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FBI File Notes Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field
Hugh Pickens writes "Bloomberg reports that the FBI has released a decades-old file it kept on Steve Jobs, the deceased Apple co-founder, after a background check for a possible appointment by former President George H. W. Bush conducting interviews with unnamed associates of Jobs to judge his character, drug use and potential prejudices. 'Several individuals questioned Mr. Jobs' honesty stating that Mr. Jobs will twist the truth and distort reality in order to achieve his goals,' according to the materials. Several people commented 'concerning past drug use on the part of Mr. Jobs,' according to the file including marijuana, hashish and LSD during the period 1970 – 1974. The file also noted that Jobs was not a member of the communist party."
Wondering if the FBI does background checks on Senate, Congress and Presidential candidates?
Of course not, that would be a waste of taxpayer dollars.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
with the amount of business Steve sent to China, he should be an honorary member of the Chinese Communist Party
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Apple just filed a patent for methods of creating a "Reality Distortion Field". They are calling it iLie.
Hmm. Point taken. Then I guess it's really just a point of curiosity, and there's nothing to get upset about. I'm still new at this "yelling at bonch for being a horrible person" thing, so there may be a few rough patches to work out.
Bio questions? Ask me to start a Q&A journal. Computer analogies available for most topics!
This is "news" in the same way that saying Mr. Jobs was a carbon based life form would been news.
To be fair, that revelation would have surprised a lot of the Apple Faithful.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Most people (we are not all paragons of virtue) do that. The difference was that Jobs was apparently good at it.
With his wealth, at the end, as a yardstick, he wasn't merely good at it, he wrote the book, the preface, table of contents and the index, plus did a bang-up job for the cover art.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
There's a note that Jobs once held a TOP SECRET clearance while at Pixar. I wonder what Pixar was doing for the Government.
Bush was afraid Toy Story was real. He was worried his dolls were all spying on him at night.
People who "don't mind having choices made for them"...? Um, that's like the entire population of this country. On the count of 3, everyone say "baaaaaah!"
To be fair to the NWS, if they're issuing alerts, they should probably be shouted.
What's more appropriate?
"200 inches of rain expected. You are urged to evacuate." ...or...
"200 INCHES OF RAIN EXPECTED YOU ARE URGED TO EVACUATE"
?
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
I went to actually RTFA
You've learned your lesson, I hope.
Actually, someone else did all that - he just took the credit.
No, no he didn't. Everyone knows that his last word was "iDead".