Posted on 10/10/2011 5:41:56 AM PDT by suspects
“We are the 99 percent that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1 percent.”
— Occupy Wall Street Web site.
In the struggle between “Occupation” and “Jobs,” I’m firmly on the side of “Jobs.” Steve Jobs.
God’s sense of irony was on full display last week when the death of the world’s most famous college dropout pushed America’s ungrateful grads off the front page. And the best part?
Nearly every one of those BU boneheads and Northeastern nutjobs owns an iPhone.
By any measure Steve Jobs was part of the evil, greedy “1 percent” the Occupods are protesting. You hate “rich corporations?” Apple is literally the most valuable company in the world, worth around $400 billion.
Do you agree with the Occupy Boston protester denouncing millionaires for “using their wealth to undermine the democratic process?” Well, Steve Jobs was worth about $8 billion when he died.
And if you despise those cut-throat capitalists who crack the whip over their helpless employees, you absolutely hated Steve Jobs.
“Mr. Jobs also leaves behind innumerable tales about his mercurial management style,” The Wall Street Journal wrote in his obit, “such as his habit of calling employees or their ideas ‘dumb’ when he didn’t like something.” When Jobs returned to Apple in the late ‘90s, he fired four of the company’s five senior executives and replaced them with his team.
If the Occupation had an FBI, Steve Jobs would be Public Enemy #1.
The same morning we learned of Jobs’ death, I heard a poli-sci major tell a reporter that “College . . . is supposed to guarantee entry into the middle class.” That was his word: “guarantee.”
Here’s a kid at an elite university living...
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Nail meet hammer.
Not sure what your pablum-puking liberal high school civics teacher was thinking, but NOTHING is guaranteed.
I sat on my duff for 4 months after graduation before landing a job, but I was fervent and hungry for work.
These kids think a job is just going to be handed to them with their piece of paper.
Never tho’t I’d agree with an article in the Boston Herald.
Need the pic of...
‘Down with Evil Corporations’ here.
I have it but don’t know how to insert.
Millionaires “using their wealth to undermine the democratic process.”
I wonder if they were referring to George Soros? s/
How IRONIC, the same companies that these protesters “protest” against are the SAME ONES whom these “protesters” USE the goods or services.
well said!
Yep, but you never hear about that in the MSM. You should see it here in New York city, almost 100% of traffic cops are black with a smaller percentage of Pakistani. Never hear about that in the press, yet the second the percentage of blacks falls below a certain level for firemen or cops, all hell breaks loose and they want the testing standards lowered and calls of racism are thrown out by the press.
Same with hospitals: Almost ALL workers involved in hospital maintenance/housekeeping are black or hispanic. About 25 years ago I got a job with Flushing hospital when their union went on strike for like a month. When they returned, they permanently hired all the temp workers who were black or hispanic and told me, the white guy, to “F off”..Yes they used THAT word. And guess what party they vote for 100% of the time? And they call Repubs racist?
They probably used Steve Jobs/Apple's smart phone to record those videos of the NYPD using mace on them to raise a stink about. Evil capitalist!
Correct.
I sold for 17 different companies and left mostly on my own, but I was fired twice.
One time I deserved it because I didn't make my numbers {regardless of reason}, several times the company I was working for went belly up and closed their doors, and once, when I was VP of Sales, I had a half million in commission and bonuses due, the owner of the company just wanted my money.
It took 5 years in court, and the lawyers got the lions share of my money, but at least the thief had to pay, and eventually he was sent to prison for failing to pay state taxes.
Not exactly an episode of Friends, but I had a lot of fun during my 40 plus years, sales career, and don't regret any of it.
Just about sums it up.....
From a speech that Steve Jobs gave at Stanford nearly twenty years ago, I learned these little known facts:
1. Steve’s unwed mother, a post graduate student, put him up for adoption, but insisted that he only be adopted by a couple with advanced degrees.
2. An over-educated couple contracted to adopt, but when Steve was born a BOY, they rejected him outright, and reneged on their agreement.
3. Another couple, who were High School graduates, offered to adopt Steve, because they desperately wanted a little boy. The birth mother refused to allow these “uneducated” people to adopt her son, until after much negotiation, they signed an affidavit promising to send him to college no matter what it cost them.
4. The people who adopted Steve raised him , and true to their promise, sent him to college.
5. Steve quit college after six months, but continued to audit the classes OF HIS CHOICE, to gain KNOWLEDGE, not credit.
6. He worked with his friend Steve Wozniak in The Jobs Family garage to develop the first Mac Computer.
7. Because of a Calligraphy course that Steve Jobs audited, he was able to develop the wonderful fonts and formats that have influenced both Mac and PC Products ever since. Up until that time, computers had ugly, unreadable letters and poor spacing, and were not user-friendly.
8. At one point in his career at Apple, the Board forced him out. He went on to develop PIXAR, which eventually merged with Apple and reinstated him in the company.
These are just facts. He was never “Guaranteed “ anything, even when it was in writing. And he was younger than I am now when he died. He was not even guaranteed the 70+ years that are the ages of a man in the Bible.
Put THAT in your pie and smoke it, you trust-fund red diaper doper brainwashed crybabies.
JMHO.
Maybe with an engineering or science degree of some sort; certainly not with degrees in womens studies, queer studies or communications.
The world is separated by the people with the good attitudes and the people with the bad attitudes. The people with the good attitudes know that they aren’t always going to be successful in everything they try. But if they fall off the horse, they get back on and keep trying. When the people like OWS types fail, they find excuses to stop trying. Attitude is everything in life. The OWS protesters have the worst the-glass-if-half-empty attitudes of all Americans.
No, he went on to develop NeXT, which eventually merged back with Apple.
Pixar was a separate effort independent of Apple and NeXT.
I worked for both Pixar and NeXT, and have lots of fond memories.
I stand corrected. Thank You.
But of course, the essence of what I remember about his speech at Stanford remains the same.
Did you know Steve Jobs personally? If you considered him a friend, my condolences on your loss.
Talk about raising a stink - did you see the picture of the ‘protester’ ( paid shill) pooping on a police car? I don’t have that link, but here’s the one to the ads - Ads for lowlife’s to pretend they’re concerned citizens.
“Make $350-650 a week “protesting” on Wall Street”
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