I view Condi as a minor player in the run-up to the war and a major player in breaking up the Rumsfeld-Cheney axis [of evil] afterwards. Maybe that doesn’t redeem her, but I don’t put her in the same box as Rummy or Dick.
How would people feel about Colin Powell on a BoD?
You’re not aware of any other academic, government, or business qualifications she has?
Apparently the Bush administration just ran an ad for the position in the DC Penny Pincher and she answered.
I use dropbox for my work and frankly I don’t care. Even if I did it wouldn’t matter because pretty much all of the suppliers I work with are using dropbox. It would be like demanding everyone else stop using Microsoft Word files and pdfs.
Connections.
The top is a very tight circle…
Surprised, actually. I would have thought she would’ve gone into something with a larger cap.
True, but that lying bitch isn’t just any Republican.
She was (maybe still is?) on Chevron’s board. It’s not like board membership is a lot of work. She could be on many at once. Or maybe she’s old and wants to slum it up a bit before retirement.
She was on 30 Rock, so that makes her one of the hipper war criminals around.
What is dropbox?
Aren’t old people cute?
See, it used to mean “a box that you drop things in”, but now it’s a company that makes file syncing software for computers.
It allows you to put “files” (which are no longer pieces of paper, but in fact collections of digital data on a hard drive) into a “folder” (which is no longer of the manila variety and is just a directory of computer files) on one computer, and makes them available on any computer this “Dropbox” software is installed on. For your convenience. There are free and paid versions of this service, depending on how much data you want to sync.
Funny how language changes.
Hmmm…I wonder if this is some PR thing with higher office in mind. Might give her an edge with the tech-savvy younger demographic. Look out Hillary, Condi’s movin up!
I didn’t know it was a company, but I have this on my computer. I don’t use it. I thought it was just a ‘feature’ of Windows 7.
Board members are of interest to the stockholders, but should be of very little interest to customers. Do you know who the board members are for the companies that make your favorite products? No? Well, you can look it up. I’ll wait. Oh, you can’t be bothered? Yeah, me neither. Same with this.
Except the tech industry tends to be an uppity progressive bunch. They kicked out the Firefox CEO for hating gays last week, and this week Dropbox made the unfortunate PR error of announcing her to the public. If they kept quiet nobody would’ve known or cared much. But to deep-blue Silicon Valley, announcing that you’ve hired one of the co-head-villains of the Bush era was probably not the brightest move – especially given her open opposition to data privacy. But even without that, people were going to respond emotionally to such an appointment.
Dropbox may be less affected than Firefox because it’s not an open source consumer darling, more an enterprise thing that happens to have a free consumer version too, but even then the first calls for a boycott started within hours and by the next day an organized website was up and running. Guess we’ll find out if there truly can’t be bad publicity…
Without holding an opinion on this particular issue, I’d just point out that it is common for directors to have little specific experience in the work of the company. In fact, it’s typical. Directors are chosen for other reasons. They aren’t management.
But seriously, it’s silly to argue that because you don’t have infinite knowledge, you shouldn’t act on the knowledge you do have.