Tim Cook Speaks Up • Hacker News Board

Re: Tim Cook Speaks Up

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Post by martin1b » Fri, Oct 31, 2014, 2:13 AM UTC

zak_mc_kracken wrote: post #791

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> Tim Cook continued contracts with Foxconn with the sole goal of minimizing production costs by using underpaid overworked labor I'm going to upvote you for this. Just because Tim Cook is gay doesn't make him Mother Teresa. He seems quite happy in promoting brutal Victorian style work-houses because it's "over there". Out of sight, out of mind. He's quite the hypocrite. He's also no better or worse then the operatio…

> Just because Tim Cook is gay doesn't make him Mother Teresa. It's depressing to see this myth perpetuated that Mother Teresa was a good person. She was a horrible human being who denied poor and sick people the help and medicated relief they needed just because of her religious beliefs. Of course, she also denied abortion, contraception and all other kinds of medical help that were not in line with her religious be…

Wow, what book of lies have you been reading, or writing.. I cannot even begin to tell you how far off you are. And you call her a myth. They say Jobs had a reality distortion field but you take the cake! Good luck with your fantasy world.

Re: Tim Cook Speaks Up

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Post by nknighthb » Fri, Oct 31, 2014, 2:33 AM UTC

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> Of course, that was 6 years ago... so why should Brendan Eich be ostracised in 2014 for donating money to a campaign which was quite popular back then? It's wrong regardless of when it occurred. > At what point did Mozilla's mission for a free and open internet turn into one about social justice and identity politics? This lame attempt to dismiss equality won't fly.

> It's wrong regardless of when it occurred. But it can be more or less wrong in specific circumstances. You seem pretty sure that your opinions and actions will stand the test of time, just like countless people were in the past. So sure that now we are right, and amazed how they could be so wrong. Well, I don't know the future, but see you in 30 years. Let's see what moral fashion will rule those times. Be prepared…

If my opinions and actions don't stand the test of time, and I'm still alive when they don't, I'll repudiate them.

Eich had his chance. He declined and ran away instead.

Re: Tim Cook Speaks Up

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Post by stephencanon » Fri, Oct 31, 2014, 2:39 AM UTC

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> The amount of American pro-athletes who are religious is astounding. Many athletes will seriously thank God after doing something well in a sporting event. This is just a very clever thought pattern to confirm the American mythos of the self-made man and avoid giving credit to teammates, coaches, etc. "God made me great" is a way to take credit for yourself while maintaining the appearance of humility (no one can r…

I don't think athletes, or anyone else, who express religious feelings are necessarily doing what you say, but I've upvoted you because I agree that some of them are.

I agree wholly. Not all of them are doing this, but some of them certainly are.

Re: Tim Cook Speaks Up

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Post by Istof » Fri, Oct 31, 2014, 2:39 AM UTC

Jedd wrote: post #20

I wonder how carefully crafted this line was: ... I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me. It seems a particularly odd thing to slip in, on so many levels.

it might be because he won't reproduce?

Re: Tim Cook Speaks Up

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Post by DevUps » Fri, Oct 31, 2014, 2:52 AM UTC

Ya'll are gay for making this a big deal. Fuck ya'll niggas. Imma gonna go to recode.

Re: Tim Cook Speaks Up

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Post by rglullis » Fri, Oct 31, 2014, 2:53 AM UTC

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As a native English speaker (not the OP), I'll take a stab at this explanation: No 2 males could have a biologically conceived child (i.e. you must have a female carry your baby). I may be waaay behind on current reproductive technologies, so please correct me if I am wrong. Therefore, the 'blood' of the child (aka DNA) will be not be a combination of the parents (i.e. the people raising the child).

If I'm understanding the whole situation right, silencio is female, and your comment doesn't quite apply. rglullis was probably complaining about the political correctness of melvinmt's statement.

Actually, no. I read original silencio's post as from being an Asian man marrying an European man. But it looks like you are right, and I am wrong. Which would make melvin's comment correct, and fuck me I'm confused now.

Re: Tim Cook Speaks Up

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Post by alexbecker » Fri, Oct 31, 2014, 2:56 AM UTC

WorldWideWayne wrote: post #787

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About 50% of people self-identify as female. Why are there only 26 female CEOs in the 500?

Women are 97 percent of preschool and kindergarten teachers, 80 percent of social workers, 82 percent of librarians and 92 percent of dietitians and nutritionists and registered nurses. Is that a problem too?

The usual answer is "yes", but am I correct in assuming you think it's "no"?

Re: Tim Cook Speaks Up

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Post by zak_mc_kracken » Fri, Oct 31, 2014, 3:02 AM UTC

martin1b wrote: post #811

zak_mc_kracken wrote: post #791

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> Just because Tim Cook is gay doesn't make him Mother Teresa. It's depressing to see this myth perpetuated that Mother Teresa was a good person. She was a horrible human being who denied poor and sick people the help and medicated relief they needed just because of her religious beliefs. Of course, she also denied abortion, contraception and all other kinds of medical help that were not in line with her religious be…

Wow, what book of lies have you been reading, or writing.. I cannot even begin to tell you how far off you are. And you call her a myth. They say Jobs had a reality distortion field but you take the cake! Good luck with your fantasy world.

Here, educate yourself:

http://old.richarddawkins.net/articles/582913-mother-teresa-...

Re: Tim Cook Speaks Up

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Post by judk » Fri, Oct 31, 2014, 3:04 AM UTC

defen wrote: post #783

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When you mentioned Hindus and being stabbed in the back I remembered reading about Thugs http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuggee Didn't they go around stabbing and strangling people?

I figured it was a reference to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth

Wow, that puts the anti Semitic and anti communist roots of Nazism way back in 1919. Such a long slow buildup, and nothing stopped it.

Re: Tim Cook Speaks Up

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Post by judk » Fri, Oct 31, 2014, 3:10 AM UTC

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Interesting. Maybe I misunderstand you, but every single Dutch person I know refers to mixed race as 'halfbloed', which means half-blood, which, now that I think of it, sounds rather racist.

As a dutch person, why do you think that sounds racist? It's like bloodlines. One half from one bloodline, one half from another bloodline. It's mostly used to refer to offspring from two differently colored people (not necessarily races), but I don't see the term "halfbloed" as particularly racist?

The whole concept of "bloodline" is fundamentally racist.