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Steve Jobs' Missing License Plate
An anonymous reader writes "One of the famous stories about Steve Jobs is that he used to drive around in a Mercedez Benz sports car with no license plates, and that he would sometimes park in Handicapped spots on Apple's Cupertino campus. Jon Callas, who used to work on OS security at Apple, explains how Jobs was able to do this legally."
And with a great deal of money.
There goes his shot at sainthood.
I am going to be auctioning Jobs' license plate on ebay soon. Make sure
He's okay with exploiting legal loopholes but when people want to jailbreak their phones, it's all of the sudden "let's get litigious and sue anyone that does this!"
We don't live in Shouldland.
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On his own company?
The tinfoil hat crowd, "government out of my life" - unless they are talking about big companies they don't like, then it's, "rain down the wrath of Big Government on them!"
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Some should of keyed that car in the handicap spot when they know-ed it was jobs parking there. And jobs was lucky as in some cases you can get jail time for doing that.
The pictures show a Mercedes/AMG CL 2-seater hard top convertible. The article describes a "big Mercedes". The CL is big only in price, but not everyone would know that just by looking at it...
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You know this economic system is broken when 40M people cannot see a doctor when they need to, and guy celebrated as next prophet is changing AMG Mercedes every 6 months, so he can avoid having a damn license plate.
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I find it a bit hard to believe that there wasn't a reserved parking space for the chairman right next to the doors. Or are you telling me that he would deliberately not park in a reserved space just so that he could clog up the handicap spaces? That would staggering.
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Seems like the opposite, he didn't display his plate.
The guy was dying of cancer, seems handicapped enough to me.
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The guy undeniably left his mark on the industry, and general consensus is that personally he was an ass. Nothing else new to see here, please move along.
But handicapped people don't want to use those spots, so it's fine that Steve does!
According to the article, people did key his car for that
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I enjoy reading Apple-related stories and think the complaints about the quantity of such stories on Slashdot is a bit much but, even I must admit that this story making it to the front page is excessive. It would be nice if we could keep the Apple-related stories to subjects that are actually interesting and matter...
Park different!
Handicapped tickets can end up with jail time for people who doing all the time and I bet there are hard ass judges who will give some like the jobs the MAX time in jail.
I think the guy with terminal cancer can go ahead and use the handicapped spot.
WTF
I'm sure the Google executives don't have expensive cars or homes or jets.
And the 40M (20M if you eliminate the illegals) can see a doctor whenever they want, they just have to pay for it or get insurance.
You mean the guy who was dying of cancer? That guy should be jailed for parking in a handicapped spot?
/. pointing out what a government intrusion it is to tell private companies what kind of parking spaces they should have, let alone jailing people for not complying with them?
Where are all the supposed Libertarians here on
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If I saw a high end Mercedes with no licence plate parked in a handicapped parking spot I would have assumed the owner was a pretentious douche bag and keyed the vehicle.
Steve Jobs was many things. A visionary, a leader, a celebrity, and a first class asshole among them.
A guy being treated for a decade for pancreatic cancer, certainly has more need for a handicapped spot than 90% of the folks I see using them.
Those spots are typically empty, and I hate rolling into a lot with no spaces, except 15 handicapped spots. Get rid of them! Government intrusion on private property! How about the government comes over to your house and tells you where in your driveway you can park?
There's my fanboy justification, get rid of mandatory handicap spots.
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I don't care what loopholes he's able to use, doing that is still a douche move.
(Typed from my Apple Wireless Keyboard into a Safari textbox running on Mac OS X Lion on my 27" iMac. I love the products, but the more I learn about Jobs the more disgusted I become at him.)
The man was fracking prick.
So, err, how would they give him time in jail for parking on a handicapped spot... on restricted private property?
I can paint a pair of lines in my driveway and a big handicapped symbol between them, and park there all I want to. It would make me appear to be a dick for doing it (then again, some neighbors might get a laugh out of it), but it's perfectly legal for me to do that. Same with any other private property that isn't an obvious publicly-'open' store or retail outlet.
It would depend on California laws, but I'm certain there are going to be some pretty obvious exceptions for what kind of private property you can enforce the rules on.
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Seems to be following the standard course for famous people, they get puffed up to near god like levels and then we kick them into the gutter as everyone with a bone to pick gets their 15 minutes of fame.
While I like some of his products and his influence on design is without question I never would excuse half what he is rumored to have done. That being said, he's dead. Give it a few years and maybe we will get closer to the truth
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Seriously? How about "the government shouldn't put people in jail for trivial parking infractions," or is that too radical here on "big government out of my life" Slashdot?
If Steve had been smoker he would have changed the car more often as he would have tried to avoid emptying ashtray. With the income he had it would have been quite acceptable expense.
What a complete twat. Good riddance.
There comes other stories for not having a license plate. What I've read elsewhere: 0. 6-month new car loophole 1. Plate frequently stolen, police tolerated missing plate 2. 'I'm Steve "No-Need-For-Plate" Jobs' 3. It's just a game 4. Don't want to be followed ...
I was under the impression that shopping centers, movie theaters, etc. are required to provided a certain number of handicap parking spaces based on the sized of the lot, etc. Probably a requirement of ADA and state laws. Not sure how it applies to a strictly private campus, but given that normal workplaces have to comply with all sorts of ADA related requirements, I wouldn't be surprised if they also had to provide handicap spaces.
A lot of this story doesn't make sense. As others have pointed out, one would think he would have a reserved space (and maybe one in front of every building, if he wanted). Why not just park in the grass, if you really want to get close? Or get a Segway...
Also, I'm not sure how not having tags would help you not get a ticket. If anything, I would think you would be pulled over quite a bit for not having tags. Parking enforcement would probably cite you for not having tags. Even if you could get the tickets thrown out, that's a pretty big inconvenience. Most systems should be able to give you a ticket based on your VIN, too, which is visible through the windshield...
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...email to police with affidavit that this model of Mercedes with no license plate was parked in this (insert pic of location and car in spot)
Even good lawyers might not be able to keep him from losing his drivers license, but it's moot now.
WTF is a story like this doing on /. !?
A lot of cops (at least LAPD) drive their personal cars without plates. It's only a "fix-it" ticket ($50 and no record). Without plates you can drive like a total asshole and other drivers will not be able to report your plates.
You know...I think I just gained a little more respect for Steve. I love it when someone can 'beat the system'.
That is mostly in reference to the missing plates.
But as far as handicapped spots go....I think we need to rethink those...
I mean, most of the time I go anywhere, I see nothing but prime parking spots...empty.
And the few times I *do* see someone parked in them, with a handicapped sticker/hanger...it is someone that I would bet 100 people would have trouble telling if they were handicapped. They're often big, brand new SUV's. I see people getting out of them...walking just fine, no canes, crutches and almost never a wheel chair.
I think once in the past year...I've actually seen a van parked in a handicapped spot, that had a lift on it...for a legitimately crippled person.
I'm wondering, what are the new criteria to get a fucking handicapped pass to park up close? That you had a bad day? That you once saw a handicapped persons and now have PTSD? You stubbed your toe last month?
And lately, it seems that more and more and more front slots are marked handicapped....empty. I'm not thinking there's that much of a legitimate need for all those handicapped parking slots. I can only figure they're building more of them to accommodate the more handicapped stickers being given out to anyone with an ingrown toenail.
Either that, or the store gets some tax break for the more slots they have.
Look, I don't have a problem with someone that has a legitimate handicap and has trouble walking, but, this has gotten way outta hand.
I mean...the other day, and I shit you not...I saw a fucking big ass motorcycle...I think it was a freaking Honda Valkyrie with a handicapped plate.
First of all I'm thinking....an handicapped person on a motorcycle?? And 2nd of all...if you can handle a 1500cc bike that weighs about 660lbs, you're not handicapped. If you are, you have no reason to be out on public roadways trying to navigate such a beast.
But on the lighter side...I do like how he found the loophole for the 6mos plate thing. I wonder what the laws in my state are...hmmmm.
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Should "of"?
This is of course brilliant, but the law itself is totally broken. This law means that a lot of people can avoid having license plates, including criminals. But of course parking in a handicapped zone is the most douchebag thing to do. Steve Jobs was obviously a total jerk.
Most systems should be able to give you a ticket based on your VIN, too, which is visible through the windshield...
Well, assuming it isn't covered up. As far as I know there is no law against covering the VIN, only removing or obliterating it.
Another example: Ryanair (Europe's lowest cost and most profitable airline) boss O'Leary started his own taxi company, which provides services exclusively to himself, so that he can use the taxi lanes to zoom past traffic towards work.
karma police: arrest this man, he talks in maths; he buzzes like a fridge, he's like a detuned radio. [radiohead]
If the police don't have access to the property, then obviously they won't be writing tickets. A handicapped person who does have access to the lot might be able to sue Apple though because California allows private citizens to sue for ADA violations.
I believe ADA Title III has all the details.
BTW - your driveway scenario doesn't fit the parameters of Title III unless it's the driveway for a commercial facility.
Why should he have to use a license plate?
Have you seen the License plates in California? They have rounded corners and limited buttons.
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And waited until someone opened the doors for him on the Apple campus.
Yes. ADA requirements require that there are a certain number of handicapped spots per N employees.
This is regardless of whether the number of handicapped employees is greater than, or nowhere close to, the legally mandated number.
Where I work, at one point the parking lots were reworked to improve ADA compliance. A LOT of handicapped spots were added - which are almost never filled because we simply don't have anywhere close to enough legally handicapped people to fill them.
At least back then - The number of used spaces seems to be going up rapidly year by year since the change, and I'm wondering if there are people seeking legally handicapped status in order to get access to the nice parking spaces, now that it's a pretty big "perk".
I have to admit, I thought he was an asshole before I read that...
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If he was actually parking in handicapped spots because he felt the rules just don't apply to him he was an iDouche.
As CEO he would have his own designated spot in the parking lot. If not he should have. Not to mention having enough money that he probably could have arrived by helicopter every day and parked on the rooftop helipad.
It has happened, especially because without the tag someone "not in the know" wouldn't realize it was The Boss' car.
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We all know everyone in Cupertino down to the dog catcher was terrified of Steve Jobs getting pissed off and moving his giant filthy lucre machine. He could have shot a nun in the face inside Cupertino City Hall and there would have been no witnesses.
Then you don't really want to spend a lot of time walking to the office either.
It's the same reason why "those rich assholes" speed on the interstate. It's not them disregarding the rules because they're "better than that", it's simple economics.
People who get busted for parking in handicapped stalls should be forced to use a wheelchair for a week instead of a ticket. It's inconsiderate, lazy and just plain douchebaggery. Don't care who you are.
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Steve Jobs was an ass. I know people like him that don't think they should have to obey the rules they don't like, but don't have the money to get away with most of it. Steve Jobs did and believed he knew better than anyone else, so he did what he wanted when he wanted regardless of the impact it had on others.
Makes no sense to me why people worship this guy. No one who ever worked with or for him really liked him. He treated people like shit. Thought the rules that we all have to follow don't apply to him. Thought he could cure cancer with herbs and diet. Yea... he was a good businessman, I will give him that. Every apple product I have ever bought has broken within a year or two, honestly i think the zune is a better product that the ipod. Speaking of Zune. Poor freaking Bill Gates. This guy is a brilliant programmer (which Steve Jobs could never do) and a businessman. And if he dies no one is going to be crying outside of best buy and putting post it notes on windows. In addition Steve Jobs ignored and denied one of his own children for the first 10 years of her life, and also never gave a cent to any charities. Bill Gates is giving away basically his entire fortune to help the less fortunate. Gates has done more for the world that Apple ever will. Yea sucks that he died, we all will die, move on.
One of the weird things about CA is that when you get a new car it can take a while to get a plate. I drove with no plate for months. I did have a little plastic bag with some paperwork in it on the windshield though. I think it may have been longer than 6 months actually. Somebody told me that was long, even for CA. I called the dealer, they did some looking, and it turns out the dealer had my plates for much of that time and forgot to tell me they were in. During that time, I even drove into Nevada. I guess they're used to seeing it. I never got pulled over.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
I agree. Let's put an angry note on the AC's windshield. We will not stand for things like this.
'tis but a scratch.
But this brought up an interesting question. I know that California state law requires a certain number of handicapped spaces for all public parking lots and structures (public including lots intended for customers and employees), but I haven't been able to find anything about enforcing handicapped parking in private lots. Presumably, the city parking police wouldn't be cruising through a privately-owned campus like Apple's. Could an employee (or passerby) call to report such a violation? Or would the entity that owns the lot have to invite the police to enforce the handicapped parking space?
Absolutely an asshole move to do this, I'm just wondering, legally, how it works to enforce handicapped parking in private lots. Presumably one of those who keyed the car might have considered calling to report the parking violation, so I'm thinking that the municipality's parking police aren't allowed to do anything unless the owner of the property invites them to do so (which most shopping centers etc. would likely do).
Why? Because there are always too many or too few. Just like the fact that a stopped clock is right twice a day, you can almost never have just the right number of handicapped spots. So cities usually force businesses to err on the side of having too many, and that violates the Zero One Infinity rule and represents a waste of land and money.
A better design would be more dynamic and responsive to current occupancy rates. Rather than setting some arbitrary number of parking spaces close to the entrance as handicapped spaces, designate zero handicapped spaces, but make sure the spaces close to the entrance never completely fill up. Then there will always be a parking space near the entrance available for any handicapped person who needs to park there.
Perhaps Steve was simply annoyed at having to live with the poor design.
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"How"? You mean, by issuing a warrant for his arrest, arresting him, and processing him the way all other criminals are processed? How else would they do it?
If you paint a pair of lines and a handicapped symbol in your driveway, that doesn't make it a handicapped spot under the law. If you open your house as a business for the public, then that does. The details are in the law.
Surely that is clear to you.
I'm under the impression that tampering with a VIN is in fact illegal, but I can't quote a law about it. Covering it up? I'm not sure about that.
His car was rectagular with rounded corners
Steve Jobs was apparently an asshole. Which, if you worked at Apple at any time when he was there, you probably already knew.
Next, we're going to find out that he couldn't actually fly, snap his fingers and explode every pair of panties within five miles, or actually code an interface. Shocking.
Steve Jobs net worth was 8.3 billion. Let's go ahead and spread that one out so everyone can afford healthcare. Hell, that puts an extra $24.41 in everyones pocket. That's enough for one year of tuition. Granted, your only talking about the 40 million uninsured they would each get a big ole fat check for $207.50.
What is legal does not always correspond to what is ethical.
Yeah, his reaction was to park in another disabled bay but near where he was working so he could watch over it from his window. The guy had some balls.
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This is how the economy in the US works.
Rich people do silly things with their money. Regular people earn a living every time a rich person does something silly with their money.
Every time he buys or leases a new MB, someone has to do the paperwork, clean the new car, deliver the new car, sell the new car. It seems that the only people who don't get any benefit or work are the folks at the license window at the DMV. Taxes are paid, I'm sure.
We need people like Jobs to keep the economy running.
Imagine if all the millionaires and billionaires only spent as much money as regular folks. Lots of folks would not have jobs.
Bunch of people are ragging on the first poster because they didn't understand that he's quoting Seinfeld (and also angry that the poster quoted Richardson's character because of Richardson's public outburst, not realizing he might not have even written those lines). Granted, Seinfeld is 22 years old now, but the reactions are astonishingly dense. Ouch, I just aged myself.
I know for a fact that it's not illegal to put a piece of notebook paper over the VIN.
I also know that parking enforcement who can't find a license number or a VIN will boot the car and wait for you to come to them.
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Can with please stop with the inane, pointless Steve Jobs bashing and get on to something that actually matters?
Simply because the beneficiary of something likes it doesn't make it right. I'd like access to your checking account at 80 too.
Man.
How frickin' cool would it be to know you were one of the people who keyed Steve Jobs' 500 SL?
I'd take a picture of it and use it as my logo.
who gives out Handicap tickets in a private businesses parking lot?
""Yes, we want to allow employers to refuse to hire black people. We think that racism is a smaller problem than government intrusion.""
Do we really need anti-discrimination laws in the US today? How would a US business do if it got out that they wouldn't serve black people?
Meanwhile, landlords now have to rent to people with kids or be sued, and police departments can't fire fat cops. Discrimination, 2011 ed., means something a lot different than it did in 1954.
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I totally disagree that IP protection, as spelled out in Article I of the Constitution, qualifies as welfare, or that a competitive governemtn contract for products or services does either. Welfare is when the government sends you a check for doing nothing.
Just because you don't like something doesn't make it welfare.
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But he was parking in handicapped spaces in the Apple parking lot, not on municipally-owned property. IANAL, but a little Googling seems like this means that it is up to the property owner to call parking enforcement if they want the handicapped space to be enforced. So long as Apple never called the city to tow/cite him, there's no repercussions to using that spot. It's a fair bet that anyone calling it in would have a fairly short career at Apple, especially since his car was easily recognizable due to its lack of plates. However I believe it left Apple open to a lawsuit from disabled persons who were unable to use the spot because his car was parked there, it just likely never came up and, had it, he would have had to adjust his behavior.
So legally he was fine, but it was still a crappy thing to do from a moral perspective.
"The positions are consistent if you're interested in increasing the liberty of individuals."
Whose liberty? Certainly not the Apple or Microsoft stockholder when you pass your little regulations. Such liberty comes at others' expense, a zero sum game.
Don't speak for libertarians if you aren't one.
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"Corporations and people are different."
People, like myself, own corporations. It's about economic liberty and Libertarians are quote clear on this. You might have your statist justifications for your selective big government solutions, and good for you. But they are decidedly not about liberty. They are about statist nannyism infringing on the economic interests of others (e.g., Apple stockholders) versus you or your favored group.
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UPS should be required to hire quadraplegic delivery people.
Modeling agencies should be required to hire short, ugly women and men.
Health food stores should be required to hire obese people (actually, there's been a case about that one).
The Black Family Channel should have been required to have white and oriental people in management.
Where were all the white Black Entertainment Channel VJs? They're obviously refusing to hire white people.
When did I say anything about "abusing taxpayer funded courts"? My point is handicap spaces on private property are an annoyance and an intrusion.
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It'd be funny if a bunch those occupy wallstreet protesters decided to occupy the handicap parking at apple.
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Ethically challenged people like you feel that you should have the liberty to poison people whenever it suits your pocket book since you can take the profits for yourself and have the company and therefore society take the loss. Fortunately, the grownups are in charged and not a bunch of self important children who think the entire universe revolves around them.
Which lawsuits has Apple filed on people who jailbreak their phones?
In fact wasn't it declared that jailbreaking was legal under US law?
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you don't speak for the grownups and ethical people in the world since you obviously aren't one.
To all the inconsiderate: Have you ever considered that Jobs died of cancer, and therefore was handicapped for all the decades he had it?
I doubt Steve Jobs would wish what you just said on his worst enemy. You are a scumbag, way worse than Steve Jobs. And you didn't change the world.
And keep fighting those fat, Asperger's, living in your mom's basement stereotypes!
Do you have reading comprehension issues or are you the parent poster pretending to be someone else in order to avoid having to defend their indefensible attitude? Those are your only possible choices.
That's just seriously a dick move to do that.
People who park in handicapped spaces are always handicapped.
If they're not physically handicapped, they must be mentally handicapped.
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Stupid stories about a dead guy, should we keep creating stories about JFK or Bin laden for all eternity..... He's dead, he's gone, snuffed it..... move on
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It was about being able to drive without a plate.
Leasing a new high-end Mercedes every six months cost him far more than the taxes ever would have, and maybe even more on taxes. I don't know how leases are taxed in CA, but given CA's love for taxes I'd bet they tax new leases in some way.
If the spots weren't empty how exactly do you think handicapped people would be able to use them?
I understand that complex reasoning is a lost art, but wtf? This is not rocket science.
"Golly, Melvin, look at all that water in the water supply, obviously nobody must need any!"
"I know, Beaudreau, and there's all this unnecessary air in the atmosphere too!"
Rather than key someone I wedged a large nail under each tire so that when the asshole backed out of the spot the nail would be driven into the tire. Sure it would be a slow leak, but he would have FOUR of them.
... dick.
Contrary to popular belief, blonde is not a handicap. Thank you for playing.
Understanding the scope of the problem is the first step on the path to true panic.
And for taking me so literally, dumb bunny. Now go be Aspergerery somewhere else.
So, in other words, "saint" Steve Jobs wasn't the hero of the isheep that everyone thinks? He was a douchebag, and it's funny that the idiots hanging on where the Occupy xxxx, who are against "the rich" and banks, have devices made popular by one of the richest people in the USA. To say these idiots are hypocrites is an understatement.
I mean I like to dogpile on Steve-O as much as the next guy, but I personally believe (with no first hand or even second hand knowledge, which I believe makes me eminently qualified on this forum) that Apple's litigious nature is the result of a very strong and well-honed legal department. Now to the extent Jobs maintained that after he returned from the cold, well he is responsible. But I do think the guy didn't like authority at all, and only allowed the legal department to be so mean because he likes mean too, and probably the board would have dumped him if he tried to reign it in.
Not that /. editors have never been close enough to one to know that.
so if I worked at Apple I'd've built an extra parking space with 'RESERVED FOR CEO' marked on it in big white letters.
If Jobs refused to use it and kept parking in the handicap spot, I'd call a meeting for all handicapped people on staff and tell 'em they can park in the CEO spot...
man. I've only ever seen one episode of Seinfeld, but the first thing I thought when I saw that comment was "oh, I bet that's a Seinfeld quote". Then I saw how angry the replies to it were, and figured it couldn't possibly be a quote or they'd have realized.
Once again I fail to correctly estimate the idiocy of internet commenters!
Goes to show that when you're a truly great hacker, you can hack anything.
;D
The previous article is about social engineering BTW.
I thought this was going to make me like Steve less, but it actually had the reverse effect. Funny how brilliant people are often like that; you begin disliking them, but later learn to view them in a completely different light.
The eternal struggle of good vs. evil begins within one's self.
The bar code where the license plate would have been is Jobs's VIN.
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Steve Jobs net worth was 8.3 billion. Let's go ahead and spread that one out so everyone can afford healthcare. Hell, that puts an extra $24.41 in everyones pocket. That's enough for one year of tuition. Granted, your only talking about the 40 million uninsured they would each get a big ole fat check for $207.50.
Congrats on being able to use a pocket calculator and everything, but the OP didn't say "and therefore we should confiscate all of one particular individual's wealth to share out amongst the needy, as that will cure all our problems."
The point is that there are quite a lot of rich fucks paying obscenely small amounts of tax compared with their wealth. If you're a right winger you probably think that's fine, but a lot of us don't.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Jobs famously said, "Picasso had a saying: 'Good artists copy, great artists steal.' We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas..."
I sent a free lance marketing strategy to NeXT Computer, Inc. I still have the green postcard from the USPS. I explained the round letter e in NeXT had to be 14 pt type - as large as the caps because the letter e was the 2nd most important letter in the alphabet. Using the i before the mac and the pod and the pad was stolen intellectual property as was the description and concept behind the stores, all of which was described in detail - he received in a proprietary marketing strategy at NeXT Computer Inc. When he sold NeXT to Apple he took the marketing strategy with him. "Shameless about stealing great ideas," was an understatement.
Jobs kept the "i" for himself, but passed the "e" to IBM for their e-commerce program, and the whales to the insurance company breaching on TV to this day. The interior meaning of the individual letters were carefully crafted in the proprietary copyright strategy, as the stores to come were described in detail. When the Lev Agenda for NeXT Computer Inc is published then you'll understand how much of a fraud he was.
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According to the article, Jobs was leasing a different Mercedes every six months, for years on end.
Any speculation regarding what fanboys would pay for those cars now?
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Or scatter some jacks (the pointy metal ones from the game bearing the same name) in the parking spot before they show up.
Steve Jobs net worth was 8.3 billion. Let's go ahead and spread that one out so everyone can afford healthcare. Hell, that puts an extra $24.41 in everyones pocket. That's enough for one year of tuition. Granted, your only talking about the 40 million uninsured they would each get a big ole fat check for $207.50.
That $207.50 would probably count for quite a lot to many of those 40 million uninsured folks - it would at least mean an annual checkup that they're probably not getting now. (Not that I'm one of those eat-the-rich folks, but let's remember that even a little money means a lot to someone who has nothing.)
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19 states do not require a license plate on the front of a registered vehicle. Is your state one of them? If not, maybe you should contact your governor or local representative about it.
Agreed, but then again, it would be a one time thing, then there wouldn't be any tax payers left. I've been down to $7.36 before.. $207 would have been a windfall.
Do private lots have to have handicapped spots? On a side note, I always find it weird how much we go out of our way in the USA for handicapped people compared to, say, Europe. I don't recall ever seeing a handicapped parking spot in England (I'm sure they exist, just not like your typical, first 16-slots of 30 rows at Walmart like we have here).
I saw very little (no?) accessibility laws such as ramps and hand rails in the toilets when I lived in Europe either.
Seems like if Europe can handle it, we seem to be over-compensating here in the US? Just askin', not sayin'.
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Are we talking about assholes or Mercedes-Benzes? Because the last thing that was mentioned in that post was assholes, although if you really have a Mercedes in the parking lot, more power to ya.
I'm the real Vorokrytin P. Winterbuttocks.
Steve Jobs knew his way around words and technicalities. A characteristic of a business man.
There was no reserved parking at apple. It was one of those "round table" things - first come first served, no one felt superior about their parking place. Very frustrating since there wasn't visitor parking either. You're really left to the wolves if you show up at 11 :)
Maybe he thought of himself as handicapped? That would be funny if he did think of himself as a handicapped. But I think he went to use the handicap parking space because the no license plate won't be scrutinize. As I said, Jobs was a shrew. Business man through and through.
Every apple product I have ever bought has broken within a year or two, honestly i think the zune is a better product that the ipod.
I was following you until this point. As long as we're speaking anecdotall, I have a huge list of Apple products (iPod, iPhone2G, Macbook) that are 5+ years old, and with a little care, are just about as usable now (in the case of the macbook it's even better with the SSD retrofit) as they were when I first got them. The only Apple product that's failed me is a 2004 iPod color.
Apple products are historically longer-lived (in terms of functionality and usability) than competitors' products. I am running OSX Lion on my 5 year-old macbook. Last week installed new iOS apps on my 2G iPhone (handed down to the tyke).
You may have a valid complaint about Jobs but don't conflate that with Apple products.
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