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Old 05-03-2015, 09:49 PM
 
Location: Poshawa, Ontario
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Brilliant thinking. For her next act, she'll point out that poor people should just have opened more savings accounts before they went poor. No wonder HP's stock rose 7% the day she was canned.
I worked for HP when this dimwit was sitting CEO. From the time she took control of the company until the day she left, HP tripled its revenues without its stock ever raising a penny. In other words, the company was running three times as fast to stay in exactly the same place. Just before she was asked to resign, she was voted one of the top three worst technology CEOs in America, and has been ranked the 19th worst American CEO of all time. Now she wants to run for President...

Caveat emptor.
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Old 05-03-2015, 09:54 PM
 
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A peep from her about the fact Nestle and other LARGE companies aren't having their water usage clamped down on? Or is she being the good political stooge and ignoring that?
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Old 05-03-2015, 11:16 PM
 
Location: Del Rio, TN
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Well I though she was coming around to the sensible side but I was disappointed.
Yes we they can solve the water problem with more infrastructure, more dams that's the ticket. We can go on doubling population every few decades, build golf courses and residences in deserts and other areas and never have to worry about water.




Carly Fiorina: The Man-Made Water Shortage in California - TIME
So...you agree that she's right, but that bothers you because she's a Republican? Got it.

Yeah, she was a poor manager of a tech company by the standards of industry. Still, that's considerably more executive management experience than the current occupier of the White House has. I suspect she would do a considerably better job.
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Old 05-04-2015, 04:47 AM
 
Location: Long Island
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So...you agree that she's right, but that bothers you because she's a Republican? Got it.

Yeah, she was a poor manager of a tech company by the standards of industry. Still, that's considerably more executive management experience than the current occupier of the White House has. I suspect she would do a considerably better job.
The title of the article led me to believe she had come around to the understanding that this problem was created by man but not in the sense that she portrayed. She doesn't really have a solution, just appealing to the extreme right wing element that thinks you can solve this problem by reservoirs. Yes man created this problem through overuse of resources and a population that exceeds the land capacity.

This statement reminds me of Palin, I have to wonder how she became a CEO.
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Old 05-04-2015, 06:16 AM
 
Location: The Lone Star State
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Yeah, she was a poor manager of a tech company by the standards of industry. Still, that's considerably more executive management experience than the current occupier of the White House has. I suspect she would do a considerably better job.
Sad but true.
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Old 05-04-2015, 06:29 AM
 
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Well I though she was coming around to the sensible side but I was disappointed.
Yes we they can solve the water problem with more infrastructure, more dams that's the ticket. We can go on doubling population every few decades, build golf courses and residences in deserts and other areas and never have to worry about water.




Carly Fiorina: The Man-Made Water Shortage in California - TIME
"but I was disappointed."

You have to post more then this if you really want a discussion.

What pat of "Specifically, these policies have resulted in the diversion of more than 300 billion gallons of water away from farmers in the Central Valley and into the San Francisco Bay in order to protect the Delta smelt, an endangered fish that environmentalists have continued to champion at the expense of Californians. This water is simply being washed out to sea, instead of being channeled to the people who desperately need it." don't you like?
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Old 05-04-2015, 06:48 AM
 
Location: Long Island
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"but I was disappointed."

You have to post more then this if you really want a discussion.

What pat of "Specifically, these policies have resulted in the diversion of more than 300 billion gallons of water away from farmers in the Central Valley and into the San Francisco Bay in order to protect the Delta smelt, an endangered fish that environmentalists have continued to champion at the expense of Californians. This water is simply being washed out to sea, instead of being channeled to the people who desperately need it." don't you like?
First of all rivers naturally flow into the ocean, a series of dams was put in place decades ago to divert water to farmers, with the expansion of farms they wanted more. Yes the core of the issue is the smelt and other wildlife that are at the bottom of the food chain.
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Old 05-04-2015, 06:50 AM
 
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I worked for HP when this dimwit was sitting CEO. From the time she took control of the company until the day she left, HP tripled its revenues without its stock ever raising a penny. In other words, the company was running three times as fast to stay in exactly the same place. Just before she was asked to resign, she was voted one of the top three worst technology CEOs in America, and has been ranked the 19th worst American CEO of all time. Now she wants to run for President...

Caveat emptor.
The rankings come from Portfolio.com, which I have never heard of. When I tried to fond out more about them I got this, "This Connection is Untrusted"

I tried opening Portfolio.com from the article and it sends me to an "Upstart" site.

Do you have anything on them?

Since this is a CNBC story we KNOW it is NOT biased in ANY way.
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Old 05-04-2015, 06:52 AM
 
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First of all rivers naturally flow into the ocean, a series of dams was put in place decades ago to divert water to farmers, with the expansion of farms they wanted more. Yes the core of the issue is the smelt and other wildlife that are at the bottom of the food chain.
Correct. A small fish is MORE important then water for farming which feeds people.
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Old 05-04-2015, 06:59 AM
 
Location: Earth
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When I become supreme leader of the United States, I'm going to outlaw anybody who lives in a "desert" from having a lawn. Anyone who currently has a lawn will be forbidden from watering it.
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