Posted on 10/07/2011 1:30:39 PM PDT by toma29
Steve Jobs is dead. A tech genius has passed on. Sad. Certainly a devastating loss to Steve Jobs' close friends and family members, as well as to Apple executives and shareholders. The rest of you? Calm down.
Among my Facebook friends yesterday, more than one wrote publicly that they were "crying" or "can't stop crying" or "teared up" due to Steve Jobs' death. Really now. You can't stop crying, now that you've heard that a middle-aged CEO has passed, after a long battle with cancer? If humans were always so empathetic, well, that would be understandable. But this type of one-upmanship of public displays of grief is both unbecoming and undeserved.
Real outpourings of public grief should be reserved for those people who lived life so heroically and selflessly that they stand as shining examples of love for all of humanity. People like, for example, the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, who—along with his family—was bombed, beaten, and stabbed during his years of principled activism in the US civil rights movement. Shuttlesworth died yesterday, the same day as Steve Jobs. He did not die a billionaire.
Death, of course, is not a competition. All deaths are sad for the living. Everyone deserves to be mourned, and well-known people will inevitably be mourned more loudly than others. But it is actually important to keep our grief in perspective. When we start mourning technocrats as idols, we cheapen the lives of those who have sacrificed more for their fellow man.
Steve Jobs was great at what he did. There's no need to further fellate the man's memory. He made good computers, he made good phones, he made good music players. He sold them well. He got obscenely rich. He enabled an entire generation of techie design fetishists to walk around with more attractive gadgets.
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Pixar has done some great stuff and seeing airheaded and overpaid celebrities relegated to the history book would be a great use of always improving anamation technology.
Jobs did a lot of really neat things but the near worship is a bit much.
“Gates didn’t (doesn’t) have the drive.”
He had different drive, is all. Gates wanted all the money in the world, which he got. Jobs wanted to change the world, which he did. Once you achieve the one, there’s nowhere to go. If you’re the world’s richest man, that’s it. No one cares if you get richer. But if you’re always chasing down the Next Big Thing to further your worldwide Church of Technology, you can always keep growing, which people notice.
Yes, the information on the page is correct, or I wouldn’t have cited it, it also has links to documents saying STEVE JOBS WAS HIV POSITIVE. Here’s another source. http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/230/1232163447241kk7.jpg, since you want to cry about wiki.
Gates & Jobs created entire industries. Industries that transformed society in certain ways. Sometimes for the good; sometimes not.
Jobs had a little more flair. But otherwise they both were/are great men.
I never heard that, do you have some references?
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Of course, IamCenny has no references. She just came onto this thread to spout her opinion on Macs and her own body parts.
Pancreatic cancer is more common in HIV patients....it’s called Kaposi’s Sarcoma, also he followed a diet that HIV patients follow. There would be no motivation for this information to be faked, Occham’s Razor. Simplest explanation is usually correct, Steve Jobs most likely had AIDS.
barem = harem
I just posted sources, jackass. Go worship your mac like it’s G*d now please.
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Oh.....$$$$$”
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Oh, you were judging Jobs by some standard other than as a businessman. Which is fine, but not what matters to Apple’s stockholders, who would have loved Gates’ $$$$$ during various eras of the company’s history.
I’ve never owned a Mac. Sorry, just another epic fail on your part.
Absolutely LOL. You call that sourced information?
Hilarious.
keep your chin up...
The author thinks Jobs wasted his life coming up with brilliant technological innovations instead of supporting the Revolution.
Commies aren’t very bright.
epic fail? I posted sources, the ocean is epic, the stars are epic, a purported failure of a single human being is not epic in the slightest.
“Jobs was, as many have observed, an artist”
Relative to Gates, yes. But not really. Wozniak was an artist, of a sort. Jobs was more the visonary/seer/guru.
Why is it that people need to bolster great businessmen, especially, by comparing them to other fields? Why isn’t it enough that Jobs was one of the world’s best CEOs since the ‘70s, instead of an artist?
I also heard that Steve Jobs didn’t drink fluoridated water as it was trying to rob him of his precious bodily fluids!
Here’s more since you seem to think wiki isn’t a source.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10732297
http://gawker.com/5847341/wikileaks-honors-steve-jobs-with-fake-hiv-report
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV8TzmRsfW4
You can decide if it’s fake or not, enjoy. BTW shouldn’t you tell your daddy that you’re skipping school to play on his big boy toys all day?
IBTZ.
You already have one post deleted. You are claiming Steve Jobs had AIDS. You are flaming away on other FReepers.
You smell lightning?
Watch out for kitties.
I’m not convinced the author would have written something much difference if the outpouring was about Shuttlesworth.
Steve jobs did not get rich by himself. He shipped his products using roads that we all built. </sarc>
It’s funny how CEO of Apple computer is revered, yet CEO of [any other company] is reviled.
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