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NASA / Lockheed
Lost the Mars Orbiter because Locheed used English and NASA used metric.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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You fellows beat me to Alaska.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Campfire Ranger
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Time Warner's purchase of AOL...biggest corporate loss in history.
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HP hiring Mark Hurd. Then Carly Fiorina. They actually played "Ding Dong The Witch is Dead" at the Boise site the day she left. Ouch.
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Campfire Tracker
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Xerox
Invented Alto, which had the graphical user interface, mouse, local are networking, what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) word processor...sold it all because they thought no one would use it. Steve Jobs bought it, and created the McIntosh. Jobs didn't buy it, Xerox let him copy it because they were clueless as to what they had. They basically gave it away. PBS did a special about the invention of computers and it was mind blowing how far advanced Xerox was ahead of everyone else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_AltoThe Alto became well known in Silicon Valley and its GUI was increasingly seen as the future of computing. In 1979, Steve Jobs arranged a visit to Xerox PARC, in which Apple Computer personnel would receive a demonstration of the technology from Xerox in exchange for Xerox being able to purchase stock options in Apple. After two visits to see the Alto, Apple engineers used the concepts to introduce the Apple Lisa and Macintosh systems.
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla
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Campfire Ranger
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Every corporation that donated to invested in the Clinton Foundation expecting some political favoritism in return.
Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery.
Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
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IBM when they made their deal with Microsoft.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
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Campfire Greenhorn
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Motorola staying analog with cell phones- thought digital wouldn't wok well
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How about, Napoleon selling Louisiana to Monroe, and Jefferson for eighty-six million francs, or three cents an acre.  Got more Nap? Considering it was right after 1800 (IIRC) and we were forced to take Oklahoma  and all... But Russia is the one that really screwed up. We bought AK right after the Civil War for about a quarter the money and only got three-quarters the area... but there were no coonasses! The difference in cost was huge considering it was well over 50 years later...
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How about, Napoleon selling Louisiana to Monroe, and Jefferson for eighty-six million francs, or three cents an acre. Got more Nap? Considering it was right after 1800 (IIRC) and we were forced to take Oklahoma and all... But Russia is the one that really screwed up. We bought AK right after the Civil War for about a quarter the money and only got three-quarters the area... but there were no coonasses! The difference in cost was huge considering it was well over 50 years later... If there had been coonasses there, it would have been twice as expensive.
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THE BIRTH PLACE OF GERONIMO
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Founder
Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
WS
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Campfire Kahuna
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Them new pickles Wendys started using about 2 or 3 yrs ago
* gag *
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GM Introducing the "No Va" in Mexico. Including the step panel that read "Corpse" by Fischer...
P&G trying to keep Rely Tampons on the market instead of immediately pulling them.
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When McDonald's 1st opened in Japan, They couldn't sell a Burger. To Save money they had wrapped all burgers and white paper. White is the color of death, they wear it to funerals. nobody'd buy a deathburger.
An unemployed Jester, is nobody's Fool.
the only real difference between a good tracker and a bad tracker, is observation. all the same data is present for both. The rest, is understanding what you're seeing.
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Campfire Kahuna
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Seward's Folly wasn't...except for the Russians.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Them new pickles Wendys started using about 2 or 3 yrs ago
* gag * A resounding "AMEN" from the gallery!
Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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The Edsel, New Coke, others? I have dad's 57 or 8 Edsel in the iron pile. Not sure the year exactly, but it has the Edsel engine in it...not the FE. Biggest blunder......hmmm......I guess the rear end trouble IH had with the new 460 tractor was a real killer. Apparently they never fully recovered from that mess. They tried to use the same rear end from the 400 and 450. Maybe even the old M.
I am MAGA.
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