGently (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 01:51 PM Response to Reply #82 |
95. You deliberately mischaracterize my post, which said "barely out of the basement." |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 02:29 PM Response to Reply #95 |
96. Android was in development years before iPhone was released.. |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 06:00 PM Response to Reply #35 |
76. Amiga had a GUI called workbench, it loaded from a single floppy. |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 02:42 PM Response to Reply #19 |
42. No. Someone else would have run with it. And Gates stole the gui from Jobs. |
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TNLib (683 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:04 PM Response to Reply #42 |
65. actually the Commodore Amiga had an even better UI than apple. |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 06:53 PM Response to Reply #65 |
81. No, Xerox did the development, Jobs stole from Xerox, and Gates stole from Jobs. |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 11:05 PM Response to Reply #65 |
89. Imagine how much more advanced our technology would be today.. |
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PoliticAverse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 07:41 PM Response to Reply #19 |
86. Jobs didn't work for Xerox, where graphical computer interfaces were invented... |
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ChadwickHenryWard (692 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:35 PM Response to Reply #1 |
69. "Didn't know we needed it until he designed it." |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 06:01 PM Response to Reply #69 |
77. Marketing is the infomercial |
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ChadwickHenryWard (692 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 07:26 PM Response to Reply #77 |
83. "Marketing" does not mean "advertising." |
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Lucian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
3. I never understood his appeal. I always thought he was an asshole. |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 01:13 PM Response to Reply #3 |
20. He was very photogenic in the 70's. That's about it. |
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MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 02:51 PM Response to Reply #3 |
46. You knew him? Really? |
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Lucian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 03:54 PM Response to Reply #46 |
60. I see the fanboys are out. |
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MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 10:59 PM Response to Reply #60 |
88. Really? That's your response? |
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Lucian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 11:30 PM Response to Reply #88 |
94. Better than your pathetic response to me. |
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trumad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 12:40 PM Response to Original message |
4. Yeah---and Edison invented the electric chair... |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
5. But he supported the current Democratic** President ... |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
6. we already know he denied being his daughter's father |
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trumad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 12:42 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Yeah and we also know that he made up for it |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 12:56 PM Response to Reply #7 |
15. maybe he made up for parking in the handicapped spot |
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trumad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 01:15 PM Response to Reply #15 |
21. Wow---he yelled at people... |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 01:30 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. absolutely right |
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MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 02:55 PM Response to Reply #26 |
49. I used to work in musical theatre (decades ago) |
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MilesColtrane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-28-11 02:30 PM Response to Reply #49 |
97. I've even heard that sports coaches *gasp* yell at their players. |
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ChadwickHenryWard (692 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 07:28 PM Response to Reply #26 |
84. A man who is nice to you but mean to the waiter is not a nice person. n/t |
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MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 02:52 PM Response to Reply #6 |
47. Don't forget that Bill Clinton once got a blow job. |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
8. are you saying the terminally ill can't park in handicapped spaces? |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 12:45 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. No, Handicapped spaces appear to be reserved for 20-year-olds driving oversized SUVs. nt |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 12:44 PM Response to Original message |
10. considering that he's dead, now |
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trumad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 12:45 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Of course it is... |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 02:26 PM Response to Reply #12 |
38. OH hell yes we've got more than our share of douchebags. |
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name not needed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 12:59 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. I'm surprised nobody's gone after him for driving a Mercedes yet. |
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Hassin Bin Sober (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:43 PM Response to Reply #17 |
72. Well, both he and Hitler drove Mercedes. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 11:14 PM Response to Reply #72 |
92. Hitler never learned to drive. |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 12:47 PM Response to Original message |
13. and read the article --no license plates, the way he did it, was legal |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
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Hutzpa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
22. wow another thread pissing on Steve jobs |
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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
24. Barnum dies, worshippers of the Fiji Mermaid have meltdowns for the next six months.nt |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 01:37 PM Response to Original message |
28. One of these days, I'll be made aware of the perfect human |
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MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 03:00 PM Response to Reply #28 |
51. Given your username ... |
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Demstud (288 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 01:41 PM Response to Original message |
29. Those are pretty petty offenses |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 02:04 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. He could have supported American workers and had American factories. |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 02:24 PM Response to Reply #31 |
36. Right well I may as well join in... he also was all buddy buddy with Murdoch. |
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DirkGently (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 04:52 PM Response to Reply #36 |
63. The book discusses how he lectured his "buddy" on the destructive nature of his Fox network. |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 04:55 PM Response to Reply #63 |
64. Yes, I know. Why is "buddy" in quotes? |
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DirkGently (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:13 PM Response to Reply #64 |
67. "Buddy" is in quotes because you were trying to smear by association. Obviously. |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:38 PM Response to Reply #67 |
71. LOL... no, no smear involved. |
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DirkGently (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:56 PM Response to Reply #71 |
74. Agreed it's laughable there are so many Apple/Jobs bashing threads. Definitely something going on. |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 06:00 PM Response to Reply #74 |
75. Come on now... |
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DirkGently (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 06:17 PM Response to Reply #75 |
78. Something wrong with society maybe, but not with Apple. People camp out at toy stores at X-mas too. |
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MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 03:01 PM Response to Reply #31 |
53. I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume that you don't use any computers then. |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
40. Didn't the dude have terminal cancer |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
41. OMG!!! Didn't put tags on his cars!! Parked in restricted parking spots at HIS COMPANY!! |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
43. really? judge a man on those things? |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 02:55 PM Response to Reply #43 |
50. Are you kidding? Judgmentalism is a common value here. |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
44. His taste in cars sucked, too |
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slutticus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
52. I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who didn't think... |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
54. I never thought of him as a hero, I do think he contributed quite a bit to our tech evolution. |
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Cumberland Guy (10 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
56. The last word on Steve Jobs |
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laundry_queen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 07:35 PM Response to Reply #56 |
85. 1000 times this^ |
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Cumberland Guy (10 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 07:45 PM Response to Reply #85 |
87. Thanks. I think that article was SPOT on. |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 03:30 PM Response to Original message |
57. ahh, the cult of Jobs will be flaming your ass |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 03:49 PM Response to Original message |
59. I never met Condaleeza Rice in person. But I'm confident that I know enough about her |
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DirkGently (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 04:49 PM Response to Original message |
62. ... who ushered in the era of personal computing with heretofore unseen design & quality. |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
73. rumor or real? |
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Exultant Democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 06:41 PM Response to Original message |
79. The tags on the car part was pretty funny, if he had advanced cancer he may have had to park there |
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devilgrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 06:53 PM Response to Original message |
80. Good to know that he's right down there with Dick Cheney and George W. Bush - Falwell, etc... |
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Safetykitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 11:12 PM Response to Original message |
91. Gee, he was a scumbag. How surprising. |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-27-11 11:29 PM Response to Original message |
93. I know. He sounds like an idiot. |
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