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I've been rolling on the floor, laughing, since Loonard's last whopper was posted.

"He attempted to minimize the importance of the numbers, just as you did, but you don’t erect suicide nets and set up suicide hotlines if you don’t think there is, at the very least, a massive PR problem should any more kids hit the cement.

And you don’t self incriminate.

Steve Jobs was not talking about Nokia or Microsoft or HP or Sony, he was talking about Apple Inc’s response to the suicide “attempts” in Apple Inc’s supply chain...at Foxconn.
Who erected suicide nets? Who set up suicide hotlines? Steve Jobs? Apple? Loonard claims that Steve Jobs admitted somewhere in the penumbra of this interview that it was Apple and he that erected the suicide nets and established suicide hotlines at FoxConn . . . Perhaps it was in the uplifted left eyebrow twitch at 20:34 into the interview that these admissions can be interpreted by adepts of the South Eastern Indian eyebrow tic code language that Steve Jobs learnt while in the Ashram, but which has been forgotten to conscious mind because it was only shortly after having been initiated into the arcane eyebrow code, that Steve took his first pink LSD sugar-cube which dropped those eye-brow code skills into his subconscious, where they surface occasionally to reveal his deepest thoughts such as 2003's revolutionary Apple product the iGame rumor which took the world by storm, THE 2004 rumor of the iFM add-on for the iPod, the 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 rumors of the iTV, and this "true fact of Loonard's."
According to Loonard, Steve Jobs admitted erecting the suicide nets at Apple Inc's FoxConn manufacturing facility. You know, the manufacturing plants Apple "built," "owns", "manages," and where, according to Loonard, Apple lords it over its wholly-owned iSerfs and probably disciplines with an OSX-o-nine-tails, if they misbehave.
Loonard's hallucinogenic premise is that Steve Jobs admitted this culpability, and "self-incriminated," to use Loonard's erroneous canard, by erecting, or ordering the building of, these anti-suicide nets at "their" factory in a video interview. He infers, using LoonardLogic (TM), because these jumper catcher nets were erected, that "Apple" must have done the erection, then further that "Apple" in erecting the nets, are demonstrating by that act, knew that "Apple," and "Steve Jobs" had a problem at this "Apple's manufacturing plant." He then extends this to be "self-incrimination." I.E., a criminal knowledge that should not be admitted, which an attorney would have, should have somehow prevented the utterance. This, in essence is Loonard's premise and argument, stripped of numbers and details. . . Basically, Steve Jobs self-incriminated, himself by (1) talking about the suicide issue, and (2) erecting anti-suicide netting to prevent workers from committing suicide; thereby showing that Apple knew about it, was concerned, and he said they were considering what to do about it. . . and something was done. . . Ergo, Apple must have done it.
Therefore, using LoonardLogic (TM), it must follow that since this is certifiably truly a photo of the man who actually DID erect the anti-suicide nets on his company's, FoxConn's Szhenschou Factory buildings, then according to LoonardLogic's (TM) distorted viewpoint, which requires that Steve Jobs and Apple erected the nets, this absolutely must be a photo of Steve Jobs:

Steve Jobs. . . according to LoonardLogic (TM)
Wait, hold on a minute, students of LoonardLogic! That doesn't look like Steve. No wire rim glasses. . . No buzz cut hair. . . No two day beard? NO TURTLE NECK! He doesn't look like death-warmed-over! He looks too damn healthy! It can't be Steve Jobs! This guy's not even Caucasian! He's Asian! It's a fake Steve!
Oh, it isn't Steve Jobs? Nope. 'Tain't. Only a deluded person would make that mistake!
Oh. . . Wait. . .
We have one of those. . . around here somewhere. . .
Since it isn't Steve Jobs. . . then who DID erect the nets on FoxConn buildings? Who else. . . One of the owners. . . and the CEO. . . and the man who SHOULD do it, not one of his customers! "Who?" You ask.
Why, I answer, only the founder and CEO of the largest electronics manufacturer in the world (< — that's a link to the source article of the photograph), who Loonard would have you believe is incapable of doing anything without the permission of . . .who? One of FoxConn's many customers? Apparently.
Yep, it's "Terry” Gou Tai-Ming, Founder and CEO of FoxConn Technology Group, a Taiwanese conglomerate which includes Hon Hai Precision Industries, FoxConn Electronics, and dozens of other companies. And Loonard is again very WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. THIS PARAGRAPH IS A LINK—CLICK IT TO GO TO THE SEPTEMBER 2010 BUSINESSWEEK ARTICLE ON TERRY GOU "THE MAN WHO MAKES YOUR IPHONE" (This full paragraph is a link, and a literal instruction manual for being an imbedded link with self-referential instructions provided as a courtesy for link recognition-skill impaired troll myopically inhabiting this thread.)
Still laughing. . . Self-made Multi-Billionaire Terry Gou needing Apple to install nets on his company's buildings. ROTFLMAO! And Loonard claiming Apple owns and controls Gou's businesses. . . That's the funniest of all.
Wanna bet Loonard will STILL deny it? What will he claim? That Apple owns Gou? Gou's a puppet? Is he their token Asian? Will he claim Apple owns a controlling interest in Hon Hai. . . or in FoxConn Group? Uh uh. Won't fly. Gou by himself owned 15% worth about $5.9 billion in 2010, Taiwanese pension funds owned approximately 60%, and another 18% was owned by financial institutions (banks, insurance companies). . . balance of 7% was in other hands. Could it have been Apple's hands? That's not been reported, but even if it was, it's not a controlling percentage, nor has such an investment ever shown up on Apple's 10-K, and it would have to, nor is it listed as an asset, and again, it would have to be listed. Ergo, no evidence Apple holds any equity position in Hon Hai or FoxConn.