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The Steve Jobs Poll

Started by Admiral Yi, February 18, 2017, 08:51:59 PM

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durka

Great American Genius, Titan of Industry, Visionary
7 (10.9%)
Overrated Greasy Con Artist Salesman
19 (29.7%)
Both at the same time!
35 (54.7%)
Only Jaron knows the real Steve Jobs.
3 (4.7%)

Total Members Voted: 63

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Eddie Teach

#1
February 18, 2017, 09:05:30 PM
Durka?
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Barrister

#3
February 18, 2017, 10:10:42 PM
I'm a huge Steve Jobs fanboi, but he was a grade A asshole to everyone in his life, and yes could sell ice to a proverbial eskimo.

It's what makes him such a fascinating character.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Razgovory

#4
February 19, 2017, 05:51:25 AM
Went with both.  Man certainly built an empire, but he was known to be a dishonest jackass.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Delirium

#5
February 19, 2017, 11:08:13 AM
Both.
Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen, and keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again; but don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin, and there's no telling who that it's naming. For the loser now will be later to win, cause the times they are a-changin'. -- B Dylan

Archy

#7
February 21, 2017, 02:46:43 AM
I prefer Ghurka  :bowler:

DontSayBanana

#8
February 21, 2017, 02:23:45 PM
Quote from: Archy on February 21, 2017, 02:46:43 AM
I prefer Ghurka  :bowler:

I think so, Brain, but isn't a really tiny cucumber called a gherkin?
Experience bij!

Ideologue

#9
February 21, 2017, 04:19:42 PM
Pretty good movie.  If it's not exactly Boyle's best, it still beats the crap out of Sunshine.

The actual guy was okay, I guess, as far as billionaires go.  Way better than, say, Peter Thiel.  Never once suggested vampirism.
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The Brain

#10
February 21, 2017, 05:25:21 PM
One button mouse. Guilty.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

MadImmortalMan

#11
February 21, 2017, 06:59:59 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on February 21, 2017, 04:19:42 PM
Pretty good movie.  If it's not exactly Boyle's best, it still beats the crap out of Sunshine.

The actual guy was okay, I guess, as far as billionaires go.  Way better than, say, Peter Thiel.  Never once suggested vampirism.

Thiel has light years on Jobs. At least he killed Gawker. That was a service to humanity.
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

mongers

#12
February 21, 2017, 07:19:15 PM
Quote from: The Brain on February 21, 2017, 05:25:21 PM
One button mouse. Guilty.

Three button mouse - Archimedes.  :bowler:
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Maximus

#13
February 21, 2017, 08:50:12 PM
Option 2 precludes option 1

grumbler

#14
February 22, 2017, 02:09:50 PM
Quote from: Maximus on February 21, 2017, 08:50:12 PM
Option 2 precludes option 1

Then choose option 3
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