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Gore receives 30,000 stock options as Apple director
Associated Press ^
| 4-1-03
Posted on 04/01/2003 12:18:41 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:42:09 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) --
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: apple; gore; lockbox; riskyscheme; runslikeagirl
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To: Registered
Hillary Clinton was on the board of directors of Wal-Mart, but I continue to shop there.
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posted on
04/01/2003 12:43:01 PM PST
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
Wal-Mart = PRC outlet store
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posted on
04/01/2003 12:45:24 PM PST
by
ctlpdad
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Gore receives 30,000 stock options as Apple directorWhy doesn't he demand a recount until he gets 500,000 or so?
To: ctlpdad
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posted on
04/01/2003 12:48:33 PM PST
by
HAL9000
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Inventor of the Internet. Gee, I'm thankful.
To: js1138
> Now Apple is rotten to the gore.
Three weeks ago, I doubt any of us could name an AAPL Board
member other than Steve Jobs. Now we can, and that is not
promising news for Apple.
By nominating this lightning rod (Gore), they have needlessly
polarized their already-too-small customer base.
Did they imagine that they would capture an untapped customer
base consisting of Gore supporters or other naive people who
bought Gore's self-serving imaginary image as an ubergeek?
Did they think that conservatives and libertarians were such
a small part of their existing customer base that they could
afford to drive them off?
Did they forget about Rush Limbaugh, who until the Gore deal,
was giving Apple free endorsements, and has now warned-off
some 20,000,000 listeners?
This is massively incompetent management at work, folks.
Apple is at serious risk of becoming dot.gone.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
The least they could do! If is wasn't for Al inventing the internet, none of these 'Puter companies would have gotten off the ground. Ya think we buy em to play solitaire?
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posted on
04/01/2003 12:55:12 PM PST
by
Don Carlos
(NO! Next question?)
To: Boundless
All the big tech companies seem liberal at the core. And why not. Until last year, the software companies were run like Pulman. High salaries and benefits, no worries. Everything was going to get steadily better forever. the end of history. The end of business cycles.
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posted on
04/01/2003 12:57:37 PM PST
by
js1138
To: Oldeconomybuyer
So smart of Apple. Bwhahahaha. The CNN of computer companies. Do they honestly think they are hitching their wagon to a rising star, someone who is going to pull them into player status? Goodlord, apple, look at the man. You've hitched your wagon to an Assteroid. When he's through with you, all that will be left is a big, smokin' crater.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
It's only natural. After all, Gore invented the Internet!
To: Publius
"let's put some lipstick on this pig."
"Apple is in fuego!"
(I'm gonna short sell this all the way to zero, Baby!)
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posted on
04/01/2003 1:02:57 PM PST
by
ffusco
("Essiri sempri la santu fora la chiesa.")
To: Boundless
I agree. Apple still makes a decent niche product but Gore will be the worm for them.
Coming Soon:
The Apple iDork
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posted on
04/01/2003 1:05:55 PM PST
by
ffusco
("Essiri sempri la santu fora la chiesa.")
To: Lizavetta
Leno should steal that one!
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posted on
04/01/2003 1:06:52 PM PST
by
ffusco
("Essiri sempri la santu fora la chiesa.")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I fired off a letter to Apple about how disappointed I am with this decision, which seems to have no benefit for Apple at all (it won't get the left to buy Macs -- it will only alienate those on the right). I've gone from wondering when I'll be able to fit a new PowerBook into my budget to wondering if I'll be buying another Apple product in the future. Ugh. Bad move.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
He should have gotten more. After all, he invented the computer...
To: HAL9000
"Hillary Clinton was on the board of directors of Wal-Mart, but I continue to shop there."
Ahhhh, the ever clever HAL9000, trying to fool me into thinking there are any other stores BUT Wal-Mart where you live?!
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posted on
04/01/2003 1:30:29 PM PST
by
Registered
(If we're not sure he's dead...DROP MORE BOMBS!)
To: ffusco
The Apple iDorkThis machine won't boot up because it never stops recounting the memory.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Is this Starbucks Hi-tech Creative Al?
Or Corporate Boardroom Responsible Al?
Perhaps Political Figurehead Statesman Al?
Shouldn't he get options for each?
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posted on
04/01/2003 1:47:25 PM PST
by
Enduring Freedom
(To smash the ugly face of Socialism is our mission)
To: Navy Patriot
The image of memory recounting and recounting is hilarious!
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posted on
04/01/2003 1:49:19 PM PST
by
Enduring Freedom
(To smash the ugly face of Socialism is our mission)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
And what exactly has he done for them except for convince a lot of IT professionals to STOP using Apple ?
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posted on
04/01/2003 1:51:11 PM PST
by
Centurion2000
(We are crushing our enemies, seeing him driven before us and hearing the lamentations of the liberal)
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