You are a LIAR.
Posted on 03/27/2015 5:18:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
(Reuters) - Apple Inc's Tim Cook, one of the most prominent openly gay American CEOs, has joined fellow tech industry chiefs in decrying a controversial Indiana law that opponents say could allow companies to deny services to gay people.
Cook, who publicly declared his sexual orientation last year, joined other tech chief executives, including Salesforce.com Inc's Marc Benioff, in blasting the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which could let business and individuals turn away customers by citing "religious freedom."
Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed the controversial bill into law on Thursday.
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And talk raises awareness. When I first started with Free Republic, very few people knew of Nitrogen Asphyxiation as a means of execution. Now even slate.com is carrying an article.
So yes, I will continue to tilt at this windmill, raising awareness, and perhaps even riding some other issue (Obamacare repeal?) as a means of returning to the correct constitutional interpretation of the peaceful assembly clause.
I like the way you think.
I use Apple products because they have always provided a better product for my needs. What Tim Cook chooses to do with his genitals is of no interest to me.
From a practical point of view, and a sensible consideration of potential health complications, it might be of interest to those who hold stock in that company, now that a person at risk has assumed leadership.
My little opinion is... A prominent executive of any major corporate entity who involves that “brand” in controversial social issues is making a categorical mistake. It is much wiser to shut up, blend in, and tend to business, and concentrate on meeting the customers’ needs,
Many corporate CEOs are making, what seems to me, to be boneheaded public statements that upset a larger percentage of their customer base, and I wonder why. They didn’t get to the top of the organization because of their emotional attachment to some social issue “du jour”.
Makes me wonder if there isn’t some .gov pressure being placed on them behind the scenes, by pols with a political agenda. Like, “support this publicly, or else we will make trouble for you with our alphabet agency regulations and tax laws?
Just my late night wonderings about all this nonsense.
Sorry, but you won’t be getting my support if your view of this is to tell certain subgroups of the population that they can’t come into a store, or sit at a table at a restaurant or can’t live in a particular area ... based on what that subgroup is, that you’ve identified (blacks being one such example).
I’ll never buy another Apple product.
> Y’all keep buying iPhones though, ok?
Actually Sprint has a program where they will let you trade them in for something different. I’m going to see what I can do tomorrow....
Yep, that's pretty much where I stand, too. The recent brouhaha with Starbucks is a good example.
As to whether there's pressure from the government, I don't doubt it for a moment. Might be overt (phone calls, meetings, secret messages) or it might just be broadly hinted through intermediates. But I'm quite sure it's prevalent.
And it doesn't require a tin-foil hat to sense it, either. :)
> What’s the controversy?
IF the stupid fags will keep their mouths shut about sex nobody cares where they do business so long as they keep it to themselvers!
What do the fag idiots plan to do...walk into every store on main street hollering at the top of their lungs about being queer?
Idiots! The lot of them!
You expressed my sentiments exactamundo...
I strongly disagree with Tim Cook on this issue, nor do I approve of his public airing of his lifestyle. It is also a poor management choice of his having Apple get more involved in political and social issues. Steve Jobs assiduously avoided having Apple as a company getting involved in political and social entanglements because, as he said when pressed by a Democratic activist, "Half of Apple's customers are Republicans and we should never alienate half of our customer base!"
Jobs was much wiser than Cook in this area.
Apple is a major contributor to open source software. . . Apple just added all of their new Research Kit to open source.
You can “86” someone or “trespass” them from your business establishment on the basis of causing trouble ... like stealing or breaking things or beating up your customers, and other such stuff ... as long as you’re not doing it on the basis of race (for instance, “he’s an Indian”) or religion (”he’s a Mormon, so he can’t eat at this restaurant”), or sex (she’s a woman, so I won’t sell her a house at my real estate company).
If you intend to restrict the access to your business on these things, you’re going to get a lawsuit and you’re going to lose. And in those instances, I would support suing those businesses “out of existence”!
And you turn this into an ATTACK on me???
I hate my iPad. It’s too screwy. Keeps shutting down when I try to open sites. I wish I could get rid of it.
sorry you can’t read.
No, 86, you are the LIAR here. not me. You have no idea about my stance on Tim Cook.
It sounds like it has a problem, since you’ll find that’s not considered “normal operation” ... :-) ...
I actually just took care of a kind of similar problem a number of weeks ago (not exactly like it, though). It was a Saturday morning, I went in to Starbucks and within 20 minutes of being there, it started going into an infinite reboot cycle.
Within an hour after that, I was headed on down to the Apple Store (after going home first), Within 10 minutes of walking into the Apple Store, they ordered me a new iPad ... no charge! It arrived two days later, and I went in and in less than 10 minutes, I had the new iPad.
I think you should head on down there ... :-) ...
It sure looks like you’re the one lying here, and not Swordmakert ...
You’re starting to sound whacko here ... and barely understandable. That’s not a good sign for an intelligent conversation.
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