3/1     First Osama Bin Laden, next Andrew Breitbart, I wonder who
        will be the third one.
        \_ I suppose you think Whitney just fell asleep in the tub?
           \_ Wow, you think Obama had Whitney axed too? What did she
              have on him?
              \_ Obama? No, no, no: Bobby Brown! You didn't read what
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5/1     Osama bin Ladin is dead.
        \_ So is the CSUA.
           \_ Nope, it's actually really active.
              \_ Are there finally girls in the csua?
              \_ Is there a projects page?
              \_ Funneling slaves -> stanford based corps != "active"
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9/11    Never forget.
        \_ Osama Bin Laden, your name shall not be forgotten.
        \_ Forget what?
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10/30   YOU ARE ALL JOE THE PLUMBER
        \_ The Obama Administration's slogan will be
           THEN SURELY THE PARTY OF GOD ARE THEY WHO WILL BE TRIUMPHANT
           \_ I like OSAMA, HERO OF ISLAM
           \_ Obama transliterates to "He is with us" in Persian. Oo bah mah.
           \_ Obama transliterates to "He will impale us" in Persian.
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10/22   Al Qaida rooting for McCain
        http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/238985.php
        http://washingtonindependent.com/14218/mccain-advisers-freaked-out-by-al-qaeda-preference-for-mccain
        \_ How better to destroy America than to bankrupt us with N billion
           foreign intervention wars?
        \_ Expect tape from Osama endorsing Obama by next Friday at the latest.
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10/15   Sacramento County Republican website:
        "The Only Difference between Obama and Osama is BS: Waterboard
        Barack Obama"
        http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/waterboard-him.html
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9/25    Osama Bin Laden: "We don't have to screw with you infidels anymore,
        your financial market is already in ruins. Alalalalalalaah"
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9/22    "Pakistanis say suspected US drone shot down"
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080923/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_drone
        One fewer friend, one more foe.
        \_ Isn't this what Obama said he'd do?
           \_ No, but why let facts get in the way.
           \_ Obama or Osama? Are we really supposed to belive that Obama said
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7/9     http://appleorangescale.com/?wd0=obama&wd1=mccain
        Obama rules, McCain sucks! There it is guys, Obama is going to win.
        \_ I don't believe in crazy conspiracies.  I think there will be a
           a big terror attack before the election.  No false flag crap,
           no inside job stuff, it'll just happen.  After that everyone
           will run scared and vote for McCain.  McCain will keep us in
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6/17    May was the least deadly month for US troops in Iraq since the war
        began.
        \_ Meanwhile, we are losing the war in Afghanistan, where Osama
           really is.
           \_ Shhhhhhhh!
           \_ No, the violence continues there, but the casualties in Iraq have
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3/10    Exhaustive Pentagon review finds no Saddam/Al Qaeda link:
        http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/v-print/story/29959.html
        "An exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were
        captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion has found no evidence that
        Saddam Hussein's regime had any operational links with Osama bin
        Laden's al Qaida terrorist network."
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10/3    http://www.kidsdata.org/topictables.jsp?t=18&i=7&ra=8_2
        Look, Democrats are more concerned about children than
        Republicans by ~20%! See, Republicans are selfish bastards. -troll
        \_ Charles Manson was a liberal. Any question?          -anti-troll
           \_ So was Hitler - anti-anti-troll
        \_ i hope you are not talking about the recent veto of extending
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4/24    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4941050.stm
        Sun Microsystem's McNealy quits post as head, making it a
        bright day for Sun shareholders, with price rising to
        6% to $5.29 in after-hour trade.
        \_ Big baby finally grows up.
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10/16   So any sun old timers still reading the motd? I was recently named a
        SARC "intern" and I wanted to find out if anyone has been through the
        "intern" process and if they had any tips/pointers. txn.
        \_ I'm a Sun "old timer" in several ways, especially if you count me
           playing with the first prototypes when I was 11 years old ... I
           was a Sun intern in summer of 1991 and had a blast.  My take from
	...

9/14    Does anyone else think Sun Microsystems is evil?  I have 2 biases
        #1. I went to Cal as an undergrad
        (SUN used to mean: Stanfurd University Networks)
        #2. I work for IBM.
        But seeing them fly over Dell yesterday:
        http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26127
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4/20    I just learned that Sun Microsystems signed a non-aggression
        pact with the Evil Empire Micro$oft. Since when did McNealy
        becomes Bill Gates' bitch?
        \_ "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."
        \_ This happened a couple of weeks back.
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4/2     Looking for perl/script based virus. Where to find them?
        \_ Uh, you realize the difficulty a perl-based virus would have
           propagating, right?  Why not write it yourself, it wouldn't be
           hard.
        \_ d00d, u should b l00king 4 a java virus.  write once, run anywhere!
           \_ d00d, don't u know that there is no such ting as a java virus.
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6/12    \_ uctt, are you a contractor? what do you do?
        \_ full time employee at my own startup now. never contracted in my
           life.  but i did spent some time in big 5 consulting managing
           various e-Commerce projects and our team of consultants from big
           5 was always much better than the employees in the client company
           (that's why they were paying us $275-$350/hr to be there) -uctt
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3/22    Bill Gates' wealth is hoovering around 97 billion dollars right now.
        Anybody plan to celebrate with me when it hits 100 billion dollars?
                                        -MSFT millionaire
        \_ so is that why he's married.
        \_ Disgusting!  Yech!
                                        -MSFT millionaire
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3/3     For those who said Jim Barksdale "admitted to being a Bill Gates
        admirer", read CNET's homepage today. The main headline is:
        "Gates gets grilled by Senate, Jim Barksdale and Scott McNealy."
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4/23    Suppose you used to work at Awesome Corp that got acquired by
        Monsanto Corp. You're embarrassed about it and people now hate
        you by association. Should you put Monsanto on your resume? Or
        is it better to leave it out completely?
        \_ Awesome Corp 2008-present (acquired by Monsanto in 2010)
        \_ http://www.quora.com/Engineering-in-Silicon-Valley/Whats-the-best-way-to-hide-an-embarrassing-company-on-your-resume
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3/13    Worker's paradise: "a workplace free of VCs, MBAs, sales, marketing,
        biz dev, endless meetings;"
        http://sfbay.craigslist.org/about/craigslist_is_hiring
        \_ I love management and PMs, the more the better.
           \_ In my company the ratio of product managers to developers is
              about 1 to 5.  I heard that at Microsoft it's about 1 to 1.
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2/14    Media company reporter lies to get more viewers, gets caught:
        http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/14/elon-musk-lays-out-his-evidence-that-new-york-times-tesla-model-s-test-drive-was-fake
        \_ Did the Big Oil pay the reporter to do that?
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3/1     Can someone explain to me why Groupon is a tech company?
        \_ It's similar to how Amazon and eBay are tech companies.
           \_ Amazon and eBay are *NOW* tech companies, they didn't
              start that way. Groupon started off as a marketing
              company, and their "technology" isn't getting any better
              than a bigger and bigger opt-in email spam system.
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