Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
Welcome to The New Coffee Room. We hope you enjoy your visit.


You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free.


Join our community!


If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
The iPad killed jobs; Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.
Topic Started: Apr 17 2011, 05:31 PM (263 Views)
Axtremus
Member Avatar
HOLY CARP!!!
Article:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/17/jesse-jackson-jr-ipad-unemployment_n_850227.html

Quote:
 
On Friday, Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) addressed the United States's current unemployment crisis and claimed the iPad was "probably responsible for eliminating thousands of American jobs."
...




Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5X8W7MgbhM
Online Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Copper
Member Avatar
Shortstop

The unemployed should be going to China to build iPads.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
Online Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Mark
Member Avatar
HOLY CARP!!!
What an idiot.
___.___
(_]===*
o 0
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
John D'Oh
Member Avatar
MAMIL
He's a Luddite.

Check out the wallchart - I wonder if he's been watching Glenn Beck.
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
jbrook
Member Avatar
Advanced Member
Neither Jr or Senior are very smart..That nut sure didn't fall far from the tree..lmao
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Mikhailoh
Member Avatar
If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
They both make their living by perpetuating victimhood rather than producing anything of their own.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
VPG
Member Avatar
Pisa-Carp
Definition of LUDDITE
: one of a group of early 19th century English workmen destroying laborsaving machinery as a protest; broadly : one who is opposed to especially technological change

Yeah he is.
I'M NOT YELLING.........I'M ITALIAN...........THAT'S HOW WE TALK!


"People say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look."
Ronald Reagan, Inaugural, 1971

Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
jon-nyc
Member Avatar
Cheers
The stone tablet makers must be pissed.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
Online Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
RosemaryTwo
Member Avatar
HOLY CARP!!!
iPad is evil. It has no empathy.
"Perhaps the thing to do is just to let stupid run its course." Aqua
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
George K
Member Avatar
Finally
Quote:
 
The iPad killed jobs


What????

First pancreatic cancer, and then assassinated by one of your own devices?

The horror.
A guide to GKSR: Click

"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... "
- Mik, 6/14/08


Nothing is as effective as homeopathy.

I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles.
- Klaus, 4/29/18
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Frank_W
Member Avatar
Resident Misanthrope
Whine and blame is the name of the game.
No responsibility; it's such a cryin' shame.
Can't be free when you make cash with your chains
Bitch about everything, but refuse to change.
Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin."
Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!"
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Luke's Dad
Member Avatar
Emperor Pengin
George K
Apr 18 2011, 06:06 AM
Quote:
 
The iPad killed jobs


What????

First pancreatic cancer, and then assassinated by one of your own devices?

The horror.
pwned
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
KlavierBauer
Member Avatar
HOLY CARP!!!
*edit*
Never mind, looks like I'm third to get to that joke.
Edited by KlavierBauer, Apr 18 2011, 08:43 AM.
"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper
"He said sleepily: "Don't worry mom, my dick is like hot logs in the morning." - Apple

Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
« Previous Topic · The New Coffee Room · Next Topic »
Add Reply