But nowadays it often drives innovation, says Tim O'Reilly, founder of O'Reilly Media, a publishing company whose Make and Craft magazines sponsor the event.
Though an avowed liberal, his closest match turned out to be Bill O'Reilly, the flame-throwing conservative host of The O'Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel.
His jokes are aimed at people who would never watch Bill O'Reilly's conservative rant of a cable news show on Fox, but who recognise Mr Colbert's obnoxious on-screen persona as a parody of Mr O'Reilly because they have read about Mr O'Reilly in the New Yorker.
Providence chief executive Tony O'Reilly Jr said this was the beginning of an Irish oil industry.
While that may irk Londoners, O'Reilly says this has actually helped make the city more competitive.
O'Reilly, another co-chair, said he believed the current crisis would not have any lasting affect.
Katherine Sierra is one of them, and it was her case that prompted O'Reilly's view.
Tommy O'Reilly said that out of 2, 202 people who had the benefit disallowed, 1, 368 had appealed.
Dozuki partnered with O'Reilly to bring Make Magazine's exciting do-it-yourself projects into the digital realm.
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Retaining control of his expanding empire remains a major concern for O'Reilly ( see sidebar ).
But lacking catchy titles, O'Reilly needed to create an identity for his unique line of books.
If Tim O'Reilly sold his company, he would be wealthy beyond his wildest dreams.
In that environment O'Reilly wouldn't have been able to follow his crazy and often dead-on hunches.
Travelers' Tales remains unprofitable, but O'Reilly, undaunted, has recently launched a series of medical books.
As a sole proprietor, O'Reilly has to answer to a constituency of exactly one.
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Local community worker Gerry O'Reilly said the fights had been pre-arranged through social media.
Prominent in the crowd outside O'Reilly's men like Matthew Marion, banned from attending games in England.
Mr O'Reilly points to several trends responsible for the rising popularity of do-it-yourself innovation.
O'Reilly also mentioned Waller's new book, Fighting the War of Ideas like a Real War.
Earlier, friends and family gathered near the pub and released 33 balloons in memory of Mr O'Reilly.
Another commission representative, Tony O'Reilly, explained that this was intended to protect the interests of the child.
"Maybe this scandal can do something to finally clean it up, " said William O'Reilly, a Republican consultant.
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If a feature doesn't work, O'Reilly's books simply say it doesn't work, something official documentation never does.
"I looked at that demo and realized we didn't have a demo but a product, " says O'Reilly.
Despite the slight EPS miss and bad news from competitors, Ozanian says O'Reilly's difficulties are only temporary.
By the time O'Reilly handed his job to Johnson two years later, Heinz was an unfocused mishmash.
Mr O'Reilly added that there had been substantial reductions in funding in the period 1999 - 2001.
Mr O'Reilly explained that by 2001 there was a backlog of fieldwork that needed to be processed.
Ch Supt Alex Murray, from West Midlands Police, said Mr O'Reilly was there "just having a quiet drink".
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