Archive for August, 2009

No Poaching Agreements.

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Who does this guy think he is? If the investors of apple have any morals at all they will all get out. Let us see what a mass selloff does to the stock price huh. Steve Jobs is a joke. A rich joke, but still a joke.  Stories like this really piss me off.

“Apple’s autocratic CEO suggested a possibly illegal deal with the head of Palm two years ago, according to a report by Bloomberg, under which Palm and Apple would stop poaching each other’s employees. The two companies, five miles apart in Silicon Valley, have a history of sniping star staffers from one another.

Jobs allegedly made the proposal in August 2007, shortly after the first iPhones went on sale, to Palm’s CEO at the time, Ed Colligan (pictured). Palm had begun working on its iPhone competitor, the Pre. According to records obtained by Bloomberg, Colligan responded to Jobs, “Your proposal that we agree that neither company will hire the other’s employees, regardless of the individual’s desires, is not only wrong, it is likely illegal.”

Legal experts consulted by Bloomberg agreed that such an agreement could violate anti-trust laws, and would at the least attract the attention of the Department of Justice.”

I found this on the internets.

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

This was an open letter I found in a small town newspaper. Of course this will solve all of our problems:

“A call to those who call themselves Christians: We Americans have been protected by our Lord God throughout time, as we trusted and obeyed Him. We are not perfect, but we seek the Lord God. Repenting, recanting and receiving His forgiveness. The last many years we have seen American’s fall away from worshipping, praising, trusting and obeying Our Lord God. Now we have fallen into the pit we made for ourselves. God has given us free will to obey Him or not. Not: we suffer the consequences, and then people say there is no God. Even though it was their/our choice that brought on the suffering we are now going through, and will go through until those/we who call themselves/ourselves Christians come back to God, trusting and obeying.

We have seen the moral decay. God hates the sin not the sinner and calls them back to Himself. A few verses are: Romans (1:16-32) why become such, Genesis (19) Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed for these sins, I Kings (14:24), Leviticus (18: 22-30). This chapter deals with unlawful sexual relations. (Bt the way, God created eyes for us to see with, created a nose for us to smell with, created ears for us to hear with, created a mouth for us to get food to our stomachs and upset stomach a way up, and especially a place for us to tell of Christ and share His Word. He created the navel which was our feeding tube till we were born, then it was sealed off. He created a place for liquids to be discharges from and a place for feces to be discharged. He created a place for uniting a man and a woman for procreation and their togetherness. Now where is the place for two men or two women made in creation, for procreation, for the joining of the two as one? How to overcome all of our sins: 1 Corinthians (6: 9-11), 1 Timothy (1: 8-11), Romans (15: 1-8 (verse 4)), 2 Timothy (3:16), Romans (3:9-31), 1 John (5-10), 1 Corinthians (6:18-20), 1 John (5), Titus (1,2,3), John (14:6), 1 Corinthians (2:5), Matthew (23). People need to open the Bible and read it, it is not for sitting on a shelf. We must trust and obey it, and watch lives turn around. The school’s lower to higher learning that have taught no God, and left out the truth of our past history of America, and the youth not having lived through it, have been taught to hate America, our way of life. I say, if America is so bad, why do you come here? If you take her down, you will have the a country like many others without the God who protected America and no one seems to want to go there. Taking over America won’t leave this country blessed as was before, it will go backwards or be destroyed.

We must remove our blind folds, and the only way to do that is to come back , seeking the Lord God with all of our heart, trusting and obeying Him alone. If we are ashamed of walking with Him, He also has said, he will be ashamed of us before God. We must read all, not just these verses. Starting with John, Romans and keep reading.

Why do they want to take the Bibles away from people? Because there is a fear of our people turning back to our God of truth. Whom they do not know. Our God is a alive and a perfect God. The evil one that our “Alive God” warned of is alive and well also and is using others to try and destroy God’s people who in the end, God will destroy if don‘t seek Him. Pray for them to find salvation also. We must not hate, but, not tolerate. Keep the faith in Jesus the Christ — our Lord God.

Nothing happens unless God lets it, to bless or bring us back to Him. See the writing on the wall? These hard times, He is waiting. See you at worship or at your church of worship that walks in His will.”

August Vacation.

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

For the past few summers my wife and I have gone somewhere in August. Usually our parents take the kids for an extended weekend. Two years ago we went to Duluth Minnesota and went mountain biking. Last summer we went to Buena Vista Colorado and went white water rafting. This past week we went to Boston and then on to New York City. I love New York City. It is my third time to the city. It was the first for my wife. It was the first time either of us has been to Boston.

We dropped the kids and drove to Bloomington Minnesota on Tuesday night. We got to our hotel around midnight. We had a 7am flight, so we were out of bed around 4:30am. The flight was fine. We arrived in Boston around 11AM. We took a shuttle to the train, and then the train to the Back Bay area of Boston. We checked into the hotel and the decided to check Boston out. We walked around a lot. I am not familiar with Boston, and walking around the city at random did not interest me too much, but my wife seemed into it. I took some pictures with my phone. Here is a church or something.

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After walking around Back Bay, we decided to get some dinner before the RedSox game. The most convenient place to eat was California Pizza Kitchen. I ordered the Works, and my wife got Hawaiian BBQ Chicken. We also got an appetizer. The appetizer did not show up, my pizza was warm with barely melted cheese. They brought my wife Hawaiian pizza. She says “is this Chicken or Canedian bacon?” He says “I’ll fix this right away.” When my wife finally got to eat I was done. They brought here BBQ Chicken only. Then all three pizza’s were on the ticket. A real cluster.

After supper we went to watch the Redsox play the Detroit Tigers. Fenway is cool, but it’s too flat. Only 1/2 step between rows, and we were near a busy row. So we saw lots and lots of people walking in front of us. The RedSox won the game. 9-2 if I recall.

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After the game we went back to the hotel and hit the gym before bed.

Thursday morning we had an Amtrak from the Back Bay Station to Penn Station in New York City. We arrived around 10:00am. The Amtrak ride was nice. I got a good nap in. I slept for 2 or 3 hours. I needed it. We arrived at Penn Station and walked north to 7th and 41st to our hotel. My wife said “it stinks here.” almost right away. More on the New York portion of the trip to follow….