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Steve Jobs was adopted. Where would we be if he had been aborted?
10/5/11
Posted on 10/05/2011 7:59:31 PM PDT by DallasBiff
According to Wikipedia Steve Jobs biological father was a Syrian muslim and mother was a graduate student.
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KEYWORDS: abortion; adoption; apple; prolife; stevejobs; vanity
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To: capydick; DallasBiff
And, Steve's biological younger sister is writer Mona Simpson. From
Wikipedia:
Jobs, the eldest sibling, was placed for adoption by their then-unmarried parents (who married 10 months later). Her 1987 novel, Anywhere But Here, is dedicated to her mother and "my brother Steve." She first met Jobs when they were adults, after she invited him to a party promoting Anywhere But Here where she revealed that they were siblings; Jobs was 27.
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posted on
10/05/2011 9:42:11 PM PDT
by
D-fendr
(Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
To: JRandomFreeper
Wozniak did the majik with the 6502.
Jobs did nothing less than see into the future.
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posted on
10/05/2011 9:43:03 PM PDT
by
krb
(Obama is a miserable failure.)
To: krb
Jobs did nothing less than see into the future.Not a bad skill set.
That is, talking Woz into building the Apple I and selling the Volkswagon, and the hanging out in mom's garage.
I'm not here to praise Steven Jobs. I just want to acknowledge what he actually did. And that was good enough.
It gets ugly if you get into details. Like most of our lives.
/johnny
To: MN Mitch
I suspect that the mouse and graphical interface would still have been popularized, but perhaps a little later.Xerox at the PARC campus.
Try some history.
/johnny
To: MN Mitch
You could be correct. MECC was an organize that was used heavily in the school I went to. So I may have an inflated view of it's influence.You think? Know 8" SSSD floppies? Can you key in a bootstrap code in octal?
Some of us believe in the influence from Bletchly park and the decoding machines were seminal.
And then came vaccum tubes.
/johnny
To: DallasBiff
I wouldn’t be browsing FR on my iPhone for sure!
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posted on
10/05/2011 10:35:00 PM PDT
by
vpintheak
(Democrats: Robbing humans of their dignity 1 law at a time)
To: capydick
they only stayed married for five years and she married another man who raised her daughter.....and his bio birth provider did not go looking for him...his bio-sister contacted him when he was 27..
He also stated that ‘the only real parents he knew where is adopted parents who raised him’ and he felt that his environment he was raised in influenced his life..
interesting background..
I am an adopted mother..and I'm forever grateful that my son was not aborted but given to us forty years ago..he remains one of my greatest gifts ever, and he calls me mother...
To: haircutter
Well, he’s not a real American then...
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posted on
10/05/2011 10:52:32 PM PDT
by
gman992
("I'm a conservative. I'm just a happy conservative.")
To: haircutter
Well, he’s not a real American then...
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posted on
10/05/2011 10:52:34 PM PDT
by
gman992
("I'm a conservative. I'm just a happy conservative.")
To: haircutter
Well, he’s not a real American then...
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posted on
10/05/2011 10:52:34 PM PDT
by
gman992
("I'm a conservative. I'm just a happy conservative.")
To: gman992
the information did not state that the bio-birth sperm was born in Syria, just that he was Syrian he very well could have been born in this country.
besides that who the hell cares? all he did was donate sperm.
To: DallasBiff
This is like asking what if Jesus Christ had been aborted?
A good political propaganda theme, bumpersticker, slogan, for sure, but little else!
To: Revolting cat!
Of course on the flip side, what if Hitler were aborted?
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posted on
10/05/2011 11:04:51 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
One other aspect of Jobs career that people forget, was he was a crucial part of Pixar, which gave us Toy Story, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, etc. He was the founder. He bought the computer animation department of ILM to start it.
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posted on
10/05/2011 11:04:53 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: DallasBiff
What if biblical Adam had been aborted? Dude, you wouldn’t be here posting vanities!
To: dfwgator
What if Barry Manilow, Kenny G, Terry Jacks, Morris Albert, Brbra had been aborted?
Answer: ...it would be!
To: Revolting cat!
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posted on
10/05/2011 11:09:57 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: JRandomFreeper
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posted on
10/06/2011 12:09:01 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: Vendome
I'm not sure, since I was way, way to young to be briefed on the program, but that code name may still be, technically, Most Secret.
Or TS/SCI over here.
So I won't comment. Except that I did.
/johnny
To: haircutter
I'm forever grateful that my son was not aborted but given to us forty years ago..he remains one of my greatest gifts ever, and he calls me mother... Life is rarely a bad choice.
Le Chaiam!
/johnny
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