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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Saturday 08 Oct 2011 01:09 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> What Everyone Is Too Polite to Say About Steve Jobs
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>>| In the name of protecting children from the evils of erotica ??? "freedom
>>| from porn" ??? and adults from one another, Jobs has banned from being
>>| installed on his devices gay art, gay travel guides, political cartoons,
>>| sexy pictures, Congressional candidate pamphlets, political caricature,
>>| Vogue fashion spreads, systems invented by the opposition, and other things
>>| considered morally suspect.
>>|
>>| Apple's devices have connected us to a world of information. But they don't
>>| permit a full expression of ideas.
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>> http://gawker.com/5847344
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> Steve Jobs was not a nice man, though he did some good things.
>
> Indeed there were things Jobs did while at Apple that were deeply
> disturbing. Rude, dismissive, hostile, spiteful: Apple
> employees--the ones not bound by confidentiality
> agreements--have had a different story to tell over the years
> about Jobs and the bullying, manipulation and fear that followed him
> around Apple. Jobs contributed to global problems, too. Apple's
> success has been built literally on the backs of Chinese workers,
> many of them children and all of them enduring long shifts and the
> specter of brutal penalties for mistakes. And, for all his talk of
> enabling individual expression, Jobs imposed paranoid rules that
> centralized control of who could say what on his devices and in his
> company.
>
> . . .
>
> Before he was deposed from Apple the first time around, Jobs already
> had a reputation internally for acting like a tyrant. Jobs regularly
> belittled people, swore at them, and pressured them until they
> reached their breaking point. In the pursuit of greatness he cast
> aside politeness and empathy. His verbal abuse never stopped. Just
> last month Fortune reported about a half-hour "public humiliation"
> Jobs doled out to one Apple team ...
How *dare* you spoil his name?
Remember when Michael Jackson died and it became non-PC to mention
his blunders with kids.
When Jerry Falwell died it was "tactless" to criticise him for the pain
and suffering (and probably death inc. suicide) this man caused
while becoming a tycoon riding a scam.
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~~ Best of wishes
Dr. Roy S. Schestowitz (Ph.D. Medical Biophysics), Imaging Researcher
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