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Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by afterburner » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 3:47 PM UTC

at-fates-hands wrote: post #200

cryoshon wrote: post #29

Well, that's the end of my usage of Dropbox, effective immediately. I'll make sure to mention Condi's association with them in every conversation involving Dropbox, in hope of spreading knowledge about their profane selection of board members. It's a shame that they had to pick a Bush crony. These people should be in prison for malevolently misleading the public in order to start a for-profit war which killed hundred…

>>> It's a shame that they had to pick a Bush crony. Another great example of how partisanship and shitty double standards have ruined our country. The fact is, the vote to invade Iraq was a bi-partisan vote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Resolution_to_Authorize_t... "Introduced in Congress on October 2, 2002, in conjunction with the Administration's proposals,[2][7] H.J.Res. 114 passed the House of Representati…

The campaign to start the war didn't start with the vote, the vote came at the end of a long campaign of misinformation, orchestrated by the party in power.

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by conception » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 3:47 PM UTC

gfsdg4g54 wrote: post #202

d23 wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Completely ignoring the point that Al Gore wasn't a public official at the time, let's not forget that congress was lied to just as much as the rest of the public.

The Factcheck link http://archive.is/vAWQa completely disproves your claim. Are they lying too?

That fact check shows that he didn't lie during the State of the Union address, not that the pretense for the war wasn't a lie. Certainly, it says nothing about the fact we went to war with Iraq for an attack they had nothing to do with.

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by knodi123 » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 3:51 PM UTC

woofyman wrote: post #137

cryoshon wrote: post #29

Well, that's the end of my usage of Dropbox, effective immediately. I'll make sure to mention Condi's association with them in every conversation involving Dropbox, in hope of spreading knowledge about their profane selection of board members. It's a shame that they had to pick a Bush crony. These people should be in prison for malevolently misleading the public in order to start a for-profit war which killed hundred…

She was also famously shopping for shoes and watching Spamalot in manhattan while Katrina was devistating the gulf coast.

What is the secretary of state supposed to do during a hurricane? Send an ambassador to reason with it?

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by Cenk » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 3:54 PM UTC

bane wrote: post #35

This is probably tied to the DB for business offering and probably a play to become the official shared files app for USG and expansion into Asia. Also Dropbox announce two more executive changes today. The company has a new CFO, Sujay Jaswa, who is being into the role internally. Also, hailing from Google is Dropbox’s new COO: Dennis Woodside. In the post announcing those changes, it reaffirmed the above, indicating…

> and expansion into Asia.

Well, that’s certainly something Condi know something about.

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by general_failure » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 3:56 PM UTC

I am a bit ignorant here. What makes Rice a good candidate for the board? Because she has good tie ups with political big wigs of other countries?

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by dllthomas » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 3:59 PM UTC

This seems like a thread that would benefit from that "pending" feature...

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by wooter » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 4:00 PM UTC

afterburner wrote: post #271

at-fates-hands wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>>> It's a shame that they had to pick a Bush crony. Another great example of how partisanship and shitty double standards have ruined our country. The fact is, the vote to invade Iraq was a bi-partisan vote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Resolution_to_Authorize_t... "Introduced in Congress on October 2, 2002, in conjunction with the Administration's proposals,[2][7] H.J.Res. 114 passed the House of Representati…

The campaign to start the war didn't start with the vote, the vote came at the end of a long campaign of misinformation, orchestrated by the party in power.

both parties played their role and I hope we hold them both accountable. Have you seen any of Kerry's talks on Syria, Libya, etc.?

I also don't feel theres been more justification for our actions in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, or Egypt than Iraq. So changing parties didn't help... at all.

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by andrewtbham » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 4:01 PM UTC

factchecker32 wrote: post #241

jgreen10 wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You seem to have forgotten that the Bush administration knowingly lied about the intentions and capabilities of Saddam Hussein in order to gain support for the war.

FactCheck.org: Bush's "16 Words" on Iraq & Uranium: He May Have Been Wrong But He Wasn't Lying Two intelligence investigations show Bush had plenty of reason to believe what he said in his 2003 State of the Union Address. http://archive.is/vAWQa#selection-283.0-300.0 Don't let facts get in your way though.

factchecker is right. they didn't "lie." as numerous insiders have written (paul oneil, richard clarke), they were preoccupied with invading iraq and cherry picked dubious intelligence that supported their claims... like curveball, the niger uranium, etc.

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by ekianjo » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 4:01 PM UTC

streptomycin wrote: post #213

ekianjo wrote: post #175

> Rice is a famous figure, known in almost equal parts for her ferocious intelligence, and controversial role in the Bush administration, which included comments on alleged weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein was thought at the time to possess. TC needs to correct that last sentence: "weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein was KNOWN NOT TO possess" would be more correct in light of what actually…

I would say it was more like "weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein was HOPED TO possess". The Bush administration had a bit of circumstantial evidence that they sold to the world as definitive evidence, but they didn't actually know that there were no WMDs.

Correct me if my memory is failing, but they had several UN inspectors go to Iraq who found nothing and Tony Blair had his aides fabricate some false evidence that was later used by Powell to declare "hey, we found 'em, now let's nuk'em". When you need to fabricate evidence, you do it because you lack of actual one in the first place.

Re: Condoleezza Rice Joins Dropbox’s Board As It Names New CFO, COO

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Post by znowi » Thu, Apr 10, 2014, 4:01 PM UTC

That's unfortunate and I, too, will be closing my account with Dropbox. Moving to SpiderOak.

I realize, though, that neither me nor thousand others will change the Dropbox policy. They most likely anticipated the public outcry over Rice and considered it not a threat.

They play in the big league now, increasingly catering to the enterprise world. And those guys are not particularly worried about privacy issues. They rather cooperate, like the PRISM companies.

It's not the first nor last time a nice, user-friendly startup turned "evil" over a certain threshold of growth. If you happen to find a large influential company that stayed true to its original promise to their users - cherish it with all your heart. They are a very rare kind.