Board of Directors of Apple

[BTs_GhostSniper]

I was just browsing around Apple's website and came across a list of Apple's Board of Directors.....Among the names on the list was AL GORE!  After rushing to the bathroom here at the car dealership I work at and throwing up my lunch, I went back just to make sure that what I saw was correct.....and sure enough it was.  How could the computer company I love do such a thing?!

Okay, I'm leaving work early and going home now.....I'm feeling sick all of a sudden.....

[|MP|Buccaneer]

Wow, where were you when Jobs had Gore on to demonstrate the iChat video?

And I have nothing against Gore.  He would have made a much better president then Slick Willie, and I still think he would have done a better job than Dubbah.  And yes, George's Patriot Act is one of the worst things I think a President could do.

All I want to make sure of is that Tipper stays away from Apple.

[Typhy]

If Bush were to appear on an Apple comercial, I'd have instant inspiration to sell or destroy my macs.

I'll try and dig up a link to the video of Gore demonstrating iChat AV with Steve Jobs.

[*NADS Lo$eMoney]

If Bush were to appear on an Apple comercial, I'd have instant inspiration to sell or destroy my macs.  

Although I think an apple "Think Different" poster would be pretty funny if it had Bush on it

[Cutter]

omfg tipper EWWWWW!

[westamastaflash]

An interesting thing about this is that I don't think even Steve Jobs realizes what he has allied himself with - He's an example of a man who has done exteremely well through purely capitalist means (he makes a better product than his competitors) in a market that is stacked against him (read microsoft's underhanded and monopolist tactics), yet he still clings to his anti-capitalist past. His products carry the hallmark of a great capitalist & producer - innovation, yet he seperates his political life from his business life, which could be his greatest mistake.

I've heard him compared to Hank Rearden, the industrialst from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged who invents a wondrous technology, but he still doesn't realize the danger of being involved with people who would take from others rather than produce for themselves (read the Democrats policy positions on welfare, socialized health care, taxes, etc etc - its all about redistribution of the wealth from the producers and creators of wealth to the leeches of society). As a leading CEO of both Apple and Pixar, one would think he sees the danger to his company of association with people who would drag you down in a heartbeat if they felt "the good of the many" would be benefited.

[Cutter]

hell, if you owned a major computer company wouldn't you want "the man that invented the internet" on your board of directors?

[BTs_GhostSniper]

lmao...."the man that invented the internet".  Only in his dreams!  I really can't believe Al Gore actually still tries to pass that one off to everybody.

[kami]

GS, that's taken out of context, Cutter was only making a joke. And as for Gore supporting Apple, we've all known that for ages.

Westa, it's not that strange at all, the Democrats aren't against capitalism, they're just for a more humane kind of capitalism.

[Cutter]

you mean NAFTA and the WTO kami? that kind of more humane capitalism?

[BTs_GhostSniper]

GS, that's taken out of context, Cutter was only making a joke. And as for Gore supporting Apple, we've all known that for ages.

Westa, it's not that strange at all, the Democrats aren't against capitalism, they're just for a more humane kind of capitalism.

I knew he was making a joke....but the man has said repeatedly that HE is resposible for the creation of the internet (I've even heard him say it).  And yes, the Democrats are against capitalism....what they want America to become is called SOCIALISM.....not too far off from COMMUNISM.

[Ace]

As much as it pains me to do this, I must defend Al Gore. He never claimed to have invented the Internet. He claimed to have sponsored the bill that lead ARPANET to become the public entity we now know as the Internet, which is correct.

[kami]

Oh stop it GS, you're making me laugh.

[Cutter]

true ace, gore never claimed to have "invented" the internet. What he said was: "During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet".

we all got what he meant, but the way in which he said it was laughable. had he said " during my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in sponsering the bill that got defencenet now known as the internet created", nothing would have ever been said about it.

that was just one of the funny quotes that came out of that election, my favorite was when bush, while at some fundraiser, forgot that the mic was still on and called some guy an asshole.

[alaric]

And yes, the Democrats are against capitalism....what they want America to become is called SOCIALISM.....not too far off from COMMUNISM.

GhostSniper, please remove your head from your ass before making any other comments of this nature.

It might do you good to take a poly-sci class or two also.

[tasty]

An interesting thing about this is that I don't think even Steve Jobs realizes what he has allied himself with - He's an example of a man who has done exteremely well through purely capitalist means (he makes a better product than his competitors) in a market that is stacked against him (read microsoft's underhanded and monopolist tactics), yet he still clings to his anti-capitalist past. His products carry the hallmark of a great capitalist & producer - innovation, yet he seperates his political life from his business life, which could be his greatest mistake.

I've heard him compared to Hank Rearden, the industrialst from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged who invents a wondrous technology, but he still doesn't realize the danger of being involved with people who would take from others rather than produce for themselves (read the Democrats policy positions on welfare, socialized health care, taxes, etc etc - its all about redistribution of the wealth from the producers and creators of wealth to the leeches of society). As a leading CEO of both Apple and Pixar, one would think he sees the danger to his company of association with people who would drag you down in a heartbeat if they felt "the good of the many" would be benefited.

Way to reference one of the worst canonized books of the 20th century. What an awful and simplistic view of society. Even if what you said was remotely true, what you say about Gore would not apply because associating Gore with the company brought lots of free publicity and therefore profit. It still fits Ayn Rand's test for ethical action because it did directly benefit Jobs. Either way, I don't think Apple is in any danger of being drug down by either Jobs or Gore, whose social views have nothing to do with how the company is run.

[BTs_GhostSniper]

P.S.--I just wasn't brainwashed in college like a lot of people I know

[Jeb]

shut up alaric,
we all know democrats are secretly plotting to reanimate stalin. And then they will be able to require late term abortion, kill God, and have minorities take "white jobs."
</slack jaw></republican>

Saying that you weren't brainwashed means shit, because you could be brainwashed, but you'd never realize. People in cults are the same way, you've gotta really believe to wear the matching nikes and drink the koolaid.
-jeb

[KoS.Rebel]

Gore's a loser? Enough said there.

Al ( im a loser ) Gore  

[116% True American]

Yea, all you Commy Liberol Hippies need to catch a friggin one way flower bus ride to Euro-land.  Luv it or git out, G..T..F..O.

jk,  

(ssickboy)