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- frem001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2since bush got it last year and this year Katrina gave him a big slap across the face, mother nature should be victorious! You go Girl!
- TVarmy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I wanna puke. An author, whose works merely entertain her readership of 14 year olds, is beating a philanthropist and technological inovators. Is pop culture really making us this stupid and unaware of the world?
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Steve Jobs should absolutely get person of the year. Forget anything about Microsoft or Windows. In a time when the government is spending $1/3 trillion on a military budget, Jobs, in addition to his extremely charitable donations totaling around $250 million, donates A LUMP $250 MILLION on top of it to charity. Yes, you could argue the tax break, but, chew on this: when's the last time you've heard of any OTHER Fortune 500 CEO giving his money away like that, rather than trying to dodge taxes other ways.
- Nanx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As much as I like J.K. Rowling, she definitely should not be the person of the year. I mean, c'mon, Bono, Bill and Melinda Gates, Steve Jobs, the Google people, they did serious charity work and made a load of innovations throughout the years, especially this year.
- PhantomBantam, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Mother nature was a bitch this year. Don't vote for her.
- TimmyK., on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"J.K. Rowling is in the lead with 62%. Lance Armstrong, who I voted for, is only at 2%. BOOO!"
Lance Armstrong's only accomplishment is that he rides bikes faster than French people.
"I can't believe that J.K. Rowling is beating the Pope by a twenty fold margin... Doesn't anyone watch the news anymore?"
The Popes only accomplishment is transferring child molesting priests to new parishes to hide their crimes.
As far as I'm concerned none of the nominees have done anything worthy of "anything of the whatever". - thechitowncubs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Google
- orabox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I am with Steve Jobs
Here is the current stats
60% J.K. Rowling 13% Bono
8% Steve Jobs 8% Mother Nature
3% The Google Guys 2% Lance Armstrong
1% Pope Benedict XVI 1% Bill and Melinda Gates
1% Condoleezza Rice 1% Valerie Plame
1% George W. Bush 0% Rick Warren - cambrown99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This new Pope reminds me of Darth Sidious. In fact, now that I think about it, whenever the Emperor arrived anywhere it sure looked a whole lot like when the Pope arrives somewhere--special guards, dignitaries and all. Hmm...?
- mooninite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They need to redo this poll. Someone voted a few billion times for J.K...
- Cronos1388, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Damn it. Rowling what did she do for the world. Beside allowing the creation of some hilarious videos of people spoiling the ending of the 6th book.
I voted for the Google Guys. They even made the Onion and they're talked about quite a bit on slashdot and here.
Is there anything they can't index? - awa1ct, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1screw all of you who didnt vote for the google guys.
having them win, they'd probably give us like.. stuff...
another gig added to gmail... more google search features... GoogleOS - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1vote steve or die!
- baaadbart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@jaws
Time's person of the year is usually given to the person(s)/thing(s) that has had the most influence of any sort during the year. Hitler was Person of the Year in 1938, he certainly give any 'positive' contributions.
In any case, I don't believe Jobs deserves the title, but JR Rowling probably deserves it less. - orabox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1mongoose Steve Jobs has done allot for computing and he continues to do so, not sure I like the guy from what I have read but his impact on the world of computing has been a very positive one. The rest of them are fluff including Bono, go hug a tree Bono.
- soulfire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Poor Rick Warren with 0% of the votes.
- rowhard99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Come on everyone... Lets vote for Steve. He's up a whole 1% from yesterday..
As of 11/17 at 11:30am (est) here's the tally:
58% J.K. Rowling
14% Bono
9% Steve Jobs
8% Mother Nature
4% The Google Guys
2% Lance Armstrong
- Galaeron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So they say for good or for ill but i see no names on there that really jacked lives up...thats biased
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+057% J.K. Rowling - wtf? She gets a successful series of books and she's the highest vote, if she get's it then the world's already at its lowest.
How Bill Gates got 1% is beyond me. - U2groupie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is all over the Harry Potter fan sites.
I've been doing my ballot-stuffing for Bono tho. - bonlebon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Most all persons of the year turned to be evil.
- bonlebon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0daaamn, that pope looks scary on that page.
- rookworm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How about nominating someone who actually contributed towards humanity, like a great scientist or philosopher?
- craigily, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0anyone remember when john linnel and flansburg from they might be giants got to the top of these kinds of lists a few years ago due to avid fans? that was so great.
- Jarda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think we should vote in our leader, Steve. He has done so much good things for us. Steve, i love you. Where can i send the cheque?
Thank you,
Scientologist Mac-head. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0>>"I ended up voting for Bono, because, ultimately,
>>third-world debt relief is [blah blah blah]
>Bono seems insincere,
I refuse to help idiots attempt to deal with their fame and riches guilt by making them even more famous and richer (it's like going to an AA meeting and handing out 5ths of Jack... VERY faux pau and generally bad for your karma).
> Steve Jobs is my hero.
There's hope for you... I understand that there is now a Steve Jobs Real Doll that you can buy; just think of it... you CAN achieve your goal of giving Steve Jobs a blow job in your life time.
> How Bill Gates got 1% is beyond me.
Indian click-through armies are *CHEAP*.
> ""Lance Armstrong's only accomplishment is that he rides bikes
> faster than French people."
That, in and of itself, is enough.
Resistance is futile; you must join the FtF fan club NOW!
> WTF is with the J.K. Rawling fanbase?
That particular demographic is better connected and has far more spare time that you ever will in the remainder of your entire life. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think Steve Jobs was quite boosted by the digg effect. But the power of HarryPotter Fansites Support is still strong.
- depape0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0bill gates guys. he has prooven that it is completely possible to be the least interesting person in the world, rapidly lose credibility in the market he dominates, fail to make any significant move for an entire year and still be considered one of the people of the year.
that is quite the feat. - azar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I hope Steve Jobs wins. He is basically paving the way of the future of computing. Without Apple all OS's would still be difficult to use, buggy, have tons of viruses, etc. OH WAIT... all OS's ARE that way. And all are copying OS X. Where do you think the clear detailed icons came from? What about computers that actually look COOL and EASY to use. Um, yeah. If apple never existed i'd prolly not be on a comp right now.
Steve Jobs is my hero. - yaz990, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Bono for Person of the Year
- xedeon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0JK Rowling??? Are you kidding me? people get a GRIP of reality!!
- pillfred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Jobs is by no means a personof the year.
- sigginike90, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0jesus christ... this is just weird j.k. rowling sucks... harry potter is a lame story and very boring...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0" 61% J.K. Rowling "!!! Wow... Go Jobs.
- republicoftexas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"1% Bill and Melinda Gates" haha, that's funny!
I think the firefox team or Sun Microsystems should be on there for giving us such wonderful software for free! Thanks a lot guys! - WackyT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Lance Armstrong's only accomplishment is that he rides bikes faster than French people."
Uninformed, aren't you?
http://www.livestrong.org/
http://tcrc.acor.org/lance.html
This guys testicular fortitude, literally, is amazing. And his charity work is great, also. - BlackMamba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Voted for JK Rowling and she's currently at 60%. Though I'm not a diehard fan of Harry potter, but there wasn't anyone else so worthy.
Steve Jobs - I don't have a MAC and never used their OS or products, not even an iPod.
Google Guys - Due to their cheap strategies lately (of conquering the world), I've ditched every google product and moves on..
Bill Gates - Well, he might deserve it, but he doesn't need my vote so badly..
..and the rest are ones I don't give a damn. :) - kejistan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Vote google. Seriously, what have any of those other guys done in the past year?
Steve - remake old stuff
Gates - remake old stuff
J.K.R.- nothing? maybe work on writing a book?
Pope - get elected?
Lance - win a race
Bush - fuel political cartoons?
Rice - fuel political cartoons?
Nature- she isn't even a person... - republicoftexas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I voted for Gates
HAHAHAHAH"
Yeah, you and 5 other people..... - republicoftexas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"bill gates guys. he has prooven that it is completely possible to be the least interesting person in the world, rapidly lose credibility in the market he dominates, fail to make any significant move for an entire year and still be considered one of the people of the year.
that is quite the feat."
I don't think I have laughed that hard in years!
Thanks. - Shire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"an award like this is only as good as its previous winner, and given that was George W. BUSH, they can stuff it."
Perhaps if you bothered to read the article you would realize the "Person of the Year" isn't always based on positive actions, it is how the person influenced our lives and society. Whether or not you like Bush he certainly did have an influence on 2004. - tarun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0From someone who lives around the Katrina-torn south, Mother Nature.
- Rice, on 10/12/2007, -0/+061% J.K. Rowling
Meh. - spoonzor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Lance got my vote. what the hell? how is jk that far ahead?
- frem001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Regarding the Live Aid: Debt relief for african dictatorial countries = bad. All of these countries have really crazy dictators running them, and they're the ones charging the comical taxes in order to pay for their numerous palaces for the various government people. Holding control of this is one of the few ways that we can control them these days, if that.
*puts on flamesuit*"
true even in countries like south africa there is still a lot of corruption within the government, just look at their $5million arms deal...Why the hell do they need an army anyways when unemplyment, hiv and poverty still grip the people there. The same government has been voted to power three times already and I think they will take the same route as zimbabwe when their voters realize that they don't really care about improving their lives.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/1266950.stm - thecapitalizt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Regarding the Live Aid: Debt relief for african dictatorial countries = bad. All of these countries have really crazy dictators running them, and they're the ones charging the comical taxes in order to pay for their numerous palaces for the various government people. Holding control of this is one of the few ways that we can control them these days, if that.
*puts on flamesuit* - SuperMoonMan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think Steve Jobs should be the person of every year.
- theholotrope, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0google guys.
suck it Potter! - lollerskates, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I chose "Mother Nature" because all the other choices were goddamn stupid. They were either working for themselves (Google, Steve Jobs) or being total attention whores (Condolezza Rice). I guess I should have chose Lance Armstrong or Bono in retrospect, but I didn't like Bono, and Lance Armstrong really didn't do anything that great besides funding cancer research _after_ realizing how horrible it is after getting it himself.
- nlatimer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Woot, I voted for JK and she's in the lead!
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