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Philippine School Cancels Classes Over Psychic Email Hoax
I am so glad I only heard about this now. That means my friends aren’t morons who forward dumb emails. Gerry Alanguilan reminds us that there are still too many n00bs in the Philippines, even among its so-called “educators”:
My dad called me up to say that he won’t be teaching tomorrow at a local school, a Catholic school, may I add, because classes were suspended because someone predicted that there will be an 8.1 Magnitude earthquake in the Philippines tomorrow, and that thousands will die.
My dad doesn’t believe it, and neither do I.
The rumor stems from an email that had originated from a Brazilian psychic named Juseleeno Nobulega DaRoose, and apparently people say he has credibility because he predicted 9-11, the Indonesia Tsunami, the death of Princess Diana, etc.
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Bill Gates Wants Yahoo’s People. The Feeling isn’t Mutual.
This is the funniest thing I’ve heard all week.
Bill Gates is willing to pay a lot for engineering talent.
Asked what makes Yahoo worth more than $40 billion, Gates pointed not to the company’s products, its huge base of advertisers, or its market share, but rather to Yahoo’s engineers. Those people, he said, are what Microsoft needs to go after Google.
In an interview after his speech at Stanford University, Gates said that it turns out it takes a lot of manpower to build tools for advertisers, mobile, and video products as well as improving its core search algorithm and building an infrastructure for cloud computing. “The amount of computer science it is taking to do that is phenomenal,” he said. “As you get more scale of engineering you can just pursue that agenda more rapidly. Yes, the advertisers and the number of end users is good, but we’d put the people and the engineering as the key thing.”
Bill, what the Hell are you talking about? Yahoo employees hate your guts! No matter how great their engineers are, they just won’t work for you!
“Yahoo has always considered itself a bit of an upstart,” says a former Yahoo employee who asked to remain anonymous. “Most Yahoo employees will feel that, A., we lost, and B., there is no way in hell that I am going to work for Microsoft.”
Even if Microsoft buys Yahoo, Yahoo’s best engineers could follow the well-respected Brad Horowitz to Google. In a cruel twist of fate, Google could end up getting the very engineers Bill wanted out of the purchase. Ballmer could end up needing a lot more chairs.
After watching this clip from Pirates of Silicon Valley, it occurs to me that Bill is probably lying about his motivations. He really wants Yahoo for its advertisers and users. All his talk about valuing Yahoo’s engineers is just a ploy to lower resistance to a merger.
Either way, it won’t work. Genuine or fake, Bill’s lust for Yahoo’s people is not mutual.
