Rush Limbaugh: Jim....What's His name, Free Republic Got Banned at CompuServe And...

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Rush Limbaugh: Jim....What's His name, Free Republic Got Banned at CompuServe And...

Rush Limbaugh
July 24, 2012

Rush is talking about the early internet and mentions Jim Robinson and Free Republic.

Free Republic Rules!

[ETL]

Hannity the biggest joke and fraud on the FOX channel

As good as Hannity was on Ayers and "reverend" Wright, he missed so many opportunities to really put Obama away. He rarely ever mention the word communism. Even when discussing Ayers and the Weather Underground, he wouldn't mention that they were communist (they themselves openly and proudly described themselves as communists). He (Hannity) would only describe them as "domestic terrorists". Bad enough one might think, but it misses a major component of what was happening then and today. He never brought up the fact that both "reverend" Wright AND the Weather Underground were proponents of communist "Black Liberation". Never heard him once mention the "Black Liberation Army" and their murderous activities. The BLA used to work closely with the Weather Underground. Together they attacked various police stations and individual officers, killing and maiming police officers in the process --all in the name of communist revolution and "Black Liberation" (commies used blacks in their attempted 'revolution", much in the way Charles Manson wanted to use them in his 'Helter Skelter' insanity). Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, actually praised the mass murderer Manson in one of her speeches to the WU.

[Mycroft Holmes]

Chow for paragraph eater.

I should have known there was a white-paper on the Lyon's mouse. Lyon was mostly working on chip-design methodology with Carver Mead (Introduction to VLSI Design, it was hot back in the day), and the mouse was kind of a worthwhile demo of that. We had a captive N-MOS fab and it was fairly easy for us to do multi-project chips and get custom VLSI in a run of about 10 bonded out chips or so per project for cheap.

I had the distinct pleasure of working for Tibor Fisli for a while. He and Gary Starkweather are the inventors of the laser printer, Tibor did the optics and Gary did the electronics and dragooned a couple of people for software. I distinctly remember Hal Murray (who did a *lot* of early router software) being involved. Their first model was about the size of a smart-car and would deliver 2 pages of black and white per second all day long. Big fun.

I, for one, welcome our new Cybernetic Overlords /.

[WhiskeyX]

The 8010 and the Xerox laser printers were the exclusive territories of the OPD (Office Products Division). Since we were the RMD (Retail Markets Division), we were not permitted to sell these Xerox products without getting our hands slapped for poaching in the OPD domain. We had some customers come to us wanting to buy the 8010 because of its potential for multilingual document support. OPD wasn’t responsive to their requests, and we were chastised for talking to them about OPD’s products. This was a real shame, because we saw tremendous potential for these early laser printers and 8010 systems helping our business customers. Unfortunately, the customers directed to OPD kept coming back with the complaint that OPD couldn’t sell them the laser printers they wanted for one reason and another. Xerox ultimately spun our RMD off to become Genra Group, and we sold and installed the first Hewlett Packard HP Laserjet 500 Plus printers, while the Xerox laser printers remained off limits to us.

[Godebert]

"By the way....I have nearly totally stopped listening to Rush and the others. It was his complete failure in 2008 to cover Obama’s eligibility. Now in 2012, he is doing the same. I find it very irritating. So much so, that I just don't listen any more."

Ditto.

[Mycroft Holmes]

Yes, Mother X worked really hard to urinate away a mountain of money generated by a 20 year patent monopoly on xerography. The tales are legendary in their awesomeness.

At PARC, the canonical term for management back East was “toner-head”, a noun. As in “Liddle David wasn’t a tonerhead, but he spent enough time in Rochester to pick up the disease.”

[murron]

I wonder how the family with 19 kids whose children’s names all begin with J remember who is who?

[manc]

exactly and for me Hannity is a fraud for the reasons you posted and I think he;s been wiht his elitist pals like Beckel that he doesn’t want to offend them and if he did he thinks he would not be on their friend list or go to their events.

Personally I’m sick of people like him who won’t mention what is really going on or are too PC.

The truth is out tere but every day i find people ahve no clue what is going on because they think the media is telling them the truth.

[WhiskeyX]

Looking at Xerox’s efforts in 1980-1981 from the point of view of office automation and publishing, it was exciting to work for the company who was bringing out the Xerox STAR and Altos. I joined Xerox and my wife promoted the adoption of the Xerox 860IPS at the highest offices of her major corporation. It soon came to be apparent when visiting the OPD offices that the people we were talking to were not expressing much confidence in this office automation concept, often describing the resistance of the IT management in the targeted corporate markets.

What did you see as a reason for Xerox not promoting the Xerox Altos in a head to head competition with Apple? Note, I realize Apple was not taken seriously at the time as a long-term survivor. What was the reaction you saw to the Apple Macintosh?

After our division was spun off as Genra Group, I provided the technical support for the Los Angeles region, and I qualified as an IBM technician and an Apple technician with the Apple Lisa and Apple Macintosh. We worked with an Apple prototype Macintosh equipped with a 5.25 in. floppy disk drive at one point. Why didn’t Xerox give us the STAR and/or the Altos and give us the opportunity to make their investment in Genra Group a better investment?

[Matchett-PI]

bookmark

[Marcella]

ping

[Windflier]

I wonder how the family with 19 kids whose children’s names all begin with J remember who is who?

I'll bet they don't! LOL

[Matchett-PI]

bttt

[Marcella]

I have read all the posts here. FR is a place to quickly find current news. Anyone can read it. Rush’s people and Hannity’s people likely come here to get quick news updates and likely, many others of all political persuasions do, too. As far as who is a Freeper “in his/her heart”, only that person knows and that applies to Rush/Hannity/Coulter/anyone. One’s conception of what a Freeper should think in order to be a “true Freeper” is going to be different than another person’s conception. Now, we could fix this if one designated person, such as Jim Thompson, would get inside all our brains and turns the cogs where he wants them and lock them in place. Since that can’t be done, we are stuck with individual freedom to think what we want. In my mind, I am a Freeper, how about you? And, we can post what we individually think, on FR – long live FR.

I do have a complaint about the Freepathon threads – they post all that delicious looking food and never deliver it to my house – bummer.

[stylecouncilor]

I love it!

[BIGLOOK]

That was uncalled for, Bob. May you wake up in the morning next to Hillary.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

What is Freerepublic all about?

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

Jim got banned from CompuServe for posting to the Whitewater BB.

What is Freerepublic all about?

[Chances Are]

“I’ll never forget old what’s-his-name.”

...from out of town!

CA....

[Chances Are]

“I’ll never forget old what’s-his-name.”

...from out of town!

CA....

[Bruinator]

Yes, and Rush gets his new from the same places as FR. In case you haven’t noticed FR draws news from many different sources. FR doesn’t originate the news but rather regurgitates the news just as all the talking heads do. He and others go the same places freepers do. I seriously doubt Rush comes to FR to see what news freepers linked to just to get ideas for his show. He has been around alot longer than FR.

This forum is, in a sense, a plagaristic entity. Nothing original other than the individual freepers thoughts on any given subject. The news is not generated in this forum, but rather it is commented on. A little too rigidly here lately if you ask me. Alot of one issue individuals and not many big picture thinkers.

FR serves a purpose, but it’s no greater a purpose than any other political forum. Jim does great work no doubt, but some here seem to think that FR is a major influence in political discourse. With all the RINO’s that continue to remain in power, the influence espoused is a little over rated by the rigid thoughts espoused by many on this forum

Speaking my mind will probably get me removed from FR, but it is to be expected when one doesn’t conform to the thoughts of the many. For all the tolerance that is expected of people on this forum, many here are no better than the intolerant left. See in a tolerant society, people of all opinions would be welcome here for healthy debate. Heck, some conversions might even take place. However, when the threat of a Zot, or even so far as contacting a moderator to tattle on another takes place, well, there is not much tolerance for the thoughts and opinions of others. Yes, this is a conservative site, and Jim can allow whom he chooses to join, but when everyone thinks the same and opines the same, the intellectual intergity and stimulation goes out the window.

I am sorry to say I have come to a point where I do not find FR what it once was for me. For me, its not a place where I can find conservative discourse that allows for a good debate. If one doesn’t agree, one is not welcome. The threats of going to daddy and telling on someone for an eggregious lapse in conservative judgement is no place anyone should want to be a part of. Reagan was a big tent conservative, those freepers that say they are conservative do not convey the conservatism of Reagan. I makes me sick to my stomach when I see people raked over coals for supporting a candidate who may have one view contrary to conservative ideals.

I haven’t been a prolific poster or commentor, and very few of you would even recognize my screen name. I will be accused of being a troll, a closet dem, etc..... I have never cast a ballot for a dem. I served my country for 7 years in the United States Marine Corps. I have a copy of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence framed on my walls. I go to Church every week, my kids understand what it means to love God above all things. I pray daily and I work my tail off for my family.

I am not sure what prompted this little diatribe, but it is what it is. I will leave your with my tag line, which is every bit indicative of the reasons for the decaying of my America:

“For socialism is not merely the labour question, it is before all things an atheistic question” Dostoevsky