Take a number: Steve Jobs turned away from busy San Fran pizzeria

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  • Reply 161 of 249
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    Originally Posted by tyler82 View Post


    If anything flour+water should be PRAISED for not letting a billionaire walk in and get a table ahead of someone, forcing everybody else to wait even longer. I have not eaten here yet but I already admire their business practices. Sounds like a humbling moment for Steve that he probably needed and hasn't had in a long time!



    LOL. That's how Karl Marx got started.

    How do you know that doesn't happen to him all the time? As far as I'm concerned, AT&T drops his calls as often as they drop everyone else's. It's not like his SIM card gets magical preference over the rest of the schlubs battling it out for bandwidth in San Francisco's crowded cell towers.
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  • Reply 162 of 249
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    If I had his money I?d pay people to put pants on me. And I wouldn?t be walking around in public. That seems so pedestrian.



    Seriously, this is news? If he threw a fit and demanded a table because he?s Steve Jobs and got turned away or if he bought the restaurant and then fired the guy that turned him away, that would be news.



    Hey, you're talking about Steve Jobs. If he bought the restaurant, before he was done all the workers would be wearing gold-plated diapers!
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  • Reply 163 of 249
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    Originally Posted by AppleInsider View Post


    Most of the people in there are Photoshopped in," user "Ryan" commented. "The person who did it lined up in the shadows with the shadows of the telephone wires instead of the shadows in the telephone pole. Steve Jobs, dude in blue, girl in white -- all cropped in. Even shadows of people behind the camera are cropped in."



    The use of the expression 'cropped in' clearly demonstrates that this person went to art school and should be considered an expert.
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  • Reply 164 of 249
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    Originally Posted by Jkirk3279 View Post


    Occam's Razor falls before a really good hoax.



    Actually, I DID just take an art class and aced it.



    Ironically, for the final we had to come up with a storyboard of sketches that told a story.



    Include a person, something mechanical, something abstract, some other artist's style, something architectural... and draw part of it by non-traditional means.



    The irony?



    I used Steve Jobs holding an Apple, the iPod, the Apple Logo by Rob Janoff, 1 Infinite Loop, and the iPad.



    I also cut a 2" wide Apple Logo from 1/4" thick steel with a plasma cutter and polished it.





    BTW, the flaw with the wide-angle lens argument is the shadows of the power lines are pretty straight.



    If it was a wide lens they'd curve a lot more as you go outward from center.



    That's a lot of typing just to prove that you don't know what "irony" means.
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  • Reply 165 of 249
    jragostajragosta Posts: 10,473member
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    Originally Posted by Suddenly Newton View Post


    You guys are arguing about the shadows on the ground? Have you ever seen a Star Wars movie? The shadows line up in each scene, but that doesn't prove anything in the scene is "real".



    True. It's possible for the shadows in a fake picture to be just as correct as in a real picture.



    But if the shadows are incorrect, then it MUST be a fake.



    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Jkirk3279 View Post


    Occam's Razor falls before a really good hoax.



    No, Occam's Razor says that no one in their right mind cares whether Jobs got a seat in that restaurant or not.
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  • Reply 166 of 249
    chris_cachris_ca Posts: 2,543member
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    You guys are arguing about the shadows on the ground? Have you ever seen a Star Wars movie? The shadows line up in each scene, but that doesn't prove anything in the scene is "real".



    Yeah, but if they are wrong, it proves it was doctored or it was a fake (CGI) shot.
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  • Reply 167 of 249
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    Originally Posted by kpilkington View Post


    That's a lot of typing just to prove that you don't know what "irony" means.



    Yeah, it's like goldy and bronzy, only it's made of iron.
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  • Reply 168 of 249
    luisdiasluisdias Posts: 277member
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    Originally Posted by Jkirk3279 View Post


    No. I compared Steve's "shadow" with the shadow of the person to the left of the camera.



    Now that's just silly. You can't trust the photograph enough to do *that*.



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    Since they are both standing on the same plane, their shadows should have the same degree of sharpness and darkness.



    Well not exactly, no. It all depends on many things. For one, the difference isn't that much. So the slight difference can be explained otherwise, by ambient lighting, materials, etc.,etc. And, btw there's no one in the same distance as Jobs is. *No one*. So you can't make a fair comparison. Again, you are gasping for straws.



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    That power line is 20+ feet higher than their heads, of course the shadow it casts is fuzzy.



    Oh geeze. At least you score that one.
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  • Reply 169 of 249
    solipsismsolipsism Posts: 25,726member
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    Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss View Post


    You mean the part about walking around being pedestrian?



    I meant that to be a double entendre. The first sentence was me being silly.





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    Originally Posted by Chris_CA View Post


    Yeah, but if they are wrong, it proves it was doctored or it was a fake (CGI) shot.



    There was a Mythbusters episode on the moon landing that showed shadows pointing in different directions can come from a single light source. I think it had to do with a 2D image showing a 2D shadow based on a 3D object. This isn't my field of expertise but the conclusion seemed reasonable to me to debunk those you think te moon landing images were faked.
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  • Reply 170 of 249
    luisdiasluisdias Posts: 277member
    And please, you guys didn't show that this was fake at all. All you got are banana arguments. I couldn't give a shit if this was a fake or not. But when I saw the "experts" opinion on the original post, and then I saw the picture, I couldn't relate *at all*. If this is a fake, let me tell you, it's a damn good one. Now why would anyone spend so much time making such a good fake for such a stupid story?



    Anything's possible, I guess. Anyhoo, it's irrelevant. I'm just here combating the sheer ignorance of the people that apparently have too many opinions for their own sake.
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  • Reply 171 of 249
    patsfan83patsfan83 Posts: 156member
    How come no one is "praising" Jobs for waiting his turn, and walking out when no tables were available? It's not like he cut the line, threw down $100 and demanded to be seated. Cut the guy some slack he is just trying to go out and get some dinner.
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  • Reply 172 of 249
    patsfan83patsfan83 Posts: 156member
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    Originally Posted by solipsism View Post


    I meant that to be a double entendre. The first sentence was me being silly.







    There was a Mythbusters episode on the moon landing that showed shadows pointing in different directions can come from a single light source. I think it had to do with a 2D image showing a 2D shadow based on a 3D object. This isn't my field of expertise but the conclusion seemed reasonable to me to debunk those you think te moon landing images were faked.



    Sounds like they just made up a scientific sounding explanation.
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  • Reply 173 of 249
    patsfan83patsfan83 Posts: 156member
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    Originally Posted by arithmerock View Post


    The use of the expression 'cropped in' clearly demonstrates that this person went to art school and should be considered an expert.



    I would love to be able to "crop in" things in my pictures. That would be magic to be able to expand the photo after it's been taken!
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  • Reply 174 of 249
    chris_cachris_ca Posts: 2,543member
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    Originally Posted by solipsism View Post


    to debunk those you think te moon landing images were faked.



    Of course it was fake. I read it on the internet!

    Tell that to Buzz Aldrin.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUI36tPKDg4
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  • Reply 175 of 249
    a_greera_greer Posts: 4,594member
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    Originally Posted by ruel24 View Post


    He puts his pants on one leg at a time like everyone else.



    I have always been bothered by this saying, am I the only one who puts pants on 2 legs at a time?
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  • Reply 176 of 249
    chris_cachris_ca Posts: 2,543member
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    Originally Posted by LuisDias View Post


    Anyhoo, it's irrelevant. I'm just here combating the sheer ignorance of the people that apparently have too many opinions for their own sake.



    And how's that working out for you?

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    Now why would anyone spend so much time making such a good fake for such a stupid story?



    Likely for the same reason someone would spend so much time "combating the sheer ignorance of the people that apparently have too many opinions for their own sake".



    Dunno???
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  • Reply 177 of 249
    mj webmj web Posts: 918member
    I'm gonna have pizza for lunch!
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  • Reply 178 of 249
    solipsismsolipsism Posts: 25,726member
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    Originally Posted by PatsFan83 View Post


    Sounds like they just made up a scientific sounding explanation.



    No, they recreated the physical scene in a scale model. It didn?t prove that that moon landing wasn?t faked, but it did prove that a signal light source can cause shadows that don?t appear to line up from a single observation point, thus debunking the conspiracy theorists claims that the pic is proof that it was faked.



    PS: The moon landing is more enjoyable than this story.
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  • Reply 179 of 249
    solipsismsolipsism Posts: 25,726member
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    Originally Posted by Chris_CA View Post


    Of course it was fake. I read it on the internet!

    Tell that to Buzz Aldrin.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUI36tPKDg4



    That is awesome! Buzz Lightyear* is my hero! I wish I could do that to some of the asshats on this forum but I’m sure they would be timid little mice in person.
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  • Reply 180 of 249
    He did get to jump to the head of the kidney transplant line right?
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