I neglect my Tumblr, but I still keep updated with everyone I follow (HI GUYS!). Don’t really have much to say, so I’ll just drop my mix for those who’d like a listen. Just click the title above and turn up the volume doofdoofdoof
I’m gonna release a new one later this week if I have time, so stay tuned~ lemme know what you think ;D PEACE!
Amagad…did he died? Hope this is fake…
BOOM HEADSHOT!
If you wanna see the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnjLlWa5Ieg
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Why waste my breath when nobody’s listening?
Someone posted this on our college group on Facebook. Not sure if it’s real or not but it’s still funny in a nerdy way xD:
The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington Chemistry mid-term:
The answer by one student was so ‘profound’ that the professor shared it…
The recently deceased CEO of Apple has been called many things:
And the list goes on..
I randomly bumped into a compilation of excerpts about Steve Jobs. It wasn’t about idolizing who he was and his accomplishments but the opposite. I don’t disagree that he was a great man and revolutionized the world. But in the end, he was just a human like everyone else. One important aspect of human nature is that we are selfish. “Survival of the fittest” at its finest.
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Here are some excerpts; you can look them up yourself if you think any are made up.
“As owner of Apple, he was directly responsible for the production of the IPhone and IPad at factories in China where there had been a countless number of suicides among discontented workers during the months of March and April of this year. At several Foxxconn plants where Apple products are made, there have been horrendous policies in place such as workers being forced to work between 80 and 100 hours of overtime, workers being forced to stand on their feet for 14 hours a day, and workers being forced to sign No-Suicide Pacts as a condition of employment. According to the pact, the families of employees have to promise not to sue the company, cause any trouble that would interrupt operations in case an employee commits suicide, or bring any negative attention to the practices of the company. In addition, employees are literally crammed into company-owned dormitories. Employees living in a single dormitory room range from six to twenty-two. “Some of my roommates weep in the dormitory. I want to cry as well but my tears have not come out,” one worker told SACOM, a Hong Kong-based advocacy group, which contends that many of the practices that led to more than a dozen workers committing suicide in the months of March and April of this year continues to be perpetuated at Foxxconn factories. “
**An excellent Wired article regarding the foxxconn fiasco http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/02/ff_joelinchina/all/1 **
“In 1977, when his live-in girlfriend Chris-Ann Brennan became pregnant, Jobs denied paternity, and demanded she abort the baby. When she refused, he threw her out. When the child Lisa Nicole was born and a DNA analysis proved that he was the father, Jobs still refused to pay child support, even though mother and child were living on welfare. It took a court order to make him cough up the cash.”
“Jobs had his share of personal shortcomings, too. He has no public record of giving to charity over the years, despite the fact he became wealthy after Apple’s 1980 IPO and had accumulated an estimated $7 billion net worth by the time of his death. After closing Apple’s philanthropic programs on his return to Apple in 1997, he never reinstated them, despite the company’s gusher of profits.”
“In 1996, Gil Amelio was appointed CEO of a beleaguered Apple “…” appointed Jobs as a special adviser. Immediately, Jobs managed to get a highly damaging story on Amelio done in a leading business magazine, “…” Jobs then organized a boardroom coup and ousted Amelio. “…” Jobs, naturally, made sure that the world believed he was taking charge of a pauperized firm.”
“Jobs, in a 1994 interview, had said that talent imitates, genius steal”
“All Apple products became increasingly exclusionary: nothing it produced would operate on any other platform. In fact, in 2008, Apple sent a cease-and-desist letter to BluWiki, a non-commercial wiki provider, alleging that a discussion of how to get other hardware and software to interoperate with iPod infringed Apple’s copyrights. BluWiki sued Apple, which had to back off and retract. After Jobs’ death, legendary software freedom activist Richard Stallman described him as the “pioneer of the computer as jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom”.”“After being ousted from Apple in 1985, Jobs bought Pixar, a computer animation company co-founded by Alvy Ray Smith. What Smith and his team created transformed computer animation and made Jobs his first billion dollars. But after years of working together, Jobs went insanely ballistic on Smith during a meeting for writing on a whiteboard. In any meeting, Jobs had the “ownership” of the whiteboard, and no one could violate that rule. Smith, feeling utterly humiliated, quit, leaving behind all that he had built. Jobs had Smith’s name expunged from Pixar’s official history. Smith ceased to exist.”
“In 2006, it came to light that Apple, while granting stock options to several employees, including Jobs, had been backdating them to correspond with lows in the stock price, so the grantees could make higher profits when cashing out. Stockholders sued, and it was proved that Jobs had been aware of this. He and 12 others agreed to pay $14 million to settle.”
“Wozniak mentions being cheated by Jobs by a few hundred dollars when they were young and doing contract work. Wozniak just kind of laughed it off like “That’s Steve….”.”
“In 2005, for example, the company sued 19-year-old blogger Nick Ciarelli for correctly reporting, prior to launch, the existence of the Mac Mini. The company did not back down until Ciarelli agreed to close his blog ThinkSecret forever. Last year, after our sister blog Gizmodo ran a video of a prototype iPhone 4, Apple complained to law enforcement, who promptly raided an editor’s home.”
“In the creepiest example of Apple’s fascist tendencies, two of Apple’s private security agents searched the home of a San Francisco man and threatened him and his family with immigration trouble as part of an scramble for a missing iPhone prototype. The man said the security agents were accompanied by plainclothes police and did not identify themselves as private citizens, lending the impression they were law enforcement officers.”
“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:
[“Can anyone tell me what MobileMe is supposed to do?” Having received a satisfactory answer, he continued, “So why the fuck doesn’t it do that?”
“You’ve tarnished Apple’s reputation,” he told them. “You should hate each other for having let each other down.”]
Jobs ended by replacing the head of the group, on the spot.”
Have a haircut without leaving your computer. It is necessary to use headphones and close your eyes for the full effect.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, Hobos and Tramps, Cross-eyed mosquitoes and bowlegged ants. I come before you, to stand behind you, to tell you a story I know nothing about. One bright morning in the middle of the night two dead fellows stood up to fight. They stood back to back, facing each other, drew their swords and shot one another. If you don’t believe my lie, it’s true, ask the blind lady on the corner, she saw it too.”
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