I did have a laugh talking with a regular bus driver about this new-rich town:
"...It´s all like a ghost town and you don´t see anybody in the streets, .... until 8 p.m., then they all come out to Europa Ave. (a popular restaurants and bars area): Just like vampires and prostitutes!"
She´s probably an underemployed sociologist. Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
As to Jobs, he has made his personae core to the business model of Apple, and he, the company and outside analysts all agree that his health is a relavant business topic. So it's fair game to comment on it, I think.
And yes, I find the joke very witty and brilliant. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
It wasn't used in a derogatory way, just a reference to their usual working hours.
"As to Jobs, he has made his personae core to the business model of Apple," - with some justification; he has quite a track record and his obvious devotion to quality and good design commendable.
"and he, the company and outside analysts all agree that his health is a relavant business topic. So it's fair game to comment on it, I think."
Yes, but he reluctantly accepts it and his recent brief letter was an attempt to end speculation:
I have given more than my all to Apple for the past 11 years now. I will be the first one to step up and tell our Board of Directors if I can no longer continue to fulfill my duties as Apple's CEO. I hope the Apple community will support me in my recovery and know that I will always put what is best for Apple first. So now I've said more than I wanted to say, and all that I am going to say, about this. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/01/05sjletter.html
So now I've said more than I wanted to say, and all that I am going to say, about this.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/01/05sjletter.html
but I agree - it's fair game; some humour is very black, and necessarily so in some cases, where it's a means of coping with some grim stuff, as in the military, police, medicine, etc. However:
"And yes, I find the joke very witty and brilliant."
Seems over-the-top, to me it's hardly "brilliant", not even "very witty", it's just rather obvious sarcasm - but if you enjoyed it ... :-)
His commencement speech is well worth a look:
Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
As to Jobs, there is a very clear separation between his public ´value´ for the business and his private life suffering, which ´analysts´ don´t seem able to respect, but, sadly, his last news photo was nothing to laugh about. Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
