steve jobs never gave a dime to charity except for 250k to the dems to fund lobbyists so his "suicide factories" in asia could remain up. now he's literally in hell, where he can never again yell at another lackey for bringing him his soy latte in the wrong type of container. this is a net good for the world
http://i.imgur.com/IfFPp.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/VaF3R.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/Jwfza.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/rcQ2o.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/4itHU.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/QSstH.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/vTRIn.png
― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 6 October 2011 03:14 (twelve years ago) link
remember how literally hours ago everyone on the internet was shitting their pants trying to hate corporations more than everyone else? lol. all corporations are evil except ones that make little glass boxes that look like weezer!
― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 6 October 2011 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
Eh, I'm not even particularly an Apple stan, but I've always kind of had the guy up on a pedestal for what he was accomplishing and how he went about it. Before that it was Alex Chilton. Morbs probably remembers busting my balls about Tim Russert's death, because I was unexpectedly upset about that one too (not so much because of Russert himself, but what he'd inspired me to do...go back to school, get a degree in video production, etc). Before that, it was John Peel. I kind of never know I'm going to be affected more deeply than usual by some personality's death until that time comes. xps
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 6 October 2011 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
Just re the suicides in Apple's factories, afaik Apple did more than most companies to enforce standards of human decency in those factories. Not saying it's the best they could have done but it's better than most actually do.
As far as I know the factory suicides had a lot to do with life insurance policies and not much to do with workers driven to despair by the living hell of electronics manufacture.
Cheap labour is why there's a burgeoning middle class in so many developing countries. In places like India and China it's now possible for more people to achieve a relatively decent standard of living. I'm not attributing this to Jobs btw. And before I get attacked, understand that this is merely a counterpoint; there's no black & white when it comes to the effects of industry in developing countries.
^^^thank you Autumn Almanac. Ppl have some pretty broad brush ideas abt China itt.
― Axolotl with an Atlatl (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 6 October 2011 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
i know bill is making some grand philanthropic efforts, but a world without windows is a better world, though.
no, because windows is why the gates foundation exists. i'm a 100% apple stan and recognize that jobs was an important dude but gates is arguably one of the most important philanthropists of oh i dunno the last century. i am perfectly happy to have a world with windows 7 if it means we get the gates foundation
― (╯°□°)╯︵ ya, (╯°□°)╯︵ ya for real (gbx), Thursday, 6 October 2011 03:41 (twelve years ago) link
the first thing I thought of when I heard this is that a bunch of people's halloween ideas just got way easier to come up with
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 6 October 2011 03:44 (twelve years ago) link
remember when steve jobs bought a house in tennessee just so he could steal a liver from the state and leave the poors to die
― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 6 October 2011 03:47 (twelve years ago) link
lol my facebook just literally says "25 people posted about Steve Jobs"
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 6 October 2011 03:48 (twelve years ago) link
can't believe I only have two friends who posted tamtam level shit
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 6 October 2011 03:49 (twelve years ago) link
steve jobs never gave a dime to charity except for 250k to the dems to fund lobbyists so his "suicide factories" in asia could remain up.
Dangerous ground. There's every chance he secretly gave loads to charity, an action which imo is far more laudable than telling everyone how incredibly generous you are.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 6 October 2011 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
There are eight levels of tzedaka, each greater than the next. … [Second] is the one who gives tzedaka to the poor, but does not know to whom he gives, nor does the recipient know his benefactor. For this is performing a mitzva for the sake of Heaven. This is like the Secret [Anonymous] Office in the Temple. There the righteous gave secretly, and the good poor drew sustenance anonymously. This is much like giving tzedaka through a tzedaka box. One should not put into the box unless he knows that the one responsible for the box is faithful and wise and a proper leader like Rabbi Hananya ben Teradyon.
Fuckin Maimonides
― (silby), Thursday, 6 October 2011 03:55 (twelve years ago) link
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/08/29/the-mystery-of-steve-jobss-public-giving/
― per metal injection (Eazy), Thursday, 6 October 2011 03:56 (twelve years ago) link
(There has long been speculation that an anonymous $150 million donation to the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco may have come from Mr. Jobs.)
http://i.imgur.com/EgQjG.png
― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 6 October 2011 03:57 (twelve years ago) link
Apple, Inc. was the one and only monument Steve wanted to build
― (silby), Thursday, 6 October 2011 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
<3 tam tam
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:08 (twelve years ago) link
im sure its possible that this exceedingly nasty man who spoke repeatedly & publicly about not being interested in philanthropy because of the amount of time it would take away from developing his business, was privately very generous. yes, very possible... http://i.imgur.com/YCOfu.gif
― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
for halloween I was going to be a ghost in a turtleneck but now I think it's going to be something like a cancer cell w/ an ipad
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/UQ8bN.png
― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
no maybe I'm going to be a cancer cell that will throw drinks at ipads
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:10 (twelve years ago) link
Playboy interview with Steve Jobs, circa 1985:
http://www.playboy.com/magazine/playboy-interview-steve-jobs
― geeta, Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
john siracusa: http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits/2011/10/steve-jobs-a-personal-remembrance.ars
― markers, Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
I saw a butt xp
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
do you guys believe that steve jobs changed music
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
A+++++ trolling itt re: the recently departed. Stay fuckin' classy ilx.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
love this, from the Playboy piece:
"Two other party guests wandered into the room and looked over Jobs’s shoulder. ‘Hmmm,’ said the first, Andy Warhol. ‘What is this? Look at this, Keith. This is incredible!’ The second guest, Keith Haring, the graffiti artist whose work now commands huge prices, went over. Warhol and Haring asked to take a turn at the Mac, and as I walked away, Warhol had just sat down to manipulate the mouse. ‘My God!’ he was saying, ‘I drew a circle!’"
― geeta, Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:17 (twelve years ago) link
funny thing is it actually is A++++++++ trolling
― u0sd0ןɟ (flopson), Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:19 (twelve years ago) link
never change canky
― (╯°□°)╯︵ ya, (╯°□°)╯︵ ya for real (gbx), Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:19 (twelve years ago) link
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― yung huma (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:19 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/27063/steve-jobs-10-favorite-records-and-what-they-say-about-him/
― buzza, Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:21 (twelve years ago) link
thats why I said it
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:21 (twelve years ago) link
i know bill is making some grand philanthropic efforts, but a world without windows is a better world, though. iphone world definitely beats ham radio britannica world.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, October 5, 2011 7:49 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
http://allthingsd.com/20110928/encyclopaedia-britannica-now-fits-into-an-app/
― jaymc, Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:24 (twelve years ago) link
love this too:
"People get stuck as they get older. Our minds are sort of electrochemical computers. Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them. It’s a rare person who etches grooves that are other than a specific way of looking at things, a specific way of questioning things."
― geeta, Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
"I have long been a huge admirer of Mr. Jobs and consider him the da Vinci of our time." OTM.
From the NYT article that Eazy posted above.
― Je55e, Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:32 (twelve years ago) link
If you are honestly grieving Steve Jobs's death so hard that you can't bear to read any criticism of him, why would you even be on the Internet, much less ILX?
― jaymc, Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:33 (twelve years ago) link
yo ned, nice post
― markers, Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:34 (twelve years ago) link
(the one on your blog)
Calm down dude, I was talking about TamTam's totally in character ott-ness being glad he's in hell.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:35 (twelve years ago) link
(xpost to jaymc)
i'm not trolling btw, im just another poster giving my 2 cents bub
― The sham nation of Israel should be destroyed. (Princess TamTam), Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:35 (twelve years ago) link
John, the thing is, "You knew it was a snake when you picked it up," isn't the point. We expect people to be assholes in RIP threads, but that doesn't excuse them or make it less appropriate to point out that they are being assholes.
― Je55e, Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:35 (twelve years ago) link
Being glad someone died /= "criticism", fyi.
http://daringfireball.net/
― markers, Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:35 (twelve years ago) link
how is it inappropriate to point out that steve jobs isn't davinci?
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:36 (twelve years ago) link
i mean maybe if steve jobs actually invented a bunch of shit instead of just marketing it to people
― funk master friendly (moonship journey to baja), Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:37 (twelve years ago) link
steve jobs was jesus in that case
― omar little, Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:37 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry, I still don't get why RIP threads are supposed to be these special sacrosanct places.
― jaymc, Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:38 (twelve years ago) link
(Also, don't see where TamTam said that he was glad Jobs is dead.)
― jaymc, Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:39 (twelve years ago) link
sean parker: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150348392138293
― markers, Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:40 (twelve years ago) link
(I do see TamTam being generally snarky about Jobs's death.)
― jaymc, Thursday, 6 October 2011 04:40 (twelve years ago) link