Personally I think the Orly Taitz for Secretary of State thing was much more interesting and/or frightening. You people out in CA are some wicked crazy!

HP was never much good for PCs. Their printers were (and are) OKAY. Under her her “leadership” HP acquired (and destroyed) a reasonably good provider of work stations (Digital Equipment).

I’m just amazed that Fiorina had the nerve to snark on Barbara Boxer’s hair. James Traficant, Rod Blagojevich, and Carly Fiorina: the Bad Hair Hall of Shame.

I was living up in San Francisco when she was pushed out of HP, and I distinctly remember how my friends who worked in Silicon Valley all breathed a sigh of relief after she was gone.

Rumor was HP employees sang “Ding, dong, the witch is dead….”

Where did you get that from?

Really, all that Boxer has to do is to ask the question (or slip it into the debate, if they have one): does Carly expect an eight-figure golden parachute if she does badly as a Senator?

Try this.

It appears that even the “invisible hand” is giving her the finger.

that’s funny.

And that’s why we should elect Carly! Sure, things will suck massively while she holds office, but as soon as she’s voted out after one term, we’re golden (pardon the pun), right?

“bitter partisan” rhymes with Republican Courtesan.

Speaking of poetry, her maiden (ha!) name is Cara Carleton Sneed. In future posts please use Cara Sneed (Cara’s Need, Care a Sneed, Wotthehell is a Sneed anyway?) and in news conferences no nicknames please, just say “Carleton, could I ask …..?”

Not to worry, Rethugs. Wall Street would love to have her as a senator. Her stockholders will be the Great Unwashed, not Lucky Sperm club members. Meg and Carleton are going to advertise us back into the black by November.

Here is HPC’s stock chart from the day before she left and then carried out a couple months after. The stock went right back down after an intital $1.50 move up the day after she left. I don’t know who all these people are who “made a lot of money”, but it could hardly have been long-term investors in the stock.

Tom, you’re not pleased with the way her hair grew back in after her chemo?

She must have had some career as a magician.

“For my next act, I will make this large pile of money disappear!”

(shoves cash in pockets and runs off)

her hair looked better before

OTOH, I’m still using the HP-12C calculator I’ve been using on a near-daily basis since 1984. Only need to change the batteries once every 3 or 4 years.

Name another product with that kind of dependability!

My theory is that both Fiorina and Whitman are bored, wealthy, women who decided that they’d get more ass-kissing per buck if they purchased a public office rather than, say, a used aircraft carrier.

That calculator pre-dates her management tenure at the company by 15 years. RPN forever!

HP-14 user. RPN spoils you for anything else.

Awk! My dad introduced me to RPN and I still have his 12C. I don’t have to calculate future values any more (don’t have any) but the 12C, like an abandoned alien interstellar battleship found orbiting Pluto by 24th century fictional characters, awaits its moment of need.

Suck on that, Carleton.

The first calculator I used was a Wang on a network. Half the network would shut down at 1600 so the grad students could get better throughput. When I got to grad school as a TA, each lab had 4 HPs bolted into a central table. I don’t remember which version, but it was either the first or second generation. They’re still probably there, and working. It’s why I hate what Carly & Co did to a company that knew what it did well, and kept on doing it.

Slight change of mind: “Carleton Sneed” sounds too much like an evil banksta to pass up. Next Photoshop should have a twirly mustache on her – it would add to HairGate as well. FTW.

I got Postin’ Fever. Sorry.

Years of using RPN turned me into a complete dolt whenever I try to use a “normal” calculator.

Although HP has subsequently come out with other models that do “more”, the last I heard the 12C was still the preferred device for serious finance pros. If you can’t figure something out with a 12C you probably shouldn’t be doing it (which may explain some of Wall Street’s problems of recent years…)

I’m still trying to figure out what the hell your post even means. Do you mean to say that two month investors are “long term” ? If so that’s incredibly dumb.

When ole Carleton Sneed left HP in tatters the stock was at about $20. Five years later (that is long term) it is at $45. So it has doubled in five years, pretty good as opposed to her record of taking over in July 99 when the stock was at $45 and driving it down to $20 while firing 18,000 workers.

But Orly got killed. And, yes, we are crazy.

What’s there for you to figure out, commie? If tbogg had given the historical stock price movement that you had, then the post might’ve made sense. But he didn’t, he pointed to a one-day increase in the stock price and said a lot of people made a lot of money. Who are these lots of people who made a lot of money? Day traders? Day traders who bought a little cheaper but sold that day? Because just one full week later, HP’s stock had completely retraced that one-day gain and had gone below it. Does that mean she lost a lot of money for a lot of people then. His post makes no sense.

And he tagged the post with “Shut up, dumb lady” and titled it with “Mystery Achievement”. This was the very first Fortune 20 female CEO. That, my friend, is an achievement. She underperformed, yes. But there is no doubt the level she rose to was a huge achievement for anyone, much less a woman, the first woman, to have accomplished.

The point I’m making is that the one-day blip didn’t “make a lot of people a lot of money”. And the few people who sold that day that did make money would be kicking themselves a year later for selling too soon.

Is that a little clearer for you?

I pointed out how you said long term investors didn’t make any money. They did. You’re wrong.