spice-boy

Nothing like a good refresher course in PC history like one from DED.

SpamSandwich said:

OK, Tim has got to go. This is the final straw. This is a blatant misuse of company funds. I think even Steve Jobs would’ve fired him on the spot. Apple is not a piggy bank for Tim (or their board of directors) to apply to any non-Apple vanity cause they want. 

This is stealing money from the shareholders in order to support a political agenda.

You are so right mr let them eat cake. People who have lived in SF and the valley all their lives should just get the hell out so some coders have a place to live. The old long time residents should live in their cars until the banks take them back, then move to a nice highway underpass I hear is a good place to camp out. 

A bit retro, no?

$1000 to buy, $2000 to repair. 

SpamSandwich said:

I should’ve known a thread on Apple’s incredible monetary success would immediately evolve into a serious discussion about how to best STEAL their fairly earned profits. My god, America is over and done with because Leftists have literally mutated into full-blown Communists.

When you pay your yearly taxes to your city, state and the Feds do you consider that "stealing your profits"? Everyone pays taxes however the wealthiest including mega corporations like Apple do not pay anything near the percentage of the rest of do. People like Jeff Bezos and his incredible wealth has not been seen since the time of the Robber Barons, a time of phenomenal wealth for a few and poverty for anyone that could not sustain themselves on their farms. Family farms are pretty much gone, most of the population live in and near cities, we depend on employment which provides a living wage. Good paying jobs outside of those highly educated are hard to find. Yes unemployment is very low but how many people work for minimum wage when their parents labor for similar work made them middle class? Apple's great wealth is not the problem but the symptom of a lopsided tax system, one which gives birth to monopolies, crushes competition and slows innovation. If you don't believe me look at our economic history of the past 125 years to see how we are on a loop.