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Steve Jobs Died
I'm not a psychologist, but given the fact that he was an illegitimate child and his parents abandoned him by putting him up for adoption and then later, after his parents had married and had another child, his father ran out on his mother and sister, it's not all that suprising. I believe that Jobs finally acknowledged his paternity after a couple of years. She lived with Jobs and his wife during her teen years, until she left to attend Harvard. He also reconnected with his biological mother and sister.— October 7, 2011 9:20 a.m.
Steve Jobs Died
I think the property that the new campus is going to be built on is the old HP campus about a mile or so east of the current campus. Jobs gave a presentation on the new campus to the Cupertino city council a few months ago: http://www.cupertino.org/index.aspx?recordid=463&…— October 6, 2011 11:17 a.m.
Steve Jobs Died
surfpuppy619, your very astute observation is correct of course, except AAPL cap had dropped to more like $3 billion in 1996 and by the time Jobs was renamed CEO in 1997, shares had dropped to almost $10 and their cap was barely $2 billion. However, I was only comparing the 2 from the time Exxon hit it's peak of $513 billion in Q of 2007, showing the rise of one and the fall of the other. Bad call on the stock, though I have to admit that we almost sold our shares at that time. Fortunately, we were dissuaded from doing so. After Jobs, stepped down in January, again we almost sold but we didn't. Now I guess we'll wait and see what happens over the next couple of months. Shares are up a little today, so that's a good sign I think. BYW, you might want to look into where Apple products are made. Try the name Foxconn.— October 6, 2011 7:59 a.m.
Steve Jobs Died
No disrespect to Mr. Edison, but I think Steve Jobs was truly in a class of his own. I agree that Jobs was a creative genius. But IMHO, what separated him from everyone else was not only that he envisioned and helped create some of these great products, but that he did it by also creating the market for them where none existed. Apple and Exxon have been going back and forth on which company has the largest market cap for the last couple of months. I think more significant is the fact that only 3 yrs ago, Apple had a market cap of about $175 billion and Exxon's was almost 3X larger. Since then, Apple's market cap has more than doubled and Exxon's has decreased by almost 30%.— October 5, 2011 9:27 p.m.
San Diego's he-man Jerry Schad – the rougher it gets, the better he likes it
It's extremely disappointing that it took the Reader this long to acknowledge the passing of one of their own. The first notice I saw was about 9am on the morning he died. You could have and should have done better. Shame on you Reader management.— September 28, 2011 3:23 p.m.
Netflix Spinoff Qwikster Pays $20 Million for Naming Rights to New Central Library
"In my experience though, anything is possible in San Diego." I don't know. As an outsider looking in, sometimes I think the exact opposite is true, that nothing is possible in San Diego.— September 28, 2011 11:52 a.m.
San Diego unions push transaction tax
Had you said Oman is also a very small country per its population,which is ..., I would have taken it that way. However since all of your other references in the post were of a geographic nature, it was reasonable to conclude your reference to Oman was as well. My mistake, no big deal. Still, that doesn't negate the fact that some of your other references were inaccurate in terms of both geography and economics.— September 28, 2011 10:40 a.m.
San Diego unions push transaction tax
"Make" means to "earn." Don, you "earn" money for performing a service. You earn money as a result of your efforts. What you're talkin about is deserving what they make, which is a whole other conversation that has been hashed out in the Reader many times before and probably will be many times in the future. Maybe you should sign Dylan Ratigan's petition to add this amendment to the US Constitution: "No person, corporation or business entity of any type, domestic or foreign, shall be allowed to contribute money, directly or indirectly, to any candidate for Federal office or to contribute money on behalf of or opposed to any type of campaign for Federal office. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, campaign contributions to candidates for Federal office shall not constitute speech of any kind as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution or any amendment to the U. S. Constitution. Congress shall set forth a federal holiday for the purposes of voting for candidates for Federal office." With "no money" in politics, it might be a little harder to buy the politicians necessary to facilitate the debaucher that occurs on Wall Street. But then again, someone would find a way around it. They always do.— September 27, 2011 5:54 p.m.
San Diego unions push transaction tax
"Singapore, Dubai, UAE and Monoco are countries the size of POSTAGE stamps. Monaco is less than 1 square mile. San Ysidro is bigger than Monaco. All but Singapore derive their wealth from one major natural resource-OIL." Really?? Monaco derives it's wealth from oil? Monaco has ZERO natural resources. Their main industry is tourism and another substantial portion of the government’s revenues comes from taxes Additional revenue comes from franchises on radio, television, and the casino, from state-operated monopolies on tobacco and postage stamps, and from sales taxes. They have no manufacturing. And ya need some help with your geography, apparently. True, Monaco is less than a square mile. But the UAE is about 32k square miles, about the size of Maine and Dubai is an emirate WITHIN the UAE and is about 1500sq. miles itself. Singapore is about 700Sq miles and Oman is not 1/10th the size of Ca. Ca. is about 160k sq miles and man is about 120K sq miles or about the size of Kansas. I'm not takin sides, but if your going to contest the accuracy of someone else's comments, you might want to be a little more accurate with yours— September 27, 2011 5:33 p.m.
San Diego unions push transaction tax
"That's what troubles me; one can't buy friends." That may be true. However, I have heard that if you have the money, you can rent them, by the hour, though I wouldn't have personal knowledge of such things myself.— September 26, 2011 5:13 p.m.