Ok Steve Jobs RIP... to those who need

[nadinbrzezinski]

to go place flowers at an apple store... more power to you... but to those of you being this crtical of people's feelings... bizarre.

People grieve for the strangest of things... that's the way people are... humans are strange.

Oh and yes, for the record what Jobs did will be seen as revolutionary... period. In the history of technology he does have a niche... and so does Gates when he dies... I guess when that happens the pc\mac war will continue apace.

The war is what I find bizarre.

[malaise]

1. Ditto

Let them unrec away

Rec

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Rec\ unrec, whatever

:hi:

[malaise]

3. LOL

:rofl:

[Lost-in-FL]

4. K&R to zero! nt

[hlthe2b]

5. I wonder if those ripping him to shreds ... or ripping those NOT ripping him to shreds...

have ever considered what might be said about them after death, if the standard is to have lived a life absent imperfection?

Honestly, the tone and tenor of some of the discussions would leave me incredulous-- except we've seen this whole cycle play out before. Jobs is just the latest focus. :shrug: Bizarre, indeed.

[nadinbrzezinski]

If I were writing a sociology thesis

this would be one worthy of exploration to be honest.

[JuniperLea]

6. I'm glad I got to this thread early enough...

To avoid those of which you speak!

Sheesh... new lows every day!

[gateley]

7. I'm number 1!

The things we get sidetracked on, I tell ya. :eyes:

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. sidetracked indeed

[closeupready]

8. And yet, when Ronald Reagan or even Anna Nicole Smith died,

the vitriol here was far worse. As if ANS deserved that.

But again, people are people.

Jobs was a very flawed human being who was brilliant and a commercial success. AFAIAC, that's it. Deify him, and I will remind you that he made many mistakes, right up to the end.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. I will add to his commercial success his vision

he will have that place in the history of technology... whether people like that or not.

But we are all flawed human beings... it is part of who or what we are.

[closeupready]

11. True, I agree with you on that.

Cheers.

[seabeyond]

13. i never purposely hurt another. ever. i don't get it. perfect? not even. i am not much into

comparing my self to someone the has consciously done wrong without remorse.

i hear this a lot from the right. we are all sinners. it is when the right or religious are excusing one of their own. they would never use that phrasing for someone they oppose.

this is along the lines. "But we are all flawed human beings". i dont even come close to the poor choices he has made. i dont come close to his greatness either. but i am not gonna stand right next to him in his flaws, compared to mine. mine are miniscule.

not a big deal post. but i have never been much into this when a person has done an inexcusable and given this out for his action.

[progressiveinaction]

14. If you really want to go deep

who's to say what flawed is and isn't. Your flawed might be my perfect.

[dkf]

12. Yet where would it all have been without those "flaws"?

Maybe you don't get the results without them. Are we all better off because some could cope with Steve Jobs harder edges?