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Originally Posted by Silock
Yeah. I'm just saying that if one wants to be completely obtuse about his accomplishments, they could just say that cell phones were only evolutionary (as opposed to revolutionary) in the first place. I mean, it's just a car phone without the box, which was just a telephone without the wires, which was just a telegraph with voice, which was just a smoke signal with sound.
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I'd like to point out, I am not at all taking away from the many things he really did accomplish... but I just would like a little perspective on a bad person who did a number of things (I won't judge on whether they were good or bad...) but the one thing I KNOW (yes, there is that word again) he was NOT a good person... and no ****ing amount of diffusion or deflection on your part will ever change that FACT.
Another prime example of this
http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showp...&postcount=265
and I could fill this thread with HUNDREDS of more...
So, in summation... visionary, influential person who also happened to be an asshole who couldn't control his temper... dead at far too young. That's my take on it.. and I'm sick and ****ing tired of hearing him beatified.