Why Steve Jobs' Car Never Had a License Plate
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Most people are assholes when they can be. The rich just have the power to do it more oftennin_ninja said:
What he said. Can you imagine the fuss if a teacher,nurse or social worker did the same thing?LordFisheh said:
Long story short, Jobs was a bit of a prat?
Something that really pissed me off was how he said Bill Gates never created anything himself, only ripping off others. Even though OSX and Windows are both (to varying degrees) based on Unix, and the iPad was far from being the first tablet, or even revolutionary to any degree. He simply marketed it better.
Something that really pissed me off was how he said Bill Gates never created anything himself, only ripping off others. Even though OSX and Windows are both (to varying degrees) based on Unix, and the iPad was far from being the first tablet, or even revolutionary to any degree. He simply marketed it better.
so he didn't buy a lisence plate which isnt that kind of a tax really? and he parked in handicapped spaces......
wow.....even in death i think he's a complete dick.
wow.....even in death i think he's a complete dick.
It's not (only) the marketing. Apple products are polished to a crisp and they live perfectly together (mostly). It's this complete ecosystem that makes Apple work (Mac - iTunes - iPad).flaming_squirrel said:
and the first mp3 player were computers and burned CDs. they just cut out the middle man and i still think they didn't do it first.flaming_squirrel said:
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that man is magic.
OOH! thats why he keeps making the exact same product every single year. he thinks EVERYTHING should be 'new' every 6 months.
but seriously, he's a fucking legend. a wanksock, but a legendary one.
that man is magic.
OOH! thats why he keeps making the exact same product every single year. he thinks EVERYTHING should be 'new' every 6 months.
but seriously, he's a fucking legend. a wanksock, but a legendary one.
The_root_of_all_evil said:
Jobs WAS an asshole.
As for Apple, I agree. The fans are beyond retarded. There's no reasoning with them.
As for Jobs being a genius, he was. Whether he was being creative or just cleverly (and underhandedly) screwing someone over and profiting from it, he certainly had an edge of genius about him. Still a prat, though.
Leasing=/=Buying. It's more akin to renting.Lucane said:
I'm kind of enjoying the change of pace. Usually when a famous person dies it's just non stop people talking about how great they were. Here, while that is still happening, it's rivalled by detail after detail about how much of a dick he really was. I approve.The_root_of_all_evil said:
Parking in handicapped spaces just because he can make it legal? Oh so he didn't just make things that stop working after a certain period of time in order to encourage the buying of the latest and newest, at the cost of the planet's environment?
So he was a malicious person in the short term AND the long term.
Colour me surprised. Even I thought he was a better man than that, and I'm hardly a fan of Mac technology. Clearly, we should always be sceptical when viewing a media bonanza about someone famous who died. Sometimes there's agendas in making us want to be like that person among media moguls and other vested interest behind the scenes.
I know that America loves a rich winner but, if he's this morally bankrupt, I don't like seeing him raised as an icon.
In any case, I don't see how being famous makes you worthy of this much media hype. A child who dies of starvation in a third world nation is worth no less than Steve Jobs. Perhaps they could be worth far more from a moral assessment point of view.
There's a line where telling us of a famous person dying as a service to the public who want to know stops, and pushing an "entrepreneurs are heroes, give them more bonuses" agenda starts. This particular blitz goes far past that line. Feature articles focusing on Steve Jobs are absolutely rife of late.
Rather appropriately to this discussion, I watched Citizen Kane just last night. As that film relates so eloquently: if you manage to become rich, and use your riches poorly, then your capacity for selfish acts, self-humiliation and childishness (just as we've seen in this article) expands with it. I'd consider Steve Jobs' life to be just as cautionary a tale.
So he was a malicious person in the short term AND the long term.
Colour me surprised. Even I thought he was a better man than that, and I'm hardly a fan of Mac technology. Clearly, we should always be sceptical when viewing a media bonanza about someone famous who died. Sometimes there's agendas in making us want to be like that person among media moguls and other vested interest behind the scenes.
I know that America loves a rich winner but, if he's this morally bankrupt, I don't like seeing him raised as an icon.
In any case, I don't see how being famous makes you worthy of this much media hype. A child who dies of starvation in a third world nation is worth no less than Steve Jobs. Perhaps they could be worth far more from a moral assessment point of view.
There's a line where telling us of a famous person dying as a service to the public who want to know stops, and pushing an "entrepreneurs are heroes, give them more bonuses" agenda starts. This particular blitz goes far past that line. Feature articles focusing on Steve Jobs are absolutely rife of late.
Rather appropriately to this discussion, I watched Citizen Kane just last night. As that film relates so eloquently: if you manage to become rich, and use your riches poorly, then your capacity for selfish acts, self-humiliation and childishness (just as we've seen in this article) expands with it. I'd consider Steve Jobs' life to be just as cautionary a tale.
His only handicap was death! Then again, that particular ailment would probably satisfy a wandering policeman not to give him a ticket.ultimateownage said: