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Fabricated posted:Yeah BYOD isn't some sign of coming Mac dominance in enterprise. It's a lovely idea that will collide with reality as time goes on and IT infrastructures start realizing they're spending way too much time CJing everything and that VMs and Cloud poo poo don't solve it. Then it'll be back to standardizing on specific supported hardware again. actually until you made that edit i thought this was copy and pasted from like 2008 
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i don't know why i'm the only one who can't see the giant consuming cephalopod limbs of microsoft hugging the globe. maybe there's a higher than normal number of small businesses around here who just use some cheap saas and don't care about IT and never will. or there's a higher than normal number of depressed and under achieving IT people online who don't know they're out of touch with the status quo they try to defend. i did a job interview with a company that used to do IT but got out of it because no one runs big servers in their businesses anymore, they just use cloud stuff. now they are making their own saas. and microsoft is going "cloud first, mobile first". but i honestly hope you can keep convincing your higher-ups that the cloud is a bunch of hokum until your happy retirement. and i hope you feel joy and fulfilment from that, i really do. may your abiding steadfastness never falter. good luck.
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pram posted:uhh its called keynote and numbers qirex posted:no it's called "office apps are slowly becoming irrelevant and there's nothing Microsoft can do about it" you're both right
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it looks like microsoft is now back peddling on the "devices and services" classificationquote:More recently, we have described ourselves as a 'devices and services' company. While the devices and services description was helpful in starting our transformation, we now need to hone in on our unique strategy. again i gotta comment on the wordy elusiveness. they are trying to veil something here. you get that sense even before they say anything of substance. i think that makes it even worse.
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the verge is also reporting it as "dropping" the devices focus. Nadella says "nothing is off the table in how we think about shifting our culture to deliver on this core strategy," While Nadella might be dropping the devices and services moniker, that won’t directly impact products like Xbox, Surface, and Windows Phone just yet. it's like that abusive boyfriend who will do ANYTHING for his girlfriend (except stop drinking)
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duTrieux. posted:i think that microsoft has an opening right now that they could exploit to sell appliance-like home servers as a platform-agnostic "personal cloud", which would let them get windows in there as the glue that binds disparate services and ecosystems together, but they're not smart enough to execute you mean like Windows Home Server? they did that with at least 5 hardware partners already. i believe i remember commercials for it too. anyway, it's dead now. but really? a personal cloud? what's the value prop here? the ROI?
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flakeloaf posted:i can do this all day know what's even faster, more secure and cheaper? a USB drive. Cold on a Cob posted:i unironically wish i could put my dvd rips on my time capsule and watch them from my apple tv but i can't so i just keep that poo poo on my gaming pc same, but with a Macbook Air. actually, i store iTunes on the time capsule, so they go TC ----> Macbook ----> TC -----> Apple TV i suppose there's no chance of an iTunes Movies Match service to cloud it all, so the real solution is make more money so i can just buy the poo poo on iTunes hehh PleasureKevin fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Jul 11, 2014 |
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Bold Ambition & Our Core From: Satya Nadella To: All Employees Date: July 10, 2014 at 6:00 a.m. PT Subject: Starting FY15 - Bold Ambition & Our Core Team, As we start FY15, I want to thank you for all of your contributions this past year. I'm proud of what we collectively achieved even as we drove significant changes in our business and organization. It's energizing to feel the momentum and enthusiasm building. The day I took on my new role I said that our industry does not respect tradition – it only respects innovation. I also said that in order to accelerate our innovation, we must rediscover our soul – our unique core. We must all understand and embrace what only Microsoft can contribute to the world and how we can once again change the world. I consider the job before us to be bolder and more ambitious than anything we have ever done. We'll use the month of July to have a dialogue about this bold ambition and our core focus. Today I want to synthesize the strategic direction and massive opportunity I've been discussing for the past few months and the fundamental cultural changes required to deliver on it. On July 22, we'll announce our earnings results for the past quarter and I'll say more then on what we are doing in FY15 to focus on our core. Over the course of July, the Senior Leadership Team and I will share more on the engineering and organization changes we believe are needed. Then, at MGX and //oneweek, we'll come together to build on all of this, learn from each other and put our ideas into action. Our Worldview We live in a mobile-first and cloud-first world. Computing is ubiquitous and experiences span devices and exhibit ambient intelligence. Billions of sensors, screens and devices – in conference rooms, living rooms, cities, cars, phones, PCs – are forming a vast network and streams of data that simply disappear into the background of our lives. This computing power will digitize nearly everything around us and will derive insights from all of the data being generated by interactions among people and between people and machines. We are moving from a world where computing power was scarce to a place where it now is almost limitless, and where the true scarce commodity is increasingly human attention. In this new world, there will soon be more than 3 billion people with Internet-connected devices – from a farmer in a remote part of the world with a smartphone, to a professional power user with multiple devices powered by cloud service-based apps spanning work and life. The combination of many devices and cloud services used for generating and consuming data creates a unique opportunity for us. Our customers and society expect us to maximize the value of technology while also preserving the values that are timeless. We will create more natural human-computing interfaces that empower all individuals. We will develop and deploy secure platforms and infrastructure that enable all industries. And we will strike the right balance between using data to create intelligent, personal experiences, while maintaining security and privacy. By doing all of this, we will have the broadest impact. Our passion is to enable people to thrive in this mobile-first and cloud-first world. Our Core Microsoft was founded on the belief that technology creates opportunities for people and organizations to express and achieve their dreams by putting a PC on every desk and in every home. More recently, we have described ourselves as a "devices and services" company. While the devices and services description was helpful in starting our transformation, we now need to hone in on our unique strategy. At our core, Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world. We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more. We think about productivity for people, teams and the business processes of entire organizations as one interconnected digital substrate. We also think about interconnected platforms for individuals, IT and developers. This comprehensive view enables us to solve the more complex, nuanced and real-world day-to-day challenges in an increasingly digital world. It also opens the door to massive growth opportunity – technology spend as a total percentage of GDP will grow with the digitization of nearly everything in life and work. We have a rich heritage and a unique capability around building productivity experiences and platforms. We help people get stuff done. Stuff like term papers, recipes and budgets. Stuff like chatting with friends and family across the world. Stuff like painting, writing poetry and expressing ideas. Stuff like running a Formula 1 racing team or keeping an entire city running. Stuff like building a game with a spark of your imagination and remixing it with the world. And stuff like helping build a vaccine for HIV, and giving a voice to the voiceless. This is an incredible foundation from which to grow. At our core, Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world. We will reinvent productivity to empower every person and every organization on the planet to do more and achieve more. Microsoft has a unique ability to harmonize the world's devices, apps, docs, data and social networks in digital work and life experiences so that people are at the center and are empowered to do more and achieve more with what is becoming an increasingly scarce commodity – time! Productivity for us goes well beyond documents, spreadsheets and slides. We will reinvent productivity for people who are swimming in a growing sea of devices, apps, data and social networks. We will build the solutions that address the productivity needs of groups and entire organizations as well as individuals by putting them at the center of their computing experiences. We will shift the meaning of productivity beyond solely producing something to include empowering people with new insights. We will build tools to be more predictive, personal and helpful. We will enable organizations to move from automated business processes to intelligent business processes. Every experience Microsoft builds will understand the rich context of an individual at work and in life to help them organize and accomplish things with ease. Productive people and organizations are the primary drivers of individual fulfilment and economic growth and we need to do everything to make the experiences and platforms that enable this ubiquitous. We will think of every user as a potential "dual user" – people who will use technology for their work or school and also deeply use it in their personal digital life. They strive to get stuff done with technology, demanding new cloud-powered applications, extensively using time and calendar management, advanced expression, collaboration, meeting, search and research services, all with better security and privacy control. Microsoft will push into all corners of the globe to empower every individual as a dual user – starting with the soon to be 3 billion people with Internet-connected devices. And we will do so with a platform mindset. Developers and partners will thrive by creatively extending Microsoft experiences for every individual and business on the planet. Across Microsoft, we will obsess over reinventing productivity and platforms. We will relentlessly focus on and build great digital work and life experiences with specific focus on dual use. Our cloud OS infrastructure, device OS and first-party hardware will all build around this core focus and enable broad ecosystems. Microsoft will light up digital work and life experiences in the most personal, intelligent, open and empowering ways. Developers and partners will thrive by creatively extending Microsoft experiences for every individual and business on the planet. Digital Work and Life Experiences: We will deliver digital work and life experiences that are reinvented for the mobile-first and cloud-first world. First and foremost, these experiences will shine for productivity. As a result, people will meet and collaborate more easily and effectively. They will express ideas in new ways. They will experience the magic of ambient intelligence with Delve and Cortana. They will ask questions naturally and have them answered with insight from Power Q&A. They will conquer language barriers and change the world with Skype translator. Apps will be designed as dual use with the intelligence to partition data between work and life and with the respect for each person's privacy choices. All of these apps will be explicitly engineered so anybody can find, try and then buy them in friction-free ways. They will be built for other ecosystems so as people move from device to device, so will their content and the richness of their services – it's one way we keep people, not devices, at the center. This transformation is well underway as we moved Office from the desktop to a service with Office 365 and our solutions from individual productivity to group productivity tools – both to the delight of our customers. We'll push forward and evolve the world-class productivity, collaboration and business process tools people know and love today, including Skype, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Bing and Dynamics. Increasingly, all of these experiences will become more connected to each other, more contextual and more personal. For example, today the Cortana app on my Windows Phone merges data from highway sensors and my own calendar and simply reminds me to leave work to make it to my daughter's recital on time. In the future, it will be even more intelligent as a personal assistant who takes notes, books meetings and understands if my question about the weather is to determine my clothes for the day or is intended to start a complex task like booking a family vacation. Microsoft experiences will be unique as they will reason over information from work and life and keep a user in control of their privacy. Cloud OS: Our cloud OS represents the largest opportunity given we are working from a position of strength. With Azure, we are one of very few cloud vendors that runs at hyper-scale. The combination of Azure and Windows Server makes us the only company with a public, private and hybrid cloud platform that can power modern business. We will transform the return on IT investment by enabling enterprises to combine their existing datacenters and our public cloud into one cohesive infrastructure backplane. We will enable our customers to use our Cloud OS to accelerate their businesses and power all of their data and application needs. Beyond back-end cloud infrastructure, our cloud will also enable richer employee experiences. For example, with our new Enterprise Mobility Suite, we now enable IT organizations to manage and secure the Windows, iOS and Android devices that their employees use, while keeping their companies secure. We are also making it easy for organizations to securely adopt SaaS applications (both our own and third-party apps) and seamlessly integrate them with their existing security and management infrastructure. We will continue to innovate with higher level services like identity and directory services, rich data storage and analytics services, machine learning services, media services, web and mobile backend services, developer productivity services, and many more. Our cloud OS will also run all of Microsoft's digital work and life experiences, and we will continue to grow our datacenter footprint globally. Every Microsoft digital work and life experience will also provide third-party extensibility and enable a rich developer ecosystem around our cloud OS. This will enable customers and partners to further customize and extend our solutions, achieving even more value. Device OS and Hardware: Our Windows device OS and first-party hardware will set the bar for productivity experiences. Windows will deliver the most rich and consistent user experience for digital work and life scenarios on screens of all sizes – from phones, tablets and laptops to TVs and giant 82 inch PPI boards. We will invest so that Windows is the most secure, manageable and capable OS for the needs of a modern workforce and IT. Windows will create a broad developer opportunity by enabling Universal Windows Applications to run across all device targets. Windows will evolve to include new input/output methods like speech, pen and gesture and ultimately power more personal computing experiences. Our first-party devices will light up digital work and life. Surface Pro 3 is a great example – it is the world's best productivity tablet. In addition, we will build first-party hardware to stimulate more demand for the entire Windows ecosystem. That means at times we'll develop new categories like we did with Surface. It also means we will responsibly make the market for Windows Phone, which is our goal with the Nokia devices and services acquisition. Our first-party devices will light up digital work and life. I also want to share some additional thoughts on Xbox and its importance to Microsoft. As a large company, I think it's critical to define the core, but it's important to make smart choices on other businesses in which we can have fundamental impact and success. The single biggest digital life category, measured in both time and money spent, in a mobile-first world is gaming. We are fortunate to have Xbox in our family to go after this opportunity with unique and bold innovation. Microsoft will continue to vigorously innovate and delight gamers with Xbox. Xbox is one of the most-revered consumer brands, with a growing online community and service, and a raving fan base. We also benefit from many technologies flowing from our gaming efforts into our productivity efforts – core graphics and NUI in Windows, speech recognition in Skype, camera technology in Kinect for Windows, Azure cloud enhancements for GPU simulation and many more. Bottom line, we will continue to innovate and grow our fan base with Xbox while also creating additive business value for Microsoft. While today many people define mobile by devices, Microsoft defines it by experiences. We're really in the infant stages of the mobile-first world. In the next few years we will see many more new categories evolve and experiences emerge that span a variety of devices of all screen sizes. Microsoft will be on the forefront of this innovation with a particular focus on dual users and their needs across work and life. Microsoft will continue to vigorously innovate and delight gamers with Xbox. Our Culture Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture. I truly believe that we spend far too much time at work for it not to drive personal meaning and satisfaction. Together we have the opportunity to create technology that impacts the planet. Nothing is off the table in how we think about shifting our culture to deliver on this core strategy. Organizations will change. Mergers and acquisitions will occur. Job responsibilities will evolve. New partnerships will be formed. Tired traditions will be questioned. Our priorities will be adjusted. New skills will be built. New ideas will be heard. New hires will be made. Processes will be simplified. And if you want to thrive at Microsoft and make a world impact, you and your team must add numerous more changes to this list that you will be enthusiastic about driving. I am committed to making Microsoft the best place for smart, curious, ambitious people to do their best work. First, we will obsess over our customers. Obsessing over our customers is everybody's job. I'm looking to the engineering teams to build the experiences our customers love. I'm looking to the sales and marketing organizations to showcase our unique value propositions and drive customer usage first and foremost. In order to deliver the experiences our customers need for the mobile-first and cloud-first world, we will modernize our engineering processes to be customer-obsessed, data-driven, speed-oriented and quality-focused. We will be more effective in predicting and understanding what our customers need and more nimble in adjusting to information we get from the market. We will streamline the engineering process and reduce the amount of time and energy it takes to get things done. You can expect to have fewer processes but more focused and measurable outcomes. You will see fewer people get involved in decisions and more emphasis on accountability. Further, you will see investments in two new or combined functions: Data and Applied Science and Software Engineering. Each engineering group will have Data and Applied Science resources that will focus on measurable outcomes for our products and predictive analysis of market trends, which will allow us to innovate more effectively. Software Engineering will evolve so that information can travel more quickly, with fewer breakpoints between the envisioning of a product or service and a quality delivery to customers. In making these changes we are getting closer to the customer and pushing more accountability throughout the organization. Second, we know the changes above will bring on the need for new training, learning and experimentation. Over the next six months you will see new investments in our workforce, such as enhanced training and development and more opportunities to test new ideas and incubate new projects. I have also heard from many of you that changing jobs is challenging. We will change the process and mindset so you can more seamlessly move around the company to roles where you can have the most impact and personal growth. All of this, too, comes with accountability and the need to deliver great work for customers, but it is clear that investing in future learning and growth has great benefit for everyone. I am committed to making Microsoft the best place for smart, curious, ambitious people to do their best work. Finally, every team across Microsoft must find ways to simplify and move faster, more efficiently. We will increase the fluidity of information and ideas by taking actions to flatten the organization and develop leaner business processes. Culture change means we will do things differently. Often people think that means everyone other than them. In reality, it means all of us taking a new approach and working together to make Microsoft better. To this end, I've asked each member of the Senior Leadership Team to evaluate opportunities to advance their innovation processes and simplify their operations and how they work. We will share more on this throughout July. A few months ago on a call with investors I quoted Nietzsche and said that we must have "courage in the face of reality." Even more important, we must have courage in the face of opportunity. We have clarity in purpose to empower every individual and organization to do more and achieve more. We have the right capabilities to reinvent productivity and platforms for the mobile-first and cloud-first world. Now, we must build the right culture to take advantage of our huge opportunity. And culture change starts with one individual at a time. Rainer Maria Rilke's words say it best: "The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens." We must each have the courage to transform as individuals. We must ask ourselves, what idea can I bring to life? What insight can I illuminate? What individual life could I change? What customer can I delight? What new skill could I learn? What team could I help build? What orthodoxy should I question? With the courage to transform individually, we will collectively transform this company and seize the great opportunity ahead.
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i'm the dude in a wind breaker indoors a subtle protest to satya the windbag?
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flakeloaf posted:six flags man, just back from greenfest, stops to learn more about how to kill a marketing campaign he and peter molyneux make a cute couple
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tim cook the other day said apple is about "showing rather than saying"
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Jul 11, 2014 19:19
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are the 40 paragraphs, each with 15 run-on sentences?
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word count: more: 40 experiences: 23 work: 23 cloud: 22 life: 20 productivity: 20 devices: 17 actual things: windows: 13 xbox: 5 office: 2 phone(2): 2 kinect: 1 nokia: 1 tvs: 1 word: 1 excel: 1 PleasureKevin fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Jul 11, 2014 |
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well I can't loving wait for July 22
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here, i made it shorter The work over the past year makes me proud and energized. I said before that innovation trumps tradition, and we must rediscover ourselves to grow, innovate and change the world. This is our boldest job ever. Today I’ll reveal the plan, and we’ll take July to talk about it more, particularly on July 22nd after releasing our earnings results. The top executives will discuss the engineering and organizational changes in detail, and we’ll build on it at MGX and //oneweek. Our Worldview The world is focused on mobile and cloud, and online devices span the globe. But with nearly unlimited computing power comes a lack of human attention. There are opportunities in this connected world, and Microsoft is expected to seize it while preserving values. We’ll have the broadest impact by creating new ways to interact with computers securely, so people may thrive. Our Core We’ve called ourselves a “devices and services” company because we were founded to put a PC in every office and home, but we can define our strategy more. Our core is a productivity and platform company that helps users achieve more in this mobile/cloud world. Since we’re all so connected digitally, we have to think different to solve complex problems. Things like recipes, budgets and writing poetry; things we’ve been helping with for years. Or helping cure HIV or text-to-speech. With this unique foundation, we’ll reinvent productivity for this world, harmoniously across devices. We’ll build solutions that go beyond office productivity, tools that are predictive, personal and helpful. This will span all our work. As each user has work and personal lives, we’ll make secure products for both, including time management, collaboration, meeting, search and research services. And our partners can extend upon our experiences, and it will span all we do. Cortana, Delve and Power Q&A help people in new ways. We’ll create more apps that help to easily find, try and buy across many ecosystems, keeping people at the center. This is a change in progress in Skype, Office, Bing and more. And all these will become more connected together. CloudOS: We’re one of the strongest in cloud, and we’ll build more cohesive solutions than before. This means richer, more secure experiences for IT and employees using BYOD and Saas. We’ll innovate in identity and directory services, data storage, analytics, machine learning, media, web and mobile backend, developer productivity services and more. The cloud OS will run all Microsoft services, professional and personal, and allow developer extensions. Device OS and Hardware: Our great, secure user experience will set the bar on phones, tablets, laptops, TV’s and giant 82-inch PPI boards, benefiting developers and powering more devices. I also want to talk about Xbox. Gaming is the largest digital-life category, and we’ll keep growing the great Xbox brand with new interfaces and cloud gaming. We define mobile by experience, not devices. Our Culture We’re equally ambitious to evolve our culture. We’ll do anything to shift it, like change job responsibilities, form new partnerships, build skills and hire people. All are expected to take part and focus on customers, from engineering to marketing. Through less management, more accountability and access to Data and Applied Sciences tools, we’ll lower development time and please customers more. The next 6 months will see new training in these processes, and you’ll be able to move and grow around the company. This flatter organizational structure will make us leaner and faster, and take seize this opportunity. And the change happens in the individual. "The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Peace out.
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i wonder how many aspies who can't adjust to microsofts new structure and lack of pepperoni-only pizza nights will quit as well.
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so when "satya's emails" said "nothing is off the table" they really meant everything is off the table except firing people. windows phone, xbox, surface, that all stays, in fact we are bringing back the zune.
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microsoft still doesn't have a device in the iPad category because the Surface has desktop windows. it seemed stupid to include it, but then again a metro-only surface would sell exactly zero because the platform had so little support. but if they had made a metro-only RT, the platform would be 2 years more mature today (plus whatever they ported over from Windows Phone). so i wonder how bad they regret that now. just noticed that satya did not mention internet explorer in his missive. he named dropped and defended just about every other product.
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how bad is it. i broke down the apple one already.
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they made $300 million less profit than this quarter last year. but more revenue (i.e. they have away xbox one's at a loss)
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oh, their phone hardware revenue went from 0 to 2 billion because of Nokia, of course their "corporate and other" revenue went from 700 million to -125 million. what the hell was that? they made... 18 million profit off of computer and gaming hardware... slow clap
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Surface revenue was $409 million, driven by our second generation Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 devices, and the recent launch of Surface Pro 3. Xbox Platform revenue increased $104 million or 14%, driven primarily by increased console revenue. We sold in 1.1 million consoles in the fourth quarter, as we drew down channel inventory, compared to 1.0 million consoles during the prior year. We sold 5.8 million Lumia Smartphones, and 30.3 million non-Lumia phones following the completion of the NDS acquisition. Low price point devices drove a majority of the Lumia Smartphone volumes. strong adoption of Office 365 Home and Personal offerings, which added more than 1 million subscribers in the fourth quarter to total more than 5.6 million. Search revenue increased 40%, offset by an 11% decline in display revenue. Growth in search advertising revenue was due to higher revenue per search (“RPS”), increased search volume, and the expiration of North American RPS guarantee payments to Yahoo! in the prior year. U.S. search share grew again to 19.2%.
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Surface RT Inventory Adjustments Revenue: $(38) Gross Margin: $(900) Operating Income: $(900) Diluted EPS: $(0.07) this means they lost $900 million on the RT??
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wrong thread? borderline personality disorder?
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hell sucks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGKwx-BFO0E
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is this an elected official or do they let people in for comment or something? [video type="youtube"]video of the same guy who's bashing spooky scary billionaires praising trickle down economics and poo poo, talking about private companies being more efficient and less wasteful, and defending mitt romney's business record.[/video] call me daily show.
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