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100 years ago today
100 years ago today, on June 16, 1911, four companies merged together in New York to form a new company, and adopted the name "Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation".
Thirteen years later they changed the name to International Business Machines, or IBM.
"The social contract exists so that everyone doesn’t have to squat in the dust holding a spear to protect his woman and his meat all day every day. It does not exist so that the government can take your spear, your meat, and your woman because it knows better what to do with them." - Instapundit.com
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I hate to ask the obvious, BUT .... how is 100 years ago "current events"?Originally Posted by Little-Acorn
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
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When your 25th wedding anniversary comes and you do and say nothing about it, your wife will carefully explain to you why it is a "current event".I hate to ask the obvious, BUT .... how is 100 years ago "current events"?
Until then, I guess you'll just have to wonder.
"The social contract exists so that everyone doesn’t have to squat in the dust holding a spear to protect his woman and his meat all day every day. It does not exist so that the government can take your spear, your meat, and your woman because it knows better what to do with them." - Instapundit.com
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I'd say there are lessons to be learned today, Obama proved that with his ATM complaint:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/compan...ongevity_n.htm
IBM joins elite group of 100-year-old companies
By Matt Krantz and Jon Swartz, USA TODAY
Updated 15h 27m ago |
A hundred years ago the company made punch cards, scales and clocks. Today, its supercomputers can beat human chess champions or solve mind-bending business problems.
The company is IBM. And today Big Blue joins the exclusive club of companies to have survived 100 years, a rare feat it accomplished by constantly adapting through the tumult of recessions, technology shifts and CEO succession.
Don't make the mistake of thinking IBM is a corporate old-timer that just watched technology evolve. It has remained at the forefront through the decades and tops several of its whippersnapper rivals in some regards.
Perhaps the most quantifiable hallmark is the value investors put on the company: $197 billion. That makes IBM the fifth-most-valuable U.S. company, just behind Microsoft at $200 billion and well ahead of Google at $162 billion...
"The government is a child that has found their parents credit card, and spends knowing that they never have to reconcile the bill with their own money"-Shannon Churchill
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I've never made it to 15, much less 25.When your 25th wedding anniversary comes and you do and say nothing about it, your wife will carefully explain to you why it is a "current event".
Until then, I guess you'll just have to wonder.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
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Obama had an ATM complaint? What ... he couldn't get enough of MY money out?
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
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And their main plant was built right here in Endicott, New York... it's still here, but they no longer own it. During its heydey, IBM employeed about 20, 000 to 30,000 people in this area.
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