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Ellipsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:39 PM
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Here's to the crazy ones - - - Apple "Think Different" commercial (1997).
Edited on Wed Oct-05-11 07:50 PM by Ellipsis
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. - Apple Inc.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX9GTUMh490&feature=related

RIP Steve.
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teddy51 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:42 PM
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1. Great post, and so true. n/t
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lob1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:43 PM
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2. That could also apply to those Wall St. protestors.
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Ellipsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:44 PM
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4. ... and DU
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Tom Ripley Donating Member (418 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 12:02 AM
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11. Or technological innovations brought about by a government headed up by a crazy European man
No name. No Godwin.
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Ellipsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 12:18 AM
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14. John Louis Gassee?
Edited on Thu Oct-06-11 12:19 AM by Ellipsis
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:43 PM
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3. K&R!
RIP...
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Glimmer of Hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:45 PM
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5. Think different.
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Coexist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 07:47 PM
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6. :(
iSad.
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Ellipsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 08:29 PM
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7. i actually got a little misty... for a second.
End of an Era.
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MisterP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 11:35 PM
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8. oh, the galloping irony
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 11:38 PM
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9. The ones with a shitload of money to spend on things...
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RegieRocker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 11:43 PM
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10. Yea, he was such a good person
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Ellipsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 12:08 AM
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12. I've met Andy Hertzfeld...
Edited on Thu Oct-06-11 12:09 AM by Ellipsis
and you sir are no Andy Hertzfeld.


Bitch, bitch, bitch. Try the restaurant business dude.
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RegieRocker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 12:18 AM
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13. what the flying f*ck does that have to do with the price of eggs
in china? Steve jobs used peoples talents and that is all he did. He was a slave driver. Now go to that restaurant and get you a heapin helpin of some S.O.S.
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Ellipsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 12:19 AM
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15. You worked for him did you?
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RegieRocker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 12:27 AM
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16. Is that how you equate everything? Boy you had better
get off the internet and stop listening to news, read papers and so forth. Because if you have to personally be there to believe it then your fu*ked.
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Ellipsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 12:34 AM
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18. I take that as a no then.
There are lots of law suits against Apple. Hell, I'm even a party to one... but you don't know shit from shinola pal. The dude could have quit at anytime. You think I'm going to get all teary eyed over somebody complaining about about their six or seven figure salary?


"I guess the validity of the claim is up to the courts, but I do have one gripe with their complaint:

During his on-call hours, Walsh “was required to remain on stand-by for the entire night, every night of the week, for the entire week without compensation,” contends the suit, which was filed in U.S. District Court for Southern California.

“Every night of the week, for the entire week”? ...Oh the agony.



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RegieRocker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 12:38 AM
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20. I know shit and you're spewing a lot of it.
I didn't have to know Bush personally to know he was a ahole. I hope you get what you deserve since you think it's ok. Maybe you could go to china and work for $2.00 an hour for 80 hrs a week. CYA!
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Ellipsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 12:42 AM
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22. No facts then... just sputum, take care.
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RegieRocker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 12:45 AM
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23. I gave you facts and there are plenty of documentaries
about this very topic. He was an ass. Could care less about people as long as he could make money. Like I said "more shit".
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Ellipsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 12:49 AM
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25. Brillant come back... I thought you were leaving.
post a link to those "ass" documentries.
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RegieRocker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 12:55 AM
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28. Boy you're a bright one. If that is what you thought why did
you post a reply? Like I said "shit".
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Ellipsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 12:56 AM
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29. Guess I'm just pokin' at you a bit.
Edited on Thu Oct-06-11 12:57 AM by Ellipsis
:*
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Electric Monk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 12:29 AM
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17. Still crazy after all these years
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Occupied1 Donating Member (137 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 12:37 AM
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19. Think different all you rebels. Buy our shit. Commodify your dissent you drones.
Edited on Thu Oct-06-11 12:39 AM by Occupied1
It's a COMMERCIAL. Like a lot of post-modern commercials, it attempts to appropriate the image of rebellion TO MAKE PROFITS.
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Ellipsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 12:40 AM
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21. If everybody's a rebel...
Edited on Thu Oct-06-11 12:43 AM by Ellipsis
It makes us all the same.

Just buy smart whatever you buy.
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Poll_Blind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 12:47 AM
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24. You have to admit it IS the very font of diabolic, though. A vanity-seeking missile.
Edited on Thu Oct-06-11 12:53 AM by Poll_Blind
Aimed squarely at the breast of winded shufflers on the quest for enlightenment. A shortcut into a cul-de-sac lined with mirrors and applause.

"Is this the top of the mountain? Where is the guru?"

"It's you!" they reply.

"I knew it! Deep down I knew it all along!"

PB
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Ellipsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 12:54 AM
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27. TBWA\Chiat\Day is one of the absolute best agencies period.
Their campaign for Apple unmatched.


It captured the idealism of the time.


Great post by the by.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 01:01 AM
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Ellipsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 01:05 AM
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33. Actually This is an add from 1997.
Edited on Thu Oct-06-11 01:07 AM by Ellipsis
TBWA and Chiat\Day merged in 1995

But yes I was there in the eighties...






Never could figure out the whole glamrock thing though you know.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 01:17 AM
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Ellipsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 01:24 AM
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35. One mans obvious retro culture is another mans reality.
Edited on Thu Oct-06-11 01:26 AM by Ellipsis


Hold down the fort dude.

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Ellipsis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 01:31 AM
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37. .
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 12:57 AM
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Lucian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 12:53 AM
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26. I don't think those types of people apply to Apple users anymore.
Edited on Thu Oct-06-11 12:55 AM by Lucian
Why you ask? Because EVERYBODY uses Apple products now.

You're not different if you use Apple.
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Hello World Donating Member (75 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-06-11 12:56 AM
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30. i think it still applies to the vision behind their products
hopefully that wont change
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