I'm taking my stars and going home and you're never going to see me again. I'm putting my foot down! Take that. So there. Waaah.
Why is the whining of some spoiled multi-billionaire brat news? Must've been a slow night, eh AI?
Nah, the only one doing the whining here is you. If this incident is true, Steve is right.
The airport security guys don't actually have the right to search people going through the airport. It wasn't that long ago that this kind of thing was considered terribly wrong and an invasion of your privacy, the clue is that in most countries, the law hasn't caught up with the practice and still doesn't allow for it even though it's done every day.
Even if you disagree with all that, a private person on a private plane being searched is completely out of order. He's right, and Japan will suffer, because even when he says something in the heat of the moment, he lives by it. Japan will now be known as the country that Steve Jobs doesn't visit because of one douche bag at the airport.
Seriously? It's a private jet!!!! He should be able to bring throwing stars onto his own private jet...c'mon peeps this is stupid.
Not stupid at all. Would you want those weapons getting past security? His flight plan is irrelevant. You can't take weapons into a secure area. He could have lost them or given them to anyone. I mean, you don't even have to justify it. Unless he also have his own private security and his own private secure boarding area... this is a no brainer. How could such a supposedly smart guy make such a bonehead move anyway?
Nah, the only one doing the whining here is you. If this incident is true, Steve is right.
The airport security guys don't actually have the right to search people going through the airport. It wasn't that long ago that this kind of thing was considered terribly wrong and an invasion of your privacy, the clue is that in most countries, the law hasn't caught up with the practice and still doesn't allow for it even though it's done every day.
Even if you disagree with all that, a private person on a private plane being searched is completely out of order. He's right, and Japan will suffer, because even when he says something in the heat of the moment, he lives by it. Japan will now be known as the country that Steve Jobs doesn't visit because of one douche bag at the airport.
Wow, the Steve Jobs hero worship really has reached new levels now.
What if the private person getting onto a private plane was Bin Laden (or one of his cronies?)
Nah, the only one doing the whining here is you. If this incident is true, Steve is right.
The airport security guys don't actually have the right to search people going through the airport. It wasn't that long ago that this kind of thing was considered terribly wrong and an invasion of your privacy, the clue is that in most countries, the law hasn't caught up with the practice and still doesn't allow for it even though it's done every day.
Even if you disagree with all that, a private person on a private plane being searched is completely out of order. He's right, and Japan will suffer, because even when he says something in the heat of the moment, he lives by it. Japan will now be known as the country that Steve Jobs doesn't visit because of one douche bag at the airport.
Lol OMG.......
you are of course completely right....so now....all of you terrorist out there here is what you do.......charter a PRIVATE plane! Then carry on whatever weapons and explosives you want. Then when in flight just hijack the plane with the weapons you just carried on and crash the plane into whatever building or US monument you want to make whatever political statement you want! Brilliant plan! Because in this day and age it is bad manners to search PRIVATE planes......
It's lucky that Paris Hilton is caught with drugs in countries that can be bought with $$$$$$$. Let her try that in countries that don't. SJ actually deprived someone in Memphis of a liver transplant. Again with $$$$$$$, things can spin around to alter that fact. People with $$$$$$$ expect a different set of rules applies to them. It's disgusting. Well, it's never a fair world to begin with. On the Japan story, it's classic SJ whether it's true or not. He can control and terrorize his own employees and bully his industry peers but not every country is his playground. Since he's a Buddhist, he probably has some good karma going for him in this life. Good luck with his next one. Anyhow, he probably buy his way thru with the
I can't imagine an executive of a high tech company would say they were never going to visit Japan again - important market that one.
The not bringing the stars on a plane sounds perfectly fair to me though. It's not that he wouldn't try to hijack his own plane, but once they are through security and air-side, there is no reason why they couldn't be either handed to someone else getting on another plane or even stolen. I'm not saying Jobs would do that, but the security people can't differentiate and it's unlikely they would allow a security hole as simple as to allow weapons to get air-side as long as they are brought through security for private flights.
9-11 has made you paranoid. This series of events is just nonsense. Absolutely raving nonsense.
It's worth noting that in the 70's, there was *more* terrorism, *more* planes being hijacked, *more* planes being blown up, and generally more lives being lost to terrorist causes around the world, but we didn't all give up our freedom then.
In fact, we had vastly more freedom then, less police, and less intrusion into our personal lives. It wasn't a problem and the terrorists never got anywhere and eventually stopped. I lived through it all and remember it quite well.
People today seem to think that terrorism started with Al Queda and 9-11. It didn't. And none of the things we are doing today that are destroying our freedom, actually work against terrorism. Look it up, these are all facts.
9-11 has made you paranoid. This series of events is just nonsense. Absolutely raving nonsense.
It's worth noting that in the 70's, there was *more* terrorism, *more* planes being hijacked, *more* planes being blown up, and generally more lives being lost to terrorist causes around the world, but we didn't all give up our freedom then.
In fact, we had vastly more freedom then, less police, and less intrusion into our personal lives. It wasn't a problem and the terrorists never got anywhere and eventually stopped. I lived through it all and remember it quite well.
People today seem to think that terrorism started with Al Queda and 9-11. It didn't. And none of the things we are doing today that are destroying our freedom, actually work against terrorism. Look it up, these are all facts.
Having grown up in the UK in the 70's and 80's when the IRA were blowing things up left right and centre, I'm well aware of the fact that terrorism didn't start with 9/11. I'm also aware of the fact that airport security has been in place for years. The fact that it was incredibly weak in the US upto 9/11 is neither here nor there. Surely the fact that there was as you say, more planes being hijacked and blown up in the 70's is to suggest that the additional security is working?
But the rational response from a billionaire CEO of a huge company like Apple should have been gracious and understanding. He could have had an assistant either put the ninja stars in checked baggage or simply order more and have then delivered to his doorstep....
You forget Steve's personality. Reread some bios of him, and then think about him being rational, gracious or understanding in such a situation. Pretty unlikely.
Just because Jobs is a multi billionaire and owns his own plane he still should obey what the Japanese authorities want him to do. Believe me Japan can get along without Jobs going there again. To me he is spoiled and obnoxious in making a big deal out of this. He bleeds like everyone else in life.ga
I guess you've never been on a private jet - you generally don't go through the normal terminals, but a separate small building elsewhere on the airport grounds.
I guess you've never read the article you are responding to.
"...the airport does not have separate security policies for flyers on a private jet."
Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs was reportedly stopped in an airport in Japan after he attempted to bring Ninja throwing stars onto a plane, and vowed to never visit the country again, according to a Japanese tabloid......
While the nay-sayers like to chime in about poor billionare... they forget or just never think....
There is a world of difference between an arab religious person taking knives on a commercial flight and a billionaire boarding his own plane. And if the low paid security people cannot tell the difference or at least raise the issue to a higher level, then they are too slow thinking to stop a real hijacker...
If steve wanted to kill himself bringing down a commercial jet, he could load his jet with missles and blow them out of the air... or crash his jet into the commercial jet ( is having a jet considered having a dangerous weapon??? ) gee he could crash his own jet into a building...
It just gets too carzy. Yes there are rules, but in this case I would think that the guards would just have someone deliver the hardware to the waiting jet..... but be sure to take those toe nail clippers cause they could be dangerous.. (remember that cute safety thing??).
While the nay-sayers like to chime in about poor billionare... they forget or just never think....
There is a world of difference between an arab religious person taking knives on a commercial flight and a billionaire boarding his own plane. And if the low paid security people cannot tell the difference or at least raise the issue to a higher level, then they are too slow thinking to stop a real hijacker...
If steve wanted to kill himself bringing down a commercial jet, he could load his jet with missles and blow them out of the air... or crash his jet into the commercial jet ( is having a jet considered having a dangerous weapon??? ) gee he could crash his own jet into a building...
It just gets too carzy. Yes there are rules, but in this case I would think that the guards would just have someone deliver the hardware to the waiting jet..... but be sure to take those toe nail clippers cause they could be dangerous.. (remember that cute safety thing??).
Nuff said.
en
But Jobs was going through security in the regular terminal of a regular airport. How is the security guy to know he's a billionaire? Whilst we on this Apple fan site obviously know who Steve Jobs is, a Japanese security guard won't have a clue. Hell, all the security guard saw was a man of Syrian decent trying to take a weapon onto a plane!
I have one of those with the exact same body. The center doesn't have the apple cutout; instead, the star has circular weights bolted through the hole.
I can split 3/4 inch pine boards with it if it hits just right. I've never thrown it at flesh, but maybe the next time I get a cheap hunk of beef...
And I don't have any super ninja powers. I'd hate (love?) to see what someone who knows what he is doing could cut through with one of those.
This is someone who handles adversity everyday. Who manages a very large corporation.....he is used to conflicting advice and heated politically charged environments.
He should have handled it better than saying I'm not coming back to your country now that you won't let me have my way....
So stop attacking me personally and stick to the subject.......
Except that the report is likely to be completely bogus.
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I'm taking my stars and going home and you're never going to see me again. I'm putting my foot down! Take that. So there. Waaah.
Why is the whining of some spoiled multi-billionaire brat news? Must've been a slow night, eh AI?
Nah, the only one doing the whining here is you. If this incident is true, Steve is right.
The airport security guys don't actually have the right to search people going through the airport. It wasn't that long ago that this kind of thing was considered terribly wrong and an invasion of your privacy, the clue is that in most countries, the law hasn't caught up with the practice and still doesn't allow for it even though it's done every day.
Even if you disagree with all that, a private person on a private plane being searched is completely out of order. He's right, and Japan will suffer, because even when he says something in the heat of the moment, he lives by it. Japan will now be known as the country that Steve Jobs doesn't visit because of one douche bag at the airport.
You didn't just say that about a Japanese story did you?
No wait, yellow journalism, you know as defined here!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism
Seriously? It's a private jet!!!! He should be able to bring throwing stars onto his own private jet...c'mon peeps this is stupid.
Not stupid at all. Would you want those weapons getting past security? His flight plan is irrelevant. You can't take weapons into a secure area. He could have lost them or given them to anyone. I mean, you don't even have to justify it. Unless he also have his own private security and his own private secure boarding area... this is a no brainer. How could such a supposedly smart guy make such a bonehead move anyway?
C.
Nah, the only one doing the whining here is you. If this incident is true, Steve is right.
The airport security guys don't actually have the right to search people going through the airport. It wasn't that long ago that this kind of thing was considered terribly wrong and an invasion of your privacy, the clue is that in most countries, the law hasn't caught up with the practice and still doesn't allow for it even though it's done every day.
Even if you disagree with all that, a private person on a private plane being searched is completely out of order. He's right, and Japan will suffer, because even when he says something in the heat of the moment, he lives by it. Japan will now be known as the country that Steve Jobs doesn't visit because of one douche bag at the airport.
Wow, the Steve Jobs hero worship really has reached new levels now.
What if the private person getting onto a private plane was Bin Laden (or one of his cronies?)
Nah, the only one doing the whining here is you. If this incident is true, Steve is right.
The airport security guys don't actually have the right to search people going through the airport. It wasn't that long ago that this kind of thing was considered terribly wrong and an invasion of your privacy, the clue is that in most countries, the law hasn't caught up with the practice and still doesn't allow for it even though it's done every day.
Even if you disagree with all that, a private person on a private plane being searched is completely out of order. He's right, and Japan will suffer, because even when he says something in the heat of the moment, he lives by it. Japan will now be known as the country that Steve Jobs doesn't visit because of one douche bag at the airport.
Lol OMG.......
you are of course completely right....so now....all of you terrorist out there here is what you do.......charter a PRIVATE plane! Then carry on whatever weapons and explosives you want. Then when in flight just hijack the plane with the weapons you just carried on and crash the plane into whatever building or US monument you want to make whatever political statement you want! Brilliant plan! Because in this day and age it is bad manners to search PRIVATE planes......
I can't imagine an executive of a high tech company would say they were never going to visit Japan again - important market that one.
The not bringing the stars on a plane sounds perfectly fair to me though. It's not that he wouldn't try to hijack his own plane, but once they are through security and air-side, there is no reason why they couldn't be either handed to someone else getting on another plane or even stolen. I'm not saying Jobs would do that, but the security people can't differentiate and it's unlikely they would allow a security hole as simple as to allow weapons to get air-side as long as they are brought through security for private flights.
9-11 has made you paranoid. This series of events is just nonsense. Absolutely raving nonsense.
It's worth noting that in the 70's, there was *more* terrorism, *more* planes being hijacked, *more* planes being blown up, and generally more lives being lost to terrorist causes around the world, but we didn't all give up our freedom then.
In fact, we had vastly more freedom then, less police, and less intrusion into our personal lives. It wasn't a problem and the terrorists never got anywhere and eventually stopped. I lived through it all and remember it quite well.
People today seem to think that terrorism started with Al Queda and 9-11. It didn't. And none of the things we are doing today that are destroying our freedom, actually work against terrorism. Look it up, these are all facts.
9-11 has made you paranoid. This series of events is just nonsense. Absolutely raving nonsense.
It's worth noting that in the 70's, there was *more* terrorism, *more* planes being hijacked, *more* planes being blown up, and generally more lives being lost to terrorist causes around the world, but we didn't all give up our freedom then.
In fact, we had vastly more freedom then, less police, and less intrusion into our personal lives. It wasn't a problem and the terrorists never got anywhere and eventually stopped. I lived through it all and remember it quite well.
People today seem to think that terrorism started with Al Queda and 9-11. It didn't. And none of the things we are doing today that are destroying our freedom, actually work against terrorism. Look it up, these are all facts.
Having grown up in the UK in the 70's and 80's when the IRA were blowing things up left right and centre, I'm well aware of the fact that terrorism didn't start with 9/11. I'm also aware of the fact that airport security has been in place for years. The fact that it was incredibly weak in the US upto 9/11 is neither here nor there. Surely the fact that there was as you say, more planes being hijacked and blown up in the 70's is to suggest that the additional security is working?
Seriously? It's a private jet!!!! He should be able to bring throwing stars onto his own private jet...c'mon peeps this is stupid.
Do people ever read the story or just the headline?
"the airport does not have separate security policies for flyers on a private jet"
So basically you go through the same procedure like the rest of the citizens; how bad that could feel for a billionaire...
But the rational response from a billionaire CEO of a huge company like Apple should have been gracious and understanding. He could have had an assistant either put the ninja stars in checked baggage or simply order more and have then delivered to his doorstep....
You forget Steve's personality. Reread some bios of him, and then think about him being rational, gracious or understanding in such a situation. Pretty unlikely.
I guess you've never been on a private jet - you generally don't go through the normal terminals, but a separate small building elsewhere on the airport grounds.
I guess you've never read the article you are responding to.
"...the airport does not have separate security policies for flyers on a private jet."
Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs was reportedly stopped in an airport in Japan after he attempted to bring Ninja throwing stars onto a plane, and vowed to never visit the country again, according to a Japanese tabloid......
While the nay-sayers like to chime in about poor billionare... they forget or just never think....
There is a world of difference between an arab religious person taking knives on a commercial flight and a billionaire boarding his own plane. And if the low paid security people cannot tell the difference or at least raise the issue to a higher level, then they are too slow thinking to stop a real hijacker...
If steve wanted to kill himself bringing down a commercial jet, he could load his jet with missles and blow them out of the air... or crash his jet into the commercial jet ( is having a jet considered having a dangerous weapon??? ) gee he could crash his own jet into a building...
It just gets too carzy. Yes there are rules, but in this case I would think that the guards would just have someone deliver the hardware to the waiting jet..... but be sure to take those toe nail clippers cause they could be dangerous.. (remember that cute safety thing??).
Nuff said.
en
The airport security guys don't actually have the right to search people going through the airport. .
Even if they are carrying hand grenades?
Bullshit.
While the nay-sayers like to chime in about poor billionare... they forget or just never think....
There is a world of difference between an arab religious person taking knives on a commercial flight and a billionaire boarding his own plane. And if the low paid security people cannot tell the difference or at least raise the issue to a higher level, then they are too slow thinking to stop a real hijacker...
If steve wanted to kill himself bringing down a commercial jet, he could load his jet with missles and blow them out of the air... or crash his jet into the commercial jet ( is having a jet considered having a dangerous weapon??? ) gee he could crash his own jet into a building...
It just gets too carzy. Yes there are rules, but in this case I would think that the guards would just have someone deliver the hardware to the waiting jet..... but be sure to take those toe nail clippers cause they could be dangerous.. (remember that cute safety thing??).
Nuff said.
en
But Jobs was going through security in the regular terminal of a regular airport. How is the security guy to know he's a billionaire? Whilst we on this Apple fan site obviously know who Steve Jobs is, a Japanese security guard won't have a clue. Hell, all the security guard saw was a man of Syrian decent trying to take a weapon onto a plane!
C.
I have one of those with the exact same body. The center doesn't have the apple cutout; instead, the star has circular weights bolted through the hole.
I can split 3/4 inch pine boards with it if it hits just right. I've never thrown it at flesh, but maybe the next time I get a cheap hunk of beef...
And I don't have any super ninja powers. I'd hate (love?) to see what someone who knows what he is doing could cut through with one of those.
This is someone who handles adversity everyday. Who manages a very large corporation.....he is used to conflicting advice and heated politically charged environments.
He should have handled it better than saying I'm not coming back to your country now that you won't let me have my way....
So stop attacking me personally and stick to the subject.......
Except that the report is likely to be completely bogus.
Now I know why he always uses the black turtleneck. ROLF!!!!