Comments:

1. Roland Hesz on October 13th, 2009 at 13:22:

   The saddest thing is that Microsoft is full of brilliant people, and they have department with really cool and high quality ideas/concept products. But a clueless, aimless, directonless management destroys it all.

Comments:

1. Freddy Gibson on October 9th, 2009 at 16:52:

   lolololol

2. TSPhillips on October 9th, 2009 at 17:50:

   Always worked for m.

3. Maarten on October 9th, 2009 at 21:09:

   For a moment I thought that was going to turn out to be an Ikea ad.

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1. Mauro on October 9th, 2009 at 18:15:

   Sorry, that’s way past the foyer of ennui into the hall of shame. Seriously, putting your 23-year-old son in a position like that? WTF?

2. Jim on October 9th, 2009 at 23:16:

   OMG, I can almost hear the son talk to his father in an Eric Cartman-like voice: “But Daaaaaaad…”

3. Roland Hesz on October 13th, 2009 at 12:04:

   Maybe we can hail Nicolas the I, the Sun President soon?

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1. Sue W on October 9th, 2009 at 22:33:

   And for the thousands of “little people” who have lost their severance money, with pensions and livelihoods threatened…and the Canadian government stands by while the pieces are sold off…

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1. dprosenthal on October 10th, 2009 at 18:43:

   Foolish me – I was under the impression that praying was free, as are the services of the clergy of all religions. Just what does this provision reference? Does it interfere with the right of a person to refuse medical treatment on religious grounds? Does it exclude preexisting conditions of personal belief? Why do we keep electing these morons? If Congress would begin using common sense rather than political desires, we would already have a logical, affordable, and workable reform bill.

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1. dweasson on October 9th, 2009 at 16:34:

   In my book, he gets serious points for setting a noble trajectory, and having the gravitas to nudge the world along that trajectory.

   It is a sad indictment that those who don’t like Obama are so gleefully bashing the man and the prize — when you know that if it went to Bush/Cheney/Rice/Rumsfeld/McCain/Limbaugh/etc. it would be a great honor….

2. John Sinteur on October 9th, 2009 at 16:38:

   Here’s what the Nobel Committee has said:

   [Quote:]

   Mr. Obama’s foreign policy has been criticized bitterly among neoconservatives like former Vice President Dick Cheney, who have suggested his rhetoric is naïve and his inclination to talk to America’s enemies will leave the United States vulnerable to another terrorist attack.

   In its announcement of the prize, the Nobel Committee seemed to directly refute that line of thinking.

   “Obama has as president created a new climate in international politics,” the committee wrote. “Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play.”

   And that’s basically directly referring to the speech he made in Cairo, of course. Most people in the west have already forgotten that one.

3. John Sinteur on October 9th, 2009 at 16:48:

   Oh, and by the way, I can’t help but think of Buddhist artillery every time I hear “noble trajectory”…

4. John Sinteur on October 9th, 2009 at 22:20:

   Acceptance speech

5. Roland Hesz on October 13th, 2009 at 11:56:

   Actually, I think that after Yasser Arafat and Al Gore received the Nobel Peace Prize, it is a given that the prize is just something that has to be passed out to someone remotely famous or such.
   I don’t really think that Obama was the right pick for the Nobel Prize. Maybe they wanted to hint “good boy, you got the prize, now sit down and keep quiet”?
   Like giving out a life award at 24.