Huh?
He left a great legacy but he died way to young.
Agreed. Steve Jobs was an example of a person who gives the lie to those leftists who insist that no one human being can provide more than $x (choose your paltry figure) of added value to the world.
Dude, don’t even try it. The righties here do not get to claim Steve Jobs.
He’s an anchor baby to a Muslim activist in the U.S. on a student Visa (with the scary name of Abdulfattah John Jandali), went to Reed college, dropped LSD, went India for “spiritual enlightenment,” and, of course, in his later life traveled the elite liberal celebrity circuit with the likes of Steve Spielberg, Demi Moore, etc. Vigorously campaigned and donated to Obama’s election.
And he wore a mock turtleneck.
So BACK OFF, right. Steve Jobs is ours. YaHey, LorenzoP, and I are setting up defensive fortifications now. You will not take Jobs.
"Agreed. Steve Jobs was an example of a person who gives the lie to those leftists who insist that no one human being can provide more than $x (choose your paltry figure) of added value to the world. "
Beyond tasteless.
Just posted this in the other thread - well worth 15 minutes (several bits are quoted in other posts above):
Damn. very sad. The same disease that killed Randy Pausch (CMU professor and author of ‘The Last Lecture’). They both had similar reactions to their diagnoses. From Job’s Stanford commencement speech:
“…Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
He’s an anchor baby to a Muslim activist in the U.S. on a student Visa (with the scary name of Abdulfattah John Jandali), went to Reed college, dropped LSD, went India for “spiritual enlightenment,” and, of course, in his later life traveled the elite liberal celebrity circuit with the likes of Steve Spielberg, Demi Moore, etc. Vigorously campaigned and donated to Obama’s election.
And he wore a mock turtleneck.
None of which accomplishes an iota toward refuting my point.
BTW, just because I disagree with a leftie doesn’t make me a rightie. 
Beyond tasteless.
I’m not sure what you mean. I had extremely high respect for the guy, and I think that when a great person dies it is a good thing to celebrate his achievements.
I probably overreacted. I just thought it was sad that you had to get it a political dig on a thread that didn’t need or ask for it.
I suppose that nowadays honoring a person’s achievements inevitably has political overtones, but I’m not going to stop doing so on that account.
Steve Jobs was an example of a person who gives the lie to those leftists who insist that no one human being can provide more than $x (choose your paltry figure) of added value to the world.
I can’t say I’ve ever heard that before. Who wrote that?
I suppose that nowadays honoring a person’s achievements inevitably has political overtones, but I’m not going to stop doing so on that account.
By referring to “those leftists” you veered considerably from honoring Job’s achievements. I don’t really mind, and my response was tongue-in-cheek, obviously, but don’t play innocent.
I don’t know any “rightists” or “moderates” who voice such sentiments. I included the reference to make it more clear what views I was referring to. Aside from that, I’m not sure to what sin you want me to confess. Are we supposed to bury the man, shed a tear or two, and then go on with our lives without asking ourselves what his life meant?
When someone dies, particularly someone who has made contributions on the scale that Steve Jobs did, I think it’s an entirely appropriate time for us to ask ourselves what lessons we can draw from his life, even if some people may find some of those lessons politically upsetting. If anyone finds references to such lessons offensive, that’s their problem.
Hmm, I see on the other thread that YaHey is attacking Jobs. I guess that supports my contention that there is a political implication to the man’s life.
OTOH, maybe (like the Westboro people) he disapproves because Jobs wasn’t a Christian.
One interesting comment I noticed in the USA Today obituary, which may possibly be relevant here: “Unlike tech rival Bill Gates of Microsoft or business leader Warren Buffett, Jobs did not make a practice of public philanthropy. While he may have made anonymous gifts to charity, he did not publicly embrace Gates’ and Buffett’s call for the wealthiest Americans to pledge to donate half their fortunes.”
He fought a good fight.
Did he?