posted on October 9, 2000 06:58:45 AM new
ROTFL:
>>Musk said X.com is looking for a "superstar CEO," one with more experience than Musk at directing a growing financial institution. <<
Superstar probably isn't all that necessary. Competent would help.
>>"One has to recognize where one's strengths lie," Musk said. "It's more interesting for me in the early stages of running a company, where the concentration is all on developing the product…I'm not really interested in administration." <<
Um, like we hadn't noticed.
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UARU wrote:
>> Remember this is a message board where most messages have all the validity of a tabloid or scratchings on a bathroom wall.<<
I THINK I understand the point you're trying to make, but you sure could've made it a little more gracefully not to mention accurately. What an insult to those of us (the vast majority here from what I can say) who put a little thought and effort into what we post. Yourself as well, of course.
posted on October 9, 2000 10:21:21 AM new"I THINK I understand the point you're trying to make, but you sure could've made it a little more gracefully not to mention accurately. What an insult..."
CleverGirl, my apologizes if I stepped on any toes, I don't exclude myself from that gross generalization, but I felt it was necessary to state. Increasingly I see posts that are dependent on other posts. When the poster is asked for evidence they simply point to an earlier post. The practice of taking 1/2 a story from an anonymous person and embracing it as fact is something that troubles me.
Well, yesterday all messages, according to you, were dismissed as
"hearsay" Now, they have "the validity of a tabloid or scratchings on a bathroom wall."
posted on October 9, 2000 02:32:24 PM new"Maybe you believe only what you want to hear?"
I wish it was that easy. No I believe things I don't want to hear, I just require a source that has to be accountable for the statement. If someone tells you that eBay is having a free listing day via a message posted here do you accept that as fact or do you look up the information and validate it?
I've learned a lot on these message boards, but in every case I investigated and validated the information myself from a source other than an anonymous messages.
posted on October 9, 2000 06:26:51 PM new
Uaru -- that was a very nice response. Thank you.
I don't consider myself particularly gullible , naive, or unshophisticated. I am also relatively well educated (whether it shows or not <g>.
Unlike you (and I'm not trying to criticize you for your assessment), I am constantly amazed at just the opposite -- how straightforward, honest, and accurate MOST people who post in these places are. My faith in humankind is quite often reaffirmed in wonderful ways. And in a few other cases (LOL -- such as our pizza-box packer and his friends), I get educated in the other direction. But even there, the posters are being incredibly honest, and that's still amazing to me.
Sure sometimes people get the details wrong when they come reporting this or that. That doesn't bother me so much, if at all. I still think, for example, that Toyranch's original post entitled "PayPal takes $1000 out of user's account" had enough validity to it when more of the facts were known that it wasn't objectinable to me. The IMPORTANT thing was that he brought it to our attention and those of us interested could take a more indepth look.
But that's just me. I'm not trying to talk you out of your take on it (couldn't if I tried, and I know that full well).
posted on October 10, 2000 07:14:33 AM new
Will a photographer be camped out in the parking lot to take a picture of him driving away for the last time in that $1,000,000 car of his?
posted on October 10, 2000 10:24:45 AM new
What a brilliant guy! Start a company that seems unbeatable. Run it with such arrogance and stupidity that people are leaving in droves and even suing. Then bail out and state your experise is in starting the company, not sticking around to make it work. Leave someone else to clean up your mess.
How can they entice a good person to join? How about they offer their new chief $5 for every new person who signs up? I'd take the job is they offered me $5 for every person who closed his account. http://www.ygoodman.com [email protected]
posted on October 10, 2000 11:24:37 AM new
Hey, he's the creative, artistic type. Regular rules of behavior do NOT apply; he can't be bothered with the boring details of business. Or even hiring somebody at the beginning of the game to deal with those boring details.
No I believe things I don't want to hear, I just require a source that has to be accountable for the statement. If someone tells you that eBay is having a free listing day via a message posted here do you accept that as fact or do you look up the information and validate it?
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