Ross Perot, Billionaire Former Presidential Candidate, has Died at age 89:
Billionaire, philanthropist and former presidential candidate Ross Perot has died, CBS News has confirmed. He was 89.
Perot died in Texas, the state where he was born, surrounded by family.
[...] In 1992, Perot made a name for himself when he became the most successful non-major party presidential candidate in 80 years, amassing 19 percent of the popular vote, running against President George H.W. Bush and Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton.
As a boy in Texarkana, Texas, Perot delivered newspapers from the back of a pony. He earned his billions in a more modern way, however — by building Electronic Data Systems Corp., which helped other companies manage their computer networks.
Yet the most famous event in his career didn't involve sales and earnings; he financed a private commando raid in 1979 to free two EDS employees who were being held in a prison in Iran. The tale was turned into a book and a movie.
Perot first became known to Americans outside of business circles by claiming that the U.S. government left behind hundreds of American soldiers who were missing or imprisoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Perot fanned the issue at home and discussed it privately with Vietnamese officials in the 1980s, angering the Reagan administration, which was formally negotiating with Vietnam's government.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 09 2019, @09:37PM (7 children)
Lol, this is the source that "Russia did it":
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index2913.htm [whatdoesitmean.com]
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday July 09 2019, @09:53PM (6 children)
What, the only one?
Because Wikipedia has a whole bunch of other more, um, sane sources: here. [wikipedia.org]
I am pretty sure the FBI (for example) are not spending a lot of time investigating based soley on that nonsense:
We could pretend it didn't happen I suppose.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 09 2019, @09:58PM
What does any of the three to do with the Seth Rich murder and Julian Assange heavily implying in an interview that he was a source?
And I read some of that Russian troll indictment, they had info that makes no sense like the name of an agent who was using a certain IP address. It reeked of technical incompetence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 09 2019, @10:02PM (4 children)
Also, read this:
http://www.kim.com/ [kim.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 09 2019, @10:20PM (3 children)
Kim Dotcom has his fans, but he's still a fat con man and attention whore.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 09 2019, @10:35PM (2 children)
And the FBI is filled with people trained to lie for a living. Who will we trust?
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday July 10 2019, @12:15AM (1 child)
I have a certain amount of sympathy for Kim Dotcom, but when said
he was lying. Nobody contacted him about starting a branch of the Internet Party in the United States because the Internet Party had exactly zero credibility in New Zealand, so why would anyone expect any in the US?
That just did not happen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 11 2019, @06:38PM
He lies all the time I don't know why anyone likes him. He paid people to get high scores for FPS games so he could use the leaderboards for self promotion. He happened to get most of his fame helping the internet pirate movies so the most rabid retards defend him not knowing that he was mostly well known for being a bane on nerd culture before that.