… WHAT ELSE IS NEWS?
By FITSNEWS || So Apple CEO Tim Cook is gay. We know this because he told us … and in the process, also told us it wasn’t much of a secret.
“While I have never denied my sexuality, I haven’t publicly acknowledged it either, until now,” Cook wrote in an oped published by Bloomberg’s Businessweek. “So let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.”
Good for him … although we’re sure the “God’s gift” part made the heads of a lot of social conservatives explode (which may have been the point).
Cook added that while he liked keeping Apple’s focus “on our products and the incredible things our customers achieve with them,” that his company “has long advocated for human rights and equality for all.”
“We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick,” he wrote. “This is my brick.”
Again … good for him.
This website has opined on equality issues innumerable times – always siding with people’s right to love who they want to love (and to be protected equally under the law as it relates to those choices). Marriage? That’s not the purview of government, in our opinion, but churches who wish to perform marriages of same sex couples certainly shouldn’t be banned from doing so.
Anyway … in the wake of Cook’s big “reveal,” a couple things happened.
• Our iPhones continued to send and receive phone calls, text messages and emails.
• Our iPods continued to play music and games.
• Our iPads continued to download apps, books and other data.
• Our Macbooks and iMacs continued to compute.
• Apple’s stock remained near its all-time high.
So yeah … the point of this was … what, exactly?
“Tim Cook Just Changed America In A Way Steve Jobs Never Could,” a Huffington Post headline blared, noting Cook had become America’s first openly gay Fortune 500 CEO. Actually there are no openly gay CEOs among America’s 700 largest corporations. Stories also recalled how former BP CEO John Browne was forced to resign after being outed in 2007 – an implied commentary on how far, how fast the United States has come on this issue.
But is it really that big of a deal?
The gay marriage dam has broken … and Cook’s “confession,” while certainly newsworthy and commendable, strikes us as something south of “seismic” and more just solidifying something we already know: That the same sex movement has reached a point of mass acceptance in American society.
Which is a good thing …
The expansion of liberty should always be celebrated. The fight to protect individual freedom and free markets knows no race, creed, gender or sexual orientation. The market – like justice – should always be blind.
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Dump Apple (unless you are a man who like Dick).
How about we dump Bruce instead, everyone?
“How about we dump Bruce instead, everyone?”
Or maybe take a dump on Bruce?
A page right out of the Martin Bashir playbook, so typical.
“A page right out of the Martin Bashir playbook, so typical.”
Hate-filled homophobes love to stick together, huh? So typical.
Fags are usually pretty creative people.
Look at Freddie Mercury, Rob Halfort, Elton John, George Michael, etc. et al…the list goes on forever.
I just wish they’d contextualize their exceptional abilities and jump off the collectivist, “everybody is equal” bandwagon.
Small numbers.
Would you like the entire list?You’ll be reading for quite a while.Blah,blah,blah doesn’t have a clue.Just to pick one,I think Leonardo Da Vinci was a little better than equal.
Great, we’ve heard your particular nasty brand of bigotry. Now go to bed.
It’s nasty to point out successful fags?
What planet do you live on?
Gas has dropped to $2.43 a gallon in Lancaster. Meanwhile, the Columbia market remains higher due to greed for profit.
Wow, it just dropped in Lancaster again …. Down to $2.36 on Gas Buddy. Columbia is still averaging $2.73 a gal.
Yeah, Obama is doing a real good job on gasoline prices.
Nikki is said to of had 2.23 gal at a point. Must be GW’s present to all of us that I?
Waiting for SC to call an emergency session to pass legislation forbidding the use of any Apple products in state government and schools…You know this kind of thing can spread by association.
’sides the IBM Surface Pro is a significantly better tablet, even for Angry birds
Wonder if Balmer’s Apple ban for the Clippers has more to do with Cook’s sexuality than meets the eye?
Yes it is liberty that allows folks to do this. Good point.
Lawdy, lawdy a gay job creator. How will this fit into the Republican pantheon of money gods.
A job creator? Hillary Clinton just said that corporations and businesses do not create jobs. As a democrat, don’t you believe her?
All have sinned and come short of the glory of the Invisible Hand…
NEWS FLASH!
This just in: Apple CEO is a fruit.
And you’re a jerk. Now, what?
He takes one to the face? What a pioneer! Who would of thought a weird white guy who couldn’t turn Helen Keller on would turn out gay? Yeah Tim, way to perpetuate being gay is a victim class.
“Yeah Tim, way to perpetuate being gay is a victim class.”
You’re an idiot.
“… although we’re sure the “God’s gift” part made the heads of a lot of social conservatives explode (which may have been the point).”
It is the HATER’S heads that are exploding not social conservatives or the religious right.
2 Corinthians Chapter 12: 7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me.9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
We all have thorns in our sides. Tim Cook’s thorn is different from mine.
Cool! I hope this makes a bunch of Westboro-types want to get rid of their Apple merch so I can pick them up on eBay for a steal!
Naw man, those devices won’t be on e-bay. They’ll have a big bonfire and just burn them.
**YAWN**
This story made my d$ck hard and my a$$ hole open up wide.
Okay, so do you charge? – LOL
All productive SC people beware. Man on Man is the word.
I couldn’t possibly care less who he sleeps with. I do find it odd that he is “proud” to be gay. I’m not proud to be heterosexual – I just am.
I am glad to be heterosexual, albeit with strong lesbian tendencies.
But you don’t get it.Homosexuality has always been the love that dare not speak its name.You take your heterosexuality for granted,and haven’t had to hide it.Life is tough enough.Being gay has taken a huge toll on me:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1FybvwFGpo
Then be something else, it’s your choice!
Maybe that’s because you don’t wake up every day trying to tell you that hetersexuals are sinners?
I always assumed all those Silicon Valley geeks were gay.
This was announced like six months ago. Why is this news again? In actual news it’s cold outside.
Because a gay CEO is so unsual that announcing it more than once, is probably well-deserved.
Cook added that while he liked keeping Apple’s focus “on our products and the incredible things our customers achieve with them,” that his company “has long advocated for human rights and equality for all.”
“We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick,” he wrote. “This is my brick.”
With Chinese labor, sound like how they build the Egyptian pyramids with slave labor, “brick by brick.”
Google search terms: Apple Chinese factories
Apple attacked over ‘worsening’ factory conditions in China
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2602980/apple-attacked-over-worsening-factory-conditions-in-china.html
[Excerpt]
Apple is under fire again for the way workers are treated at a supplier factory in
China, prompting the iPhone maker to rush a team to the factory to investigate.
A new report by China Labor Watch and Green America revealed forced overtime, fire and safety risks, poor compensation and exposure to toxic chemicals at a factory in Suqian, China, operated by Apple supplier Catcher Technology.
CLW said it investigated the same factory 16 months earlier and reported its findings
privately to Apple, which pledged to take action. But CLW now says the conditions “may actually be getting worse.”
Inside Apple’s Chinese ’sweatshop’ factory where workers are paid just £1.12 per hour to produce iPhones and iPads for the West
*Factories covered in suicide nets to stop workers leaping to their deaths
*18 people have killed themselves at the facility
*iPhone, iPad and MacBook assembled in factory in Shenzhen
*Microsoft, Dell and Hewlett Packard products also built on sit
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103798/Revealed-Inside-Apples-Chinese-sweatshop-factory-workers-paid-just-1-12-hour.html
[Excerpt]
The broadcaster revealed that the entry-level salary of just £180 per month is so
low that it would take more than two months salary to pay for the cheapest iPad.
Even if the lowest earners do the maximum available overtime of 80 hours per month, they still do not earn enough to pay tax.
Previous reports have claimed that some of the workers were doing 24 hours at a time, while others were forced to stand for their entire shifts.
Boy, 15, Is One Of 5 Unexplained Deaths At Apple’s Factories In China
http://www.businessinsider.com/deaths-at-apple-factories-in-china-2013-12
[Excerpt]
A 15-year-old boy dropped dead at Apple’s Pegatron factory in China, where the
iPhone 5C is made. His death was one of five at Pegatron that labor activists say the company has failed to explain.
The boy, Shi Zhaokun, died of pneumonia shortly after Oct. 9. He had been working 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, according to activists from China Labor Watch, a workers’ rights organization that performs undercover investigations at Chinese
electronics manufacturing plants.
From what companies device did you post your comment?
Oh maann! Embedded in this article is an ad for Atlantis All Gay Cruises with a pic of two shirtless gay men embracing on an isolated beach.
Not on my machine. You know some of those ads are based on your browsing history…just sayin’
Google thinks I’m gay? It must be because I support Lindsey.
… And so is Al Gore? And so is Larry Ellison?
I say … so what? No biggy, little piggy. Most silicon valley techie nerds are too.
(Al Gore has had a seat on the board of directors of Apple since 200 and Larry Ellison has since 2000. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ir?s=AAPL+Insider+Roster )
Disclosure: I bought some more Apple (AAPL) stock two days ago … and will be buying more.
Who cares?????
This just in, I’m a heterosexual man. That’s right, I love the poontang… where do I line up for my cookie?
I guess shitting your pants because you anal sphincter has been reamed out is a “gift”.
Does this mean the iPhone 7 will come equipped with gaydar?
Does this mean the iPhone 7 will come equipped with gaydar?
bizarre. i barely know who tim cook is but i knew he was gay months ago. i’m certain most people knew.
Who is Tim Cook?