Steve Jobs RIP 1955-2011

I have found a new favorite GIS.

http://www.morleymoss.com/picture/3000kva%20trans%20install%20023.jpg?pictureId=4165800&asGalleryImage=true

http://blog.pluckytree.org/2011/10/last-time-i-saw-steve-jobs.html

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http://www.morleymoss.com/picture/3000kva%20trans%20install%20023.jpg

Got to use the phrase "corporate lunch scene" today when asked for a restaurant suggestion for a business lunch. A+ would use again.

hahaha

yes this pie contains apples:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CLwwwveZh0Y/To1C_V_Fo1I/AAAAAAAAZBQ/e5ldQT-168M/s912/apple-pie.jpg

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btw Jobso is still on the Apple front page after nearly eight days, not TOTALLY GHOULISH or anything

you really find a memorial photograph TOTALLY GHOULISH

i mean if it was a picture of him in state or something

I find it TOTALLY GHOULISH when it's p much the whole front page of the whole web presence for more than a week, yeah

That depends upon where you look.

steve is that kaygetsu?

kaygetsu is the f'n bomb, only went there once tho

http://i.imgur.com/TlDKz.jpg

desktop of my imac is that picture w/ a white background behind it atm

http://www.foxnews.com/images/228178/5_64_kim_jong_il2.jpg

There'll be no need to read his biography what with EVERY PRESS AGENCY ON THE PLANET explaining every single revelation in gigantic detail.

i.e. if you want to enjoy the book don't look at a web site or open a newspaper.

def surprised that he admits to delaying his cancer treatment

gonna be hilarious when shareholders file suit

He didn't just delay - he chose a stupid fucking homeopathic alternative treatment instead of the one that works. And in the end, he's just another rich, narcissistic vaccine denier type. Sigh.

yeah I didn't phrase that correctly - I meant he hid the fact from shareholders

sueing his executors or apple or whaa

Is that important? (Call me naive but I was always wondering why the hell there was so much attention given to what the shareholders thought about his health; I kinda bloodlessly figured they'd be more interested in, you know, sales and profits. The company wasn't SteveJobsBodilyIntegrity.com)

well I have no idea what being a shareholder entitles you to - I just remember that waves were being made at the time that jobs was concealing too much of his illness from the public and hence shareholders

Well, Jobs being dead certainly affects Apple and Apple stock. Jobs keeping his illness secret gave the stock an illusion of strength, where an admission that he was seeking a risky alternative treatment would have given shareholders a chance to make up their own mind as to his and Apple's future and whether or not it was worth shedding stocks then vs. now, post-fact and in a position of relative weakness.

That is, he knew he was dying to the extent that he told his biographer. So he was concealing a known fact of use to shareholders.

fwiw

Man I knew the stock market consisted of jumpy, nervous bastards but that's kinda weird.

sue sue sue to establish the precdent that corporate offcers are subject to full prophylactic genetic testing & constant health monitoring it's the least shareholders deserve

tbc I think any stockholder who would file suit over this is a vampire squid - but given the grand larceny that goes on daily in the financial world I would not be surprised if tomorrow some group of shareholders filed suit

The vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis, lit. "vampire squid from 'Hell'")

feel like the taxonomists are giving these chaps undue status with *that* name

cosign the vampire squids, but you also gotta assume that many shareholders demand the person in charge gets checked out regularly. Sort of like Hollywood studios requiring physicals from their actors (though that may be just to get naked pix).

keep hearing "vampire squid" as "vampire girl" in that jonathan richman song

the whole concern-troll thing about WHAT STEVE JOBS SHOULD HAVE TOLD THE SHAREHOLDERS is pretty gross imo

like do u really give a fuck about apple shareholders' portfolios

ppl bringing that argument never seem to advocate for the rights of the shareholders of any other company

I dont give a shit, personally. I also don't give a shit about Steve Jobs (aside from generic empathy; died too young is died too young). Just saying I can imagine it being a concern to those who do/did both of those things. I imagine if I were a profit-minded shareholder - and they all are - I would care, which is why this secrecy stuff was brought up *before* he died. Not to burst any bubbles, but Apple was a business. It's "think different" campaign was advertising, because when it came to the bottom line, it filled swimming pools with blood-soaked, coke-tainted cash like any other flush company. And to pretend a very famously public yet paradoxically secretive CEO/creative driver, uniquely linked to his product, with a mysterious illness who nonetheless stayed mum on the situation was like any other CEO/company is just a little silly. Dude was exceptional in many regards.

I agree with everything you said 510ck1, which is why I think that it's gonna be hilarious and sad if/when these suits start showing up

but maybe the stock price should drop a little first

In a chapter about the music Mr. Jobs most admired, he chided an unusual target: the singer and guitarist John Mayer. Mr. Jobs knew Mr. Mayer, who performed at an Apple product introduction in 2004. While Mr. Jobs spoke with admiration of Mr. Mayer’s guitar-playing, he told the author that the artist is “out of control” and could be “blowing it big time.” There’s no explanation in the book of what prompted Mr. Jobs’s concerns.

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The more I read about the man, the less I like him.

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it's kind of like finding out the dark mysterious rebel you had a crush on is actually just a boring yuppie

And a somewhat typical CEO-style dick

maybe you guys are learning something about ... yourselves?

haha for a minute I was thinking "wait, what kind of dick does a CEO have"

Well-polished

The guy was pretty human

ya, finding out about his opinions on john mayer's career arc was just devastating

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/22/books/steve-jobs-by-walter-isaacson-review.html?_r=2

SOMEBODY has never actually PLAYED Angry Birds.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: October 22, 2011

An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the premise of “Angry Birds,” a popular iPhone game. In the game, slingshots are used to launch birds to destroy pigs and their fortresses, not to shoot down the birds.