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always get asked if I want to try something with seafood, like it doesn't count if it comes from the ocean?

Ya, I've never understood that. It's like asking is a guy is straight, and if they say yes, whether they like effeminate men.
 
Wherever you are, happy birthday good sir. You made the world a better place and continue to do so even after death.

And happy birthday to MacRumors as well :)

Posted from my iPhone :apple:

Yeah, a better place for rich white people. xD
Ask chinese workers what they think about buying one of the products they build everyday. ;)
 
Just finished reading the book of Steve Jobs. Everyone should read it, it's just amazing. Eating all his life healthy food and dying so young. It ain't fair.
Congrats to Macrumors too. Already for 8 years i come here 3 times a day.

Yeah - eating stupid faddy diets and refusing conventional treatment - no wonder he died so young
 
The year 2055:
This would have been Steve Jobs 100th birthday.

. . . Seriously people just need to move on. Steve Jobs himself hated looking back and reflecting on the past. And the people need to do the same.
 
Just finished reading the book of Steve Jobs. Everyone should read it, it's just amazing. Eating all his life healthy food and dying so young. It ain't fair.
Congrats to Macrumors too. Already for 8 years i come here 3 times a day.

You need to get on a plane, fly to a 3rd world, go to a poor village (and I mean poor by a 3rd world country's standards), and then you can post about what is fair and what isn't. :mad:
 
You need to get on a plane, fly to a 3rd world, go to a poor village (and I mean poor by a 3rd world country's standards), and then you can post about what is fair and what isn't. :mad:

Listen I didn't even like the man ( some of his decisions in life have been poor by anyones standards, plus his attitude is a bit arm questionable) however just because someone else has it worse off, doesn't make it any less "fair" and "unfortunate".

I suppose if your family member died, you would think it was "fair", because other people have had it worse off?
 
Yeh - this whole "happy birthday Steve" idea is rather creepy.

Jobs is gone. The turtlenecked overlord is no longer telling us how to hold our telephones.

Simple memorials in the year of his passing are one thing, but if we're looking at an annual party - some people do need to get a life.

+1 creepy on the Steve Jobs birthday

+1 Happy Birthday MR
 
Thought you honored a dead guy by, you know, mourning.
Not dancing to Dylan and eating vegetarian birthday cake (which sounds kind of gross, actually.)
 
Belated birthday wishes!...

It would have been your 57th Steve!, but past tense is not an option where you are concerned, you are still here, ask anyone who is linked with any apple product, you are around!

anyway, happy birthday up there!

i hate this time of year!

Simon : )
 
No weirder than any other birthday celebration of a well-known person

Thought you honored a dead guy by, you know, mourning.
Not dancing to Dylan and eating vegetarian birthday cake (which sounds kind of gross, actually.)
So we should all wear sackcloth and ashes whenever Abe Lincoln's birthday rolls around rather than having a national holiday? And those folk in London celebrating Dicken's 200th Birthday should be weeping in the streets rather than putting on plays and lectures and museum showings of his works? :rolleyes:

Get a clue. We mourn a man on the date of his passing. But living or dead, we celebrate his life on his birthday. I don't see any reason for this to be any more "creepy," weird or strange for Steve Jobs than for Dead Presidents, Dead Composers, Scientists or Literary figures.

Saying that you find this somehow incomprehensible or unsettling means that you're either hypocritical or stone blind to the fact that you've been doing the same all your life with national holidays on dead people's birthdays, and seminal birthday celebrations like 200 year birthdays for figures like Twain or Mozart, etc.
 
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