“People from left and right across the web are taking minor issues and blowing them out of all proportion to create this false sense of ‘outrage’ against some perceived threat from the cupertino company,” Fitzgerald writes. “It seems the politics of ‘phoney [sic] outrage’ has become so prevalent in the world of political discourse that it’s seeping into the mindset of everyone with an axe to grind.”
Fitzgerald writes, “[Take the recent] email exchange between Gawker’s Ryan Tate and Steve Jobs. Steve is calm and collected and Ryan is in my opinion childish and hot headed… As with many of Apple’s innovations, Apple has created a widely successful product that defines a genre, and then a group of highly vocal commenters rails against it because they think the product should actually be defined their way, not Apple’s, and because it’s not their vision that is somehow limiting choice.”
Full article – recommended – here.
Opps, didn’t see dsect, make that 3. Wow, three in one thread, nice job ZT!
I forgot who said it, but being able to do *anything* you want is anarchy, not freedom. We are not “free” to use any radio frequency we want with our phones, or drive on both sides of the road.
“With Freedom comes responsibility.”
We’ve all heard this quote. However, few of us realize that it is only part of what was said, and not the full statement, or context:
“Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.”
– Elanor Roosevelt
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@vsp,
But who watches the watchers (or who controls the controllers)? They are just as corrupt and prone to mistakes, except they have the power (the keys and the checkbook to the American Taxpayer SUV). We should not forget that Congress through Freddie Mac et al were key players in creating all the chaos and perverse incentives that allowed your government-unregulated (not true, btw) self-regulation of financial firms. The law of unintended consequences screwed the world, and Congress had its hands covered in it. Democrats wanted poorer people to afford homes–very noble and kind. Republicans thought that more home ownership would give people a stake in the government and increase responsibility and self-reliance–philosophically and historically accurate. All the money being pumped into the mortgage market was like crack to financial firms and then…
KABLOOEY. I will take the freedom, rather than be strangled by the controllers. I wish to be nobody’s prisoner but my own. I can live with that. Don’t you oppress me!
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Hey, this exchange was a win/win. Ryan admitted in his column that he was drunk and rude. The takeaway was how impressed he was that the CEO of the top technology company in the world was willing to defend his thinking in public and with a blogger, no less.
Kudos to Ryan for being honest in the reporting of the exchange and kudos to Jobs for not blowing him off.
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Zune Tang! . . . Once again, welcome back. It looks like the phishing is good, today. Maybe you should mark that part of your boat railing.
Sorry about your feelings at the gym; maybe you’ll feel better when they promote you out of the locker room, where you pickup the soiled towels, and give you a proper position behind the desk, . . . giving out the fresh ones.
Sent from my i7 iMac, not my 3G iPad.
Ah Zuney, been wondering what’s happening to you. Gosh, you should not be outraged, no one is sucking hard-earned money who use Mac toys. It’s easy effective well earned money. Now if they were doing the same work on a Windoze platform, well then it would be hard-earned money. So relax.
There, don’t you feel better.
You know your fans get all worked up about satire, and being funny and all that. Perhaps it’s true, but then again, you have never said your work is satire.
Regardless saying “Until someone walks into the gym with an I-Pod. Then I wanna punch ’em in the face.” is border line to violence. Methinks you are starting to lose it. You want to be outraged, fine. You feel like punching someone in the face, well gee, sounds like you are suggesting violence. Last refuge of the coward I guess.
Guess you never heard of peace love and tolerance.
Ha.