100 years ago today

[Hobo1]

I remember a time when every office had a Selectric Typewriter. Smart. IBM had the computer business tied up solid - from the mainframe to the first PC. Then they bought the operating system from Microsoft w/ no strings attached. Stupid. That made Microsoft very rich, and gave IBM a lot of competitors. Stupid. Now they are just another ordinary commuter company - and Apple is kicking as$.

BTW, don't compare anything to Microsoft if you want to impress someone. Microsoft is almost as bad as On-line America - among the walking dead. When Google comes out with an OS, Microsoft is dead meat.

 

[steveox]

Stalin was starving under the tsars the Soviet Union didnt excist til 6 years later.

 

[Little-Acorn]

I see the usual leftists are doing the usual screaming about the bad while ignoring the good.

(sigh)

Some things never change.

Fortunately they are becoming fewer in number.

 

[Hobo1]

I don't know what you expected when you started your threat. You didn't offer your opinion, which is customary. What do you want?? IBM 100 years? Who would have thought it? Sure doesn't look at the old. Too cool, and wow man. So the big 00!

Can't thank you enough for bringing that vital piece of political news to my attention.

 

[Rick]

Another company, Microsoft, is legendary for its monopolistic activities. But you rarely hear leftwingers complain about them because Bill Gates supports leftwing causes.

 

[TruthSeeker]

Another company, Microsoft, is legendary for its monopolistic activities. But you rarely hear leftwingers complain about them because Bill Gates supports leftwing causes.

Apple isn't any better. Steve Jobs is a BIG TIME lefty. And the vast majority of execs at Google and Yahoo and Amazon and e-Bay are also big-time lefties. The list is endless.

 

[Hobo1]

Apple isn't any better. Steve Jobs is a BIG TIME lefty. And the vast majority of execs at Google and Yahoo and Amazon and e-Bay are also big-time lefties. The list is endless.

They all want charitable or social programs with their name's attached. Not good enough to be remembered by history as a successful capitalist. Maybe it is human nature... when you get big money, you want to be remembered as being philanthropic.

If it were me, I would want to be remembered like Congressman Weiner. With a name like that how can you forget what he is famous for!

 

[TruthSeeker]

They all want charitable or social programs with their name's attached. Not good enough to be remembered by history as a successful capitalist. Maybe it is human nature... when you get big money, you want to be remembered as being philanthropic.

If it were me, I would want to be remembered like Congressman Weiner. With a name like that how can you forget what he is famous for!

Congressman Weiner lived up, or down, to his name. How many people can do that?

 

[Stalin]

Stalin was starving under the tsars the Soviet Union didnt excist til 6 years later.

Comrade Stalin's 1911

March-June The police make repeated searches in J. V. Stalin's lodgings (at the house of M. P. Kuzakova) in Solvychegodsk.

June 1 At a conference of members of the Central Committee of the RSDLP, held in Paris, J. V. Stalin is appointed in his absence an alternate member of the Organizing Committee for convening the Party conference.

June 23-26 J. V. Stalin in Solvychegodsk is kept under close arrest for three days for organizing a meeting of exiled Social-Democrats.

June 37 J. V. Stalin is released from open police surveillance in view of the expiration of his period of exile. Being prohibited from residing in the Caucasus, in the capitals and industrial centres, he chooses Vologda as his place of residence as it is on the way to St. Petersburg.

July 6 J. V. Stalin, furnished with a transit permit, leaves Solvychegodsk for Vologda.

July 16 J. V. Stalin arrives in Vologda.

July-September In Vologda J. V. Stalin is kept under secret police surveillance.

July J. V. Stalin writes a letter to the editorial board of Rabochaya Gazeta (Workers' Newspaper), directed by Lenin, informing it of his intention to work in St. Petersburg or in Moscow.

September 6 J. V. Stalin secretly leaves Vologda for St. Petersburg.

September 7 J. V. Stalin arrives in St. Petersburg and registers with the passport of P. A. Chizhikov.

September 7-9 J. V. Stalin meets the Bolsheviks S. Todria and S. Alliluyev and establishes contact with the St. Petersburg Party organization.

September 9 J. V. Stalin is arrested and confined in the St. Petersburg House of Preliminary Detention.

December 14 J. V. Stalin is deported to Vologda for three years, to remain under open police surveillance.

December 25 J. V. Stalin arrives in Vologda.

http://www.stel.ru/stalin/bolshevik_1909-1911.htm

Comrade Stalin

 

[Stalin]

Bill Gates mother, and the then-chairman of IBM John Opel, were both on the committee of the United Way charity back in the time when Microsoft got the IDM PC operating system contract.

"..The obituary of Mary Gates in The New York Times on 11 June 1994 was headlined "Mary Gates, 64; Helped Her Son Start Microsoft," and reported that, "She was ... appointed to the board of the United Way of America; in 1983, she became the first woman to lead it. Right Time, Right Place. Her tenure on the national board's executive committee is believed to have helped Microsoft, based in Seattle, at a crucial time. In 1980, she discussed with John Opel, a fellow committee member who was the chairman of the International Business Machines Corporation," her son's company. "Mr. Opel, by some accounts, mentioned Mrs. Gates to other I.B.M. executives. A few weeks later, I.B.M. took a chance by hiring Microsoft, then a small software firm, to develop an operating system for its first personal computer."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Maxwell_Gates

IBM has had social policies years or even decades ahead of legislation as the following wiki attests.

"IBM was among the first corporations to provide group life insurance (1934), survivor benefits (1935) and paid vacations (1937). In 1932 IBM created an Education Department to oversee training for employees, which oversaw the completion of the IBM Schoolhouse at Endicott in 1933. In 1935, the employee magazine Think was created. Also that year, IBM held its first training class for women systems service professionals. In 1942, IBM launched a program to train and employ disabled people in Topeka, Kansas. The next year classes begin in New York City, and soon the company was asked to join the President's Committee for Employment of the Handicapped. In 1946, the company hired its first black salesman, 18 years before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In 1947, IBM announces a Total and Permanent Disability Income Plan for employees. A vested rights pension is added to the IBM retirement plan.

n 1952, Thomas J. Watson, Jr., published the company's first written equal opportunity policy letter, one year before the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education and 11 years before the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In 1961, IBM's nondiscrimination policy is expanded to include sex, national origin, and age. The following year, IBM hosted its first Invention Award Dinner honoring 34 outstanding IBM inventors; and in 1963, the company named the first eight IBM Fellows in a new Fellowship Program that recognizes senior IBM scientists, engineers and other professionals for outstanding technical achievements.

On September 21, 1953, Thomas Watson, Jr., the company's president at the time, sent out a controversial letter to all IBM employees stating that IBM needed to hire the best people, regardless of their race, ethnic origin, or gender. He also publicized the policy so that in his negotiations to build new manufacturing plants with the governors of two states in the U.S. South, he could be clear that IBM would not build "separate-but-equal" workplaces.[35] In 1984, IBM added sexual orientation to its nondiscrimination policy. The company stated that this would give IBM a competitive advantage because IBM would then be able to hire talented people its competitors would turn down

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM

No doubt the left-versus-right fossils who infest this site will twist this in some way to show that IBM is really a communist front,

Comrade Stalin

 

[Stalin]

IBM and the Nazis

"...Despite the violent and repressive climate emerging in the new ultra-nationalist Germany, business relations between IBM and the Hitler regime continued uninterrupted in the face of broad international calls for an economic boycott.[13] Indeed, Willy Heidinger, who remained in control of Dehomag, the 90%-owned German subsidiary of IBM, was an enthusiastic supporter of the Hitler regime.[14]

On April 12, 1933, the German government announced the plans to immediately conduct a long-delayed national census.[15] The project was particularly important to the Nazis as a mechanism for the identification of Jews, Gypsies, and other ethnic groups deemed undesirable by the regime. Dehomag offered to actively assist the German government in its task of ethnic identification, concentrating first upon the 41 million residents of Prussia.[16]

This activity was not only countenanced by Thomas Watson and IBM in America, Black argues, but was actively encouraged and financially supported, with Watson himself traveling to Germany in October 1933 and the company ramping up its investment in its German subsidiary from 400,000 to 7,000,000 reichsmarks — about $1 million.[17] This injection of American capital allowed Dehomag to purchase land in Berlin and to construct IBM's first factory in Germany, Black charges, thereby "tooling up for what it correctly saw as a massive financial relationship with the Hitler regime."[17]

Black also asserts that a "secret deal" was made between Heidinger and Watson during the latter's visit to Germany which allowed Dehomag commercial powers outside of Germany, enabling the "now Nazified" company to "circumvent and supplant" various national subsidiaries and licensees by "soliciting and delivering punch card solution technology directly to IBM customers in those territories."[18] As a result, Nazi Germany soon became the second most important customer of IBM after the lucrative US market, Black notes.[19]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

Black's book : http://www.amazon.com/IBM-Holocaust...3102/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1308431702&sr=8-1

Anyone care to discuss or refute this book ?

Comrade Stalin

 

[steveox]

See Stalin under capitolist tsars he got in trouble with the law just like Hitler did under capitolist Jew Germany.

It shows you capitolisim and freedom doesnt work!!!

 

[steveox]

If you introduce socialism in the USA you take police powers away from officers.
I rather take powers away from these assholes.

Give powers to these guys

than to the pigs. Military justice worked in Germany,North Korea,China and in Russia. Police justice with crooked rich lawyers just doesnt work.

 

[TruthSeeker]

Comrade Stalin's 1911

March-June The police make repeated searches in J. V. Stalin's lodgings (at the house of M. P. Kuzakova) in Solvychegodsk.

June 1 At a conference of members of the Central Committee of the RSDLP, held in Paris, J. V. Stalin is appointed in his absence an alternate member of the Organizing Committee for convening the Party conference.

June 23-26 J. V. Stalin in Solvychegodsk is kept under close arrest for three days for organizing a meeting of exiled Social-Democrats.

June 37 J. V. Stalin is released from open police surveillance in view of the expiration of his period of exile. Being prohibited from residing in the Caucasus, in the capitals and industrial centres, he chooses Vologda as his place of residence as it is on the way to St. Petersburg.

July 6 J. V. Stalin, furnished with a transit permit, leaves Solvychegodsk for Vologda.

July 16 J. V. Stalin arrives in Vologda.

July-September In Vologda J. V. Stalin is kept under secret police surveillance.

July J. V. Stalin writes a letter to the editorial board of Rabochaya Gazeta (Workers' Newspaper), directed by Lenin, informing it of his intention to work in St. Petersburg or in Moscow.

September 6 J. V. Stalin secretly leaves Vologda for St. Petersburg.

September 7 J. V. Stalin arrives in St. Petersburg and registers with the passport of P. A. Chizhikov.

September 7-9 J. V. Stalin meets the Bolsheviks S. Todria and S. Alliluyev and establishes contact with the St. Petersburg Party organization.

September 9 J. V. Stalin is arrested and confined in the St. Petersburg House of Preliminary Detention.

December 14 J. V. Stalin is deported to Vologda for three years, to remain under open police surveillance.

December 25 J. V. Stalin arrives in Vologda.

http://www.stel.ru/stalin/bolshevik_1909-1911.htm

Comrade Stalin

This looks like a great "itinerary" for you, "Stalin".

Search, surveillance, arrest, confinement, and deportation. You could be just like your hero, "Komrade Josef".

 

[Hobo1]

If you introduce socialism in the USA you take police powers away from officers.

Fascism! Why aren't these guys catching real crooks. Only in America do the police waste their time looking for speeders.

How many traffic tickets must be issued to pay for one cop's salary.

Wait for the driver to cause a real problem, THEN you can haul 'em in. Speeding is a victimless crime. I HATE IT ALL. Where is liberty and justice for all? This is negative liberty when you hop in a car and think, "Only in America can I break 100 laws, simply by driving this car".