Ted Zeppelin

Ted Zeppelin
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Just look at us. Everything is backwards, everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, psychiatrists destroy minds, scientists destroy truth, major media destroys information, religions destroy spirituality and governments destroy freedom.” ― Michael Ellner ----------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- "We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during these years. But the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government... The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries." - David Rockefeller, Speaking in June, 1991 meeting in Baden, Germany"---------------------------- -"The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998. OK it has but it is only 7 years of data and it isn't statistically significant." - UN Scientist Phil Jones to scientist John Christy July 5th 2005--------------------------------------

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OCTOBER 5, 2011 10:18PM

A Moment Of Silence

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Jobs

 Things are not always as black and white as they seem. Steve Job added a lot of color to our lives.

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No!

He was just another fat cat, not any kind of a hero.

Any average fireman or ambulance driver is far more worthy of the respect implied by a moment of silence.
skypixie0
October 05, 2011 10:22 PM
You are wrong there. Wozniak and Jobs wanted to make a computer anyone could afford and a child could understand. One that would be fun. Like Edison they built a trillion dollar industry. The home computer. We are reading this ona home computer with graphics. This computer was the light bulb of home computers. You don't have to respect that, but on the day he died it would be nice to at least acknowlege the man.
Ted Zeppelin
October 05, 2011 10:45 PM
Indeed WR. Respect for the vision is due.

Rated for we levee respect where we each deem it worthy.
Seer
October 05, 2011 11:03 PM
A moment of silence...I've never figured out how long is appropriate to be considered "a moment." 3.5 seconds? Half a minute? Two shakes of a lamb's tale?
Margaret Feike
October 05, 2011 11:11 PM
Tail. I meant lamb's tail. Although I'm sure I could come up with a tale about a lamb and give it two shakes. FYI, it's better to put a lamb in a blender than a shaker; fewer lumps.
Margaret Feike
October 05, 2011 11:26 PM
@skypixie: Was Steve Jobs a hero? Not in the benevolent, self-sacrificing way, certainly. And I wouldn't have wanted to work for him, because by most accounts he could be a bitch of a boss. But he was one of the few - maybe only - people in the corporate world whom I admired and whose products I would buy with absolute confidence, even at a premium price. He was brilliant, intuitive, confident enough to decry focus groups and decision-by-committee. He was uncompromising in his insistence on delivering a better product, and pretty much unerring in determining what "better" would mean in his customers' lives.

A few years ago, a friend accompanied me into an Apple store. I was admiring the displays and my grumpy friend, a PC user, sniffed "Mac is for people who don't know anything about computers." Exactly. I don't know or want to know anything about computers. My computer knows me, thanks in large part to Steve Jobs' vision.

He'll be missed by people who don't even know it yet.
"Hello," she lied
October 06, 2011 01:52 AM
OK, OK!

Don’t anybody get all bitter and twisted. I happen to think that we all apply whatever talents and abilities we were fortunate enough to be born with to the things we do in our lives too. That he did so is no great feat. That he got enormously lucky and his ideas were relevant to today’s needs begs the point that his bank account flooding over with money was also very nice for him. Let’s not let the North American awe of money carry us away. It’s not what you’ve got that determines what kind of person you are; it’s what you do with what you’ve got. When I hear of schools he built, food relief he has financed, assistance for those who lost their homes recently due to perfidy and greed by the financial institutions, I’ll accord him due respect. As of now, I know of no such things. A seeing-eye-dog does more for people than most fat cats do. Including, I suspect, Mr. Jobs who was just a man who bled red and pissed yellow just like we all do.

....and yes. I do love my iMac....
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skypixie0
October 06, 2011 02:32 AM