They escorted a woman with a gunshot wound to the head from the building ?
That's big of them. Did they consider calling a doctor ?
An Apple employee was found dead in a conference room at the iPhone giant's HQ in Cupertino, California, this morning. A gun was discovered nearby. Cops were called to the One Infinite Loop campus at about 8.35am. Sgt Andrea Urena of Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office described the death as "isolated incident," adding "nobody …
It's at times like these that I think, my thoughts aren't really with them, or their families.
This is obviously unfeeling, and I accept that, but I counter with the fact that, today, several hundred Syrians died. Were your thoughts with them?
This is not a real criticism of anyone who has a different opinion, I'm just sadly, madly, cynical with someone in Apple HQ dying being given more apparent value than someone dying in street in somewhere with less shiny things to sell.
The world is awful. At times like this my own thoughts become dominated with my family :-(
It's called "Virtue signalling" and is very much a modern phenomenon . Its a product of the "social media" generation although here in the UK at least, you could say that it all began with the death of Diana.
People scrabble to indicate to others just what a lovely, nice person they are by the simple expedient of claiming sympathy for complete strangers ( or people they may *think* they know vicariously) and of course this makes them a better, nicer person then *you* because if you now say "I have sympathy for x" you're simply following their lead. There was a very interesting article about it in The Spectator late last year.
Whilst it almost certainly had nothing to do with the fatality, if your appetite for risk is strong enough to allow you to put all your eggs in what you perceive to be a very lucrative basket and you play the futures market the margin calls triggered by a 6.4% drop could wipe you out.
Having your retirement plan in a single stock is one thing - risky, but in a company with a balance sheet and P/E as clean as Apple's not a huge risk as long as you don't "set it and forget" for years and years. Having your retirement in an options market bet where a 6.4% drop can wipe you out is just stupid YDI territory. Might as well cash it out and pick a number on the roulette wheel to put it on.
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"Seriously, can we not turn this into Yet Another Useless Debate About Gun Control? Next thing you know somebody will Godwin this thread. Thank you."
Who died and elected you Fuhrer?
It is interesting that the wound was caused by a gun, I personally would have expected it to be caused by a gun shot.
In the grand scheme of things though, Andromeda Galaxy is barely affected...
(Sadly, this incontinent gun event has already received more attention than a marriage party gate crashed by an incontinent Hellfire missile. It's all a matter of perspective. What a world. I hope Shalmaneser is recording all of this.)
About 120 Americans kill themselves every day. One of them working for apple makes it news?
911 claimed 3000 lives and 'changed everything'.
The same year
39,500 Americans killed themselves
16,200 were killed by other Americans
38,000 died in transportation accidents
27,400 fell to their death
3,500 drowned
2,700 burnt
36,300 were poisoned (guessing that includes drugs)
None of which changed much.
It's still news per se if a pregnant teenager gets her head blown off with a thirty ought six in a 7/11. But it won't get the same coverage (or any at all if she's black American), even when two people were killed. Everything is news for a given value of news but it's only important to the masses, as far as the media is concerned if it's related to a celebrity, a major company, or in many places (including but not limited to, the Daily Fail offices) an excuse to bash a minority.
This has been picked up by the American mainstream media because it's related to Apple, it's then been reported here because it's Apple, but I doubt we'd even know about it if it happened in the offices of some unknown start up in Redneckbury, TX...
"Yes, a person suffering an apparently gun wound and dying on Apple HQ is clearly news. It's news."
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Hmmm, dodgy writing aside, they died "on Apple HQ" , it shows how roofless <sic> Apple must be.
News is subjective and as to what is news and what is not is down to the person reading the aforementioned news. News is also invariably biased and weighted towards some agenda or another.
In operation Protective Edge in 2014, 73 Israelis were killed and 2100 Palestinians. I heard a lot about the first group and very little about the latter. {1.}
Soooo, you can take your view of what is news and stick it! We all have a different biased perspective of what news should be and do not need other to tell us, particularly not a journalist who has a vested interest in such things.
1. Source Jewish press.
Sadly, the birth rate cancelled all of them out.
You know, if all the other countries of the World charged America £100 million a time for every foreign victim of gun crime or just gun related idiocy guns would be gone in probably about a decade. Hit them where it hurts, in their wallets. 25% to the home government for costs and the rest to the families affected (although this might cause a macabre version of healthcare holidays.. "you really want to study at Yale don't you dear...)
Feel sorry for the persons concerned but this wouldn't have got the coverage if it wasn't Apple related, and talking of Apple related how on earth is Sculley an "Apple guru"? He damn near bankrupted them. Personally I'd make the new campus into one huge shoot em up level, lock all of Apple inside and leave to soak... The last survivor could then be executed for crimes against humanity, eco crime and if they've been there long enough, aiding and abetting a dangerous sociopath.
The world would be a better place, we'd have phones back that last 3 days on a 900mah battery, and doctors wouldn't be doing skin cancer tests with sodding iPhones (I speak from personal experience).
And finally, in an unrelated note to all Americans. Please don't vote Trump in, if only for this single reason, over and above all the racism and that hair. If there is intelligent life on other planets, and they decide to drop in for a chat... Do you really want the first person they meet to be Donny Dickwit?
While all the macabre jokes aside, no one has actually said that perhaps stress pushed this chap over the edge?
I'm ex-fruit factory (tech support, very far down the ladder from Tim & co) and I can tell you, when you're in, there's a weird, self-inflicted type of stress.
You want to work hard and see the place prosper, and it's very hard to come back to normal reality and not work 50+ hour weeks.
It's not cult-like echo chamber, per-se, but it does have a weird weight of perception around it.
That being said, they have been pushing mental health and help to the fore for at least the last
3 years. The only thing is its up to individuals to take the step to get help.
Sad that this chap didn't et the help they offer even to contract staff like cleaners.