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dameocrat67 (442 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 11:53 PM Original message |
Steve jobs told Obama he would be a one termer for over-regulating business. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 11:57 PM Response to Original message |
1. Lol. He went all type A on the Prez? Funny. |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:30 AM Response to Reply #1 |
17. well, obviously his !BRILLIANCE! and !OMNIPOTENCE! was |
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entropic (26 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-20-11 11:58 PM Response to Original message |
2. meh |
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dameocrat67 (442 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:02 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. I will use linux on my pc, spend alot less money |
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entropic (26 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:31 AM Response to Reply #3 |
18. my conscience is always clear. |
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dameocrat67 (442 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:34 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. says somone that does not care about workers or the truth. |
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entropic (26 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:35 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Who's "Somone"? |
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glinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:03 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Welcome to DU! I have seen sick people do that. Turn conservative. |
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entropic (26 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:35 AM Response to Reply #4 |
20. dying ain't fun. |
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dameocrat67 (442 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:39 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. he did not have brain cancer and there is no evidence he was liberal |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 01:30 AM Response to Reply #23 |
31. He was a Buddhist. |
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dameocrat67 (442 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 01:43 AM Response to Reply #31 |
33. so he will experience karma instead of judgment. |
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Vicar In A Tutu (298 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 04:46 PM Response to Reply #23 |
87. Almost all of his campaign donations were D and he wanted to work on both Obama's campaigns |
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wiredshut (5 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 03:23 AM Response to Reply #20 |
50. It's not a matter of "hate", rather perspecitive... |
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Wind Dancer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:17 PM Response to Reply #50 |
73. Well said! |
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Mojorabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:49 AM Response to Reply #4 |
25. I have seen the opposite |
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zalinda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 02:09 AM Response to Reply #25 |
40. I would think that he was angry |
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dameocrat67 (442 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 02:23 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. The outsourcing started before he was dying |
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Mojorabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 02:25 AM Response to Reply #40 |
44. I understand lashing out also |
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tblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:04 AM Response to Original message |
5. The body ain't even cold. |
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dameocrat67 (442 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:06 AM Response to Reply #5 |
6. It was a sympathetic biography |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:09 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Poor BP, my heart bleeds for them.. |
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slay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 03:00 AM Response to Reply #5 |
46. Well... I Can't Wait |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:09 AM Response to Original message |
7. 'crippled by union work rules' Why do these rich fucks always start messing with the working classes |
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dameocrat67 (442 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:14 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. I dont know. It is really depressing |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:21 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Yep. All of them. Their arrogance and sense of entitlement is puke worthy |
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slay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 03:02 AM Response to Reply #13 |
47. +1 |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:13 AM Response to Original message |
9. all the Jobs worship is misguided, evidently |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:17 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Yeah, I think it's pretty funny.. |
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dameocrat67 (442 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:20 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Well if the foxconn suicides didnt do it, I am not sure much will |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 05:28 AM Response to Reply #12 |
51. +1 |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 09:53 AM Response to Reply #12 |
57. that's what makes this even more ironic, and embarrassing to all his *followers* |
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dameocrat67 (442 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:49 PM Response to Reply #57 |
78. i believe in purgatory |
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Vicar In A Tutu (298 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 04:42 PM Response to Reply #12 |
86. Foxconn has a suicide rate lower than the Chinese average |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:22 AM Response to Original message |
14. Jobs wanted to bring Chinese factories here? Who would've thought. |
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MrSlayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:26 AM Response to Original message |
15. When I said this on the day he died, I was called a "jealous hater". |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:27 AM Response to Original message |
16. Steve Jobs was an asshole. I don't see why this is so hard for people to grasp. |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 09:39 AM Response to Reply #16 |
56. It's probably for the same reason conservatives don't want to believe Bewsh and Reagan sucked. |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:39 AM Response to Original message |
22. So how many other Transnationals have learned to love paying |
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ellisonz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:47 AM Response to Original message |
24. You misquoted Jobs... |
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dameocrat67 (442 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:52 AM Response to Reply #24 |
27. since the article says nothing about a failing economy |
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ellisonz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:55 AM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Not really... |
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Mosby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:57 PM Response to Reply #28 |
80. Uncessesary costs? |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 01:43 AM Response to Reply #24 |
34. Then Obama fails regardless the way the coin falls. |
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ellisonz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 02:07 AM Response to Reply #34 |
38. Agreed. |
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wiredshut (5 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 02:48 AM Response to Reply #24 |
45. Another angle... |
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ellisonz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 03:06 AM Response to Reply #45 |
48. Thank you! |
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Awsi Dooger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:52 AM Response to Original message |
26. Only a supreme idiot overreacts to the last item on the plate |
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FarCenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 09:26 AM Response to Reply #26 |
55. Jobs was direct, abrasive and not deferential in his intereactions with others |
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ThoughtCriminal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:56 AM Response to Original message |
29. Or maybe he was mad because Obama used a Blackberry |
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tex-wyo-dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 01:03 AM Response to Original message |
30. The paradox with most rich fucks is that... |
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avaistheone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 01:41 AM Response to Reply #30 |
32. Unfortunatey true. |
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MattSh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 01:47 AM Response to Original message |
35. Foxconn does NOT mean Apple only! How many times must this be said? |
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dameocrat67 (442 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 01:52 AM Response to Reply #35 |
36. yeah they are shitty too, which is why I wish Obama would |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 09:58 AM Response to Reply #35 |
61. so Jobs gets a pass because everyone else is doing it? |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 01:55 AM Response to Original message |
37. Well, since he shifted the production of most of his products overseas... |
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Firebrand Gary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 02:07 AM Response to Original message |
39. What I love about this story. |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 02:24 AM Response to Original message |
42. Jobs died angry that Windows took over the schools and kicked out his Apple products because...... |
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dameocrat67 (442 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 02:25 AM Response to Reply #42 |
43. Gates is attacking the unions too |
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slay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 03:08 AM Response to Reply #43 |
49. Yes he is |
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MisterP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 01:58 PM Response to Reply #49 |
85. Gates and Jobs show strong techno-utopianism |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 09:57 AM Response to Reply #43 |
59. so that makes it okay that Jobs did it? |
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Donnachaidh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 09:56 AM Response to Reply #42 |
58. Apple was busily trying to push their products into my kid's school a few years back |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 05:34 AM Response to Original message |
52. I'm no big fan of Obama. |
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dameocrat67 (442 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 06:35 AM Response to Reply #52 |
53. Good question |
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Starry Messenger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 06:41 AM Response to Original message |
54. Capitalism rewards this. |
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Downtown Hound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 09:58 AM Response to Original message |
60. What regulation? |
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Southerner (57 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 10:47 AM Response to Reply #60 |
62. Here's the Link to View New Regulations |
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Downtown Hound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 11:14 AM Response to Reply #62 |
64. Please |
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Southerner (57 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 11:29 AM Response to Reply #64 |
66. I don't know. |
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Downtown Hound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 11:31 AM Response to Reply #66 |
67. You mean regulations like having to pay their employees more than 10 cents an hour? |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
63. He definitely was NOT for the 99 percent |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
65. Too bad Jobs also thought he was insightful about his own medical treatment. |
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Harmony Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
68. I don't understand |
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Downtown Hound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:07 PM Response to Reply #68 |
69. Well, as a recovering addict from the Cult of Mac |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:16 PM Response to Reply #69 |
72. Boy, I never saw that. |
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Downtown Hound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:19 PM Response to Reply #72 |
75. Every PC I used in the 90's was a nightmare |
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dameocrat67 (442 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:40 PM Response to Reply #69 |
76. very true |
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Harmony Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:43 PM Response to Reply #69 |
77. It happens |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 01:36 PM Response to Reply #77 |
82. I dunno. Some people would argue that Bioware peaked in the year 2000. |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:10 PM Response to Original message |
70. He may be a one-termer, but it certainly won't be because he was too *tough* on big business. |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:15 PM Response to Original message |
71. Six of one, half a dozen of other |
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taught_me_patience (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:18 PM Response to Original message |
74. Lying sack of shit |
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WCGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
79. What over regulation is he talking about.... |
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Harmony Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 01:40 PM Response to Reply #79 |
84. It is a RW talking point spewed |
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JoeyT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 01:33 PM Response to Original message |
81. Yep, the disconnect between |
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Sanity Claws (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-21-11 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
83. Jobs was a IT innovator but certainly not Nostradamus |
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