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Submitted by Robert Jung on Tue, 03/28/2006 - 11:58am.
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Fortune magazine has a short interview with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. This quick exchange caught my eye:

Fortune: Do you have an iPod?

Ballmer: No, I do not. Nor do my children. My children--in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

Keeping in mind that this is the same Steve Ballmer who's notorious for alternately jumping around on stage like a mad ape and his chair-throwing potty-mouth, it's pretty easy to imagine just how Steve keeps his kids in line... Winking smiley

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This always backfires
Submitted by dvandom on Tue, 03/28/2006 - 2:38pm.
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As soon as those kids leave the house, they're gonna be buying Macs and loading up their iPods with tunes found via Google.

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Look out! Dad's coming for a visit!
Submitted by Robert Jung on Tue, 03/28/2006 - 3:37pm.
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"You got an iPod? A f*cking iPod? I'm gonna kill that! Arrgh!" *SMASH!*

--R.J.

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