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ID Ron Burgundy
07/14/09

In reply to Google Loses Guy Who Caused Steve Ballmer To Throw a Chair
Ballmer called Schmidt a pussy? Awesome
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nikaru
07/15/09

@mysecretidentity: Ballmer is awesome. Where the heck did the author get the idea that Ballmer called Schmidt a pussy? Give us proof or you're just a bunch of liars.
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ID Ron Burgundy
07/15/09

@nikaru: Proof is like facts. On the internet, neither matter. I could say, "A guy who I used to hang out with got pulled over on the way to the hospital. He was driving so fast because he got shot." That happens to be a true story, btw.
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Curves
07/14/09

In reply to Google Loses Guy Who Caused Steve Ballmer To Throw a Chair
I would call making Balmer pitch his seating over losing you as an employee the best job reference EVER.
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Xeno
07/14/09

@Curves: Good point. First of all you were so valuable to cause that kind of outburst. Second you made Ballmer look stupid and that alone should be worth a job.
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ID Ron Burgundy
07/14/09

@Curves: completely agreed.
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grundy
07/14/09

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Now we know what he does all day, makes the pretty pictures on his wall.
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deanbmmv
07/14/09

@grundy: They were the original Win7 wallpapers. Then they slipped something 'special' in his coffee. And thus the cooooool Win7 wallpapers were born.

And from a few recent statements a slight side effect in his in ability to know the shipping dates of any of his products
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DallasEquiette
07/14/09

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Google isn't a house of cards, but it is going to eventally bottom out. Google's existence depends on the desire of companies to advertise to specific groups, a service Google provides in abundance. But with such a lean economic climate right now, businesses are trimming ad budgets. This is forcing Google to expand their focus into fields - like cell phones, VOIP, Operating systems, etc. Eventually, they will lose advertisers because they will become the competition to those advertisers, essentially dropping the bottom out of the company and all of their "free" services.
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NurseDave
07/14/09

@DallasEquiette: Of course in the current Popular Science there's an article about eSolar which is a Google funded solar energy company with a contract to build 11 46-megawatt power plants in the SW and plan to build a ton in India.
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frigg
07/14/09

@DallasEquiette:I think Google earns something like 98% of its revenue from advertising. Not a house of cards, but it has only one cash cow and everything else suckles at its cow boobies.
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SarojLuniz
07/14/09

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Ballmer is actually correct...Google is a house of cards. Google is Yahoo. You saw what happened to Yahoo. There will always be another search engine to come along and take over, Google will be no exception. Their stock and value is extremely over-valued.
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anexanhume
07/14/09

@SarojLuniz:

Yahoo didn't expand. They were a one trick pony (unless you count that awesome yahoo toolbar).

Google is constantly expanding, first by leveraging new online services such as googledocs, but also by creating software for the mobile sector, a web browser, and soon, a full-fledged OS. They are not the same.
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deanbmmv
07/14/09

@SarojLuniz: And Google could prove there is always another OS waiting around the corner too. Heck MS proved that themselves many times.

Though Anexanhume is quiet right, Google are expanding, at a stupidly high rate too, they have their fingers in alot of projects. which MS have too, much like spreading the weight around so as not to push down to hard in one place n fall through.

Google may have started out as a search engine and a rival to Yahoo, but it's now a software company and a rival to MS and Apple.
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nutbastard
07/15/09

@SarojLuniz:

google is yahoo if yahoo didn't suck. but yahoo does suck. and so, in conclusion, google is not yahoo.
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opazhman
07/14/09

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LMAO!!! I just read that story, I can't imagine Ballmer sweating his ass off lifting that chair.
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Weihovah
07/14/09

@opazhman: ballmer eats chairs for breakfast
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