“At the Wall Street Journal’s D conference, technology columnist Walt Mossberg took Apple CEO Steve Jobs through a comprehensive grilling session,” Always On reports. Mossberg questions Jobs about Mac OS X’s lack of viruses, the tech economy, politics, Apple’s corporate sales, Pixar and more.
An excerpt:
Mossberg: Correct me if I’ve described this wrong, but I think it was announced that you recently signed up as economic advisor to John Kerry? Is that the right way to say it? What’s that all about?
Jobs: I called him up and said that I’ve had a little bit of experience with advertising and I’d be glad to help him on advertising. Then a week later I read that I was an economic advisor.
Mossberg: So are you an advertising advisor? Are you an economic advisor, or are you involved in their campaign to some extent?
Jobs: I’ve offered to be. We’ll see what they take me up on.
Mossberg: Do you think he’s more tech friendly than President Bush, or is it broader issues in your mind that pull you that way?
Jobs: Some people have said that I shouldn’t get involved politically because probably half our customers are Republicans – maybe a little less, maybe more Dell than ours. But I do point out that there are more Democrats than Mac users so I’m going to just stay away from all that political stuff because that was just a personal thing.
Full article here.
G-Spank wrote:
well James if you’re taxes are too high the main problem is that you’re not making enough money. Republicans tax the middle class and the poor the same way Democrats do. The main difference is how they spend it – Republicans spend like crazy (Bush) and Democrats are more fiscally responsible (Clinton) these days. How do the Democrats do it? Well, for one they don’t give tax breaks to the already rich. Go figure.
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G-Spank, your woeful ignorance of our progressive tax structure is apparent. A very small percentage of the top wage earners account for the overwhelming majority of our tax base. It is a mathmetical reality that if you want to cut taxes such that it will benifit the economy, infusing the economy with more capital, enough to turn around an ailing economy, you have no choice but to include in that tax cut, those who you and your ilk prefer to demonize as the rich. It’s just simple math.
Second, your observation that Bush spends too much money on liberal programs is certainly true. And that’s one of the main reasons why conservative libertarians keep trying to tell liberals that Bush is no conservative, and is also why consevative libertarians are not terribly enamormed of about half of what Bush does. But, you should also know that Bill Clinton’s supposed fiscal responsibility was just something he co-opted from the Republican congress with which he was faced after his first two years of being his true self – a liberal. The Republican takeover of Congress was a wake up call for him, and for the sake of political expediency, he did what he HAD to do: discovered the wisdom of fiscal responsibility. And he was able in part to do this because he didn’t have a Cold War to worry about, as Reagan had already taken care of that for him. (And don’t bother to argue that Reagan did not hasten the demise of the U.S.S.R. History is not on your side.)
Sincerely,
Jack Ass
Undercover brother, cool movie, old premise.
And, I agree with your hit on discussion here, especially how it is so amazing to me that blacks like yourselves still put up with being patronized by the democratic party, with your votes taken for granted.
When the top 10% of wage earners pay over 50% of the tax burden in this country, it’s hardly fair to say that the rich are getting a “break” from Bush. When 10% of any group pay for over 50% of the bill, they’re doing more than their share the last time I checked. Some people here must have never passed first grade math class…
Jack Ass wrote:
“so are your grammar.”
sorry. i meant american is funny.
Perfusionista wrote:
Isn’t this (the term Libertarian conservative) a contradiction? Libertarians are in favor of letting people do what they want, while as a conservative you don’t want anybody to do anything you don’t fully approve. Oh. I get it: “I can do anything I want, but you can only do what I let you.” What was the name of the guy who invented that? Some Austrian, Ahnold will know his name…
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Why is it that when liberals dearly want THEIR values to prevail, we are meant to believe that THIS is liberty? But when others, non-liberals want their values to prevail, suddenly, THAT’S oppression. Liberals seem to think it all well and good when a whiny, vocal minority, such as homosexuals, insist that the overhwhelming majority of heterosexuals succumb to politically correct pressure and allow the standard definition of marriage be redefined. Is that not one group of people trying to IMPOSE their value system on another? It’s all a matter of whose values will prevail. In a democracy, it is supposed to be the majority that prevails. But not content to let that be, liberals routinely subvert the will of the people with their judicial activist courts.
Nevertheless, it’s the rest of us that are the tyrants. Unbelieveable!
Jack Ass
I’m independent, but i lean toward the conservative. And of course I am a Mac user!
Expat wrote:
sorry. i meant american is funny.
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You should have stuck with your first gaff. It’s less stupid than your second one.
Sincerely,
Jack Ass
I voted for the war in Iraq by giving President Bush authority to go to war without delimiting the requirements for war. Why, I am a complete idiot. I do not know how I did such a bonehead thing. I mean, I really wasn’t thinking clearly and never considered the consequences of what I was doing. Gee, just follow the crowd. That�s me, John Kerry, the village idiot. I�m confused. Where�s my mommy!
Hey, that makes me a candidate for President and leader of US.
Vote Nader.
I’m John Kerry. I’m not a real hero, but I play one on TV.
From the stranger than fiction files:
�Thank you for contacting me to express your opposition … to the early use of military force by the US against Iraq. I share your concerns. On January 11, I voted in favor of a resolution that would have insisted that economic sanctions be given more time to work and against a resolution giving the president the immediate authority to go to war.�
–letter from Senator John Kerry to Wallace Carter of Newton Centre, Massachusetts, dated January 22 [1991]
�Thank you very much for contacting me to express your support for the actions of President Bush in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. From the outset of the invasion, I have strongly and unequivocally supported President Bush�s response to the crisis and the policy goals he has established with our military deployment in the Persian Gulf.�
–Senator Kerry to Wallace Carter, January 31 [1991]�
The problem with all Democrats when it comes to taxes is that they consider you to be “rich” if you make over $25,000 a year. So the next time they say they want to tax the rich and quit giving the rich tax breaks like the Republicans do, you’ll know what they mean and not be surprised when yours go up even though you’re only making $40K a year.
you are all just a bunch of yankee zombies. none of this matters at all.
I’m George W. Bush, and I’m an alcoholic. Why do you think I take all those “vacation” trips to Crawford? To tie it on, baby! Karl was right, Republicans are easy to fool.
Jack Ass wrote:
“You should have stuck with your first gaff. It’s less stupid than your second one.”
gaff n.
A large iron hook attached to a pole or handle and used to land large fish.
i doesn’t understand americans.
what does expat mean?
You can relax Jack Ass (appropriate name, no?), I like what president Reagan did for the most part (exception: Haiti). I think he was a benefit to this country, as I think that Clinton was also a great president. I think Carter is a great man, one of the greatest human beings we’ve had the privelege of having as our President, and it’s a shame he didn’t have more of an opportunity as President. Bush Sr., ahh, what can I say – his glutonny and lack of respect for the environment was a bit much for me, not to mention his deal with the Saudi’s that led to the Kuwait thing (hey did you all know kuwait was stealing oil from Iraq – which led to the war?) So I am not a big fan of him. His son, well, he’s just much worse than his dad, and it’s real real bad right now – America’s future is being sold out from underneath us all. It’s really sad how it all degenerated so quickly…
I guess that makes me one of those really weird people that don’t choose one platform and then stick by it for their whole lives (even if the platform itself changes into something completely different).
Ah well, I guess I’ll just take Steves advise.
Jack ass, you should be embarressed.
Hey… jack ass… great name by the way. Thank you for your grammer lesson though and the implication that I’d have a field day with it if Bush said it. Lovely of you to put words in my mouth, but lets get to the point at hand.
INSPECTORS WERE ON THE GROUND WITH THE MOST UNRESTRICTED ACCESS EVER prior to the war. (sorry for shouting, but apparently you missed that fact while watching Fox News… yes, I’m implying that you are uninformed and brainless to watch such a poor excuse for news, but since you felt it proper to put words in my mouth, tis only fair)
I really am glad to know that 10,000 + Iraqis have had to die, plus the 1000 + Americans in order to give you the peace of mind that they had no wmd’s. I personally wouldn’t have been able to guess either way by the time we went to war… but that’s because we were rushed to war. However, all indicators were pointing to a wmd free Iraq. So I can understand why you would think it’s important to send our troops to war.
We’ll see how you are feeling in 20 years when the sons and daughters and brothers and husbands of the Iraqis that have died in this unnecessary war are filling the ranks of the next generation of terrorists who watched as American citizens like yourself gleefully supported a reckless president and his brand of nationbuilding in a world where we are not wanted.
oh yeah,Jack ass and by the way… your lovely hypothetical situation… with the cop and fake/real gun and all?
Yeah… please don’t tell me that’s the best you had. Because that analogy is false. Here’s your feal analagy…. You’re the cop and you know there’s a crazy guy and you heard from a friend of his enemy that he ‘probably’ was looking to buy a gun last year, AAAAAAND you were in the middle of having your partner frisking him with no gun in sight, and you decided to shoot him anyway.
you think you’re so smart now? you fucking tard.
Jack Ass embarrassed himself when he wrote:
“It is a mathmetical reality that if you want to cut taxes such that it will benifit the economy,…”
Jack Ass, did you mean “mathematical”, since “mathmetical” is not a word. If Billy Boy had written this, you’d have a field day!
So now let’s discuss the Jack Ass philosophy: He thinks it’s OK to attack Iraq with no evidence that they have WMDs. He claims that everyone else thought they did too, which is bullshit. That is why the UN, France, and all those “chickens” didn’t want to attack. They knew we needed more proof. He even had people in our government telling him that the evidence was flawed, but he didn’t care.
But Cowboy Bob Bush didn’t need more proof. He had that “gut feeling” of his. So he went in anyway. Later, he would admit that he didn’t feel the need to find WMDs. The ends justify the means.
Let’s apply that to our current freedoms (if we still have any that Ashcroft has not attempted to remove). The police see you driving. They are pretty sure that you have committed a crime – at the time they claim their reasoning is that they are sure you have a weapon. They were told so by an unreliable source. You are a bad man, but don’t have a weapon. That’s OK, they just needed an excuse to take you down. Later, they admit that you don’t have a weapon, but it was good to kill you anyway just to get you off the street.
He had a weapon about a decade ago, but got rid if it. Oh yeah, don’t forget that your dad gave him that weapon about 20 years ago so he could kill one of your dad’s enemies. Oh yeah, and your dad’s buddy Rumsfeld delivered the weapon personally.
Very interesting….. and a bit scary
At about the time our original 13 states adopted their new constitution, in the year 1787, Alexander Tyler (a Scottish history professor at The University of Edinborough) had this to say about “The Fall of The Athenian Republic” some 2,000 years prior.
“A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship.”
“The average age of the worlds greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
From Bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage.”
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Professor Joseph Olson of HamlineUniversitySchoolof Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the most recent Presidential election:
Population of counties won by:
Gore = 127 million
Bush = 143 million
Square miles of land won by:
Gore = 580,000
Bush = 2,2427,000
States won by:
Gore = 19
Bush = 29
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Gore = 13.2
Bush = 2.1
Professor Olson adds: “In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the tax-paying citizens of this great country. Gore’s territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off government welfare…”
Olson believes the U.S.is now somewhere between the “complacency and “apathy” phase of Professor Tyler’s definition of democracy; with some 40 percent of the nation’s population already having reached the “governmental dependency” phase.
Pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake in this Election Year and that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.
OLD VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold. MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible MODERN VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he’s a fool and laughs and dances and playsthe summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. CBS, NBC, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, “It’s Not Easy Being Green.” Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, “We shall overcome.” Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake. Tom Daschle & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his “fair share.” Finally, the EEOC drafts the “Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act,” retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
43.3% of all statistics are either made-up or manipulated.
Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill appointed from a list of single- parent welfare recipients. The ant loses the case. The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around him because he doesn’t maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood. MORAL OF THE STORY: Vote Republican
mac manager,
you are a piece of garbage. you must be french or had something to gain financially by keeping saddam in power. you terrorist!
you liberals truly are a pathetic bunch. the fanatical muslims hate and want to kill everyone who isn’t one of them. they hate women. they are out of their mind crazy! most of the rest of the world hates the US and secretly cheared when we were hit hard. they pretended to be on our side temporarily. behind the scenes they were trying to trip us up as much as possible. what is the rest of the world going to do about the Iranian and North Korea threat? answer, nothing! they will let these crazy nut case nations get so powerful that they can’t do anything and then beg the US to bail them out. keep your head in the sand idiot liberals. Bush is the man to the lead the US and stand up to terrorists and unfriendly, jealous nations (france, germany, russia, china, etc., etc., etc.) Kerry sucks!