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dandles
06/23/09

In reply to Apple: Den of Secrets
That article is just a puff piece to make it seem like the Wall Street journal isn't biased toward Steve Jobs, after they were fed the news of the liver transplant before anyone else. What did they report, that they're secretive? Boo hoo, big deal the employees don't know anything. Clearly they're opening their big yaps about the place being secretive, so they can't be trusted anyway.

Let them break the news that Lord Voldemort works there, and I'll be really impressed.
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skahammer
06/23/09

@dandles: Let them break the news that Lord Voldemort works there, and I'll be really impressed.

No, Rupe's been very clear from Day One: No coverage of the News Corp. chairman.
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Dr. Nick
06/23/09

In reply to Apple: Den of Secrets
didn't David Crosby come under fire for doing the same thing?
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BadUncle
06/23/09

@Dr. Nick: Twice! I mean, come on. That second liver could have gone to Mickey Mantle.
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BadUncle
06/23/09

@BadUncle: Close italic tag, knucklehead.
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dado
06/23/09

In reply to Apple: Den of Secrets
At a minimum, they'll probably freeze his head.
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skahammer
06/23/09

In reply to Apple: Den of Secrets
employing lookalikes and body doubles for occasional public appearances? It's not that difficult to imagine Apple doing the same thing when Jobs eventually dies, which is well beyond creepy, but sadly something that doesn't seem entirely outside the realm of possibility.

If this is really what you mean, CB, then I'll take the other side and give you 2-to-1 odds to boot. My thousand against your five hundy: What do you say?
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The Cajun Boy
06/23/09

@skahammer: I'm not even close to being confident enough to bet on it, even with that offer...I'm just saying that nothing would surprise me at this point.

However, if you want to make the same bet on this year's LSU/Florida football game, I might be willing to go there.
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skahammer
06/23/09

@The Cajun Boy: Dude, I only bet on sure things. Gotta raise cash somehow in this economy.
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ChillbearLatrigue
06/23/09

In reply to Apple: Den of Secrets
"It's not that difficult to imagine Apple doing the same thing when Jobs eventually dies..."

Don't you mean "if Jobs eventually dies?" He is really rich.
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The Cajun Boy
06/23/09

@ChillbearLatrigue: I actually gave consideration to writing it like that. If anyone could find a way to live forever, it'd be him.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
06/23/09

@The Cajun Boy: steve jobs 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 .... or just take his brain and make a construct like in neuromancer
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johnny_carsick
06/23/09

@The Cajun Boy: every time you bet against christ-child tebow, a blue-eyed towheaded orphan dies. you prepared to have that on your conscience?
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Kevin Bracken
06/23/09

In reply to Apple: Den of Secrets
From a strictly utilitarian standpoint, Steve Jobs deserves a donor organ, quickly.

Technology is what improves our lives and our species. Technology is what has advanced us from knuckle-dragging troglodytes to 2009. The world needs Steve.
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Bostom
06/23/09

@Kevin Bracken: Fortunately, Kevin, the world does not yet run on Randian principles wherein "utility" - in this case the ability to oversee the production of overpriced shiny gimcracks - determines who lives and who dies. Wealth (in Job's case) may have played a part, luck can, and tragedy always does: if Job's life is extended by a transplant, someone died in order to make that happen. But please don't tell me that Steve Jobs deserves a liver more than, say, my mother.

I've no idea how you feel about your Mom, but I suspect most of us - and certainly the organ donor - might differ with your incredibly shallow assertion.
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skahammer
06/23/09

@Bostom: I believe I detected hints of facetiousness in KB's original comment here.
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Falsoman
06/23/09

@Bostom: Well, i'm not exactly sure this is how it works, but... Isn't it posibly that he got the transplant from a living donor?

As far as i'm aware Liver is one of those organs that you can cut a piece from the donor and it would be viable for both the donor and in this case Jobs to live.

It would still be a very risky operation for both, but it is possible.
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badasscat
03/09/09

In reply to Will CNBC Need a Bailout?
So GE's stock price is down. Big whoop. Everybody's stock price is down. Has anyone here actually looked at their balance sheet?

This is what people in the bidness call a value stock. They've got a P/E ratio of 4.

It's no surprise that their profits are down in a down economy. But profit is still profit. Profitable companies don't ask for bailouts. This post makes no sense.
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GuyBitchy
03/08/09

In reply to Will CNBC Need a Bailout?
Even the mighty G.E. caught at the poker table. Wow. How about that?

Should that go down, the folks (big banks) who fed them all the make-believe chips (credit) to gamble and lose with can potentially get excellent G.E. assets for pennies on the dollar while we get the bill for the whole transaction.

See how that works? (And why the Fed therefore doesn't want to say how much they're handing out to whom...)
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rudolphdude
03/08/09

In reply to Will CNBC Need a Bailout?
When Citibank, a bank that makes up nearly a quarter of all US savings and checking, is valued less than Heineken (mmmmmm beer) GE is not too big to fail.
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Shelwood
03/09/09

@rudolphdude: Wait, are you saying Citibank the company is worth less than Heineken the company, or are you merely pointing out that shares of Citibank are now cheaper than a bottle of Heineken?
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Steve Holt's Mother Part Deux
03/08/09

In reply to Will CNBC Need a Bailout?
Now that's irony I can believe in!
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braak
03/08/09

In reply to Will CNBC Need a Bailout?
Yeah, you know, it's weird. The part of GE that's hurting is their financial division. Like the part of its business that makes loans to people.

I don't get that. I don't get why GE makes loans to people. If you are a business that makes ALL THE FUCKING LIGHTBULBS--I mean, here's civilization, and it is DEPENDENT on your product...why are you also opening a financial division?

I kind of felt the same way when they I realized that they ran NBC. What is the point of that? No matter how bad the economy gets, no matter how bad television gets, or how many people pull their god-damn advertisements, no one is ever going to stop buying lightbulbs.
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MrInBetween
03/08/09

@braak: The same could be said for the banks. If you have a business that pays people 2 percent interest to put money in your bank and you charge them 18 percent (or as much as 29 percent ) to loan out that money on credit cards -- and you get $2 user fees every time someone takes out $40 from an ATM -- why do you have to blow it all away by entering into these toxic derivatives that no one understood?

"Greed," Gordon Gekko said, "is good."
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iplaudius
12/18/08

In reply to Madoff Book Commissioned Within Week of Bust
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dancerevolution
12/18/08

In reply to Madoff Book Commissioned Within Week of Bust
Maybe Steven Spielberg can make it into a movie and get his money back.
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Seeräuber Jenny
12/18/08

In reply to Madoff Book Commissioned Within Week of Bust
Greed is [not so] good?
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SisterMaryMartha
12/18/08

In reply to Madoff Book Commissioned Within Week of Bust
I don't need a book to tell me about how much of a thief he is. That's like letting him steal another 25 from me.
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