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"He's the anchor baby of an activist Arab muslim who came to the U.S. on a student visa and had a child out of wedlock. He's a non-Christian, arugula-eating, drug-using follower of unabashedly old-fashioned liberal teachings from the hippies and folk music stars of the 60s."
—This description of Steve Jobs even omits "college dropout"!
We need a song in the vein of Adam Sandler's "Hanukkah" about famous Muslims and their contributions to American society.
"Barak and Steve are half-Muslim/Not too shabby!"
Imagine what he could have done if he had finished his degree.
Steve's liberal only if you equate liberal with democrat and only allow two positions. He's a brilliant, brutal, ruthless capitalist who had no compunctions about stealing from his partner (Woz) and doesn't use his billions on good causes like Bill Gates does. Whatever those hippies were teaching, it didn't stick.
@oldtaku Seconded. While the excerpt is a little gem, it's set in some gold-painted dumbassery that would leave me feeling ripped off if I'd paid 25 cents for it at the Key Food machine.
Jobs cut off corporate philanthropy in 1997 as a temporary measure, and never re-introduced it. Liberal values go far, but they don't fund the fight against malaria in Third World children – that's being done by the fortune built by Windows machines.
@turingcub Yes, and every Third World child saved from an early death by the Gates Foundation is a potential Microsoft customer. You can't tell me that it isn't all about expanding global marketshare since the developed countries are maxed out.
dammit I have an Awl id but I can't find the password. My contribution to the above comments: AT LEAST JOBS HAS AN AWESOME OS THAT DOESN'T CRASH ALL THE TIME. all caps necessary on accounta the, you know, countless work interruptions when working on a PC.
oh dear. I commented w/o reading the article. OOPS. heh. ignore the above, por favor?
Can we all at least agree that arugula is fucking awful?