10-16-2018, 08:15 AM
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Norm!
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Paul Allen death
The co-founder of Microsoft who teamed up with Bill Gates in university and went on to found Microsoft.
He went on to leave Microsoft in 2000 and became a investor. He bought the Seattle Seahawks, Portland Trail Blazers.
He donated more then 2 billion dollars to various causes and signed on to give away half of his wealth.
He spent the last decade fighting cancer
RIP
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Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
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10-16-2018, 08:31 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Calgary - Centre West
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Really unfortunate, and pretty young too.
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10-16-2018, 08:32 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TorqueDog
Really unfortunate, and pretty young too.
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He had a longer life than Steve Jobs but yeah not that old.
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10-16-2018, 08:42 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
He had a longer life than Steve Jobs but yeah not that old.
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Ok?
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10-16-2018, 09:32 AM
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In the Sin Bin
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: compton
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R.I.P. Paul Allen.
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10-16-2018, 09:45 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: North America
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He owned the Trail Blazers at 35 yrs. old. Impressive my man!
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10-16-2018, 10:13 AM
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I'll be sure to give an extra special twist on my allen key the next time I work on my bike. Goodbye, and thanks for all the tools.
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10-16-2018, 10:14 AM
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Originally Posted by hockeyguy15
ok?
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lol ROASTED.
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10-16-2018, 10:20 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: I will never cheer for losses
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fuzz
I'll be sure to give an extra special twist on my allen key the next time I work on my bike. Goodbye, and thanks for all the tools.
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Did he invent the Allen key?
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10-16-2018, 10:24 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by flamesfan1297
Did he invent the Allen key?
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The name matches up, so I have to assume yes, yes he did.
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10-16-2018, 10:41 AM
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RIP you crazy geek.
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10-16-2018, 10:45 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: Alberta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fuzz
The name matches up, so I have to assume yes, yes he did.
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and was the drummer for def leppard, don't forget. 
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10-16-2018, 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
and was the drummer for def leppard, don't forget. |
All that success, with only one arm. Unreal.
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10-16-2018, 11:13 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PepsiFree
lol ROASTED.
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I look at Allen, Jobs, Gates, and Wozniak as the pioneers of PC's. Two of them have perished relatively early compared to the average person. It's just something I noted when someone said Allen was pretty young.
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10-16-2018, 12:47 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by flamesfan1297
Did he invent the Allen key?
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fuzz
The name matches up, so I have to assume yes, yes he did.
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I am going to be very conflicted when Pat Robertson dies.
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10-16-2018, 01:41 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Coquitlam, BC
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Sure, but Phillips can go to hell.
A real shame about Paul Allen, though. We need more people like him in the world.
Last edited by BloodFetish; 10-16-2018 at 01:44 PM.
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10-16-2018, 01:42 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Calgary - Centre West
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I look at Allen, Jobs, Gates, and Wozniak as the pioneers of PC's. Two of them have perished relatively early compared to the average person. It's just something I noted when someone said Allen was pretty young.
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I'm not sure what the relevance was, but the poster below you said it best: "ok?"
Jobs also decided to treat what was considered a very slow-moving and treatable form of cancer with alternative nonsense medicine. Had he not done that, it's probable that he'd still be alive today. Allan was battling non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of which 70% of patients survive 5 years or longer... for ten years. He clearly didn't make the same mistake.
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Last edited by TorqueDog; 10-16-2018 at 01:45 PM.
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10-16-2018, 07:04 PM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: wearing raccoons for boots
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10-16-2018, 08:09 PM
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He had a recording studio fully staffed at all times on one of his yachts. He also had a submersible that you could SCUBA out of because he didn’t like jumping off a boat.
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