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pardon my badarse remarks
go well
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Apple Recognizes World AIDS Day Online and In-Store
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papi,
u r cool
pardon my badarse remarks
go well
x
f
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pardon my remarks, i followed the thread from the start...
eish
f
The "outing" of Tim Cook is probably the strangest I've ever seen. It's pure speculation - not even rumor. No one has come forth with a single story or fact or claim about his sexuality. His Wikipedia article doesn't mention it. Gawker and Out magazine simply decided he was gay, and claim it's "well known" in the valley.
Tim Cook has never confirmed nor denied it, nor will he. Apple is a gay friendly company, and denying you are gay can come off as anti-gay.
He's a bachelor, probably a confirmed bachelor, and that's all we know.
So you have to buy something in order for the company to give?
If they can't make money out of it, why should aids-infected Africans get their help?
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Let it run for another century and they may actually come close to same zip code as what Bill G does in a year. Awesome! Go Apple!
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does it matter whether tim, you, me or anybody are gay/straight/bi/trans whatever, or not?
aids is sexually indifferent, how we practise it makes the difference
Nice to see that you admit that they get the adequate treatment in First World Countries. I understand that the patients suffer and I don't want to minimize it. Point being: You won't find that in Africa because these children infected at or closely after birth will not even live till their teens. If you look at infection rates in the western world, they are more or less stable over the last decades. Yes, we had some increase in new infections because the awareness campaigns wore off, but as others stated, the major issue on AIDS and HIV is not in the western world, it is in Africa. It is in regions where the predominant "therapy" for HIV is sleeping with a virgin. Yes, you heard right! That is what men in some regions in Africa believe. So they rape and infect a little girl because their hope is to get "cured" this way. Ignorance and "why not here" does not help these facts. We as the western world brought AIDS to them - not the other way round. Same with slums resulting from culture clashes etc. so we have a responsibility to some extend.
Ha! I had no idea about that, either. Well, my brother is always telling me things like "oh, yeah, EVERYBODY knows Tom Cruise is gay," or this person or that person, etc. And usually I come to find out that maybe 25% of them are actually gay and the rest he just wishes were gay.
No, it doesn't matter to me or you if Cook is gay. But it seems to matter so much to a lot of people that they are willing to state something as fact just because they want it to be true.
Sure, AIDS is sexually indifferent. But, men who have sex with men are the most efficient vector. That's just a medical fact that nobody is allowed to mention without having people jump out of the woodwork to accuse them of calling it a "gay disease". It's a fairly small percentage of the US population that accounts for more than half of all new infections. It's not a weird coincidence that every other ad in a gay magazine is for antiretroviral drugs and life insurance buyout companies.
I'm not trying to flaimbait, I'm just trying to defend the OPs comment - IF Cook is gay, it's not crazy to think he'd be sensitive to the scourge of AIDS.
world AIDS day? So we are remembering a government created disease to control the population that has killed so many and is continuing to do so.
Ill put my tin foil hat back on....
Ill put my tin foil hat back on....
world AIDS day? So we are remembering a government created disease to control the population that has killed so many and is continuing to do so.
Ill put my tin foil hat back on....
At first, I read your join date as 2011 and thought you were Pink Floyd reincarnated.
Oh god, yeah. It's awful in Africa. And I think it was Uganda that just passed an anti-gay bill that sends people who even verbally defend a gay person to 10 years in prison. Anyway, it's terrible there. I just hope they can cure it for all the folks who have it now. But we do need to make sure people aren't spreading it. I think the biggest hurdle in Africa, as I understand it, is lack of education and these really ingrained beliefs like sex with a virgin curing it. It sounds nuts to us-- because it is-- but that's the everyday life and accepted norm for millions of people. Sad, really.
Up to 50% of gross profit (so if an iPod nano cost $80 to build and is sold for $130, the profit would be $50, Apple would then donate $25)(these are fake numbers i used to show as an example).
http://www.apple.com/ipod/red/
These are some of the worst threads ever
I cannot believe the overly-sensitive reactions to the post suggesting that it's no surprise that Tim Cook upped the (RED) campaign. What is wrong with you people? Tim is likely gay. To suggest that he *may* have had something to do with upping Apple's promotion of (RED) is *not* necessarily bigoted. Relax. What a bunch of whiners.
And then there are the turkeys who seem to have forgotten that Apple-with-Jobs got 100% behind (RED) from its inception. The jackassery today, people. Just blows the mind.
I cannot believe the overly-sensitive reactions to the post suggesting that it's no surprise that Tim Cook upped the (RED) campaign. What is wrong with you people? Tim is likely gay. To suggest that he *may* have had something to do with upping Apple's promotion of (RED) is *not* necessarily bigoted. Relax. What a bunch of whiners.
And then there are the turkeys who seem to have forgotten that Apple-with-Jobs got 100% behind (RED) from its inception. The jackassery today, people. Just blows the mind.
I think people only believe that AIDS, or HIV, is in the gay and lesbian community, but it isn't. 90% of the world is straight and they too have been affected with AIDS.
You say your 17, you must know that it is difficult for people older than you to express themselves in a meaningful way about AIDS, HIV, or talking about being gay, (when they are straight), and might have never met anyone that is gay! Reading a comment from someone you do not know also adds to the misinterpretation.
Articulation is hard even when the subject isn't about AIDS, HIV, or whether someone is gay or not, whether they be the CEOs, or the man and woman down the block!
Seems like we have not 'advanced' to far from the cave sometimes in terms of how we treat other humans for thinking different, being different, looking different, etc. because they do not 'fit' the straight life style. Who made that the 'staight way the life' the only way to live anyways?
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It was bound to happen sooner or later, "Steve Jobs would have never approved that" "they're doing that because Steve is gone" "what would have Steve done" "this would have never happened if Steve was still here"
This form of thinking is going to be around for a while.
Sometimes what is really needed is a picture to offer some perspective. Look at this. Sit back, think for a minute about the world, your life, everything. Trust me, it'll be worth it.
![Life_expectancy_in_some_Southern_African_countries_1958_to_2003.png]()
Key word(s): up to. In general, there are two lessons in life when it comes to corporate behavior: a) if they're not selling you the straight story, they're trying to dupe you. b) whenever they use the word up to, they're definitely trying to dupe you.
...and yeah, theres actually a third one too: c) even when it seems legit, trust me, they're trying their very best to dupe you.
Case in point: Carriers and advertised speeds.
Key word(s): up to. In general, there are two lessons in life when it comes to corporate behavior: a) if they're not selling you the straight story, they're trying to dupe you. b) whenever they use the word up to, they're definitely trying to dupe you.
...and yeah, theres actually a third one too: c) even when it seems legit, trust me, they're trying their very best to dupe you.
Case in point: Carriers and advertised speeds.
Thats not what he meant. Apple has never brought it to the forefront of the business by promoting it heavily in the stores or on the site. For example, its the first time they have put red apples in the window and such. Steve would never have had that going on when he was there.
Not even 20 minutes after my post above you have already proven my point.
It is to your credit that you realized that your comment was inappropriate. You handled this situation well.Your apology demonstrates a growing maturity. You will, undoubtedly, become an admirable adult as years pass.
Actually in this case we do. World Aids day is every year. Apple has never promoted that in its shops until after Steve was no longer at the helm.
The same can be said for the time off given to Apple employees as a thank you over the holidays, and the charity program set up for staff to donate and apple will match it. All these things only happened AFTER steve left.
So yes, we've all got a pretty good idea - these are actions performed by Tim, no such actions were ever done previously. The most Apple had ever done is the Product (RED) iPods.
I'm not implying anything by this for those who seem offended (god knows why!!), its just an observation. I like that Tim is doing it, and hopefully we'll see more charitable actions from Apple in the future.
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Because you believe that AIDS exists, therefore, you're less needy than southern African politicians.
Sometimes what is really needed is a picture to offer some perspective. Look at this. Sit back, think for a minute about the world, your life, everything. Trust me, it'll be worth it.
![Life_expectancy_in_some_Southern_African_countries_1958_to_2003.png]()
Thank you for posting that graph - it really drives home the horrifying reality of the sub-Saharan AIDS problem.
Uganda seems to be less closely related - possibly famine and war account for the earlier decline in average lifespan. Even though AIDS cases from the 1950's are documented, AIDS was relatively unknown until the early '80s.
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the real question is why does it even matter? people are people, Americans makes such a big deal out of everything
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it's not only AIDS.
No, but the significant casual relationship is quite hard to ignore. Its no coincidence that the countries with the most radical LE changes also are the countries most affected by aids. That said, AIDS is a double-killer. Not only does it kill people, it virtually kills countries. On the one hand, care is very resource demanding. On the other, it removes people from the work force meaning less resources to push towards efficient aid - not only for aids, but for other types of diseases, in turn leading to more deaths etc.
In case someone asks for something substantial:
The ten countries with the lowest DALE are all in sub- Saharan Africa, where the HIV-AIDS epidemic is most prevalent. Life expectancy in several countries in southern Africa has been reduced by 1520 years in comparison with life expectancy without HIV. Other African countries have lost 510 years of life expectancy because of HIV.
Mathers et al. (2000) Healthy life expectancy in 191 countries, 1999.
Healthy life expectancy in 191 countries, 1999
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