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YourFairyGodmother40 karma

It could well be that all the boobs he's seen were in fact illusive.

YourFairyGodmother12 karma

I had a friend who tested positive in 1989 or so. When the health dept. person asked for his sex partners he replied "Good heavens, you don't think I asked them their names!?!?"

YourFairyGodmother12 karma

Watson wasn't the founder. It's a complicated tale but it isn't far off the mark to say he was the first CEO.

He was hired as general manager of Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), an amalgamation of five companies, in 1914. When some court cases relating to his time at NCR were resolved less than a year later, he was made President. In 1924, he renamed CTR to International Business Machines.

YourFairyGodmother12 karma

Can't say with respect to Glover and Grayling but Dan Denett describes what he does as "scientific philosophy." And, fwiw, I would say he has generated knowledge in doing it.

YourFairyGodmother11 karma

If the youngun didn't know about Tim Berners Lee originating HTTP, he surely has no idea what a NEXT computer was. But some of us, especially those of us who played worked with them do appreciate it.