Nobody’s Fool: Steve Jobs
Nobody’s Fool
Like most baby boomers I am fascinated by the life of Steve Jobs. I actually remember typing on a typewriter…and having to white out mistakes, and getting ink on my hands from the carbon papers. The advancement of computers in our lifetime, while not as life changing as the car and the electric light in my grandmother’s lifetime, has certainly opened up new worlds for everyone. So the masters, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, have always been hero’s to my generation.
The new hit biography about Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson, left no punches. In most cases he was a spoiled, absolute brat, with no social grace whatsoever. Still genius is forgiven when it comes to changing the world, and while the book makes you feel sorry for his family, and anyone who worked with him, they all said, without Steve, none of that fun stuff like the Mac, the I-Pod, the I-Phone, the I-Tunes…none of it would have existed.
He was arrogant, egotistical, mean, but right most of the time. In other words, he believed in himself and for that, he had his dad and mom to thank. Not the real ones, but the ones who adopted him.
While American’ s worship Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs, neither one of these men made the really cool computers we use today. What they did do was find the right engineers, and push the right ideas until they came into being. The real credit behind computers, men like Steve Wozniak, Jobs’ early partner, fade into the background. But— it’s one thing to have the vision, it’s quite another to make the visions happen and that’s where Gates and Jobs are attached at the hip.
The difference is that Gates licensed his software out to everyone, and Jobs kept all is ideas in the family of Apple. Two different business models. Two different men. Jobs was an artist. Gates, more the businessman.
Steve was a Bob Dylan fan. He was a Beatles fan. He was the hippie of the sixties who dropped acid, and went into a veggie diet that deprived him of the protein he needed in the end of his life when he was fighting cancer. I knew so many of these people growing up…the wild and crazy “peace, and free love” kids, who were, yes..children. When they got out into the real world..most all of them grew up and became conservatives.
But what happened to the baby boomers who didn’t grow up? The ones who stayed in that hippie stage forever? Like, Hillary Clinton?
The answer: They had rich parents to begin with. Hillary and Steve Jobs had upper middle class parents. So did Bill Gates. They never left the “free and open” leftist propaganda of the sixties, or even questioned it. They were ‘sensitive’ and were out to change the world. And they had the connections to do it.
You can read the biography about all the clever things Steve Jobs did to make his visions come to life, it’s a good book …but I’m going to talk about something else that bothers me: Why do so many of these people…ones who make money the good old capitalistic way, feel so connected to Karl Marx?
The two biggest capitalists of our generations…were die hard liberals. Both Gates and Jobs were Democrats. Al Gore was on the board of Apple. Bill Clinton was a good friend. While Steve Jobs told Obama that he needed to get the government regulations off businesses back, he still wanted to help Obama get reelected by making a great commercial for his reelection campaign.
Here’s a funny story from his book: Steve Jobs had the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, on his board of Directors at Apple, probably due to Al Gore’s insistence because Al Gore is on the board of Google and Apple. Google literally stole the I Pad idea and came out with the Android. Steve was so mad at getting ribbed off by his own board member he said:
“Google, you fucking ripped off the iPhone, wholesale ripped us off. Grand Theft. I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank to right this wrong. I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go to thermonuclear war on this. Outside of Search, Google’s products. Android, Google Docs, are shit. “
Did Al Gore have anything to do with this theft? Al Gore is on Google’s board too, and Al Gore and Google would think nothing of “redistributing” Steve Jobs hard earned ideas to the world for free, if they both could get rich off of it themselves.
There’s something about Bill Gates that creeps me out. He puts on that “face” of innocent and it’s no doubt that you would be “gotten.” Steve Jobs at least was honest. If he didn’t like something, he told you. At least you knew.
I’ve never owned an Apple, but, there is no doubt, I would love it. Steve Job was an artist first, and then he became the best CEO in the world. Everyone wants the Apple now. Steve Jobs made sure that the brand meant quality, and that used to be the American way. Steve Jobs wanted the very best, and demanded it. We are all the richer for it.
Read the book, it’s an amazing story.
Drones…Here to (cough) Protect You.
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Drones. Our politicians are drone crazy. Did you know that the U.S has over 7,000 drones flying more hours than manned attack planes, and more pilots are being trained to operate them than manned aircraft? 
Think of what this is going to do to the commercial airline industry in the future. Most of the commercial pilots come right out of the Air Force. What is going to happen when there is a shortage of pilots due to the fact that our military is training them to fly drones?
Everyone at that tea party was insulted that we even needed to be spied upon. My goodness…we had TEA bags. Very lethal. Lots of veterans had looks of…well, I won’t say.
But spied on we will be. Somehow between worrying about the damage being done to the country from those dangerous baseball pitchers taking steriods, Congress found time to passed legislation giving the go ahead for drones to monitor the skies over the US and spy on its citizens. More than 50 companies are already developing more than 150 drone system. (see map) 
50? Really? Best Buy’s are closing down all over the country, but drone companies are doing great business? What’s wrong with this picture? Tell me…why do we need them here in the States? Don’t we have helicopters? And are there going to be that many people needing drones? Didn’t Obama say the “war on terror” was over?
I mean, come on. What can a drone do that’s so almighty important besides kill you?
It takes a crew of 180 people to pilot one military drones— operate its sensors, analyze the data it collects and lots of people to handle maintenance, and while not as expensive as a jet fighter, the latest Reapers cost $8 million each and can be shot down easier…which is why Iran is really proud to have gotten one from Obama for free.
The CIA is now flying drones, and so far they have killed over 2,000 people identified as terrorists. And it seems, hundreds of people and organizations are going to get to fly them all over the place—It’s just the latest cool toy that you always wanted as a kid. And everyone is excited!
For example, the COA list does not include any information on which model of drone or how many drones each entity flies. In a meeting with the FAA [Thursday], the agency confirmed that there were about 300 active COAs and that the agency has issued about 700-750 authorizations since the program began in 2006. As there are only about 60 entities on the COA list, this means that many of the entities, if not all of them, have multiple COAs (for example, an FAA representative [Thursday] said that University of Colorado may have had as many as 100 different COAs over the last six years). The list also does not explain why certain COA applications were “disapproved” and when other authorizations expired. Most of the active drones are deployed from military installations, enforcement agencies and border patrol teams, according to the Federal Aviation Authority.***
(Wait..isn’t the Colorado University near the secret underground bunker? What are they going to do..kill the little nobody who will be running for the bunker doors?)
Astonishingly, 19 universities and colleges are also registered as owners of what are officially known as unmanned aerial vehicles. Many of the of institutions, which include Cornell, the University of Colorado, Georgia Tech, and Eastern Gateway Community College, are developing drone technology.
Colleges need drones? What are they going to do? Follow you home if you steal one of their $100-dollar text books?
The nation is bankrupt and Congress is buying drones, which are going to be used to track every single person, car, house, river, stray dog, and illegal backyard tomato patch in the nation. They figure when they tell grandma and grandpa that their Social Security is run out, they are NOT going to get attacked by maniacal seniors out running around with their kitchen knives looking for someone to puncture.
Nope, they are going to stay in the sky…seek, and destroy.
Really. You tell me why we need a gazillion drones in the sky? What are they expecting? A massive invasion? Is THAT why General Petraus was taken from Afganistan and put in charge of the CIA over here?
All of a sudden, the elections look lame. I don’t know about you, but I plan to take a REAL pilot out to lunch..you never know when you might need one.
Steve Jobs: Bleeding in Six Colors for Us
Nobody Flashes
After hearing about Steve Jobs death tonight, I was watching this video and couldn’t help but think of Thomas Edison. Thomas invented the motion picture camera so that school children could learn from watching movies. He thought the books were too boring. Learning was the goal. Help kids to learn.
Steve had the same goals…to improve learning, and whatever else happens in between is a bonus.
Like every other genius that ever walked the planet, the seeds that Steve Jobs sowed in his lifetime will flourish just like Edison’s. Other geniuses will build on the technology that he developed. Someday, some one will be holding a fifth generation of IPOD”s, and thinking the same thing as I am right now about Steve Jobs.
If you can’t listen to this all, listen to the first few minutes, where he talks about his employees. They told him they didn’t leave the company because, “I bleed in six colors.”
Steve said that was code for the loyalty to Apple.
So…someone running for President should take an example from the man and say, “I bleed in three colors …red, white, and blue.” We should remember that America is and always has been a great country. Our ancestors have spilled their blood on every shore …for freedom. For America.
I loved that comment. Steve was proud of what he had achieved. He was loyal to Apple, which became the biggest company in the world before he die.
We should take a lesson from Steve…we need to go back to our history, back to being proud. Look at the inventions we have given the world! Look what Steve Jobs gave the world. Thomas lit up the world, and Steve stood on his shoulders.
Nobody can believe he was only 56, but fortunately, we can all pull him up on our computers (Macs or not) and learn from him anytime.
Steve…may your soul rest in peace…and bleed no more. It’s somebody else turn now. Right?
Right.
The Loaded Gun in the Internet …(Hi NSA!)
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The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn…Alvin Toffler
(Nobody was thinking about this today because I learned from my friend, that two doors down from her house, a man went out to his front yard, and shot himself. He had been searching for a job for two years. He leaves behind a wife and two kids.)
The subject: Money. 
Just before Obama’s job speech this upcoming week, we find out, that the United States Post office might have to close for the winter. It is $8.5 billion in the hole, mainly due to the fact that 80% of its expenses are due to union labor costs. Layoffs are coming, (they want to lay off 220,000) and since the Post Office has bought many blacks into the middle class, under Obama, they are going to lose big time.
They want Congress to bail them out. (More than likely, they will)
So…where’s Jesse Jackson? Maybe he’s not saying much because they are thinking about letting the Post Office deliver beer and wine to your door to make money, and Jesse’s son (plural?) got very lucrative Budweiser dealerships in Chicago…because Jesse was threatening just about everyone under the CEO sun with race extortion during the Clinton years.
Drinking is a very popular pastime during any depression, and so, they are thinking ahead.
The P.O. still delivers around three billion pieces of mail a day, so what gives? Like most governmental branches, billions of dollars were lost to overpaid employees pension fund.
The “progressives” like Alvin Toffler, and the banks and businesses must be pretty excited about this, and this is why—
For most of the United States history when you made money, you could put it in your bank account, and no one touched it but you. It took a judge to grab it, but if you did not break the law, you knew, it was safe.
While the invention of the internet has been as big of a benefit as the invention of the light bulb— there are setbacks.
For one…nobody writes anymore. Many of our schools are not even teaching cursive. And it’s not just us. The Chinese are so good at texting, millions of Chinese kids can only text, they are not learning to write Chinese.
So, this is the change…less study, therefore, less knowledge. There is incredible value in teaching how to write cursive. Hand to eye coordination for one. But, it will be lost to the future generations who will only need to know how to ‘learn’ according to Alvin.
Tell me, what can you ‘learn’ without reading? How to re-cycle? How do you type if you can’t read? Someone should stuff this man in a time capsule and keep him in China. (I’m sorry, Alvin gets under my fingernails, like dirt. I like to pick at him.)
But, this is what bugs me the most about this great “change.”
If you can’t pay your bills anymore by check, then you will have to let, all your bills be paid online. Paying by the ever disappearing US mail will of course, triple the overdue fines. All these people, who once could never reach into your personal pocket will be able to just, whenever they want, take money out of your account. I’m bombarded every single day with “Save a TREE! Pay Online.”
Uh…no thanks. I’d rather plant a few trees…tell Al.
When the Post office closes we will all be forced, not to pay what we want when we want, and how MUCH we want— but to have minions of businesses and governmental agencies grab what they feel they deserve.
Cash will disappear. It’s happening now.
For instance: anyone who has been charged some ungodly medical bill knows how the hospitals want their money NOW.
“You had an MRI..took 15 minutes. Cost $10.000.” You have a job. (making $35,000 a year) Pay half this week.”
If you did not have control, they would just wipe your bank account off the map.
You know it. I know it. But the kids, they haven’t figured it out yet. They are being programmed that a company having access to your bank account is just so EASY! Isn’t it wonderful? Hey kids! Computing is cool. You don’t even have to write a check!
It’s the future!
Tell me, when you get a back statement, and you pay maybe ten dollars over the limit each month, what’s to keep some credit card company from grabbing fifty dollars more?
Nothing. 
And if you protest, what? Are you going to wait weeks before its resolved?
When the Post Office goes, we will lose freedom. Freedom to control our own money.
And think about it, maybe that what they want. God forbid we get hit with a EMP, as they seem to think we will be. We will all have to trade for food.
Twenty Years ago Alvin Toffler predicted just that. He said that in the future money would be gone. We’d all go back to “trading” whatever we had. Think of it:
“I’ll mow your lawn if you give me some of those cucumbers neighbor!”
And Alvin calls that …progress, that we need to ‘learn’ to accept.
“We need to train thousands of young people in the perspectives and techniques of scientific futurism, inviting them to share in the exciting venture ofmapping probable futures.”
The Future Shock thesis presents people as being ‘overwhelmed’ by change to a point of widespread dysfunctionality that might cause widespread social breakdown, so it is said. Mmmmm….I’d like to overwhelm some Future Shock authors.
Benjamin Franklin started the first Post Office in Philadelphia on July 26, 1775 by decree of the Second Continental Congress. If Ben had read Alvin’s previous quote he would have said.,
“Half the truth is often a great lie.”
Technology is our future…but it can also be our destruction. Like the gun in a serial killer’s hand, or a nukes in Ahmadinejad’s hand, or all the money in the control of the banks— in the wrong hands…it can be deadly.
As the wife of the poor man who shot himself now knows.
The Smartest Man on Earth: Stephen Wolfram
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I was just going about my nobody day last week, when I got this video. To say that I was blown away is probably an understatement, because let’s face it—the man called Stephen Wolfram is not as famous as a Steve Jobs or a Bill Gates. I had never heard of him.
In this video you will see the future of …maybe everything. For instance: If you wanted to find the Perfect Model for a World Government, you would just type in your simple question into the Wolfram/Alpha search engine and come out with some answers. Poor Henry Adams, he was born too soon.
If you are Al Gore, you would want to change it I’m sure. Just because people get the answer, doesn’t mean they will follow it. I’m not sure “greed” and “love for power” is computational. But then again, if it is, Stephen will find it and compute it in.
While some of us our skepitcal about how a machine can “invent”against the human brain….remember, you still need the questions first. So all you nobodies out there: the biggest brains in science are using this, it’s time we start. I’ve already got his search engine tagged.
This man has the highest IQ on the planet. Many of you might know about this guy…but if not. DO NOT MISS THIS…
ENJOY! (Thanks to amfortas)
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I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
Hopefully other nobody’s will put their opinions on my site. But, if you happen to be a somebody, you’re more than welcomed to help out.
It’s my Nobody Opinion that Nobody’s Perfect, and Nobody Cares, that Nobody Knows why Nobody Wins, and when that happens, Nobody Wonders, why Nobody Flashes, why Nobody’s Fooled, but then Nobody remembers that Nobody ALWAYS Reports the truth.
You can email me at joyanna_adams@yahoo.com
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