Posted on 05/23/2007 3:08:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ah. Now I understand the Biblical account in Revelation when it talks about the blood running shoulder-high in the valley of Meggido.
John was actually describing the politiking behind-the-scenes between Gore and Hillary! supporters.
Fun to watch it will be, young padawan! ;-)
I assume this is sarcasm, since both of these examples of "smart" are actually examples of only moderately clever felonies. Martha Stewart went to jail for less. Of course she did not have the press covering for her.
There goes that new Apple Powerbook I was going to buy. I guess its Dell or HP from now on.
Michael Dell is a Republican. You can check out his contributions here - http://www.newsmeat.com/billionaire_political_donations/Michael_Dell.php. While he has given to a few local, Texas Democrats. He has given significantly to National Republicans.
The reason the Apple has been successful has less to do with Jobs and more to do with their habit of hiring brilliant people to actually do the work of making good marketable products.
Jobs was in the original core of guys that made the mistakes that put
Apple dead last in manufacturers of computers for a few years too. They’ve always been a software company that fancied itself as a hardware company. That us why they remain a minor player. Jobs et al could have been where Microsoft is, but he blew it.
I work in a company also awash in brilliant people. A third of our staff have a PhD in the pure sciences. We’ve been successful too, but even our leadership understands that its not their brilliance that has brought success but the brilliance of the rank and file that’s really done it.
With regard to Mr. Jobs, his name brought some investors back to the fold, and his basic competence at listening to good advice has seen the company recover from oblivion. But smarts are context-sensitive. Many idiots can manage a company, but fewer can offer opinion that means anything useful in the real world.
Unfortunately, my husband owns a Dell—what a piece of crap that is! (Of course, he never updates anything, either—LOL!)
Bad news for Apple.
That's my interpretation... and Tubebender's... and we're sticking to it...
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Nope, it's the people buying $200 iPods rather than $50 MP3 players from other manufacturers who are the idiots.
All that aside, I sure hope Gorebot runs, it would fracture the Rats at the time that the Republicans would be uniting behind Fred Thompson.
LOL...it sounds so much better when you say it...
Steve Jobs is played by the same actor who portrays Ronald McDonald -- Different make-up and wardrobe, but basically it's the same silly clown. |
Then he is far too thin skinned to be the President.
"But I think there's a question in his mind, perhaps because the pain of the last election runs a lot deeper than he lets most of us see."
Then he is far too thin skinned to be the President.
Takes a nerd to love a nerd.
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