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Old 10-13-2011, 09:47 PM   #196
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Well he's actually correct about Ford.
I watched the PBS series about Jews in America and yes, Ford was an anti-Semite big time.
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No way. Edison invented. Jobs reinvented. Two completely different things. Inventing is coming up with new original ideas. Reinventing is taking existing ideas. Jobs was not an inventor.
And check your history out a bit more... Edison was not only an inventor, he was as much a patent hound/troll as the worst of any individual/company today... and he was equally a thief by taking others work, improving on it and then crushing the originators in court so don't try and make Edison out as an inventing saint and Jobs otherwise because neither view is an accurate view merely little parts of the truth...
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And check your history out a bit more... Edison was not only an inventor, he was as much a patent hound/troll as the worst of any individual/company today... and he was equally a thief by taking others work, improving on it and then crushing the originators in court so don't try and make Edison out as an inventing saint and Jobs otherwise because neither view is an accurate view merely little parts of the truth...
Indeed. Edison was a bit of a sleazebag.

May he rot in perdition for what he did to Topsy.
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I watched the PBS series about Jews in America and yes, Ford was an anti-Semite big time.
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Wow. That was so remarkably not funny.

Am I the only one who has always thought The Onion was vastly overrated? I have yet to encounter a single bit of their brand of irony that didn't seem to be written by a 13-year-old.

I actually had a feeling the moment it started that it had the dull vibe of an ONN piece, and clicking on the video surely proved my guess right.

I suppose it is something that their terrible-ness is at least recognizable. Credit to them for that.
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I've seen a few things from the Onion that I thought were funny, buy yeah mostly I agree, it doesn't do much for me.

Mad Magazine is more my style.
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I have yet to encounter a single bit of their brand of irony that didn't seem to be written by a 13-year-old.
Well, there's your problem, right there. You're looking for irony and The Onion is focused on irreverent satire.

I'm guessing it's the irreverence that's hanging you up... and that's fine. But for those of us who think reverence is fairly overrated... it's a laugh riot.
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A wise man once said: if you have nothing nice to say, don't say it at all. It applies best here.
To paraphrase another wise man (Peter Ustinov):

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